( 1982 ), an angel in Two of a Kind ( 1983 ) and finally Mr. Bloom, a magician in the guise of an old man in the " Kick the Can " segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

The bactericidal properties of brass have been observed for centuries and were confirmed in the laboratory in 1983.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

The force was officially constituted in January 1983, when the various pro-Habré contingents were merged and renamed FANT.

The first reforms were implemented in three rounds – 1974 – 1983, 1985, and 1990.

The first licensed Call of Cthulhu 25mm gaming miniatures were sculpted by Andrew Chernack and released by Grenadier Models in boxed sets and blister packs in 1983.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

On March 2, 1983 CD players and discs ( 16 titles from CBS Records ) were released in the United States and other markets.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

Since the NL East winners had had home field advantage in 1983, the NL West winners were entitled to it.

" it was felt within the service that officers were likely to be questioned about the true political affiliation of Mrs. Joan Ruddock, who became chair of CND in 1983.

Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, and 2000 ; although respondents were asked to identify their race / ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because " the government felt that it was a divisive question ".

At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

* Analogue mobile phone service ( 1983 – 2008 ) assigned bandwidth for just two carriers ( A / B ); in much of North America these effectively were " Alternate " and " Bell " ( or the incumbent regional telephone landline monopoly in the area ).

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:

International Day of Nuclear Disarmament protests were held on June 20, 1983 at 50 sites across the United States.

There were two younger brothers, Hanly ( 1899 – 1983 ) and Carey ( 1902 – 1976 ), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby suburb of Beckenham — in Oakwood Avenue.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

In 1983 legislation arranged that both parents were to have equal rights for custody of their children.

Non-championship Formula One events were held for many years but, due to the increasing cost of competition, the last of these occurred in 1983.

At the meal following the funeral of Prince Charles in June 1983, Baudouin placed de Staercke at his right.

Until 1983, all night monkeys were placed into only one ( A. lemurimus ) or two species ( A. lemurinus and A. azarae ).

In 1983, three Christmas shoppers and three Metropolitan Police officers were killed by an IRA car-bomb placed outside Harrods.

File: United States Post Office ( Albertville, Alabama ). JPG | The U. S. Post Office building in Albertville ( currently in use by the Albertville Board of Education ) was built in 1931 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1983.

The John Muir historic marker was placed on the museum grounds in 1983, commemorating his visit.

The effort was not ultimately successful, and the last " crank " calls took place on 11 October 1983, when a modern dial exchange ( 207-665 ) was placed in service.

In 1983 the Acton W. R. Grace site was placed on the list of United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Superfund sites as a National Priority for cleanup.

The Reform Act of 1885 abolished the borough of Ripon, but the county constituency in which the town was placed as a result was named Ripon, and this continued as a single member constituency, albeit with some boundary changes, until it was abolished before the 1983 general election.

After another coup ( November 7, 1982 ) brought to power Major-Doctor Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Sankara became prime minister in January 1983, but he was dismissed ( May 17 ) and placed under house arrest after a visit by the French president's son and African affairs adviser Jean-Christophe Mitterrand.

The production contract for the Spearfish Torpedo was placed with GEC-Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd ( now BAE Systems ) in 1983, following a development programme lasting for several years.

Participating in four World Junior Championships ( 1980 – 1983 ), Short achieved his best result during his first attempt in which he placed second to Garry Kasparov in 1980 at Dortmund.

* Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria was placed under house arrest on December 31, 1983, following a military coup which ousted his government ( see: Nigerian Second Republic ).

In 1983, the Village of Franklin was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

In July 1983, it was reported that competing meditation seminar teacher, Robin Woodsworth Carlsen, had criticized and ridiculed the university in full page ads placed in local newspapers, and had filed an unsuccessful law against the university.

This identification was first put forth by Emil Forrer, but largely disputed by most Hittite experts until 1983 when Houwink ten Cate showed that two fragments were from the same original cuneiform tablet and in his discussion of the restored letter showed that Wilusa was correctly placed in northwestern Anatolia.

The Comics Journal called it the fourth greatest comics work of the 20th Century, and Wizard placed it first on their list of 100 Greatest Graphic Novels ; Entertainment Weekly listed Maus as # 7 on their list of The New Classics: Books – The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 ; and Time put Maus at seventh place on their list of best non-fiction books from between 1923 and 2005, and fourth on their list of top graphic novels.

" Gene Siskel placed the film on his top ten list of the best films of 1983, taking into account that the film was very unpleasant to watch.

Bishop rejected these proposals and was eventually deposed and placed under house arrest during the first week of October 1983 by Coard.

In 1983, a memorial plaque was placed on Kiska by the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment.

To the men of Amphibious Task Force 9 who fell here August 1943 placed here August 1983 by 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment.

Official figures state Rakhine State's population as 3, 983, 330. while population estimation ( in lieu of lack of proper census since 1983 ) for 2010 placed the state's population at 4 million.

After the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sued ASARCO for damages to natural resources in 1983, the EPA placed the ASARCO Globe Plant on its National Priorities List, with ASARCO to pay for the site's cleanup.

A staging at the English National Opera in London, produced by Nicholas Hytner in 1983, placed the hero in the context of 20th-century totalitarianism.

In 1983, Jon Marsh ( who played drums for Twelve of August in 1982 ) placed an advertisement in the music press, which read as follows: