As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

There are also local and regional sub-groups, usually called " households ", which are not part of the Society's formal organization, the largest of which is the Mongol Empire-themed Great Dark Horde.

The band composed music for eight Herzog's films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde and My Best Fiend.

He was active in science fiction fandom and in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name " Yang the Nauseating ", and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in 1971.

Under the seemingly benevolent guidance and instruction of the unexpected Vanya visitor " Annatar ", the " Lord of Gifts ", of the fairest race of elves, who claimed he had been sent by the Valar to share his wisdom and skills in ring and jewel making for the benefit of all Middle-earth but who was in fact the Dark Lord Sauron in fair disguise, Celebrimbor led the smiths of Eregion into making sixteen Great rings for the peoples of Middle-earth — seven to the Dwarven lords and nine to Men.

Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth ; Counterpoint ( 1968 ); A Bridge Too Far ; Cross of Iron ; The Odessa File ; Julia ; and Judgment at Nuremberg, he also played more diverse characters in Krakatoa, East of Java ; The Black Hole ; The Freshman ; John Carpenter's Vampires ; Topkapi ; Stalin ; Candles in the Dark ; Erste Liebe ; Deep Impact ; and the television miniseries, Peter the Great ( 1986 ), which co-starred Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

* Tanith Lee – Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee

By April 1980 Orion's first set of movie releases had yielded one hit — 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek — and a host of also-rans, including The Great Santini, based on a Pat Conroy novel about a Southern family, A Little Romance, and Promises in the Dark.

It is the case of other storms that include Anne's Spot on Saturn, and the Great Dark Spot on Neptune.

* In the computer game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the Great Race and its advanced technology play an important part in the story, and appear in the very end of the game.

She was a puppeteer in the films The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ) and The Dark Crystal ( 1982 ), and she appeared in various other Muppet series and specials.

He who is dead yet lives is Rand ( this is confirmed by a dream Bair and Melaine had of Rand in a boat with three women they could not see and a scale tilting ). Great Battle may refer to the Last Battle ( Tarmon Gai ' don ), or a large battle leading up to the final confrontation with the Dark One.

), David Lean ( Brief Encounter, Great Expectations ), Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat ( I See a Dark Stranger, The Happiest Days of Your Life ), Ken Annakin ( Holiday Camp ) and Muriel Box ( The Seventh Veil ).

This is from the Dark Prophecy in The Great Hunt that describes Luc and Isam meeting and combining.

Captain Britain then defeats Albion, as Dark Marvel Girl finds the device Albion had used and is able to reactivate all of the technology in Great Britain.

Techniques included mass gatherings of Joker fans, scavenger hunts around the world, detailed and intricate websites that let fans actually participate in " voting " for political offices in Gotham City, hidden phone numbers and websites in the queue lines of The Dark Knight roller coasters at Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Great Adventure, and even a Gotham News Network that has links to other Gotham pages such as Gotham Rail, a Gotham travel agency, and political candidate's pages.

Eckardt and Haushofer put Hitler in contact with the Great Old Ones with their goal of helping the Nazis engineer superhuman bodies that could act as physical vehicles for these Dark Gods.

The Great Dark Spot as seen from Voyager 2

The Great Dark Spot ( also known as GDS-89 ) is the name given to a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

However, the interiors of Great Dark Spots are relatively cloud-free, and unlike Jupiter's spot, which has lasted for hundreds of years, their lifetimes appear to be much shorter, forming and dissipating once every few years or so.

Based on observations taken by Voyager and since then with the Hubble Space Telescope, Neptune appears to spend somewhat more than half its time with a Great Dark Spot.

Around the Great Dark Spot, winds were measured blowing up to an hour, the fastest in the Solar System.

The Great Dark Spot is thought to represent a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune.

However, Casimir III the Great submitted to the Golden Horde and undertook to pay tribute in order to avoid more conflicts.

The Russians conquered the Middle Horde by 1798, but the Great Horde managed to remain independent until the 1820s, when the expanding Kokand Khanate to the south forced the Great Horde khans to choose Russian protection, which seemed to them the lesser of two evils.

* 1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.

Ivan III ( the Great ) finally threw off the control of the Golden Horde, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus ' under Moscow's dominion, and was the first to take the title " Grand Duke of all the Russias ".

* 1440s: The Golden Horde breaks up into the Siberia Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Astrakhan Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, and the Great Horde.

* 1470: The Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great defeat the Tatars of the Golden Horde at the Battle of Lipnic.

* 1480: After the Great standing on the Ugra river, Muscovy gained independence from the Great Horde.

* January 6 – Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde

* October – Great stand on the Ugra river: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.

* Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.

Here the commander of the Golden Horde, as the western section of the Mongol empire was called, fixed his golden headquarters and represented his sovereign the grand khan who lived with the Great Horde in the Orkhon Valley of the Amur.

Although Russian forces defeated the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of parts of Rus ' territories, with the requisite demands of tribute, continued until the Great stand on the Ugra river in 1480.

* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.

* British Isles, a group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and other islands

The Crickets were only the second white rock group to tour Great Britain.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier Khoi-San people, reaching the Great Fish River in today's Eastern Cape Province.

Other important sources include a group of four manuscripts originating in the west of Ireland in the late 14th or early 15th century: The Yellow Book of Lecan, The Great Book of Lecan, The Book of Hy Many, and The Book of Ballymote.

He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601.

In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts as a group has " dissolved / evolved " with Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up.

In the Canadian provinces and states of USA around the Great Lakes, " smelt dipping " is a common group sport in the early spring months and when stream waters reaches approximately 4 ° C, ( 40 – 42 ° F ).

Later on, a group of human survivors from Atlantis sailed to Antarctica before the " Great Cataclysm " which sank their continent.

In the United Kingdom, the orthodox Marxist group the Socialist Party of Great Britain independently developed a similar doctrine.

Seminal punk group the Sex Pistols covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle.

Bob Hallett of the Canadian folk rock group Great Big Sea is also a renowned performer of the tin whistle, playing it in arrangements of both traditional and original material.

Thraco-Romans became a dominant group in the region, and eventually yielded several military commanders and emperors such as Galerius and Constantine I the Great.

The government of the islands were under a governor-general, whose jurisdiction extends to the other Danish colonies of the group, however, because the islands formerly belonged to Great Britain consequently the inhabitants were English in customs and in language.

One of the newest monuments to be dedicated to the fighting contribution of a group is the Celtic Cross memorial commemorating the Scottish contributions and efforts in the fighting in Flanders during the Great War.

His problem was that despite his military successes, he was eclipsed by his contemporary Pompey the Great who blackmailed the dictator Sulla into granting him a triumph for victory in Africa over a rag-tag group of dissident Romans ; a first in Roman history on a couple of counts.

Within the sea, to the east of the main Great Andaman island group, lies Barren Island, the only presently active volcano associated with the Indian subcontinent.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.

The Donner party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846.

Similarly, they were, at one time or another, at war with virtually every other Native American group living in the Great Plains, leaving opportunities for political maneuvering by European colonial powers and the United States.

The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many language dialects.

* 1987 — David Burstein, Roger Davies, Alan Dressler, Sandra Faber, Donald Lynden-Bell, R. J. Terlevich, and Gary Wegner claim that a large group of galaxies within about 200 million light years of the Milky Way are moving together towards the " Great Attractor " in the direction of Hydra and Centaurus,

Ethnic Russians were referred to as Great Russians ( as opposed to the ethnonyms White Russian and Little Russian ) and began to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group in the 15th century.