Moorcock's most popular works by far have been the Elric novels, starring the character Elric of Melniboné. Moorcock wrote the first Elric stories as a deliberate reversal of the cliches common in the fantasy adventure novels inspired by the works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (which Moorcock despised) as well as the work of Robert E. Howard. The popularity of Elric has overshadowed his many other works, though he has worked a number of the themes of the Elric stories into his other works (the "Hawkmoon" and "Corum" novels, for exampl ...

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1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 13 - Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires. January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and ...

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• 1939 - unknown dates
• 1939 - Ongoing events
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edit A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes, including the observable universe, which comprise the absolute whole of physical reality. The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it and the relationship between the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiverses have been hypothesized in physics, philosophy; and fiction, particularly in science fiction. (The specific term "multiverse" ...

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• Multiverse - Bubble Theory
• Multiverse - Big bounce
• Multiverse - Many world interpretation of quantum physics
• Multiverse - M-theory
• Multiverse - String Landscape
• Multiverse - Arguments against multiverse theories
• Multiverse - Multiverse hypotheses in philosophy
• Multiverse - Anthropic principle
• Multiverse - Modal realism
• Multiverse - Trans-world identity issues
• Multiverse - Fictional multiverses

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In Dungeons & Dragons and some similar role-playing games, alignment refers to the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game. Not all role-playing games have such a system. Alignment role-playing games - Dungeons & Dragons. The canonical system derived from Dungeons & Dragons creates a two-dimensional grid, one of which measures a "moral" continuum between good and evil, and the other "ethical" between law and ...

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• Alignment role-playing games - Good vs. Evil
• Alignment role-playing games - Law vs. Chaos
• Alignment role-playing games - Alignments
• Alignment role-playing games - Lawful Good
• Alignment role-playing games - Neutral Good
• Alignment role-playing games - Chaotic Good
• Alignment role-playing games - Lawful Neutral
• Alignment role-playing games - Neutral
• Alignment role-playing games - Chaotic Neutral
• Alignment role-playing games - Lawful Evil
• Alignment role-playing games - Neutral Evil
• Alignment role-playing games - Chaotic Evil
• Alignment role-playing games - Other game systems

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Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic science fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten or mythologized. The fall of civiliz ...

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• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - World War III nuclear
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Pandemic
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Astronomic impact meteorites
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Alien invasion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Ecological catastrophe
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Cybernetic revolt
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The decline and fall of the human race
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - After the fall of space-based civilization
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The Sun's expansion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Religious and supernatural apocalypse Eschatological fiction
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Various
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - To be categorized

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and anti-Christian sentiments. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and counted among his best friends Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He is considered a decadent poet, albeit that he professed to perhaps rather more vice than he actually indulged in, a fact ...

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Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer. She was best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued led to rape and other forms of violence against women. Andrea Dworkin - Her life and work. Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory ...

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives
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• Anarchism and the arts - Music
• Anarchism and the arts - Artists and artworks inspired by anarchism
• Anarchism and the arts - Visual Art
• Anarchism and the arts - Music
• Anarchism and the arts - Prose
• Anarchism and the arts - Poetry
• Anarchism and the arts - Film/Video

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Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D, DnD, or AD&D for the advanced edition) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. The original Dungeons & Dragons, designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, was first published in January 1974 by Gygax's company, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). Originally derived from tabletop wargames, this publication is generally regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and, by extension, t ...

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• Dungeons & Dragons - Legacy
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• Dungeons & Dragons - Magazines
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• Dungeons & Dragons - Board games
• Dungeons & Dragons - References in popular culture
• Dungeons & Dragons - Controversy and notoriety

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Shapeshifting, transformation , transmogrification or morphing is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially: a change from human form to animal form and vice versa a change in appearance from one person to another Shapeshifting is not considered scientifically or medically possible, but it is a common theme in myth and legend and a popular theme in science fiction and fantasy stories. Some conspiracy theories clai ...

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John Dee (July 13, 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dr. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his time, he had lectured to crowded halls at the University of Paris when still in his early twenties. He was an ardent promoter of mathematics, a respected astrono ...

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Time travel is the concept of moving forward and backward to different points in time, much as we do through space. It also includes traveling sideways in time between parallel realities or universes. Humans are in fact always travelling in time — in a linear fashion, from the present to the immediate future, inexorably, until death. Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of spacetime, or certain types of motion in space, may allow time travel into the past and future if t ...

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• Time travel - Special spacetime geometries
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• Time travel - Using Quantum Entanglement
• Time travel - The possibility of paradoxes
• Time travel - Time travel and the direction of time
• Time travel - Time travel and the anthropic principle
• Time travel - Time travel and religion
• Time travel - Prophecy and theology
• Time travel - Transcending time through ancient wisdom
• Time travel - Time travel in fiction
• Time travel - Types of time travel
• Time travel - Gradual and instantaneous
• Time travel - Time travel or space-time travel?
• Time travel - Distance of time travel
• Time travel - Fundamental problems with time travel
• Time travel - Open future models

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Arioch originally appears in the Book of Genesis chap. 14 as the "King of Ellasar", part of the confederation of kings who did battle with the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and with Abraham in the vale of Siddim. Earlier in the 20th century, it was common to identify him with "Eriaku" - an alternative reading of either Rim-Sin or his brother Warad-Sin, who were Elamite rulers over Larsa contemporary with Hammurabi, although this identification has come under attack from scholars in more recent years. The same name later appears in the Book of Daniel as the person appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar ...

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An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. Unlike aerodynamic craft (e.g. airplanes and helicopters) which stay aloft by moving an airfoil through the air in order to produce lift, aerostatic craft such as airships (and balloons) stay aloft primarily by means of a cavity (usually quite large) filled with a gas of lesser density than the surrounding atmosphere. Airships are also known as dirigibles from the French dirigeable, meaning "steerable". The term airship is s ...

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• Airship - History
• Airship - Airship Pioneers
• Airship - Airships in the First World War
• Airship - Airships in the Inter-war period
• Airship - Airships in the Second World War
• Airship - Continued use
• Airship - Present-day research
• Airship - Noteworthy historic prototypes and experiments
• Airship - Fiction

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Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England) is a British writer most famous for his work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels. As a comics writer, Moore is renowned for bringing more mature, literary sensibilities to a medium often dismissed as juvenile and ...

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• Alan Moore - Marvelman/Miracleman
• Alan Moore - V for Vendetta
• Alan Moore - Swamp Thing
• Alan Moore - Watchmen
• Alan Moore - Supreme
• Alan Moore - From Hell
• Alan Moore - Prose
• Alan Moore - Film
• Alan Moore - Music and performance art
• Alan Moore - Partial bibliography
• Alan Moore - Comics
• Alan Moore - Comics adaptations of Moore works in other media
• Alan Moore - Novels
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The Urantia Book (TUB or UB), is a spiritual or religious tome that covers an in-depth portrayal of God, the universe, the planet, evolution, history, philosophy, religion, and destiny. Sometimes it is referred to as "The Urantia Papers" (TUP), or "The Fifth Epochal Revelation" (FER). The Urantia Book seeks to clear up numerous misconceptions regarding God, divinity and deity. It addresses Jesus, the origin of life, the meaning of life, and humankind's place in creation. A total of 2,097 pages, the book consists o ...

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• The Urantia Book - Comparison to Christianity
• The Urantia Book - Comparisons to other world religions
• The Urantia Book - Mystery of origin
• The Urantia Book - Criticism
• The Urantia Book - Consideration as literature
• The Urantia Book - Adherents
• The Urantia Book - Secondary and controversial works
• The Urantia Book - Symbols
• The Urantia Book - The Urantia Book in popular culture

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White Wolf, Inc. is an American gaming company, most famous for the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game. The company was founded in 1991 by Mark Rein-Hagen and Steve and Stewart Wieck. Taking their name from the fiction of Michael Moorcock, they have become one of the world's most successful role-playing game companies. White Wolf publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", which generally resembles our world with added supernatural elements, and whose tone i ...

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• White Wolf Inc. - The New World of Darkness
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• White Wolf Inc. - Trinity Universe
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Commedia dell'arte (Italian, meaning "comedy of professional artists" but has also been interpreted as "comedy of humors") also known as Extemporal Commedy was a form of improvisational theater which began in the 16th century and was popular until the 18th century, although it is still performed today. Traveling teams of players would set up an outdoor stage and provide amusement in the form of juggling, acrobatics, and, more typically, humorous plays based on a repertoire of establis ...

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Warhammer 40,000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a science fiction tabletop miniature wargame, produced by the British gaming company Games Workshop. Play centres around 28mm scale (approximately 1:65) miniature figurines produced by Citadel Miniatures, which represent soldiers, creatures and vehicles of war. The game requires a combination of tactics and luck. Warhammer 40K is the science fiction companion to Warhammer Fantasy. Warhammer 40K allows for less regimental, formation-based movement, ...

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• Warhammer 40000 - Overview
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• Warhammer 40000 - Modelling
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• Warhammer 40000 - Background
• Warhammer 40000 - Setting
• Warhammer 40000 - Armies/Races/Species
• Warhammer 40000 - Notable characters
• Warhammer 40000 - Warhammer 40K spin-offs
• Warhammer 40000 - Miniature based games
• Warhammer 40000 - Non-miniature Games
• Warhammer 40000 - Computer games
• Warhammer 40000 - Non-wargame products

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The phrase underground press, especially underground newspapers (or simply underground papers) is most often used in reference to the alternative print media, independently published and distributed, associated with the countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This movement borrowed the name from previous underground presses such as the Dutch underground press during the Nazi occupations of the 1940s. The French resistance also published an underground press and prisoners of war (POWs) p ...

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