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Carson Beckett


Dr. Carson Beckett is a fictional Scottish character in the Canadian-American science fiction television series "Stargate Atlantis", a spin-off series of "Stargate SG-1". He is portrayed by Scottish-born Canadian actor Paul McGillion, who previously played Dr. Ernest Littlefield in the first season of "SG-1". The character's Scottish nationality was only decided after McGillion's audition. Dr. Beckett's character arc begins in the pilot episode "Rising". He is the discoverer and a carrier of the fictional Ancient Technology Activation
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at the end of "Sunday", and that the character in "The Kindred" was Beckett in the flesh instead of a version from an alternate universe or from the past. A press release for season 5 mentioned that Beckett would return for at least five episodes in the new season. Carson Beckett is often described by fans as the "Heart of Atlantis". Paul McGillion was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Supporting Performance by a Male" in 2005 for his role as Beckett in "Poisoning the Well
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Paul McGillion


", the first Tau'ri to have passed through the Stargate after its burial. In 2004, McGillion was cast in the science fiction series "Stargate Atlantis" as the Scottish medical doctor, Carson Beckett. He was initially cast as a recurring guest, but his character appeared so frequently in the show's first season, he was promoted to main character for seasons two and three. Dr. Beckett went back to a recurring character for seasons four and five, where he appears as the clone of the now-deceased Beckett.
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return to the city to save it from Asuran siege and imminent destruction by the SGC. In "Sunday", Beckett is killed while attempting to safely dispose an explosive tumor that he had removed from a patient. His body and personal effects are sent back to his family on Earth. McKay, who had developed a close friendship with Beckett, tells Beckett's mother himself. McKay later has a vision of Carson, brought on by his subconscious mind, which gives him the opportunity to say goodbye. During Beckett's capture
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Jennifer Keller


Dr. Jennifer Keller is a fictional character from the Canadian-American military science fiction series "Stargate Atlantis", a spin-off series to "Stargate SG-1". She is played by Canadian actress Jewel Staite, who previously played the Wraith Ellia in season two episode "Instinct". She was created by the producers, who wanted someone to fill in for Carson Beckett after Paul McGillion's departure from regular status in the series. Keller had a recurring role in the fourth season, and was later promoted to a regular
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Renee Gladman


of Ravicka, has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, and Julio Cortázar. Zack Friedman of "BOMB" has characterized the Ravicka series as “social science fiction,” a label that Gladman herself prefers: “I definitely would prefer social science fiction to science fiction, as I really didn’t intend these books to ask deep questions about technology or bioengineering or inter-galaxy relations. Instead, they wonder about city living, architecture, language and communication, desire, and community—the same
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Chris Beckett


Chris Beckett (born 1955) is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and six novels. Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1977), a CQSW from the University of Wales (1981), a Diploma in Advanced Social Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1977), and an
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Carson Beckett


that he got the part of Carson Beckett. According to writer-producer Martin Gero, Beckett was set to appear in only a handful of episodes after the "Stargate Atlantis"' pilot episode, "Rising", but the character had such a big connection to the fans that Gero labeled McGillion the "breakout star" in "Stargate Atlantis". The producers decided to give Beckett a larger role and made him a recurring character with a total of fifteen episode appearances in the first season, followed by a regular in
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into stasis until a cure can be found.ref name="atlantis418/19" Producer Martin Gero described Carson Beckett as the "older brother" in the Atlantis crew, a "superswell" and "loveable guy" who has a lot of "heart and warmth". McGillion described his character as trepidatious, but Beckett gains more courage throughout the series as he becomes more familiar with his surroundings in Atlantis and offworld. Beckett can fly a Puddle Jumper, albeit reluctantly, and his piloting skills are shown to be flawed at best. He also despises
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Chris Beckett


MA in English Studies from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (2005). He has been a senior lecturer in social work at APU since 2000. He was social worker for eight years and the manager of a children and families social work team for ten years. Beckett has authored or co-authored several textbooks and scholarly articles on social work. Beckett began writing science fiction short stories in 1990, and had his first science fiction novel, "The Holy Machine", published in 2004. He published his second novel in
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Carson Beckett


of the first season before the producers promoted him to a main character for the second and third seasons. The fan reaction to the character's death in season three was so strong that the "Stargate Atlantis" producers re-introduced the character in a recurring role in seasons four and five. In 2005, Paul McGillion was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Supporting Performance by a Male" for his role as Beckett. Carson Beckett is stated to have been born in Scotland in a family of seven. His mother
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Carson Beckett


are transported to an isolated planet (M8G-352), where Beckett teaches them how to administer the retrovirus. However, a group led by Michael realize their true histories and capture him. Beckett is later rescued by his teammates, not knowing that Michael has taken a sample of Beckett's DNA. A group of Ancients evict the expedition from Atlantis in the mid season three two-parter "The Return". Beckett is given a surgery post at Stargate Command (SGC) on Earth, but he and some former expedition teammates
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role in the "Stargate" franchise was playing the young Dr. Ernest Littlefield in the early "Stargate SG-1" episode "The Torment of Tantalus" in 1997. The Scottish-born Canadian actor did not return to "Stargate" until Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper held auditions for the spin-off series "Stargate Atlantis" in 2003–2004. Carson Beckett was originally meant to be an international character, but McGillion decided during his audition to play Beckett as a Scottish character. McGillion was in Portugal when his agent informed him
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Carson Beckett


season seven finale, "Lost City". While in the Antarctic outpost in the pilot episode "Rising", Dr. Rodney McKay forces Beckett to sit in an Ancient control chair. Beckett's Ancient gene causes him to accidentally activate a drone weapon zeroing on General O'Neill and Major Sheppard's helicopter, but he manages to stop it. After finding and arriving in the city of Atlantis, Beckett examines a severed Wraith arm that Major Sheppard brought back from the planet Athos. Beckett can provide the first information about Wraith physiology and
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plans for Beckett's departure in "Sunday" two months before the episode was filmed. He said that he cried when reading the episode's script. Producer Joseph Mallozzi regretted killing off Dr. Beckett after seeing the fans' reactions, and claimed there was a 'clue' in a late-season 3 episode that hinted at Beckett's re-introduction. After Beckett's reappearance in the fourth-season episode "The Kindred", Mallozzi confirmed that Beckett had not ascended upon his death, that McKay had only imagined Beckett
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his colleagues, McKay considers him a close friend. Martin Gero stated that Beckett and McKay often complement each other in a "wonderful" way. Although they have completely different personalities, they are the "everyday hero guys", and often share their thoughts after saving Atlantis or the galaxy from dire situations. Paul McGillion and David Hewlett (McKay) are also good friends in real life. Despite their personality differences, Beckett and Ronon Dex get along fairly well. In their first meeting, Beckett removed Ronon's tracking device
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Carson Beckett


Stargate travel, and is once compared with the "" character Dr. McCoy. In "Duet", Beckett admits to be somewhat infatuated with Lt. Laura Cadman, who at the time is trapped in McKay's consciousness. When Cadman learns of this, she shares a passionate kiss with Beckett through McKay's body. Beckett and Cadman have an off-screen relationship until season 3; Beckett blames the difficulties of the relationship on their first kiss through McKay.ref name="atlantis310/11" Although McKay often condescends Beckett as he usually does to all
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to disseminate the drug among their people at all costs. In "The Gift", he discovers that Teyla has Wraith DNA in her genetic makeup, which allows her to tap into the Wraith psychic network in this and future episodes. In the second season, Beckett takes up more offworld activities, including one mission where he removes a Wraith tracker from Ronon Dex's spine in "Runner". In "Instinct", Beckett develops a retrovirus to turn Wraith into humans by stripping the Iratus DNA from them. After the
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Carson Beckett


on the planet M8G-352 in season 3's "Misbegotten", Michael took some of Beckett's DNA to make a clone. Michael forces the clone to work for him in perfecting the Hoffan drug until Sheppard and Lorne rescue the clone in season 4's "The Kindred", a year after the death of the real Beckett. Although the clone suffers from a degenerative condition that will lead to his death, he insists on helping the team find the pregnant Teyla from Michael's capture. Eventually, Dr. Keller places the clone
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Anne Carson


, and non-fiction. Carson was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007. The Classic Stage Company, a New York–based theatre company, produced three of Carson's translations: Aeschylus' "Agamemnon"; Sophocles' "Electra"; and Euripides' "Orestes" (as "An Oresteia"), in repertory, in the 2008/2009 season. From 2010 to 2016, Carson was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University
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Carson Beckett


, effectively saving his life. When Ronon is about to be killed by a powerful Wraith, Beckett disobeys Ronon's wishes to let him fight alone and kills the Wraith himself, quipping "if he doesn't like it, he can sue me." Surprisingly, Ronon is grateful to Beckett for his assistance rather than angry. Ronon is later shown to be devastated by the real Beckett's death and admits its hard for him to see the cloned Beckett be forced into stasis to possibly never return. Paul McGillion's first
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Carson Beckett


becomes the chief medical officer in Atlantis. In "Hide and Seek", he creates a gene therapy that emulates the ATA gene in normal humans with a 48 percent success rate. In "Poisoning the Well", Beckett helps the Hoffans develop a drug that kills the Wraith who feed on humans, but the drug has the side effect of killing 50 percent of the human recipients as well. One of the casualties is Perna, a Hoffan woman he has grown attached to. Carson leaves in disgust when the Hoffans decide
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Jorge Luis Borges


magazines and anthologies during the 1950s (and one story appeared in the science fiction magazine "Fantastic Universe" in 1960), his international fame dates from the early 1960s. In 1961, Borges received the first "Prix International", which he shared with Samuel Beckett. While Beckett had garnered a distinguished reputation in Europe and America, Borges had been largely unknown and untranslated in the English-speaking world and the prize stirred great interest in his work. The Italian government named Borges "Commendatore" and the University of Texas
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Stargate Atlantis


in the recurring roles of Col. Steven Caldwell and Maj. Evan Lorne. Paul McGillion's character, Dr. Carson Beckett, became a regular in season two. Seasons three and four changed the cast lineup again. Paul McGillion's Dr. Carson Beckett was killed in the season three episode "Sunday", then brought back at the end of season four as a recurring character. The new medical chief was Jennifer Keller, played by Jewel Staite, who was introduced in the Season 3 finale, was a recurring character in Season
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137th Infantry Regiment (United States)


69th Infantry Brigade (SEP) and sent to Fort Carson, Colorado. The regiment and brigade became a part of the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized). It remained at Fort Carson until 12 December 1969 when it was released from active duty, and returned to the Kansas Army National Guard. Many of the enlisted soldiers and most of the Regiment's Officers were sent to Vietnam as replacements to regular army units. On 1 February 1976, the 3rd Battalion was inactivated, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions were assigned to the
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Peter Boxall (academic)


most notably "Twenty-First-Century Fiction" (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and "The Value of the Novel" (Cambridge University Press, 2015). 2015: "Science, technology and the posthuman". The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction Since 1945. 2012: "Late: Fictional Time in the Twenty-First Century". Contemporary Literature, pp. 681–712. 2011: "The threshold of vision: the animal gaze in Becket, Sebald, and Coetzee". Journal of Beckett Studies,
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Carson Beckett


, who is mentioned throughout the series, is only briefly shown in "Rising". Beckett was born with the Ancient Technology Activation (ATA) gene, which gives the carrier the ability to access Ancient technology. At the beginning of "Stargate Atlantis", Beckett is a doctor with an extended knowledge of medicine and just discovered the Ancient gene. Elizabeth Weir selected him for the Atlantis Expedition and stationed him at the Ancient outpost in Antarctica, where the SG-1 team had defeated the nemesis Anubis in the "Stargate SG-1"
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Laird Hunt


first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Colorado. Hunt is the author of seven novels and a collection of short work. His works intersect several genres, including experimental literature, exploratory fiction, literary noir, speculative fiction and difficult fiction and include elements ranging from the bizarre, the tragic, and the comic. His influences include Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and the
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Carson Beckett


the role was given to Simon Pegg and McGillion was cast for a small part in the movie.) After the second season of "Stargate Atlantis", cast and crew members hinted that McGillion might depart from the series. Reports in November 2006 confirmed that Beckett would "disappear" somewhere in the second half of the third season, and would only appear in several episodes in the fourth season. Jewel Staite was announced to play Dr. Keller, the new doctor of the Atlantis expedition. McGillion learned of the writers' exact
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List of Stargate Atlantis characters


telepathic network. Teyla is also a member of the Expedition's flagship team, AR-1 and is also adept at hand-to-hand combat. Carson Beckett played by Scottish-born Canadian actor Paul McGillion is the original Chief Medical Officer of the Atlantis expedition. Beckett was born with the Ancient Technology Activation (ATA) gene, which gives the carrier the ability to access Ancient technology. At the beginning of Stargate Atlantis, Beckett is a doctor with an extended knowledge of medicine and just discovered the Ancient gene. Elizabeth Weir
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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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Carson Beckett


first subject, a Wraith girl named Ellia, experiences the opposite of the desired effect, he tests a perfected retrovirus on a captured Wraith named Michael. Although the experiment works, Michael discovers his identity and reverts into a Wraith after his escape. In the season two finale, "Allies", Michael contacts Atlantis with a proposal to use the retrovirus against rival Wraith hives, but Beckett realizes Michael's betrayal too late. After Michael's Wraith ships are stopped from getting to Earth in "Misbegotten", the humanized Wraith
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Jennifer Keller


McGillion departed from the series as Carson Beckett, Gero wanted Keller not to replace Beckett, but rather fill in for him. Gero also wanted to make Keller's situation endearing if she was uncomfortable in her new position, and didn't want it in the first place. She was also originally created to be a Canadian character, and while filming the episode, she held a Canadian flag patch. However, because Paul Mullie thought there were already enough Canadian characters in the series (which include Rodney McKay and Chuck),
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Literature of Northern Ireland


Beckett. Paul Muldoon is Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. In 1999 he was also elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. "Belfast Confetti" is a poem about the aftermath of an IRA bomb by Ciarán Carson. The poem won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, a Belfast-based poet who learned Irish in school, has produced several poetry collections in Irish, including "Sruth Teangacha/Stream of Tongues", which included translations
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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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Cave Carson


Calvin "Cave" Carson is a fictional character that appeared in stories published by DC Comics. Carson, a spelunker, first appeared in "Brave and the Bold" #31 (September 1960); he was created by France Herron and Bruno Premiani. The Challengers of the Unknown were a quartet of science fiction adventurers created by Jack Kirby. They debuted in 1957, and their commercial success spawned two other science fiction characters: Cave Carson and Rip Hunter. Hunter was the more successful of the two. Unlike similar groups
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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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Sam Beckett


Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series "Quantum Leap", played by Scott Bakula. Initially, the audience knows very little about Sam, much as Sam knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect" -- a side effect from the time travel (and an effective trope to allow the writers to add to Sam's character as the show went on). Eventually, it turned out that Sam was a true Renaissance
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Pool Hall Blues


"Pool Hall Blues" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series "Quantum Leap". Lead character Sam Beckett "leaps" (travels through time) into the body of an African American man in 1954: Charlie "Black Magic" Walters, one of the (fictional) greatest pool players in America, and a childhood mentor of supporting character Al. Beckett as Walters must help Walters's granddaughter keep her Chicago nightclub and rescue it from under the corrupting influence of a criminal loan shark. The episode
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The Siege (Stargate Atlantis)


important to the story arc of "Runner". According to writer-producer Gero, Carson Beckett was set to appear in only a handful of episodes after the "Stargate Atlantis"' pilot episode, "Rising", but the character had such a big connection to the fans that Gero labeled McGillion the "breakout star" in "Stargate Atlantis". The producers decided to give Beckett a larger role and made him a recurring character with a total of fifteen episode appearances in the first season, followed by a regular
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Carson Beckett


", but he and fellow "Atlantis" actor David Nykl lost to Matthew Currie Holmes of "Godiva's". A group of fans set up a campaign at "savecarsonbeckett.com" before news of McGillion's departure was confirmed. Although the episode "Sunday" was highly admired, his death caused dismay and outrage among fans and critics. Maureen Ryan of the "Chicago Tribune" labelled the killing of Beckett a "bonehead decision". The producers did not anticipate the protest after the airing of the episode. Between 60
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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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Mitchell Carson


Agent Mitchell Carson is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was portrayed by Martin Donovan in the 2015 Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Ant-Man". Created by writers Robert Kirkman and Andy Kuhn, he first appeared in "Marvel Team-Up" Vol. 3 #21. He was the primary antagonist in the 2006 "Irredeemable Ant-Man" series. Mitch Carson was a high-ranked S.H.I.E.L.D. security agent. He had killed his father when he was fifteen years old
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season two. Although McGillion was born in Scotland, he only put on a Scottish accent during filming. McGillion said in an interview with The Sci-Fi World, "We improv[ise] a lot after the scene's over, and sometimes they'll keep some of the material and sometimes they won't. I'll often throw in little things like 'Ya cheeky little bugger'." When the episode "Duet" was conceived, the writers wanted to maximise the chemistry and friendship between Beckett and McKay. Martin Gero
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Carson Beckett


came up with the scene featuring a kiss between Beckett and McKay. Reportedly, Gero tricked McGillion into agreeing to play the kiss by lying that David Hewlett was asked first and had already agreed. McGillion was originally planned to play Scotty in a parody of "Star Trek" in the "Stargate SG-1" episode "200", but producer-writer Brad Wright filled in for the part in the end. (McGillion would later also audition for the part of Scotty in the upcoming eleventh "Star Trek" movie, but
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The Adventures of Kit Carson


The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion. "The Adventures of Kit Carson" was intended for children, and presents a fictionalized version of Carson and his life. In the series, Kit Carson roamed the West with his companion El Toro,
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Kate Beckett


on his knee and he puts his on top of hers as they sit there. In "Nikki Heat", Beckett becomes jealous of the actress Natalie Rhodes (Laura Prepon) (dressed as Nikki Heat, the character Castle based on Beckett) when she sees her kissing Castle in the elevator. Unbeknownst to Beckett, Castle turned Rhodes down, because he felt that she was only acting out a fantasy he created (noting later to Beckett that sleeping with a woman posing as a fictional version of her would be too "
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Carson Beckett


gene, which allows humans to interact with specialized Ancient technology such as the Atlantis base. His medical expertise and his history with the Ancient gene earns him a spot on the Atlantis expedition, where he becomes the expedition's chief medical officer. Beckett is killed in an explosion in the third-season episode "Sunday", but he returns as a clone in season four and five. The character's appearances were marked by positive reception. Despite being billed as a recurring character at first, he appeared in nearly every episode
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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section


Beckett who also performed on it. The new studio marked a new beginning for Beckett, Hawkins, Hood and Johnson allowing them to move toward production and publishing rather than performing. They continued to operate there until 1985 when they closed the business. They sold it to their longtime friend Tommy Couch, owner of Malaco Records, based in Jackson, Mississippi. At that time, three of the Swampers joined other session players, such as the keyboardist Carson Whitsett, backing Bobby "Blue" Bland and other artists recording for the
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Kate Beckett


also reads mystery fiction as a result, hoping to gain insight into murderers' motives, and is not so secretly one of Castle's fans, although her main strength as a detective lies in her ability to empathize with the relatives of violent crimes, which she does "better than anyone [Montgomery] knows". Castle got the case file from Esposito. In "Little Girl Lost", Beckett's past is further revealed when a former love interest, FBI Agent Will Sorenson, returns to New York and requests Beckett
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Cutler Beckett


Lord Cutler Beckett is a fictional character portrayed by Tom Hollander in the second and third "Pirates of the Caribbean" films. He makes his debut in "" as a major supporting villain and has a more central part in the franchise's third installment "". A devious, ruthless, manipulative, elegant, sarcastic, and perfidious genius, Beckett is the chairman of the "East India Trading Company", and representative of King George II of Great Britain. Beckett's backstory was not fully revealed until the release of
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Mercier and Camier


Mercier and Camier is a novel by Samuel Beckett that was written in 1946, but remained unpublished until 1970. Appearing immediately before his celebrated "trilogy" of "Molloy", "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable", "Mercier et Camier" was Beckett's first attempt at extended prose fiction in French. Beckett refused to publish it in its original French until 1970, and while an English translation by Beckett himself was published in 1974 (London: Calder and Boyars and New York: Grove Press), the
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John Beckett (historian)


John Vincent Beckett (born 1950) is an English local historian who has been Professor of English Regional History at the University of Nottingham since 1990. Beckett was born on 12 July 1950 to William Vincent Beckett and his wife, Kathleen Amelia, "née" Reed. He completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Lancaster in 1971, which awarded him a Doctor of Philosophy degree four years later for his thesis "Land Ownership in Cumbria, c. 1680–c. 1750". From 1974 to 1976, Beckett was the Lord Adams
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20th century in literature


Plays" 1945 "Genre fiction" 1946 "Poetry" "Plays" "Non-fiction" 1947 "Plays" "Non-fiction" 1948 "Genre fiction" "Plays" "Non-fiction" 1949 "Genre fiction" "Plays" The intermediate postwar period separating "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" (1950s literature) is the "floruit" of the beat generation and the classical science fiction of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein. This period also saw the publication of Samuel Beckett
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James Beckett (statistician)


James Beckett III is an American statistician, author, editor, and publisher. His publications are well known in the hobby of sports card collecting. Beckett earned a Ph.D. degree in statistics at Southern Methodist University in 1975 and then joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University as an Associate Professor. While at Bowling Green, Beckett began preparing baseball card price guides, which he offered free upon request. Beckett price guides rely upon information from sellers throughout the United States, who supply information on customer interest and sales of products.
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Leeds Beckett University


had applied to the Privy Council to change the name to Leeds Beckett University, after one of the university's founding colleges, Beckett Park, which in turn was named after Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe. The proposed change resulted in a backlash among students. The Privy Council approved Leeds Metropolitan University's application to change its name to Leeds Beckett University in November 2013. The name change took place in September 2014. The former logos of Leeds Metropolitan University were retained after the name changed, being adapted to fit the new
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Phoebe (George Mason University journal)


Williams, Ray DiPalma, Keith Waldrop, Michael Palmer (poet), Cathy Park Hong, G.C. Waldrep, and Rosmarie Waldrop 1997 Winter Contest: Fiction: Susan Shreve, Poetry: Rod Smith (poet) 1998 Winter Contest: Fiction: Cathi Hanauer, Poetry: Russell Edson 2006 Winter Contest: Fiction: Carrie Brown (author), Poetry: Anne Carson 2011 Winter Contest: Nonfiction: Shauna Cross, Fiction: Caitlin Horrocks, Poetry: Dan Beachy-Quick 2014 Winter Contest: Nonfiction: Cheryl Strayed, Fiction:
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Michael O. Varhola


of University of Maryland, College Park, from which he received a B.S. in journalism. Other schools he attended include the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, and the American University of Paris. He graduated from high school at Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. Varhola has authored or co-authored the non-fiction books "Everyday Life During the Civil War" (1999), "Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953" (2000), "D-Day:
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Earth Spacedock


Earth Spacedock is a fictional space station orbiting Earth in the "Star Trek" universe, designed originally by David Carson and Nilo Rodis of Industrial Light and Magic in the 1980s. It is large enough to contain several starships of that fictional universe, and in real life the Spacedock consisted of a series of sets, miniatures, and designs that were used for various films and television shows in the 1980s and 1990s. Written "spacedock" (one word), it is first seen in the 1984 theater film "",
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Richard Castle


down, telling Beckett that sleeping with the actress playing the fictional version of her is "way too meta". In "Knockdown", Castle helps Beckett in catching her mother's killer. When Martha points out that he has written 22 books before meeting Beckett but he did not have to go to police station every day, Castle replied by saying that it is not about the books anymore. Castle and Beckett finally kiss as a ploy to distract a guard, although their reactions imply that they both felt something. Since
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Kate Beckett


Katherine Houghton "Kate" Beckett is a fictional character of the ABC crime series "Castle". She is portrayed by Stana Katic. Katherine Houghton Beckett was born to Jim and Johanna Beckett and was raised in Manhattan. Her grandfather was an amateur magician and frequently brought her to the famous Drake's Magic Shop after school in her early teens, resulting in her fascination of the art. She is also a comic book fan, having bought her first when she was 14 and envisioning herself as Elektra if she had a choice
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Kate Beckett


Beckett leads the investigation into the murder of Allison Tisdale, which is staged in the style of a death scene described in the Richard Castle novel "Flowers For Your Grave", along with other murders based on Castle's fiction. Beckett is forced to have Castle consult on the case, and though she tries to contain his access, he repeatedly violates police protocol. Although the killer is apparently caught when he leaves his fingerprints on a note he allegedly sent to Castle, Castle convinces Beckett to continue the investigation based on a
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Samuel Beckett


working relationship with Beckett in the Schiller Theatre in Berlin in 1974 and continued until 1989, the year of the playwright's death. Asmus has directed all of Beckett's plays internationally. Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett's work represents the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. He opened up the possibility of theatre and fiction that dispense with conventional plot and the unities of time and place in order to focus on essential components of the human condition. Václav Havel, John Banville, Aidan Higgins, Tom Stoppard
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That Time


, C5). The voices are trying throughout the play to place all the events in the right time order and also remember when in particular certain events occurred: “Was that the time or was that another time” (C6). Vivian Mercier in "Beckett/Beckett" asks: “Are they memories or fictions…? Is all memory a fictional process…?” (p 236) In each voice, the idea that the person is inventing people or events is stated or suggested, as when voice B
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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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The Science Fiction Radio Show


and given to research facilities. A handful have shown up at the Vincent Voice Library at the University of Michigan in East Lansing, Michigan, but the great majority of the tapes remain undigitized and unavailable. Their location and stewardship is uncertain. The Science Fiction Oral History Association presumably has custody of the tapes, but the organization has not been active for a number of years. Lane and Carson retired from Odessa College and continue to pursue interests in Odessa. Vernon now lives in New Orleans and still collects, specializing in the
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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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Castle (TV series)


him shadow Beckett. Castle's exuberant man child personality clashes with Beckett's more reserved and professional demeanor. However as Beckett begins to appreciate Castle's assistance in helping her catch killers, the two eventually become friends and then lovers. Their cases often deal with murders occurring within various unusual subcultures or milieus, including reality TV shows, vampire enthusiasts, a science fiction convention, and a man who claims to be a time traveler. A recurring plot line deals with the unsolved murder of Beckett's mother years before, an investigation
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Jennifer Keller


graduated high school at the age of 15 and earns a bachelor's degree before she becomes 18. She is then trained to be a doctor, where she soon becomes Atlantis' Chief Medical Officer, with some reluctance, after the death of former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carson Beckett. She also says that she is no Carson, but Dr. Weir assures her she will do just fine. One of her first duties is to try and save Dr Weir's life, after she is critically injured due to the Asuran beam grazing
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Edward Carson


cadet was from a quite prominent Roman Catholic banking family, and educated at Stonyhurst. On this case, Terence Rattigan based his play "The Winslow Boy". The fictional barrister, Morton, is a somewhat different character from Carson. There is, however, one interesting detail. At the end of the play Morton indicates he may take a continued interest in the boy’s sister, who had played a key role in the fictional case. In his account of the case, which was the last chapter of his book
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Fiction (magazine)


Fiction is a literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, and Max Frisch. It is published by the City College of New York. This is not the same as the French science fiction magazine "Fiction", published from 1953-1990. In its early years, "Fiction" was published in tabloid format and featured experimental work by such writers as John Barth, Jerome Charyn, Italo Calvino, Ronald Sukenick, Steve Katz, Russell Banks, Samuel Beckett, and J.G. Ballard. It later
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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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Lonelygirl15


the fictional status of the show was revealed in September 2006, it gradually evolved into a multi-character series including both character videoblogs and action sequences, with a complex story universe involving "trait positive girls" who are sought by an evil organization called "The Order". The three creators of "lonelygirl15" were Mesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California, Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker, and Greg Goodfried, a former attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, LLP.
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Postmodern literature


the Theatre of the Absurd parallel postmodern fiction in many ways. For example, "The Bald Soprano" by Eugène Ionesco is essentially a series of clichés taken from a language textbook. One of the most important figures to be categorized as both Absurdist and Postmodern is Samuel Beckett. The work of Beckett is often seen as marking the shift from modernism to postmodernism in literature. He had close ties with modernism because of his friendship with James Joyce; however, his work helped shape the development of literature away from modernism. Joyce
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Joe Rand Beckett


Ohio Rand in Indianapolis on March 2, 1891. His grandfather, Joe Smirthwinte Beckett was from Sheffield, England, and settled in Dearborn County, Indiana, in about 1837. His mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Rand, an immigrant from Belfast, Ireland, who fought in the Revolutionary War and settled in Dearborn County in about 1811. Beckett graduated from Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis in 1910 and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1914, where he studied architecture. He attended a predecessor of the now Indiana University
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Journal of Beckett Studies


The Journal of Beckett Studies publishes academic articles relating to the work of Samuel Beckett, (1906–1989), the Irish poet, dramatist and playwright. Published twice yearly by Edinburgh University Press in April and September, it was established in 1976, under the editorship of John Pilling and James Knowlson. It was edited from 1989 by Stan Gontarski and is now edited by Mark Nixon (University of Reading) and Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp). Each issue contains an introduction, essays or notes, review essays and reviews
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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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Luella Clay Carson


Luella Clay Carson (1866-1933) was an educator and university president in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. Carson was born in Portland, Oregon to pioneer parents. She taught at Pacific University prior to becoming the first chair of the English Department at the University of Oregon in 1888. She became the Dean of Women there in 1895, and remained with the university until 1909. Carson departed to become the fifth president of Mills College (from 1909 to 1914). Carson Hall, a women's residence at
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Tick, Tick, Tick... (Castle)


Clarke) using one of Castle's books as inspiration. Kate Beckett gets a call from a man who asks for "Nikki" and claims he has committed a murder. Alex Peterman, a personal attorney, is found shot to death at Grand Central Terminal. Five bullets are found at the crime scene, each one with a letter etched into it, together spelling "Nikki". The murderer is calling out Nikki Heat, which is the main character from one of Rick Castle's fiction novels and based on Beckett.
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Murphy (novel)


Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel as well as the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett. The book was Beckett's second published prose work after the short-story collection "More Pricks than Kicks" (published in 1934) and his unpublished first novel "Dream of Fair to Middling Women" (published posthumously in 1992). It was written in English, rather than the French of much of Beckett's later writing. After many rejections, it
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N1ckola


N1ckola is a Polish webseries based on the lonelygirl15 Universe. It was produced by EQAL, Agora SA, and A2 Multimedia and began in 2009. According to Greg Goodfried and Miles Beckett of EQAL, the show "blends reality, documentary, and fiction. It was always our hope to expand the LG15 Universe into new countries through full-format licensing deals like this one with Agora. N1ckola is the perfect example of a business model we'd like to replicate in the future in even more countries." N1ckola debuted on
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David Duchovny


Reason in Beckett's Early Novels". He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton. He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis is "Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry." Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. The next year he appeared in two scenes in "Working Girl" (1988). He had a recurring role as a transgender DEA agent on the series "
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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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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos


The Beauty of a Husband is a 2001 collection of poetry by Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, her seventh book. It won three major poetry awards: the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carson, in the subtitle, called "The Beauty of a Husband" a "fictional essay in 29 tangos". The poems trace the history of "an erotic relationship that proceeds from adolescent fixation to post-divorce continuing fixation", and begins when the main
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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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From an Abandoned Work


Watt"." Though initially published as a theater piece by the British publisher Faber and Faber following its performance on the BBC, it is now "generally anthologized with Beckett's short fiction". Translated into French by Beckett with Ludovic and Agnès Janvier, it was published as "D'un ouvrage abandonné" by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1967 and included in "Têtes-mortes", a collection of short stories. The first person narrative revolves around three days in the early life of a neurotic old man. "None
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A Piece of Monologue


, which suggests that death is the final way of ripping the dark." "The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett" (p 365) proposes that ‘love’ is the “rip word” because his ripping the photographs of his “loved ones” from the wall “fails to bring about the consummation desired.” Beckett effectively attempts to achieve on stage what he has previously achieved in fiction: to allow the two parts of the self to exist simultaneously. There is Speaker framed on stage who does not move (
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Kit Carson


. Carson became the hero of juvenile fiction not just in the United States, but also published in French, German, Portuguese, Gujarati, Hindi, Singhalese, Arabic and Japanese. The first story about Carson's adventures was printed in 1847. It was called "An Adventure of Kit Carson: A Tale of the Sacramento". It was printed in "Holden's Dollar Magazine". Other stories were also printed, such as "Kit Carson: The Prince of the Goldhunters" and "The Prairie Flower".
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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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Leeds Beckett University


. The earliest portions date from 1752, but there were major alterations in about 1834 and 1858 by the Beckett family, who ultimately sold it and the surrounding estate to Leeds Corporation to build the college and make a public park. It was used by the college as a hall of residence for men, but the university converted it into IT offices and service areas. In 2006, the campus extended beyond the confines of Beckett Park to include the Carnegie Stand at the Headingley Stadium. This dual-purpose stand accommodates more than
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Samuel Beckett


composed by Martin Pearlman which was commissioned by the 92nd Street Y in New York for the Beckett centennial and produced there and at Harvard University. In January 2019 Beckett was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time". Samuel Beckett's prolific career is spread across archives around the world. Significant collections include those at the Harry Ransom Center, Washington University, the University of Reading, Trinity College, Dublin, and Houghton Library. Given the scattered nature of these collections, an effort has been made to
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Genii (Stargate)


Kolya is in fact dead, Sheppard says Dr. Carson Beckett confirmed it after Sheppard shot him. Ladon Radim, played by Ryan Robbins, first appears as Acastus Kolya's aide in "The Storm" and "The Eye". He oversees their operation to invade Atlantis from the control room; John Sheppard knocks him out in order to raise the Stargate shield, killing 55 en route Genii reinforcements. Radim retreats from the city along with the other Genii. In "Coup D'etat", Radim contacts Atlantis with an offer of
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Enemy at the Gate (Stargate Atlantis)


to break into the Hive, where he might detonate a nuclear weapon destroying the Hive from within. Meanwhile, Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion) returns and flies the city to Earth, after finding more ZPMs from "Todd". However, the stardrive shuts down just as they approach the Milky Way. Zelenka (David Nykl) is able to implement a "wormhole drive", which sends the city to Earth within seconds. Meanwhile, in attempting to gate to Earth the Atlantis expedition connects to a Stargate aboard the Hive
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J. C. Beckett


James Camlin Beckett (1912 – 12 February 1996) was a Northern Irish historian. Beckett was a native of Belfast, where he received his education at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's University. He received First Class Honours in Modern History at his graduation from Queen's University in 1934. From the time his graduation until 1945, he taught at Belfast Royal Academy and completed an MA degree. His MA dissertation was published as a book entitled "Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687–1780". In 1945 he joined the history
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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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