On 2002, the first secure encrypted digital cinema feature was Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by Cinecomm Digital Cinema ( then led by Russell J. Wintner ).

The Jedi starfighter, created for Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was designed to bridge the appearance of the Jedi starfighter in Episode II: Attack of the Clones and the TIE fighter design from the original trilogy.

This was because in Attack of the Clones, Anakin's lightsaber was built to be reminiscent of the lightsaber in the original trilogy, while in Revenge of the Sith, Vader's lightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber that Obi-Wan Kenobi gives to Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Attack of the Clones reveals that he was trained in the ways of the Jedi by Count Dooku.

The subsequent albums The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein ( 1976 ), Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome ( 1977 ), and Motor Booty Affair ( 1978 ) all reached high on both the R & B and Pop charts, while Funkadelic was also experiencing significant mainstream success.

McGuigan was born in Clones, Ireland, son of singer Pat McGuigan ( died 1987 ).

Following a reverse at Clones, O ' Neill had to abandon central Ulster and was followed by thousands of refugees, fleeing the retribution of the Scottish soldiers for some atrocities against Protestants in the rebellion of 1641.

The 1996 release Illadelph Halflife was the group's first album to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart, spurred in part by MTV's airplay of the video for " What They Do " ( a parody of rap video clichés ) and " Clones ", which was their first single to reach the top five on the rap charts.

Since most of the military power within the Republic's territory was not actually controlled by the Republic, but as depicted in Attack of the Clones, by member planets such as Naboo or organizations such as the Techno Union and the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the ability of the Senate to enforce its decrees was severely limited, and it was forced to rely on the Jedi.

However, there have been exceptions such as in Ulster, where in 2004 and 2005 the Ulster Football Finals were played in Croke Park, due to the fact that the anticipated attendance was likely to far exceed the capacity of the traditional venue of St Tiernach's Park, Clones.

Once it changed to Attack of the Show ( a reference to the Star Wars prequel " Attack of the Clones ") on March 28, the studio audience was dropped, and while still covering technology to a lesser extent, it also covers autos, sports, movies, new products and pop culture.

Her first cartoon was " Jelly Babies " which was based on a Beano Annual story from 1992 like " Minnie Clones " and " It's a Dad's Life which was a cartoon created for the video.

Patrick ( Pat ) McGuigan ( 1935 – 1987 ) was a famous Irish singer born in Clones.

Bracken was born at Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland.

Historically Clones was also spelt Clonis, Clonish and Clownish.

Clones was the site of a monastic settlement in the kingdom of Dartraige Con-innsi, originally founded by Tigernach ( anglicised Tierney ) in the 6th century, until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

In February 1922, just after the partition of Ireland, Clones was the scene of a confrontation between the Ulster Special Constabulary and the Irish Republican Army.

A unit of Special Constabulary was travelling by train to Belfast, but was stopped by an IRA unit at Clones, in Southern Ireland, while they were changing trains.

The Ulster Railway linked Monaghan with and Belfast in 1858 and with the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway at Clones in 1863.

Clones of board games must use computer generated dice ; the values are usually determined by a pseudorandom number generator, then displayed as a visual representation of a die.

In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, set 10 years later, Shmi is kidnapped by a group of Tusken Raiders.

In the film's climax, he reappears to bring the Blue Monkey diamond to the ACME satellite, but is thwarted by Bugs ( who he duels in a parody of Obi Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ) and Daffy ( who arrives as Duck Dodgers to save Bugs after he is exhausted from the battle ), resulting in Marvin trapped in a bubble floating through space.

The character subsequently appears in one episode of the series, " Night of the Clones ," where she is portrayed by Irene Tedrow.

* Honoured in an Irish ballad song released in 1984 entitled Clones Cyclone written by Johnny McCauley and sung by Big Tom

For example, the Star Wars episodes were released in the order IV-VI followed by I-III ; Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ) is a prequel to Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ) but, under the dictionary definition, is only a predecessor rather than a prequel of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ) due to release order.

Notably, they were used by George Lucas for the production of his second Star Wars prequel, Attack of the Clones.

They are the main antagonist in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace due to being manipulated by the Order of the Sith Lords and become a part of a larger consortium in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems or the CIS which is also manipulated by the Order of the Sith Lords.

The Republic army in this engagement is commanded by Master Yoda, and the Battle of Geonosis marks the end of Attack of the Clones and the beginning of the Clone War.

* Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ), introduces the Clawdite species, which can change their form at will, and one of their race is described by Anakin thus: " I think he is a she, and I think she is a changeling.

Clones railway station was opened on 26 June 1858 by the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.

This made it impractical to continue services on the Cavan and Dundalk lines so the GNR withdrew passenger services on those lines as well, leaving Clones with no passenger trains and a freight service truncated at the border.

CIÉ withdrew freight services from the Cavan line in 1959 and from the Dundalk line in 1960, leaving Clones with no railway at all.

Other local routes are the 111 to Ballinagh, Granard, Castlepollard and Athboy, the 162 to Monaghan via Cloverhill and Clones, the 166 to Dundalk, the 175 to Monaghan via Cootehill and the Tuesdays-only 465 to Carrigallen.

Younglings were seen training with Jedi Grand Master Yoda in a scene from Attack of the Clones and when Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side in Revenge of the Sith.

* The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Harry Potter-film series, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean-film series, Spider-Man-film series, Shrek-film series, Ice Age-film series, Transformers-film series, X-Men-film series, Batman-film series ' Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Star Wars Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, The Matrix-film series ' The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia-film series, Mission: Impossible-film series ' and The Mummy-film series.

Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars Saga ( appears in: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ), and the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

As it turns out ( according to The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, 1976 ), Starchild secretly worked for Dr. Funkenstein, the intergalactic master of outer space Funk, who is capable of fixing all of man ’ s ills, because the " bigger the headache, the bigger the pill " and he ’ s the " big pill " (" Dr. Funkenstein ", from The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein ).

While gloating over his victory, Sir Nose alludes to multiple songs from Funkentelechy and Clones, mockingly referencing the scat singing from " Sir Nose " (" humdrum, twiddly-dee-dum Starchild!

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Because of the projection limitations at the time, Apollo 13 and Attack of the Clones had to be edited down from their original length.

Segments of that cartoon appear in the 2002 Attack of the Clones web documentary " Bucket Head ", and Jeremy Bulloch, who portrayed Fett in the original films, introduces the segment as coming from the Holiday Special.

" Clones ", taken from the album Meltdown is the first licensed music to be used in anything Star Wars-related.

Clones of the original JezzBall normally offer updated graphics but vary slightly in timing and scoring from the original.

Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore however went one step further, with the track " Led Clones " from his " After the War " album.

George Clinton named the group ( based on a storyline and characters from the Parliament album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein ).

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The incident, known as the ' Clones Affray ' at the time, threatened to cause the collapse of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and prompted the British government to suspend the withdrawal of British troops from the Free State.

In 1954 the governments of the Republic and Northern Ireland jointly nationalised the GNR and in 1957 Northern ireland made the GNR close its lines from Armagh and Enniskillen to Clones.