Upon the hidden island of Dinotopia humans and dinosaurs live and work together in harmony save for the few predators that roam the land. It is a place of beauty and wonder lost to the rest of the world. Dinotopia began as an illustrated children's book called Dinotopia: A Land apart from Time. It was a huge success which led James Gurney to write and illustrate two more books called Dinotopia: The World Beneath and Dinotopia: First Flight. A children's flip-up vers ...

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Utopian, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better, or perhaps perfect society. Ideas which could/are considered able to radically change our world are often called utopian ideas. "Utopian" in a negative meaning is used to discredit ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic, impossible to realize. Hence, for example, the use by Marxists ...

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• Utopia - Types of utopia
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Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as opposed to inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet (see below). Note: for inclusion in this list, the country should be notable enough to have a separate article. See List of fictional countries for a longer list. Aeaea: mythical island in Greek mythology, home of the sorceress Circe Alagaësia: the fantasy land in which the Chr ...

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Twenty-six is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, and 13. 26 is the only number between a square number and a cube number, the numbers being 25 (5 squared) and 27 (3 cubed). There is no solution to the equation φ(x) = 26, making 26 a nontotient. Nor is there a solution to x - φ(x) = 26, making 26 a noncototient. In the classification of finite simple groups there are 26 sporadic groups. ...

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1990: (3-way tie) By Dawn's Early Light (HBO TV Movie) Miracle Landing (CBS TV Movie) The Orchestra (PBS Special) Star Trek: The Next Generation- For ep. "Deja Q." (Syndicated) Star Trek: The Next Generation- For ep. "Tin Man." (Syndicated) 1991: Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express (CBS Special) Star Trek: The Next Generation- For ep. "The Best ...

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The Mole - Australia. The Australian version of the show began in 2000, followed by four more seasons. The 2003 season was set on the Pacific island nation of New Caledonia and entitled The Mole: in Paradise. Former Blue Heelers star Grant Bowler was the host. Bowler was the greatest success of the show, his mixture of charm and mystery was a hit with audiences. Like the British version, the first Australian season included a 'special episode' which revealed all the clues about the mole, and ...

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Utopia - Utopia's Family. Adjective - utopian: According to Oxford dictionary, it is usually used negatively to criticise proposals or ideas having or aiming for a level of perfection of utopia which is impossible or very difficult to achieve. Noun - utopian: The word utopian can be used as a noun to mean someone who imagines, proposes, or supports a utopia. See also:

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Pilots usually run as the first episode of the series, unless the series ended up being so different from the pilot that it wouldn't make sense (in this case the pilot, or portions of it, is reshot or rewritten to fit the rest of the series). The pilot for Gilligan's Island, for instance, showed the castaways becoming stranded on the island. However, three roles were recast before going to series, with the characters either modified or completely altered to the point where the pilot could no longer be used as a regular episode. The se ...

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Oviraptor was one of the most birdlike of the nonavian dinosaurs. Its ribcage in particular displayed several features that are typical of birds, including a set of processes on each rib that would have kept the ribcage rigid. A relative of Oviraptor called Nomingia was found with a pygostyle, which is a set of fused vertebrae that would later help support the tail feathers of birds. Oviraptor is traditionally depicted with a distinctive crest similar to that of the cassowary. However, re-examination of the ...

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1984: (2-way tie): 26th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS) The Day After (ABC) V: The Final Battle (mini) (NBC) 1985: (4-way tie): A.D. (NBC) (mini) The Brain (PBS special) Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (ABC) The Hugga Bunch (Syndicated) 1986: (2-way tie): Dinosaur! (CBS TV Movie) Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (ABC ...

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Pilots are expensive to produce. Before a network commits to funding an entire pilot episode, it often requests a pilot presentation, a one-day shoot that, when edited together, gives a general idea of the look and feel of the proposed show. Some pilots can be just a few minutes long (ex: 10 minutes or less); however, such pilots will not be shown on the air unless more material is subsequently padded into them to make them at least twenty-two minutes in length, the actual duration of a nominally "thirty minute" program (taking account of co ...

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The concept for a pilot is generally "pitched" to network executives by a producer or writer. If interested, the network will fund the writing of a script. This may happen 50 times in a particular year. At this point various stakeholders at the network propose changes, and rewrites occur to satisfy those demands. If a project is unable to meet these changes, it will often be shelved or enter "development hell", a period of perpetual rewrites and recasting that lasts until the pil ...

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While succeeding in challenges is important in order to build up potential winnings, it is also critical to stay in the game by scoring better than opponents on the quiz, usually by attempting to draw their suspicions of the mole's identity toward oneself. Since the mole must use subterfuge to misdirect attention from his/her attempts to derail the team, disingenuous attempts to emulate the mole must be subtle, while still noticeable and suspicious. It's worth noting that often the players would sabotage themselves so much that t ...

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While the map of Earth in the "Hyborian Age" differs markedly from today's, some of Howard's fictional, ancient countries are obviously serve as ancestors of historical ones. Aquilonia, kingdom of Conan the Barbarian. Cimmeria, home of Conan the Barbarian. Valusia, kingdom of Atlantis ruled by Kull ...and others. ...

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Though J. R. R. Tolkien indicated that he intended Arda to represent our Earth in a previous age, sometimes few correspondences exist between modern landmasses and countries and those of Arda. The following countries, areas or regions feature on the continent Middle-earth: Angmar, country of the Witch-king of Angmar Arnor, the northern kingdom of men. Dol Guldur Hill of Black Magic, stronghold of the Necromancer (Sauron). From the description, probably based on Glastonbury Tor, Somerset. Dunland, the c ...

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Some lands exist uneasily on the borderlands of fiction and fact, of imagination and reality. There follows a list of places with a real counterpart, but which in romantic/poetic imagination or nationalist fervour or historical dimmed memory can become "other". Note that a Latinate name may conjure up visions of (questionable) past grandeur. Andalusia Vandalia Antarctica Terra Australis Incognita Arabia Araby Australia Oz (distinct ...

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Utopia - Economic utopia. Particularly in the early nineteenth century, several utopian ideas arose, often in response to the social disruption created by the development of commercialism and capitalism. These are often grouped in a greater "utopian socialist" movement, due to their shared characteristics: an egalitarian distribution of goods, frequently with the total abolition of money, and citizens only doing work which they enjoy and which is for the common good, leaving them with ample time for the cultivati ...

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Thomas More depicts a rationally organised society, through the narration of an explorer who discovers it - Raphael Hythlodaeus. Utopia is based on Plato's Republic, although More extended the communism of property to all citizens. Furthermore it is a perfect version of The Republic where the beauties of society, eg. equalism and a general pacifist attitude, although its citizens were all ready to fight if need be. The evils of society, eg. poverty and misery, are all removed. It has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends its ci ...

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From 1995 James Gurney worked with a number of other authors on a series of short novels for children using the Dinotopia characters and themes, published by Random House: Windchaser by Scott Ciencin River Quest by John Vornholt Hatchling by Midori Snyder Lost City by Scott Ciencin Sabertooth Mountain by John Vornholt Thunder Falls by Scott Ciencin Firestorm by Gene De Weese The Maze by Peter David T ...

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