Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Fox also penned the reinvention of the new Atom, who debuted in Showcase # 34 ( Sep-Oct, 1961 ) with art by Gil Kane three years after his creation of sci-fi hero Adam Strange, who debuted in # 17 ( Nov, 1958 ) with art by Mike Sekowsky.

In episode 28 of the animated series Young Justice titled " Earthling ", Adam Strange improvises a performance of the second verse of Jabberwocky in order to distract a patrol while on the planet Rann.

Bizarro eventually appears on the planet Throneworld, befriending and aiding Earth hero Adam Strange and allies Prince Gavyn, Captain Comet, and the Weird.

In the late 1970s in Showcase and World's Finest Comics, Thanagar went to war with the planet Rann, the adopted home of Adam Strange.

He meets the Legion of Super-Heroes, counsels Jor-El, father of Superman, and then helps Adam Strange fight an invading empire.

* Adam Humphrey Drummond of Megginch, 17th Baron Strange ( b. 1953 )

This being, originally one entity, confronted Rann's adopted champion, Adam Strange, and was defeated.

In the 2004 Adam Strange ( issues # 5-8 ) and the later Rann / Thanagar War series ( issues # 1 – 6 and the Infinite Crisis special ), Vril Dox has resumed control of L. E. G. I. O. N.

Adam Strange is pursued by the group in the pages of his own series, framed for the seeming destruction of Rann.

Due to a malfunction of the zeta beam which Adam Strange deploys to return the team to Earth, Animal Man, along with most of the heroes, go missing after Infinite Crisis.

Eventually some of the heroes are recovered but Adam Strange, Buddy, and Starfire are still missing.

In 52, Animal Man, Starfire, and Adam Strange are stranded on an alien planet.

In issue # 37, moments after Starfire and Adam Strange leave Animal Man in space, Buddy comes back to life.

Animal Man joined Adam Strange and Starfire in the series titled Countdown to Adventure written by Adam Beechen.

In 2009, he rejoined Full Metal Jacket costar Adam Baldwin in the direct-to-DVD indie film Little Fish, Strange Pond.

Also, production designer Kevin Conran, the brother of director Kerry Conran, based the design of the flying humanoid robots, in part, on the helmet worn by the DC Comics superhero Adam Strange and controls on Commando Cody's rocket-pack ( see image, right ).

While Kubert started at DC Comics, drawing Adam Strange and the Batman vs.

* Adam Strange

After an extended hiatus, Lobo reappeared during the year-long maxi-series known as 52 where he encounters a group of heroes ( consisting of Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire ), who find themselves stranded in space after the events of Infinite Crisis.

Members of the Omega Men also appeared in the 2004 eight-issue Adam Strange limited series, as well as the 2005 Infinite Crisis lead-in 6-issue limited series, Rann-Thanagar War and the 2008 follow-up Rann-Thanagar Holy War.

The Omega Men made a return appearance in the Adam Strange mini-series.

One of their new members, a precog, results in them waiting in a Rannian space station for some time ; their ultimate purpose to meet Adam Strange.

In the recent Omega Men mini-series, it had been revealed that upon returning to the remains of Tamaran with Ryand ' r ( who was not part of the team in the Adam Strange mini-series ), the Omegans are attacked by the Darkstar zombies of Lady Styx and all but five of them died.

Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter-day church.

Talking about Adalvard the Younger, the bishop of Sigtuna and later that of Skara, Adam or a later copyist has written:

Among other compliments, Linnaeus has been called ( Prince of Botanists ), " The Pliny of the North ," and " The Second Adam ".

The last time we saw the tree of life was in the Garden of Eden. 2: 9 God drove Adam and Eve away from it because it bestowed eternal life and he did not want them to have it in their degraded state. 3: 22 In the New Jerusalem, the tree of life reappears, and everyone in the city has access to it.

However it has not always been so: the Fall occurred because Adam and Eve succumbed to their desire for each other, and copulated before the allotted time.

In contrast to the Jewish view of being morally balanced, Original Sin refers to the idea that the sin of Adam and Eve's disobedience ( sin " at the origin ") has passed on a spiritual heritage, so to speak.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

The Zohar tradition has influenced Jewish folkore, which postulates God created Adam to marry a woman named Lilith.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".

Bedi married four times and has three children, Pooja, Siddharth and Adam.

After the publication of the statistical analysis by Bill, Adam discovers that he has missed a second instruction from Bill to conduct 12 trials instead, and that Bill's paper is based on this second instruction.

This Jewish tradition has echoes also in Jewish pseudepigrapha such as 2 Enoch and the Life of Adam and Eve.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

Following his death, the publishers of the Old Earth creationism book " Who Was Adam " issued a news release that said: " Evolution has just been dealt its death blow.

There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur ( another version has Haggai ).

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

Rickman has also been featured in several musical works – most notably in a song composed by the English songwriter Adam Leonard entitled " Not Alan Rickman ".

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

This painting, for which the original title has not survived, depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of sinners on the right panel.