During his early teenage years Vliet would sometimes socialize with members of local bands such as The Omens and The Blackouts, although his interests were still focused upon an art career.

While Bob was a member of the Omens, he met his longtime manager Edward " Punch " Andrews, who at the time was partnered with Dave Leone running the Hideout franchise, which consisted of two clubs where local acts would play and a small-scale record label.

Even though she misspells most words in her letters ( like Nanny Ogg ) and is seen as unintelligent by other witches, she accurately predicts her death ( just like the witch Agnes Nutter, from Good Omens ) and tells Magrat not to let Granny and Nanny go with her because she knew that was the only way they would agree to go.

Seger later appeared on Doug Brown and the Omens ' parody of Barry Sadler's song " Ballad of the Green Berets " which was re-titled " Ballad of the Yellow Beret " and mocked draft dodgers.

The fleet is attacked by the Thundereans ' enemies, the Mutants of Plun-Darr, who destroy most of the starships in the " ThunderFleet ," but spare the flagship hoping to capture the legendary mystic Sword of Omens they believe is on board.

Omens may be considered either good or bad depending on their interpretation.

It was with this group that Seger first appeared on an officially released recording: the 1965 single " TGIF " backed with " First Girl ", credited to Doug Brown and the Omens.

Though the name " The Last Heard " originally referred to the collection of Omens and Town Criers who recorded " East Side Story " with Seger, it soon became the name of Seger's permanent band, which consisted of former Town Crier Pep Perrine on drums, Carl Lagassa on guitar, and Dan Honaker on bass.

The only work published by Aubrey in his lifetime was his Miscellanies ( 1696 ; reprinted with additions in 1721 ), a collection of 21 short chapters on the theme of " hermetick philosophy " ( i. e. supernatural phenomena and the occult ), including " Omens ", " Prophesies ", " Transportation in the Air ", " Converse with Angels and Spirits ", " Second-Sighted Persons ", etc.

* Omens-Released in April 2005, Omens introduced two new rules mechanics: Adventuring Companies, which allowed an army to have a universal ability, and could be made cheaper by choosing specific characters ; and Champions, figures with a removable base that allowed the player to choose from a set of 5 increasingly powerful combat dials, depending on the number of points the player wished to spend on it.

Archbishop Ussher's chronology has in recent years been subject to artistic criticism, including in the play Inherit the Wind ( based on the Scopes Monkey Trial ) and the fantasy novel Good Omens which ironically alleges that " he is off by a quarter of an hour ".

In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, one of the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse finds a Gideon Bible in a motel while on the run from the law.

* In the novel Good Omens, it is noted that one cannot determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, because angels do not dance — the exception being the Principality Aziraphale, who once learned to do the gavotte.

Omens from Heaven ( white banner descends on a Minamoto boat, many dolphins swim to Taira boats ) show that the Minamoto are going to win.

The Origins and Omens back-up story in Titans # 10 indicated that Indigo might soon return, but writer Judd Winick left the book before this plot thread could be followed up on.

** Volume 2: " Unjoined " ( Trill ) and " Fragments and Omens " ( Bajor ) ( Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin ; J. Noah Kym, February 2005 ): Ezri Dax and Julian Bashir face unrest and revelations on Trill ; the station crew encounters new challenges as Bajor integrates into the Federation.

The expansion focused on high-level content and introduced new folklore to the EverQuest universe, and was often humorously referred to as ' Omens of Warcraft ' by the player base at the time.

He was interested in the local music scene as a teenager, hanging out with Doug Moon and watching The Omens on stage.

** For the live performances on the Japanese part of their World Tour, Casiopea joined forces with 2 Funk Brass Sections, " Spectrum " ( who were famous in Japan from 1978 to their break-up in 1981 ) and " Top Horn " ( who once played a Live Version of Koizumi Kyoko's " Wink Killer ", which is a Lyricized version of The Square's 1985 hit, " Omens of Love ").

Woody Omens, the cinematographer of the film, was insisted upon by Murphy, who had previously worked with him on Harlem Nights.

Betrayal consists of a deck of room tiles ( marked to indicate which floors, upper, ground, or basement, they can be placed at on their backs ); three sets of cards for Items, Events, and Omens ; six different character plates, and a number of tokens to represent the players and various monsters on items.

Seger decided to record " East Side Story " himself, and officially left the Omens ( though he did retain Doug Brown as a producer ).

In May 2004, Woody Hearn of GU Comics called for all EverQuest gamers to boycott the Omens of War expansion in an effort to force SOE to address existing issues with the game rather than release another " quick-fire " expansion.

Safford is also the setting for the Jim W. Coleman book Omens.

In the course of the adventure, the treasure-containing the Book of Omens, a tome holding all the secrets of the ThunderCats, and many other mystical items-was scattered across the New Thundera, ushering in a new concept for the series: a season with an actual story arc.

Although Jewish law only proscribes a waiting period of a few hours between meat and milk, Benedicta Pereira, a Paradesi Jew, writes, " Mostly the older people prohibited the use of milk and meat the same day in the house and to scare the young Jew's so as not to be inspired by the culture there were stories of bad Omens for those who dare to think even of milk and meat together.

Matters came to a head when Woody Hearn, a notable gamer and cartoonist of GU Comics website called for the boycott of the next planned expansion Omens of War.

SOE also delayed the release the next expansion Omens of War by several months to give time for the GoD quality issues to be addressed.

EverQuest: Omens of War, often abbreviated as OOW or Omens, is the eighth expansion released for EverQuest, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ).

Brathwaite is noted for his studies of Black cultural life both in Africa and throughout the African diasporas of the world in works such as Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica ; The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 ; Contradictory Omens ; Afternoon of the Status Crow ; and History of the Voice.

* Used for comic effect in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Also reintroduced with the Omens expansion was the Shyft faction, as well as the first 2. 0 non-unique Mage Spawn figures.

During Griffin's first Senate campaign in 1966, a suburban Detroit rock band, Doug Brown and the Omens, released a promotional flexidisc in support of his candidacy.

Michael Baigent in " From the Omens of Babylon: Astrology and Ancient Mesopotamia ", suggests that there is evidence that there was probably an older or parallel oral tradition of astrology at the time of publication of Enuma Anu Enlil believed published over the period ( 1595 – 1157 BCE ).

Omens, symbols, purifications, and exorcisms appear in old Assyro-Babylonian texts, and these rituals were spread into the empire of the Hittites.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's " Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch " contains reference to the broth as the substance in Anathema Device's mug when she is run into by Aziraphale and Crowley.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

Omens, prophetic dreams and supernatural foresight figure prominently in Njáls saga.

In the Origins and Omens backup stories running through several DC releases in February 2009, she is given the official name of Scar.

* The river Uck was mentioned in the 1990 novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Omens seen, heard, or even visualized at the initiation of an activity are said to foretell the outcome of the activity.

The novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett satirizes the apocalypse and several events of the film, including the baby swap.

In the series finale, several conclusions are reached: Mumm-Ra stands up to, and successfully asserts himself over, the Ancient Spirits of Evil ; the mystery of the Book of Omens was at last solved ; and the tumultuous and terrifying environment of Thundera was at last rendered peaceful and pristine.

As the Town Criers began landing more gigs, Bob Seger met a man named Doug Brown, backed by a band called the Omens.

Seger joined Doug Brown & the Omens, who presumably had a bigger following than the Town Criers.