* Some Sword and planet series, such as Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars trilogy ( 1965 ) and Lin Carter's Mysteries of Mars ( 1973 – 1984 ) are deliberately anachronistic homages to earlier visions of Mars, particularly Burroughs '.

* The ancient incarnations of The Five magical children in Anthony Horowitz's Power Of 5 series save the whole planet from the evil " Old Ones " at around 8005-8010BC, after a 50 year war over the face of the earth

* C. S. Lewis wrote, in Out of the Silent Planet, about three humans visiting Mars and meeting three different kinds of native intelligent creatures ( sorns, ( or séroni ), hrossa, and pfifltriggi ) there, as well as hunting hnakra and meeting the Oyarsa, or eldil in charge of this planet, called Malacandra in the Old Solar language.

A short scene-setter written after the style of " The Song of Hiawatha " introduces a planet whereto Lazarus has led a group of colonists now living in a manner reminiscent of the American Old West.

The Wookiee planet of Kashyyyk is featured in various novels, comic books, and video games, including Revenge of the Sith, the cartoon micro-series known as Star Wars: Clone Wars, and video games such as Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Preterists also believe the term ' Last Days ' or ' Time of the End ' refers not to the last days of planet Earth, or last days of mankind, but to the last days of the Old Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant which God had exclusively with Israel until year AD 70.

* Heaven's Gate — Orbiting the star Alpha Lyrae or Vega, a toxic planet that is difficult to keep terraformed, but rich in mineral resources ; it serves as a temporary ( and highly unpleasant, but nevertheless important ) home for Martin Silenus after he is forced to leave Old Earth.

The story begins on a planet called Arth, which is a haven for the survivors of the human race ( aka the " Old Empire ").

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund ( German for " primeval ground "), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.

When Tlaloc had conquered the Old Empire, Xerxes had taken control and changed the name of the planet from Rodale IX to just Ix.

Toril was the name of Jeff Grubb's campaign world, and it was adopted as the name of the planet upon which the continent of Faerûn existed when he and Ed Greenwood were designing the original Forgotten Realms Boxed Set in 1987 ( the Old Grey Box ).

In the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic by Canadian developer BioWare the player visits the planet Manaan, the capital of the planet is called Ahto City.

The planet was a popular tourist destination and was considered a safe zone from threats to the Confederacy by the Old Families.

The Old Ones were the ones who set up the warp gates at either pole of the planet and shifted it into a more favorable orbit before encouraging the development of the native species.

Greene became quickly famous with the publication, by Weiser, of Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, in 1976, in which she applied Jungian psychology to revise the image of Saturn as a planet of misfortune, recasting it in a more Jungian image that has continued to be very popular into the 21st century.

: In the eve of a former Havenite admiral, Amos Parnell's arrival to Old Earth to testify against the excesses and crimes of the Havenite regime, Helen Zilwicki, daughter of Captain Anton Zilwicki of the Royal Manticoran Navy, finds herself in the midst of an underground fight between StateSec agents, anti-slavery terrorists, mercenaries and an unscrupulous supercorporation centered on the rogue planet of Mesa, " Manpower Incorporated ".

See also the Haw wars, memorialized by the monument before the Old City Hall ( now a museum and cultural center ); and, down by the Mekong, by Wat Angkhan (), which is Pali for Ashes of the Dead, as well as for Mars, the planet that the Romans named for their God of War.

The planet of Adumar is an anomaly, settled by anonymous colonists during the early years of the Old Republic and isolated ever since.

She and Johnny are forcibly farcast to a planet that seems to be a perfect imitation of Old Earth, located somewhere in the Hercules cluster, into a portion of Italy, set around the time-period the real Keats died of tuberculosis there.

One theory even purports that Ghroth awakened the local Great Old One, The Worm that Gnaws in the Night, destroying the planet.

This leaves Ford, Zaphod and Zarniwoop stranded on the " Old Man in the Shack "' s planet, and here the episode ends-though open-ended with a spoken possibility of another series.

* In C. S. Lewis ' book Perelandra ( 1943 ), professor Elwin Ransom travels to Venus ( the title is the name of the planet in the Old Solar language ), a planet mostly covered by water with floating islands on it, in order to fight a possessed professor Weston and prevent the " Adam and Eve " of this young planet from bringing about the same fate that befell Earth ( Thulcandra ).

Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America — making it the most successful mammal on the planet after humans.

describes a flat planet much like the Earth as described by the Flat Earth Society, except it has a hole at the centre instead of a North Pole, and the underside contains fictional lands such as Atlantis and Lemuria.

Rotation of a planet causes it to approximate an oblate ellipsoid / spheroid with a bulge at the equator and flattening at the North and South Poles, so that the equatorial radius is larger than the polar radius by approximately where the oblateness constant is

** The North Magnetic Pole of planet Earth, a point where the north end of a compass points downward

* North Polaris: Santa Claus's planet, populated by " Elf-G-M " s. The galaxy's version of the North Pole.

North America is named Valhalla, and was colonised in the first millennium A. D. by the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson ; the Roman Empire is known as Reme instead, after the other twin in the story of Romulus and Remus ; the planet Venus is orbited by a moon like Earth's Luna.

EARTH ( Bhumi )-Earth, the third planet in order from the sun, is a big magnet with North and South poles as centers of attractions.

The hawkers ( or darners in North America ) ( family Aeshnidae ) include the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe, and are among the largest of the dragonflies on the planet.

North is at the top of this map ; however, in most maps of Mars drawn before space exploration the convention among astronomer s was to put south at the top because the telescope | telescopic image of a planet is inverted.

A portion of the temperate rain forest region of North America, the largest area of temperate zone rain forests on the planet, is the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion which occur on west-facing coastal mountains along the Pacific coast of North America, from Kodiak Island in Alaska to northern California, and are part of the Nearctic ecozone.

The Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion of North America is the largest temperate rain forest ecoregion on the planet as defined by the World Wildlife Fund ( other definitions exist ).

The Invid established a central hive, Reflex Point, in the Great Lakes region of North America over the site of the remains of the SDF-1, and secondary hives across the planet.

The movie was made by setting the observer to be at the exact geographic North Pole, which is on the axis of the planet ; setting the view to lock on the Sun ; setting the time to be at midnight on April 14, 2004 ( early spring ); setting the time step for animations to be one hour ; and then using the Movie Tool to make a movie of the resulting sky views for twenty-odd frames to cover a period of just over one day.

The volcano was originally called North Spot because it was the northernmost of only four spots visible on the surface due to a global dust storm that was then enshrouding the planet.

The Decepticons then returned to Earth, and Scorponok began a plan to destroy the planet, which culminated in a battle between the entire Autobot and Decepticon armies at the North Pole.

The pericentre is located almost above the North pole ( 80 ° North latitude ), and it takes 24 hours for the spacecraft to travel around the planet.

North Central Washington is one of the largest and most productive tree fruit producing areas on the planet.

This connection to the Speed Force allows him additional abilities than other speedsters, such as lending and taking speed ( which manifests in different ways, ranging from becoming speedsters themselves to bolstering others metabolisms and healing abilities, allowing them to recover from injuries in a fraction of the normal time ), as well as absorbing kinetic energy in a less direct manner ; he once absorbed the kinetic energy of the entire planet Earth while standing at the North Pole when his teammates were forced to move the planet to prevent possible earthquakes.

However, extremely high taxes ensure that everyone on the planet lives a frugal, rural life, like the farmers of old Australia, to keep the Norstrilians tough.

The Parrots are distributed throughout the Southern Hemisphere on the planet, covering many different habitats, from the humid tropical forests to deserts of the inside of Australia, including India, the Southeast Asia and West Africa, and one species, now extinct, in the United States ( the Carolina parakeet ).

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* The Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory tell the story of Barnumbirr, a creator-being associated with the planet Venus, who came from the island of Baralku in the East, guiding the first humans to Australia, and then flew across the land from East to West, naming and creating the animals, plants, and natural features of the land.

Lucilia sericata is common all over the temperate and tropical regions of the planet, mainly the southern hemisphere, particularly in Africa and Australia.