By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

During this season Earnhardt garnered a second nickname, " The Man in Black ", owing to the black paint scheme in which the No. 3 car was painted.

During the second era ( 7th – 9th editions, 1827 – 1901 ), the Britannica was managed by the Edinburgh publishing firm, A & C Black.

* 1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.

After some 25 years of work, his Theory of the Earth ; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe was read to meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend Joseph Black on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785.

In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.

After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986.

* 18-Larry Doby, 79, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB.

On August 24, 1792, the Black Poor or Old Settlers of the second Granville Town were incorporated into the new Sierra Leone Colony but remained at Granville Town.

Gellar is featured as a playable character in the new Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack Escalation, and also the second female playable character in the whole " Call of Duty " series, in which she appears as herself shooting a movie for George Romero, fighting off a horde of zombies.

Black belts begin at first degree and advance to second, third, and so on.

*" The Black Cat " is the eleventh episode of the second season of the television series Masters of Horror.

Its two main tributaries, the Sông Lô ( also called the Lo River, the Riviere Claire, or the Clear River ) and the Sông Đà ( also called the Black River or Riviere Noire ), contribute to its high water volume, which averages 4, 300 cubic meters per second.

** Black Sabbath releases its second album, Paranoid

The end result was a compromise in which the famous Black Rubric, which declared that no adoration is intended while kneeling, was included in the second edition.

Black Africans generally speak English as a second language, and accent is strongly influenced by mother-tongue ( particularly Bantu languages ).

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

American Hunger, published posthumously in 1977, was originally intended as the second volume of Black Boy.

VR opened a second, standard gauge, electric tramway from Sandringham railway station to Black Rock on 10 March 1919, it was extended to Beaumaris on 2 September 1926.

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

* Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1930: Emperor Showa's second brother, Prince Takamatsu, traveled to Madrid to confer the Great Collar of the Chrysanthemum on King Alfonso.

After an initial success, his first line of cavalry, under the Imperial General of Horse, Prince Maximilian of Hanover, were pressed by the second line of Marsin's cavalry, and were forced back across the Nebel in confusion.

The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

The Liberals held onto seats in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, while being shut out of Nova Scotia entirely, the second time in history ( the only other time being the Diefenbaker sweep ).

The second trilogy was titled The Prince with the Silver Hand ( United Kingdom ) and The Chronicles of Corum ( United States ) respectively.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

He was the youngest child and the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

** Imperial Prince Nunakura Futotama-Shiki ( Emperor Bidatsu ); born 538 ( second son )

* Princess Kura Wayaka-Hime, daughter of Emperor Senka by his Empress Tachibana no Nakatsu ; second consort ; 1 imperial Prince:

The second was called the Imperial Prince Kume ; the third was called the Imperial Prince Yeguri, the fourth was called the Imperial Prince Mamuta.

He was the second son of Prince Kusakabe.

Because of this, Takauji made Emperor Kōgon's second son Imperial Prince Iyahito emperor ( First Fushimi-no-miya ).

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

In Dresden on 18 June 1853 Albert married Princess Carola, daughter of Gustav, Prince of Vasa and granddaughter of Gustav IV Adolf, the second to last king of Sweden of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.

* 1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

Ryan Braun finished the season with 33 homers and 33 steals while finishing second in the National League in batting average, hitting. 332 while Prince Fielder finished second in the league in both home runs and RBIs, hitting 38 home runs while driving in 120.

* 1011 ( Kankō 8 ): Prince Atsunari, the second son of former-Emperor Ichijo, is proclaimed Crown Prince.