In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.

* Thomas Pynchon's award winning novel Gravity's Rainbow, contains a very detailed scene of coprophagia.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

* In Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 chapter six Emory Bortz says, " I've been pirated, me and Wharfinger, we've been Bowdlerized in reverse or something.

There are also references to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and his Gravity's Rainbow, an equally enormous experimental novel concerning liberty and paranoia that was published two years prior to Illuminatus !.

Historic Telluride figures prominently in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.

Pavlovian conditioning was a major theme in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World, and also to a large degree in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

* Several chapters of Thomas Pynchon's Postmodern novel V. take place in the city of Valletta.

* Thomas Pynchon's early short-story, " Mortality and Mercy in Vienna ", take its title from a verse in this play, and has also been inspired by it.

In part inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel, the song is a duet with James Taylor, where the two protagonists speak of their hopes and fears as they arrive on the ship in the new world for the first time.

* Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

* Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow ( 1973 ) and the Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea collaborative work Illuminatus!

The first line may also be one left ball, one brass ball, one big ball ; approximately this version appears in Thomas Pynchon's V. ( page 325 ).

Doc Sportello, the protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, discusses his film appearances throughout the book.

They were mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice ( pg.

A minor character named Wolfe Tone O ' Rooney appears in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day.

In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, set in the 18th century, the Mason-Dixon line becomes increasingly confused with the idea of a ley line and with feng shui.

Triangulating Thomas Pynchon's Eighteenth-Century World: Theory, Structure, and Paranoia in ' Mason & Dixon.

Immanence and Transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's ' Mason & Dixon ': A Phenomenological Study.

* Slothrop and Geli Tripping experience the famous Brocken Spectre in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, as the Mittelbau-Dora labour camp in the Harz mountains north of Nordhausen from 1943 was the home of the V-2 rocket production.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Thomas Lincoln's new wife was the widow Sarah Bush Johnston, the mother of three children.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

Secondary Coach Emmitt Thomas was named interim coach for the final three games of on December 12.

Umberto Eco's The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas identifies the three main characteristics of beauty in Aquinas's philosophy: integritas sive perfectio, consonantia sive debita proportio, and claritas sive splendor formae.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

He handed responsibility to his assistant, Liz Reitell, who was keen to see Thomas for the first time since their three week romance in the spring.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

Notwithstanding the vehement protests of the Portuguese inhabitants of St Thome, the English gained absolute control over all lands up to St Thomas Mount for a period of three years.

The new footage was directed by Thomas Montgomery and shot in three days.

He and his brother Cliff ( Clifford Thomas Holt, born 1910 ) spent their early life in Sydney and attended three different schools in Sydney and Adelaide between 1913 and 1919.

One of three members of the committee, Thomas Jefferson proposed that one side of the seal feature Hengist and Horsa, " the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we assumed.

Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.

The property used to be owned by Thomas C. MacCready in the late 19th century, and after three generations of family, Douglas, Lynn, and Willis MacCready donated the land to Michigan State University in 2001.

One recent academic survey that does attempt this, by Thomas Green, identifies three key strands to the portrayal of Arthur in this earliest material.

Their first three children, Josephine, John, and Dudley Thomas, were born between 1941 and 1943.

Outside the United States, makers of musical saws include Sandvik in Sweden, makers of the limited edition Stradivarius, Alexis in France, which produces a toothless saw, " La Lame Sonore ", with a range of three and a half octaves ( Patent: N ° E31975 ), and Thomas Flinn & Company in the United Kingdom, based in Sheffield, who produce three different sized musical saws, as well as accessories.

The Brewers alone had three players finish in the top five in the league in home runs with Gorman Thomas, who led the league with 39, Ben Oglivie, who hit 34, and Cecil Cooper, who hit 32.

In 1909, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, an astronomer with a reputation as an egocentric contrarian, opined " that there is certainly one, most likely two and possibly three planets beyond Neptune ".

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London accepted the manuscript for publication, in three volumes.