Upon the John Byrne reboot of the Superman mythos after Crisis on Infinite Earths, kryptonite was made much rarer in the DC Universe and many of the multicolored varieties were eliminated.

Essentially Byrne took the old New York City building, hooked the entire structure-pipes, heaters, pillars and all, electronically to an old pipe organ, and made a playable musical instrument of it, for a piece called " Playing the Building ".

Gay Byrne, Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson ,, Dick Cavett, Ed Sullivan, Oprah Winfrey, Rush Limbaugh, and Mosunmola Abudu have hosted notable talk shows ; in many cases, the shows have made their hosts famous.

In Superman v. 2 # 13, both Emma Peel and John Steed made cameo appearances, recruiting the titular hero to capture the Toyman, who had been revised by John Byrne as a British mad scientist murdering toy company executives.

Wallace made his directorial debut with his own screenplay in The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons and Gérard Depardieu.

A decisive moment occurred midway through the second half: with the score tied at 6-all Roosters winger Todd Byrne made a clear break down the sideline and looked set to score a try before being chased down and tackled into touch by Penrith lock forward, Scott Sattler.

" Byrne made an expanded defense of the passer rating and its importance for the Pro Football Researchers Association in 2012.

One of the first users of computer-generated lettering was writer / artist John Byrne, who made fonts from existing lettering.

( Incidentally, Byrne made use of existing lettering by other artists, such as Dave Gibbons, without their permission.

Former Dubuque Archbishop James Byrne has been buried in a casket made by the Abbey.

On October 30, 1981, the New Jersey Nets, who had played their previous four seasons at the Louis Brown Athletic Center at Rutgers University while the arena was being built, relocated to the Meadowlands and made their Brendan Byrne Arena debut, losing to the New York Knicks, 103 – 99.

In addition, Scott's ally ( and wife ) Big Barda was made a member of the revived Justice League and appeared regularly in the Jack Kirby's Fourth World series by John Byrne, as well as several issues of " The Brave and the Bold ", where Mr. Miracle teamed up with Batman.

Byrne had intended to conclude the story in a second series after a six-month hiaitus, but the collapse of the American comic book industry in the mid-1990s made it financially unfeasible for him to do so, and he returned to working for hire at DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

Byrne achieved his career highlight of third place at the Leningrad Interzonal in 1973, with 12. 5 / 17, which made him only the fourth American ( after Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer, and Pál Benkő ) to qualify for the Candidates Tournament ( part of the world chess championship process ).

* Robert Byrne vs Vasily Smyslov, Biel Interzonal 1976, French Defense, Winawer / Positional Variation ( C19 ), 1 – 0 Byrne succeeds with a line which Smyslov himself had made famous in the 1940s.

Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll.

In 2002, Byrne made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a small role as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones.

After several seasons playing in the reserve and youth sides, he became a professional in 1951 and over the decade made 12 league appearances as full-back cover for Roger Byrne on the left and Bill Foulkes on the right.

* In 2008, legendary soap actor Mick Lally, best known for his role as Miley Byrne in Glenroe, joined the cast as self made millionaire, Éamon de Faoite.

An Irish Catholic force made up of the Gaelic clans from the Wicklow Mountains led by Fiach MacHugh O ' Byrne and James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglas of the Pale, defeated an English army under Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, at the O ' Byrnes ' mountain stronghold of Glenmalure.

Byrne has received several Honorary Doctorates: in 1997 he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paisley, in 2004 he was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, in 2006 he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the Robert Gordon University Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and in 2011 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee.

A clear understanding of Marion Mahony ’ s contribution to the architecture of the Oak Park Studio comes from Wright ’ s son, John Lloyd Wright, who says that William Drummond, Francis Barry Byrne, Walter Burley Griffin, Albert Chase McArthur, Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts and George Willis were the draftsmen — the five men and two women who each made valuable contributions to Prairie style architecture for which Wright became famous.

Captain Philip Byrne made his 100th appearance for the Kildare County in all competitions in the sides 1-0 victory over Finn Harps on 21 April 2007.

In 1991, Byrne released a classical instrumental album The Forest, where some of the tracks were already featured as a score for 1988 Robert Wilson theatre piece of the same name.

There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were people with the surname " Burns " living in the area ( a Scottish variant ).

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

Bax had already had some of his poems and short stories published in Dublin and to the circle he was simply known by the pseudonym Dermot O ’ Byrne ( the name was possibly inspired by a renowned family of traditional musicians in Donegal ).

The show, originally conceived as a temporary summer filler programme for a niche audience on Saturday nights at 23. 30, began broadcasting on Friday nights in 1962 and was presented by Gay Byrne for over 35 years, on Saturday evenings for some of that time.

Thurles local hurling club, Thurles Sarsfields is an honoured and decorated club which has produced some of the finest hurlers in the country such as Jimmy Doyle and Mickey Byrne.

If Byrne played 12. Nxa4, Fischer would play Nxe4, leaving Byrne with some terrible choices:

Blackrock, some hundreds of years ago was variously called Newtown-at-the Black Rock, Newtown on the Strand by the Black Rock, Newtown Castle Byrne, or simply Newtown, so that " Blackrock " is simply an abbreviation of one of its ancient titles.

In October 2011, Gay Byrne said the idea that he and Pat were competing in some sort of rivalry was " bloody rubbish ".

In an effort to save the line, then Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco and Editor Howard Mackie ended up removing some of the more fantastic elements from it and in a few cases doing radical revamps-John Byrne was enlisted to write and do breakdowns on Star Brand, altering the title so that it focused less on Ken Connell and more on the power of the Star Brand itself.

Debuting in a story by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane in the umbrella title Marvel Premiere # 15-25 ( May 1974 – October 1975 ), he was then written successively by Len Wein, Doug Moench, Tony Isabella, and Chris Claremont, with art by successive pencillers Larry Hama, Arvell Jones, Pat Broderick, and, in some of his earliest professional work, John Byrne.

Byrne had originally pitched the series to DC, but the series for some reason never surfaced.

With some changes, Byrne changed the concept to fit in with his work on the graphic novel 2112 to become the John Byrne's Next Men series.

In addition to exploring mature topics such as sex, abortion, and child abuse, Byrne also set aside some of the more traditional conventions of the medium, such as " thought-bubbles " and sound-effects.

David also pointed out that some of these artists, such as John Byrne and George Pérez, did not react to this practice on Liefeld's part as a " tribute ," and expressed displeasure at the degree to which Liefeld relied on their work.

After performing well in Formula Ford in 1981, Byrne won the 1982 British Formula Three Championship even though he was forced to miss some races while he competed in Formula One.

As for the reality, Byrne says: " Diarmait's immediate origins are obscure and may arouse some suspicion.

Before and for some years after forming the band, Byrne was a New York City police officer.

* Chris O ' Neill, Michael Riordan, worked for some years as agent for Gabriel Byrne.

They garnered even more press after David Bowie and David Byrne were spotted at some of the band's shows in 2005.

Gabriel Byrne was a close friend of Rossi's and agreed to do some filming with the two young filmmakers.

Collins's 1975 book My Seven Chess Prodigies included memoirs of a handful of his students who became some of America's greatest chess players, including: former world champion Bobby Fischer, grandmaster William Lombardy, New York Times chess columnist Robert Byrne and International Master Raymond Weinstein.