Homages were paid worldwide and even some of Le Corbusier's worst artistic enemies, such as the painter Salvador Dalí, recognised his importance ( Dalí sent a floral tribute ).

Homages to the Kong attraction can be found in several areas within the Mummy attraction, including a golden statue of King Kong in the second scene of the ride.

Homages to this scene have appeared in the film Hot Shots !, and episodes of Eureka, Ellen and Animaniacs.

Homages to The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) have been noted in the film, as Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, is the music conductor seen during the opening credits.

( D ' Hervey de Saint-Denys 1822-1892 ; Biography, Family correspondance, oneirological and sinological works ; Homages to the author on the centenary of his death and artistic exposition regarding his dreams ) ( 1995 ) Oniros, BP 30, 93451 Ile Saint-Denis cedex.

It was also Jo who thought up the names for a number of her husband's paintings, including one of the most famous oils, Nighthawks.

To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!

There were many local favorites that played for the Blades such as Claude Boileau, John Brophy, and future coach of the New Haven Nighthawks and Los Angeles Kings, Don Perry.

Because if he were allowed to use his full power Pug would quickly deal with most of the minor problems faced by Jimmy and Arutha such as the continuing trouble caused by the Nighthawks, Feist must constantly devise ways to limit Pug's power.

Celebrity players such as the New England Patriots ' Adalius Thomas and former Washington Bullet Gheorghe Muresan suited up for the Nighthawks and played as the " 11th man ", a unique rule in the ABA that allows celebrities to play in a game for an ABA team.

James, Owyn, and Gorath follow the trail of the spyglass and the spider north to Cavall Keep and uncover the leader of the Nighthawks, the merchant Navon du Sandau.

Returning to Northwarden as the moredhel siege begins, they discover that Nighthawks have murdered Baron Gabot, leaving James in command.

Nighthawks are medium-sized New World birds, with long wings, short legs, and very short bills.

Nighthawks are similar in most respects to the nightjars, but have shorter bills, and plumage that is less soft.

Nighthawks are less strictly nocturnal than many nightjars, and may be seen hunting when there is still light in the sky.

Within family Caprimulgidae, subfamily Chordeilinae ( Nighthawks ) are limited to the New World and are distinguished from the subfamily Caprimulginae, by the lack of rictal bristles.

In Manitoba and Ontario, Canada, it is reported that during migration the Nighthawks are seen most commonly in the late afternoon, into the evening, with a burst of sunset feeding activities.

Juvenile birds, in both sexes, are lighter in colour and have a smaller white wing-patch, than adult Common Nighthawks.

Nicknamed " The Nighthawks ," they are headquartered at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, Virginia, and maintain detachments at Naval Support Facility Anacostia in Washington, D. C. and Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Maryland.

Included among the more than 50 species observed are Red-tailed Hawks, American Kestrels, Great Horned Owls, Common Nighthawks, and Great Blue Herons.

The themes that may or may not be embedded in Nighthawks are ambiguous, but viewers can also appreciate the painting from a purely technical point of view.

The inspiration for this search has been summed up on the blog of one of these searchers: " I am finding it extremely difficult to let go of the notion that the Nighthawks diner was a real diner, and not a total composite built of grocery stores, hamburger joints, and bakeries all cobbled together in the painter's imagination.

In 1975, Waits moved to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard and released the double album Nighthawks at the Diner, recorded in a studio with a small audience in order to capture the ambience of a live show.

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

Emerson provided music for a number of films since 1980, including Dario Argento's Inferno and World of Horror, the 1981 thriller Nighthawks and, more recently, Godzilla: Final Wars.

He carried on using it into the 1980s, the instrument dominating the 1981 film soundtrack for Nighthawks which starred Sylvester Stallone.

The best-known of Hopper's paintings, Nighthawks ( 1942 ), is one of his paintings of groups.

In keeping with the title of his painting, Hopper later said, “ Nighthawks ” has more to do with the possibility of predators in the night than with loneliness.

His second most recognizable painting after Nighthawks is another urban painting, Early Sunday Morning ( originally called Seventh Avenue Shops ), which shows an empty street scene in sharp side light, with a fire hydrant and a barber pole as stand-ins for human figures.

His 1997 film The End of Violence incorporates a tableau vivant of Nighthawks, recreated by actors.

In a 1998 episode of That ' 70s Show titled " Drive In ," Red and Kitty settle in at a diner and create a reproduction of Nighthawks.

Musical influences include singer / songwriter Tom Waits's 1975 live-in-the-studio album titled Nighthawks at the Diner, after the painting.

The exhibit comprised fifty oil paintings, thirty watercolors, and twelve prints, including the favorites Nighthawks, Chop Suey, and Lighthouse and Buildings.

The team was known as the Nashville Nighthawks in the 1996-97 season and changed monikers to the Ice Flyers in 1997-98, then folded when the Predators began play.

The basketball / volleyball arena, Knights Arena in Rockville, was home to the Maryland Nighthawks of the Premier Basketball League for the 2007 season, before the team moved to Georgetown Preparatory School Field House.

The athletic teams of Armour High School were formerly known as the " Packers " in reference to the well known packing company, although today the high school plays its sports jointly with Tripp-Delmont High School as the " Tripp-Delmont / Armour Nighthawks.

( To a certain extent, this continues in lower football leagues as well, with TD Ameritrade Park being used as the home stadium of the United Football League's Omaha Nighthawks.

In 2010, Garcia played for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.

The Norfolk Nighthawks were a charter member of the Arena Football League's minor league, af2.

The al-Taji Airbase, located 15 mi ( 27. 4 km ) northwest of the Iraqi capital, had been hit at least three times by GBU-27 / Bs from F-117 Nighthawks, " digging up the rose garden ".

Pilots flying the F-117 Nighthawk over Iraq during the first gulf war nicknamed it the " Hammer " ( albeit fitted with the GBU-24 Paveway III kit for use specially by the Nighthawks ), for its considerable destructive power and blast radius.

He was friends with Jimmy Thackery of the Washington, D. C .- based blues band, The Nighthawks.

While touring in the 1970s, the Destroyers and the Nighthawks happened to be playing shows in Georgetown ( DC ) at venues across the street from each other.

The Destroyers were engaged at The Cellar Door and the Nighthawks at Desperados.

" The connection with the Nighthawks was extended further, when Nighthawks bass player Jan Zukowski supported Thorogood's set at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, PA on July 13, 1985.