He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.

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.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

The item said Mr. and Mrs. Black had moved to Jackson, his home town -- so the lovely Lisa had been with him a year ago.

He wondered how long it would be before they had a signed confession from Lionel Black.

Charles A. Black, COAHR chairman, said Friday that three theater representatives had agreed to meet with the students on Oct. 31 but had failed to show up.

The marriage of John and Mary Black had clearly reached the breaking point after eight years.

They failed to reach the Anatolian coasts of the Black Sea however, as another Indo-European people, the Kaskians, had established a kingdom there in the 17th Century BC, displacing earlier Palaic speaking Indo-Europeans.

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.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

Black had worked with Pollock on " Stranger in Town " in 1957 and years previously Stanley Black had used Ron Goodwin as his orchestrator.

Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

Black powder had many disadvantages as a propellant ; it has relatively low power, requiring large amounts of powder to fire projectiles, and created thick clouds of white smoke that would obscure the targets, betray the positions of guns and make aiming impossible.

Torrio had gone there to resolve some family problems his cousin's husband was having with the Black Hand and killed them.

Similar to other forested regions, the Black Forest has had areas that were annihilated by mass logging.

* Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests: These temperate broadleaf and mixed forests extend across northern Anatolia, lying between the mountains of northern Anatolia and the Black Sea.

Remembering their expensive defeat at the Battle of Vesontio, the Germans withdrew to the Black Forest, concentrating there a mixed population dominated by Suebi.

One such example is the a cappella release of Jay-Z's Black Album, which Danger Mouse mixed with The Beatles ' White Album to create The Grey Album.

This population was mixed, of Portuguese and local islanders descent and Larantuqueiros, Topasses ( people that wear heats ) or, as Dutch knew them, the ' Black Portuguese ' ( Swarte Portugueezen ).

It is also commonly used in cocktails and mixed drinks, such as the Bloody Mary, Screwdriver, Sex on the Beach, Moscow Mule, White Russian, Black Russian, vodka tonic, and in a vodka martini.

The racial makeup of the MSA was 71. 6 % White ( 60. 2 % White Non-Hispanic ), 9. 1 % Black, 5. 7 % Asian, 0. 8 % American Indian and 12. 8 % of other or mixed race.

Of the 134, 497 people accounted for by the 2002 Guyanese Census, about 70, 962 ( 53 %) listed themselves as Black / African ; 31, 902 ( 24 %) as mixed ; 26, 542 ( 20 %) as East Indian ; 1, 441 ( 1. 1 %) as Amerindian ; 675 ( 0. 5 %) as Portuguese ; 475 ( 0. 35 %) as Chinese ; 2, 265 ( 1. 7 %) as " don't know / not stated "; 196 ( 0. 15 %) as white not of Portuguese descent ; 35 as " other ".

: Black 90 %, White 4 %, Asian and mixed 6 %

There is similar pressure on Black Bermudians ( most of whom are multi-racial ) not to self-identify as mixed race as there is in Blacks in the USA, where President Barack Obama, raised by his single, white mother, sparked debate when he identified himself on the census as black, rather than mixed race, and in the UK, in both of which countries greater flexibility is also now allowed for people to describe themselves racially.

The races there are very mixed: 157, 965 are White, 26, 405 are Black or African-American, 525 are American Indian and Alaska native, 1, 814 are Asian, 50 are native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 5, 719 are Hispanic or Latino, 1, 958 are some other race and 1, 648 are two or more races.

Using data from the 2001 Census, 74. 02 % of the population of the Hatch End ward identify as ' white ', 18. 94 % as ' Asian or Asian British ', 3. 12 % as ' Black or Black British ', 2. 16 % as ' mixed ', 1. 14 % as ' Other ethnic group ' and 0. 61 % as Chinese.

The 2001 Census revealed a mixed population ; approximately 50 per cent White, 23 per cent Black and 21 per cent south Asian.

That afternoon, a mixed force of the British Army the Royal Irish Constabulary, and the Black and Tans retaliated by shooting up a Gaelic Football match at Croke Park.

Black Flag's sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and frequent tempo shifts.

North of Olive is predominantly Black, from Olive to Delmar is mixed, and south of Delmar is predominantly White.

Fort Clark was for many years home to the famous Buffalo Soldiers -- and, demographically, Brackettville had a larger proportion of Black Seminoles ( people of mixed African American and Seminole ancestry ) than the rest of West Texas.

Fort Atkinson was named after General Henry Atkinson, the commander of U. S. forces in the area during the Black Hawk War ( 1832 ) against a mixed band of Sauk, Meskwaki and Kickapoo peoples.

Early in the decade, several bands from the Southern United States ( particularly New Orleans with its metal scene ) such as Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Soilent Green, Corrosion of Conformity and Down, influenced by the Melvins, mixed Black Sabbath style metal, hardcore punk and Southern rock to give shape to what would be known as sludge metal.

He is not an electronic music composer, however many works call for amplification of instruments, such as Black Angels ( string quartet ) or Ancient Voices of Children ( mixed ensemble ).

According to Black, he and producer James Stroud spent more time putting this album together than either of those preceding and were " a lot more aggressive in the way we cut and mixed the album ".

The Caucasus mountains, which run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, are a particularly rich mix of coniferous, broadleaf, and mixed forests, and include the temperate rain forests of the Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests ecoregion.

Wordplay ( born Tao Rogers-Wright, 11 November 1984 ) is a musician / actor, of mixed British and Black African descent.