The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

The questions were given to him on 31 Dec., and the replies were delivered " in late January 2011.

2 ( Oct. 1972 ), Chamber of Chills ( Nov. 1972 ), Supernatural Thrillers ( Dec. 1972 ), and, with a late start, Worlds Unknown ( May 1973 ).

In Nov / Dec 1977, he inked the first issue of David Michelinie's Star Hunters, and after a number of other shorter inking jobs, moved back to Marvel in late 1978, to ultimately take up one of his best remembered roles.

From the second album, called simply Humus ( released Dec. 1994 ), the one man band concept changed to a live performing band, which included old time school friend and bass player Victor Basurto, with whom he had formed their first band, Stomago Sagrado in the late 1970s.

A story in the Nov / Dec 2009 issue of Airboating Magazine that showed an airboat called a Free Bottom Craft that was built in the mid to late 1920s, using a wood hull, a Curtiss aircraft engine and was on exhibit at a New York boat show.

In Sicily, at the very late stages of his travels ( Dec 1184-Jan 1185 ), Ibn Jubayr recounts other experiences.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s, Teri made three TV appearances including American Bandstand with the Captain and Tennille and KC ( Dec / 29 / 1979 ), The Midnight Special with Tom Jones ( Feb / 08 / 1980 ) and on Solid Gold hosted by the Pointer Sisters ( Jan / 17 / 1981 ).

In late 1964, Lewis Elliott recruited an Oklahoma guitarist, Dave Erkin, who was an Airman on active duty at Goodfellow AFB and who continued with the Cavaliers up to Dec 31, 1965, when he was transferred to Alaska.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.

In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Tank and vehicle production was a constant problem for Germany ; indeed, late in the war many panzer " divisions " had no more than a few dozen tanks.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

Nevertheless, since the late 1980s and the beginning of economic transition, Croatian economy experienced difficulties due to deindustrialization, war destruction and the loss of Yugoslav and Comecon markets.

This did not happen all around the world at the same time, but occurred sporadically, generally in times of war or financial crisis, beginning in the early part of the 20th century and continuing across the world until the late 20th century, when the regime of floating fiat currencies came into force.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

The British ' V ' & ' W ' classes of the late war had sought to address this by mounting six torpedo tubes in two triple mounts, instead of the four or two on earlier models.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

Aday also stated, however, that the data used in his study may have come late enough in the war to be consistent with accepted practice.

Orange made a come back during the civil war of the late 18th century, signifying the orangist or pro-stadtholder ) party.

Loyalist murals often refer to historical events dating from the war between James II and William III in the late 17th century, whereas Republican murals usually refer to the more recent troubles.

Up to late 1990s strained relations almost led to an open war in 1974, 1987 and 1996.

In the late 20th-century, Most Guatemala emerged from a 36-year civil war ( 1960 – 96 ), which re-established representative democracy in 1996.

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

Bellipotent in the late 1790s, during the war between Revolutionary France and Great Britain and her monarchic allies, excites the enmity and hatred of the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart.

A war hammer is a late medieval weapon of war intended for close combat action.

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in late July, triggering Russian mobilization.

By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization.

By July 1944, it was in any case too late for Goebbels and Speer ’ s internal coup to make any real difference to the outcome of the war.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( 1939 ) and late Roman silver tableware from Mildenhall, Suffolk ( 1946 ).

Fast Ferry's second ship, the Liberdadi, is scheduled to begin operations in the Barlavento islands either in late 2011 or early 2012.

The ship / land-launched version were operational as of late 2007.

King Street is named after a man named John King who settled there in the late 18th century and started a ship building business.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

Typically honeymoons would start on the night they were married, with the couple leaving midway through the reception to catch a late train or ship.

The ship designator and hull number system's roots extend back to the late 1880s, when ship type serial numbers were assigned to most of the new-construction warships of the emerging " Steel Navy ".

In the late 1680s, Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house that became a popular haunt of ship owners, merchants, and ships ' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news.

By late July the first ship had left with a full cargo of oil ; the rest left early in August, several filled with oil.

The Italians are usually represented by a ship on the horizon flying the Italian flag ; an actual Italian was seen for the first time in a comic posted in late February 2008.

The earliest representation of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait dating to the late 5th millennium BC.

The S7G reactor was never used on a ship, and the prototype was fitted with rods in the late 1980s when the reactor was refueled.

In 1944, the United States Government commissioned a new Liberty ship to be named after the late film star.

By the late 17th century, one out of every four ships that left Liverpool harbour was a slave trading ship.

The first major shipment of CONEXes, containing engineering supplies and spare parts, was made by rail from the Columbus General Depot in Georgia to the Port of San Francisco, then by ship to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Korea, in late 1952 ; shipment times were almost halved.

* USS Clarke County ( LST-601 ), a United States Navy tank landing ship in commission as USS LST-601 from 1944 to 1955 and as USS Clarke County in 1955 and during the late 1960s

The King's absences abroad were leading to unpopularity, and in late 1736 he made plans to return, but his ship was caught in poor weather, and it was rumoured that he had been lost at sea.

Cashiered for dereliction of duty after returning too late to his ship at Pensacola, Bowles escaped north and found refuge among the Lower Creek towns of the Chattahoochee basin.

* Ship cancels were added to stamps that were mailed on or carried on a ship, commonly a steamer ship in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.

Honey bees did not naturally cross the Rocky Mountains ; they were transported by the Mormon pioneers to Utah in the late 1840s, and by ship to California in the early 1850s.

A recently opened cruise ship pavilion welcomes several dozen cruise ships every year, with the majority visiting in late summer or early fall to take in fall foliage tours.

The paper Poppies for Armistice that year arrived by ship too late for 11 November 1921, so an RSA branch distributed them at the next commemoration date ( 25 April 1922, which happened to be Anzac Day ) and that date stuck as the new Poppy Day in New Zealand.