The ansible is also featured in the video game Advent Rising, for which Card helped write the story.

Rising demand for biofuels is expected to be good news for the biotechnology sector, with the Department of Energy estimating ethanol usage could reduce U. S. petroleum-derived fuel consumption by up to 30 % by 2030.

A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun, from the final entrée of Le Ballet de la Nuit ( 1653 ).

Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.

While often criticized for its reliance on existing franchises, the company developed several titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 based on original intellectual property: Lost Planet and Dead Rising.

In July 1577 he asked the Crown for the grant of Castle Rising, which had been forfeited to the Crown due to his cousin Norfolk's attainder in 1572.

A total of 425 people were arrested after the Rising for looting.

British soldiers searching the River Tolka in Dublin for arms and ammunition after the Easter Rising.

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

Dublin businessman and Quaker, James G. Douglas, for example, hitherto a Home Ruler, wrote that his political outlook changed radically during the course of the Rising due to the British military occupation of the city and that he became convinced that parliamentary methods would not be sufficient to remove the British presence.

* The 1916 Rising by Norman Teeling a 10-painting suite acquired by An Post for permanent display at the General Post Office ( Dublin )

Rising sea-levels cut Britain off from the continent for the last time around 6500 BCE.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

The Rising later became a celebrated episode for Irish nationalists.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

Rising in Belgium, the Sûre River flows for in an easterly direction through Luxembourg and into the Moselle.

In 1990, he made one of the first chillout compilations, Give Peace a Dance 2: The Ambient Collection for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, followed by the series Chillout or Die for Rising High Records.

The Philadelphia Eagles Helmet Cart sat at Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr .' s ( Designer of the 74 Helmet ) " Joe's Gulf Gas Station " at Rising Sun Ave & Van Kirk St. 1974 off season year to raise money for " The Eagles Fly for Leukemia ", where every weekend Eagles NFL Team Members joined to help raise awareness and funds.

A brief English Catholic uprising, the Rising of the North, had just failed.

* Madison Smartt Bell has written a trilogy called All Souls Rising ( 1995 ) about the life of Toussaint Louverture and the slave uprising.

* The Easter Rising of 1916, a nationalist uprising against British rule of Ireland

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

General Maxwell quickly signalled his intention " to arrest all dangerous Sinn Feiners ", including " those who have taken an active part in the movement although not in the present rebellion ", reflecting the popular belief that Sinn Féin, a separatist organisation that was neither militant nor republican, was behind the Rising.

* 1839 – The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

In the late 1390s, a series of events occurred that began to push Owain towards rebellion, in what was later to be called the Welsh Revolt, the Glyndŵr Rising or the Last War of Independence.

* November 4 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

The Northumbrian region continued a history of revolt and rebellion against the government, as seen in the Rising of the North in Tudor times.

* Their live music video, " The Denton Polka ", appears on the " Bohemia Rising DVD Compilation " ( released in 2009 ), a collection of documentary shorts directed by Christopher Largen exploring rebellion and resistance to corporate demolition in their hometown of Denton, Texas.

The Fenian Rising proved to be a " doomed rebellion ," poorly organized and with minimal public support.

In some contemporary chronicles of the Rising, Ball and the Lollards were blamed for the revolt, and Piers began to be associated with heresy and rebellion.

In the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising the party's ranks were swelled by participants and supporters of the rebellion as they were freed from British gaols and internment camps, and at its 1917 Ard Fheis ( annual conference ) de Valera was elected leader and the new, more radical policy adopted.

They were also damaged by the harsh British response to the Easter Rising, who treated the rebellion as treason in time of war when they declared martial law in Ireland.

During the Rising, one unit of the National Volunteers ( in Craughwell, County Galway ), offered its services to the local RIC to help suppress the rebellion in that area.

Ketan Mehta's Hindi film, Mangal Pandey: The Rising ( 2005 ) is about the life of Mangal Pandey, an Indian soldier who is known for his role in rebellion.

Prior to the Easter Rising of 1916, Liberty Hall acted as a munitions factory, wherein bombs and bayonets were made for the impending rebellion.

It was completely levelled by British artillery during the Rising, however was faithfully restored after the rebellion.

In 2005 he played the role of a British Army captain in the Indian film, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, portraying events in the Indian rebellion of 1857.

Though the rebellion was relatively easily suppressed by the British military and initially faced with the hostility of most Irish people, public opinion swung gradually but decisively behind the rebels, after 16 of their leaders were executed by the British military in the aftermath of the Rising.

In Easter 1916 a rebellion, the Easter Rising, took place in Dublin.

Initially widely condemned in view of the heavy Irish war losses on the Western Front and in the disastrous Gallipoli V beach landing at Cape Helles ( the main nationalist newspaper, the Irish Independent, demanded the execution of the rebels ), the British government's mishandling of the aftermath of the Rising, including the protracted executions of the Rising's leaders by General Maxwell, led to the rise of an Irish republican movement in Sinn Féin, a small previously separatist monarchist party taken over by the rebellion's survivors, after it had been wrongly blamed for the rebellion by the British.

The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain, when on 4 November 1839, somewhere between 1, 000 and 5, 000 Chartist sympathisers, including many coal-miners, most with home-made arms, led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire, intent on liberating fellow Chartists who were reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel.

Two years later he published Dic Penderyn and the Merthyr Rising of 1831, a pamphlet in which he somewhat imaginatively retells the story of the rebellion.

Nevertheless, at Easter 1916, a small band of 1500 republican rebels ( Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army ) staged a rebellion, called the " Easter Rising " in Dublin, under Padraig Pearse and James Connolly.

After requests from the Indonesian government, the Task Force was sent to the country as part of Operation Typhoon Rising, to stop the rebellion and re-establish government control over rebel-controlled territories.