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While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.
It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.
Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.
Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
* World Monuments Fund-Adobe Missions of New Mexico-Description of a project of the World Monuments Fund for the preservation of adobe churches in New Mexico, in the United States.
It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".
This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.
* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").
In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).
In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.
16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World.
Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.
Animism: Respecting the Living World ( London: Hurst and co .; New York: Columbia University Press ; Adelaide: Wakefield Press ).

New and Record
Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.
The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.
* A New World Record ( 1976 )
Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution ( New York: Thunder's Mouth ).
** The Yale Record, the country's oldest college humor magazine, operated out of New Haven, Connecticut
** The Record ( Bergen County ), a newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey
** The Record ( Troy ), a newspaper in Troy, New York
The album also won Crow three Grammy Awards, in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance.
Their follow-up effort, 1981's Wild Gift, broadened the band's profile when it was named " Record of the Year " by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Village Voice.
Simultaneous electrical scanning in both azimuth and elevation was first demonstrated in a phased array antenna at Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, CA, in 1957 ( see Joseph Spradley,A Volumetric Electrically Scanned Two-Dimensional Microwave Antenna Array ,” IRE National Convention Record, Part I-Antennas and Propagation ; Microwaves, New York: The Institute of Radio Engineers, 1958, 204-212 ).
The resulting list is circulated to all NARAS members, each of whom may vote to nominate in the general field ( Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist ) and in no more than nine out of 30 other fields on their ballots.
Embedded on the sidewalks at the museum streets are bronze disks, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring each year's top winners, Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.
Christopher Cross is the first artist to receive the Grammy Award for Song of the Year as well as for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist in one ceremony.
Adele and Christopher Cross are the only recipients of the four Grammys for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and New Artist.
* Obituary: Captain William Grant Stairs Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, Vol.
References: For more information about the historical employment of vibrato by classical vocalists, see Michael Scott's two-volume survey The Record of Singing ( published by Duckworth, London, in 1977 and 1979 ); John Potter's Tenor: History of a Voice ( Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009 ); and Herman Klein's 30 Years of Music in London ( Century, New York, 1903 ).
The Rotokas Record was a weapons surrender agreement involving the Bougainville Resistance Force and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and the Papua New Guinean government.
* Robert Gordon ( 1978 ), John Butler Yeats and John Sloan: The Record of a FriendshipThe Dolmen Press New Yeats Papers XIV Dublin.
Told in first person narrative by Al Manheim, drama critic of The New York Record, this is the tale of Sammy Glick, a young uneducated boy who rises from copy boy to the top of the screenwriting profession in 1930s Hollywood by backstabbing others.
* New Hope Record ( 1920 )
A number of noted record collectors and researchers ( George Blacker, Carl Kenziora, Len Kunstadt, among other members of the New York Record Research Associates ) had long speculated that since these records were found in a west coast warehouse uncirculated, they were possibly intended for offshore sales in U. S. possessions ( Guam, Marianas, etc.
She's So Unusual led Lauper to win an award at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, the album also won the Grammy for Best Album Package, this award went to the art director, Janet Perr ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".
True Colors led Lauper to win two awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Album Package for She's So Unusual ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

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