The film performed poorly in the U. S., eclipsed ultimately by the space adventure Star Wars, though today it is highly regarded and considered the last gasp of Peckinpah's once-great talent.

Published in 2000, it was the last adventure to be written for D & Ds 2nd edition rules.

Friday accompanies him and, en route, they endure one last adventure together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees.

Robson essentially retired from the theatre in the early 1970s, her last role being as a Stygian Witch in the fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans in 1981.

He ended his review, " At last an adventure game that's enjoyable rather than frustrating.

Killing Procrustes was Theseus's last adventure on his journey from Troezen to Athens.

Initially reluctant, the group eventually decides to evade the authority of Mikey's older brother, Brandon, and escape for one last " Goonie adventure.

2 ) # 129 contains the first mention of the JSA in the Silver Age, and refers directly to their last adventure in All-Star Comics # 57, while in Flash ( vol.

His last films were both loosely based on true stories: Tom Horn, a Western adventure about a former Army scout turned professional gunman who worked for the big cattle ranchers, hunting down rustlers, and who was later hanged for murder in the shooting death of a sheepherder, and then The Hunter, an urban action movie about a modern-day bounty hunter, both released in 1980.

* The Orient Express plays host to an adventure game by Jordan Mechner: The Last Express is a murder mystery game set around the last ride of the Orient Express before it suspended operations at the start of World War I. Robert Cath, an American doctor wanted by French police as he is suspected of the murder of an Irish police officer, and becomes involved in a maelstrom of treachery, lies, political conspiracies, personal interests, romance and murder.

Though, the very last frame of the last completed adventure suggests a cynical view that the poor will suffer, no matter who rules the state.

The spelling of this name is sort of a choose-your-own adventure: rendered correctly from Arabic, it should be al-Mukha, but given the long history of European traders and adventurers in this region, it has over the last few hundred years been written as “ Mokha ,” “ Mocca ,” “ Mocha ,” and “ Moka .”

Some parallels to elements and incidents in Norse mythology have been detected in the tale, and the trappings of Jack's last adventure with the giant Galigantus suggest parallels with French and Breton fairy tales.

Having encountered Al Capone's gangsters in his last adventure, Tintin in the Congo, Tintin is sent to Chicago, Illinois to clean up the city's criminals.

Off to an adventure with boat, gear, clothes and food to last for weeks.

The project was led by Ron Gilbert, David Fox and Noah Falstein ; it was Fox's last adventure game for the company.

: " If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord ..., King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, son and next heir unto our Sovereign Lord the last King deceased, to be the right heir to the Imperial Crown of this Realm of Great Britain and Ireland, or that he ought not to enjoy the same ; here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor, being ready in person to combat with him ; and in this quarrel will adventure his life against him, on what day soever he shall be appointed.

Where the listener can relax, close their eyes and within minutes be wandering the streets of 1800's Vienna with Beethoven on the last great adventure of his life.

Following his father's death, Jack undertakes one final adventure, to resolve the mystery of the last recorded Starman, the Starman of 1951.

It is the last adventure game to be published to date by Sierra Entertainment.

Jumbo made his first appearance in issue 583, dated 19 September 1953, and the strip continued intermittently until issue 1734, dated 11 October 1975, at which point it was the last adventure story in The Beano.

When the strip made the final appearance of its original run in 1974, it was one of the last remaining adventure strips in the Beano.

After his adventure with Ryu, Kenshiro is forced to help out Bat and Lin one last time when a villain from Kenshiro's past named Bolge threaten their happiness.

Writing in The Spectator, Kingsley Amis ( under the pseudonym Christopher Pym ) wrote that " each episode of the Bond novels meant the adventure was less probable and more preposterous than the last, and now our hero seems to have lost, as well as any claims to plausibility, the know-how, the know-who, know-what and sheer zing that used to carry the unlikely plots along.

Is it not ironical that Roger Williams's state, Rhode Island, should have been the very last of the forty-eight to establish a state university??

Probably the last of the original Island Indians.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

The only land animals known to exist on Clipperton Island are bright-orange crabs ( which are poisonous to consume ), birds, lizards and rats, the last of which seem to have arrived from recently wrecked ships.

The last person to pass through Ellis Island was a Norwegian merchant seaman by the name of Arne Peterssen in 1954.

Natural mummies are also known from Funk Island, and the eyes and internal organs of the last two birds from 1844 are stored in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

Anagnostis Agelarakis based on recent archaeo-anthropological discoveries of the earliest monumental polyandrion ( communal burial of male warriors ) at Paros Island in Greece, unveils a last quarter of the 8th century BC date for a hoplitic phalangeal military organization.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

* 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States ' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U. S. state.

The last V-2 launch at Peenemünde happened in February 1945, and on May 5, 1945, the soldiers of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front under General Konstantin Rokossovsky captured the seaport of Swinemünde and all of Usedom Island.

Protection Island contains one of the last two nesting colonies of puffins in Puget Sound, and about 70 % of the tufted puffin population nests on this island.

* March 21 – The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes ; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

* March 24 – Titokowaru's War ends with surrender of the last Māori troops at large in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.

* The last of the Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.

* May 29 – Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.

* c. 1650 BC: The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.

* The last known population of woolly mammoth, preserved on Wrangel Island, goes extinct.

* c. 1700 BC: The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.

* c. 1650 BC — The last Woolly mammoths become extinct on Wrangel Island.