Obscure Records, started by Brian Eno in 1975 to release works by lesser-known composers
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Since 1000Fryd opened in 1984 there have been thousands of concerts by both well known bands – such as Die Toten Hosen and Green Day – and utterly obscure local performers, such as Jimmy Justice and Columbian Neckties.
Having an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover (a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack), interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure.
His short abbacy is reasonably well-sourced compared to the string of five abbots following him, beginning with Teuto, who were extremely obscure figures even to Gregory of Catino, the abbey's historian of the eleventh century.
This time he featured more obscure mixture of songs, such as Danzig, Status Quo and Britney Spears.
The name Balderton has obscure roots but may have been derived from Balder or Baldur – the Norse god of innocence, beauty, joy, purity, and peace and Odin's second son eventually killed by his blind brother in an accident involving Loki the god of mischief and fire.
The origin of the term is obscure, but the belly gun's modern formulation dates from the first half of the Twentieth Century, and can be attributed to a small group of men, most with military backgrounds: Colonel Rex Applegate, Major Eric A. Sykes, Lieutenant-Colonel William E. Fairbairn, pistolsmith John H. Fitzgerald, and perhaps most prominently Colonel Charles Askins.
She was the daughter of obscure local noblemen called Magas and Antigone.
Betsey Chamberlain's origins are obscure, but she has been identified with Betsey Guppy, born on 29 December 1797 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, beside Lake Winnipesaukee.
Although now a relatively obscure event in history, it was commemorated by a mustering of the Mayor, Sheriffs and soldiers on the day as a challenge to the native tribes for centuries afterwards.
Brice Stratford directed the second modern production of "Bussy D'Ambois" (as well as performing in the title role) at St Giles in the Fields (Chapman's burial site) in the Autumn of 2013, as part of the Owle Schreame theatre company's "Cannibal Valour Rep Season" of obscure classical theatre.
Charles Aberg was the obscure star of Andy Warhol's unreleased 1966 feature Withering Sights, a spoof of the classic novella Wuthering Heights.
In 1962 Cannon engaged in an unseemly and well-publicized dispute with Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, another octogenarian Democrat, over obscure matters of parliamentary precedent.
Trobar clus, an allusive and obscure style adopted by some 12th-century troubadours.
This pass would be relatively obscure were it not for General Wade's military road built over it in 1731, between Fort Augustus in the Great Glen to the north and Melgarve in Strath Spey in the south.
Although ostensibly concerned with jokes about cultural figures like Elton John & Michel Gondry, quite large parts of the show were impenetrably obscure, and were probably only fully understood by the creators and their immediate friends and associates, particularly those who were part of the dot com industry centred on Brick Lane in London, England.
It enjoys some obscure fame as the 1584 birthplace of Rev. John Lathrop, founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts.
The term was used technically in internal Pentagon critiques of the Vietnam War (cf. President Richard Nixon's promise of Peace With Honor), but remained obscure to the general public until the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia when the U.S. military involvement in that U.N. peacekeeping operation cost the lives of U.S. troops without a clear objective.
In addition, the magazine featured a Fantastic Films Archive Series, a retrospective section that highlighted classic sci-fi films of the past ranging from popular titles like The Day the Earth Stood Still to more obscure fare like Just Imagine.
The black band at the apex of the cell of the forewing reaches only to the median vein, not extending beyond it to the hind angle, being exactly as in Graphium alebion but in contradistinction to this insect the orange anal spot on the hindwing of is reduced to two small obscure dots.
On April 21, 1887, the French Havas news agency published a dispatch to the effect that Schnaebelé, a mid-level and obscure French police inspector, had been arrested by two agents of the German secret police on the Franco-German frontier near Pagny-sur-Moselle, as he was on his way to Ars-sur-Moselle for a meeting with the German police inspector there, at the latter's request.
An example of this obscure effect is present in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It released material by many well-known artists like Gary Low, Doctor's Cat, Brand Image, Martinelli, Paul Sharada, Betty Miranda, Reeds, Mike Rogers, Raggio Di Luna, Hot Cold, Eugene, Max Coveri, as well as obscure Italo disco acts.
Naish is credited with having suggested that magistrates in their ongoing struggle with the Irish National Land League, should rely on an obscure medieval statute, 34 Edward III c.1, to imprison those who could not find sureties for their good behaviour.
In 2013, hit ITV drama Broadchurch ran several similar themes with Jude the Obscure, with one character even referencing the novel in a scene.
The many Jets fans that attended the draft, held in New York City, were surprised and outraged by the choice; O'Brien was so obscure that New York television reporter Sal Marchiano twice mangled his name while reporting on fan reaction to the draft.
Live and Obscure is a live album released by folk/country singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt in 1987.
Movies reviewed inside the book include more popular films such as In the Mouth of Madness, Alien, Hellboy, The Thing, the cult classic Re-Animator as well as more obscure Japanese works such as Marebito and Uzumaki, Italian gore films (The Beyond) and even comedies (Cast a Deadly Spell).
Dubai was at that time an obscure backwater, and in 1974, Chhabria was able to bag a contract with Sony, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, for Jumbo Electronics to become the sole distributors of Sony in the UAE.
The original "excessively voluminous" version was apparently not good enough for publication, and in early 1837 he signed a contract with a collaborator, the obscure Grub Street writer Thomas Egerton Wilks, to "rewrite, revise, and correct" the manuscript.
Every spring he would devote a column to a "Cubs Quiz", posing obscure trivia questions about mediocre Cubs players from his youth, such as Heinz Becker and Dom Dallessandro.
The experience level and relative success of the membership varies widely, from relatively obscure writers to best-selling authors like Joe Buff, Gayle Lynds, and David E. Meadows.
Montague Summers also produced important studies of the Gothic fiction genre and edited two collections of Gothic horror short stories, as well as an incomplete edition of two of the seven obscure Gothic novels, known as the Northanger Horrid Novels, mentioned by Jane Austen in her Gothic parody Northanger Abbey.
Like neighbouring Cefn Eglwysilan, the hill is named after the hamlet of Eglwysilan 4km to the southwest, the church here being dedicated to an obscure Saint Ilan.
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Some physicians use local anaesthesia (i.e. lidocaine injections), but that can obscure the area being injected.
Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand is an obscure form of shorthand described in a book titled Marsh's Manual of Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand: Being a Complete Guide to the Best System of Phonography and Verbatim Reporting published by H.H. Bancroft & Company in 1868.
Robert D. Lamberton, Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis and translator of Thomas the Obscure
On the other hand, his obsessive search for music that displays the qualities he regards as intrinsic to rock music leads him to champion such relatively obscure bands as Saint Vitus, Bloodrock, Sproton Layer and The Sylvia Juncosa Band.
The novel is loosely based upon an obscure real-life incident between former New York Yankees' pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Petersen, who, in the 1970s, actually traded their wives, children and pets to one another.
In one of the invitationals where foreign teams were pitted against PBA teams, Samboy Lim saved the face of the Philippines when he single-handedly took over in the IBA-PBA challenge in 1987 where the import was a then obscure Bobby Parks.
Save for the time of its last ruler Khasekhemwy, it marks one of the most obscure periods in ancient Egyptian history.
He died at Langhirano in the vicinity of Parma in obscure circumstances: he may simply have been the loser in a brawl (he was famously ill-tempered and violent), or he may have been assassinated by an agent of the Visconti.
Doubt has also been cast on Sigurd Rise, a relatively obscure son of Harald Fairhair by a Sami girl named Snæfrid.
With his silent partner, a London merchant Edward Heylyn, he took out a patent on kaolin to be imported from the English colony of Virginia in November 1745, and became manager of the Bow factory from its obscure beginnings in the 1740s.
Little is an avid collector of antiques, classic cars, and obscure species of livestock; he owns eight of the latter.
The device of the diary is reminiscent of the manuscript in James's "The Turn of the Screw" where the governess's story comes from a manuscript of obscure origin.
Chapin (1957) was an easy victim as Starbuck qualified his “Fibonacci proportion” as an “obscure and soft mystique” (1965b, p. 484).
The Syriac Chronicles of Michael the Syrian (12th century) and of Bar Hebraeus (13th century) contain some obscure traditions regarding the founding of some of the "cities of the plain".