The three venues regarded as the most important in this decade were the Golden Torch in Tunstall, Stoke ( 1971 to 1972 ), Blackpool Mecca ( 1971 to 1979 ) and Wigan Casino ( 1973 to 1981 ).

Torch Song Trilogy first opened at the uptown Richard Allen Center in October 1981, produced by The Glines.

Christopher Robert " Chris " Evans ( born June 13, 1981 ) is an American actor known for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic Four ( 2005 ) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ( 2007 ), and Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger ( 2011 ) and Marvel's The Avengers ( 2012 ).

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

The conquest of Libya was essential for airfields to support Malta and to threaten the rear of Axis forces opposing Operation Torch.

The band released one album, 2003's Handheld Torch, which was produced by Seymour.

The campaign in North Africa was designated Operation Torch ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower encountered a " preposterous situation ' with the multiple rival factions in France.

He was at first selected to command the First Army, which was to take part in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

This was not the first time that Marvel's characters had interacted with one another — Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Original Human Torch had been rivals in Marvel's " Golden Age "— but it was the first time that the comic book publisher's characters seemed to share a world.

Patton was subsequently appointed commander of the newly activated Armored Corps by Devers, and he was in this position when the corps was assigned to Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.

" Patton shot back, " Except for Operation Torch, which I planned and which was a great success, I have never been given the chance to plan.

One of the series ' main characters, Firestar was created specifically for this series when the Human Torch was unavailable ( due to licensing issues ).

Since then, in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Spidey, Iceman, and the Human Torch have begun living together at Aunt May's house and have been working as a team as another homage to the series ( because Liz, as Firestar, was a member of the X-Men in this continuity ).

However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character ( which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon ) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman.

The new logo was called the " Torch and Oval ( T & O )".

Operation Torch ( initially called Operation Gymnast ) was the British – American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942.

The information gathered by the Agency was used by the Americans and British in planning the amphibious November 1942 Operation Torch landings in North Africa

Torch was the first major airborne assault carried out by the U. S. The U. S. 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment flew all the way from Britain, over Spain, intending to drop near Oran and capture airfields at Tafraoui and La Senia respectively and south of Oran.

* The 2000 Olympic Torch Relay Pin ( and album ), collection includes 15 place pins and one State Pin of Victoria ( 2000 )

Eldritch has said to have pitched " Torch " as a potential song for the album, which culminated the long-standing tension between himself and Adams.

Lang won the American Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang.

This began a new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing and co-writing the critically acclaimed Trip / Reset as well as the album " Cold Blue Torch " and new experimental explorations which centered around the spoken word poetry of P-orridge in releases like " Thee Fractured Garden " and " Breathe ".

The album features German musicians such as Torch, Samy Deluxe, Afrob, Denyo from the Beginner and D-Flame.

Their third album Torch featured a number of A-list music industry figures including Missy Elliott, songwriter Linda Perry, and producer Rodney Jerkins.

It has been confirmed that Mathew Knowles owns the rights to the album " Torch " and " Blaque Out ".

On their debut album, Hand on the Torch, Us3 used samples from the Blue Note Records catalogue, all originally produced by Lion.

Two years later, it entered the US top ten and was included on Hand on the Torch, the first Blue Note album to achieve Platinum status ( 1, 000, 000 sales ) in the USA.

In 2002, The Whitlams covered " Don't Believe Anymore " from Sidewalk for their album Torch The Moon, which enjoyed moderate radio success.

Cover for album Absolute Torch and Twang by k. d.

Absolute Torch and Twang is the third album by k. d.

Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3.

While not as well-accepted as their debut album Hand on the Torch, it was a more mature approach to jazz-rap, up to par with Guru's Jazzmatazz.

2005: Lauren Talley, Jason Crabb, and several other young Southern Gospel vocalists joined together to record an album called " The Torch ".

In 1993, Us3 sampled Song for My Father on the track Eleven Long Years which appeared on their Hand On The Torch album.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

* 1942 8 November – Operation Torch launched with support from Gibraltar.

The Royal Horse Artillery sounded a 21-gun salute and the last runner in the Torch Relay ran a lap of the track – created with cinders from the domestic coal fires of Leicester – and climbed the steps to the Olympic cauldron.

* Portage Entry is an unincorporated community in the township located at on the west side of the Portage River, roughly across from Jacobsville in Torch Lake Township.

In response to protests during the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay and accusations of bias from the western media, Chinese blogs, forums and websites became filled with nationalistic material, while flash counter-protests were generated through electronic means, such as the use of SMS and IM.

Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 1: The Torch of Mathematics, 1800 to 1870.

Also, the B-side featured " Torch ", the last song from the previous lineup.

The new commander of the Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Montgomery, had the opportunity to conclusively defeat the Panzerarmee Afrika under Erwin Rommel, since Rommel was at the end of enormously stretched supply lines, the British were close to their supply bases, and Rommel was about to be attacked from the rear by Torch.

The games included 1091 athletes from 36 nations, and the Olympic Torch was carried by Joseph Rieder, a former alpine skier who had participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics.

These range in power from small beams with a radius of only a few meters, as seen in Endymion, to weapons capable of leveling cities, as used by the TechnoCore in The Fall of Hyperion, and are the main armament of Torch Ships.

It then flows northeast, passing through a region of marshes, where it is joined from the northwest by the Torch River and the Mossy River.

In 1951 the Springbok Legion, formed a protest group together with the War Veterans Action Committee, to appeal to a broader base of ex-servicemen, which they called the ' Torch Commando ', as a tactic to fight the National Party's plans to remove Cape's " coloured " voters from the roll.

The National Party ensured that the memory of the Springbok Legion, Torch Commando and of Sailor Malan was purged from history because there was a fear particularly that young Afrikaners might want to emulate Malan.

Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979.

If not for the lucky intervention of The Torch, who is away when the Frightful Four invade the Baxter Building, but later receives a signal for help from Alicia when she finds the fallen Sue Storm lying unconscious, Medusa and her comrades would have certainly succeeded in finishing off the Invisible Girl, Mr. Fantastic, the Thing and his girl.

But Doctor Strange turns the Thing back into Ben Grimm, freeing him from the ray's control ; he frees the Invisible Woman as he begins turning back, who frees the Torch then the Thing, and the Torch frees Reed.

The Grandmaster then summoned the Sub-Mariner, Captain America and the android Human Torch from that period as his unwitting pawns to battle the Avengers.

The Prime Kang then attempts to manipulate the Avengers from a time vortex and later encounters the Fantastic Four in a bid to capture Mantis and use her to defeat a Celestial and defeat the other Kangs, while " Fred " is incinerated by a Nebula-possessed Human Torch during a later battle with the Fantastic Four in the timestream.

On April 1, 1899, he renounced Judaism and in the same year founded his own newspaper, Die Fackel ( The Torch ), which he continued to direct, publish, and write until his death, and from which he launched his attacks on hypocrisy, psychoanalysis, corruption of the Habsburg empire, nationalism of the pan-German movement, laissez-faire economic policies, and numerous other subjects.

Marvel Comics was rechristened Marvel Mystery Comics with issue # 2 ( Dec. 1939 ) — the magazine would continue under that title through # 92 ( June 1949 ) before becoming Marvel Tales through # 159 ( Aug. 1957 ) — and Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics # 1 ( Jan. 1940 ), Mystic Comics # 1 ( March 1940 ), Red Raven Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1940 ), The Human Torch # 2 ( premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven ), and Captain America Comics # 1 ( March 1941 ).

By the end of 1942, there was a need to unify command of the Allied forces in North Africa, since those from the west, landed during Operation Torch, and those from the east that had won the Second Battle of El Alamein were now close enough together to need coordination.