Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

' " An example which combines homophonic and homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line " You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.

Douglas Adams's 1998 computer game Starship Titanic features the " Succ-U-Bus " in almost every room – being a pneumatic pipe transport system which goes all around the ship ; players must understand and use the Succ-U-Bus in order to progress and solve the puzzles.

In Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the well-known line from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, " Weave a circle round him thrice ", is interpreted as the salute of an alien culture: " He waved hand round in a circle, three times.

* Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series ( radio, printed novels, TV series, feature film, etc.

VHS release: The original television version of Shada was released in 1992 on VHS and featured linking narration by Tom Baker and was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of Douglas Adams's script ( except in North America ).

More contemporary examples of nonsense verse are Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the 1972 song ' Prisencolinensinainciusol ' by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano.

A novel entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, based on the game, was written by Terry Jones.

* Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ( 1988 )

The second book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was inspired by the song " Grand Hotel ", from Procol Harum's album of the same name.

* h2g2 – a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the title character saves the world, in part by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream ; if Coleridge had completed the poem an alien ghost would have ' encoded ' certain information within the completed work that would have allowed him to make repairs to his spaceship in the past at the cost of wiping out all life on Earth.

This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The internet service derived its name from the " Babel fish ", a fictional species in Douglas Adams's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that could instantly translate languages.

In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels, the titular character — a " holistic " detective — is implied to have psychic powers on occasion.

The play's two chief influences are Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy and the role play game Space 1889, although another is Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall.

It is named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio, play, and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Babel fish, a fictional creature from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

* Douglas Adams's " increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy " started as a BBC radio series and was adapted to a trilogy which eventually grew to five novels.

Trefil found new fame in 2005 when it was used as a location for the alien Vogon homeworld in the film of Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Bug-eyed monsters were mentioned in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

* Mr. L. Prosser, a minor character appearing at the beginning of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Notable examples include Douglas Adams's babel fish, the TARDIS from Doctor Who, the translator microbes in Farscape, and the universal translator from Star Trek.

Starship Titanic is an adventure game designed by Douglas Adams and made by The Digital Village.

According to Starship Titanic author Douglas Adams, his team had originally selected mTropolis 1. 0 for its development platform but it had to be abandoned for unspecified technical insufficiencies in favor of an in-house tool.

Walter Donald Douglas perished in the Titanic disaster.

* Walter Donald Douglas ( 1861 – 1912 ), businessman and Titanic casualty

* Walter D. Douglas passenger on the RMS Titanic.

* Dunlop, Douglas Morton ( 1997 ).

* Douglas Morton Dunlop ( 1997 ).

* Dunlop, Douglas Morton ( 1997 ).

The 1997 merger of American corporations Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, which followed the forming of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defence contractor in 1995, increased the pressure on European defence companies to consolidate.

* Dunlop, Douglas Morton ( 1997 ).

* Clark, John E., and Douglas D. Bryant ( 1997 ) Technological typology of prismatic blades and debitage from Ojo de Agua, Chiapas, Mexico.

* Michael Sheen played Ross in the 1997 biopic Wilde, which starred Stephen Fry as Wilde and Jude Law as Douglas.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language ( ISBN 0-465-08645-4 ), published by Basic Books in 1997, is a book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation.

McDonnell Douglas merged with its rival, Boeing, in 1997.

Following Boeing's 1996 acquisition of Rockwell's North American division, McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in August 1997 in a US $ 13 billion stock-swap to create The Boeing Company.

The origins of the band date back to the summer of 1997 when Jordan Pundik ( vocals ) had met Stephen Klein ( guitars ) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the pair began writing music together.

McDonnell Douglas later merged with its rival Boeing in 1997.

* Canfield, Douglas ( 1997 ).

Winter, Douglas " Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint " 1997.

From 1989 until 1997, Douglas was the companion of director Martin Scorsese.

McDonnell Douglas would later merge with Boeing in August 1997.

* 1963: 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival ( Douglas, 1997 )

After the cancellation of the Avro Arrow program in 1959, the plant was operated by de Havilland Canada ( 1962 ), Douglas Aircraft ( 1965 ) McDonnell Douglas Canada ( 1981 ), and Boeing Canada ( 1997 ) before being demolished in 2005.

Roe Canada ( 1945 ), de Havilland Canada ( 1962 ), Douglas Aircraft ( 1965 ), McDonnell Douglas Canada ( 1981 ), and Boeing Canada ( 1997 ) was demolished in 2005.

In 1997, in a back-handed compliment, the founders of the annual award for " The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand ", as voted by " four or five eminent judges – academics, community leaders, artists, even sportspeople ", named it the " Roger Award " after Sir Roger Douglas.

* Douglas Blackwood ( 1909 – 1997 )-Battle of Britain fighter pilot, publisher