* Dark Star ( horse ), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

In April 1988, on the evening after the Grand National, she appeared on a Channel 4 After Dark discussion about horseracing " so she said, to put the point of view of the horse ", later walking out of the programme " because she was so very sleepy ".

Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.

* Jan 2012-Philippine Market continue its charging rush to be Asia's Dark horse

* Dark horse

Dark horse candidates were people who never imagined they would run for President until the last moments of the convention.

Dark horse candidates were chosen in order to break deadlocks between more popular and powerful prospective nominees that blocked each other from gaining enough delegates to be nominated.

A white horse war standard was associated with the continental Saxons in the Dark Ages, and the figures of Hengest and Horsa who, according to legend, led the first Anglo-Saxon invaders into England, are said to have fought under a white horse standard ( a claim recalled in the heraldic badge of the county of Kent ).

He plans to eventually buy another horse, or perhaps a mule ; which ties in with the events at the beginning of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger.

Just think of old Granther Stannard who pulled the teeth of Dark Younger ( her real name was Dorcas ), and because he bungled the job and left two protruding tusks she put such a hex on him that he thought his legs were made of glass.

Next to Leo Durocher, Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.

Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics.

It was eventually followed by another sequel, The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), which serves as a conclusion to Nolan's film series.

* During the famous viral marketing for The Dark Knight, an audio clip was available that depicted Harvey Dent walking up to a hostage situation and subduing the threat.

The original conception of Call of Cthulhu was Dark Worlds, a game commissioned by the publisher Chaosium but never published.

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.

This journal was continued under a new title but with the numbering continued from No 1, thus the first issue of The Dark Eidolon: The Journal of Smith Studies, ( Necronomicon Press ) is numbered " 2 " ( it appeared June 1989 ).

Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a famous Jedi turned to the Dark Side.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

This meeting was dramatized in semi-fictional form for the BBC by Michael Ignatieff as Dialogue in the Dark.

It was the final game branded by Sega of America under the Deep Water label, employed for games featuring adult content such as this and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.

Dark matter's existence is inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter and gravitational lensing of background radiation, and was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible " luminous " matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium.

Like many other Greek mathematical treatises, Diophantus was forgotten in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, since the study of ancient Greek had greatly declined.

Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

This was the Age of Enlightenment when writers valued reason and the Middle Ages were viewed as the " Dark Ages ".

Several centuries later, in late Dark Age Europe, the term " firearm " was used in Old English to denote the arm in which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand cannon.

In 1988 Dark Horse Comics released a six-issue limited series, Godzilla, which was an American adaptation of the Japanese manga adaptation of The Return of Godzilla.

In the Dark Times ( occasionally mentioned in the televised serials such as The Five Doctors ), Gallifrey was at the centre of an empire covering dozens of worlds and continually being extended by heroes such as Prydonius ( whom the Time Lord chapter is named after ).

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

In the Victorian Era Africa was known as " The Dark Continent " and Europeans attributed many negative connotations to Africans.

Framestore was also nominated for Oscars in 2007 ( Superman Returns ), in 2009 ( The Dark Knight ) and again in 2010 ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 ).

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel ( 1935 ).

In 2005 his book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the World After Dark was nominated for both a Governor General's Award and The Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, and was published in seven countries.

Gyllenhaal has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the indie film Sherrybaby ( 2006 ), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, the romantic comedy Trust the Man ( 2006 ), and big-budget films such as World Trade Center ( 2006 ) and The Dark Knight ( 2008 ).

His first novel, Dark Universe ( 1961 ) was nominated for a Hugo.

With Diabolis Interium, the Swedish radio station ROCKET 95. 3 FM nominated Dark Funeral in the category “ Best Swedish Hardrock Band ”.

Bette Davis was tipped to receive an Academy Award nomination for her role ; however, she was nominated in that year for Dark Victory ( also from Warners ) instead.

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

Dark Days was released in 2000, and was nominated for several film festival awards.

* 1987: Dreams Of Dark And Light ( nominated, best anthology / collection )

" Awake " was nominated for and won the " Top Christian Album " Award at the Billboard Music Awards 2011, and the song " Awake and Alive " was announced to be on the Transformers: Dark of the Moon Soundtrack in May 2011.

The Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight ( 2008 ) is the most nominated superhero film in Academy Award history with 8 nominations with two wins for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker.

In 1996, he was nominated for an Emmy award ( best theme song ) for his work on the short-lived sci-fi series Dark Skies.

Schrab was responsible for the Dark Knight section: " How come comic-book movies never get nominated?

She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth, 8 times for Emmy Awards ( winning three ), and has also won a Golden Globe and Volpi Cup for Best Actress for role in the film Dutchman ( 1967 ).

His films Europa, Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark received great international attention and were nominated for numerous awards.