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Dark and Alliance
In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.
*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.
In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, linking the origins of crack cocaine in California ( largely aimed at its African-American population ) to the CIA-Contra alliance.
* San Jose Mercury News, " Dark Alliance " by Gary Webb.
* In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, the Dark Phoenix made an appearance in the ending of the game if the player chooses to save Nightcrawler instead of saving Jean in Mephisto's realm.
The Dark Nest trilogy by Troy Denning includes two types of Star Destroyers used by the Chiss Ascendancy and the Star Destroyer Admiral Ackbar used by the Galactic Alliance.
* Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series – A trio of adventurers prevent Eldrith the Betrayer, Mistress of the Onyx Tower, from sending her army of minions into Baldur's Gate, as well as managing to destroy the Tower itself.
The game has spawned two series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extend to Amn and Tethyr.
The Dark Alliance series was released exclusively to consoles and was critically and commercially successful.
The Dark Alliance series was originally set to be developed exclusively by Snowblind Studios, but ports were handled by Black Isle Studios, High Voltage Software and Magic Pockets with the second game being developed exclusively by Black Isle.
He had also endured hours of severe torture, as is quoted in Gary Webb's book, Dark Alliance: " His body bore evidence of unimaginable tortures.
* Gary Webb ( 1955 – 2004 ) — investigated Contra-crack cocaine connection, published as Dark Alliance ( 1999 )
Other notable films include: George Cukor's Justine ( 1969 ), Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark ( 1969 ), Christian de Chalonge's L ' Alliance ( 1970 ), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous a Bray ( 1971 ), The Salzburg Connection ( 1972 ), Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate ( 1973 ) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette ( 1976 ).
The spin-off series started with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance ; the game's success forged a sequel as well.
Dark Alliance is often credited as Interplay's most successful console game.
Aside from Dark Alliance, Interplay published a few notable console series such as Earthworm Jim and ClayFighter.
Due to Interplay using the Dark Alliance Engine for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, and the Gamecube version of the original Dark Alliance without consent from Snowblind Studios, the two studios were engaged in a legal conflict between 2003 and 2004.

Dark and CIA
In August 1996, the newspaper published Gary Webb's " Dark Alliance ", a series of investigative articles linking the CIA to Nicaraguan contras organizing the distribution of cocaine into United States.
Films that have featured the building include the 1995 version of Richard III ( Interior of Richard's Headquarters ), Nineteen Eighty-Four ( the Ministry of Truth ), Blue Ice ( a hotel ), Spy Game ( lobby of CIA Headquarters ), Batman Begins ( Lobby of a Court ) and The Dark Knight Rises ( a costume ball ).
He played a CIA agent in the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, and starred with Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson, in the British spy-drama Shadow Dancer.
One of them is " Frances ", the red-headed CIA agent mentioned in several reports on the War on Terror, including Jane Mayer's The Dark Side and an AP news story from 2011 about the Khalid El-Masri case.

Dark and Cocaine
CounterPunch-sourced news stories have frequently featured in the Project Censored annual list of top 25 " underreported, mis-reported, or censored " news stories, including three in 1997 alone (" Dark Alliance: Tuna Free Trade, and Cocaine "; " Corporate America Spends Big $$ on Pro-China PR "; and " U. S. Alone in Blocking Export Ban of Toxic Waste to Third World ").
* BBS: Spreadpoint BBS ( Cocaine ), Flying Saucer ( Uli ), Dark Century ( Blackstar ), Heaven's Gate ( Yukon )

Dark and Explosion
Dark Silfarion can also be used with Explosion to create a special attack called " Twelve Wings of Fire " where Lucia speeds past enemies while hitting them multiple times with explosions.

Dark and Seven
Seven of the original eight Lazy Guns were destroyed before the events of Against a Dark Background.
Agahnim intends to break the seal by sending the descendants of the Seven Sages who made the seal into the Dark World.
To save Hyrule, Link is required to rescue the seven descendants of the Seven Sages from dungeons scattered across the Dark World.
The Seven Sleepers appear in two books of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series ; Will Stanton awakens them in The Grey King, and in Silver on the Tree they ride in the last battle against the Dark.
Seven were in the Base Set, Darkness and Metal types appeared when Pokémon Gold and Silver introduced the Dark and Steel types and the Dragon type was finally introduced in the JP " Dragon Selection " set.
Among his credits are Tsui Hark's The Seven Swords and Wilson Yip's Ip Man ; Mamoru Oshii's films The Red Spectacles, StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Police Patlabor and Avalon ; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ and Maison Ikkoku ; the live-action adaptation of Gantz ; and Hideo Nakata's films Ring, Ring 2, Chaos, Dark Water and Kaidan.
He contributed music to horror films: Ring, Ring 2, Dark Water, Japanese-Polish science-fiction film Avalon and the Hong Kong film Seven Swords.
They meet Ionia again, who tells Lucas about the Seven Needles which seal off the gigantic " Dark Dragon " hidden under the island.
He has had many guest appearances on television, and landed leading roles on such shows as McKenna ( one season, 1994 – 1995 ), Dark Skies ( one season, 1996 – 1997 ), The Magnificent Seven ( two seasons, 1998 – 1999 ), Now and Again ( one season, 1999 – 2000 ), and the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Taken ( 2002 ).
The stories of the Seven Champions were especially popular in Europe during the Dark Ages.
For instance, Full Dark House focuses on John May's reminiscence of the team's first case together during the Blitz, whilst Seventy Seven Clocks is framed as Arthur Bryant's retelling of a case from 1973.
Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue # 56 occurring two to five minutes after Episode Six, Part Seven of Thirteen and eight pages long.
Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue # 57 occurring within an hour after Episode Seven, Part Eight of Thirteen and ten pages long.
An evil entity called the Dark Lord wants to create chaos in the world with the help of seven crystals that represent the seven ambitions ( also known as the Seven Strengths ) who sealed him away years ago.
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is the follow-up to Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet Dark Legacy.

Dark and Stories
Not to be confused with the short story " The Naming of Names ", first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949, later published as " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed ".
*" Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed " ( Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949, reprinted in A Medicine for Melancholy )
* The Dark Corner-A former programming block that aired on Saturday evenings, " The Dark Corner " featured many of YTV's darker shows, such as Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Freaky Stories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
* Author Alvin Schwartz includes a variation of the vanishing hitchhiker legend in his book More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark along with copious notes detailing the origin and variations of the story.
In 2009, they produced Dark Play or Stories for Boys, which was their production for the MHSDG.
* A resurrected Tom Mix appeared in two of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels, The Dark Design ( 1977 ) and The Magic Labyrinth ( 1980 ) as a traveling companion of Jack London, along with a short story featured in the anthology Riverworld and Other Stories ( 1979 ).
Stories also vary greatly in length, from one issue to sixteen in the case of the story arc, Dark Age, whose main viewpoint remains that of Charles and Royal Williams, two brothers in their early adult years living in Astro City.
** Mister X Special: " Mister Insect X " ( with Brett Ewins, one-shot, 1990 ) collected in The Brides of Mister X and Other Stories ( hc, 320 pages, Dark Horse, 2011, ISBN 1-59582-645-9 )
* The Dark Beasts and Eight Other Stories from the Hounds of Tindalos ( 1964 ).
Walter Hooper, Lewis ' literary executor, titled the fragment and published it in the 1977 collection The Dark Tower and Other Stories.
In his introduction to The Dark Tower and Other Stories, Hooper states that he rescued an untitled manuscript in Lewis ' handwriting of the story from a bonfire of the author's writings early in 1964, several months after Lewis ' death.
He reported seeing a manuscript of the Lewis fragment " After Ten Years " on the same occasion, a text which Roger Lancelyn Green thought Lewis did not commence until 1959 ( The Dark Tower and Other Stories, p. 155 ).
The Dark Tower and Other Stories.
The Dark Tower and Other Stories.
* Legends of the Dark Knight # 79: " Favorite Things " ( with Steve Yeowell, 1996 ) collected in Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Volume 1 ( tpb, 192 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0444-9 )
** The Soul of Venice and Other Stories ( collects " Dark Waters ", ISBN 1-59307-132-9 )
* A Day in the Dark and Other Stories ( 1965 )
* The Dark: New Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow ( Tor )
His interest in the paranormal led him to write popular titles such as Ghost Stories from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, A Face in the Dark and other Hauntings.
* Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001, William F. Nolan ( Stealth Press )
* Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker ( Dark Harvest )
*" The Green Ribbon " is a story in the book of horror stories for children, In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories, by Alvin Schwartz.

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