Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

: In 1962, Captain Clegg ( known as Night Creatures in the U. S. but also released as Dr. Syn ) was produced by Hammer Film Productions with actor Peter Cushing in the lead role, directed by Peter Graham Scott.

Night Creatures was never released on videotape in the United States, but is included in the two-disc DVD collection The Hammer Horror Series.

There was a notable revival in twentieth-century Gothic horror films such the classic Universal Horror films of the 1930s, Hammer Horror, and Roger Corman's Poe cycle.

The island is located off the Southeastern African coast, northwest from Seychelles, and its capital city was Hammer Bay.

Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.

The most recognised symbol with a hammer in it is the Hammer and Sickle, which was the symbol of the former Soviet Union and is very interlinked with Communism / Socialism.

On LL's response, " To da Break of Dawn " in 1990, he dissed Kool Moe Dee ( Whose feud with LL was far more publicized ) as well as MC Hammer.

For example, Robert le Bougre, the " Hammer of Heretics " ( Malleus Haereticorum ), was a Dominican friar who became an inquisitor known for his cruelty and violence.

After Jacobs ' death, Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer served as interim Rabbi of New London Synagogue until Rabbi Jeremy Gordon was appointed in January 2008.

It was led by founding president Hammer DeRoburt.

* In the commentary for the 2011 film Thor, director Kenneth Branagh hypothesized that Thor's Hammer is composed of neutronium, since it is explicitly stated in the film that the hammer was forged from a dying star.

discarded the more glam aspects of early hip hop's look ( which ironically, was later readopted in 1990 by more " pop " rappers MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice ) and incorporated a more ' street ' sense of style such as fedoras, leather jackets, and unlaced Adidas shoes.

However, Hammer worked primarily on the incandescent electric lamp and was put in charge of tests and records on that device.

According to Edison, Hammer was " a pioneer of incandescent electric lighting ".

In 2010 a Czech whisky was released, the 21-year-old " Hammer Head ".

Lennon was intrigued by Ono's " Hammer A Nail ": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece.

The stock-in-trade of Carry On humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service ( Nurse, Doctor, Again Doctor, Matron ), the monarchy ( Henry ), the Empire ( Up the Khyber ), the military ( Sergeant ) and the trade unions ( At Your Convenience ) as well as the Hammer horror film ( Screaming ), camping ( Camping ), foreigners ( Abroad ), beauty contests ( Girls ), and caravan holidays ( Behind ) among others.

In the early 1970s, Christopher Lee was a Hammer Horror regular, best known for playing Count Dracula in a series of successful films, beginning with 1958's Dracula.

In February 2012, after contracting a respiratory illness, David was replaced by Glass Hammer vocalist Jon Davison who, like David, was discovered while fronting a Yes cover band.

Edward I ( 17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307 ), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots ( from Latin: Malleus Scotorum ), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

Oakland was the birthplace or home at one time of several rap acts, including MC Hammer, Digital Underground, Hieroglyphics ( including Souls of Mischief and Del tha Funkee Homosapien ), The Luniz, Tupac Shakur, and Too Short.

It was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and inaugurated on February 15, 1997.

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

Hammer has always admired her " golden hair "; but not before the very end, when she strips, does he find out that Charlotte is a " real blonde ".

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!

Production designer Bernard Robinson and cinematographer Jack Asher were instrumental in creating the lavish look of the early Hammer films, usually on a very restricted budget.

In his correspondence with Victor Hammer, Schenker revealed that he was very near-sighted which hindered him from obtaining a better understanding of painting.

Hammer pioneered the use of the Minimoog synthesizer with distortion effects and, with his mastery of the pitch bend wheel, made it sound very much like an electric guitar.

Its unusual musical ideas — a synthesis of death, thrash, and industrial metal influences — prompted Andy Stout from Metal Hammer to call it " one of the most disturbing albums you'll hear for a very long time ".

In terms of Nauru's emerging post-Independence political cuture, the shortness of Harris's first term of Presidential office anticipated the very frequent changes of President to which Nauruans were to become accustomed, in contrast with the many years of Hammer DeRoburt's continuous first term of office.

Hammer mills, which produce a very fine mash, are often used when mash filters are going to be employed in the Lautering process because the grain does not have to form its own filterbed.

* Razor Blade Smile ( 1998 )-a very low budget independent British film which pays homage to the Hammer lesbian vampire films of the 1970s.

I said to Hammer, if you think I ’ m going to say any of these lines, you ’ re very much mistaken.

The Dandy version was a very " safe " version of Hammer Horror clichés, similar to Number 13 in The Beano or the US TV series The Munsters.

In another version, recorded on a different day ( but very similar in style to the one recorded on the 26th ) Lennon begins to shout songs that the Beatles were currently working on in the studio: '" Don't Let Me Down ", " Get Back ", " I've Got A Feeling ", " Two of Us ", " All I Want Is You ", " Teddy Boy ", " One After 909 ", " All Things Must Pass ", " Dig It ", " Let It Be ", " The Long and Winding Road ", " For You Blue ", " Maxwell's Silver Hammer ", " Across The Universe, " I Me Mine ", " She Came In Through The Bathroom Window "'.

Knud Olson Bergo, who was living just across the town line in Spring Grove, on getting up one morning, saw that a fire had swept over the prairie in the south part of the town ... It's charred appearance at once suggested to his mind a certain bluff located in Slidre Valders, Norway, which was Mr. Bergo's birthplace, and so he exclaiming in Norwegian, " Sort Hammer ," which signifies Black Bluff, and the people have had the good sense to retain the name to this day, which, it will be perceived, is composed of an English and a Norwegian word.

The Jan Hammer Group was formed in 1976 and supported The First Seven Days on tour, receiving good reviews from both jazz and rock critics.

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 ".

Hammer being good friends with Arsenio Hall, was invited to first perform " U Can't Touch This " prior to its release, on The Arsenio Hall Show in late 1989.

The album, Waves of Visual Decay, was released in May 2006 and, like its predecessor, also received good critical reviews, being selected as Album of the Month ( or Week, or Issue, depending on the magazine ) in Swiss magazine Metal World, Portuguese magazine Metal Morfose, Norwegian magazine Scream, German magazines Rock Hard, Guitar Magazine, Metal Hammer, Metal Heart and Heavy, and the e-zine laut. de.

During his life Hammer was also good friends with Tomas Merton.