The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

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The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

Enya played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their album Crann Úll ( 1980 ), although she was not officially a member of the group until the 1981 release Fuaim, when she appeared on the cover.

IFGS was named after a fictional group in the 1981 novel Dream Park, which described futuristic LARPs.

In 1981 a group called The Mean Machine released a 12 " single on Sugar Hill Records called " Disco Dream " which was the first rap record to emphasize Spanglish.

Concurrently, tension between Syria and Phalange increased Israeli support for the Maronite group and led to direct Israeli-Syrian exchanges in April 1981, leading to American diplomatic intervention.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

Pierre van der Berghe in The Ethnic Phenomenon ( 1981 ) emphasizes the role of ethnicity and kinship involving family biological ties to members of an ethnic group as being an important element of national identity.

Conservative commentator Dinesh D ' Souza, for example, published the letters of gay fellow students at Dartmouth College in the campus newspaper he edited ( The Dartmouth Review ) in 1981 ; a few years later, succeeding Review editor Laura Ingraham had a meeting of a campus gay organization secretly tape-recorded, then published a transcript as part of an editorial denouncing the group as " cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.

On January 12, 1981, a group calling itself Volunteer Organization for the Revolution claimed responsibility for blowing up six fighter jet planes in a Puerto Rico Air National Guard base at a loss of $ 40 million.

was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph " Run " Simmons, Darryl " D. M. C.

In revenge, the Brigades assassinated his brother Roberto in 1981 significantly damaging the standing of the group and lowering them in the public's eyes to little more than a supposedly radical Cosa Nostra.

The Sri Lanka Tamils, live predominantly in the northeast of the island forming the largest minority group at 12. 7 % ( according to the 1981 census ) of the population.

In 1981, Papert along with several others in the Logo group at MIT, started Logo Computer Systems Inc., of which he was Board Chair for over 20 years.

The 1981 film Quest for Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud tells the story of a group of neanderthals searching for their lost fire.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

After recording demos for a fourth album the group disbanded in 1981, when Shelley took up a solo career.

( Following negotiations, their manager, Andy Ferguson, signed the group to EMI in March 1981 ).

* April 4 – The UK pop group Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song, " Making Your Mind Up ".

The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times ( founded in 1821 ) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch.

These groups ( the groups of Lie type, together with the cyclic groups, alternating groups, and the five exceptional Mathieu groups ) were believed to be a complete list, but after a lull of almost a century since the work of Mathieu, in 1964 the first Janko group was discovered, and the remaining 20 sporadic groups were discovered or conjectured in 1965 – 1975, culminating in 1981, when Robert Griess announced that he had constructed Bernd Fischer's " Monster group ".

The development and proliferation of personal computers using the CP / M operating system in the late 1970s, and later DOS-based systems starting in 1981, meant that many sites grew to dozens or even hundreds of computers.

Real GDP grew at over 8 percent a year and exceeded 10 percent from 1976 to 1981 — a faster growth rate than in any other economy in Latin America.

As Romania's foreign debt sharply increased between 1977 and 1981 ( from 3 to 10 billion US dollars ), the influence of international financial organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank grew, conflicting with Nicolae Ceauşescu's autarchic policies.

The MIPS architecture grew out of a graduate course by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University in 1981, resulted in a functioning system in 1983, and could run simple programs by 1984.

The capital and largest city, Lomé, grew from 375, 499 in 1981 to 837, 437 in 2010.

From 1981 – 1984, agricultural production grew substantially, but the government did not use this opportunity to increase production of such crucial farm inputs

The 1981 sinkhole, which grew out of the smaller 1969 sinkhole, is thought to have formed from a collapse in the salt dome and is now a lake.

The 1981 sinkhole grew to 250 feet ( 75 m ) wide and 30 feet ( 9 m ) deep.

The population grew tenfold between 1970 and 1980, and the City of Rio Rancho was incorporated in 1981.

The second child of Jacob Wolfowitz ( 1910 – 1981 ) and Lillian Dundes, Paul Wolfowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a Polish Jewish immigrant family, and grew up mainly in Ithaca, New York, where his father was a professor of statistical theory at Cornell University.

The screenwriter Ladislav Grosman ( 1921 – 1981 ) was born and grew up in Slovakia.

His latter role grew gradually, until by 1981 he was adding tape work to most of the group's songs, and was regarded as an integral part of the group, appearing in group photographs and receiving equal credit on recordings.

Thereafter its area reduced continually until the period between 1950 and 1981 when it grew again, by 3. 1 hectares to 30. 2 hectares.

During the Fifth Five-Year Plan ( 1951 – 1955 ), industrial development in Ukraine grew by 13. 5 percent, while, during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan ( 1981 – 1985 ) industry grew by a modest 3. 5 percent.

He also convened a symposium on food history, which grew into an annual event known since 1981 as the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

From the 1980s to the late 1990s, Strayer College grew rapidly ; enrollment increased from approximately 1, 800 in 1981 and 2, 000 in 1983, to around 9, 000 by 1997.

The population of the parish of Stantonbury grew from 19 according to the 1971 census to 3, 938 according to the 1981 census.

Roberts grew up playing minor hockey for the Whitby-Brooklin Wildcats of the OMHA until 1981.

Joe Smith ( born Joseph Sultzer on February 16, 1884-February 22, 1981 ) and Charlie Dale ( born Charles Marks on September 6, 1885-November 16, 1971 ) grew up in the Jewish ghettos of New York City.

Albert W. Brown ( 1965 – 1981 ) presided over SUNY Brockport during a period of rapid change and expansion, as the college grew from 3, 000 students to a record of 11, 000 students.

As an example, coal production in the Soviet Union increased from 85 million metric tons in 1964 to 149 million metric tons in 1981 while in the United States it grew from 100 million to 130 million metric tons in the same period.

Known as " The Surgeon ", Randall, who was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Morristown, Tennessee, turned pro in 1981 after a lengthy career as an amateur boxer.

Through energetic organizing and aggressive bargaining, AFSCME grew rapidly under his leadership from about 220, 000 members to just over one million in 1981.