Near the end of 2009, BioWare released the fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins, and in January 2010, Mass Effect 2.

Gary Gygax thought it would be a good idea to introduce science fiction / science fantasy concepts to D & D players through the use of a tournament scenario at the 1976 Origins II gaming convention in Baltimore, Maryland.

BioWare describes Dragon Age: Origins as a " dark heroic fantasy set in a unique world ", and a spiritual successor to their Baldur's Gate series of games, which took place in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

The novel achieved best-selling status and became a series of comic books, an Origins Award-winning board wargame and later a video game.

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Michael McKeon brought a Marxist approach to the history of the novel in his 1986 The Origins of the English Novel.

Michael McKeon, for example, brought a Marxist approach to the history of the novel in his 1986 The Origins of the English Novel.

William Cuddihy, Ph. D. in his dissertation entitled The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning, claims there existed a " colonial epidemic of general searches.

The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning, 602 – 1791.

* " The Origins, Founding, and Early Years of the American Society of Civil Engineers: A Case Study in Successful Failure Analysis ," in American Civil Engineering History: The Pioneering Years, B. G. Dennis, Jr., et al., editors, Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage, ASCE Annual Meeting, November 2 – 6, 2002, pp. 57 – 66.

* The Origins of the Fourth International by Jean Van Heijenoort

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World.

The Origins of the Second World War, Manchester University Press: Manchester, United Kingdom, 2001 ISBN 0719059585.

* Watt, D. C. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938 – 1939.

Keys explores what he believes to be the radical and far-ranging global effects of just such a putative 6th-century eruption in his book Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World.

The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Longman, London and New York, 1987.

The World of Games: Their Origins and History, How to Play Them, and How to Make Them ( translation of Wereld vol spelletjes ).

World Championships were held each year at the Origins Game Fair.

As the British historian A. J. P. Taylor noted in his 1963 foreword " Second Thoughts " to his 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War:

* Ness, Gayl D. Review of the book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.

" Congress and the Origins of the Cold War: The Truman Doctrine ," World Affairs, Vol.

Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945 – 1950, ( 1991 ) online edition

* Telos 49, Origins and Meaning of World War I.

In 1964, when Oxford refused to renew his term as lecturer in the aftermath of the controversy occasioned by The Origins of the Second World War, he became a lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research in London, University College London, and the Polytechnic of North London.

In 1961, he published his most controversial book, The Origins of the Second World War, which earned him a reputation as a revisionist.

In 1965 he rebounded from the controversy surrounding The Origins of the Second World War with the spectacular success of his book English History 1914 – 1945, his only venture into social and cultural history, where he offered a loving, affectionate portrayal of the years between 1914 and 1945.

Trevor-Roper said " I'm afraid that your book The Origins of the Second World War may damage your reputation as a historian ", to which Taylor replied " Your criticism of me would damage your reputation as a historian, if you had one.

The Origins of the Second World War was received negatively by some quarters when it was published in 1961.

Other historians who criticised The Origins of the Second World War included ; Isaac Deutscher, Louis Morton, Barbara Tuchman, Ian Morrow, Gerhard Weinberg, G. F. Hudson, Elizabeth Wiskemann, W. N.

As angry as the reaction in Britain was to The Origins of the Second World War, it was greater when the book was published in January 1962 in the United States.

Despite the criticism, The Origins of the Second World War is regarded as a watershed in the historiography of the origins of the Second World War.

* The Origins of the Second World War, 1961.

* Dray, William, Concepts of Causation in A. J. P. Taylor's Account of the Origins of the Second World War pages 149 – 172 from History and Theory, Volume 17, Issue # 1, 1978.

Taylor and the Origins of the Second World War " pages 257 – 280 from Canadian Journal of History, Volume 32, Issue # 2, 1996.

* Secret Origins, a comic book series published by DC Comics that told the origins of different characters

* Wolverine: Origins, a Marvel Comics series, the sequel to Wolverine: Origin

* Silent Hill: Origins, the fifth installment of the Silent Hill survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game

* Dragon Age: Origins, a 2009 role-playing video game and first installment of the Dragon Age series

* Rayman Origins, an installment in the Rayman series

* Murphy, Justin D. Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact ( Weapons and warfare series ).

The series consists of seven episodes titled " Origins of Black Music ," " That Philly Sound ," " Jazz Beyond the Classroom ," " Black Music in Film, Television & Theatre ," " Jazz ," " Black Music in Film – The Next Generation :" and " Bass to Bass.

The most famous expositions appear in Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade ( 1927, based on a series of lectures of 1922 ) and in his posthumous Mohammed and Charlemagne ( 1937 ), published from Pirenne's first draft.

IDW Productions re-released the Wildstorm series as Speed Racer / Racer X: The Origins Collection ( ISBN 978-160010211-0 ) and previously published issues from NOW Comics as Speed Racer Vol.

A second solo series, Wolverine: Origins, written by Daniel Way with art by Steve Dillon, spun off of, and runs concurrently with, the second Wolverine solo series.

In Wolverine: Origins, the character's second solo series, Wolverine discovers that he has a son named Daken, who has been brainwashed and made a living weapon by the villain Romulus, the man behind Wolverine's own brainwashing.

In the Justice League series continuity, the premiere story arc " Secret Origins " revises the plot of Diana's competition against her fellow Amazons to be the ambassador of peace to man's world, and she is referred to as a " rookie " superhero during her first encounter with the League.

He also wrote " Dark Deception ", a crossover story arc that appeared across X-Men: Legacy and Wolverine: Origins, and tied into X-Men: Original Sin, he retold the Beast's origin story in X-Men: Origins, wrote an Iceman story in X-Men: Manifest Destiny, a comic book adaptation of Ender's Shadow, and the Vertigo Comics series The Unwritten.

" The Moment of Astrology: Origins in Divination ", Penguin Group, part of Arkana Contemporary Astrology series.

The Charlton version of Dan Garrett was spotlighted in the second issue of DC's 1980s Secret Origins series, in which his origin was retold along with that of Ted Kord.

At the time of the NASA announcement, launch was scheduled for 2005 and the mission was part of the Origins Program, a series of missions designed to answer questions such as how and why humans are on Earth.

During the period from the late 1990s through the end of the 2000s, Who's Who was replaced with Secret Files and Origins, a series of one-shots devoted to particular characters or events in the DC Universe and which feature Who's Who-like profiles.

Following the appearance of the character in X-Men: First Class, a film set years before the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this version is no longer considered Emma Frost within the film series canon.

An erudite and comprehensive study of the dialect, by Norfolk speaker and Professor of Sociolinguistics, Peter Trudgill can be found in the latter's book ' The Norfolk Dialect ' ( 2003 ), published as part of the ' Norfolk Origins ' series by Poppyland Publishing, Cromer.

Wolverine's origin is shown in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the fourth film in the X-Men film series ( which, in the beginning of the film, is based strongly on the Origin comics ), along with his and Victor Creed / Sabretooth's role on the two world wars, Weapon X, Team X and turning on each other.

The first of this line, the Wild Cards Campaign Setting, was written by series author John J. Miller, and debuted at Origins in 2008.