The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams ' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ( 1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0 ) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction pentalogy of five by Douglas Adams.

* Some of the local businesses in town include, Another Chance Thrift Store, the Nunda Lumber and Hardware, Hope Valley Camp, Once Again Nut Butter, Nunda Mustard, Dalton Builders Incorporated, Didas Construction, Souther Tier Express Video Store, Nunda Historical Society, Poor American Cafe, Kathy's Country Florist, Mann Funeral Home, Hark Homes, Cassidy and Underwood Building, Douglas Ford, Bugman and Sons Milking Company, Nunda NAPA auto parts, Bill's Restaurant, Lawsons Sand and Gravel, Husky's Laundromat and Car Wash, and The Pizza Corner.

There are a number of hotels and restaurants including the Stag Hotel, Scott Skinners Bar and Restaurant, the Burnett Arms, and the Douglas Arms.

In the end of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, a possible question to get the answer " forty-two " is presented: " What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

Douglas Culver suggested a lunch meeting at the Comedy Restaurant in London on 4 December 1929 for anybody who was interested.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

* 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

* 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

Lancaster made seven films over the years with Kirk Douglas, including I Walk Alone ( 1948 ), Gunfight at the O. K.

Douglas Engelbart introduced the chorded keyset as a computer interface in 1968 at what is often called " The Mother of All Demos ".

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

Various executives, first at Tymshare and later at McDonnell Douglas ( which acquired Tymshare in 1984 ), expressed interest in his ideas, but never committed the funds or the people to further develop them.

* 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay.

BIND was written by Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou in the early 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley as a result of a DARPA grant.

Generals of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower are tied for the record of the greatest number of awards received of the Army Distinguished Service Medal at five each.

Douglas Stuart in his commentary on Exodus puts it this way: " In Egypt, Israel was the servant of Pharaoh ; at Sinai they became God's servants.

A trivial example of the specific form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words " THANK YOU " at the end of a transaction.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Much of the North End is made up of the former city of Portland and comprises another former working class area which is slowly undergoing gentrification at the eastern end of Douglas Avenue ; immediately north of Portland and upstream from the Reversing Falls is the former community of Indiantown.

* Douglas Academy: A state-funded secondary school, which includes a Music School for gifted children who gain entry through audition and board in Glasgow's West End

His Social Credit economics book Life and Money: Being a Critical Examination of the Principles and Practice of Orthodox Economics with A Practical Scheme to End the Muddle it has made of our Civilisation, was endorsed by Douglas.

* September 12 – Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65, a Douglas DC-3A, crashes in the Atlantic Ocean near West End Settlement, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, killing all 34 people on board.

* Fatal Attraction ( 1987 ) In the movie, Michael Douglas ' character lives in a building on 100th and West End Avenue

* Hugh A. Dempsey, Big Bear: The End of Freedom, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984.

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.

Douglas Byng ( 17 March 1893 – 24 August 1987 ) was a British comic singer and songwriter in West End theatre, revue and cabaret.

" Gnab Gib " is the opposite of the Big Bang as referenced in Douglas Adams ' book " The Restauraunt at the End of the Universe " book to in the series " The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy " a trilogy in 5 parts.

She received her training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art London, appearing in 3 plays in London's West End and a movie Midnight Episode by the time she was 20.

Douglas started acting as a teenager, joining the Worthing, West Sussex repertory company, before making her West End theatre debut in 1958.

* On 12 September 1980, Douglas DC-3A N75KW of Florida Commuter Airlines, operating a scheduled international passenger flight from West Palm Beach International Airport, Palm Beach, Florida, United States to Grand Bahama International Airport crashed into the sea off West End.