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, he takes the name Ruggedo, which Baum first used in a stage adaptation. Even after Ruggedo loses his throne, he continues to think of himself as king and the Oz book authors politely refer to him that way. Authors Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill used the traditional spelling "gnome" so Ruggedo is the title character in Thompson's "The Gnome King of Oz". In Baum's universe, the Nomes are immortal rock fairies who dwell underground. They hide jewels and precious metals in the earth,
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(which surrounds the continent which includes Oz and its neighbor countries). Meanwhile, Ruggedo, the deposed Gnome King, is back. He had been cursed with loss of speech by a magical "Silence Stone" at the end of his previous appearance in "The Gnome King of Oz", and is scraping out a living as a peddler and beggar. He decides to answer an advertisement for the position of King of the Land of Menankypoo, whose people are also mute. These people demand "a dumb king"
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The Gnome King of Oz (1927) is the twenty-first in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the seventh by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Like nineteen of the twenty previous books, it was illustrated by John R. Neill. Patch is the country of the Quilties, a land of seamtresses and quiltmakers; it lies in the Quadling quadrant of Oz. Its people have a serious problem. Their queen, Cross Patch the Sixth, has gone to pieces—literally; small pieces
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not Eriu but the Land of Oz, whose rulers are possessed of an artifact "effective as a teletransporter," the Magic Belt of the Gnome King. (De Camp prefers the standard spelling of "gnome" to Baum's idiosyncratic "nome.") As usual, things immediately go wrong. Instead of Oz, Harold ends up in a decidedly more sinister place, the University of the Unholy Names in Dej, a world of vaguely Islamic and Arabic antecedents. There he encounters the student Bilsa at-Tâlib,
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Handy Mandy in Oz


is the last appearance of Ruggedo the Gnome King in the "Famous Forty" Oz books, though he does re-appear in the works of later Oz authors.) Ozma restores order and repairs damage with her Magic Belt. Wutz's spies and agents are transformed into moles; Kerry is returned to his throne. Mandy is rewarded with an emerald necklace and a luxury she has longed for — gloves; Ozma gives her seven sets of seven gloves for her seven hands. After a month at home on Mt. Mern,
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Pastoria


in "The Gnome King of Oz" (conversing with Nick Chopper about the latter's crop of tin cans) and in "The Yellow Knight of Oz" (referred to only as the Lost King, playing checkers with the Soldier with the Green Whiskers). Lin Carter wrote an unauthorized sequel, "The Tired Tailor of Oz", that focused on the character. It was published posthumously in 2001. Normally, with "The Lost King of Oz" still protected by copyright, stories involving Pastoria-as-
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. Meanwhile, Peter Brown, a boy from Philadelphia, is transported by a balloon bird to the Runaway Island, where Ruggedo, the wicked Gnome King has been exiled for five years (see "Kabumpo in Oz"). A seaquake reveals the sunken pirate ship of Polacky the Plunderer—which contains the magic chest of Soob the Sorcerer. The chest holds several magic treasures, including a magic cloak that is supposed to render the wearer invisible and teleport him anywhere he chooses. But the cloak is torn and does not
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the mythologies, legends, and literary fantasies of our world and can be reached by aligning one's mind to them by a system of symbolic logic. In "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", Shea visits two such worlds, first (briefly) that of L. Ron Hubbard's setting from "The Case of the Friendly Corpse" (actually invented by John D. Clark and Mark Baldwin) and second L. Frank Baum's land of Oz. As originally written, "Sir Harold and the Gnome King" was a
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magic in "Kabumpo in Oz", he grows into a giant and runs away with Ozma's royal palace on his head. He is placed on a Runaway Land which runs out to the Nonestic Ocean and strands him on an island. In "The Gnome King of Oz", he is helped off the island by Peter Brown, an athletic boy from Philadelphia, making his first trip to Oz. He gets hit with the Silence Stone and is rendered mute. As in "Ozma of Oz", Ruggedo is
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Yankee in Oz


—Peter Brown in "The Gnome King of Oz" briefly mentions having read an Oz book (Betsy Bobbin and Trot are aware of Oz before they get there, but we are not told how). It is, however, the first to mention another Oz book within the text, although John R. Neill had drawn an image of a shelf in Oz full of the Oz books, one being read. The book has no subplot, and moves straightforwardly through its single plot, uncharacteristic of previous Oz books, but
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tyrant called the Wizard Wutz. Wutz controls a subversive network of spies and secret agents located in many parts of the land of Oz. He is plotting to have his agents steal all the main magical artifacts of Oz. They actually do steal the Magic Picture, Glinda's Great Book of Records, and the jug that is the confinement vessel of Ruggedo, the Gnome King (he was transformed into a jug at the end of "Pirates in Oz"). Mandy and Nox learn that old King Kerr is one of
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Peter Brown (Oz)


Peter Brown is a major character in the Oz novels of Ruth Plumly Thompson, who continued the series of Oz books after the death of their creator, L. Frank Baum. Thompson used Peter as the protagonist in three of her books: "The Gnome King of Oz" (1927), "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz" (1929), and "Pirates in Oz" (1931). Peter constitutes the first time in the Oz series in which a boy from the United States serves as the protagonist in the novels
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Gnome King looked like the Nome King's likeness in the film, but whose function was greatly expanded from the novel to be the ruler of all the Immortals. In L. Sprague de Camp's "Harold Shea" series he teams his protagonist with the Nome King in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King." In Bill Willingham's Vertigo comic book series "Fables", the Nome King has sided with the Adversary and is now the ruler of Oz. He is later deposed in an uprising led by former Fabletown resident
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To facilitate his foray into the Gnome Kingdom Harold demands and receives the service of former gnome king Ruggedo, an old enemy of Oz, as guide, along with tarncaps to render them invisible. He also commissions the local blacksmith to forge a pair of bolt cutters under his direction with which to free Oznev. Meanwhile, Ozma uses the Magic Belt to summon Walter from Eriu. Much to her embarrassment Walter arrives in bed and with a bedmate, having recently acquired an Irish wife, Boann ni Colum. On the way to
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Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz


Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) is the twenty-third of the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and continued by other writers; it is the ninth Oz book written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill. A rainy day in Philadelphia means no baseball; Peter Brown, the child protagonist introduced by Thompson in "The Gnome King of Oz", mopes in his attic. He finds the sacks that were full of gold when he brought them back from his previous Oz adventure
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, rather than a supporting character. (Contrast Zeb in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", Button-Bright in "The Road to Oz" and other books, and Bob Up in Thompson's earlier "The Cowardly Lion of Oz".) Peter is not only the protagonist of the three novels but the hero, in that his positive actions and traits bring about the affirmative resolution of the plot conflicts in the books. When Thompson introduces him in "Gnome King", Peter is a nine-year
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"The Shaggy Man of Oz". The King of the Fairy Beavers rules an underground kingdom. In both books, he helps the travelers to reach their final destination. The Nome King (also referred to as Roquat, and later Ruggedo) is the evil and humorously stubborn ruler of an underground kingdom inhabited by the race of gnome minons, creatures who are half human and half rock. His mountain stands between the Land of Oz and the Land of Ev and is separated from both these two countries by the vast Deadly
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In "The Runaway in Oz", Jenny helps get the story started by quarreling with Scraps the Patchwork Girl; but once Scraps runs away, Jenny spends the rest of the book helping to look for her. As Jenny is a copyrighted character, she is not found in modern Oz expanded universe stories, save "Oziana" magazine. Peter Brown is a boy from Philadelphia and protagonist of several Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson. He is first introduced in "The Gnome King of Oz" (1927). Robin
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in the process of bringing her to life, and as she happily jumped around she accidentally spilled the Liquid of Petrifaction on Mrs. Pipt and Ojo's uncle turning them to stone. Much of their first adventure is gathering the ingredients to find a counterspell. She later became the companion of the Scarecrow who found her quite beautiful. She had major roles in such Oz books as "The Gnome King of Oz" and "The Wonder City of Oz", and was the title character in "A Runaway in Oz".
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when he is caught and released from the pirate sack Peter found in "The Gnome King of Oz" as well as the enchantment being broken by the Wizard of Oz. Afterward, he vows never to grow a beard again as he finally marries Shirley. In "", Belfaygor is shown among the captives of the Jester that were turned into marionettes. Bell-snickle is the major villain of "The Scalawagons of Oz". He is described as being like a blue-green buckwheat cake, and is proud to
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Peter Brown (Oz)


become a prince of Oz — which he rejects, out of loyalty to his friends and fellow baseball-team members at home in Philadelphia. Peter brings bags of gold home to his grandfather. His attitude toward life is somewhat insouciant and devil-may-care; in the opening chapter of "Jack Pumpkinhead" he wonders idly if "the Gnome King has gotten into any more mischief" — giving little serious consideration to the most persistent villain in the Oz universe. "Pirates in Oz", the third book in
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work. The ship, however, derelict as it is, allows Peter and Ruggedo to drift to the Land of Ev. Promising to make Peter a general in his army, Ruggedo returns to the Gnome Kingdom and forces the current king, Kaliko, to abdicate in his favor. Ruggedo's plan is to have the cloak mended, then use it to fly to the Emerald City and recover his magic belt, with all its power — but he learns that the tricky repair job can only be done properly by the expert
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", a film for which Ploog was a conceptual artist. He also has a Knook and a Ryl serve as Claus's constant companions. The Gnome King has been omitted from most other adaptations, presumably to avoid confusion with the malevolent character in "Return to Oz", though an unidentified figure voiced by Peter Newman appears on the council over immortality in the Rankin-Bass version. Based on the lineup in the book, he could be only the Gnome King, Bo, or Kern, but his stature leads one
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too. To find her successor, the land's Chief Scrapper and Prime Piercer unwind the Spool of Succession, and follow where the golden thread leads. It leads, in this instance, to the Emerald City, where it selects Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz (first introduced in her eponymously titled novel, the seventh Oz book by L. Frank Baum) to be the new queen. The two Quilties, used to resistance from Queens-to-be (it's not that good a job), kidnap Scraps
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Peter Brown (Oz)


-old boy from Philadelphia. Peter is being raised by his grandfather; he is one of the long list of orphans or apparent orphans in children's literature (they are notably frequent in the Oz books themselves). His travels to the world of Oz provide him opportunities to display courage, independence, loyalty and other traditional virtues; in this, he differs from Button-Bright and Bob Up, younger children with less effect on their plots. At the end of "Gnome King", Peter has a chance to
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Land of Oz


population does increase through immigration, Glinda just extends the borders an inch or two in each direction, which makes more than enough space for all additional people. L. Sprague de Camp, like Heinlein, brings his own characters to Oz in his book "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", part of the originally collaborative Harold Shea series. Unlike Heinlein, he does not attempt to explain Oz as science fiction, though he does deviate from the original corpus. He follows Thompson's Oz books, thus using her spelling of
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liberate Oznev. Ruggedo, determined to apply Harold’s advice, stays to dispute the throne with Kaliko. Meanwhile, Harold and the prince duel with and defeat Drabbo, who has become Kaliko’s chancellor. Rescuer and prince return to Oz amid general acclaim. Harold then prepares for his return home, whence Walter and Boann plan to follow in the wake of the banquet celebrating Oznev’s deliverance. As for Ruggedo, when last seen he had expelled Kaliko from the Gnome Kingdom, declared monarchy obsolete, and proclaimed himself Lifetime President
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which Peter appears, contains a contradiction on Peter's age. The book identifies him as eleven years old, but also states that five years have passed since the events of "Gnome King", which would make Peter fourteen, however, she may be referring to four years in Oz, and not Philadelphia. Thompson herself noted her tendency to favor boy heroes, in contrast to Baum's preference for girl protagonists (Dorothy Gale, Princess Ozma, Betsy Bobbin, and Trot). Peter Brown is the most prominent of
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City, where he causes some mischief before Peter arrives. Still invisible, Ruggedo steals the magic belt. He is about to use its powers to teleport Ozma and her friends to the bottom of the ocean, but Peter overcomes him by throwing a "silence stone", one of the treasures he had taken from the sunken pirate ship, at Ruggedo's head, which robs Ruggedo of the power of speech. Since the magic belt only responds to spoken commands, this renders Ruggedo harmless, and the Wizard of Oz makes
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closed. "Silverwings" never made it onto the boards. Rogers suggests other influences from Baum's adaptation of "Silverwings" on his fiction. In the play, Kwytoffle is the name of the Gnome King, who has kidnapped the Storm King's daughter and threatens to throw Silverwings and her other would-be rescuers into his furnace—comparable to elements in Baum's Oz books. Kwytoffle has a problem with beans, just as Baum's Nome King has with eggs. Harrison's Cloud Maidens appear in "Dorothy and
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who enthusiastically suggests a magical contest between them and conjures up a gigantic snake that immediately snaps Harold up. Fortunately, the latter's mail shirt protects him long enough for him to repeat the spell that transports him between worlds, and this time he really does end up in Oz (thankfully "sans" snake). The Oz he encounters is greatly changed from the land of which Baum had written, the enchantment that had kept its inhabitants ageless having been broken through a misuse of magic by a dabbler in spells named Dranol
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The Enchanter Reborn


Frank Baum's land of Oz in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King," the world of Taoist legend as portrayed in Wú Chéng'ēn's classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West" in "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" (with the unique twist of its being "Quixote's" version of reality rather than Cervantes') in "Knight and the Enemy," and Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the "Aeneid" in "Arms
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of Wutz, the handsome but cruel King of the Silver Mountain, restored Ruggedo's proper form. At the end of that book, Himself the Elf transforms both of them into cacti, so that they can never make trouble again. Ruggedo made no further appearances in the original Oz series, but his further adventures have been written in several later books (some of which harmonize with one another; others which are contradictory). Much fan discussion has revolved around the identity of The Gnome King in Baum's "The Life
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Harold Shea


"Orlando Furioso" (again) in "Professor Harold and the Trustees", L. Ron Hubbard's setting from "The Case of the Friendly Corpse" and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", the classical Chinese epic novel "Journey to the West" in "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" (with the unique twist of its being "Quixote's" version of reality rather than Cervantes'
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Nome King


The Nome King is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is introduced in Baum's third Oz book "Ozma of Oz" (1907). He also appears in many of the continuing sequel "Oz" novels also written by Baum. Although the character of the Wicked Witch of the West is the most notable and famous Oz villain (due to her appearance in the 1939 MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz"), it is actually the Nome King who is the most frequent antagonist throughout
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus


draw no material from "A Kidnapped Santa Claus". An adult version of Dorothy Gale tells the life story of Santa based on the book to her children and her friends. (Note: the Awgwas are excised from Dorothy's tale.) The major change in Mike Ploog's graphic novel is placing the Gnome King in charge of nearly everyone (Baum's hierarchy placed only the "Great Creator" above the three Masters of the world) and making him resemble the Nome King as he appeared in "Return to Oz
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Pastoria


King Pastoria is a fictional character mentioned in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. He was the rightful ruler and King of the undiscovered Land of Oz, but was mysteriously removed from his position when the Wizard of Oz unexpectedly came to the country and took the throne, proclaiming himself as the new dominant ruler of Oz. Shortly after, Pastoria's infant daughter and only child heir, Princess Ozma, suddenly vanished, leaving not a single clue of her whereabouts. Eventually in the second Oz book "The Marvelous
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often included a small kingdom, with a prince or princess who saves his or her kingdom and regains the throne or saves Oz from invasion. Thompson even respelled Baum's respelling "Nome" as the more traditional "Gnome". Illustrator John R. Neill's vision of Oz is more manic than Thompson or Baum's. Houses often get up and do battle, and everything can be alive. His entries take Oz's color scheme (blue for Munchkin Country, red for Quadling Country, etc.) to an extreme,
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) and is at least a frequent figure in the nineteen that followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, getting at least a cameo in all her books except "Captain Salt in Oz" (in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned). Major subsequent appearances by Dorothy in the "Famous Forty" are in "The Lost Princess of Oz", "Glinda of Oz", "The Royal Book of Oz", "Grampa in Oz", "The Lost King of Oz
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with include the agelessness of the Ozites and Ozma's youthful innocence and strict sense of justice; the former having been eliminated by Dranol Drabbo's misuse of magic and the latter, recharacterized as childish foolishnesses, by Ozma having outgrown them with age and experience. De Camp's abandonment of an ageless Oz has one literary precursor in a similar visit to Baum's creation related in a work of his colleague Robert A. Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast", in which some of the problematic aspects of agelessness are expounded.
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the Gnome King (Thompson "corrected" Baum's spelling of "Nome") finds Glegg's Box of Mixed Magic while tunnelling under the Emerald City. After he brings a wooden doll, Peg Amy, to life, and makes Wag the rabbit the size of a man, Ruggedo turns himself into a giant. This means that Ozma's palace gets stuck on his head, and in a panic he runs off to Ev with it. After many adventures in the strange lands of Rith Metic, the Illumi Nation,
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Gnome King Kyrië


Gnome King Kyrië (Dutch: Kabouterkoning Kyrië, ) is, according to local folklore, the leader of the legendary gnomes (kabouters) which lived in the Campine region of the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. These gnomes had their base in the village of Hoogeloon. From Hoogeloon the gnomes often made journeys in the neighboring lands. According to tradition the Gnome King Kyrië lived on the Kerkakkers in the Kabouterberg (Gnome Mountain) also known as Duivelsberg (Devil's Mountain), a tumulus located in the Koebosch forest
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Land of Oz


"Gnome" and her final fate of the character, but he postulates an incident that has removed the Ozites' immortality, with the result that both Ozma and Dorothy have aged and married by the time his story takes place. In the Otherland series, by Tad Williams, a virtual reality version of Oz exists, wherein real-world antagonists play sadistic versions of the roles of the Tin Man, The Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, in a twisted, martial, and post-apocalyptic version of Oz, populated
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tailors in Patch. With Peter, he makes his way to Patch, where he offers Peter as a slave in return for the repair of the cloak. The Patch ministers accept this offer and the cloak is repaired. Peter meets Scraps and makes other new friends, including Grumpy the Bear and Ozwold the Ostrich. Together they escape from Patch and set out for the Emerald City in order to warn Ozma about Ruggedo's plans. Meanwhile, using the power of the repaired cloak, Ruggedo becomes invisible and teleports to the Emerald
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holding sway in them. Now the venues are drawn from modern fantasy and are reimagined in a way that strips them of what de Camp regards as their more absurd aspects. Thus, exploration of the source material is displaced by a revisionist view of it, while the protagonists’ interest in figuring out the local physics gives way to the pursuit of more immediate goals. In the present tale Harold displays no intrinsic interest in the magic of Oz, but only in how it might further his objectives. The "absurdities" dispensed
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The Magic of Oz


The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in Their Successful Search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 7, 1919, one month after the author's death, "The Magic of Oz" relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and former Nome King Ruggedo
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Land of Oz


dies or ages, and nevertheless there are people of differing ages in Oz, it is completely inconsistent with the earlier versions of the prehistory. Maguire, author of "" addresses this inconsistency by saying that the people of Oz believe that Ozma is reincarnated—that her spirit was left behind by Lurline, but her body is reborn to different mortal queens. In Jack Snow's "The Magical Mimics in Oz", the prehistory story is retold. This version relates that Ozma was given to the king of Oz as an
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the heathlands of Riethoven (most sources name the winter of 1952/1953, some place his death in the winter of 1951/1952). He had just enough strength to reach the Duivelsberg (Devil's Mountain) where the gnomes lived. The hunter looked for what he had shot down, when he heard the shocked gnomes say: "Kyrië is dead". The sad message that their king had died spread quickly among all gnome settlements in the region. Gnome King Kyrië was buried somewhere in Hoogeloon. After the death of their king
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The Secret Book of Gnomes


The Secret Book of Gnomes is a series of books about Gnomes designed for children. They contain fictional stories and guides about how Gnomes live in harmony with their environment, such as what a Gnome has in his first aid kit and how a Gnome's house is built. The books were written by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet, though they have claimed that parts were written by a Gnome called David. Those authors also created another series about Gnomes entitled The Gnomes. That later was used as a basis
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Jon Claerbout


of earthquake seismic data frustrating and decided to study atmospheric gravity waves during his PhD. His advisor was Theodore R. Madden and the title of his thesis was "Electromagnetic Effects of Atmospheric Gravity Waves". Claerbout is the founder of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP), the first geophysical research consortium funded by the oil and gas industry. Claerbout has been a doctoral advisor to many of influential geophysicists who joined SEP such as Oz Yilmaz and Biondo Biondi. The term and concept of exploding reflectors in reflection seismology is often attributed to Jon
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Gnome King Kyrië


, slightly northeast of Hoogeloon. The gnomes of the Campine were helpful creatures who helped mostly the farmers and the households in the Campine and also in the neighboring lands of the Peel and the Meierij. They came by night and did not want to be seen by people. If people did see them, they were punished by the gnomes. One story tells of an inquisitive farmer who spied on the gnomes and later became blind in one eye as a punishment. One day, Gnome King Kyrië was shot by a hunter in
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz


, end up in Rash, and no sooner do they arrive than they're thrown into the crowded prison. There they meet the Scarlet Prince Evered (known as Reddy), the rightful ruler of Rash. Together with the Tiger, they escape, and have varied adventures with Big Wigs and Gnomes in their search for three magic rubies. Back in Oz, Princess Ozma has troubles of her own: she is confronted by Atmos Fere, a balloon-like being who lives in the upper stratosphere. His plan is to
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Gnome


"Small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes" (cited after OED). Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's "Little People of the Snow" (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED). One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work "Pictures at an Exhibition", named
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United States hydrogen policy


programs. Each states energy office gets SEP funding and manages all SEP funded projects. For more information about the SEP, including project descriptions, visit the SEP website. Clean Ports USA is an incentive-based program designed to help reduce emissions by encouraging port authorities to redesign and replace older diesel engines with new technologies and cleaner fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Clean Diesel Campaign offers funding to port authorities to help them overcome the obstacles that prevent the adoption of cleaner diesel technologies. Clean Construction USA promotes the reduction
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Rinkitink in Oz


Alison Baum, the first child of the author's second son Robert Stanton Baum. Pingaree is an island in the Nonestic Ocean that surrounds the fairy countries that encircle the Deadly Desert that surrounds the Land of Oz. Many years before this story begins, the armies of Regos and Coregos sought to invade Pingaree, but their advance was repelled by Pingaree's king with the help of three magic pearls given to him by the Mermaids. The Blue Pearl gave the king superhuman strength, the Pink Pearl protected him from any form of
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Westland Sea King


helicopters, extended the agreement to cover the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King soon after the Sea King's first flight in 1959. Westland proceeded to independently develop the Sea King, integrating a significant proportion of components from British suppliers; key changes include the use of a pair of Rolls-Royce Gnome turboshaft engines and the implementation of an automatic flight control system. On this matter, authors Jim Thorn and Gerald Frawley stated that: "Despite appearances, Westland's Sea King [is a] very different aircraft from Sikorsky's".
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freak show owner, while D.J. is committed to an asylum by Yarby, who has heard about the gnomes and deems his boss insane. Rodney and Elizabeth rescue D.J. from the asylum, rescue Jasper from Quaxton, and then set out to find Knobby, who had managed to escape earlier. They arrive in the woods to find Knobby delighted with the presence of a thriving community of gnomes. Jasper is recognized by Rufus the Gnome King (Ed Wynn) as "the eligible gnome" to a large number of young females of
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chest. He appeared subsequently in "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz", "Ojo in Oz", "The Wishing Horse of Oz", "Handy Mandy in Oz", and "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz". Snip is a boy who appears in "The Lost King of Oz". He is a boy who was captured by Mombi to aid her and Pajuku in finding King Pastoria. When traversing through Blankenberg, the three of them met an amnesiac tailor named Tora who joins them on their quest.
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why the Gnome wanted so much bread, but when he refuses, the gnome suddenly beats him up until he is unconscious so that he can take away the whole loaf to chow down on. The same thing happens to the second huntsman. Later, the third one finds his companions unconscious, and accuses the gnome for ambushing them during their quest. Blamed for his wrongdoing, the gnome is forced to apologize, promising to show him how to rescue the king's daughters. He shows him a deep well without water,
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"gnomide" to refer to female gnomes (often "gnomid" in English translations). The author of this work, Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars, the abbot of Villars, describes gnomes as such: "The Earth is filled almost to the Center with "Gnomes" or "Pharyes", a People of small Stature, the Guardians of Treasures, of Mines, and of Precious Stones. They are Ingenious, Friends of Men, and easie to be commandded. They furnish the Children of
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Bronwen Mantel


"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "Papa Beaver's Storytime", "A Bunch of Munsch", "Young Robin Hood", "The Smoggies", "Princess Sissi", "What's with Andy?", "Christopher Columbus", "Adventures of the Little Mermaid", "Adventures of Pinocchio", "Caillou", "The Little Lulu Show", "Cat Tales", "The World of David the Gnome", "Spirou", "Anna Banana", "
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Kabumpo


Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink, is a fictional character in the "Oz" books of Ruth Plumly Thompson. Kabumpo first appears in "Kabumpo in Oz", Thompson's second "Oz" book. He was originally a christening gift to the king of Pumperdink, Pompus. He reappears to play major roles in "The Lost King of Oz", "The Purple Prince of Oz", and "The Silver Princess in Oz". Thompson's illustrator John R. Neill made Kabumpo a denizen of the Emerald
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and Adventures of Santa Claus", a jolly rock dweller who does not believe in giving, but only in even exchange. His gnomes watch over the rocks in the Forest of Burzee and make sleigh bells for each of Santa Claus's ten reindeer that he gives in exchange for toys for his children. An editor's note to Judy Pike's article "The Decline and Fall of the Nome King" conjectures that the Gnome King is the Nome King's father. Concerning the original depiction of the Nome King by L. Frank
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without X.Org Server, using only Wayland. In May 2011 Lennart Poettering proposed systemd as a GNOME dependency. As systemd is available only on Linux, the proposal led to a discussion of possibly dropping support for other platforms in future GNOME releases. Since GNOME 3.2 multiseat support has only been available on systems using systemd. In November 2012 the GNOME release team concluded that systemd can be relied upon for non-basic functionality. There are a large number of GTK and Clutter-based programs written by various authors. Since the release
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List of Oz characters (created by Baum)


of Oz" voiced by Frank Nelson. The Hungry Tiger appears in "Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz". The Hungry Tiger cameos in an episode of "The Oz Kids". The Hungry Tiger appears in "" voiced by Andrea Martin. This version is a female. The Hungry Tiger appears in "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" voiced by Bill Fagerbakke. The King of Bunnybury is a white rabbit who rules Bunnybury as seen in "The Emerald City of Oz". As king, he is very unhappy
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The Wizard of Oz (1925 film)


For example, Prime Minister Kruel has a predecessor in King Krewl, the antagonist in the 1914 film "His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz". The note explaining Princess Dorothea's true heritage is signed "Pastoria", a name used for the exiled King of Oz in the 1902 stage version of "The Wizard of Oz" and for the father of Princess Ozma in Baum's 1904 book "The Marvelous Land of Oz", as well as in his later works relating to Oz. With regard to casting and
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concrete utopias waiting to be realized once the authoritarian rule of the Nome King could be overcome". Rogers points that "The Emerald City of Oz" (1910) was supposed to be the finale of the Oz series. Following the end of the Nome King's invasion, Baum announced that the Land of Oz was forever closed from the outside world. The truth was that the writer had become tired of the series. In the preface of "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" (1908), Baum humorously complained
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Wicked Witch of the West


The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the antagonist in his classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900). In Baum's subsequent "Oz" novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book. The witch's most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel, where she was portrayed by
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Rinkitink in Oz


an original fantasy novel over ten years earlier, in 1905. Most of the action takes place on three islands – Pingaree, Regos, and Coregos – and within the Nome King's caverns. Since the original ruler of the nomes, Roquat – who later renamed himself Ruggedo, was deposed in 1914's "Tik-Tok of Oz", Baum had to cleverly rework the tale to accommodate his successor, the well-intentioned – but politically motivated – Kaliko. The book was dedicated to the author's newborn grandson Robert
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Bufkin, one of the winged monkeys native to Oz. In the comic book "The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles" #1 (2006), Ruggedo is coerced by a new Witch to bring the Jabberwocky creature to life. In the novel "", the Nome King is alluded to once, along with other underground threats believed by the citizens of Wicked's Oz to be mere legend. It is not officially stated whether the Nome King, or other figures undeniably real in Baum's Oz such as Lurline, actually exist
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Gnome Press


firm established in 1924 and producing some science fiction between 1950 and 1958. There was no association between the two publishers, despite a common assumption among some fans. Gnome Press concentrated on authors who were at the height of their popularity writing for "Astounding Science Fiction", the American leading magazine of the time. Authors published by Gnome included Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert A. Heinlein, C. L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, and A. E. Van
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Munchkin Country


the Nome King, and found Jinjur working in his employ. This king also appears briefly in "The Road to Oz". Ruth Plumly Thompson's books identify the king of the Munchkin Country as Cheeriobed. He rules from the Sapphire City in the Ozure Isles, with his wife, Queen Orin, and son, Prince Philador. He is introduced by name in "The Giant Horse of Oz" and makes a subsequent appearance in "The Wishing Horse of Oz". In some of Thompson's Oz books, the
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and power. Oz is Baum's version of the utopia and the Nome King strives to undermine this utopian civilization. Zipes believes that Baum was against any kind of violence. In "The Emerald City of Oz" (1910), the Nome King's invasion of Oz is therefore defeated in a non-violent way. Baum invented a fountain filled with the water of oblivion. A single sip of this water makes the drinker forget everything, including any evil intentions. The would-be invaders of Oz drink from the
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Karen Dotrice


Crowther wrote, "the kids ... are just as they should be," while author Brian Sibley said, "these charming, delightful young people provided a wonderful centre for the film." Dotrice and Garber paired up a third time in "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967) as the grandchildren of a rich lumber mogul who stumble across a gnome forest and help to stop the gnomes from dying off. Starring Walter Brennan in a dual role, "The Gnome-Mobile" failed to perform on a par with
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The World of David the Gnome


The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David, el Gnomo (also known as David, the Gnome), is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book "The Secret Book of Gnomes", by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. The program was originally created in Spain by BRB Internacional (who were also responsible for the "Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds" franchise and other cartoons such as "Bobobobs" and "Around the World with Willy Fog") titled "David
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Nome King


in Maguire's Oz. In "", Zoe is read the Oz books by her mother and she later compares Drake to the Nome King in that he is bad simply because he has never tried to be good. In "Emerald City Confidential", the Nome King is now a bartender and is mostly reformed (although he is not above using illegal magic to gain back his fortune). Sherwood Smith's novels "The Emerald Wand of Oz" and "Trouble Under Oz" feature Ruggedo's son, Prince Rikiki
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Glinda of Oz


Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum, published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of the original Oz series, which was later continued by other authors. Like most of the Oz books, the plot features a journey through some of the remoter regions of Oz; though in this case the pattern is doubled: Dorothy and Ozma travel to stop a war between the Flatheads and Skeezers; then Glinda and a cohort of Dorothy's friends set out
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List of Oz characters (post-Baum)


River, Chief Dipper of Pumperdink, and Baron Belfaygor of Bourne. Kabumpo is an Indian elephant who appears in several of the Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books, including a titular role in "Kabumpo in Oz". King Kinda Jolly of Kimbaloo is a character in "The Lost King of Oz". The short and stout king of Kimbaloo, is a jolly little Gillikin in the kingdom known for its button trees and the crops they provide. Kinda Jolly wears a silver crown to match his silver beard, and is married
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Wizard of Oz" (1900) and is first named in "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904). Jellia Jamb is portrayed as a rather sweet and organized girl when on duty, but mischievous and playful when off duty. She is said to be very pretty, with green hair and green eyes. King Pastoria was the rightful King of Oz until he was removed from power by Mombi. He is the father of Princess Ozma. Princess Ozma is the ruler of Oz since the end of the second book
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The Lost King of Oz


The Lost King of Oz (1925) is the nineteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fifth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill. As she sometimes does in her books, Thompson exploits a detail in Baum's work to generate her story. Baum mentions Pastoria, Ozma's father and former ruler of Oz, only briefly in the twentieth chapter of "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904); Thompson spins Baum's hint
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The Magic Mirror (ballet)


Dance of the everlasting flowers. Scene 3 The Elder of the Gnomes comes forward; behind him follows the King, Queen, the Prince, the nurse and the King's grooms. The gnome shows them the place where the Princess rests. The Queen conceals her joy. The King is sorrowful. The nurse is crying. The Prince, in despair at the sight of the dead Princess, approaches the grating. He breaks the grating and the coffin. At that instant, the apple rolls out in front of the Prince
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Robert Seppings


the whole of the keel, the vessel remaining suspended by the shores. Soon, his creation became commonly known as "Seppings Blocks." For this invention Seppings received £1000 from the Admiralty, and in 1804 was promoted to be a master shipwright at Chatham. At Chatham, in spite of the repugnance to innovation displayed by the naval authorities of that period, he was able to introduce important innovations in the methods of ship-construction. Quoted as saying "partial strength produces general weakness", he significantly improved the
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The Shaggy Man of Oz


the Valley's king, queen, and assembled lords and ladies. (In Snow's narrative, the magnet has to be displayed to have its effect.) Traveling again, the four encounter the King of the Fairy Beavers. The King agrees to help them reach Oz, if they invite him for a visit — and Shaggy is happy to oblige. The protagonists and their beaver companions make their way under the Deadly Desert through the Nome King's tunnel (see "The Emerald City of Oz"). They pass
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are "Conan the Conqueror" (1950), "The Sword of Conan" (1952), "The Coming of Conan" (1953), "King Conan" (1953), "Conan the Barbarian" (1954), "Tales of Conan" (1955), and "The Return of Conan" (1957). The worst selling book in Gnome Press history was 1955's new novel "Reprieve from Paradise" by H. Chandler Elliott. Many of Gnome's titles were reprinted in England by
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Gnome Press


with Gnome Press, as well as some good detail on its publisher, Martin Greenberg. Asimov and other authors were able eventually to get back the rights to their books so they could go to other, more lucrative deals. Martin Greenberg continued to cut costs at Gnome Press, through smaller editions, cheaper paper, and various promotions to sell back inventory. He was ultimately forced to close due to financial troubles, and Gnome folded in 1962 due to a long drawn-out lawsuit, leaving Arkham House the only American viable
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The Secret Island of Oz", "The Ice King of Oz", "The Forgotten Forest of Oz", and "The Blue Witch of Oz" released by First Comics and Dark Horse Comics between 1986 and 1992. They are collected in a single large volume titled "Adventures in Oz", published by IDW. He has also written and illustrated a full-length Oz novel, "The Giant Garden of Oz", and a collection of short Oz stories, "The Salt Sorcerer of Oz".
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Adventures in Oz is a collection of five graphic novels by Eric Shanower set in the Land of Oz. They were originally published separately from 1986 to 1992. The first four, "The Enchanted Apples of Oz" (1986), "The Secret Island of Oz" (1986), "The Ice King of Oz" (1987), and "The Forgotten Forest of Oz" (1988) were published by First Comics. The fifth, "The Blue Witch of Oz", was published by Dark Horse
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Gnome Wave Cleaner


Gnome Wave Cleaner (GWC) is a digital audio editor application. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced employing GTK+ for the GUI widgets. Its primary author is Jeff Welty. Gnome Wave Cleaner is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Gnome Wave Cleaner's primary purpose is to clean up poor quality recordings, such as those captured from old 78 rpm phonograph records. It provides tools for removing noise by spectral subtraction and for removing clicks
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Sir Harold and the Gnome King


Drabbo some years prior. Dorothy Gale and Princess Ozma are now grown up, married, and with children of their own. Moreover, Harold finds Ozma's husband, King Evardo of Ev, a much more canny and realistic ruler than Ozma in her youth; the royal pair is willing to help him, but only for a price! Lengthy negotiations ensue, as a result of which Harold finds himself committed to rescuing their son Prince Oznev, who is being held captive by Kaliko, the current king of the Gnomes.
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Nelebel's Fairyland


is noteworthy as one of the small cluster of works that invoke Baum's specific non-Oz fairy domain, the Forest of Burzee, with its distinctive inhabitants of ryls, knooks and gigans as well as the more traditional fairies, pixies, and gnomes. In the story the queen of the Burzee fairies is Lulea, as in "Queen Zixi of Ix", rather than Zurline, as in "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus". "Nelebel's Fairyland" tells of how the fairy princess Nelebel was exiled
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Merry Go Round in Oz


Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) is the fortieth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors. It was written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren McGraw Wagner (her married name was dropped from reprinted editions after the marriage ended). It was illustrated by Dick Martin. "Merry Go Round in Oz" is the last of the "Famous Forty" and the last "official" Oz book. Reilly & Lee had refused many other authors, including previous author Rachel R. Cosgrove,
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Somatosensory evoked potential


including: Besides the clinical setting, SEPs have shown to be useful in distinct experimental paradigms. Schubert et al. (2006) used SEPs to investigate the differential processing of consciously perceived versus unperceived somatosensory stimuli. The authors used an 'extinction' paradigm to examine the connection between activation of S1 and somatosensory awareness, and observed that early SEPs (P60, N80), generated in the contralateral S1, were independent of stimulus perception. In contrast, amplitude enhancements were observed for the P100 and N140 for consciously perceived stimuli.
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King Conan


King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1953. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine "Weird Tales". The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections. Chronologically, the five short stories collected as "King Conan" are the fourth in Gnome's Conan series; the novel
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Sufficiency economy


Sufficiency economy is the name of a Thai development approach attributed to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej's "sufficiency economy philosophy" (SEP). It has been elaborated upon by Thai academics and agencies, promoted by the Government of Thailand, and applied by over 23,000 villages in Thailand that have SEP-based projects in operation. Soon after ascending to the throne in 1946, King Bhumibol toured the country and became aware of the hardships facing Thai farmers. At that time, the per capita GDP was about US$200. He
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to this rule). Ozma elaborates further, saying that there were once four Wicked Witches in Oz, who leagued together to depose the King, but the Wicked Witches of the North and South were defeated by Good Witches before the Wizard arrived in Oz. According to this version, the King at the time was Ozma's grandfather. This version of prehistory restores the Wizard's reputation, but adds the awkwardness of both Ozma and her father having been born in captivity. In "The Tin Woodman of Oz" Baum writes
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series)


then the ship and the surrounding sand begins to sink by the Nome King again, but once Lion saves Scarecrow from being lost they are all finally free and safe from the Nome King, despite his displeasure. The friends then decide that it is time to go home. (It is unknown if Tik-Tok and Billina have decided to move to Oz) The fourth and final story arc of the series is an adaptation of the sixth Oz book, "The Emerald City of Oz". Continuing on directly from the
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death in 1919. His motivations for returning to it were the readers' continued demand for new stories, his financial need for commercially successful stories, and his own fascination with the world of Oz. In this second period of Oz, Oz becomes a "socialist paradise". The threats to it are genetic experimentation and abuse of magic. The Nome King returns in "Tik-Tok of Oz" (1914), where he represents cruel oppression. Jason M. Bell and Jessica Bell trace the slavery and emancipation theme in
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Tokyo International Players


Barer and Dean Fuller, directed by Jon Reimer Sep 2011: "Metamorphosis" by Steven Berkoff, directed by Davina McFadyen Dec 2011: "A Kabuki Christmas Carol" by Gary Perlman, directed by Jon Reimer (WORLD PREMIERE) Mar 2012: "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, directed by Ed Gilmartin May 2012: "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, book by John Kane, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, directed by Jonah Hagans June 2012; "Intimate Apparel" by
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The Tik-Tok Man of Oz


-Tok Man of Oz" was based on L. Frank Baum's 1907 Oz book "Ozma of Oz," which in turn had incorporated material from Baum's unpublished manuscript "King Rinkitink." The play incorporated material that Baum also used in his 1908 Oz book "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz." Baum used his characters of the Shaggy Man and Polychrome in both the play and his 1909 Oz book "The Road to Oz," which he was working on at the same time. Newspaper accounts indicate that
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The Rundelstone of Oz


. The novel was then published in a hardback edition the next year. "The Forbidden Fountain of Oz" was originally intended to be illustrated by Lauren Lynn McGraw, the author's daughter and credited co-author. In "Oz-story", "The Rundelstone of Oz" was published with Shanower's illustrations, along with Lauren McGraw's design sketches for the characters from the earlier form of the story. (Since McGraw died in 2000, the 2001 edition was published posthumously; it featured an Introduction by Lauren
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