The Curtain Dress, worn by Carol Burnett in the parody of Gone With The Wind.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

Another episode from TOSs third season, " The Savage Curtain ", depicted another rock creature called an Excalbian, which is believed in fanon to also have been silicon-based.

This was dubbed the " Cactus Curtain ", an allusion to Europe's Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia.

The rights and freedom of individuals to travel and opportunity, despite some historical exceptions such as the Soviet bloc and its " Iron Curtain ", seem to consistently transcend the countries in which they are educated.

In the original series episode " The Savage Curtain ", Spock meets Surak and displays emotion, for which Surak reprimands him, and he asks forgiveness.

With the removal of the Berlin Wall, Churchill's granddaughter acquired a section of it to create a sculpture, entitled " Break Through ", to commemorate the Iron Curtain speech.

* " The Black and Gold Curtain ", London Magazine, April 1912

The Kliq ( sometimes spelled as Clique ) was a backstage group in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF, now WWE ) during the mid 1990s, composed of Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, and Triple H. In 1996, The Kliq broke character at a house show at Madison Square Garden in an incident referred to as the " Curtain Call ", an event that affected the WWF's subsequent storylines and development.

Their actions, also dubbed the " Curtain Call ", scandalized WWF management, who at the time wanted to maintain the traditional illusion that the antipathy between fan favorites and villains was real and that they were not friends outside the ring.

A character representing a physical re-creation of the " historical Surak " in his youthful maturity — fashioned by advanced alien technology from telepathically-recorded recollections and expectations held by Mr. Spock, appears in the original Star Trek series episode " The Savage Curtain ", and is portrayed by the actor Barry Atwater.

This incident, later referred to as the " Curtain Call " or " MSG Incident ", was a serious breach of character, as it showed heels and babyfaces consorting with one another.

Shortwave broadcasting played an important part of fighting the cold war with Voice of America and the BBC World Service argumented with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty transmitting through the " Iron Curtain ", and Radio Moscow and others broadcasting back, as well as jamming ( transmitting to cause intentional interference ) the western voices.

Consequently, even in the wake of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ' 1952 presidential campaign pledge to " roll back the Iron Curtain ", American covert action operations came under scrutiny almost as soon as Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated in 1953.

Bush visited Europe but " left undefined for those on both sides of the Iron Curtain his vision for the new world order ", leading commentators to view the U. S. as over-cautious and reactive, rather than pursuing long-range strategic goals.

Coca appeared with Milton Berle and Your Show of Shows co-star Howard Morris in " Curtain Call ", a 1983 episode of Fantasy Island.

Jones, Jr. did create a one-man show he called " Curtain Calls ", in which he portrayed seven or eight Shakespearean characters accompanied by classical music, scheduling performances four weeks a year from 1933 to 1945.

* Silk Stalkings, " Curtain Call ", Sara, 1992

He was part of the " Fearsome Foursome ", along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Lamar Lundy, often considered one of the best defensive lines in football history, along with the Purple People Eaters of the Minnesota Vikings, the Steel Curtain of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Dallas Cowboys ' Doomsday Defense.

This was dubbed the " Cactus Curtain ", an allusion to Europe's Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia.

Oak Bay has been referred to as being located " Behind the Tweed Curtain ", a lighthearted allusion to the Iron Curtain.

Notably, during this time his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having become thin with age and with obviously dyed hair.

Poirot dies from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.

It is revealed at the end of Curtain that he fakes his need for a wheelchair so as to fool people into believing that he is suffering from arthritis, to give the impression that he is more infirm than he is.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

In the south, around 1, 200 Volunteers mustered in Cork, under Tomás Mac Curtain on the Sunday, but they dispersed after receiving nine contradictory orders by dispatch from the Volunteer leadership in Dublin.

" Cactus Curtain " is a term describing the line separating the naval base from Cuban controlled territory.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

After Soviet forces remained in Eastern and Central European countries, with the beginnings of communist puppet regimes in those countries, Churchill referred to the region as being behind an " Iron Curtain " of control from Moscow.

It is no accident that even today Thucydides turns up as a guiding spirit in military academies, neocon think tanks and the writings of men like Henry Kissinger ; whereas Herodotus has been the choice of imaginative novelists ( Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient and the film based on it boosted the sale of the Histories to a wholly unforeseen degree ) and — as food for a starved soul — of an equally imaginative foreign correspondent from Iron Curtain Poland, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

They looked down on anyone who wasn't " Lace Curtain ," even the Irish from the Back of the Yards and Bridgeport neighborhoods ( referred to as " Pig Shit " Irish ), and also non-Irish ethnics.

Wright's daughter Julia Wright published A Father's Law in January 2008, an omnibus edition containing Wright's political works was published under the title Three Books from Exile: Black Power ; The Color Curtain ; and White Man, Listen !.

Their characters were from opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, though with his saturnine looks, Nimoy was predictably the villain, with Shatner playing a reluctant U. N. C. L. E.

The double live album Behind the Iron Curtain was recorded during a tour of Eastern Europe, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and made from recordings of concerts in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and other cities, and was released before her death in 1988.

For example, in The Curtain the description of Mrs. O ' Mara's room is just enough to establish the setting: " This room had a white carpet from wall to wall.

* Curtain article from the Jewish Encyclopedia

The Talmud expounds a Beraita ( oral tradition ) which illuminates the manner in which the Kohen Gadol ( High Priest ) is to sprinkle the blood of the bull-offering towards the Parochet ( Curtain ) separating the Hekhal ( sanctuary ) from the Kodesh Hakodashim ( Holy of Holies ):

Mosin – Nagant rifles and carbines saw service on many fronts of the Cold War, from Korea and Vietnam to Afghanistan and along the Iron Curtain in Europe.

" After Soviet forces remained in Eastern and Central European countries, with the beginnings of communist puppet regimes installed in those countries, by falsified elections, Churchill referred to the region as being behind an " Iron Curtain " of control from Moscow.

** Curtain rail, see curtain, from which curtains are hung

* Surprises, a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album Nylon Curtain

With the collapse of the Iron Curtain since 1987, 3 million " Aussiedler " – ethnic Germans, mainly from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union – took advantage of Germany's law of return to leave the " land of their birth " for Germany.

After Bernstein realized there was not enough music in the score from the original film, he added sections from Herrmann's unused score for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, including the music composed for the murder of the character " Gromek ".