* Mayann Francis, First Black Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

He continues to inspire other artists: the 2007 album Bluefinger by Black Francis is based on the life and works of Brood.

Their third album, Black Flower, was rejected by Blackwell, comparing it disparagingly to Francis Lai's A Man and a Woman.

The group consists of Black Francis ( vocals, rhythm guitar ), Joey Santiago ( lead guitar ), Kim Deal ( bass, vocals ), and David Lovering ( drums ).

Black Francis is the Pixies ' primary songwriter and singer.

Joey Santiago and Black Francis ( born Charles Thompson IV ) first met when they lived next to each other in a suite while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Unlike previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

Black Francis renamed himself Frank Black, and he released several solo albums, including a string of releases with Frank Black and the Catholics.

The songwriter and musician Frank Black ( alias Black Francis of the Pixies ) penned an homage to Zubrin, " Robert Onion ", on the album Dog in the Sand.

* December 21 – Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.

Famous names include the physicist, Lord Kelvin, ' father of economics ' Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Sir John Boyd Orr, Professor Sam Karunaratne, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Lister.

Flood is quoted by Black Francis ( of Pixies fame ) as one of his favorite albums.

Charles Thompson, singer / songwriter for the alternative band the Pixies, was known in that band as Black Francis.

He was called Frank Black as a solo performer, and again called Black Francis in a reunited Pixies.

Directed by Johnson, the piece starred Francis Van Wetering as Titus, Alexandra Cirves as Tamora, Roger Casey as Aaron ( aka The Evil Black Guy ) and Lauren Huyett as Lavinia.

" Black Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.

The French managed to keep their grip on Tonkin although, twice, their top commanders Francis Garnier and Henri Rivière, were ambushed and killed fighting pirates of the Black Flag Army hired by the mandarins.

Kilkenny's heritage is evident in the city and environs including the historic buildings such as Kilkenny Castle, St. Canice's Cathedral and round tower, Rothe House, Shee Alms House, Black Abbey, St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny Town Hall, St. Francis Abbey, Grace's Castle, and St. John's Priory.

" While at college in Massachusetts, Thompson adopted the stage name Black Francis, and formed The Pixies along with Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering.

Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, Alexander Campbell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.

* Black Francis, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Pixies

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

In addition to the towns and monuments noted below, the Black Forest is crossed by numerous long distance footpaths, including some of the first to be established.

In guidance issued by Who's Who published by A & C Black, it is noted that in the context of the UK, " not all qualified medical practitioner hold the ( M. D.

The Byzantines had easy access to crude oil from the naturally occurring wells around the Black Sea ( e. g., the wells around Tmutorakan noted by Constantine Porphyrogennetos ) or in various locations throughout the Middle East.

Similarly, folklorist Peter Rojcewicz noted that many Men in Black accounts parallel tales of people encountering the devil: Neither Men in Black nor the devil are quite human, and witnesses often discover this fact midway through an encounter.

Black also noted that due to delegates concerns over economic costs and possible losses of competitiveness, the majority of the discussions avoided any mention of reducing emissions.

It is most commonly known as one of the materials used to construct Captain America's shield, but it is also noted for its connection to the Black Panther and his native homeland of Wakanda ( a fictional country in Africa ).

Black authors have noted that blacks, when taunted by whites as " niggers ," taunted back, calling them " white trash ," and the black parents taught their children that poor whites were " white trash ".

Black Bear Pass is noted to be Colorado ’ s most dangerous pass.

Black pride as a national movement is closely linked with the developments of the American Civil Rights Movement, during which noted figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, A. Philip Randolph, Stokely Carmichael, and others protested the conditions of the United States ' segregated society, and lobbied for better treatment for people of the Black race.

St. Francisville is noted for a locally grown variety of popcorn, trademarked as Black Jewell for the color of the corn kernels.

* Eric Wilkinson, ( 1976 –), poet / musician who wrote Black Through A Distortion Pedal ( San Francisco Bay Press ) and started indie, social theoretical hip-hop band, The Dialectics, noted for their EP " Bicycle: A Transportation Communique ," which advocates bicycle riding as a form of social justice.

* Earl Black and Merle Black, noted political scientists.

Clampett in particular brought the six-minute animated cartoon to a level of wild surrealism, directing noted cartoons such as Porky in Wackyland in 1938, Tortoise Wins By a Hare in 1943 and Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs in 1943.

The magazine is noted for spearheading the Post-left anarchy critique (" beyond the confines of ideology "), as articulated by such writers as Lawrence Jarach, John Zerzan, Bob Black, and Wolfi Landstreicher ( formerly Feral Faun / Feral Ranter among other noms de plume ).

All songs written by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas, except where noted.

Predation of nests of other pairs of Black Kites has also been noted.

In 1985, the magazine was revived as The New Black Mask, and featured noted crime writers James Ellroy,

In a positive review of The Black Eyed Peas ' new-found style, Rolling Stone noted that since 2002, when the group " hired a blond bombshell named Stacy ' Fergie ' Ferguson and gave up their pursuit of backpack-rapper cred, they have made a kind of spiritual practice of recording futuristic songs – a total aesthetic commitment that extends from their garish wardrobes to their United Colors of Benetton worldview.

He later appeared on Coleman's 1971 LP Science Fiction, and from 1976 to 1987 reunited with Coleman alumni Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Blackwell in the band Old And New Dreams, recording four albums with them, two for ECM and two for Black Saint, where his " subtlety of rhythmic expansion and contraction " was noted.

* The last authorized portrait busts of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel were created between 2001 – 2002 by Canadian sculptor Dr. Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook and arranged by noted Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet who himself also created a portrait of Black.