After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

The Archduke knew that the visit would be dangerous, knowing his uncle, Emperor Franz Josef, had been the subject of an assassination attempt by the Black Hand in 1911.

Using the same printer as for the Penny Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor Pedro II, so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark.

Black Emperor used the Shepard tone at various points in their 1997 album F ♯ A ♯ ∞.

Black Emperor from the album F ♯ A ♯ ∞

He also wrote a short account of a tour of inspection of the Black Sea coast in the traditional ' periplus ' form ( in Greek ) addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, the Periplus Ponti Euxini or " Circumnavigation of the Black Sea ".

Approximately 130, 000 Pacific Black Brant, 62, 000 Emperor Geese, 50, 000 Taverner's Canada Geese, 300, 000 ducks, and 80, 000 shore birds stop over in the Izembek area during migration and as many as 50, 000 Steller's Eiders find winter grounds there.

Black Emperor, a Canadian post-rock band

Space rock looked back to progressive roots, with drone-heavy and minimalist acts like Spacemen 3 in the 1980s, Spectrum and Spiritualized, and later groups including Flying Saucer Attack, Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Black Emperor and Do Make Say Think.

Black Emperor ( formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Black Emperor, a 1976 Japanese black-and-white documentary by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, which follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors.

Black Emperor was formed in 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, by Efrim Menuck ( guitar ), Mike Moya ( guitar ), and Mauro Pezzente ( bass ).

Black Emperor and the fucking Shins, and you'll blow a bunch of dudes

Black Emperor as " 2 hours of music in only 4 tracks ".

Black Emperor website

Black Emperor website

Black Emperor at Last. fm

Black Emperor shows at the Internet Archive ( FLAC )

The total network of tracks amounts to around, and is maintained and overseen by a voluntary body, the Schwarzwaldverein ( Black Forest Society ), which has around 90, 000 members ( figures from Bremke, 1999, p. 9 ).

* Comedian Paul Shanklin parodied the song with " Ballad of the Black Beret ", referring to the Clinton sex scandal, on his 1999 album Simply Reprehensible.

Black and Asian characters had appeared, but it was not until 1999 that the show featured its first regular non-white family, the Desai family.

They have appeared together in a number of films, including Edie & Pen ( 1996 ), American Perfekt ( 1997 ) and Let the Devil Wear Black ( 1999 ).

Waterways: 7, 500 km ( 1999 ); major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe ; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea, the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal links Rotterdam on the North Sea with the Black Sea.

* Black Elvis / Lost in Space ( 1999 )

He was named ' Indigenous Person of the Year ' in 1999 and inducted into the Northern Territory musical hall of fame for songs such as " Brown Skin Baby ," " Red Sun " and " Black Moon " ( about the Coniston massacre ).

* " Respiration " ( song ), a 1999 hip hop group single by Black Star

In the American crime drama television series Millennium ( 1996 – 1999 ), the main character Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen ) uses the phrase " Soylent Green is people " as a login to the Millennium Group Database.

In 1999, Hughes did a short tribute tour to Tommy Bolin in Texas, with Tommy's brother Johnny ( of Black Oak Arkansas ) on drums.

* Spectre of the Black Rose ( March 1999 ), by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney-Robinson, ( ISBN 0-7869-1333-9 )

Many stamps are rarer, and consequently much more expensive, in unused condition, such as the Penny Black, which in 1999, catalogued for $ 1, 900 mint and $ 110 used.

Leopard 2 main battle tanks, Ulan and Pandur infantry fighting vehicles, C-130 Hercules transport planes, S-70 Black Hawk utility helicopters, and Eurofighter Typhoon multi-purpose combat aircraft have been purchased, along with new helicopters to replace the inadequate ones used after the 1999 Galtür Avalanche.

With the financial success of The Mummy remake in May 1999, development of the Creature from the Black Lagoon remake was revived.

September 1999 saw the release of Coverkill, an album consisting entirely of cover versions from bands that were especially influential to Overkill, such as Black Sabbath ( featured no less than three times ), Kiss, Motörhead, Manowar, and The Ramones.

In 1985, he voiced Fflewddur Fflam in The Black Cauldron, and in 1999, he voiced Professor Porter in Tarzan.

** During the 1999 season the twist of " The Black Vote " was introduced.

In 1999, the World Expo area expanded and opened the Men In Black: Alien Attack attraction with recreations of the old New York State Pavilion observatory towers in front of the building.

* Bowden, Mark, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Atlantic Monthly Press ( 1999 ).

Moberly is mentioned in the Tom Waits song " Black Market Baby ," from the 1999 album Mule Variations.

Kelli Kling, marketing and public relations chair for the Festival since 1999, said that the name Black Swamp was chosen for the festival because it is a common term for this area of the state.

Between 1993 and 1994, she penciled the first six issues of the on-going Black Orchid series and the 4-issue miniseries Finals ( 1999 ).

* Arise Black Man ( 1999 )

As a solo artist he has released the albums Black on Both Sides in 1999, The New Danger in 2004, True Magic in 2006, and The Ecstatic in 2009.

Mos Def released his solo debut album Black on Both Sides in 1999, also through Rawkus.