This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

It had not had a permanent home since 1966 and had been on the verge of folding as early as 1986.

In order to work, and as pointed out by Roger Penrose from 1986 on, inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions of its own, so that the problem ( or pseudoproblem ) of initial conditions is not solved: “ There is something fundamentally misconceived about trying to explain the uniformity of the early universe as resulting from a thermalization process.

A much-vaunted early 1986 offensive never materialized, and Contra forces were largely reduced to isolated acts of terrorism.

As early as 1986, the mainstream press was predicting Commodore's demise.

Lynne, Bevan and Tandy returned to the studio in 1985 as a three-piece ( with Christian Schneider playing saxophone on some tracks ) to record ELO's final album of the 20th century, Balance of Power, released early in 1986.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.

Gia Marie Carangi ( January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986 ) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From 1986 to early 1988 Haiti was ruled by a provisional military government under General Namphy.

Painted in 1986, it was removed in the early 21st century.

In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

MNT nanofacturing is popularly linked with the idea of swarms of coordinated nanoscale robots working together, a popularization of an early proposal by Drexler in his 1986 discussions of MNT, but superseded in 1992.

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

By early 1986, the band was defunct and Hay was working on his first solo album, Looking for Jack, which would feature participation from Alsop and Wackerman.

A few sections, based on the now abandoned London Ringways plan, were constructed in the early 1970s and it was completed in 1986.

Monogenesis was dismissed by many linguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the doctrine of the polygenesis of the human races and their languages held the ascendancy ( e. g. Saussure 1986 / 1916: 190 ).

In 1986 Hewlett Packard started using an early implementation of their PA-RISC in some of their computers.

In early September 1989, a collection of Powell's speeches on Europe was published titled Enoch Powell on 1992 ( 1992 being the year set for the creation of the Single Market by the Single European Act of 1986 ).

Robert Sanderson Mulliken ForMemRS ( June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986 ) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i. e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules.

* Nuova Famiglia Salentina: formed in 1986 by De Matteis Pantaleo, from Lecce and stemming from the Famiglia Salentina Libera born in the early 1980s as an autonomous criminal movement in the Salento area with no links with extra-regional Mafia expressions ;

* The availability by 1986 of sub -$ 1000 PC XT compatibles, including early offerings from Dell Computer, reducing demand for IBM's models.

" Meanwhile, Rourke was fired from the band in early 1986 due to his use of heroin.

In the early 1990s, the French Buddhist Union ( UBF, founded in 1986 ) estimated there to be 600, 000 to 650, 000 Buddhists in France, with 150, 000 French converts among them.

An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

This provision was repealed early in Queen Anne's reign, as many councillors ceased to offer advice and some stopped attending meetings altogether.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 19th century, but the custom hadn't yet spread much beyond the royal family.

Mistreated and starved, the imprisoned Louis XVII was forced to confess to incest with his mother, Queen Marie-Antoinette, ( untrue ; separated early, son and mother were disallowed communication, nevertheless, the allegation helped earn her the guillotine ).

In the early morning of 24 March 1603 Queen Elizabeth died without naming a successor.

In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".

The Isle Royale Queen out of Copper Harbor, Michigan, arrives at the park in 3-3 1 / 2 hours and the Sea Hunter, out of Grand Portage, Minnesota, arrives in just 1 1 / 2 hours and operate round-trips and offer day trips through much of the season, less frequently in early summer and autumn.

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs ' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as " Ring Ring " ( 1973 ), " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Honey, Honey " ( 1974 ), " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " ( 1975 ), " Mamma Mia " ( 1975 ), " S. O. S " ( 1975 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 ), " Knowing Me, Knowing You " ( 1977 ), and " The Name of the Game " ( 1977 ).

The late 16th century and early 17th century was dominated by the influence of the despotic Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, who was granted the islands by his half-sister Mary Queen of Scots, and his son Patrick.

Some of the early ones included the bearie ( analogous to the Loonie and its loon ), the bearly, the deuce, the doubloonie ( a play on " double loonie " and the former Spanish doubloon coin ), and the moonie ( because it depicted " the Queen with a bear behind ").

A fragment of the early 13th century fresco of Queen Tamar from Betania

By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history.

On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview.

In the early 70s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence ; the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in addition, they fused the music genre with a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

He collaborated in the early 1840s with Henry Collen, portrait painter to Queen Victoria.

" Most notable early medieval Polish works in Latin and the Old Polish language include the oldest extant manuscript of fine prose in the Polish language entitled the Holy Cross Sermons, as well as the earliest Polish-language Bible of Queen Zofia and the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnków from the 14th century, not to mention the Puławy Psalter.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

She became a maid-of-honour in 1532 to Queen Catherine, but Jane may have served Catherine as early as 1527, and went on to serve Queen Anne Boleyn.

As early as the 1909 Bogue plan, this part of Lower Queen Anne had been considered for a civic center.

White's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth.

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.