It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

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.

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.

The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.

Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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 sign language was born out of this isolation.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

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.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

Karen Black, originally cast as the ingenue, was replaced out of town.

A model of the ship The Black Prince is covered in flowers and is taken in procession from the Quay at Millbrook to the beach at Cawsand where it is cast adrift.

Professor Sue Black and her team of forensic anthropologists from Dundee recreated his face from the cast made of his skull.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as the lead actress of When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, and as part of the cast of Black Swan.

Manson believed that he would bring about the race war by having his followers slaughter wealthy people in their homes and cast suspicion on militant groups such as the Black Panthers.

A Amulet | talisman from the Black Pullet, a late grimoire containing instructions on how a magician might cast rings and craft amulets for various magical applications, culminating in the The Golden Goose | Hen that Lays Golden Eggs.

Zidane's " Skill " command list, for example, changes to " Dyne ", allowing him to execute powerful attacks ; Vivi's " Black Magic " command evolves into " Double Black ", allowing him to cast two magic spells simultaneously.

The large ensemble cast includes David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan F. Nicholls, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn.

Burton has been cast as voice actor for Black Lightning in Superman / Batman: Public Enemies DVD.

Black actors were cast repeatedly in menial roles and were consistently required to speak in contrived stereotypical " Negro dialects.

A pub, " The Jolly Gardeners ", on Black Prince Road, was adopted for Snatch ( film ) and cast as " The Drowned Trout ", in 2000.

A few other Twilight Zones would follow the example of this episode and cast blacks in significant roles, including the pastor in " I Am the Night — Color Me Black ", with Ivan Dixon, and the electrician in " The Brain Center at Whipple's ".

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

The 20th century saw a decline in coal mining in the Black Country, with the last colliery in the region-Baggeridge Colliery near Sedgley-closing on 2 March 1968, marking the end of an era after some 300 years of mass coal mining in the region, though a small number of open cast mines remained in use for a few years afterwards.

Aronofsky with the cast and crew of Black Swan

When brought up on VH1's I Love the ' 90s, the original cast members interviewed ( Amy Jo Johnson, Walter Emanuel Jones ) as well as other celebrity commentators, made fun of how the original line-up had Jones ' role as the Black Ranger and Thuy Trang's role as the Yellow Ranger because the actors and characters were of African and Asian descent, respectively.

In 2001, director Ridley Scott cast Bana as an American soldier in the film Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ).

Black was part of an all-Scouse cast assembled in this three hour stage spectacular to mark the end of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.

Since then comedian Jasper Carrott, glam rocker Noddy Holder, motor racing commentator Murray Walker, the cast and crew of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, long serving Archers cast member Norman Painting and founding member of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi have all been honoured on the street with a star.

** Mike Berniker ( producer ) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Browder's former Farscape co-star Claudia Black appeared on SG-1 in the eighth season episode entitled " Prometheus Unbound " and again during the first episodes of the ninth season before becoming a regular cast member on the series at the beginning of its tenth season in 2006.

In 2011, he was cast as the lead in Black Pond, a low-budget British film directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe.