No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??

Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

The two met in the Captain's cabin.

The sultan proposed terms of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the Battle of Manzikert.

He met two admirers, Charles Lane and Henry C. Wright.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

The two contingents met on opposite sides of the River Guadalquivir, just outside the capital of Córdoba on the plains of Musarah.

Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

That autumn he enrolled in the King Khaled University at Abha to study Sharia, he left his family home in Khamis Mushayt in the summer of 2000 to complete the Hajj, but never returned – instead travelling to the Al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan where he met and befriended Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers from Khamis Mushayt, and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

This is when he met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall, with whom he had two children: Peter ( born 1963 ) and Helen ( born 1965 ).

Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the two started writing songs together, their first being " Isn't It Easy To Say ", eventually recorded by The Hep Stars.

The tactic proved unsuccessful, but when Tallard arrived to bolster the Elector's army, and Prince Eugene arrived with reinforcements for the Allies, the two armies finally met on the banks of the Danube in and around the small village of Blindheim.

The two never met again, and with many other occupants of New Providence, Hornigold accepted the King's pardon from Woodes Rogers in June the following year.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

The two fleets met outside the Gulf of Actium ( Today Preveza city, Greece ), on the morning of 2 September 31 BC.

" In March 2012, the now-retired Fidel Castro met Pope Benedict XVI during the latter's visit to Cuba ; the two men discussed the role of the Catholic Church in Cuba, which has a large Catholic community.

However, agreement was never reached on the finer details, and the two sides often met deadlock over the following points, among others:

When Love was 17, she began an on-and-off relationship with Rozz Rezabek of the band Theatre of Sheep after the two met at The Metropolis in Portland, Oregon, where Love occasionally worked as a DJ.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

Although created before the two met, the character Delirium from Gaiman's The Sandman series ( or even her sister Death ) is inspired by Amos ; Gaiman has stated that they " steal shamelessly from each other ".

Fox had worked on the Hawkman, Flash and Sandman features in All-Star for its first two issues ( Summer and Autumn, 1940 ), but from issue # 3 ( Winter ), he assumed full writing duties for the issue, with all features ( by different artists ) working within the framing device wherein the characters were described as part of a " Justice Society ".

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

Roeberg took over editorial duties on the second Vertigo issues of both The Sandman and Shade, the Changing Man from Lisa Guastella-then Lisa Aufenanger-editing those two titles until their respective final issues ; she also edited the first 36 issues of the " ahead of its time " crime / noir series Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Jill Thompson, although primarily known as an artist, has also produced scripts for Vertigo, producing as writer-artist three Sandman tie-ins: The Little Endless Storybook ( 2001 ) and two manga retellings of storylines-Death: At Death's Door ( 2003 ) and The Dead Boy Detectives ( 2005 ).

Vess ' work can also be seen in the two Shakespeare adaptations in the pages of The Sandman, the first of which ( pre-Vertigo ) won the comic and duo the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, and the last of which was also the final-75th-issue of the series.

In 2004, Hi-n-Dry released the Mark Sandman box set Sandbox, which contained two CDs and a DVD of previously unreleased material spanning Sandman's musical career.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

The character Thessaly in Neil Gaiman's Sandman is based on Doran, and she illustrated two issues of that series (# 20 and # 34 ) in the early 1990s.

After the match, the two embraced, but Raven came from behind with a Kendo Stick, and brutalized Sandman then piledriving him through the table.

His feud with Tommy Dreamer began at his debut and, after a short pause while Raven feuded with Sandman, lasted for the next two years, before Dreamer finally defeated him at Wrestlepalooza on June 6, 1997 in a " Loser Leaves ECW " match.

The Gaglardis had two sons: Bob Gaglardi, founder of Northland Properties ( whose holdings include the 35-hotel Sandman Hotel chain and 100-plus restaurants under various labels ) and grandson Tom Gaglardi who is the owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, and BIll, a Calgary businessman.

Although Spider-Man and Black Widow manage to escape being captured by the Six with the aid of Silver Sable-who had been following the Avengers since the conference -, and defeat Sandman at a base in the Sahara, Octavius not only demands that two hundred missile facilities be turned over to him so that he can put his plan into action, but also orders the world to capture the ' terrorist ' Spider-Man for his interference.

When Doctor Octopus puts his plan into action, Sandman is satisfied with the job because of the planned two billion dollar " compensation fee ", which he reasons will help him gain custody of his daughter.

The Sandman is assisted by two living nightmares named Brute and Glob, whom he releases from domed cells with the help of a magic whistle.

It turns out that Hall has actually died some years before, and that his incarnation as the Sandman is merely a shell that Dream sucks into another part of the Dreaming when he defeats the two creatures.

For instance, Wesley Dodd's prophetic dreams warning him of crimes and disasters are explained as an attempt by reality to fill the void left by Dream's absence from his realm during most of the 20th century, while the Kirby version of the Sandman is the result of two nightmares trying to manipulate a human being into fulfilling that same role in the hopes that they would be able to control the new incarnation of Dream.

' Sunday Mourning ' is the last episode of Sandman to be set in a contemporary setting, the final two taking place in ancient China and Shakespearian England respectively.

At Heat Wave, however, the two Dudleys, along with Big Dick Dudley, lost to Dreamer, Sandman and Spike in a six man tag Street Fight, ending the feud.

Teaming with multiple people, including Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, New Jack, and Nova, he defeated them to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship with his partner Balls Mahoney on two occasions in 1999.

The Frightful Four first appeared in Fantastic Four # 36, consisting of the Wizard, the Sandman, Paste-Pot Pete ( the latter two who freed the Wizard ), and Medusa ( who had amnesia at the time ).

Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon two stories by ETA Hoffmann: Der Sandmann ( The Sandman ), and Die Puppe ( The Doll ).