During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

In August 1954, Fuller was cast in Wood's The Vampire's Tomb, intended to star Bela Lugosi.

The Byronic hero, in particular, was a key precursor to the male goth image, while Dracula's iconic portrayal by Bela Lugosi appealed powerfully to early goths.

Tod Browning's Dracula ( 1931 ), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein ( also 1931 ).

Browning's first talkie was The Thirteenth Chair ( 1929 ), which was also released as a silent and starred Bela Lugosi.

Popularly known in Piedmontese as " Bela Rosin " ( Little Rosa the Beautiful ), she was born a commoner but made Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda in 1858.

* Chandu, a character in radio mysteries who was played on screen by Bela Lugosi.

The band recorded five songs ; one of the tracks from the session, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", running more than nine minutes, was released as the group's debut single in August 1979 on Small Wonder Records as Bauhaus ( the 1919 abandoned ).

At the opening of their set, Peter Murphy was lowered to the stage upside-down singing " Bela Lugosi's Dead ".

The province was bordered by the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to south and east, the princely states of Bahawalpur and Khairpur to the northeast and Karachi and the princely states of Kalat and Las Bela to the west.

The Ghoul Goes West was an unproduced Edward D. Wood, Jr. film to star Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the Old West.

Boris was lucky to get the part, as it had supposedly been offered to Bela Lugosi, who declined it.

Popularly known in Piedmontese as " Bela Rosin ", she was born a commoner but made Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda in 1858.

The chief towns of Upper Moesia in the Principate were: Singidunum ( Belgrade ), Viminacium ( sometimes called municipium Aelium ; modern Kostolac ), Remesiana ( Bela Palanka ), Bononia ( Vidin ), Ratiaria ( Archar ) and Skupi ( modern Skopje ); of Lower Moesia: Oescus ( colonia Ulpia, Gigen ), Novae ( near Svishtov, the chief seat of Theodoric the Great ), Nicopolis ad Istrum ( Nikup ; really near the river Yantra ), Marcianopolis ( Devnya ), Odessus ( Varna ) and Tomi ( Constanţa ; to which the poet Ovid was banished ).

The second guest was Don Herbert, TV's " Mr. Wizard ", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie Bowery at Midnight.

The first mention of the city of Požega is found in the Gesta Hungarorum, by an anonymous notary of Bela III ( 1172 – 1196 ) where he mentions the conquest of three forts in Slavonia-as the area between rivers Danube and Sutla was then called: Zagreb, Vlco ( Vukovar ) and Posega.

In 1936, Bela Lugosi, while filming in England, was offered the part of " Caligari " in a sound remake, but returned to work in the U. S. During the 1940s, writer Hans Janowitz seemed close to selling his rights in a script to be directed by Fritz Lang, but neither that nor his plans for a sequel, Caligari II, came to fruition.

Bela Fleck ’ s motivation for going to Africa was to discover the origins of the banjo, an African instrument.

According to Michael Prawdin, the country of Bela was assigned to Orda by Batu as an appanage.

Prostate cancer awareness was raised in June 2002 ( Bela Doyle's battle with prostate cancer ).

Richard Sheffield, who was his close friend in the 1950s, reported a payment of $ 5, 000 for White Zombie on Lugosi's tax returns.

" Bela Lugosi's Dead " was recorded during a six-hour session at Beck Studios in Wellingborough on 26 January 1979.

* Their version of Bauhaus ' 1979 single " Bela Lugosi's Dead " was used at the opening of the 2007 film Elvis and Anabelle.

Lugosi's performance was so popular that his Hungarian accent and sweeping gestures became characteristics now commonly associated with Dracula.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.