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Arthur Adams (comics)


Thing. He became interested in dinosaurs and monsters like King Kong after watching "Creature Features" on TV every Saturday, and Universal Monster movies such as "Frankenstein" and "Creature from the Black Lagoon". He also enjoyed superhero and science fiction programming, such as "Super Friends", the 1967 "Spider-Man" cartoon and "Star Trek". Adams enjoyed drawing frequently in his youth, as far back as he could remember. He discovered the work of Frank Frazetta when he was 13 or 14
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Black Adam


, "Villains United", "Infinite Crisis", and "52" have elevated the character to an unprecedented level of prominence in the overall universe of DC Comics characters. In 2009, Black Adam was ranked as IGN's 16th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Dwayne Johnson has been cast as Black Adam in the planned feature films, including a solo "Black Adam" film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros., which will be set in the DC Extended Universe film franchise. The canon version of Black
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Black Adam


Black Adam is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck, the character is the archenemy of the superhero Shazam. Black Adam first appeared as a one-time villain for the first issue of Fawcett Comics' "The Marvel Family" comic book (December 1945). However, Black Adam was revived as a recurring character after DC Comics first licensed and then acquired the Fawcett characters and began publishing Captain Marvel/Marvel Family stories under the title "Shazam
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Stacy Adams (American football)


Stacy Adams (born June 21, 1966) was the head football coach at Valparaiso University. He was the first black head football coach and the second documented black head coach at Valparaiso. Adams was born in Gary, Indiana and grew up in Glen Park. He graduated from Lew Wallace High School in 1984. Adams played quarterback for Tom Horne at Joliet Junior College. After graduating from Joliet in 1987, he played at Northwest Missouri State University. In addition to playing quarterback, he played running back and outside linebacker.
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Black Adam


offer, commenting that Marvel cannot truly understand him, stating that, while they are not enemies, they will never be friends. Johns and Goyer used this story arc to slightly alter Adam's origin. The hero now hails from the fictional North African nation of Kahndaq, not Egypt, although he serves the Egyptian prince Khufu (who is later reincarnated as JSA member Hawkman). The character of Blaze is completely removed from the origin story, and Adam's rage is described as having resulted from the conquering of Kahndaq
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St. Cedd's College, Cambridge


St. Cedd's College is a fictional college, created by Douglas Adams, of Cambridge University. It appears in the "Doctor Who" serial "Shada", and in the novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". It is the home of Professor Chronotis, a retired time traveller who appears in Adams' fiction, and—in the fictional universe—was also the college of Isaac Newton (who attended Trinity) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who attended Jesus). It was named after Saint Cedd, brother
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Adam Roberts (British writer)


Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist. In 2018 he was elected Vice-President of the H.G. Wells Society. He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel, "Salt", in 2007 for "
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Julie Adams


make the change." Her first movie role was a minor part in "Red, Hot and Blue" (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert western "The Dalton Gang" (1949). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in the science-fiction film "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954). Adams co-starred in 1950s films opposite some of Hollywood's top leading men, including with James Stewart in 1952's "Bend of the River", with
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Leicester City F.C.


. The King Power Stadium has also honoured past greats of the club, by naming suites and lounges inside the stadium after the club's former players Gordon Banks, Adam Black, Arthur Chandler, Gary Lineker, Arthur Rowley, Sep Smith, Keith Weller and former manager Jimmy Bloomfield. Some Leicester fans consider Nottingham Forest to be their main rivals. The club's other rivals are Derby County. An East Midlands Derby is any match involving two of these three clubs. Leicester also have a rivalry with Coventry City, 24 miles
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Adam Comstock


Adam Comstock (Jan 18, 1740–Apr 10, 1819) was an officer in the American Revolution, and a politician from New York. Comstock was born on January 18, 1740 in Smithfield, Rhode Island. On April 10, 1763 he married Margaret MacGregor (Sep 8, 1745–Mar 3, 1807) in Cranston, Rhode Island. They had ten children. Adam Comstock enlisted in 1776 as a Major in Christopher Greene's Rhode Island Regiment and was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel . At the Battle of Red Bank in New
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Pip Adam


reviewer on Jesse Mulligan's show broadcast on Radio New Zealand. She also hosts the Better off Read podcast. The photographer Ann Shelton used writing by Adam in her 2015 installation "House Work: a project about a house". Adam teaches creative writing and creative non-fiction at Massey University and with the Right Here, Right Now collective, teaches writing at the Arohata Women's Prison and universities. "Everything We Hoped For" won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2011 New Zealand Post
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Marjorie Harris


Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959, she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her second husband, writer Jack Batten. Besides writing 15 books she was a radio host job at CBC radio's "Metro Morning"
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Stanford Exploration Project


The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) is an industry-funded academic consortium within the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. SEP research has contributed greatly to improving the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the earth from seismic echo soundings (see: Reflection seismology). The consortium was started in the 1970s by Jon Claerbout and is currently co-directed with Biondo Biondi. SEP pioneered innovations in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack. SEP has recently been involved in 3-D seismic applications such as
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Black Adam


's new team of in hopes of finding a way to save them. He has been told to resurrect Isis, but not Adam, which he does by killing people with his lightning by saying Isis. In "The New 52" (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), Black Adam was mentioned by Dr. Sivana while listening to witness reports of the wizard Shazam. Sivana mentions that Black Adam was a slave who was teleported from his prison cell to the Rock of Eternity and granted his powers by the wizard
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Derrick Adams


Derrick Adams (born 1970) is an American visual and performance artist and curator. Much of Adams' work is centered around his Black identity, frequently referencing patterns, images, and themes of Black culture in America. Adams has additionally worked as a fine art professor, serving as a faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art. Derrick Adams was born in 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. After a briefly teaching elementary school, Adams attended the Pratt Institute. Following his 1996 graduation, Adams earned his MFA from Columbia University
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H2g2


The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project. It describes itself as "an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything", in the spirit of the fictional publication "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" from the science fiction comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. It was founded by Adams in 1999 and was run by the BBC between 2001 and 2011. The intent is to create an Earth-focused guide that allows members to share information about their geographic area and
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


Acapulco, Ciudad Altamirano and Taxco. On May 20, 1983, the roving radio station came to an end, with the university broadcasting once more from Chilpancingo — this time, without interference. 1984, however, presented yet another problem to the university radio station: a budget crisis spurred by a suspension of payments from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Workers spent all of 1984 without receiving their salaries, and in January 1985, the university and SEP began negotiating. The federal government required the university to shut
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Adam Rome


Adam Ward Rome is an American environmental historian. In his book "Bulldozer in the Countryside", he examines how the post World War II residential construction boom and its resulting urban sprawl contributed to the rise of the modern environmental movement. Rome graduated from Yale University "summa cum laude", studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. From 2002 - 2005 he edited "Environmental History." He teaches environmental history and environmental non-fiction at the University at Buffalo
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William Adams (sailor, born 1564)


East India Company. The Dutch traded on Adams's children's behalf via the Red Seal ships. By 1629, only two of Adams's shipmates from 1600 survived in Japan. Melchior van Santvoort and Vincent Romeyn lived privately in Nagasaki. There were numerous earlier works of fiction based on Adams. According to Professor Derek Massarella of Chuo University: There is however one genuine contemporary image. "It is a derivative drawing of William Adams, which appears to be based in a sketch attributed to Dorothy Burmingham (from a description given
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Charles McKenny


Charles McKenny (Sep. 15, 1860-Sep. 23, 1933) was president of Central State Normal School (now Central Michigan University), Milwaukee State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). McKenny was born in Dimondale, Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and masters from both Olivet College and the University of Wisconsin. McKenny married Minnie E. Alderman (1869–1942) in 1890. She was a native of Vermontville, Michigan. They
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


down the station, and on January 15, 1985, Radio Universidad Pueblo went off the air. In the meantime, university students went as far as organizing a hunger strike in Mexico City in order to protest the SEP's demand to close the station. The SEP, however, failed to keep some of its promises to the university. A new rector, Ramón Reyes Carreto, decided that if the SEP would not keep its promises, the university did not have a reason to stay off the air. In June 1987
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Black Adam


passengers, hiding all of them in the sea. Fortunately, Captain Marvel is successful in banishing Black Adam to the netherworld again, and saves the people. Black Adam is reintroduced to the DC Universe in "The Power of Shazam!" graphic novel by Jerry Ordway in 1994. In that story and the subsequent "Power of Shazam!" ongoing series, Adam is a deadly and evil adversary for Captain Marvel. In this revised origin, Teth-Adam was born on September 11, 1279 BC. Teth-Adam
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Chris Adams (character)


at least, seems to be the more powerful and inescapable of the two. As a result, Chris has been called "a black-clad Shane". Yul Brynner originally played Adams in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and reprised the role in the "Return of the Seven" (1966). Brynner's character in the 1973 science fiction Western thriller "Westworld" is visually based on Adams. George Kennedy played Adams in the "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" (1969), while Lee Van
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Kahndaq


Kahndaq (Arabic word for: Trench) is a fictional Middle Eastern country in the DC Comics Universe. Its real world location is between Egypt and Israel. "JSA" #56 states that it is located on the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. As revealed in the "JSA" comic book series, Kahndaq is the homeland of the antihero Black Adam, who served as the magically powered superhero of Egypt over 3600 years ago. In 1600 B.C. Kahndaq is burned to the ground by the supervillain Ahk-Ton;
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Ann-Marie Adams


first scholar to produce the first publication that brings the entire arc of blacks and their fight for citizenship in Connecticut. Her scholarly work has been cited in various publications. Adams has taught journalism and history at Quinnipiac University, Howard University, Rutgers University and other colleges and universities since 2001. And she has given lectures on race, gender, education and the long civil rights movement. Adams received her PH.D. with distinction in U.S. History from Howard University. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in journalism from Brooklyn College's
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The Fringe of the Unknown


Astounding Science Fiction", Jun. 1961)br 3. "Appius Claudius Crassus" (original title: "Appius Claudius Crassus: Roman Builder") (from "Science Digest", Jun. 1962)br 4. "The First Missile Launchers" (from "Science Digest", Oct. 1960)br 5. "The Iron Pillar of Delhi" (from "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", Sep. 1972)br 6. "The Mechanical Wizards of Alexandria" (from "Science Digest", Aug. 1962)br 7. "The Landlocked Indian Ocean
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John Adams Jr. (Nebraska politician)


, from 1949 until his death in 1962. Adams attended Pueblo High School (class of 1923) in Pueblo, Colorado before the family moved to Nebraska in 1923 and Adams attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he was one of 21 black students and the only black member of the Law School class of 1929 (he also received his undergraduate degree from UNL in 1927). Adams participated in junior boxing, for instance coming in second in the middle weight class (160 pounds) to Joe Ban in the April 1929
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Patch Adams (film)


and served as the University Diner. Several interior classroom scenes were filmed on the campus of UC Berkeley. The film has several major departures from Adams' real history. One is that the character of Corinne is fictional, but is analogous to a real life friend of Adams (a man) who was murdered under similar circumstances. Another difference is the then 47-year-old Robin Williams portrays Adams as enrolling in medical school very late in his life, his older age even being brought up in dialogue. In reality, Adams
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Kurse


Kurse is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, the Algrim version of Kurse first appears as the Dark Elf Algrim the Strong in "Thor" #347 (Sep. 1984). He is later transformed into Kurse in "Secret Wars II" #4 (Oct. 1985). Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "" (2013). The Dark Elf Algrim the Strong was created by Walter Simonson
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Halflife (comics)


Halflife is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. These characters have two distinct origins, and are detailed separately below. The first Halflife is a Marvel Comics supervillain. She first appeared in "West Coast Avengers" vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986). The second character in the Marvel universe to take the name Half-Life was a gamma-irradiated fiend and enemy of the Hulk. He first appeared in "The Incredible Hulk" vol. 1 #334.
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John Stewart (comics)


artist Neal Adams came up with the idea of a substitute Green Lantern. The decision to make the character black resulted from a conversation between Adams and editor Julius Schwartz, in which Adams recounts saying that given the racial makeup of the world's population, "we ought to have a black Green Lantern, not because we’re liberals, but because it just makes sense." The character was DC's first black superhero. John Stewart has become a major recurring character in the Green Lantern mythos within the DC Universe. He
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Black Adam


—unable to revoke the powers he gave Adam, banishes him to the most distant star in the universe. Black Adam spends the next 5,000 years flying back to Earth. By the time he makes it back, in 1945, Shazam has appointed three new champions to take his place: Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, and Captain Marvel Jr. Adam's attempts to take over the world cause the Marvels to seek counsel with Shazam, who tells them about Black Adam. Adam succeeds in gagging Billy and Freddy while they are talking
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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Atom (comics)


Atom. During the events of "Blackest Night", Adam's corpse is reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps alongside several other fallen Suicide Squad members. Following his reanimation, Adam and the other Black Lanterns travel to Belle Reve and attack Bane and Black Alice. Adam is apparently destroyed by the Manhunter's self-destruct mechanism, unleashing an explosion of Green Lantern energy that eradicates the Black Lanterns. In DC Rebirth, Adam Cray is the son of Senator Cray and Ryan Choi's roommate at Ivy University.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from many academic institutions worldwide. Authors contributing to the encyclopedia give Stanford University the permission to publish the articles, but retain the copyright to those articles. , the "SEP" has nearly 1,600 published entries. Apart from its online status, the
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Summer Enrichment Program (University of Colorado)


The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is a summer camp for gifted and talented children entering grades 5 to 10, located at Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, Creative at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. SEP consists of one two-week session in mid-July, during which students reside in the university dormitories and eat in campus dining halls, supervised by camp counselors assigned to each grade. The students choose four classes which they attend every day from Monday to Friday.
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John Adam Cramb


John Adam Cramb (4 May 1862 – October 1913) was a Scottish historian and fervent patriot. He published non-fiction works under his own name, and fiction under the pseudonym of R. A. Revermont. Cramb was born at Denny, Falkirk in Scotland, on 4 May 1862. On leaving school he went to University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1885, taking 1st Class Honours in Classics. In the same year he was appointed to the Luke Fellowship in English Literature, he also studied at University of Bonn
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Snapper Carr


In "52" #43 through #50 and expanded upon in the four issues of the limited series "World War III", Black Adam's lover, the superheroine Isis, dies after being infected by Zorrm, and Yurrd eats her brother, Osiris. Black Adam goes mad with rage and grief and announces he will kill every single human being on the planet. He then commits genocide, murdering all the people in the fictional Middle Eastern nation of Bialya (where he believes the Four Horsemen originated). After being
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The Reluctant Shaman


of contemporary fantasy stories de Camp set in the fictional town of Gahato and the surrounding Adirondack region of New York, the others being "The Hardwood Pile" ("Unknown", Sep. 1940) and some of his Willy Newbury stories, notably "The Lamp" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction", March 1975), "Algy" ("Fantastic", Aug. 1976), "Darius" ("Escape!," fall 1977) and "The Huns" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction",
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Alex Kelly (filmmaker)


(ed.): Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010. p. 84–89. Kelly, Alex; Deane, Carla: “Green & Black: Alex Kelly and Carla Deane Find Aboriginal Australians 'Talking Up Strong' against the Nuclear Industry”, New Internationalist, No. 382, Sep 2005 Palmer, Dave: Ngapartji Ngapartji: The Consequences of Kindness, evaluation report, Perth: Murdoch University, 2010. Rankin, Scott:
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Mark Steven Greenfield


, was the Vice President of the Los Angeles Art Association, and was on the board of the Downtown Arts Development Association. Sep, 2014 Lookin’ Back in Front of Me: Selected Works of Mark Steven Greenfield, 1974-2014 California African American Museum Sep, 2014 EAT.DRINK.ART - A Kaleidoscope of the Senses Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (LAMAG) Mar, 2014 RISE: Love. Revolution. Black Panther Party. Closing Reception Art Share L.A. Feb, 2014 RISE: Love, Revolution, the Black Panthers
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Soft science fiction


already established shift from hard sf (chemistry, physics, astronomy, technology) to soft sf (psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and even [...] linguistics) is continuing more strongly than ever." Poul Anderson, in "Ideas for SF Writers" (Sep 1998), described H. G. Wells as the model for soft science fiction: "He concentrated on the characters, their emotions and interactions" rather than any of the science or technology behind, for example, invisible men or time machines.
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Black Lantern Corps


The Black Lantern Corps is a fictional organization of corporeal revenants (resembling intelligent zombies or jiangshi) appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, related to the emotional spectrum. The group is composed of deceased fictional characters from the publications in zombie form that seek to eliminate all life from the DC Universe. Prior to the "Blackest Night" event, Black Hand ("leader" and first member of the Black Lantern Corps) had already been established as a villain within the pages of "Green Lantern". Writer Geoff
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Ashlee Adams Crews


Ashlee Adams Crews (born September 22, 1976) is an American fiction writer who typically incorporates her rural Middle Georgia roots in her works of literature. Crews was born and raised just outside Sandersville, Georgia. The city promotes itself as “the Kaolin Capital of the World”, in recognition of one of Georgia’s most important minerals, kaolin, a white, alumina-silicate clay. Crews earned an English degree from the University of Georgia and later earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University.
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Teela


Teela is a fictional character from the "Masters of the Universe" franchise. She is the Captain of the Royal Guard at the palace of Eternos and thus responsible for training and protecting Prince Adam of Eternia. While Adam is He-Man, Teela often assists him in his battles, but she is unaware of his alternate identity. Teela is one of the first characters developed for "Masters of the Universe", although her figure was released in the second half of the first wave. Writer Donald F. Glut named her
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Chris Adams (character)


Chris Adams is a fictional character in the 1960 Western film "The Magnificent Seven" and its sequels. Originally played by Yul Brynner, he is the functional equivalent of Kambei Shimada, the character portrayed by Takashi Shimura in the film "Seven Samurai". Chris Adams, a Cajun, is the laconic leader of a band of seven gunmen. He always wears black, smokes cigars, and shoots sharp. He is a man of principle, incorruptible and sturdy. Chris, and to a lesser extent the others of the
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Common ethanol fuel mixtures


EPA waiver authorizes sale of E15 only from Sep 15 to May 31 out of a black hose and a yellow hose to flex fuel vehicles only from June 1 to Sep 14. Retailers have shunned building infrastructure due to the costly regulatory requirements which have created a practical barrier to the commercialization of the higher blend. Most fuel stations do not have enough pumps to offer the new blend, few existing pumps are certified to dispense E15, and no dedicated tanks are readily available to store E15. Also, some state and federal regulations
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KC Adams


KC Adams (born 1971) is a Canadian-born First Nations artist and art administrator. Adams obtained her BFA from Concordia University in 1998. She is a multi-media artist who works in sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking and kinetic art. She is well known for creating artwork that draws inspiration from popular culture and science fiction to deal with contemporary social issues. Her work addresses racism, colonization, human impact on land and the challenges and perceptions of Indigenous people. Besides working
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Douglas Adams


-belief in his 2006 book "The God Delusion". Dawkins dedicated the book to Adams, whom he jokingly called "possibly [my] only convert" to atheism and wrote on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender." Adams was also an environmental activist who campaigned on behalf of endangered species. This activism included the production of the non-fiction radio series "Last Chance to See", in
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Black Library


version of the Ultramarines's special "Tyranid War Veterans" unit). From 1997 to 2005, Black Library published "Inferno!", a magazine of short stories, artwork, and other features set in the various fictional universes of Games Workshop's fantasy and science fiction games. These initially included "Warhammer Fantasy Battle", "Warhammer 40,000", and "Necromunda", and later added the "Mordheim" and "Gorkamorka" settings. From 1998 to 2004, Black Library published the "Warhammer Monthly" comic
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Adam Johnson (writer)


Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, "The Orphan Master's Son", and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection "Fortune Smiles". He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona. He earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer
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Robert Black (author)


Robert Black (1829–1915) was a British author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a journalist and translator. He is chiefly remembered for his works on horse racing and for a translation of François Guizot's "Popular History of France", his most successful work. Black was born on 14 May 1829 in London, England, the second son of Robert Black, a clerk of the same city. He matriculated from Christ's Hospital in 1848, and was admitted to Pembroke College at Cambridge University on 24
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Tuskegee University


Black, thus Black constituents had political power. Adams succeeded and Foster followed through with the school. The school became a part of the expansion of higher education for blacks in the former Confederate states following the American Civil War, with many schools founded by the northern American Missionary Association. A teachers' school was the dream of Lewis Adams, a former slave, and George W. Campbell, a banker, merchant, and former slaveholder, who shared a commitment to the education of blacks. Despite lacking formal education, Adams could
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Black Library


The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop (formerly a part of BL Publishing) which is devoted to publishing novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) set in the "Warhammer Fantasy Battle" and "Warhammer 40,000" fictional universes. The publishing company took their name from the fictional Black Library in "Warhammer 40,000", where the Eldar race keep their stored knowledge of Chaos and the Necrons. Some of Black Library's best known titles include the Gaunt's Ghosts
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Life, the Universe, & Everything


event. The symposium was named, jokingly, after the Douglas Adams novel "Life, the Universe and Everything". The roots of the "Life, the Universe, & Everything" (LTUE) and other science fiction efforts at Brigham Young University (BYU) began with a one-day symposium on science fiction held on January 20, 1976. Four years later, Orson Scott Card gave a speech in 1980 at the university about morality in writing, which showed some of the students and faculty that a serious,
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David Adams Richards


David Adams Richards, CM, ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, three credits shy of completing a BA. After publishing a poetry chapbook in 1972 he won the Norma Bailey Award, a literary prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students, in 1974 for an excerpt from his novel manuscript "The Coming of Winter", and the novel was published later that year as his fiction debut
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam


empty subway car which takes him to a gigantic cave. There Billy meets the Wizard Shazam who tells him that he is the next Chosen One. The Wizard explains that Black Adam had been his champion 5000 years ago, but Adam had used his power for personal gain and corrupted the gift. He was then banished across the universe but has now returned seeking vengeance against the Wizard and his new champion. The Wizard bestows his power to Billy and causes a cave in, wishing to atone for the mistake of creating Black Adam
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Michelle Black


Michelle Black is an American author of historical fiction and historical mystery novels. She is also an attorney, former bookstore owner, and publisher. Black was born in Topeka, Kansas. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, graduating "cum laude" with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Washburn University. She received a Juris Doctor degree from the Washburn University School of Law with honors in 1980. Black practiced law in both the public and private sectors until 1993, when she moved to Frisco, Colorado
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Life, the Universe and Everything


Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams as "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" to be a Tom Baker "Doctor Who" television six-part story, but was rejected by the BBC. It was later considered as a plotline for the second series of
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam


will stop him. The homeless man reappears and reveals himself to be the boy's guardian angel Tawky Tawny. Tawky reverts to his true form as a tiger and threatens to get the Wizard to banish Adam even further across the universe. Unwilling to be banished again, Adam shouts "SHAZAM" reverting to the mortal Teth-Adam. Having been Black Adam for millennia, his mortal body cannot withstand the ravages of time and he turns to dust. It was an apparent bluff, as Tawny confirms the Wizard is indeed
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Parallel universes in fiction


To Sail Beyond the Sunset", using characters from throughout his science-fictional career, hauled forth from their own "fictons" to unite in the war against the "Black Hats". Heinlein also wrote a stand-alone novel, "", whose two protagonists fall from alternative universe into alternative universe (often naked), and after a number of such adventures die and enter a stereotypically Fundamentalist Christian Heaven (with many of its internal contradictions explored in the novel). Their harrowing adventures through the universes are then
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Ann-Marie Adams


Honors Program and with magna cum laude with a M.S. in journalism at Quinnipiac University. While at The Hartford Courant, Adams became the youngest president of the Connecticut Association of Black Communicators (CABC), a chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She was a board member of the John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center, and the Black Fashion Museum's Harlem Fashion Week. Currently, she is a board member of the Windsor Historical Society. Adams is noted as the founder of the first hyper-
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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Typewriter in the Sky


"The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines" and "Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines" characterized the work as one of Hubbard's best stories. Adam Roberts pointed out Hubbard likely based the character of pulp fiction writer Horace Hackett on himself. Subsequent to the story's publication, commentators have speculated that its influence impacted themes in later science fiction works. Paul Di Filippo wrote that the 1949 book "What Mad Universe" by Fredric Brown may have drawn from Hubbard's tale. Umberto Rossi asserted in a book
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Who's Who (UK)


" series: "The Academic Who's Who" was a spin off from the main "Who's Who" by the same publisher. The first edition of "The Academic Who's Who" for 1973 to 1974 was published by Adam & Charles Black in London in 1973, and distributed in New York by Bowker. The second edition for 1975 to 1976 was published by Adam & Charles Black in London in 1975, and distributed in Detroit by Gale Research. The subtitle of the Academic Who's Who is "University
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Glenda Adams


She was posthumously awarded the biennial ASA Medal of the Australian Society of Authors. Adams started writing at the age of 10, with the encouragement of her mother. While at Columbia University, she joined a fiction workshop and started writing using her real name, after using a male name prior to that to prevent her friends knowing she was writing fiction. Her short stories were published in such magazines as "Ms.", "The Village Voice" and "Harper's". After 16 years away, she returned to Australia
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Black Antenna


Black Antenna is an upcoming American science-fiction film inspired by Alice in Chains' 2018 album "Rainier Fog". Written, produced and directed by Adam Mason, starring Paul Sloan, Viktoriya Dov, Darri Ingolfsson and Eric Michael Cole. Alice in Chains are executive producers on the film along with Jason Collins. The film tells the story of extraterrestrial father and daughter, Alpha and Beta, who drive across California in silence, speaking only telepathically. The daughter seduces men and steals from them to help her father build an
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The Salmon of Doubt


fiction, essays and interviews with Adams, and "The Salmon of Doubt", which presents the most complete version of the novel as Adams left it. The first section is then subdivided into three: "Life" touches upon Adams' own life, "The Universe" covers Adams' views of reality and "Everything", which is more wide open and includes the original version of the Hitchhiker's short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe". The UK edition includes an introduction by Stephen Fry, and the
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Angela Makholwa


Angela Makholwa is a South African author, the first black writer to write crime fiction in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg, Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University. She worked as a magazine journalist and public relations consultant for several agencies before establishing her own public relations firm, Britespark Communications, in 2002. She came to the literary scene in 2007 with "Red Ink", the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa. In "Red Ink" the fictional detective, Lucy — a successful public relations
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Black Adam


which stages an assault on the Rock of Eternity. The evil god of magic Oggar summons an evil army from the sands and dust of Egypt for Adam to lead after muting Billy with his magic. Despite being defeated, they escape. Adam's origin is revised for the 1987 miniseries "". In this timeline, Adam was not banished to the depths of the universe, but to another dimension. The need for Captain Marvel to oppose him is made an integral reason for why Billy Batson is recruited by Shazam. Soon
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Adam Skorek


Member of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) and the Member of the Polish Association of Production Management (PTZP). Adam Skorek was appointed as Head of his Department (2001-2007) and elected by his Colleagues as Chair of the Canadian Heads and Chairs of Electrical Engineering Departments Network (2004). He was a Member (2001-2007) of both the Canadian Heads and Chairs of Electrical Engineering Departments network (CHECE) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments Heads Association (ECEDHA), providing Canadian
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


topic to reflect reasoned disagreements among scholars. Initially, the "SEP" was developed with U.S. public funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the "SEP" in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and the Southeastern Library Network, with matching funding from the National Endowment for
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Nelson Adams


century of discriminatory policies and practices that excluded blacks from participating in the organization, which is considered the leading voice of U.S. doctors. He was listed in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities" while attending Howard University, and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and a Life Scout of the Boy Scouts of America. Adams is a member of the Board of Trustees of Meharry Medical College, Barry University, the Miami Art Museum, and St. John Community Development Organization. He sits on the board
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Adam Black


Adam Black (20 February 178424 January 1874) was a Scottish publisher and politician. He founded the A & C Black publishing company, and published the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of the "Encyclopædia Britannica". Black was born in Charles Street, Edinburgh, the son of Isabella Nicol and Charles Black, a master builder. He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. After serving as an apprentice to Mr Fairbairn, an Edinburgh bookseller, he began business for himself in Edinburgh in 1808
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David Musgrave


"Glissando: a Melodrama" (Sleepers), published in 2010 was critically well received and short listed for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction in 2011 and the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for new writing. He has published numerous articles on Australian literature, including on Norman Lindsay's "The Magic Pudding" and David Ireland's "The Unknown Industrial Prisoner." He has also written on The Black Dog and Depression (published in "Tracking the Black Dog" by the Black Dog Institute and published articles on Samuel Beckett
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Adam R. Steigert


raised by his grandparents, William and Kathleen Sanders. He formed the production company DefTone Pictures Studios with Stephanie Wlosinski, writing and directing the 2008 film "Bitez" and the 2009 film "Gore". He later wrote, directed, and produced the short grindhouse films "Black Guy on a Rampage", "Black Guy on a Rampage: Homicidal Vengeance", and "Black Guy on a Rampage: Angel of Death" between 2011 and 2012. In 2013, Steigert wrote and directed the science fiction film "Ombis
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Emergency!


in the pilot episode of "Emergency!", and the firefighter/paramedics appeared in the "Adam-12" episode titled "Lost and Found." Unusually, in the "Emergency!" episode titled "Hang-Up", there was a subplot in which the crew of Station 51 watched the television show "Adam-12", despite supposedly sharing a fictional universe with those characters. "Emergency!" spun off an animated version called "Emergency +4" which ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1976, and
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Bend Sinister (novel)


's henchmen. At this point, Nabokov feels such pity for Krug that he actually intervenes and emphasizes that "Bend Sinister" was, thankfully, a fictional story and that Adam Krug never existed. Adam Krug – University philosopher and protagonist. Krug is the foremost writer and thinker of Padukgrad. His cooperation with and endorsement of the Party of the Average Man is crucial to the regime's international relations. Olga Krug – Adam's late wife, who dies right before the novel begins. David Krug – Adam's son,
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Arthur Adams (comics)


rights to the Universal Monsters, Adams lobbied to them to illustrate a comics sequel to the 1954 film "Creature from the Black Lagoon", but Dark Horse wanted to produce an adaptation of the film first, and told Adams that if he illustrated that, that he would be able to illustrate a future sequel. The 50-page adaptation was published in 1993, but the line's low sales cost Dark Horse money, and it was cancelled after four books, precluding the sequel that Adams wanted to draw. In the early 1990s
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Somatosensory evoked potential


Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP or SSEP) is the electrical activity of the brain that results from the stimulation of touch. SEP tests measure that activity and are a useful, noninvasive means of assessing somatosensory system functioning. By combining SEP recordings at different levels of the somatosensory pathways, it is possible to assess the transmission of the afferent volley from the periphery up to the cortex. SEP components include a series of positive and negative deflections that can be elicited by virtually any sensory stimuli. For example, SEPs can be obtained in
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Adam Whitelock


the All Blacks Adam was the only brother to play for the All Blacks Sevens team. Notably he was also the only brother to play in the backs. All four Whitelock boys were educated in Fielding and played their junior rugby for Palmerston North High School Old Boys' Rugby Football Club. In his early days Adam was identified as a talented middle distance runner. Adam was the first of the brothers to move to Christchurch, moving to study accounting at the University of Canterbury in 2006. Former Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder commenting on
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Richard Carlson (actor)


. Carlson played the lead in "The Magnetic Monster" (1953) which led to him finding a niche in the newly re-emergent genres of science fiction and horror. He followed it with leads in "The Maze" (1953), "It Came from Outer Space" (1953) with Barbara Rush, and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) with Julia Adams. He also had the male lead in "All I Desire" (1953). From 1953-56 he starred in
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The Crucible of Time


The Crucible of Time is a fix-up science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in 1983. Parts 1 and 2 appeared in "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" as "The Fire is Lit" (Sep 1982) and "Fusing and Refusing" (Jan 1983). The novel deals with the efforts of an alien species to escape their homeworld, whose system is passing through a cloud of interstellar debris, resulting in a high rate of in-falling matter. The species' unique
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Phillip Lopate


at Columbia University. He held the Adams Chair at Hofstra University until 2011, where he was professor of English. Lopate's essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in several Pushcart Prize annuals, the anthologies "Congregation" and "Testimony", and "The Paris Review", "Harper's Magazine", "Ploughshares", "The Threepenny Review", "Harvard Educational Review", "The New York Times Book Review", "Boulevard," "The Journal of Contemporary Fiction", "Double
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe


The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ) is the second book in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum. It takes its name from Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the settings of the book. Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect,
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John R. Gordon


such as Yrsa Daley-Ward and is shortlisted for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award. Published on 20 October 2014, "Black and Gay in the UK" was co-edited with Rikki Beadle-Blair. Its 352 pages of poems, memoirs, fictional stories and essays exploring the lives of black gay men with some connection to the United Kingdom includes writers, artists and activists such as Leee John, Travis Alabanza, Dean Atta, Adam Lowe, David McAlmont, Bisi Alimi, black British photographer Robert Taylor, Topher Campbell
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Lauren Adams


her age range. She has blonde hair (although she dyed it black during The Killing) and blue eyes. Lauren's has an IQ of 147 and uses this intelligence in various academic areas. She is fluent in both Spanish and Russian and has taught the latter to younger CHERUB agents. Lauren Adams is one of the characters in the fictional series CHERUB. Her role in the first book, The Recruit, is not considered to be major but as the books evolved her role in the series expanded, resulting in Lauren
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Ralph Adams Cram


"The Dead Valley", were published in a collection entitled "Black Spirits and White" (Stone & Kimball, 1895). The collection has been called "one of the undeniable classics of weird fiction". H. P. Lovecraft wrote, "In 'The Dead Valley' the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description." Cram was a Cram, together with the architect Richard Upjohn and artist John LaFarge, is honored on December 16
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Locations in Veronica Mars


For example, exteriors of the Mars residence are filmed in Point Loma, and exteriors of Mars Investigations are filmed on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights. Oceanside High School in Oceanside, California, doubles as the fictional Neptune High, and San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego and University of San Diego are portrayed as the fictional Hearst College. Qualcomm Stadium represents Shark Field, a fictitious stadium in Balboa County that is demolished in the second season. The (numerically) closest real zip codes to 90909 are 90899
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Dirk Maggs


Winchester for his work in the dramatic arts. (The university, when King Alfred's College, was where Maggs trained as a teacher in the late 1970s.) From 2003 to 2005, Maggs produced new episodes of Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", adapted from the novels based on the original radio series that Adams wrote. The books that Maggs adapted were written after the radio series ended its original run. Maggs directed many leading actors in often award-winning productions
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Alternative versions of Deadpool


aim was to exterminate alternate versions of Deadpool across the multiverse, including regular Deadpool Corps. In issue #4, he is killed by the mainstream Deadpool. "Deadpool Pulp" is a four-issue limited series from writers Mike Benson and Adam Glass and artist Laurence Campbell, with Deadpool set in the 1950s drawing on pulp fiction (similar to the Marvel Noir fictional universe). Appearing first in "Hulk" #21, Deadpool is "hulked-out" near the end of the Fall of the Hulks storyline.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us


's Insurgency. After helping the Joker Clan fight off a Regime attack at Arkham Asylum, the Insurgents sneak into Wayne Manor, where they fight off Regime enforcers. The heroes are able to enter the Batcave and retrieve the kryptonite weapon, but they are attacked by Black Adam. The Insurgents repel Black Adam, but not before he damages the weapon. In the alternate universe, the remaining heroes, including Superman, Cyborg, and The Flash, attempt to recover their comrades. Their teleporter sends Cyborg into the Insurgency's universe
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Aunt Dahlia


invitation to Brinkley Court for the chance to enjoy Anatole's cooking, and she uses the promise of his cooking to get Bertie to do various tasks for her. Her butler is Seppings. Before Seppings, Aunt Dahlia employed a butler named Pomeroy, a noble fellow, and before him, Murgatroyd, who turned out to be a thief. Aunt Dahlia has a large, sleepy black cat called Augustus, or "Gus". In "Clustering Round Young Bingo", Aunt Dahlia hires the incomparable chef Anatole. In "
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