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He was briefly the subject of a spin-off strip in the early 1990s that parodied famous films, usually in ways involving the character's love of food ( examples including ' You Only Eat Rice ' and 20, 000 Leeks Under The Sea.
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It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.
Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.
In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.
Mary Peabody Mann served as a French instructor for a time. The school was briefly famous, and then infamous, because of his original methods.
On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.
Albert the Bear (; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170 ) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg ( as Albert I ) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.
Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam.
The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.
His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.
* Eirene Komnene ( born c. 1169 ), who was briefly married to Alexios Komnenos, a son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by Theodora Batatzina.
The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.
Ayckbourn's career was briefly interrupted when he was called for National Service.
Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.
He was at length arrested on November 3 under charges of insubordination and treason, and held briefly in Warren, Texas, but his resignation was accepted on November 11 and he was allowed to return to Arkansas.
Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.
According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.
When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.
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When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.
In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.
It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.
The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.
It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.
Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).
There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
was and spin-off
In 1997, a spin-off show based on their classmate Daria Morgendorffer, Daria, was created.
It was followed by other " spin-off " merchandise over the years, including painting books, board games, wall-paper, figurines, baby blankets and china tea-sets.
A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.
It was rekindled once, in 1978, for the Hawklords spin-off, but otherwise continued only with design commissions for projects involving the band's saxophonist Nik Turner.
The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.
This novel was adapted into a TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, in 1973, and a spin-off, The Bionic Woman in 1976.
It was developed by Sony's 989 Studios and its early-1999 spin-off Verant Interactive, and published by Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ).
The spin-off series Joey was created to follow up with the series after the finale.
It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.
Gumby was an NBC series ( a Howdy Doody spin-off ) during 1957.
It was a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons ' Rock School, which also aired on VH1.
Reynolds was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts, helped found the Society of Artists, and, with Gainsborough, established the Royal Academy of Arts as a spin-off organisation.
Hoover was a consultant to Warner Bros. for a 1959 theatrical film about the FBI, The FBI Story, and in 1965 on Warner Bros .' long-running spin-off television series, The F. B. I.
In 1988 he was involved in the launch of Crisis, a politically aware 2000 AD spin-off aimed at older readers.
The Royal Today was a daily spin-off of popular sixties drama The Royal, which had been running in a primetime slot since 2002.
The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.
Rooted in Gene Roddenberry ’ s Star Trek universe, it was the first Trek spin-off created without direct involvement from Roddenberry, although he did give his blessing to the concept shortly before his death in 1991.
A spin-off from Star Trek: The Next Generation, DS9 began while its parent series was still on the air and there were a few crossover episodes between the two shows.
At the end of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all licenses for Star Trek spin-off fiction were renegotiated and the animated series was essentially " decanonized " by Gene Roddenberry's office.
That was not is purpose and was, at most, an incidental spin-off.
The series was popular enough to generate a spin-off series, The Girl from U. N. C. L. E.
The troff collection of tools ( including pre-and post-processors ) was eventually called Documenter's WorkBench ( DWB ), and was under continuous development in Bell Labs and later at the spin-off Unix System Laboratories ( USL ) through 1994.
A spin-off of the show was produced, The Bionic Woman, as well as several television movies featuring both eponymous characters.
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