While trapped on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect see Slartibartfast's signature deep inside a glacier in ancient Norway.

His friend Ford Prefect, a contributor to the Guide, assures him that the next edition will contain the article on Earth that Ford has spent the last 15 years researching — somewhat cut due to space restrictions, but still an improvement.

Meanwhile, Ford Prefect has returned to the offices of the Hitchhikers ' Guide, and is annoyed to find out the original publishing company, Megadodo Publications, has been taken over by InfiniDim Enterprises.

Concurrent to these events, Ford Prefect discovers that during an update of the " Hitchhiker's Guide ", his previous entry for Earth, " Mostly harmless ", has been replaced with the volumes of text he wrote during his research.

Ford Prefect ( also called Ix ) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams.

Although Ford had taken great care to blend into Earth society, he had " skimped a bit on his preparatory research ," and thought that the name " Ford Prefect " would be " nicely inconspicuous.

" The Ford Prefect was, in fact, a British car manufactured from 1938 to 1961.

This was expanded on somewhat in the film version, where Ford is almost run over while attempting to greet a blue Ford Prefect.

The graphics in the TV series provide a similar explanation by listing director John Ford, Arthur Ford, news reader Anna Ford, carmaker Henry Ford, the Ford Anglia, the Ford Consul and finally Ford Prefect.

" Nowadays, the joke is largely lost on younger audiences in Britain as well, since the Ford Prefect is now a rare sight on British roads.

" While not explained in the book, a footnote of the original radio scripts explains that " just before arriving ( on Earth ) he registered his new name officially at the Galactic Nomenclaturoid Office, where they had the technology to unpick his old name from the fabric of space / time and thread the new one in its place, so that to all intents and purposes his name had always been and would always be Ford Prefect.

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The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

The character was also featured in the 1993 film The Fugitive, based loosely on the original series, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as a United States marshal in pursuit of him.

Harrison Ford, who played Deckard in the film, has said that he did not think Deckard was a replicant, and also states he and the director had discussions that ended in the agreement that the character was human.

The gentleman on the original cover, now referred to as " Eustace Tilley ", is a character created by Corey Ford for The New Yorker.

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

In the earlier series, he is said to have had little formal education, the character originally modeled after such figures as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss.

Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense ; he generally appears in court wearing a trademark light gray suit and, over the series ' entire run, owned three generations of the Ford Crown Victoria – always an all-gray model ( Griffith's character had always driven Ford products in his 1960s series, The Andy Griffith Show ).

The idea was also expounded by Carl Sagan, though this may have postdated Adams ' creation of the character of Ford.

In the third season of the television show Lost, it was revealed that the character James " Sawyer " Ford was born in Jasper.

In 2011, the Leverage episode " The 10 Li ' l Grifters Job ", Timothy Hutton's character Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to his late father, Jim.

On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: The Man and the Machine.

He suggested Tin Lizzie, the name of a robot character from the comic, itself named for the common nickname for the iconic Ford Model T car.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council tortures Ford Prefect ( character ) | Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent with his poetry in the 2005 film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( film ) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Jeltz reading poetry to Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect ( character ) | Ford Prefect in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( TV series ) | television series.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz, based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle.

In Francis Ford Coppola's tense character study / spy thriller, The Conversation ( 1974 ), a bugging-device expert ( Gene Hackman ) systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon.

In Ford Madox Ford's trilogy of historical novels, The Fifth Queen, the character Magister Nicholas Udal is a decidedly heterosexual profligate, who serves as Latin tutor to Mary I of England and Henry VIII's " fifth queen ," Katharine Howard.

And the scene in which Van Heflin's character escorts Ford to the railroad station while avoiding an ambush by his gang may have inspired the ambush of Frank by his own men in Leone's film.

* Clinton B. Ford ( 1913 – 1992 ), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.

They include: the Second Battle of Athenry ( 1316 ); the battle of Knockdoe ( 1504 ); the Battle of the Yellow Ford ( 1596 ); the First Battle of Curlew Pass ( 1599 ); the Battle of Dungans Hill ( 1647 ); the Battle of Castlebar ( 1798 ), and the Battle of the Bogside ( 1969 ).

In 1962 Braudel and Gaston Berger used Ford Foundation money and government funds to create a new independent foundation, the ( FMSH ), which Braudel directed from 1970 until his death.

As well as motor dealerships from Ford ( Greyhound ), Vauxhall & Chevrolet ( Accrington Garages ), the town was home to a Arnold Clark car dealer which closed down in 2010.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003 ), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College.

Father Mathew Bridge is understood to be near the ancient " Ford of the Hurdles " ( Baile Átha Cliath ), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.

They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.

Together with fellow staff-member Kent Ford, Rubin announced at a 1975 meeting of the American Astronomical Society the discovery that most stars in spiral galaxies orbit at roughly the same speed, which implied that their mass densities were uniform well beyond the locations with most of the stars ( the galactic bulge ), a result independently found in 1978.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush ( standing, left to right ), Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Rosalynn Carter, and Betty Ford ( seated, left to right ) at the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, November 1991

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

* Virginia Surtees ( ed ), The diary of Ford Madox Brown ( 1981, ISBN 0-300-02743-5 )

* Tessa Sidey ( ed ), Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, ( 2008, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ISBN 978-1-904832-56-0 )

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

His mother, Mary Litogot Ford ( 1839 – 1876 ), was born in Michigan ; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants ; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O ' Herns.

In Ford v. Wainwright 477 U. S. 399 ( 1986 ), the US Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed.

* John of Ford ( ca. 1140 – 1214 ), English religious leader who, from 1191 until his death, served as abbot of Dorset Cistercian monastery Forde Abbey ; ally of King John

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory