A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

However, from about 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state.

Coppola had polio as a boy, leaving him bedridden for large periods of his childhood and allowing him to indulge his imagination with homemade puppet theater productions.

He also aimed to conquer Genoa, then an Angevin possession ; when a revolt broke out there in 1461, he had Spinetta Campofregoso elected as Doge, as his puppet.

Another puppet ( from the waist up ) was also designed that had a nozzle in the mouth to spray out liquid mist simulating Godzilla's fire breath.

Kasparov had once described Polgár as a " circus puppet " and asserted that women chess players should stick to having children.

As a freshman, he had been asked to create Sam and Friends, a 5-minute puppet show for WRC-TV.

For Hitler, the Soviet Union was to be Germany's Lebensraum and he had no interest in even setting up puppet governments in a region he planned to colonize.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

His first film was a puppet play short, A Girl at Dojo Temple ( Musume Dojoji 1946 ), which was confiscated by the interim U. S. Occupation authorities under the pretense that it was too " feudal ", though some sources suggest the script had not been approved by the occupying authorities.

They insist that the latter had been co-opted and that in fact Lebanon's Government was a Syrian puppet.

The Parthian Empire had supported Brutus and Cassius in the civil war, sending forces which fought with them at Philippi ; following Antony and Octavian's victory, the Parthians invaded Roman territory, occupying Syria, advancing into Asia Minor and installing Antigonus as puppet king in Judaea to replace the pro-Roman Hyrcanus.

He would sometimes tell people the term had been created by combining the words " marionette " and " puppet ", but he also said that it was really just a made-up word.

Napoleon III was taken prisoner at Sedan and kept in Germany for a while in case Bismarck had need of him to head a puppet regime ; he later died in exile in England in 1873.

Yoshiaki was the brother of the murdered thirteenth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Yoshiteru, and wanted revenge against the killers who had already set up a puppet shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihide.

In 1931, an increasingly militaristic Japanese Empire, which had long sought influence in China as the first step of what its government saw as the country's right to rule Asia, used the Mukden Incident as a pretext to launch an invasion of Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo.

The Danish conquests had destroyed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia and divided Mercia in half, with the Danes settling in the north-east while the south-west was left to the English king Ceolwulf, allegedly a Danish puppet.

The Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I had not recognised Olybrius, and also did not recognise Glycerius, as his election had not been ratified by the Eastern court, and it was suspected that he was a puppet of Gundobad.

The importance of Thessaloniki to Nazi Germany can be demonstrated by the fact that, initially, Hitler had planned to incorporate it directly in the Third Reich ( that is, make it a part of Germany ) and not have it controlled by a puppet state such as the Hellenic State or an ally of Germany ( Thessaloniki had been promised to Yugoslavia as a reward for joining the Axis on 25 March 1941 ).

Moore had earlier explored similar ideas in Watchmen, where Dr. Manhattan perceives past, present and future simultaneously, and describes himself as " a puppet who can see the strings ".

During the visit, however, Louis and Charles had had a satirical puppet show put on for their guests, and after this Isabella had given new embroidered purses both to her brothers and to their wives.

Along with the new talent Sullivan booked each week, he also had recurring characters appear many times a season, such as his " Little Italian Mouse " puppet sidekick Topo Gigio, who debuted April 14, 1963, and ventriloquist Señor Wences.

The puppet design for Yoyo debuted on Sesame Street as Narf, in the 33rd season segments called Monster's Clubhouse.

" Nevertheless, plans for the future included the annexation of the Scandinavian countries, and also Alsace and Lorraine ; Belgium and northern France would follow, while Great Britain might be annexed or kept as a puppet state.

* In Robert Graves's novel King Jesus, Pilate is an unscrupulous opportunist who tries to prevent Jesus ' death by convincing Jesus to become the King of the Jews ( in reality a puppet monarch of Rome ) because, in the novel, Jesus is the son of Mary, who is of a royal Jewish line and the daughter of the last Hasmonean and Antipater, the son of Herod the Great.

In addition to his work on Sesame Street, Love remained busy as freelancer, creating and building puppets for the non-Henson puppet series The Great Space Coaster.

* the puppet sidekick of the star of the very early TV children's show, Foodini the Great

Using the title of " Great Chancellor " ( 大丞相 ), Li Yuan installed a puppet child emperor, Emperor Gong, but eventually removed him altogether and established the Tang Dynasty in 618 as Emperor.

* 394, 20, 000 Gothic mercenaries support Eastern Emperor Theodosius the Great in the Battle of the Frigidus, Suicide of Frankish General Arbogast, Execution of puppet Western Emperor Eugenius.

The epics Mahabharata ( Great Battle of the Descendants of Bharata ) and Ramayana ( The Travels of Rama ), became enduring traditions among Indonesian believers, expressed in shadow puppet ( wayang ) and dance performances.

Forming a political alliance with former Stiklestad peasant army leader Kalv Arnesson, he then proceeded to broker an agreement between the puppet king Magnus and the newly installed Danish ruler, Harthacnut, son of Cnut the Great.

Korky is holding a glove puppet of Santa Claus.

Early in the run, there was a short-lived puppet character called Mr. X ( no relation to a puppet of the same name who appeared on the American show ) who traveled through time and space in his " Whatsis Box " teaching children about history.

It featured a surprisingly similar character, a puppet called Mr. X who travelled through time and space in his " Whatsis Box " teaching children about history.

BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

Attempts were made to establish a puppet Chinese government, under Nationalist defector Wang Ching-wei, but this also proved unsuccessful.

Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy ; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that " punch is nothing without lemon ".

Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.

During Napoleon I's reign, Louis-Napoléon's parents had been made king and queen of a French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland.

The first puppet states, in the sense of new states whose creation was made possible by the intervention of a foreign power, were the Italian republics created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the assistance and encouragement of Napoleonic France.

When from November 1670 William visited Charles to urge the House of Stuart to pay back a part of the large debt it owed to the House of Orange, Charles intended to make his nephew part of the conspiracy and promise him to be made Sovereign Prince of Holland, a puppet state, in return for collaboration with the invading forces.

Based on Thomas Moore's poem " The Lake of the Dismal Swamp ," the opera was staged after Gorey's death and directed by his friend, neighbor, and longtime collaborator Carol Verburg, with a puppet stage made by his friends and neighbors the noted set designers Herbert Senn and Helen Pond.

It was the latter's publicly stubborn independent political stances, its insistence on specifically not being a puppet regime, that led to the Tito-Stalin split and the other moves towards an " independent socialism " that quickly made SR Yugoslavia unique within the context of overall Eastern Bloc politics.

Traditionally, this type of puppet has been made from papier-mâché or wood.

The Nazis later made an exception to the policy of viewing Croats as Slavs upon the prompting of Croatian Ustase leader Ante Pavelic of the Axis puppet state in Croatia, who claimed that Croats were primarily the descendents of the Goths and thus had stronger Germanic roots than Slavic roots.

Rod Hull also made a contribution with his puppet Emu.

To transfer the Mysteron rings from script to screen, the production team acted on the advice of producer Reg Hill, who suggested that a transparency be made that could be panned across the puppet sets using a slide projector.

The production team was not able to scale up the body to match the head, as this would have made the puppets hard to operate and have necessitated a proportionate scaling-up in the size of the puppet sets.

After test-sculpting in Plasticine, the puppet heads were moulded on a silicone rubber base and made using fibreglass.

Since episodes of Captain Scarlet were filmed in pairs, one on each of the puppet stages available at the Century 21 Studios, duplicates were made of the " expressionless " template of each main character.

Ed Bishop later claimed that Captain Blue had been modelled on his likeness, but sculptor Terry Curtis states that he made the puppet to resemble himself and simply added a blond wig when he learnt that Bishop was to voice Blue.

He made the first puppet using a real fox tail.

Clampett made hand puppets as a child, and before adolescence had completed what animation historian Milt Gray describes as " a sort of prototype, a kind of nondescript dinosaur sock puppet that later evolved into Cecil.

Much of this was due to the Turkish officers in the government, who made the caliph a puppet and took control of the state through assassination and intrigue.

The northern half of the country was occupied by Germans and made a collaborationist puppet state ( with more than 600, 000 soldiers ), while the south was governed by monarchist and liberal forces, that fought for the Allied cause in the Italian Co-Belligerent Army ( which at its height numbered more than 50, 000 men ), helped by circa 350, 000partisans of disparate political ideologies that operated all over occupied Italy.

In an episode of Family Guy entitled " German Guy ", Falco's song " Der Kommissar " was used when Franz Gutentag made a Chris look-alike puppet and it sang and danced to the song.

The aged and childless brother of Gustav III, Charles XIII was made king in 1809, but he was a mere puppet in the hands of parliament and the question of his successor had to be solved.

During the South African national elections of 2009, Nando's made an advert lampooning African National Congress Youth League then president Julius Malema by using a puppet that resembled him.