21 May 1980. The 2nd Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back was released in the USA. Set three years after the events of the first film, it follows the Galactic Empire, under Darth Vader and the Emperor, pursuing Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebel Alliance.

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Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong ketujuh, Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’azzam Shah berkenan merasmikan kampus tetap Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi pada 2 September 1980.#JubliEmas50TahunUKM

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Animation art from Disney’s PETE’S DRAGON (1977). One of the first films I ever saw, circa 1980. The Gogans always remind me of Fratellis from THE GOONIES (what a sentence to write). I thought they were really scary—sinister. My nightmare world was populated by Disney villains.

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Cinefantastique, The Black Hole issue, 1980. Cover art by David Mattingly, other art by Robert McCall and Peter Ellenshaw

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40 years ago today!
Black Sabbath’s Heaven And Hell was released on this day, April 25, 1980. The first Black Sabbath record with Ronnie James Dio on vocals.

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An EP-3 Orion and EA-3B Skywarrior, both from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ) 2 pictured on a flight out of Naval Station (NS) Rota, Spain in july of 1980. VQ-2 relocated from rota to whidbey island in 2005. Naval Aviation Safety Center Photograph Collection

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It's a metal anniversary day - both of these albums turn 40 today, having been released 14 Apr, 1980. They are:

album
's British Steel

"Iron Maiden's gonna get ya.. Breakin' the Law!"

An EPIC day back in 1980, that was.

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One last

Stock footages of the Valley Forge (Silent Running, 1972) were used in a promotional film for The Starlost (TV series, 1973), in Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) as Agro ships & in Galactica 1980.

Years later, BSG 2003 showed its own Botanical cruiser.

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O meu top 4 do daria uma banda dos anos e 1980.

A quarentena criativa continua e eu que não vou endoidar nesse isolamento.

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The former India opening batsman was born in Karachi on April 17, 1904. He coached Pakistan in the 1950s but moved to India in the 70s. He died in Mumbai on July 28, 1980. Know him?

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Fiz essa da da

Aliás, essa versão é muito mais divertida que a da década de 1980.

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(5/6) Viola Frey, “Untitled (Slide 361),” 1975, reprinted 2020. ALF no. VFI-9005., “Ming Blue and White,” 1981. Oil and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 in. ALF no. VF-0327. “Untitled (Three Heads, Snake in Dish),” c. 1975-1980. Ceramic, 15 x 9 x 3 1/2 in. ALF no. VF-0340CSS

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OTD in 1895 the artist Agnes Parker Miller was born Irvine.

In the 1930s Agnes became well known for her wood-engravings for book illustrations.

Agnes moved to Glasgow in 1955 and lived on Arran for a period of time before dying in 1980.

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The question I am asked the most about The Wind in the Willows is which edition am I reading. It's the one illustrated by Michael Hague. It was first published in 1980.

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Estos días he estado leyendo Dublineses (James Joyce, 1914). Trad.: Cabrera-Infante. Ed.: Lumen, 1980. El experimento ha consistido en leer y acompañar la lectura con algunas ilustraciones (dos, provenientes de fotos del libro). Ha estado muy bien.

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'Respetaba a su esposo como respetaba a la oficina de correos, como algo grande, seguro, inamovible; y aunque sabía que era escaso de ideas, apreciaba su valor como hombre, en abstracto'. Dublineses, de James Joyce (1914). Trad.: Cabrera-Infante. Ed.: Lumen, 1980. Buenas noches.

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'El niño miró a todas partes desesperado pero, al ver que no había escape, se hincó de rodillas'. Dublineses, de James Joyce (1914). Trad.: Cabrera-Infante. Ed.: Lumen, 1980.
Y buenas noches.

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The Junkyard Dog was blinded at the hands of Michael Hayes which took him out of action in 1980. Fans were in full support of JYD and totally hated Hayes, so much so that one fan even showed up to an event and told the JYD that he planned to shoot Hayes with a gun he’d brought.

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