* Skylark ( rocket ), sounding rocket designed earlier in the 1960s, last launched on 2 May 2005 ( its 441st flight-Maser 10 ) from the Esrange site of the Swedish Space Corporation

At 13, he was introduced to science fiction by means of a borrowed copy of the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories ( featuring Buck Rogers and The Skylark of Space ).

Although Jonny Cragg makes his singing debut in " Skylark " on The Chinese Album, it is his voice that introduces " Space Is the Place " on Resident Alien.

The cover illustrates The Skylark of Space.

It has been suggested that the Langston Field's behavior is a tribute to the ray screens featured in Doc Smith's novel The Skylark of Space, whose color also climbs the spectrum as the energy load increases.

Doc Smith's serial The Skylark of Space, which began in the same issue.

The Skylark of Space by Edward E. " Doc " Smith was written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate.

The Skylark of Space is considered to be one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and the first example of space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit who fight against villains of absolute evil.

The Skylark of Space is the first book in the Skylark series and pits the hero, Dick Seaton, against Marc " Blackie " DuQuesne ( pronounced " Du Kane ").

The Skylark of Space, Amazing Stories, August 1928

These experiments were to be fundamental to build the European Space Agency in the following years: British-built Skylark and French-built Centaure missiles were used for the tests.

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Armageddon 2419 A. D, by Philip Francis Nowlan and The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith and Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby, both in Amazing Stories in 1928.

The first three books — Sarah, Plain and Tall ; Skylark ; and Caleb's Story — were the basis for three television movies.

Skylark is an imprint of Bantam Books which publishes books for children.

Featured on the album was a song penned by an unknown songwriter by the name of Skylark, titled " System of Survival ".

That continuing collaboration led to " Skylark " in 1942, recorded almost immediately by Glenn Miller, Dinah Shore, and Helen Forrest ( with Harry James ).

In the UK, Eurasian Skylark numbers have declined over the last 30 years, as determined by the Common Bird Census started in the early 1960s by The British Trust for Ornithology.

DEFRA suggests that Eurasian Skylark plots should not be nearer than to the perimeter of the field, should not be near to telegraph poles, and should not be enclosed by trees!

The Buick Skylark is a passenger car produced by the Buick division of General Motors.

Introduced to mark Buick's 50th anniversary, the Buick Roadmaster Skylark ( a name previously used by short-lived Hupp for its sporty 1939 Cord Model 810-based Skylark ) was one of three specialty convertibles produced in 1953 by General Motors ; the other two were the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta and the Cadillac Series 62 Eldorado.

The inner doors of the Skylark were made from the inner doors of the 2-door Roadmaster and Super by cutting the stamping in half approximately parallel with the ground and then welding the two pieces back together in a jig at an angle that produced the necessary door dip ( see photos of finished car ).

The wheels of the 1953 Skylark were true wire wheels, produced by Kelsey-Hayes, with everything chromed except the plated and painted " Skylark " center emblem.

The top of the line 1953 Cadillac Series 62 Eldorado was one of three specialty convertibles produced in 1953 by General Motors, the other two being the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta and the Buick Roadmaster Skylark.

Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem " To a Skylark " (" Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, discovered by Eirik Wangberg.

The Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta was one of three specialty convertibles produced in 1953 by General Motors, the other two being the Buick Roadmaster Skylark and the Cadillac Series 62 Eldorado.

Subsequent performances have been given by Lake George Opera, Aspen Opera, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, Catholic University of America, Juilliard Opera, Skylark Opera, Civic Opera of Kansas City, Raylynmor Opera Company, Tufts University, University of South Carolina University of North Texas, Shepherd School of Music, and Baldwin – Wallace Conservatory of Music among others.

In 1937, she appeared in the Rachel Crothers drama Susan and God, and in 1939 starred in Skylark, a comedy by Samson Raphaelson.

Origins of General Motors ' badge engineering dates back to the early 1970s when the Chevrolet Nova compact was rebadged by the upscale Buick Apollo ( Skylark after 1975 ), Oldsmobile ( Omega ), and Pontiac ( Ventura II and Phoenix ) divisions as entry-level cars.

Together with its sister cars ( the Oldsmobile F-85 / Cutlass and Buick Special / Skylark ), the Tempest / Le Mans moved to the new A body platform shared with the new Chevrolet Chevelle, and all three cars received updates and modifications standardizing them throughout — including the wheels — by GM edict.

Starting in 1975, Regal coupes came standard with Buick's resurrected V6 engine previously offered on the Skylark from 1964 to 1967 ; the engine's tooling had been sold to Kaiser Motors for use in Jeep models ( Kaiser was purchased by American Motors in 1970 and Jeep became an AMC division ) and sold back to GM by AMC in 1974.

The pioneer of this subgenre is generally recognized to be Edward E. ( Doc ) Smith, with his Skylark and Lensman series.

* Violet is the name of a diameter spherical starship that was an enlarged version of the Skylark Two in the 1948 E. E.

Books featuring Foss illustrations include the 1970s British paperback covers for Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, the Terran Trade Authority, several Edmund Cooper novels, and E. E. " Doc " Smith's Lensman and Skylark series.

While the concept of the Final Encyclopedia as an information construct containing the total sum of human knowledge came about in the early days of computer technology ( though including such fictional progenitors as the Brain of the Skylark of Valeron in E. E. Smith's Skylark series ), the conceptualization anticipated the concept of cyberspace and, of course, of wiki.

Typically, as in the Skylark and Lensman novels of E. E. “ Doc ” Smith, such destruction is presented as a starkly necessary defense against alien beings who are incorrigibly dangerous or evil.

* Skylark ( series ), a series of 4 novels by E. E. Smith, which features a spaceship called Skylark

* Marc " Blackie " DuQuesne, villain of the Skylark science fiction series of novels by E. E. " Doc " Smith

The Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction ( the Skylark ) is presented annually by NESFA to some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities which made the late " Doc " Smith well loved by those who knew him.

* Audiorecording of " To a Skylark " read by Kara Shallenberg on LibriVox, track 64, from Poems Every Child Should Know ( 1904 ), Mary E. Burt, ed.

Skylark DuQuesne ( pronounced Ducane ) was the final novel in the epic Skylark series by E. E. Smith.