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And the Sky Full of Stars

The role of Knight Two was then offered to The Prisoner star Patrick McGoohan, who likewise wished to accept, but was out of the country at the time of filming, and had to decline as well.

Bekisar

The male is used in East Java, Bali and the surrounding islands in popular vocal competitions; this practice has caused the decline of wild Green Junglefowl populations.

Censorship in South Korea

South Korea has one of the freest media environments in Asia; however, since the inauguration of President Lee Myung-bak in 2008, South Korea has experienced a noticeable decline in freedom of expression for both journalists and the general public.

Claret Ash

In Australia and the United States a decline or dieback in some older trees has been observed which has been attributed to a combination of environmental stress and the presence of the fungus Botryosphaeria.

Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

The film was not as well received as its predecessor, Cleopatra Jones, due mainly to the decline in the popularity of the blaxplotation genre.

Committee on Industry and Trade

The Committee on Industry and Trade, also known as the Balfour Report because it was chaired by the industrialist Arthur Balfour, was a committee set up to discover the reasons for the United Kingdom's economic decline since the Great War.

Coup de glotte

Manen, Bel Canto: The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 1987).

Devil's Answer

They performed three tracks from their upcoming first album: "Friday the 13th", "S.L.Y." and "Decline and Fall".

Douglas Webb

As the British film industry went into decline he moved to the Isle of Wight in 1986, where he began to catalogue the photos of Pamela Green taken in the 1960s and '70s.

Elland

The decline of the woollen industry had a significant effect on the town and many mills were demolished or converted to residences.

Eshrefids

The Eshrefids or Ashrafids (Modern Turkish: Eşrefoğulları or Eşrefoğulları Beyliği ) was one of the Anatolian beyliks with its capital in Beyşehir was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of Sultanate of Rum.

Gherardo III da Camino

In the 1280s, he decided to try to conquer Treviso, which was then in peace after the decline of the da Romano family.

Globalism

American political scientist Joseph Nye, co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism, generalized the term to argue that globalism refers to any description and explanation of a world which is characterized by networks of connections that span multi-continental distances; while globalization refers to the increase or decline in the degree of globalism.

Greene's Tu Quoque

Bubble enjoys the reverse fortune, coming into money – yet he remains true to his master, the gentlemanly Staines, mourning the man's decline and urging him to repair his fortunes...by robbery ("if we be taken, we'll hang together at Tyburn").

History of Chongqing

During the Warring States period, the State of Ba fell into decline, until it was absorbed by the State of Qin in AD 316.

History of Thessaloniki

However, after the death of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos in 1180, the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire began to decline and in 1185, Norman rulers of Sicily, under the leadership of Count Baldwin and Riccardo d'Acerra, attacked and occupied the city, resulting in considerable destruction.

HSC Condor 10

Condor's use of the Condor 10 on the St Malo-Channel Islands route and their aggressive marketing and fare structure for the service was one of the reasons for the decline of Emeraude Lines which eventually closed down.

Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine

As he was closely associated with the court of Charles I, Coleraine's fortunes went into decline during the English Civil War.

J. D. Casswell

The case prompted George Orwell to write an essay ‘Decline of the English Murder’.

Jean Yarbrough

In the 1950s, when the traditional B-movie was on the decline, he had few problems switching to television and directed episodes for many series throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and had a two-year stint including producing and directing The Abbott and Costello Show.

Jiang Yi-huah

Commenting on Taiwan's 2013 global competitiveness ranking decline by the International Institute for Management Development in end of May 2013, Jiang ask all of the government sectors to make improvements and address the relevant problems.

Johfiyeh

The decline of the hills gradually hand Johfiyeh in a horizontal line that stretches to less than one kilometer to Horan, which lies at about 400 meters above sea level .

Kapuni Branch

With the decline of rural freight, part of the line was closed in 1976, but the 10.9 km section to Kapuni was retained and upgraded to service traffic to the Kapuni natural gas field.

KOZL-TV

The station was one of many Fox affiliates that planned to decline O. J. Simpson's two-night interview special with Judith Regan on November 27 and 29, 2006 called If I Did It.

Lakia

In the 15th century with the decline of Golden Horde's influence in the North Caucasus, shamkhal of Gazi-Kumukh asserted his authority in the northern Dagestan and in the south opposed the territorial expansion of Iran, Shirvan and Georgia.

León Arslanián

Arslanián proposed gun control measures, enacted stricter guidelines against police misconduct and streamlined criminal court proceedings, to which he attributed speedier rulings and a decline in crime rates in the province's coastal tourism hub, for example.

Lisa Gale Garrigues

In the 1970s, she lived in San Francisco, England, France, and Spain, where she witnessed the decline of the dictator Francisco Franco and co-translated, with Alberto Esquival, the first Spanish translation of the folksinger Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory.

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade, particularly the manufacture and consumption of methamphetamine.

Montefino

It is a traditionally agricultural area, but work dedicated to the breeding of animals and agriculture is in decline.

Muslim Dhagi

But like other Muslim artisan communities, they have seen a severe decline in their traditional occupation, as a result of mechanism.

National Independence Day

The autumn of 1918 marked the end of World War I and the defeat of all three occupiers – Russia was plunged into the confusion of revolution and civil war, the Austria-Hungary fell apart and went into decline and the German Reich bowed to pressure from the forces of the Entente.

Pakalapati

It is believed that after the decline of Kota Vamsa in mid 12th century AD (1268 AD) the Kotas dispersed and named themselves after the villages of their origin such as Pakalapati, Dantuluri,Gunturi, Jampana, Datla, Nallaparaju, Chintalapati, etc.

Pectoralis major muscle

A variety of resistance exercises can be used to train the pectoralis major, including bench pressing (using dumbbells, barbells or machines at various angles such as decline, incline and flat where the hips are above, below and level with the head respectively), push ups, flyes (using dumbbells or machines at either flat or inclined angles), cable crossovers or dips.

Penmarch

It owed its prosperity to its cod-banks, the disappearance of which together with the discovery of the Newfoundland cod-banks and the pillage of the place by the bandit La Fontenelle in 1595 contributed to its decline.

Pomaderris vacciniifolia

Factors in the decline of the species include browsing by feral deer, land clearing, and the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.

Roger Voudouris

After the decline of his solo career Voudouris returned to writing music and lyrics for various projects including the movie The Lonely Lady starring Pia Zadora, and a documentary on the life of Elvis Presley.

Royal Astronomy

The album's title is a reference to an essay by Kurt Vonnegut (collected in Fates Worse Than Death) in which Vonnegut compares commentators on the intellectual and moral decline of society to the Royal Astronomer in The White Deer by James Thurber, who believes that the stars in the night sky are going out one by one, but in fact this is because he is slowly going blind.

Samiilo Bohdanovych-Zarudny

Following the decline of Ivan Vyhovsky, Bohdanovych-Zarudny joined Yurii Khmelnytsky where he participated in drafting the Treaty of Slobodyshche.

Save the Deli

Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen is a book published by Canadian journalist David Sax about the decline of the Jewish delicatessen.

Shigaraki ware

In the later half of the Heian period, Sue ware production came to an abrupt decline, with production now centralizing in the Owari, Mino, Bizen, and Omi provinces.

Signs of the Decline

Signs of the Decline is the third album by Massacra.

Stefan Thomas Possony

Prior to emigrating there, in August 1938 he was one of the participants in the Colloque Walter Lippmann, whose aim was to strive for the restoration of classical liberal ideas which had seen a decline in interest after the 1920s and 1930s.

Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen station

The Great Depression hit Zuffenhausen particularly hard and led to a sharp decline in tax revenues.

Temple of the Dutch German Congregation

A few years later, the economic crisis linked to the abolition of Livorno’s porto franco status brought about the decline of the congregation which, nevertheless, in 1903 equipped the church with a handsome organ by the Agati-Tronci company, said to be the finest in Tuscany.

The Sabata Trilogy

Ironically, Lee Van Cleef, star of the first Sabata film had been offered the role, but had to decline because he was committed to The Magnificent Seven Ride in the role of Chris Adams, which Brynner had made famous in The Magnificent Seven.

Tony Morley

Morley won six caps for England, but his career fell into decline after not being picked for any of their games at the 1982 World Cup.

Twin Cities Rail Transport

The system began to decline in the years leading up to World War II as automobile use began to rise.

Unionville, Orange County, New York

Once an important economic zone in the area, its decline followed the changes in transportation which favored other locations: the Middletown and Unionville Railroad shuttled agricultural products (especially milk) as well as high school students in the first half of the 20th century.

Valdaysky District

Iversky Monastery was founded by Patriarch Nikon in 1652 and in the 17th century was one of the most influential monasteries in Russia before going into decline in the 18th century.

William Frederick Chambers

Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.


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