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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Nintendo DS)


Journey to the Center of the Earth (shortened as JCOE) is an Action game for the Nintendo DS based on the movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D and is developed by American studio Human Soft and published by THQ. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" will allow the player to play as the three main characters of the movie: Trevor, Sean and Hannah as they journey to and through the center of the earth. In the game the player will navigate their way through the center of
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Nintendo DS)


the Earth in an attempt to escape. The gameplay of the game is based solely around the events of the movie in an open world environment, allowing the player to control out-of-control mine carts, and rafts throughout out the center of the Earth. THQ also expanded the environment of the center of the Earth to allow the player to further journey throughout the open environment. The game also features three playable characters: Trevor, Sean and Hannah, who each have a special ability. Progress in the game is
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


center of the Earth. The vent eventually becomes a water slide which drops them safely into a lake in the center of the Earth, which turns out to be a completely separate world contained within the Earth. The group starts seeking a way back to the surface. Along the way, they find evidence that someone had been there a hundred years ago. Trevor remarks that some instruments found are Lidenbrock's (the name of a character in the book), suggesting that another group had previously made the journey, somehow returned
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Seth Meyers


member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam, where his brother was also a cast member. Meyers appeared with Brendan Fraser and Anita Briem in the 2008 3D film "Journey to the Center of the Earth". He also makes a cameo in the 2008 film "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" as a drunk man who mistakes the main character's Yugo for a taxi. He starred in the 2004 comedy "See This Movie" with John Cho. In July 2008, Meyers directed the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Nintendo DS)


based on the use of checkpoints. Each time a character dies, they return to the last checkpoint and continue from there."Journey to the Center of the Earth" allows the player to control movements with the bottom screen while the character reacts on the upper screen. IGN said this about the game: "Horrible controls make the game an endless pattern of accidentally jumping into bottomless pits." IGN simply noted that "it's [the game] freaking terrible, and there's not even a console version to go play
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Journey to the Center of the Earth


Journey to the Center of the Earth (, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)


, melodrama or ludicrous tribes of extras, shabbily dressed bird-beings or lizard men", ultimately concluding that the film is "still captivating despite the obviously dated effects". At the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 29 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is "a silly but fun movie with everything you'd want from a sci-fi blockbuster – heroic characters,
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 direct-to-video film)


Journey to the Center of the Earth (released in the UK as Journey to Middle Earth) is a 2008 direct-to-DVD film created by The Asylum and directed by David Jones and Scott Wheeler. The film is a loose adaptation of the original novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, but bears a close similarity to "At the Earth's Core", a similar novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is also the second film by The Asylum to be based on a Jules
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List of Supergirl characters


(portrayed by Teri Hatcher) is the Queen of Daxam and Mon-El's mother, who is the main antagonist of season two's arc. She and Lar Gand journey to Earth in search of Mon-El. She is utterly determined to take Mon-El back to Daxam with her. She tricks Lena Luthor into helping her build a transporter to bring a Daxamite fleet to conquer Earth. Rhea fights Kara in a one-on-one duel for the fate of Earth, but refuses to halt the invasion
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (miniseries)


Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1999 American science fiction miniseries produced by Hallmark Entertainment. It stars Treat Williams, Jeremy London, and Bryan Brown. It is based on Jules Verne's classic novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth". "Journey to the Center of the Earth" received mostly negative reviews from critics. David Kronke, writing in the "Los Angeles Daily News", called the miniseries "thoroughly cheesy" and "flaccid." The "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" opined that
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Journey Through the Impossible


Journey Through the Impossible () is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery. A stage spectacular in the "féerie" tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the Earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own "Voyages Extraordinaires" series and includes characters and themes
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 TV film)


Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 American-Canadian made-for-television action adventure film shot on location in and around Vancouver in the summer of 2007. It is very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in HD and first aired on February 4, 2008. It has since been released on DVD. Victoria Pratt and Peter Fonda's characters were added from the original story. Heiress Martha Dennison (Victoria Pratt) seeks out professor Jonathan Brock (Rick
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Peter Fonda


reviews from critics. He also appeared in the last scenes of the biker comedy "Wild Hogs" as Damien Blade, founder of the biker gang Del Fuegos and father of Jack, played by Ray Liotta. Fonda also portrayed Mephistopheles, one of two main villains in the 2007 film "Ghost Rider." Although he wanted to play the character in , he was replaced by Ciarán Hinds. He was in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (2008), "Japan" (2008), and "
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Where Time Began


Viaje al centro de la Tierra (English: "Journey to the Center of the Earth") is a 1978 Spanish adventure film based on "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne. It has been released in English-speaking areas under the titles Where Time Began and The Fabulous Journey to the Center of the Earth. Whilst visiting a book shop, Professor Otto Lidenbrock (More) buys an old book containing undisclosed knowledge of the center of the earth from a mysterious gentleman. Eager to know more
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Shin Megami Tensei IV


generation of players. Eiji Ishida, who worked on "Nocturne" and "Strange Journey", acted as the game's art director. Masayuki Doi designed the main characters. Doi had worked on the series before as an environment designer for "Nocturne", but this was his first time as a character designer for the series. He was brought on due to his work on the "Trauma Center" series. The main characters were designed around certain archetypes: Jonathan and Walter was designed to represent law and chaos respectively
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


Journey to the Center of the Earth (also promoted as Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D or Journey 3-D) is a 2008 American 3D science fantasy adventure film directed by Eric Brevig and starring Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem, and Josh Hutcherson. It is an adaptation of the Jules Verne novel (which had previously been adapted multiple times, most notably in the 1959 film of the same name), and was released in 3D and 2D theaters by New Line Cinema on July 11, 2008. The film also introduced
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (miniseries)


the effects work "[couldn't] overcome a barrage of ponderous dialogue and simply bland acting." Theodore Lytton is an avid geologist and paleontologist who is aided by his nephew Jonas Lytton, a Harvard graduate. Theodore seeks for ways to finance his undertakings, including illegal street fighting. After one of his lectures, Theodore is approached by Alice Hastings who finances the Lyttons journey into the center of earth on a quest to find her lost husband Casper Hastings. Casper had 7 years prior gone to seek a fortune of gold
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Earth Abides


: Reviewer Noel Perrin has pointed out that George R. Stewart had written two books before this, in which the main character was not a person, but "a natural force." In "Storm" the main character is weather, and in "Fire", a forest fire takes center stage. In the same way, Stewart centers the first half of "Earth Abides" on the forces of natural and artificial selection. In freeing the landscape from humans, half of the book is devoted to looking at how the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)


lizard. Boone recalled filming the climax: Dahl became unconscious and it took 30 minutes to revive her. At the time of release, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was a financial success, grossing $5,000,000 at the box office (well over its $3.44 million budget). At the time, "New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther said "Journey to the Center of the Earth") is "... really not very striking make-believe, when all is said and done. The
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


the Center of the Earth", "", with Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Luis Guzman, and Vanessa Hudgens. Jane Wheeler was replaced by Kristin Davis. "Journey 2" was filmed between November 2010 and February 2011 and was released in February 2012. Like the first film, the sequel was shot in 3D, and the script is loosely based on a Verne novel – this time "The Mysterious Island". "Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D Adventure" is a 15-minute 4D
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (attraction)


Journey to the Center of the Earth is a slot car attraction at Tokyo DisneySea, based on Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth". The attraction uses similar technology to Epcot's Test Track. Original music for the ride was created by longtime Disney composer Buddy Baker. The volcano of Mysterious Island, Mount Prometheus, has become Captain Nemo's base. After traveling through its caverns and past several of Nemo's labs (which includes a diary entry of the discovery of the fossilized egg of a monstrous
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)


Journey to the Center of the Earth (also called Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a 1959 CinemaScope science fiction adventure film in color by De Luxe distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film, produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Henry Levin, stars James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene Dahl. Bernard Herrmann wrote the film score, and the film's storyline was adapted by Charles Brackett from the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. In 1880 Edinburgh, Scotland, Professor Sir
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV series)


Journey to the Center of the Earth is an American science fiction Saturday morning cartoon, consisting of 17 episodes, each running 30 minutes. Produced by Filmation in association with 20th Century Fox, it aired from September 9, 1967 to September 6, 1969 on ABC Saturday Morning. It featured the voice of Ted Knight as Professor Lindenbrook. It was later shown in reruns on Sci Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest. It appears to have taken the 1959 film, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", as its starting
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Middle-earth peoples


, they just never saw the light of the trees. On the journey to Valinor, some of the Teleri ("Those who tarried") abandoned the main group and those of them who did not mingle with the Moriquendi became the Laiquendi (Green-elves), the Sindar (Grey-elves) and the Nandor. These elves of the great journey who remained in Middle-earth were then called the Úmanyar (The Unwilling). The Eldar who reached Valinor were eventually divided into three distinct groups: Vanyar,
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Ancient Egyptian deities


This movement between realms was sometimes described as a journey between the sky and the earth. As temples were the focal points of Egyptian cities, the god in a city's main temple was the patron deity for the city and the surrounding region. Deities' spheres of influence on earth centered on the towns and regions they presided over. Many gods had more than one cult center, and their local ties changed over time. They could establish themselves in new cities, or their range of influence could contract. Therefore, a
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Investigations (Star Trek: Voyager)


"Investigations" is the 36th episode of the American science fiction television series "" which aired on the UPN network. It is the 20th episode of the . Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Federation starship "Voyager" during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. The episode centers around the character Neelix, who while investigating for a report shared on his new daily broadcast to the crew, stumbles upon a traitor who is sending coded
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America's Best TV Comics


Company," which distributed Marvel Comics at the time. The copyright is held by ABC. Bearing a cover price of 25¢ and also distributed via mail-order, it features the Marvel characters the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, who were debuting in half-hour animated series that fall, as well as stories based on the upcoming animated series "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "King Kong", "George of the Jungle", and "Casper the Friendly Ghost". The ABC cartoon
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The Impossible Planet (short story)


take her to Earth. As Earth is believed to be a myth, the captain finds a record of a planet that is not called "Earth" but has one moon, and is in a solar system of nine planets. The four main characters take the journey to this inhospitable destination: the captain, his more ethical crew member, the old woman, and the woman's robotic servant. The story was adapted and directed by David Farr as an episode of the Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series "Philip K.
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The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters


from social life. In this envisioned future, Russia and China are the centers of global power. Russia and China united their efforts to avoid Earth's collision with another planet. In the novel, China is described as having experienced a "deadly stagnation" which came to an end with the rule of Hin Gin in the 39th century. The main character of the story is actually a Chinese student, Ippolit Tsunguev, (not a Russian character, as might be expected) who attends St. Petersburg's "Main School"
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Snæfellsnes


of about 120 km. The mountain is also known as the setting of the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by the French author Jules Verne. The area surrounding Snæfellsjökull has been designated one of the four National Parks by the government of Iceland. The peninsula is one of the main settings in the "Laxdœla saga" and it was, according to this saga, the birthplace of the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard, Bolli Bollasson. Other historical people who lived in the area according to
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Rusty Lemorande


Rusty Lemorande (born March 29, 1954 in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter, director, actor and film producer who directed the 1989 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth" based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name. One of Lemorande's first major jobs was production executive for the comedy "Caddyshack". Lemorande proposed commissioning a gopher puppet in order to add, through additional shooting, a continuing story arc for the Gopher and the Bill Murray character. He was caught in the
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Josh Hutcherson


His role in "The Forger" was as a 15-year-old orphan who finds himself in trouble until Alfred Molina's character comes to his aid. The film was not well received but the actors' chemistry together and their performance was. He next reprised his role as Sean Anderson in the 2012 "Journey to the Center of the Earth" sequel, "". Hutcherson has always been vocal about his desire to work on films of all sorts of genres. Regarding the switch from comedy-drama "The Kids Are
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


title) when it became clear that the film would be shown in 3-D in far fewer theaters than anticipated. In May 2009, the film premiered as "Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D" at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia. It also opened in the motion simulator at Dollywood under the same name on June 12, 2009. It also featured in the new 4D Cinema at the Weston Super-Mare Grand Pier in the U.K. It was also shown in Movieworld on the Gold Coast. "Journey to the Center
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Five Weeks in a Balloon


, therefore succeeding in the expedition. The story abruptly ends after the African trip, with only a brief synopsis of what follows. "Five Weeks" has a handful of similarities to the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth". There is the same sort of conjecture from current scientific ideas and what Verne puts forth as the actual truth (though "Five Weeks" is far more successful, assuming there is any attempt at accuracy with "Journey"). The party of three characters is similarly divided into
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Púca


"Berserk" the fairy accompanying the main character is named "Puck". It is later revealed that he is a spirit of nature. The Puca is a prominent character in "Pandora's Box" by Natale Stenzel. The December episode of the series "Into the Dark" is titled Pooka and centers around the main character being taken on a terrifying psychological journey. In the 2018 television series "Britannia", "Pwykka" is a demon of the Celtic underworld, taking the form of a serpent. In the
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Torchwood


Owen Harper, and how he copes as a dead man. The second series finale, "Exit Wounds", features the departures of main characters Owen and Tosh, whose deaths at the hands of Jack's long-lost brother Gray reduced the cast to Barrowman, Myles and David-Lloyd in its closing scenes. The Torchwood Three team made a crossover appearance in the series four finale of "Doctor Who", "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", which featured Jack Harkness leaving the Doctor at the close of the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


the cave; Trevor is also using them to fund his late brother's laboratory. Trevor hands Sean a book about another strange land, "" by Ignatius L. Donnelly, and suggests they get together during Sean's Christmas break. Sean reveals that he has brought the little bird back from the center of the Earth to keep as a pet. However, the bird happily flies away. On September 22, 2001, Walden Media announced that Eric Brevig was hired and set to direct "Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Bugsted


long, the dark side of the moon was inhabited by a whole community of Bugsteds. In September 2012, a space probe collecting moon samples accidentally brought a Bugsted back to Earth. That stressful, unexpected journey trapped in the space module triggered his defense mechanism, leading to the arrival of hundreds of Bugsteds on our planet. Stranded on Earth, they make it their mission to return to the Moon. The main characters of the series are Jab get the back to the moon and Skills Vertigo, Montana, Emo, Jummpa
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Imperial Earth


about to collapse. The human aspects of the tale center mainly on the intense infatuation (largely unrequited but not unconsummated) that the two main male characters, Duncan and Karl Helmer, develop for the vividly characterized Catherine Linden Ellerman (Calindy), a visitor to Titan from Earth in their youth, and its lifelong consequences. A number of other sub-plots suggest some sort of greater mystery, but remain unexplored. The book ends with him returning home with his new "child" Malcolm (who is a clone of
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993 film)


The 1993 Journey to the Center of the Earth is a TV film first aired on NBC. It stars Carel Struycken, Tim Russ, and Jeffrey Nordling, John Neville, F. Murray Abraham, Fabiana Udenio, and Kim Miyori. A TV series was originally planned after its release but it was cancelled. A team of explorers sets on a voyage to the earth's core, following an earlier attempt years before. Their ship, "Avenger", enters the lava chamber of an active volcano and uses an energy ray called
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The Inheritance of Loss


is centered on two main characters: Biju and Sai. Biju is an undocumented Indian immigrant living in the United States, son of a cook who works for Sai's grandfather. Sai is a girl living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai, the cook and a dog named Mutt. Desai switches the narration between both points of view. The action of the novel takes place in 1986.. The novel follows the journey of Biju, an undocumented immigrant in the US who is trying to make a new life; and
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV series)


point rather than Jules Verne's original novel, e.g. including the character of Count Saknussen and Gertrude the duck. However it moved even further away from Verne's novel than the 1959 film. There are currently no plans to release the series on DVD and/or Blu-ray Disc from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment although most of the series is available for viewing on YouTube. "Long ago, a lone explorer, named Arnie Saknussen, made a fantastic descent to the fabled lost kingdom of Atlantis at the Earth's core. After
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Russell T Davies


writing processes and the development of his scripts for the fourth series of "Doctor Who": "Voyage of the Damned", "Partners in Crime", "Midnight", "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth", and "Journey's End". The book's first chapter focuses on Cook's "big questions" on Davies' writing style, character development—using the "Doctor Who" character Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and the "Skins" character Tony Stonem (Nicholas Hoult)
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Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit


the character's defense or attack raised, or their partner jumping in to defend. Drama Pieces can only be activated when certain achievements are met. One of the game's main modes of play is the "Z Chronicles" which allows the player the opportunity to relive key points from the Saiyan saga to the Cell Games story arc. There are also two exclusive stories within this mode. The first where Bardock defeats Frieza and finds himself mysteriously on present day Earth, and the second where Broly journeys to Earth in search of
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Middle-earth


the main distinction is between the Calaquendi or Light Elves and the Moriquendi or Dark Elves. Tolkien's work "The Silmarillion" tells of how the race of Elves awoke in Cuiviénen in eastern Middle-earth. The Valar came to Middle-earth soon afterwards, and invited the Elves to come and live with them in their home in Aman, the continent to the west of Middle-earth. Those elves who accepted and began the Great Journey to Aman from their birthplace of Cuiviénen were called the Eldar or the Middle-
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Deep (2017 film)


streets of flooded New York, strangely enter the radiation zone and overcome a number of undead fish. Soon, when it was not clear where they are, the characters have disagreements, where everyone accuses Deep on a dangerous journey. But then they meet the penguin Darcy and his assistants: the walrus Luigi and the dolphin Ralph. While Darcy and Luigi distracted the main characters by watching the film about the project "Ark-1" and "Ark-2" (which saved humans and ground animals respectively, leaving the Earth and went to
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The Ships of Earth


in their preparation for the ultimate journey to Earth. The book offers an interesting justification of the social structures of the Hebrew tribes in Genesis, all while the originally powerful female characters gradually succumb to the new hierarchy of "men" and "wives." Only one character - Shedemei, the brilliant geneticist, thinks about this problem. The focus in on the group dynamics of the new tribe as they journey where the Oversoul guides them. Prophetic dreams abound, mostly involving giant rats and bats ("diggers" and "
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)


Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason), a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan (Pat Boone). Finding the rock unusually heavy, Lindenbrook, mostly due to carelessness by his lab assistant, Mr. Paisley (Ben Wright), discovers a plumb bob inside bearing a cryptic inscription. Lindenbrook and Alec discover that it was left by a scientist named Arne Saknussemm, who had, almost 300 years earlier, found a passage to the center of the Earth
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The Man in the Shadows


down the path of learning about shadow people." The downward spiral the main character experiences was inspired by interrupting comments made by a homeless man who approached Tomlinson while talking to a friend about shadow people: the man approached him and said: "They will ruin your life and take all your money." Those comments "set the tone for the journey the main character endures." Sarah Jurgens is the actress who portrays that main character, Rachel Darwin, a photographer addicted to prescription drugs who begins to lose her sense
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The Splendid Source


Their journey becomes much more difficult than expected when they are kidnapped and taken to a remote island. There, they discover a secret society of the world's greatest geniuses at the center of all the world's dirty jokes. The plot is based on a short story of the same name written by Richard Matheson and first published in the May 1956 edition of "Playboy" magazine. The episode was a follow-up to the departure of main character Cleveland Brown, who was removed from "Family Guy" to become the
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Amanda (novel)


Amanda is a novel written by Candice F. Ransom. It is the first in the Sunfire series of thirty-two books. It was published by Scholastic Press in 1984, and is 346 pages long. It is currently an out-of-print book, though the trademark is still held by Scholastic Press. The plot of "Amanda" centers around the main character's journey from Boston to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in 1846. Amanda Bentley travels with her father Thaddeus Bentley, who is escaping creditors in their former
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Robin (Earth-Two)


inception. Unlike his main counterpart, Robin is only the alter ego of Dick Grayson, who uses the title into adulthood, rather than taking on later codenames such as Nightwing or Batman. In addition, the name "Robin" is not taken on by later characters. The character history of the Earth-Two Robin accordingly adopts all of the earliest stories featuring the character from the 1940s and 1950s, while the adventures of the mainstream Robin (who lived on "Earth-One") begin later in time and with
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (attraction)


Subterranean Sea, and is nearly struck by a lightning from the electrified gas clouds. The finale comes when riders are forced into the fiery heart of an active volcano, where the riders come face-to-face with the giant, tyrannical centipede-like lava monster that has built a nest there, before escaping back to the surface on the wave of an eruption. Journey to the Center of the Earth was originally planned as a free-fall type ride as part of Discovery Mountain, a former Disneyland Paris concept in
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)


take over. From there on it was clear sailing, except that Pat Boone had about three or four songs, if not more, and I think all of them died in the end, with the exception of one or two. The moment that Zanuck saw [their effect on] the action, those songs just fell by the wayside. Some of the underground sequences for "Journey to the Center of the Earth" were filmed at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Other shooting locations included Amboy Crater and Sequit Point, California
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


compose the music for the film. On March 2006, development and filming of the film was completed in Canada and Iceland. On April 20, 2006, principal photography and production began. On January 2, 2007, New Line Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was filmed in 2006. The film transposes the novel into the present day and is mostly live action, with only the landscape and creatures supplied by computer-generated graphics. The film is projected using Real
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Journey to the Center of the Earth


Lidenbrock repeatedly keeps himself blinded against Axel's point of view. After a rapid journey via Kiel and Copenhagen, they arrive in Reykjavík, where the two procure the services of Hans Bjelke (a Danish-speaking Icelander eiderdown hunter) as their guide, and travel overland to the base of the volcano. In late June, they reach the volcano, which has three craters. According to Saknussemm's message, the passage to the center of the Earth is through the one crater that is touched by the shadow of a nearby
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Journey's End (Doctor Who)


"Journey's End" is the thirteenth and final episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast on BBC One on 5 July 2008. It is the second episode of a two-part crossover story featuring the characters of spin-off shows "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures", preceded by "The Stolen Earth", which aired on 28 June. At 65 minutes in length, it was approximately 20 minutes longer than a standard fourth
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Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman


and taken to the Hero Training Facility, a space station floating above an alternate version of Earth called Bizarro Earth. There he meets Pirohiko’s ghost, who has become his guardian spirit, and Etranger, a cynical training instructor. Etranger immediately forces the Main Character to undergo training until he is strong enough to defeat Darkdeath Evilman, sending him on missions to help the people on Bizarro Earth and thus resolve personal conflicts of the people of Earth. Over the course of the story, the Main Character helps people and therefore gains
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Saiyuki: Journey West


are listed in recruiting order, with six main characters and six optional characters. Excluding Sanzo, the main characters have six WereAttacks (optional characters have only three), typically matching their natural element. WereAttacks can be obtained during fights (except Dojo) by raising the Were Gauge level through acquiring EXP in Wereform. The main six characters above are mandatory to recruit, covering all five elements. The characters below are optional characters who can be obtained through fulfilling optional objectives. The optional characters only have three WereAttacks in Wereform,
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey


Guillermo del Toro, who was originally chosen to direct the film before leaving the project in 2010. The story is set in Middle-earth seventy-seven years before the main events of "The Lord of the Rings", and portions of the film are adapted from the appendices to Tolkien's "The Return of the King". "An Unexpected Journey" tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is convinced by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin
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Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth


Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth, released in Japan as , is a multi-genre video game developed by Cyclone System and published by Asmik and SOFEL for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. "Wurm" has a variety of different styles of play, with side-scrolling travel stages in the VZR vehicles, overhead shooting levels, levels where the protagonist Moby leaves the vehicle to explore underground ruins, and first-person shooting levels with boss monsters. Boss monsters have a probability meter that has to be
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


tries to jump across, he calls out his brother's name before falling into the vent. Ten years later, Max's 13-year-old son, Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson), visits Max's brother, volcanologist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser). In a box of items that belonged to Max is a book, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne. Notes written by Max are found inside the book. In Trevor's volcanology laboratory, a device shows activity on Snæfell, a dormant
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


with an average rating of 6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Modern visuals and an old fashioned storyline make this family adventure/comedy a fast-paced, kitschy ride." Metacritic gave the film a 57 out of 100, based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars out of 4. Peter Travers gave it 2.5 stars and Owen Glieberman gave it a B-. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" grossed $101.7 million in the
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Mastodon (band)


, earth, and aether. "Remission" does not deal with a particular theme but it is loosely based on the theme of fire. Songs like "Crusher Destroyer", "Where Strides the Behemoth" and "Ol'e Nessie" deal with the theme of fictional creatures. "Leviathan" is about the novel "Moby-Dick". It centers around the main characters and their thoughts during the story. "Blood Mountain" is about a man who is searching for the "Crystal Skull", which is on
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Journey Through the Night


Journey Through the Night (orig. Dutch: "Reis door de nacht") is a novel, originally in four volumes (1951–1958), by Dutch author Anne de Vries centering on the impact of the Second World War in the Netherlands on a Christian family. It was translated by Harry der Nederlanden in 1960. The book is divided into 4 parts: The main character is Jan (in the translation "John") de Boer. He is the eldest son of the family. During World War 2, the
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At the Earth's Core (novel)


was intended as a loose adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne. Other authors have been inspired by Burroughs' depiction of the strange subterranean world, most notably H.P. Lovecraft whose "At the Mountains of Madness" was heavily influenced by "At the Earth's Core", particularly in the name of the Elder Things' slave race, the Shoggoths. Another and more direct homage to Burroughs' concept is Lin Carter's "Zanthodon" series, beginning with his novel "Journey to the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 TV film)


Schroder) to help find her husband, Edward, who disappeared four years earlier on an expedition towards the center of the Earth. At first Jonathan is hesitant to go despite Martha's offer to handsomely pay him, giving him the opportunity to pay off the debts left to him by his recently deceased father, while his nephew and aspiring journalist Abel is excited for the opportunity to get real life journalistic experience. After reviewing Edward's notes Jonathan is persuaded to go along. The two of them, along with Abel, go
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Journeys of Frodo


"Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J. R. R. Tolkien's" The Lord of the Rings by Barbara Strachey is an atlas based on the fictional realm of Middle-earth, which traces the journeys undertaken by the characters in Tolkien's epic. The book comprises 51 two-colour maps (a general map of Middle-earth and 50 numbered maps) at various scales, all based on the original "The Lord of the Rings" maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien from his father's sketches. Each map is on
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Dungeon Siege


, the player character's farming village is attacked by a race of creatures named the Krug. The main character, a farmer with no given background who is named by the player, journeys through the Krug forces to the town of Stonebridge. Upon breaking the siege of the town, and gaining their first companion, the player character is tasked by the town's garrison leader Gyorn with journeying to the town of Glacern and alerting the Ehb military forces, called the 10th Legion, of the incursion and defeating any forces they encounter
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven


main character around who the story centers; at the start of the story, he is killed on his 83rd birthday. When he awakes in heaven, he is taken on a journey to meet five people whose lives intertwined with his in many ways which he never expected. As an adult he wanted to work as an engineer. Marguerite: Eddie's wife who he met at Ruby Pier and married after returning from World War II. Eddie would always remember "her waving over her shoulder, her dark hair falling over one
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List of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle characters


, the fifth of the group, from Yūko. On their journey across the dimensions, the group decide to join Syaoran to retrieve Sakura's feathers, as a mean to accomplish their wishes. The protagonists are all linked by the series' main antagonist, the sorcerer Fei-Wang Reed who oversees the journey. Using Osamu Tezuka's Star System, Clamp designed the series' characters based on the ones they used in their previous works. Few of the characters appearing in "Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle" are the exact ones
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Hollow Earth


unrelated to the planet Pluto, which was discovered and named a century later). Leslie did propose a hollow Earth in his 1829 "Elements of Natural Philosophy" (pp. 449–53), but does not mention interior suns. Jules Verne alludes to the Pluto-Proserpine theory, which he attributes to "an English captain", in "Journey to the Center of the Earth." Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction
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Olympos (novel)


Virgil's "Aeneid". The novel centers on three main character groups; that of the "scholic" Hockenberry, Helen and Greek and Trojan warriors from the "Iliad"; Daeman, Harman, Ada and the other humans of Earth; and the moravecs, specifically Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io. The novel is written in present-tense when centered on Hockenberry's character, but features third-person, past-tense narrative in all other instances. Much like Simmons' Hyperion where the actual events serve
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Travel to the Earth's center


of a so-called "Hollow Earth", once popular in fantasy adventure literature, is that the planet Earth has a hollow interior and an inner surface habitable by human beings. Although the scientific community has made clear that this is pseudoscience, the idea nevertheless is a less popular feature of many fantasy and science fiction stories and of some conspiracy theories. The most famous example of a hollow-Earth fantasy is Jules Verne's 1864 science-fiction novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth", which has been
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List of Supergirl characters


of Daxam and Mon-El's father. He and Rhea journey to Earth in search of Mon-El. After he agrees to let his son remain on Earth, he is killed by Rhea, who views his decision as a betrayal. Despite Rhea lying to her son that Lar killed himself, Mon-El knows that his father was not suicidal and realizes that his mother murdered him. Ruby Arias (portrayed by Emma Tremblay) is Samantha's daughter who is a smart, independently minded child fascinated by Supergirl.
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Miss Adventure


Miss Adventure is a fictional character whose adventures (and misadventures) appear in the American supermarket tabloid the "Weekly World News". He is a gay man and worked as a hairdresser in his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey. Miss Adventure has climbed Mount Everest in mink and high heels ("The mountain was gorgeous, the snowmen abominable"), journeyed to the center of the earth ("When I go down, honey, I go down"), shot off in a space shuttle ("I'd
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Sean Anderson (scientist)


edge technologies, such as environmental sensors, open sourced computer hardware / software components, and Remotely Piloted Systems (drones) as tools in conservation and education. This passion for the utilization of technology in field science, and conservation, led to the formation of a new division of Dr. Anderson's Lab, the Aerial and Aquatic Robot Research (AARR) team, a group of multidisciplinary faculty and research students. The character of Sean Anderson (played by actor Josh Hutcherson) in the Journey to the Center of the Earth franchise
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Thayer David


; "The Bench" 1968 (Phillipi); "Uncle Vanya" 1971 (Serebryakov); "The Jockey Club Stakes" 1973 (Sir Dymock Blackburn); "The Dogs of Pavlov" 1974. David played Count Saknussem in the film "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959). From 1966 to 1971, David portrayed various characters on ABC's daytime phenomenon "Dark Shadows". His many roles on "Dark Shadows" included Matthew Morgan, Ben Stokes, Professor T. Elliot Stokes, Sandor
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List of Dragon Ball characters


capsule of namesake. He is responsible for modifying the Namekian spaceship that Bulma, Krillin and Gohan use on their journey to the Planet Namek, in a search for its Dragon Balls. He also creates Goku his own spaceship to journey to Namek, while allowing him to train in 100x Earth's gravity. Following their return to Earth and in preparation for the battle with the Androids, Vegeta forces him into creating him a ship to allow him to train under 300x Earth's gravity, which he reluctantly complies with. He later
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Race to the Center of the Earth (American TV series)


VP of unscripted entertainment for National Geographic Networks, stated, "Unlike other competition formats, "Race to the Center of the Earth" will combine the grittiness of a survival show with the cinematic style of a feature film action-thriller dropping viewers into the middle of a heart-pounding journey unlike anything ever made for television." "Race to the Center of the Earth" is expected to begin production later this year, possibly between July 25 and October 30, 2019. Casting has officially begun by Raph Korine and
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Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums


two London schools Latymer Upper School and Godolphin and Latymer School. In Jules Verne's novel, "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", one of the main characters, Otto Lidenbrock, is a professor at the Johanneum. "Hödhütte" is the country house of the "Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums". Leased by the school since 1970, it is located in the Radstädter Tauern, Austria. Living conditions are very simple (the house has only one tap, students sleep in communal bunks, there is no TV and
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Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)


Luke Smith is a fictional regular character played by Tommy Knight in the British children's science fiction television series "The Sarah Jane Adventures", a spin-off of the long-running series "Doctor Who". Luke is a regular character in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" both in television and audio adventures. He has also appeared in three episodes of "Doctor Who": the two-parter "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" (2008), and the Tenth Doctor's finale episode "The End of
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Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen


located at the corner of Amagerbrogade and Prags Boulevard on Amager, It was inaugurated in 1790. Burials at the church include: The Church of Our Saviour in Christianshavn appears in a chapter of Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Center of the Earth". The character Axel is made to climb the winding spire for five consecutive days by his uncle to cure him of his Acrophobia before their descent into the volcano. The French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou has depicted the church in the original French illustrated version of "A
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Petra Yared


Macaw" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1999). She appeared in the Melbourne Theatre Company's stage production of "Pride and Prejudice" in Melbourne in 1999. On being an actress, she says "I never know what type of role will appeal to me until I read the script, and then it's usually an instinctive response. I sometimes just 'get' the character immediately and I know how I want to play her". Being an actress, she says, allows her
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Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth


raised up to 100% before that enemy can be eliminated. More characters join the crew over the course of the game. Moby must leave her vehicle in certain sections of the game to fight the enemies in a side-scrolling fashion. Her set of combat skills include a kick, jump and the use of a firearm. Players lose the game if they run out of either fuel or energy in the life bar. The plot of this video game deals with mysterious earthquakes that emerge in the year 1999, and the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


D Cinema and Dolby 3D. Josh Hutcherson's character, Sean, is named after the professor and conservation biologist Dr. Sean Anderson. The first trailer was shown before screenings of "Meet the Robinsons", the re-release of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and the release of "Beowulf", with the "", and during the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. Warner Bros. marketed the film like a theme park attraction. However, the studio had to slightly tweak the campaign (including dropping "3D" from the
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Journey to the Center of the Earth


code used but also the mechanisms used to retrieve the original text.) Lidenbrock and Axel transliterate the runic characters into Latin letters, revealing a message written in a seemingly bizarre code. Lidenbrock attempts a decipherment, deducing the message to be a kind of transposition cipher; but his results are as meaningless as the original. Professor Lidenbrock decides to lock everyone in the house and force himself and the others (Axel, and the maid, Martha) to go without food until he cracks the code. Axel discovers the answer when
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Akiko (comic book)


Poog, Spuckler Boach, and Gax). The next three books depict a series of adventures, arguments, mishaps, and exotic alien places, creatures, characters, and food, until they reach Alia Rellapor's castle. The next three books contain further adventures ("Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000" centered on Spuckler while "Akiko and the Journey to Toog" focuses on Poog's backstory) but Akiko always begins and ends the novel on Earth. In "Akiko: The Training Master", set some years
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Spider Grandmother


December 2018) references the Spider Woman narrative. In the novel, characters from a popular role playing game merge with the normal humans who play them in the game realm, and the mythological creatures from the game, including Spiderwoman, come to Earth with them. The Book "The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness" compares Grandmother Spider, Hecate, and Hestia as strong female characters. This source also states that women can look to emulate the qualities of these characters. The Article "Grandmother Spider: Connecting
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Bernard Herrmann


City", an adaptation of a series of books by Armistead Maupin. Fellow film composer Danny Elfman adapted Herrmann's music for "Psycho" for use in director Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and borrowed from Herrmann's "Mountaintop/Sunrise" theme, from "Journey to the Center of the Earth", for his main "Batman" theme. On its 1977 album "Ra," American progressive rock group Utopia also adapted "Mountaintop/Sunrise," in a rock arrangement, as the introduction to the album
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List of Arrow characters


the season four of "The Flash", reveals that, like his Earth-1 and Earth-2 doppelgängers, he is the father of Earth-X's version of Laurel, who is Siren-X. The character is based on the DC Comics character Larry Lance, husband to Dinah Drake Lance and father to Dinah Laurel Lance. Felicity Megan Smoak (portrayed by Emily Bett Rickards; main: season 2–7; recurring: season 1) is an I.T. expert, partner and later wife of Oliver Queen. Felicity is a MIT graduate with
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)


resulting water-magma collision triggers the geyser, shooting them up and out of the center of the Earth through Mount Vesuvius. When they fall, they accidentally destroy some of the vines in a vineyard. To make amends with the vineyard's farmer, Sean gives the owner a diamond that he found while in the center of the Earth. Trevor sees that Sean has many more diamonds in his backpack. After the adventure, Sean visits Trevor and Hannah in their new home, purchased using some of the diamonds Sean took from
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Princess Comet


tail named . Meteor's companion is a round, purple bird named . Unbeknownst to Comet, her Aunt Spica also lives on Earth and had visited Earth before, deciding to stay there and get married herself. Aunt Spica's pet is , a white rabbit with a tiny heart on her tail. The main plot is Comet's tale about her journey to Earth, the people she meets, and her journey to find the prince. The series is set in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. The original Japanese live-action
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Bogan Hunters


center of Australia's largest cities. Many of the shows' main characters and judges have previously appeared in the SBS television series Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers and Housos. Tasmania was named the 'bogan capital of Australia' with Taswegians earning four spots in the final. This prompted a response from Luke Martin, CEO of Tourism Industry Council Tasmania, who affirmed that Tasmanians are friendly, down to earth and want people to share their stories and if that makes them bogans, so be it. On the island of Tasmania
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K9 (Doctor Who)


port. Subsequently, the character appears briefly in the "Doctor Who" series four series finale "Journey's End" (2008), wherein K9 and Mr Smith assist the Doctor in returning Earth to its proper position. K9 next appears in the comedic Red Nose Day 2009 "Sarah Jane" mini-episode "From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love". A deal with the creators of "K9" having been struck, K9 Mark IV became a regular character in "Sarah Jane" in third series story "The Mad Woman
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Alexander Armstrong


-off "The Sarah Jane Adventures" as well as the main show's two part story "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End", and the title character in the revived series of "Danger Mouse". Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, the youngest of three children, to physician Henry Angus Armstrong and his wife, Emma Virginia Peronnet Thompson-McCausland. His maternal grandparents were economist Lucius Thompson-McCausland and Helen Laura McCausland (6 April 1903 – February 2000), granddaughter of Captain Conolly
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Filmation


adventure series "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1967) and "Fantastic Voyage" (1968) likewise used sparser music production. "Journey" made heavier emphasis on guitar than the company's previous series, while "Voyage" made use of deliberately haunting woodwinds to create a science fiction flavor. According to the booklets accompanying some of the DVDs of Filmation's shows, legendary composer Ray Ellis (who was assisted by his son Marc Ellis) had produced the background music for most Filmation series under the pseudonyms
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Journey to the Center of the Earth


via Snæfell in Iceland. In what Axel calls bad Latin, the deciphered message reads: In slightly better Latin, with errors amended: which, when translated into English, reads: Professor Lidenbrock is a man of astonishing impatience, and departs for Iceland immediately, taking his reluctant nephew with him. Axel, who, in comparison, is anti-adventurous, repeatedly tries to reason with him, explaining his fears of descending into a volcano and putting forward various scientific theories as to why the journey is impossible, but Professor
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Overthrow (comics)


set about to demolish Kord's main facilities; this naturally brought him into conflict with the Blue Beetle, who handily defeated him. During the Millennium Affair, which saw a Guardian of the Universe and a Zamaron journey to Earth to help ten human beings become agents of evolutionary change, the intergalactic group known as the Manhunters threw all of its efforts into ending their program and neutralizing Earth's heroes from providing any assistance. Dozens of heroes found themselves confronted by loved ones, friends, employees, and allies who revealed themselves to
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The Hobbit


influenced by George MacDonald's "The Princess and the Goblin". However, MacDonald influenced Tolkien more profoundly than just to shape individual characters and episodes; his works further helped Tolkien form his whole thinking on the role of fantasy within his Christian faith. Tolkien scholar Mark T. Hooker has catalogued a lengthy series of parallels between "The Hobbit" and Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth". These include, among other things, a hidden runic message and a celestial alignment that direct the adventurers to the
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