The first series titled The Black Adder was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

The principal character is Edmund, Lord Blackadder, the great-grandson of the original Black Adder.

In the first series, broadcast as The Black Adder, he was quite astute, while his master was an idiot.

* 1983 The Black Adder

Prince Edmund ( Blackadder ) | Prince Edmund, " The Black Adder " ( Series 1 )

Prince Edmund is the first man in the dynasty to refer to himself as ' the Black Adder ' ( although in Blackadder: Back and Forth, a centurion in Roman Britain also possesses a similar name ).

He appears in the first series, The Black Adder, set shortly after The Wars of the Roses.

* Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh " The Black Adder "-Middle Ages ( The Black Adder )

* Prince Edmund, Duke of York " The Black Adder "-400 years ago ( The Black Adder pilot )

He played Don Speekingleesh in The Queen of Spain's Beard in the first series of The Black Adder in 1983.

The comedy series The Black Adder features an alternative history where Richard succeeded his uncle King Richard III to the throne as King Richard IV of England ( portrayed by Brian Blessed ).

His position as a character in the Shakespearean canon inspired the character of Lord Percy Percy, Duke of Northumberland in the historical sitcom The Black Adder, set during the very late Plantagenet era.

The Black Adder is the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, directed by Martin Shardlow and produced by John Lloyd.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and in the final episode his quest to overthrow him.

Using this premise, the series follows the fictitious reign of Richard IV ( 1485 – 98 ) through the experiences of Prince Edmund, who styles himself as " The Black Adder ", and his two sidekicks: the imbecilic Lord Percy Percy, the Duke of Northumberland ( Tim McInnerny ); and Baldrick ( Tony Robinson ), a more intelligent servant of no status.

The Chasewater habitat supports several rare plant and animal species including: Floating Water-plantain ( Luronium natans ), Round-leaved Wintergreen ( Pyrola rotundifolia ), the carnivorous Round-leaved Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ), Adder ’ s tongue ( Erythronium ), Black spleenwort ( Asplenium adiantum-nigrum ), Goldeneye Duck ( Bucephala ) and Tufted Duck ( Aythya fuligula )

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.

Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

Black sign language was born out of this isolation.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

In 1998, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison called Clinton " the first Black president ", saying, " Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas ".

In addition to the towns and monuments noted below, the Black Forest is crossed by numerous long distance footpaths, including some of the first to be established.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

* Black & Tans in Galway ( first hand account and photos )

* Sean Broderick and the Black & Tans ( first hand account and photos from Galway )

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

Black and Asian characters had appeared, but it was not until 1999 that the show featured its first regular non-white family, the Desai family.

" Writer June Jordan described Alston as " an American artist of first magnitude, and he is a Black American artist of undisturbed integrity.

The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s ; calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.

Scottish physician and scientist Joseph Black, who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperature, is said to be the founder of calorimetry.

For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.

In 1510, the first sizable shipment, consisting of 250 Black Ladinos, arrived in Hispaniola from Spain.

* 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.