This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

Electronic Gaming Monthly notes that " Yorda would probably be the worst companion-she's scatterbrained and helpless ; if not for the fact that the player develops a bond with her, making the game's ending all the more heartrending.

The Mirror is so named because the design was sponsored by The Daily Mirror newspaper, a fact reflected by the historically red sails.

The Yellow King is also referenced throughout the series and in fact, makes an appearance in Mirror of Worlds.

Gouldman has described Mirror Mirror as " almost like two halves of an album ", largely a result of the fact that he and Stewart recorded in separate countries.

In fact, Flook ran for a while at the opposite end of the British press's political spectrum, since the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror ( diametrically opposed to the Mails right wing stance ) also ran the strip on their cartoon pages for a few years.

The secret rituals of the Smoking Mirror hold that the sun was in fact merely a round hole in the soap bubble which opened into the fiery real world beyond, and that the stars were the holes that the rain came through.

The main element of Fires in the Mirror that is of up most importance to the spectacle of the play, is the fact that Fires in the Mirror is originally staged as a one-person play.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

February 23, 2011 .</ ref > That the Japanese in China came to regard Chiang as a magnanimous figure to whom many Japanese owed their lives and livelihoods was a fact attested by both Nationalist and Communist sources .< ref > Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.

The Gulf Stream's powerful influence makes seasonal temperature variations extremely small considering the latitude of the island, with ranges from around in August to in February, but also makes the island extremely cloudy with little sunshine even during the continuous polar day — in fact the island is one of the gloomiest places in the world with any sunshine data.

" In fact, Robert Boyle repeated von Guericke's experiments for the Royal Society in November 1672 and February 1673.

They allowed for the possibility of small errors in their calculations and even in some of their historic dates .” In fact, on February 28, Miller himself had written, “ If Christ comes, as we expect, we will sing the song of victory soon ; if not, we will watch, and pray, and preach until he comes, for soon our time, and all prophetic days, will have been filled .”

Matter of fact we had a meeting this past week, and I know Jimmy's gotta go do an Eyehategod tour in February.

By February 1986, Weather Report was over, a fact confirmed by a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune announcing that Shorter had left the band to concentrate on solo work.

The first RER rolling stock in fact predated the formation of the RER by 40 years, with the Z 23000 stock used on the ligne de Sceaux ( which was subsequently integrated into RER B ) from 1937 until February 27, 1987.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visited on 27 February 1975 for the inauguration of the site's sound & light show ; when the presentation reached the point where the sound system played the Maya prayer to Chaac ( the Maya rain deity ), a sudden torrential downpour fell upon the gathered dignitaries ( including Gaspar Antonio Xiu, descendant of noble Maya Lineage, the Xiu ), despite the fact that it was the middle of the dry season.

Nothing is known reliably of St. Valentine except his name and the fact that he died on the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14.

In fact Véron refunded the money under a further agreement, when the opera was delivered in late 1834 ; but Veron himself was replaced as director of the Opera by Henri Duponchel before Les Huguenots was premiered on 29 February 1836.

He worked as a fact checker for The New Yorker for little over a year ( late February 1945 until late April 1946 ), then spent five years traveling in Mexico, Central America, Spain, France, England, and North Africa, returning to the United States in 1951.

In fact, the facility received ISO 22000 certification for food safety management in February 2012.

Theses comments triggered an academic controversy which resulted in a " nondisciplinary " letter being issued February 9, 2005 instructing Hoppe to "... cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact.

In fact, they had defended Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hand-Peter Zimmer who had been excluded on February 10, 1962.

In early February 2006 Agudat Israel and Degel HaTorah agreed to run together as United Torah Judaism, despite the fact that the contentious " sixth seat " issue remained undecided.

The results of genetic and other scientific tests published in February 2010 have confirmed that the person buried there was both the son of Amenhotep III ( as well as the father of Tutankhamun ), and also that his age at the time of his death was in fact consistent with that of Akhenaten's ; it is therefore almost certain that it is indeed Akhenaten's body .< ref name =" HawassZahi "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

As soon as he turned 25 in 1847, he informed his father of his intention to marry the lady, and in fact did so on 22 February 1848, the month of the Paris revolt.

Both Terzani and Kapuściński had been accused of espionage, though with diametrically opposite moral implications of the fact ( Terzani having been arrested in China in February 1984, and subsequently expelled from that country, on the charge of promoting democracy ).

This, combined with the fact that the jury was handpicked by the Whig Sheriff of London, meant the government had little chance of securing a conviction and on 13 February 1682, the case against Shaftesbury was dropped.

In fact, 1900 was not a leap year, so there was no 29 February in 1900.

* February 19, 1875-Prince NapoléonThe fact that a decision has been taken with political considerations does not make it an " act of government " that cannot be adjudged by the Council ( reversal of previous doctrine ).

Herd had removed Flair as head booker in February 1990 and wanted to reduce Flair's role in the promotion even further, despite the fact that Flair was still a top draw.

On February 26, 2007 a news conference was held at the New York Public Library by director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici to discuss their documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which discusses the 1980 finding of the Talpiot Tomb, which they claim is in fact Jesus ' family tomb.

It is in fact, in the 1802 volume that the poem with the famous line ascribed to Barrington appears, a 48-line " Prologue " said to have been written for the 1796 opening of a Sydney theatre.

* to the Sultan of the Maldives archipelago since he formally accepted British protection on 16 December 1887 ( informally since 1796, after the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch ), but in fact this office was filled ex officio by the colonial Governors of until 4 February 1948, abolished on 26 July 1965

* 1796 – Georges Cuvier: Establishes extinction as a fact

* François Baucher ( 1796 – 1873 ): introduced the one-tempi flying change, his method, which is still hotly contested, was based on the fact that the horse's jaw is the source of all resistance ; there are two ' manners ' by which Baucher is known, the first a more dominant form of riding comparable to the modern rollkur, the second more associated with ' lightness ' and a lessening of the hands and legs as the horse progresses

The full title of the office is Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate ; the title of lieutenant governor is granted to the Speaker by statutory law enacted in 1951 in recognition of the fact that the Speaker is the Governor's designated successor ; such has been the case since the adoption of the first state constitution and Tennessee statehood in 1796.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

The fact that the Deerstalker and the Jet were the only completely new designs this year doesn't mean that 1961 didn't see changes in models, actions and calibers.

Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!

His sense of urgency in this matter stems from the fact that court cases and juvenile arrests have more than doubled since 1948, each year showing an increase in offenders.

This problem is illustrated by the fact that many local churches drop from the active membership rolls each year as many as they receive into the fellowship.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

: which is of the form suggested the previous year by M. J. Buckingham in Very High Frequency Absorption in Superconductors based on the fact that the superconducting phase transition is second order, that the superconducting phase has a mass gap and on Blevins, Gordy and Fairbank's experimental results the previous year on the absorption of millimeter waves by superconducting tin.

The importance of foodcrops over exported cash crops is illustrated by the fact that the total production of cassava, the staple food of most Central Africans, ranges between c. 200, 000 and 300, 000 tons a year, while the production of cotton, the principal exported cash crop, ranges from c. 25, 000 to 45, 000 tons a year.

He seems to have overlooked the fact that there is no “ year zero ” between BC and AD dates.

If the Cimbri did in fact come from Jutland, evidence that the they practised ritualistic sacrifice may be found in the Haraldskær Woman discovered in Jutland in the year 1835.

In theory, this is due to an earlier expression of aggression, and the fact that coyotes reach their full growth in their first year, unlike wolves, which reach it in their second.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

The importance of 12 has been attributed to the number of lunar cycles in a year, and also to the fact that humans have 12 finger bones ( phalanges ) on one hand ( three on each of four fingers ).

Dartmoor and the fact that a great deal of it is undisturbed for much of the year is an encouragement to the wildlife.

This fact made Asmara the main " Italian town " of the Italian empire in Africa. In all Eritrea the Italian Eritreans were 75, 000 in that year.

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

In fact, the tanker's radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it.

His popularity ( or notoriety ) was verified by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.