The metal band Metallica recorded a song inspired by " The Call of Cthulhu ", an instrumental titled " The Call of Ktulu ", a song based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth titled " The Thing That Should Not Be ", and a song based on Frank Belknap Long's " The Hounds of Tindalos ", titled " All Nightmare Long ".

Recognizing his athletic talents, Robinson's older brothers Mack ( himself an accomplished athlete and silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics ) and Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports.

Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight is said to have been directly inspired by and America's response to Triumph of the Will.

It left a remembered vision that inspired the Emerald City of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz and Walt Disney's theme parks.

* The Dancing House in Prague ( Czech: Tancici dum ), sometimes known as Ginger and Fred, was designed by American architect Frank Geary and inspired by the dancing of Astaire and Rogers.

Where the previous LP had consisted entirely of " standard-length " pop songs, Baxter's was dominated by long multi-part suites, while the track " A Small Package of Value Will Come To You Shortly " was a musique concrete style audio collage inspired by Frank Zappa's avant-garde work on side four of Freak Out!

* Gerard Butler in the 2007 film 300, inspired by the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.

* Frank Mundus ( 1925 – 2008 ), shark hunter said to have inspired the character Quint in the movie Jaws.

The song " Misery Loves Company " was based on the Stephen King novel Misery, while " Now It's Dark " was inspired by the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, specifically the behavior of the sexually depraved, self-asphyxiating, murderous sociopath Frank Booth, as played by Dennis Hopper.

Following his signing to Motown's Tamla label, Gaye having been inspired by such singers like Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to perform standards, figuring the move would make him a crossover success, rather than perform the usual R & B performed on Motown, bringing him to conflict with the label.

Robert Smith is again teaming up with director Tim Burton, following up his contribution to the companion album to Burton ’ s 2010 version of " Alice in Wonderland " with a song called " Witchcraft " ( inspired by Frank Sinatra's 1975 version of this song ) on the upcoming Frankenweenie Unleashed !, a 14-track collection of songs “ inspired by ” the filmmaker ’ s new stop-motion creation.

In 1924 Šufflay became a member of the leadership of the Pure Party of Rights, a right-wing Croatian political party inspired by the work of Josip Frank, a fervent nationalist.

Rand's descriptions of Roark's buildings were inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, such as Fallingwater, a residence he designed in the 1930s.

A common speculation is that Roark was inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a claim both Rand and Wright denied.

The story's name is taken from a line in the Frank O ' Hara's poem " Ode to Necrophilia ", and was inspired by a newspaper article Gowdy read about a young California woman who hijacked a hearse on its way to a funeral, took the corpse of the young man inside the coffin to a motel room and had sex with it for several days before being caught by the police.

Filmed entirely on location, the series was produced by Frank King, who had also produced the 1966 feature film, Maya, which inspired the series and starred Jay North, Sajid Khan, and Clint Walker as Terry's estranged father.

And the scene in which Van Heflin's character escorts Ford to the railroad station while avoiding an ambush by his gang may have inspired the ambush of Frank by his own men in Leone's film.

It is largely inspired by the story of holocaust victim Anne Frank.

Largely inspired by new West Indies captain Frank Worrell, who was a close personal friend, Sobers had an outstanding 1960-61 series in Australia.

who, along with Ms. Vance, wanted to create “ a building that sings from any viewpoint .” The theatre building has no right angles but does have wide bands and terraces and is “ reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s buildings .” Franzen selected the concrete exterior because he was inspired by Houston ’ s location and the warm weather of the Southwest.

The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls ( one of the founders of Rolls-Royce ), partly inspired by the Aero Club of France.

While the former was inspired by the Sandra Bullock starrer While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 ), the later was a remake of Frank Coraci's The Wedding Singer ( 1998 ).

* January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter's release.

His followers established near him, later establishing a cult of his daughter Eve Frank.

While it has been claimed that two related messianic Jewish sects of the eighteenth century, the Frankists, followers of Jacob Frank, and the Dönmeh, followers of Shabbetai Zvi, were alleged to hold an annual springtime ' Lamb Festival ,' which consisted of a celebratory dinner that included a ritualized exchange of spouses., such reports should be considered very cautiously, as they may simply be defamatory propaganda of the time against groups that the ruling elite found heretical, particularly since the groups involved were secretive about their beliefs, aims, and practices.

Critics of Hasidic Judaism expressed concern that Hasidism might become a messianic sect as had occurred among the followers of both Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank.

The Jewish authorities in Poland excommunicated Frank and his followers due to his heretical doctrines that included deification of himself as a part of a trinity and other controversial concepts such as " purification through transgression ".

Frank was forced to leave Podolia, while his followers were hounded and denounced to the local authorities by the rabbis ( 1756 ).

These revelations called for the conversion of Frank and his followers to the Christian religion, which was to be a visible transition stage to the future " das " or religion to be revealed by Frank.

After the discussion the Frankists were requested to demonstrate in practice their adherence to Christianity ; Jacob Frank, who had then arrived in Lwów, encouraged his followers to take the decisive step.

Some of the Jewish followers of Sabbatai Zevi ( Sabbateans ) formally converted to Islam, and later followers of Jacob Frank (" Frankists ") formally converted to Christianity, but maintained aspects of their versions of Messianic Judaism.

he was not involved in any of the railway scandals, current or past ; he was not conspicuously involved in any of the personal battles that had consumed Alexander Rutherford, Frank Oliver, the brothers Arthur and Clifford Sifton, Charles Cross, or any of their followers ; he was not a high-powered flamboyant Liberal partisan ; he did not let himself get involved in federal Liberal Party machinations over issues such as the conscription crisis ; nor did he seem to be high-handed or dictatorial — a criticism levelled at his predecessor, Arthur Sifton.

Much of Judaism was still fearful of the messianic movements of the Sabbateans and the Frankists ( followers of the messianic claimant Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 )).

The Baal Shem Tov came at a time when the Jewish masses of Eastern Europe were reeling in bewilderment and disappointment engendered by the two notorious Jewish false messiahs Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) and their respective followers.

In a letter to the regimental surgeon, Lincoln Stone, Frank Shaw wrote :" We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers .... We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company.

In the 1750s Jacob Frank claimed he was the reincarnation of Zevi and attracted many followers in Poland, known as Frankists.

The name " Oxford Group " originated in South Africa in 1929, as a result of a railway porter writing the name on the windows of those compartments reserved by a travelling team of Frank Buchman followers.

During the 1970 Los Angeles murder trial of Charles Manson and his followers, who were charged with the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others, Herald Examiner reporter William ( Bill ) Farr reported in an article that Manson had planned to murder Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra.

The guild attracted a significant number of followers who went on to be important church figures, among them James Adderley, Percy Dearmer, Charles Marson, Conrad Noel and Frank Weston.

On June 4, 2006, the State Chairman Frank MacKay started dis-enrollment hearings against Fred Newman, Lenora Fulani, and almost 140 of their followers, in order to seize control of the New York City county organizations.

1759 The followers of Jacob Frank joined ranks of Polish szlachta of Jewish origin.