* 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.

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in Washington, D. C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983.

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.

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 32 C Minor Variations with which he opened moved fluently yet logically from one to another, leaving the right impression of abundance under discipline.

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.

* At Clarus, on the west coast of Asia Minor ; as at Delphi a holy spring which gave off a pneuma, from which the priests drank.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

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 Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

With the Balkans more or less pacified, Alexios could now turn his attention to Asia Minor, which had been almost completely overrun by the Seljuq Turks.

In 72 BC, his troops occupied the Greek coastal cities of Scythia Minor ( modern Dobruja region, Romania / Bulgaria ), which had sided with Rome's Hellenistic arch-enemy, king Mithridates VI of Pontus, in the Third Mithridatic War ( 73-63 BC ).

Dalida released " J ' attendrai ", which became a big hit in Canada and Japan, and Cerrone's early hit songs, " Love in C Minor ", " Give Me Love " and " Supernature " became major hits in the U. S. and Europe.

Hospitals in Edinburgh include the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which includes Edinburgh University Medical School, and the Western General Hospital, which includes a large cancer treatment centre and the nurse-led Minor Injuries Clinic.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around the 18th century BC, which reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, encommpassing an area that included most of Asia Minor as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.

Remnants of these languages lingered into Persian times ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and were finally extinguished by the spread of Hellenism which followed Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor in the 4th century BC.

More recently this view has been contested, by pointing out that the haplotypes which Sykes and Oppenheimer associated with Spain hailed ultimately from Asia Minor.

Minor ocular ( eye ) signs, which may be present in any type of hyperthyroidism, are eyelid retraction (" stare "), extra-ocular muscle weakness, and lid-lag.

In 190 or 191, he was influential in influencing Pope Victor I not to excommunicate the Christian communities of Asia Minor which persevered in the practice of the Quartodeciman celebration of Easter.