* 1962 – Ian MacKaye, American musician, ( Fugazi and Minor Threat )

Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Minor Threat EP and their only full-length studio album Out of Step have received a number of accolades and are cited as landmarks of the hardcore punk genre.

After that band broke up, MacKaye decided to switch from bass guitar to vocals, and organized Minor Threat with drummer Nelson, bassist Brian Baker, and guitarist Lyle Preslar.

The band's first 7 " EPs, Minor Threat and In My Eyes, were released in 1981.

Another Minor Threat song from the second EP, Out of Step, further demonstrates the belief: " Don't smoke / Don't drink / Don't fuck / At least I can fucking think / I can't keep up / I'm out of step with the world.

Some of the other members of Minor Threat, Jeff Nelson in particular, took exception to what they saw as MacKaye's imperious attitude on the song.

In March 1982, at the urging of Bad Brains ' H. R., Preslar left college to re-form Minor Threat.

Shortly afterwards, the cuts Minor Threat and In My Eyes were rereleased as First Two 7 " s on a 12 ".

Minor Threat broke up in 1983.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

He joined The Meatmen in 1984, along with fellow Minor Threat member Brian Baker.

Steve Hansgen formed Second Wind with Minor Threat roadie Rich Moore.

In 2005, a mock-up of the cover of Minor Threat's first EP ( also used on the First Two 7 " s on a 12 " LP and Complete Discography CD ) was copied by athletic footwear manufacturer Nike for use on a promotional poster for a skateboarding tour called " Major Threat ".

On June 27, 2005, Nike issued a statement apologizing to Minor Threat, Dischord Records, and their fans for the " Major Threat " campaign and said that all promotional artwork ( print and digital ) that they could acquire were destroyed.

Use of the song was not cleared by Dischord Records or any of the members of Minor Threat.

In 2007, Brooklyn-based company Wheelhouse Pickles marketed a pepper sauce named " Minor Threat Sauce ".

A small mention of this was made in music magazine Revolver, where MacKaye commented " I don't really like hot sauce but I like the Minor Threat stuff ".

* Minor Threat ( 1981 )

* Minor Threat Profile by Dischord Records

* Minor Threat Profile by Southern Records

* Minor Threat article from Rekindling the Punk Flame by Shana Ting Lipton.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.

The name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

The ancient historian Xenophon was a huge admirer and served under Agesilaus during the campaigns into Asia Minor.

Germanicus was the first son born to Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus.

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

His mother was Antonia Minor and his father was the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

Antonia Minor was a daughter to Octavia the Younger by her second marriage to triumvir Mark Antony, and Octavia was the second eldest sister and full-blooded sister of Augustus.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

Antonia Major was the elder sister to Antonia Minor, and the first daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony.