The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

The powerful imagery of horror films began in German expressionist cinema after the first world war and then passed onto the Universal Studios films of the twenties and thirties, and then to the horror films of the English Hammer Studio.

The Hammer company focused on the genre for the first time, enjoying huge international success from films involving classic horror characters which were shown in color for the first time.

* July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru ( b. 1922 )

* September 25 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru ( d. 1992 )

Coal mining activities began in 1792, after the first coal outcrop was discovered by Matthew Hammer.

Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words " The End " over the burning house.

I, The Jury ( 1947 ) is Mickey Spillane's first novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.

When Mike Hammer sees Williams's body (" For the first time in my life I felt like crying "), he makes a solemn vow: He promises that he will find the murderer and execute him himself, avoiding the U. S. judicial system altogether.

As an interesting aside, during the first meeting in the early 1980s between Deng Xiaoping and Armand Hammer, a U. S. industrialist and prominent investor in Lenin's Soviet Union, Deng pressed Hammer for as much information on the NEP as possible.

He threw the 6 kg ( 13. 2 lb ) Hammer Throw 252 ' 4 " to become the first American to win an international championship in the Hammer Throw since 1956 when Hal Connolly won the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.

Written in the first person, Hammer describes his violent encounters with relish.

Their second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold in December 1991 and included the hit song " Hammer and a Nail ", a # 12 modern rock music track ; it was not as successful as their first, which was certified platinum at about the same time.

Hammer is considered a " forefather / pioneer " and innovator of pop rap, and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album.

Once signed to Capitol Records, Hammer re-issued his first record ( a revised version of Feel My Power ) with additional tracks added and sold over 2 million copies.

Therefore, Hammer was first invited to perform the song " U Can't Touch This ", prior to its release, on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989.

However, there are moments where Chico's characters appear to be genuinely Italian ; examples include the film The Big Store, in which his character Ravelli runs into an old friend he worked with in Naples ( after a brief misunderstanding due to his accent ), the film Monkey Business, in which Chico claims his grandfather sailed with Christopher Columbus, and their very first outing The Cocoanuts, where Mr. Hammer ( Groucho ) asks him if he knew what an auction was, in which he responds " I come from Italy on the Atlantic Auction!

* "' Pataphysical science " is mentioned as a course of study for Maxwell Edison's first victim, " Joan ", in the song " Maxwell's Silver Hammer " on the album Abbey Road by the Beatles.

The largest of these were the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations, with other groups based in East Belfast, the Hammer and Roden Street The first meeting was chaired by Billy Hull, with Alan Moon as its vice-chair, but Moon was quickly replaced by Jim Anderson and left the organisation by its formal launch in September.

Work began almost immediately on the first Hammer film, The Public Life of Henry the Ninth at the MGM / ATP studios, with shooting concluding on 2 January 1935.

The crew of Engine 51 was Chester " Chet " Kelly ( Timothy " Tim " Donnelly ), Marco Lopez ( Marco Lopez, an actor using his real name, is often thought to be an actual LACoFD firefighter ), Mike Stoker ( LACoFD firefighter Mike Stoker as himself ), Captain Dick Hammer ( LACoFD Captain Richard Hammer as himself, later John Smith, first season ), Captain Henry " Hank " Stanley ( Michael Norell, remaining seasons ).

As Hammer lies dying, his face shifts from one person to another until he dies wearing his own face.

In the episode " The Hammer Falls ," Justin Hammer has Count Nefaria captured where Justin suspects him as the person who's been blackmailing him and subjects him to the Zombie Gas.

Famously during the time of Rhythm and Blues, WWF announcer Gorilla Monsoon would proclaim every time Valentine got on the microphone and sang that " if you hung The Hammer for being a good singer you would hang an innocent person ".

The second person identified as a Scourge killed Hammer and Anvil, and the The Wraith ( Brian DeWolff ), before killing the Scourge who talked to Captain America, and some time later, he killed a member of the Watchdogs.

In episode 2, " Hammer Gets Nailed ", Hammer addresses the stereotype of policemen and donuts, stating that the fat in donuts gums up the arteries and goes into the brain, making the person liberal ; hence, he prefers granola bars.

Terrible ( Coogan ) acted as the narrator for each episode, a self-contained spoof of a famous horror movie (' victims ' included the Hammer Horror films, Fu Manchu, Witchfinder General and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ).

In 1982, the story was made into a movie again by director Richard T. Heffron with Armand Assante as Mike Hammer.

The case of Myrrha, critic Langdon Hammer notes, is the worst possible made against desire, because the story of Myrrha shows how sex can lead people to destroy others as well as themselves.

It tells the story surrounding the recovery of the Hammer of Kharas, how the Companions retrieve the dragon orb from Ice Wall, how Kitiara Uth Matar and Lord Soth became allies, and how Raistlin Majere took the Black Robes in Neraka.

In 2009, another short film called 2081 was based on the original story and starred Armie Hammer as the title character.

Soon after the release of the Quatermass and the Pit film, Kneale was approached by Hammer about writing a fourth Quatermass story directly for them, but the idea came to nothing.

" Hammer had altered their film version of the story so that the creature is in fact killed by being electrocuted.

Two later 19th-century interpretations of the story were Judas Makkabaeus, a novella by the German writer Josef Eduard Konrad Bischoff which appeared in Der Gefangene von Kuestrin ( 1885 ); and The Hammer ( 1890 ), a book by Alfred J.

While Glass Hammer has, for the most part, combined those influences into a characteristic style of their own, they made much more direct references to the aforementioned bands on their 2000 album Chronometree, which told the story of a drug-addled progressive rock fan who becomes convinced aliens are speaking to him through the music he listens to.

The film was a success for Hammer and they quickly announced that Nigel Kneale was writing a new Quatermass story for them but the script never went further than a few prelimininary discussions.

Die verschwundenen Perlen is a Mike Hammer type detective story set in Pacific City ( Los Angeles ) in the 1950s.

Bannerman's Castle ( called the Hammer Armory here ) was the site of clandestine human experimentation by the villainous Talia al Ghul and Dr. Creighton Kendall in issues # 145 ( published August 2008 ) and # 146 ( September 2008 ) of the ( defunct ) Nightwing ongoing series from DC Comics ( in a story arc titled " Freefall ," written by Peter J. Tomasi ).

In that story, set in 1872, a number of DC's western heroes ( including the aforementioned Hex, Bat Lash, Johnny Thunder, and Madame. 44 ) were employed by Otto Von Hammer and Jason Blood to defeat Wise Owl and recover from him an object of great power, which turned out to be a crystal containing the spirit of Swamp Thing, who had become lost in time.

In response, Hammer replied that the lesbianism was not of their doing but was present in the original story by Le Fanu.

The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their second adaptation of the story after their 1960 film The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

" Benn refused, and wrote another story published on 22 January 1978 in another WPVP publication The Hammer, demanding that the police commissioner investigate the People's Temple.

* The story of Vickers, Sons & Co. Ltd. from the Tilt Hammer website

Although the album's story line involves the adventures of a paraplegic boy in Tsarist Russia, Dailor told Metal Hammer that many of the songs are fantasy narratives involving him saving his sister from death.