Progressive rock acts like Rush, Mostly Autumn, Bo Hansson and indie rock band Gatsbys American Dream have composed several songs based on Tolkien's characters and stories.

" According to Anders Hansson, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, " upward mobility into the elite was theoretically possible for virtually all male commoners.

Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson ( 1885 – 1946 ) had a circle of friends, jokingly referred to as the " peralbinians " ( peralbinerna ), who for a number of years came to his home every Thursday to eat pea soup, drink hot punsch and play bridge.

Per Albin Hansson ( 28 October 1885 in Kulladal – 6 October 1946 in Stockholm ), was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp.

One of the first professional politicians of Sweden, Hansson participated in the creation of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth in 1903 and presided over it as its chairman in 1908-09, a period in which universal suffrage and proportional representation was gradually to be enacted for all Swedish males by Conservative Prime Minister Arvid Lindman, later a rival of Hansson.

Influenced generally by Karl Kautsky's reformist views on socialism, Hansson succeeded Hjalmar Branting as editor of Social-Demokraten in 1917 and was appointed his Minister of Defence in Sweden's first Social Democratic cabinet in 1920, following a Liberal-Social Democratic coalition enacting equal suffrage for men and women ( in effect as of the 1921 election ).

In opposition to the Conservative-let be equally pragmatic and staunchly anti-Nazi-Lindman cabinet, Hansson pressed for the introduction of a welfare state rather than wide-scale nationalizations, coining his vision Folkhemmet (" the People's Home ") in a Riksdag debate in 1928.

Though not facing a majority, the inability of the Liberal parties ( themselves unable to form a single faction until 1934 ), the Conservatives and Agrarians to form a majority government pressed for a minority government led by Hansson, expecting support from the Farmers ' League through an agriculture policy favoring the interests of the League ( kohandeln ), although stopping short of inviting it into the cabinet.

Following the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland, Hansson declared strict neutrality and called for the formation of a broad coalition government involving all major parties under his leadership, which was realized in December except only the pro-Stalinist Communist Party and its short-lived pro-Nazi splinter faction, the Socialist Party, much to the delight of the remainder parties.

According to a printed oration in Greek by Hans Povelsson Paus ' son, Anders Hansson Paus ( born 1622 ), published at the University of Franeker, Chancellor Jens Bjelke, Bjelke's son-in-law Sten Willumsen Rosenvinge, Daniel Bildt of Hafslund and Bishop Ole Boesen were benefactors of his father who paid for his education.

Although he is considered the creator of the Swedish high-tax economy, controversies with Minister for Social Affairs Gustav Möller ( who would have preferred taxes to have been even higher ) prevented both from being elected party chairman and Prime Minister at the death of Hansson.

Robert Hansson was recruited to fill in on drums for the ensuing European tour.

See also Report by M. Michael Hansson, Former President of the Governing Body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, on the Activities of the Office from July 1 to December 31, 1938.

Hansson is an outspoken character known for the crude and brutal way he expresses his opinions, both online and in real life.

Hansson has received criticism for his endorsement of behavior seen as radical and crude.

Through the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Sträng was appointed as a representative on various state committees, and July 6, 1945, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson offered him to be Minister for Agriculture.

Sven Lindberg – the fire marshal for the castle – and Anders Andersson and Mattias Hansson, soldiers on fire watch for the night, reporting to Sven Lindberg.

In the early 1980s, Murdoch provided the English narration for the Polish animated version of The Moomins, from the classic series of books by Tove Jansson.

Between 1990 and 1992, Jansson worked with Dennis Livson to direct the Moomin animated series in Japan.

* In Tampere in Finland, the Moomin Museum displays the Moomin house, a dollhouse created around the Moomin characters of Tove Jansson.

Many 19th century history paintings of classical characters such as Hyacinth, Ganymede and Narcissus can also be interpreted as homoerotic ; the work of late 19th century artists ( such as Thomas Eakins, Eugène Jansson, Henry Scott Tuke, Aubrey Beardsley and Magnus Enckell ); through to the modern work of fine artists such as Paul Cadmus and Gilbert & George.

In June 2012, West recorded an English narration of The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson for an interactive audiobook developed by Spinfy and published by Sort of Books.

The basic concept was created by Torbjörn Jansson, which was then substantially re-worked and developed by the co-head-writers Kristina Mansfeld and Per Carlsson into the series it is today.

The tools were first developed by Hans Petter Jansson at Helix Code.

The Proud album, recorded by Jansson over a year in his Uptown Studios, and funded by himself and Australia's Volition Records, with some help from a South Auckland council funding body, took the studio techniques he'd have developed with the earlier releases and finessed these.

Jansson continued painting and writing for the rest of her life, although her contributions to the Moomin series became rare after 1970.

Jansson is principally known as the author of the Moomin books – stories for children that involve Jansson's creations, the Moomins.

After Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults.

In addition to providing the illustrations for her own Moomin books, Jansson also illustrated Swedish translations of classics such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( some used later in Finnish translations as well ).

Tove Jansson worked as illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine Garm from the 1930s to 1953.

Jansson also produced illustrations during this period for the Christmas magazines Julen and Lucifer ( just as her mother had earlier ) as well as several smaller productions.

Jansson had already drawn a long Moomin comic adventure, Mumintrollet och jordens undergång (" Moomintrolls and the End of the World "), based loosely on Comet in Moominland, for the Swedish-language newspaper Ny Tid, and she accepted the offer.

In 1952, Jansson designed stage settings and dresses for Pessi and Illusia, a ballet by Ahti Sonninen ( Radio tekee murron ) which was performed at the Finnish National Opera.

In 1966 Tove Jansson won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her contributions to children's literature.

The publisher also has an imprint for children called Enfant, with which they have published the Moomin works of Tove Jansson and Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman.

The differentiation between soft security and hard security was first made by Rasmusson and Jansson who used the term hard security for traditional mechanisms like authentication and access control, and soft security for

He is best known for his soundtrack to the Finnish-Japanese anime series Moomin, which is based on the Moomin books by illustrator and writer Tove Jansson.

Moomin World (, ) is the Moomin Theme Park especially for children, based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson.

The original idea was to make it round, like Jansson always made it in her illustrations for the Moomin stories, but since it was going to be displayed in a corner at the Bratislava biennale of illustrations in 1979, they decided to make it square instead.

One of the main characters of the 1969-1971 animated cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark is a blue aardvark voiced by John Byner, doing an impersonation of Jackie Mason.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

In the Disney animated film Fantasia, during the Pastoral Symphony, some of the main characters are female centaurs.

He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

In addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

Giraffes have also appeared in animated films, as minor characters in The Lion King and Dumbo, and in more prominent roles in The Wild and in the Madagascar films.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the Filmation cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

* 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

* Nulls, worm-like remains of defeated characters in the animated program ReBoot

The animated series Robot Chicken continues to primarily utilize stop motion animation, using custom made action figures and other toys as principal characters.

He was replaced by two animated characters who made semi-regular appearances: Lieutenant Arex, whose Edosian species had three arms and three legs ; and Lt. M ' Ress, a female Caitian.

M ' Ress and Arex, characters from the animated series, appear in the Star Trek: New Frontier novels by Peter David, in which M ' Ress and Arex are transported through time to the 24th Century, and are made officers on board the USS Trident.

In a sense, virtually all animated series allow characters and objects to perform in unrealistic ways, so they are almost all considered to fit within the broadest category of speculative fiction ( in the context of awards, criticism, marketing, etc.

The robotic Cylons in the new version of Battlestar Galactica are usually animated characters, while the Asgard in Stargate SG-1 are animated when they are shown walking around or more than one is on screen at once.

The symbols are usually brightly colored and easily recognizable, such as images of fruits, numerals or letters, and simple shapes such as bells, diamonds, or hearts ; newer video slot machines use animated cartoon characters and images of popular actors or singers ( in the case of themed slot machines, as described below ).

Using an Irish-produced magnetic system – on which animated characters were attached to a painted background, and then photographed through a 45 degree mirror – he persuaded Peter Firmin, who was then teaching at the Central School of Art, to create the background scenes.

This resulted in the Firmin-produced characters looking like they were short in one leg, but the success of the production provided the foundation for Postgate and Firmin to start up their own company solely producing animated children's programmes.

Voice-over technique is likewise used to give voices and personalities to animated characters.

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a British series consisting of four animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

In 2010, Empire Magazine placed Gromit first in their list of " The 50 best animated movie characters ".