Thieves ' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.

After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books.

They switched from black to red jerseys in 1971, and the club began to wear silver pants in 1978.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

Styx began its series of concept albums in 1977 with The Grand Illusion-focused on self-constructed and societal walls ( similar to The Wall by Pink Floyd )-then followed it with Pieces of Eight in 1978.

Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.

Berry began to sing again in the early 1970s, and he arranged and produced a number of singles ( both solo and as Jan & Dean ) between 1972 and 1978 on the Ode and A & M labels, facilitated by friend and former manager Lou Adler.

The year after their marriage, the couple began campaigning for George W. Bush's 1978 Congressional candidacy.

Litigation began between New York City and the Jets over the issue, and in the lawsuit's settlement, the city agreed to allow the Jets to play two September home games a season at Shea beginning in 1978 for the remaining six years in the Jets ' lease.

Smith began 1978 as a non-roster invitee to the San Diego Padres ' spring training camp in Yuma, Arizona.

A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics, began to emerge in 1978 among bands scattered around the United States and Canada.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

A revival of the style began in 1978, when the Penrhos microbrewery introduced a porter.

Immediately following his election, Urban began preaching intemperately to the cardinals ( some of whom < ref > Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14 < sup > th </ sup > Century, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978, pp 330 – 331 </ ref > thought the delirium of power had made Urban mad and unfit for rule ), insisting that the business of the Curia should be carried on without gratuities and gifts, forbidding the cardinals to accept annuities from rulers and other lay persons, condemning the luxury of their lives and retinues, and the multiplication of benefices and bishoprics in their hands.

Amateur radio operators began experimenting with packet radio in 1978, when-after obtaining authorization from the Canadian government-Robert Rouleau, VE2PY and The Western Quebec VHF / UHF Amateur Radio Club

Kurzweil's next major business venture began in 1978, when Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ), where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist.

He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

In 1978, with the assistance of a loan from the IDA, work began on adding deep-water berths and providing roll-on-roll-off container facilities.

In the 1970s, former CIA man Charles McCarry began the Paul Christopher series with The Tears of Autumn ( 1978 ), which was well-written, with believable tradecraft.

He began his career as the first round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1978.

However, when Khomeini began to urge the Shi ' ites there to overthrow Saddam and under pressure from the Shah, who had agreed to a rapprochement between Iraq and Iran in 1975, Saddam agreed to expel Khomeini in 1978 to France.

Beginning around 1978, the government of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) began an experiment in economic reform.

* MythAdventures ( 1978 – 1989 )

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

* Lieutenant Boomer, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

Later series of new Conan material include the Bantam editions ( 1978 – 1982 ), Ace Maroto editions ( 1978 – 1981 ), and Tor editions ( 1982 – 2004 ).

The Telstar is a series of video game consoles produced by Coleco from 1976 to 1978.

Relative peace and stability prevailed until 1977 and 1978 when Katangan rebels, based in Angola, launched a series of invasions ( Shaba I and II ) into the Shaba ( Katanga ) region.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Benedict's career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and television series Battlestar Galactica.

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

* CN Concert Series – This was a short lived series produced in 1978 then discontinued soon afterwards.

In 1978, after giving a series of lectures of architecture in China, Pei was asked to imagine a project for his home country.

* The Gentle Giants of Ganymede ISBN 978-0-345-01933-2-May 1978 ( 2nd book in Giants series )

From the 1978 The Incredible Hulk ( TV series ) | The Incredible Hulk episode " Married "

In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote MUD, Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called Milieu using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.

), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 – 1930 ( Penguin " Penguin Literary Criticism " series, 1978, ISBN 0-14-013832-3 ).

From 1968 to 1978, he and Paul Samuelson participated in the Economics Cassette Series, a biweekly subscription series where the economist would discuss the days ' issues for about a half hour at a time.