In 1967, the last season of the six-team NHL, the Black Hawks finished first, breaking the supposed Curse of Muldoon, 23 years after the death of Frederic McLaughlin.

* Curse of Muldoon

This template was to be followed in many subsequent campaigns, including Fungi from Yuggoth ( later known as Curse of Cthulhu and Day of the Beast ), Spawn of Azathoth, and possibly the most highly acclaimed, Masks of Nyarlathotep.

In Game 4 of the Series, the Curse of the Billy Goat was allegedly laid upon the Cubs when P. K.

During Curse of the Mutants an all out war of mutants against vampires, Bobby was blessed by a priest so his powers can function as holy water.

In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.

Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a dramatic run in that ended in a Game Seven loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in against the Boston Red Sox that was cited in the Curse of the Bambino, and a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series which they lost in five games.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

In the first photo shown on The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, it was revealed that once, when Gromit was little, Wallace had much more hair and a beard.

The second was Lady Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, whom Wallace fondly calls " Totty.

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

In 2005, a video game of The Curse of The Were-Rabbit was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, following the plot of the film as Wallace and Gromit work as vermin-catchers, protecting customers ' vegetable gardens from rabbits, using a " BunGun ".

Entertainment, while The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was published by Konami.

Neither Trail nor Curse was a box office success, and the series was retired.

At the BAFTAs, the only animated feature to be nominated for Best Film was Shrek, while 2 others-Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit-received nominations in Best British Film ( the latter won in its year ).

The Manor house used to film " The Curse of the Claw " was Rippingale House near Bourne, and its grounds and Vicarage.

At the time, Piave and Verdi had titled opera La maledizione ( The Curse ), and this unofficial title was used by Austrian censor De Gorzkowski in an emphatic letter written in December 1850 in which he definitively denied consent to its production calling it " a repugnant of immorality and obscene triviality.

Part of the curse on the House of Eli – that none of Eli's male descendants would live to old age – was fulfilled with the death of Ahimelech ; the other part of the Curse on the House of Eli – that the priesthood would pass out of his descendants – was fulfilled when Abiathar was deposed from the office of High Priest.

When the 2005 full-length Wallace and Gromit film, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released, sales of Wensleydale cheeses jumped by 23 %.

The Bulls proved the it was not just the " Jordan Curse ", and would prevail yet again sweeping the Cavs 3 – 0 in the first round encounter.

However after leading 2 – 0 to the Miami Heat, they lost the Finals ' next four games, though some point to biased refereeing and others argue it was the result of the " Curse of the Crease ".

In the first arc of the Curse of the Spawn series, the Spawn's creator Plegethonyarre was named after the mythological river.

Coleman also made video game appearances in The Curse of Monkey Island ( 1997 ) and Postal 2 ( 2003 ).

For many years, the events described in " The Curse of Akkad " were thought, like the details of Sargon's birth, to be purely fictional.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

He later appears briefly in The Son of Neptune, in which he recognizes Jackson in San Francisco, four years after The Titan's Curse.

Six years later, LucasArts released The Curse of Monkey Island, which features a new visual design.

He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ( 1943 ), House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), House of Dracula ( 1945 ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ); playing Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ); and playing Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ) and The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ).

He is 20 years old in The Curse of Monkey Island as he proves to Dinghy Dog when he tries to guess Guybrush's age and Guybrush proves it with his SCUMM Actors Guild Membership Card, although, in the most recent game, Elaine states it was 3 years between Monkey Island 2 and 3.

( It should be noted that she was in a poxed rage during this statement, and that Stan mentioned it was 3 months ) Escape from Monkey Island takes place three months after Curse, following Guybrush and Elaine's honeymoon, while it is stated in-game that Tales of Monkey Island takes place roughly ten years since Guybrush became a pirate, making him 27 – 28 years old.

Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men ( also known as Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men ) is a 2003 book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the Y chromosome, within 5, 000 generations ( approximately 125, 000 years ) the male of the human species will become extinct.

Some years after the premiere, it was claimed that producer Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox, financed the show by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the " Curse of the Bambino ," which, according to a popular superstition, kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series from until.

An agreement was reached in which Rappaport added $ 6300 for a total bid of $ 8600, representing the 86 years of the Curse of the Bambino, and named the arena " New Boston Garden, Home of The Jimmy Fund Champions.

On February 6, 2005, Buck called his first Super Bowl, as the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles for their third championship in four years, just three months after he called the end of the " Curse of the Bambino ".

When the Indians finally won their first pennant in 41 years in, Pluto wrote a sequel, Burying the Curse.

This performance followed years of rumours that Grant would play the Doctor in a film or new series, and indeed he had appeared as the " Conceited Doctor " in the Comic Relief special Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death in 1999.

As Boston had not won a World Series in 86 years, the ball symbolized the end of the so-called " Curse of the Bambino ", and was of considerable interest to memorabilia collectors.

Two years later in 1994 the group released Uncle Sam's Curse, which was their last album on Ruthless Records.

It is a direct sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween, and Halloween II ( Meaning that the events of 4: Return, 5: Revenge, and 6: Curse, do not occur, not counting III, which does not revolve around Michael Myers ) set twenty years later, and centers on a post-traumatic Laurie Strode living in fear of her murderous brother, Michael Myers, who attempted to kill her all those years ago.

* In The Monster of Peladon, the Doctor returns to Peladon with a new companion Sarah Jane Smith, 50 years after the events of Curse.

The name " Shuma-Gorath " is first used in the Kull short story " The Curse of the Golden Skull ," which was unpublished until 1967, years after the author's death.