In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Sampson ( 1985 ) suggests that: " Evidently the order of the alphabet was felt to be such a concrete thing that a new letter could be added in the middle only if a ' space ' was created by the dropping of an old letter.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

The underground network became a separate entity in 1985, when the UK Government created London Underground Limited ( LUL ).

Apple Computer created its own Lisa Pascal for the Lisa Workshop in 1982 and ported this compiler to the Apple Macintosh and MPW in 1985.

The Reg Grundy Organisation also created Neighbours, a suburban-based daily serial devised as a sedate family drama with some comedy and lightweight situations, for the Seven Network in 1985.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

# The Kingdom of Trimaris was created in 1985.

The format combines the pre-existing system of domain names ( created in 1985 ) with file path syntax, where forward slashes are used to separate folder and file names.

The game was created by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, but did not become popular until it was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989.

The position of Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians was created in 1985 as a portfolio in the Canadian Cabinet.

In 1985 a further reorganization created the Space Systems Division from the Convair Space division.

In 1966, Wilson was created the first Chancellor of the newly created University of Bradford, a position he held until 1985.

Roger Price created another show for Nickelodeon, the less successful Turkey Television, in 1985, which used several key cast members of YCDTOTV, including Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Kevin Kubusheskie, and Adam Reid.

Kenneth Lay seized control in 1985 of HNG / Internorth created by the merger of Houston Natural Gas and the much larger and more diversified InterNorth, which combined four natural gas pipeline companies, Northern Natural Gas, Transwestern Pipeline, Florida Gas Transmission, and Houston Pipeline company.

In 1985, Godley & Creme created a primitive " morph " effect using analogue cross-fades in the video for " Cry ".

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

Also, external affairs minister Joe Clark was the first foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia ; Clark landed in Addis Ababa so quickly he had not even seen the initial CBC report that had created the initial and strong public reaction.

Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove were responsible for both Matlock and Jake and the Fatman as well as Diagnosis: Murder, created by Joyce Burditt ( which itself was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman ) in 1993, also on CBS ; Father Dowling Mysteries in 1988 on NBC, CBS, ABC ; and the 30 Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from 1985 until 1995 on NBC.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

* 1900 – Chester Gould, American comic strip artist ( d. 1985 )

He began work on his second film Crimewave ( 1985 ), intended as a live-action comic book — the film was not successful, due in part to unwanted studio intervention.

In 1985, a deal was signed with Virgin Books to publish the comic nationally every two months.

Firestar makes her debut in Marvel's mainstream comic book universe in Uncanny X-Men # 193 ( May 1985 ).

* Chester Gould ( 1900 – 1985 ), American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip

Red Sonja received her own comic book title and eventually a series of novels by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney, as well as Richard Fleischer's unsuccessful film adaptation in 1985.

* Chic Murray ( Charles Murray, 1919 – 1985 ), Scottish comic

Chester Gould ( November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 12-issue American comic book limited series ( identified as a " 12-part maxi-series ") and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity.

Since 1985, superhero publishers such as DC and Marvel have had frequent " summer crossover " series designed to tie many of their comic book titles together under a single storyline.

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Richard Timothy " Dick " Kinney ( 1916 – 1985, Glendale, California ) was an American animator and comic book writer.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars is a twelve-issue comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics.

After Taxi ended, DeVito began a successful film career, starting with roles in 1983's Terms of Endearment, and as the comic rogue in the romantic adventure Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and its 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1985, having begun under a different name ( T. W. O.

Johnston's work on the comic strip earned her a Reuben Award in 1985 and made her a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in 1994 .< ref name =" pulitzer "> The Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists Retrieved 10 October 2007.

The comic strip began as Robotman in 1985.

He also delivered comic turns in Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ) and Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ).

Although cancelled years ago ( Novaro folded in 1985, and a character revival by rival Grupo Editorial Vid in Mexico in the 1990s did not last long ), it is from this comic that the character is best known in both Central America and South America.

In addition to writing her column, Schmich was the author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr from 1985 through its final appearance in January 2011, and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player.

Don DeLillo, who rose to literary prominence with the publication of his 1985 novel, White Noise, a work broaching the subjects of death and consumerism and doubling as a piece of comic social criticism, began his writing career in 1971 with Americana.

Nutty was a British comic that ran for 292 issues from 16 February 1980 to 14 September 1985, when it merged with The Dandy.

NOW Comics launched an American Speed Racer comic series in 1985.