Several centuries later, in late Dark Age Europe, the term " firearm " was used in Old English to denote the arm in which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand cannon.

He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

Next from Whale were Impatient Maiden and The Old Dark House, both in 1932.

Impatient Maiden made little impression but The Old Dark House is credited with reinventing the " dark house " subgenre of horror films.

* The Old Dark House ( 1932 )

His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travelers in a creepy remote Welsh manor.

The Old Dark House ( with Charles Laughton ) and the starring role in The Mask of Fu Manchu quickly followed.

His novel Benighted ( 1927 ) was adapted into the James Whale film The Old Dark House ( 1932 ); the novel has been published under the film's name in the United States.

* Benighted ( 1928 ) ( filmed as " The Old Dark House ")

* Dark Horse ( 2012 ), starring Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow: Old Westbury homes were shot to serve as Abe's ( Gelber's ) home and the " fantasy " home

Massey and Karloff had appeared together in the 1932 James Whale suspense film The Old Dark House.

The first subscription only EP, Hypnotists in Paris, was recorded with the Section Quartet and a Christmas collection Cold Dark Night, Magic for Everyone, Old Tin Pan, and Days of the One Night Stands followed, with the full length album Cameras in the Sky being released in early 2010.

* The Old Dark House ( 1963 )

Douglas shared top billing with Boris Karloff and Charles Laughton in James Whale's sardonic horror classic The Old Dark House in 1932.

The Speight's brewery also makes Speight's Old Dark, and the Speights Craft Range of beer, including Speight's Distinction Ale, Speight's Porter, Speight's Pilsner, Speight's Pale Ale, and Speight's Harvest Gold, all of which are lagers of varying colour.

Historical novels ( Gone with the Wind ), contemporary affairs ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Of Mice and Men ), love stories, classic novels ( Wuthering Heights ), a fantasy-musical ( The Wizard of Oz ), a tragedy ( Dark Victory ), a story of the Old West ( Stagecoach ), and a comedy ( Ninotchka ).

Harry Potter is the powerful young wizard, one of the children of The Dark Is Rising series is an immature Old One with magical abilities, and in the His Dark Materials series the children have magical items and animal allies.

Other notable films include The Enchanted Cottage, A Summer Place, Three Coins in the Fountain, Friendly Persuasion, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

The name " Stretton " is derived from the Old English words stræt meaning " Roman Road " and tun meaning " settlement "; a Roman road, Watling Street runs through the Stretton Gap, though the town ( and adjacent settlements ) were not historically located on this road — during the " Dark Ages " the settlements grew a short distance away from the old thoroughfare, for defensive purposes.

* Tooheys Old is a Dark ale, and is supposedly similar to the Tooheys brothers original brew.

* That Old Feeling is a double-issue CD of two 1956 albums, one including " Bohemia After Dark ", Sims ' first recorded alto solo, and Zoot Sims plays Alto, Tenor, and Baritone

* The Old Dark House ( 1963 ) ( Roderick Femm )

After Asdrubael Vect destroyed the Old Order in the Dark City, he introduced the Kabalite System, in which anyone who kills a Kabalite Warrior had better have influential friends, as the dead Warrior's entire Kabal will be after them for revenge.

Eckardt and Haushofer put Hitler in contact with the Great Old Ones with their goal of helping the Nazis engineer superhuman bodies that could act as physical vehicles for these Dark Gods.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

After her death, Josiah was married to Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House by Samuel Willard.

Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

The inaugural board meeting of the Corporation of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations was held in the Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island.

The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished and work on the King's Library Gallery began in 1823.

Old Town House, 1790

* Richard Trethewey, plumber on This Old House

* The Edward Jenner Museum & Old Cyder House Conference Centre

The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.

The remaining wing of the Old Palace, Hatfield House.

In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarquable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.

Sometime between the time after Same As It Ever Was, was released, and Truth Crushed To Earth Shall Rise Again, House of Pain made a demo tape with the following songs on it: Intro, 3rd Stone From The Sun, Choose Your Poison ( remix ), Irish Pride, Reaching Out, Same Old Game, and Womb To The Tomb.

There is little notable building from the later parts of the 20th century, but major recent additions include the lifeboat station and two new structures for Trinity House ; that organisation's office building, next door to the Old Custom Houses, was completed in 2005.

As the Old Town House bell sounds to mark the new year, the balls are set alight and the swingers set off up the High Street from the Mercat Cross to the Cannon and back, swinging the burning balls around their heads as they go.

* Matter, Evelyn P. The Great House Rapp House Constructed 1826 and Frederick Rapp House Constructed about 1828 at Old Economy.

Old House of Keys, Castletown

The library is located in the " Old House " at Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts.

He began to formulate plans to kidnap Lincoln from his summer residence at the Old Soldiers Home, three miles ( 5 km ) from the White House, and to smuggle him across the Potomac River into Richmond.