The collapse of the Western Roman Empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of Western classical society as happened in areas like Roman Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Dark Ages, although the institutions, infrastructure and economy did suffer considerable degradation.

Dark and light green areas indicate the French Empire and its territories ; blue, pink and yellow areas indicate French client and satellite states

Dark areas denote periods where the polarity matches today's polarity, light areas denote periods where that polarity is reversed.

Dark blue indicates areas designated in their entirety ; light blue indicates areas that include designated communities.

The village is situated between the areas known as the Dark Peak ( to the north ) and the White Peak ( to the south ).

Dark earth, urban areas and roadways are good sources of thermals.

The themes used for areas on Dark Aether are dark variations of the themes used for the same areas on Light Aether.

In Slavic countries, the term Germanisation is often understood solely as the process of acculturation of Slavic and Baltic speakers, after the conquests or by cultural contact in the early Dark Ages, areas of the modern Eastern Germany to the line of the Elbe.

Notable areas of upland moorland in Britain include the Dark Peak, the Forest of Bowland, the Lake District, the Pennines, Mid Wales, the Southern Uplands of Scotland, the Scottish Highlands, and a few very small pockets in western Herefordshire.

In 2013, Cuervo Jones ( Georges Corraface ), a Shining Path Peruvian Revolutionary, seduces the President's daughter, Utopia ( A. J. Langer ), via a holographic system and brainwashes her into stealing her father's remote control to the " Sword of Damocles " super weapon — a series of satellites capable of destroying electronics anywhere on the planet, driving target areas back into the Dark Ages.

Dark patches on the floor indicate areas resurfaced by lava.

Fear will not stifle thought, as is the case in some areas which have not yet emerged from the Dark Ages.

Dark banding frequently corresponds to inactive chromatin, whereas light banding is usually found at areas with higher transcriptional activity.

Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.

Nynaeve is an exceptional Healer, being the first person to ever Heal Severing / Stilling / Gentling and the insanity caused by the Dark One's touch on Saidin, among other discoveries though surpassed in some areas by a few Yellow sisters and some of the Kin.

Mairsil the Pretender, the advisor to an unnamed king, imprisons Lord Ith in the device called "" ( a mage-prison built by his chief artificer, Barl ) and wages war in the " Dark Lands ", areas of Terisiare overcome with black mana influence.

An example of an archaeological horizon is the Dark Earth horizon in England, which separates Roman artifacts from medieval artefacts and which may indicate the abandonment of urban areas in Roman Britain during the 2nd to 5th centuries.

It is positioned on the boundary between the White and Dark Peak character areas.

Elements of No Man's Land are used in the film The Dark Knight Rises ; while there is no earthquake, Bane sets off various bombs that damage key areas of Gotham and destroy all but one of its bridges, forcing the citizens to remain inside Gotham as a nuclear bomb counts down, leaving them forced to band together as various gangs to survive the anarchy created by Bane's actions.

Dark blue regions indicate current missions, while light blue regions represent former missions.

This would indicate that Dark is not a devil or demon in the Christian sense of the term.

Dark red and brown colours indicate a higher density: highest in the east and west.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

Recent additions include 1000 AD ( Cthulhu: Dark Ages ), 23rd Century ( Cthulhu Rising ) and Roman times ( Cthulhu Invictus ).

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

She has faced death numerous times in the history of the series, the first being when, in her guise as Marvel Girl, she died and was " reborn " as Phoenix, which in time led to her second-though not last-death in the classic " Dark Phoenix Saga ".

For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece.

* In Iain M. Banks ' novel Against a Dark Background, the Lazy Guns have a lot of mass and yet little weight, and weigh three times as much upside-down as upright.

* The Jetsons have appeared three times in Family Guy in the episodes " Brian in Love ", " Meet the Quagmires " and " Something, Something, Something, Dark Side ".

After the Greek Dark Ages, tradition recalled that Perseus and his descendants the Perseides had ruled Tiryns in Mycenaean times, while the allied branch descended from Perseus ' great-uncle Proëtos ruled in Argos.

The Dark, a 2005 film directed by John Fawcett and based on the novel Sheep by Simon Maginn, set in contemporary times, involves the legend.

The " hospital " setting was used at least four times in 1982 with Visiting Hours, Alone in the Dark, Hospital Massacre and Halloween II.

In The Swarm War, Luke Skywalker takes his nephew's advice so many times that he even listens when Jacen tells him that he is not ready to face Lomi Plo, the Dark Queen of the Gorog.

They improvised the medley of " Dark Star "/" St. Stephen "/" The Eleven " several times a week, which enabled them to explore widely within the songs ' simple frameworks.

The history of the area is obscure for several centuries after the end of the Roman period during the so called Dark Ages, though at different times it may have been part of the Welsh kingdoms of Gwent and of Ergyng, and the Beachley and Lancaut peninsulas east of the Lower Wye remained in Welsh control at least until the 8th century.

In particular, Rowling had trouble with the ninth chapter, " The Dark Mark ", which she rewrote 13 times.

Vampire: The Dark Ages is a spin-off from the Vampire: The Masquerade game, also published by White Wolf, the latter set in modern times.

Publishers have been, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics.

Dumbledore tells Harry several times that the prophecy is only true because the Dark Lord believes it.

" Little is known about the role they played in Greek social life, but they existed from the Greek Dark Ages until the 2nd century BC ; Homer refers to them several times, in passages that appear to describe the social environment of his times.

Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is about alienation, bureaucracy, the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to stand against the system, and the futile and hopeless pursuit of an unobtainable goal.

* Dark Age of Camelot, a MMORPG set in Arthurian times.

In a review of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer, The New York Times reported on 11 July 2008, that " Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes ", that the techniques applied to Abu Zubaydah were " categorically " torture, and that Abu Zubaydah had told investigators that, contrary to what had been revealed previously, " he had been waterboarded at least 10 times in a single week and as many as three times in a day ".