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1646 in literature

Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ("Lirenda" is an anagram), is published in Kilkenny (dated 1645).

1995–96 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season

Compounding the misery was the sale of fan favourite and top scorer Alan Shearer, who went to Newcastle for a British transfer record.

Adré

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad."

Africo

In 1948 the journalist Tommaso Besozzi and photographer Tino Petrelli published a report in the magazine L’Europeo, showing the misery and hunger of the people of Africo.

Annie Wilkes

British comedy duo French and Saunders parodied Misery on an episode of their television program of the same name, with Dawn French in Bates' role.

Archie Hind

Originally titled Für Sadie, because Hind was influenced by Beethoven's piece Für Elise, but the umlaut was later dropped to reflect Glasgow dialect, the story tells of Sadie, a housewife in the Parkhead district of Glasgow who rediscovers her childhood love for the piano as a means of escaping her middle-aged misery.

China Cry

But the Maoist regime brings hardship and misery to her family.

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

The movie opens with a light portrayal of the misery of his wife Shyamala and their two daughters, with Vijayan away on his latest venture — an attempt to shoot a short ad film.

Clement Vismara

Misery is great, the food poor and totally inadequate, tropical diseases decimate the missionaries (6 during the decade 1926-1936, all young people) so that in 1928 the General Superior of PIME father Paolo Manna, visiting Mong Lin, threatened the bishop of Kengtung to quit the mission if other young missionaries died for lack of nutritious food or because they lived in huts of mud and straw.

Eaton's Corrasable Bond

The paper is mentioned in the Stephen King novel Misery, when Annie Wilkes buys it for Paul Sheldon, thinking that since it is the most expensive paper, it has to be the best.

Ed Petrie

Ed has said through Twitter that his girlfriend is French and that she also appears in Misery Bear 's Comic Relief special (starring Kate Moss).

Emile Bongeli

He has written about strategies to fight poverty, to find a new Bretton Woods system to prevent the constant changes that have created insecurity and misery for all.

Glossary of anime and manga

More good (and otherwise Anti-heroic) examples would be Belarus from Axis Powers Hetalia, Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka in the song "Scissorloid , or Nu-13 from BlazBlue Western/non-anime or manga characters that are similar in concept to a Yandere such as Annie Wilkes in Misery fall under the Abhorrent Admirer trope.

Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats

More misery ensued with a shocking loss at home to arch-rival Taylor University in the MCC Tournament first round, which ensured that there would be no return trip to the NAIA's.

Jim Caple

Caple has also delighted in the misery of Red Sox Nation when he said in mid-June 2012 that the Red Sox being in last place may be the best thing he saw for the season.

Julie Ganapathi

It is a remake of the 1990 American horror film Misery, itself an adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Kristian Zahrtmann

He had already become interested in the story of the heroic 17th century daughter of a Danish king, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (also known as Eleanor Christine), before the 1869 posthumous publication of her 1674 autobiographical narrative Jammers Minde ("Remembrance of Misery"), which he had received as a birthday gift from Haslund and Krohn.

La Mujer del Presidente

Adriana visit to Carlos Alberto and he swears to her husband defend until the end and not to lose it as he had lost his father (a lawyer accused of guerrilla during the Palace of Justice siege) and Escobar is surprised to know that Carlos Alberto was married, news learns that her mother-in-law to his subsequent misery.

Ludwig von 88

Some of their songs are satires on stars like Louison Bobet, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maria Callas, Jacques Chirac, Jodie Foster or deal with more serious topics like war: "Libannais raides", "Hiroshima"; drugs: "Le Manège enchanté", "Kaliman"; and misery: "LSD for Ethiopie", "In the Ghettos" — always with irony.

Memoirs of a Dervish

Writing in The Spectator, Anthony Sattin finds the book "a more enlightening type of memoir" than what he sees as the current fad of the "misery memoir".

Men'll Be Boys

The album includes two cover songs: "I Will Be Here" was previously released by Steven Curtis Chapman on his 1989 album More to This Life, and "Misery and Gin" was previously released by Merle Haggard on his 1980 album Back to the Barrooms.

Misery Inc.

In 2007 Misery Inc. inked a deal with Finnish record label Johanna Kustannus (Megamania), and third album Breedgreedbreed was released on October 10, 2007.

Misery Is a Butterfly

The poster for the German Misery Is A Butterfly tour was designed by Stefan Guzy.

Misery Loves Comedy

Misery Loves Comedy is an album by Louis Logic, an American hip hop artist and J.J. Brown, an American hip hop producer.

Monsieur Stigmonus

Stigmonus showed Hal two possible futures for Helen: one in which she would grow to be “The Redeemer”, a being who would “lead this planet out of misery and into the Golden Age”, and another in which, one way or another, “she’ll come to a tragic end,” often depicted as being by her own hand.

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Aside from these factors, Sheila is enlisted in swimming lessons (to her chagrin) and partakes at the camp newspaper staff (ending with resignation after having forgotten to devise a reward for the winners of her camp crossword puzzle), even painting the backdrop of the camp's production of Peter Pan (in which Libby plays Captain Hook, to her misery).

Panait Istrati

Living in misery, ill and depressed, he attempted suicide in 1921 on his way to Nice, but his life was rescued in time.

Pinelands Center at Mount Misery

The Pinelands Center at Mount Misery (more commonly known as Mount Misery) is a Methodist retreat center and campground in Browns Mills, New Jersey in the United States.

Please Don't Leave Me

The video draws influences from the 1990 Stephen King based film Misery, as well as other similar thrillers, including Cujo, The Shining and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.

Sevastopol: On Photographs of War

The power of word and image together makes Sevastopol an unusual and moving poetic experience, linking us with those who did not escape the horrors and misery of man's most grisly occupation.

State of Euphoria

The song "Misery Loves Company" was based on the Stephen King novel Misery, while "Now It's Dark" was inspired by the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, specifically the behavior of the sexually depraved, self-asphyxiating, murderous sociopath Frank Booth, as played by Dennis Hopper.

Steve Soboslai

Soboslai provides additional vocals on "New Misery" by Israeli punk rock group Useless ID's latest album, Symptoms, released in 2012.

Tatya Tope

The low supplies of food, water and medicine added to the misery of the British Forces who accepted Nana Sahib offer of safe passage to Allahabad.

The Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach Post photographer Dallas Kinney won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, Migration to Misery.

They're Only Chasing Safety

Prior to recording, it was ready to be recorded with Underoath founder and frontman Dallas Taylor (the album's original title was intended to be Dear Misery and would feature songs such as "Coryn's Defeat", and "Look Past the Bright Lights", which is now "Reinventing Your Exit"), but instead was replaced with the band's current lead vocalist Spencer Chamberlain.

Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe

José Endundo Bononge, DRC Minister of Environment, says: "The enemy of the forest is its misery and poverty… We cannot

Verres

The people were for the most part prosperous and contented, but under Verres, the island experienced more misery and desolation than during the time of the First Punic or the recent servile wars.

West Arkeen

Arkeen also penned "Make Your Play" and "Pressure" for Brother Cane, as well as co-wrote "My Misery" for Phantom Blue.


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