In the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, two life-forms were encountered by the characters that were non-carbon based entities.

Also from The Empire Strikes Back, the bounty hunter Zuckuss is a member of the Gand race, an ammonia-based life-form.

Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film " was the only one of those movies that actually looked good ", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.

By the time the film " The Empire Strikes Back " was released in 1980 Star Wars fanzines had surpassed Star Trek zines in sales.

In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

The Imperial AT-AT Walkers in The Empire Strikes Back

In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films.

Another more-complicated variation on stop motion is go motion, co-developed by Phil Tippett and first used on the films The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ), Dragonslayer ( 1981 ), and the RoboCop films.

the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

* May 21 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released.

He went on to star in the similarly-successful Star Wars sequels, The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) and Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), as well as The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ).

In the 1980s the use of these " blow-ups " increased with large numbers of 70 mm prints being made of some blockbusters of the period such as the 125 70 mm prints made of The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ).

For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a ' quad optical printer ' that accelerated the process considerably and saved money.

Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors, a fellow mercenary and love interest ; Lando Calrissian ( voiced by Billy Dee Williams ), the sophisticated baron-administrator of Cloud City seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ; and Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original film trilogy and leader of the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.

Lawson also portrays Antilles in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ; his own voice is used in both these films.

Wedge appears in The Empire Strikes Back as a member of the newly formed Rogue Squadron.

She is portrayed by actress Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and The Star Wars Holiday Special.

In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, set three years later, Leia is at the Rebel base on Hoth.

In a memorable scene from The Empire Strikes Back, romance blossoms between Han Solo and Princess Leia.

In The Empire Strikes Back, the theme is developed into " Han Solo and the Princess ".

He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Lando Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the administrator of Cloud City, concerned primarily with keeping the Galactic Civil War and the Empire out of his affairs.

Calrissian's life prior to The Empire Strikes Back is chronicled in The Adventures of Lando Calrissian series of novels.

The two do not see each other again until The Empire Strikes Back, set three years later.

Rage was part of the recording sessions for 60 Second Wipe Out, but Empire didn ’ t feel it would fit the album.

Out of personal hatred for the Lagid king Ptolemy of Cyprus, younger brother of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes, he passed a bill terminating his kingship and annexing Cyprus to the Empire.

In 2007, Empire announced that DHR would hence forth assume a more " underground " role, as his focus turned to a new label, Eat Your Heart Out, which he describes as " the sound of New Berlin ".

" Out of the people-shapes of the Carolingian Empire — the Saxons, Swabians, Franks, Visigoths, Lombards — arise suddenly the Germans, the French, the Spaniards, the Italians.

Track 2 remix and additional production by Tin Tin Out for Empire Management, executive producer Rob Dickins

* Dustin Kensrue provided guest vocals and Teppei Teranishi played guitar / provided production on The Out Circuit's album Pierce The Empire With a Sound.

Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, Oui, The independent film & video monthly, Indie Wire, HX, The Villager, a former editor of Empire Magazine, arts editor of Gay City News, and was a former editor of Empire in New York City, and was a senior editor at Cargo, which work was lengthily quoted in San Diego Union Tribune.

Out of the Prussian Navy grew the Navy of the North German Confederation ( Norddeutsche Bundesmarine ), which after the Franco-Prussian War changed its name again to became the Imperial Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ) of the new German Empire.

Out of 13 candidates, mostly from Germany, he made the short list of four for the post of Chief Rabbi of the British Empire.

* 9 / 11 & American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Speak Out, co-editor with Kevin Barrett and Sandra Lubarsky, Olive Branch Press, 2006, ISBN 1-56656-660-6

As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to New Guinea for several years.

Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

( See Barrett, Anthony A., Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996.

* Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Oxford University Press ( 2006 ) pg. 151

* Michael Angold, The Byzantine Empire, 1025 – 1204: A Political History, second edition ( London and New York, 1997 )

* Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street.

Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Using the Dominions of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as a model, he began the transformation of the Empire into the Commonwealth.

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* Barnes, Timothy D. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine.

The Concept of Dhimma in Early Islam In Benjamin Braude and B. Lewis, eds., Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society 2 vols., New York: Holmes & Meier Publishing.

For the British Empire and colonies, a determination of the date of Easter Sunday using Golden Numbers and Sunday letters was defined by the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750 with its Annexe.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

However, the center of the civilized Roman world had shifted definitively to Constantinople, or New Rome, the capital of the Greek speaking Empire.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

Empire magazine praised the film saying " the gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel / remake uses every trick in the cinematic book " and confirms that " Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods " and Caryn James of The New York Times called it " genuine, if bizarre, proof of Sam Raimi's talent and developing skill.