On the eve of World War III Sherban and other emissaries relocate a small number of promising Shikastans to remote locations to escape the coming nuclear holocaust.

Subtitled " Personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor ( George Sherban ) Emissary ( Grade 9 ) 87th of the Period of the Last Days ", Shikasta is the history of the planet Shikasta ( Earth ) under the influence of three galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius, and their mutual enemy, Puttiora.

Johor returns, but this time through Zone 6 from which he is born on the planet ( incarnated ) as a Shikastan, George Sherban.

These holes collectively make up what is known as the selenizone which form as the shell grows.

The older holes are gradually sealed up as the shell grows and new holes form.

Eli's sons prove unworthy of the priesthood and are destroyed by God, but the child Samuel grows up " in the presence of the Lord.

Kelp is a fast growing seaweed that grows up to a metre a day.

As a result of their rearing, Kal-El grows up to think of himself as Clark Kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood ( the fact that the Kents found him sometime just after the Cold War meant that the Kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an Earth-based space program-possibly that of Communist Russia-and that Clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment ).

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

In Jackson's mind experiment, he imagines a girl who grows up in a black-and-white room.

She stirs up even the shiftless to toil ; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order ; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

As the root is well below ground, pulling it up does not remove it: it simply grows again and becomes what may be considered a pest.

When the watchman grows weary, he stands up and prays ; and then he sits down again and courageously takes up his former task.

A baby grows up, and so changes in respect of size and maturity ; a snake sheds its skin, and so changes in respect of its skin.

The tree grows to 60 – 70 m ( 200 – 230 ft ) tall and has a very substantial trunk up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) in diameter with buttresses.

Brian grows up an idealistic young man who resents the continuing Roman occupation of Judea.

A folktale told to John O ' Donovan by Shane O ' Dugan of Tory Island in 1835 recounts the birth of a grandson of Balor who grows up to kill his grandfather.

Luthor has a younger sister named Lena, an empath who grows up unaware of her familial connection with the noted supervillain.

However, as the number of users grows on eBay, auctions grow more competitive, pushing up the prices of bids on items.

As the child grows up these can be replaced with pills, formulas, and specially formulated foods.

Commercial growers usually address this problem by piling additional soil around the base of the plant as it grows (" hilling ", or in British English " earthing up ").

Sometimes the convincing force is just time itself and the human toll it takes, Kuhn said, using a quote from Max Planck: " a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The towns area of inner Quedlinburg is about 78. 15 square kilometre, since the incorporation of 3 towns it grows up to 141. 85 km².

The Real Yellowwood is a large evergreen tree that grows up to 30 meters in height.

These amoeba then join up into a tiny multicellular slug-like coordinated creature, which crawls to an open lit place and grows into a fruiting body.

Vanilla grows as a vine, climbing up an existing tree ( also called a tutor ), pole, or other support.

As it grows in power, it enters stage two, establishes other revolutionary base areas and spreads its influence through the surrounding countryside, where it may become the governing power and gain popular support through such programmes as land reform.

A halophyte is a plant that grows in waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores.

Finally, in the last step of fusion, this point defect grows and the components of the two bilayers mix and diffuse away from the site of contact.

In the narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the town grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with the outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up.

As the chorion grows, the chorion laeve comes in contact with the decidua parietalis and these layers fuse.

He feels even more out of place as he grows older and comes in contact with the rampant racism of the 1920s south.

Within this framework it is predicted that reversed electrowetting is also possible ( contact angle grows with the voltage ).

Thigmotropism is a movement in which a plant moves or grows in response to touch or contact stimuli.

While at a Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) summit it was decided to exclude any contact with separatists ; the trans-border economic cooperation and transport between Abkhazia and Russia grows in scale, with Russia claiming that all this is a matter of private business, rather than state.

It commonly grows high on the leg so that in digitigrade species, when the animal is standing, it does not make contact with the ground.

The film is about a doll made of rice by a prisoner, which on coming into contact with blood, grows to become a giant metal-eating monster.

Karswell avoids any contact with Holden to guard against the parchment being passed back to him and grows increasingly fearful.

Kimi is shown to harbor resentment over their distance and lack of contact due to his caring for a newborn daughter and getting remarried but grows to accept his circumstances when Chaz and Chuckie cheer her up.

Kate, unable to contact anyone, grows worried.