After 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe until the Black Death of the 14th century.

Black metal artists often appear dressed in black with combat boots, bullet belts, spiked wristbands and inverted crosses / pentagrams to reinforce their anti-Christian or anti-religious stance.

* Black levels may appear unacceptably bright due to the fact that individual liquid crystals cannot completely block all light from passing through.

There were fresh protests on August 13, 2004, ( Black Friday ), which appear to have begun as a demand for the release of four political activists from detention.

Black bands appear on the tower around the 29th – 32nd, 64th – 65th, 88th – 89th, and 104th – 108th floors.

Black & White films provide an obvious early example that audiences are willing to suspend disbelief, no matter how unreal the images appear, for the sake of entertainment.

* In the Adventures of Superman story " Black Magic on Mars " from issue # 62 ( January 1950 ), Martians led by the dictator Martler, an admirer of Hitler, appear.

In 1954, Playboy magazine selected his story " Black Country " to be the first work of short fiction to appear in its pages.

Additionally, Patrash Pasha ( Cigars of the Pharaoh ), Sheikh Bab El Ehr ( Land of Black Gold ) and General Tapioca ( referred to in The Broken Ear and appearing later in Tintin and the Picaros ) are all referred to but don't appear.

The Dark Young or Thousand Young appear in the short film Black Goat by writer / director Joseph Nanni.

Black should appear on the eye rims and eyebrows, and may appear on the ears.

( Black Lectroids appear to be Rastafarian Jamaicans, while Red Lectroids are caucasians ) The ship also sends a " thermo-pod " to Earth, with a holographic message from the Black Lectroids ' leader, John Emdall, explaining Lord Whorfin's motives and giving an ultimatum: stop Whorfin and his army or the Black Lectroids will protect themselves by staging a fake nuclear attack, causing the start of World War III.

He was the youngest player ever to appear in a Test as an All Black, making his debut at age 19 years, 45 days in 1994.

Danzig later recorded a new song, " Black Hell ", to appear in the 2011 sequel, The Hangover: Part II.

He does appear in The Black Stallion Returns, alongside Cass Ole, by which time the studio bought out the syndicate of owners in order to secure El Mokhtar's services.

" You're My World "-- recorded in no time by Black — was not released as a single by Warwick, but it did appear on a later album, Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls, released in 1968.

The most common color that does not appear every year is Pink, followed by Green, Black, and White.

In a 1997 interview with Record Collector magazine, Black revealed she was asked to appear in the 1969 film The Italian Job, playing the part of Michael Caine's girlfriend, but negotiations fell through between producers and her management over her fee.

* Prince Gares the Black Knight, a character from the video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, son of the Empress Endora and a primary antagonist in the game, is a black knight capable of magically animating numerous " copies " of his signature black armor to attack the player throughout the game, thus making him appear immortal.

The American Black Vulture and the King Vulture appear in a variety of Maya hieroglyphs in Mayan codices.

During the 1st century BC the Armenians in what had been Urartu established the powerful Armenian kingdom under Tigran who reigned throughout much of eastern Anatolia between the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean.

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer also fought at Poitiers under The Black Prince.

Just prior to World War I, under the orders of the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence, Serbian Military Officers and remnants of the by then moribund Black Hand organized and facilitated the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria on occasion of his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

After the Black Army had served its purpose in aiding the Red Army to stop the Whites under Denikin, the Soviet communist government decided to eliminate the anarchist forces.

The currents produced by the tidal action in the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara are such that ships under sail must await at anchorage for the right conditions before entering the Dardanelles.

The 1st United States Dragoons explored Iowa after the Black Hawk Purchase put the area under U. S. control.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.

For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

In February 2005, it was reported that Major and Norman Lamont delayed the release of papers on Black Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act.

During his reign Justinian also subdued the Tzani, a people on the east coast of the Black Sea that had never been under Roman rule before.

Sawyer established his authority over most of Monrovia, with the help of a paramilitary police force, the ' Black Berets ', under Brownie Samukai, while the rest of the country was in the hands of the various warring factions.

Luthor even attempted to send a team of heroes after them under the leadership of Captain Atom-the team consisting of Major Force, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, Katana and Green Lantern, but this plan failed when Katana and Power Girl quickly sided with Superman and Batman and Major Force was apparently killed, Power Girl noting that Luthor had assumed in his arrogance that the heroes would obey him simply because he was President.

According to the accounts of those encountering them, Men in Black always seem to have detailed information on the persons they contact, as if the individuals had been under surveillance for a significant period of time.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

The flooding of the area now known as the Black Sea ( when a land bridge, where the Bosporus is now, collapsed under the pressure of rising water in the Mediterranean Sea ) submerged a great deal of human activity that had been gathered round what had been an enormous, fresh-water lake.

* To Markos III 1970 / Black Flower ( reissued in 1987 under original title with bonus tracks )

He then sent a column under Konur Alp towards West Black Sea coast ; another column under Aqueda to capture Kocaeli, and finally a column to capture the southeast coast of the Sea of Marmara.

Black phosphorus is obtained by heating white phosphorus under high pressures ( about ).

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.