" One opinion website said the Senators wanted " to disrupt Silk Road drug website.

Silk said “ To us, it was a hockey game ; to the rest of the world it was a political statement ”.

“ When the final buzzer sounded on that 4 – 3 victory, many Americans swelled with Pride ” Silk said ( Carroll ).

When asked if Silk still ties up the skates he said “ I skate maybe once or twice a year for a charity event.

In 1854, the decision was made to build a larger courthouse at the south end of “ Silk Stocking Road ”, now Main Street.

The Hunan Provincial Museum notes, " This is called Version A of Book on Silk “ Lao Zi ”, because it was copied out in classical official script.

Charles U. Sheffield, 40, who was appointed acting manager, announced that “ a generous reward of US $ 10, 000 will be paid by the Thai Silk Company to any person or persons ” who succeeded in finding Thompson.

Silk wrote in his book “ Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond ” that “ Aristotle's theory of tragedy and its underlying philosophical tenets have little in common with the tragic philosophy of German idealism, as analyzed by Szondi.

The oasis of Hotan is strategically located at the junction of the southern ( and most ancient ) branch of the famous “ Silk Route ” joining China and the West with one of the main routes from ancient India and Tibet to Central Asia and distant China.

Hamilton gave a 1959 lecture titled “ Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope and Stereophonic Sound ", a phrase taken from a Cole Porter lyric in the 1957 musical Silk Stockings.

Shabran City is also a historical monument in its way – this is the city through which caravans of “ The Great Silk Road ” passed and where caravans of camels stayed and rested.

Silk played in the 1980 US Olympic hockey team's “ Miracle on Ice ,” known today as one of the biggest upsets in sports history.

According to Silk “ he was a master motivator known for impassioned speeches ”.

“ Dave Silk Reflects on Golden Days Playing Hockey ”.

“ Bay Stater Silk Spun Dream Career Close to Home ”.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

Native Chinese religions do not usually use cult images of deities, or even represent them, and large religious sculpture is nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century, and initially using Greco-Buddhist models arriving via the Silk Road.

Curry House, Kymulga Mill & Covered Bridge, Swayne Hall, The Silk Stocking District and Downtown Courthouse Square ; all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Ming Dynasty controlled much of the porcelain trade, which were further expanded to all over Asia, Africa and Europe through the Silk Road.

He also took a turn in an episode of Silk Stalkings, in which the script called for one character to tell him, " You look just like that writer on TV ," to which Cannell's character responds, " I get that all the time.

Despite their mutual horror, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre II and Doctor Manhattan all agree to keep quiet about the true nature of the events when the United States surprisingly does enter into a peace accord with the Soviet Union.

Situated on the ancient Silk Route, the town was at the crossroads between the East and West when all trade between China and the Middle East passed through it.

This trip laid the ground for his lifelong interest in all matters related to the Mongols and other peoples of the Silk Road.

The Kushans, at the center of the Silk Road enthusiastically gathered works of art from all the quarters of the ancient world, as suggested by the hoards found in their northern capital in the archeological site of Begram, Afghanistan.

She also anonymously wrote some fine songs in the Scottish dialect, including What ails this Heart o ' Mine ?, The Siller Croun ( alias And ye shall walk in Silk Attire ,) and the Waefu ' Heart: all three delightfully set to music c1800-1803 by the Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn, in his Scottish Songs ( Schottische Lieder-Hoboken XXXIa: 244, 260, 9 / bis ).

Shankar Textile Mills, Chigateri Mills, Chandrodaya Mills Ltd, Yallamma Cotton Woollen and Silk Mills Ltd, all contributed to the economic development of the city.

As Isfahan was a vital stop along the Silk Road, goods from all the civilized countries of the world, spanning from Portugal in the West, to the Middle Kingdom in the East, found its ways to the hands of gifted merchants, who knew how to make the best profits out of them.

Because of Silla gold artifacts bearing similarities to European techniques along with glass and beads depicting blue-eyed people found in royal tombs, many believe that the Silk Road went all the way to Korea.

During parts of the Song Dynasty period, when the Western Xia took control of the more northerly path of the Silk Route, the more southerly Didao-Hezhou-Xining alternative path of the Silk Route may have become particularly important, making all three cities important commercial centers.

He has a keen interest in Central Asia and Tibetan history and culture, and in recent years has travelled all of the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and many provinces of China, among which Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Qinghai and obviously Xizang ( Tibet ).

* In The Malloreon series of books by David Eddings, Silk refers to the singular telepathic voice which all Dals are attuned to as an ' Oversoul '.

Raw Silk yarn was initially imported from China, and the timing and place of the first weaving of it in the Near Eastern world is a matter of controversy, with Egypt, Persia, Syria and Constantinople all being proposed, for dates in the 4th and 5th centuries.

In addition to its purported health benefits this exercise is particularly similar to the Silk reeling of other styles in that it helps develop the theory of movement present in all of Taoist Tai Chi.

Ban Chao, Protector General ( 都護 ; Duhu ) of the Han Dynasty embarked with an army of 70, 000 men in a campaign against the Xiongnu insurgents who were harassing the trade route we now know as the Silk Road.

Silk, which resembled wool, and hemp, which resembled linen, were formerly forbidden for appearance's sake, but were later permitted in combination with either wool or linen, because we now know how to distinguish them.

Ibn Battuta joined the royal caravan for a while, then turned north on the Silk Road to Tabriz, the first major city in the region to open its gates to the Mongols and by then an important trading centre as most of its nearby rivals had been razed by the Mongol invaders.

Several important trade routes from India and China ( including the Silk Road ) passed through Bactria and, as early as the Bronze Age, this had allowed the accumulation of vast amounts of wealth by the mostly nomadic population.

Meanwhile on the Silk Road, gunpowder and early modernity had the opposite impact: the level of integration of the Mongol Empire could not be maintained, and trade declined ( though partly due to an increase in European maritime exchanges ).

To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.

Actor George Tobias, who played the commissar in Silk Stockings, also had a small role in Ninotchka as the man who gets punched by Leon for refusing him a visa.

In addition to anthracite coal-mining, it also had silk and knitting mills ( the Eagle Silk Mill became the largest textile building under one roof in America ), stocking and shirt factories, wagon shops, ironworks, and brickyards.

By March 1975, Swan Song had four albums ( Bad Company, Silk Torpedo, Physical Graffiti, and Suicide Sal ) in the Billboard Top 200 chart.

On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to several Stephen J. Cannell series including Silk Stalkings.

In 1879 Russia had begun construction of the Transcaspian Railroad along the Silk Road, officially solely to enforce local control.

Newmar had first appeared on Broadway in 1955 in Silk Stockings which starred Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche.

From the Kingdom of Khotan, on the southern leg of the Silk Road, yearly tribute payments consisting of the most precious white jade were made to the Chinese Imperial court and there worked into objets d ' art by skilled artisans as jade had a status-value exceeding that of gold or silver.

The powerful Kingdom of Lan Xang had wealth and influence due to the location of its capital along the Silk Route and also serving as the center of Buddhism in Southeast Asia.

During the Tang Dynasty, Dunhuang had became the main hub of commerce of the Silk Road and a major religious centre.

Islam had conquered much of Central Asia, and the Silk Road declined in importance when trading via sea-routes began to dominate Chinese trade with the outside world.

The Kushans conquered the central section of the main Silk Routes and, therefore, had control of the overland trade between India, Persia, China and the Roman Empire.

Peoples with similar names had been present along the Silk Road for centuries, and several Central European family names actually derive from the names of these tribes.

Noted work included their campaign " Labour isn't working " on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and ongoing campaigns for British Airways, and Silk Cut with whom the agency had long relationships.

The relative peace that the empires brought encouraged international trade, most notably the massive trade routes in the Mediterranean that had been developed by the time of the Hellenistic Age, and the Silk Road.

Trading along the Silk Road of various products increased cultural diversity in cosmopolitan Chinese cities, such as Chang ' an, had a marked influence on the Chinese arts of the Tang Dynasty.

Turpan, renamed Xizhou by the Tang after their armies conquered it in 640AD, had a history of commerce and trade along the Silk Road already centuries old ; it had many inns catering to merchants and other travelers, while brothels are recorded as having been numerously available in Kucha and Khotan.

According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".

Flax, for linen, had been grown in Flaxholme, from the fifteenth century, on the instructions from King Henry V. Silk thread began to be produced in quantity by John Lombe in Derby, likewise cotton thread in Belper.

* Watchmen: The character of Silk Spectre II, Laurie Juspeczyk, is partially based on Nightshade, though it could also be argued that the character of Silhouette had more of her visual style.

Crimea had important trading ports where the goods arrived via the Silk Road were exported to the Ottoman Empire and Europe.