Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

Other famous 19th-century visitors included author Jules Verne ; poets William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; and Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner, who painted " Staffa, Fingal's Cave " in 1832.

Allott is the author of a biography of Jules Verne and two collections of poems ( see works below ), a critical edition of William Habbington's poems, and a play adapted from EM Forster's novel A Room with A View.

Indeed, in 1904 he brought Dawson in on a tour of the West Country, beginning at Plymouth, led by Emma Albani, with William Green ( tenor ), Giulia Ravogli, Johannes Wolf, Adela Verne and Theodore Flint.

His films frequently refer to ideas and themes in plays and novels, such as references to Jules Verne ( in The Green Ray ), William Shakespeare ( in A Winter's Tale ) and Pascal's Wager ( in Ma nuit chez Maud ).

* Literature: Nikolaus Lenau's Don Juan, Lord Byron (' My native land, good night ', ' Maid of Athens ', ' There was a sound of revelry ', Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ), Virgil-Ovid, Honoré de Balzac's A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hugh Reginald Haweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, Washington Irving, Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, Robert Burns, William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Jules Verne.

" Mean " Gene Okerlund, " Sensational " Sherri Martel, Tony Atlas, Verne Gagne, William " The Refrigerator " Perry and The Blackjacks ( Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza ) attended the class while Eddie Guerrero was represented by his wife Vickie Guerrero who was supported by Eddie's nephew Chavo Guerrero.

Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Wanda Sykes and Nick Nolte star as RJ, Verne, Hammy, Ozzie ( an opossum ), Stella ( a skunk ), and Vincent ( a bear ) respectively.

* William Diepenbrock-Orange County Register education editor, adjunct professor at University of La Verne.

Verne returned the dig later when he pointed out that he used guncotton to send his men to the moon, and one could see it any day.

Publisher Hugo Gernsback eventually settled with Wollheim and the other authors out of court for $ 75, but when Wollheim submitted another story to Gernsback under the pseudonym " Millard Verne Gordon ," he was again not paid.

Verne probably got the idea directly and immediately from Maxwell's 1864 theory ( although it cannot be ruled out that Maxwell or an intermediary recognized the sailing potential and became the source for Verne ).

According to the new, full translation put out by the Naval Institute Press, nearly all errors can be attributed to the editors, with only a few being the fault of Jules Verne, who was meticulous in his presentation of science within science fiction.

Clara calls him out on this, and it's from this encounter that the pair discovers their mutual love of Jules Verne novels.

The AAC recognized Killer Kowalski as world champion when he defeated Carpentier in Boston, and Nebraska recognized Verne Gagne as champion when he defeated Carpentier in Omaha ( after winning the belt, Gagne tried for two years to work things out with the NWA, but finally left the organization in 1960 forming the American Wrestling Association.

Flair dropped out of college before receiving his degree, and he then worked as a bouncer at a nearby club, where he met Olympic weightlifter Ken Patera, who was preparing for a ring career at Verne Gagne's wrestling school.

Additionally, the cities of Alhambra, Glendora, Azusa, San Dimas and La Verne have monthly Community News papers that come out the first Friday of every month since the mid 1990's.

But, of course, in your case you got out again .’ The Professor replies, ‘ That was because I am a character in fiction .’ He continues, ‘ Jules Verne invented me ’( p 141 ).

Loosely based upon the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, this was an adventure segment involving balloonist " Phinny Fogg " ( conceived as the great-great grandson from America of the main character Phileas Fogg in the novel and voiced by Bruce Watson ) and reporter teenagers Jenny ( voiced by Janet Waldo ) and Hoppy ( voiced by Don Messick ), who set out on a globetrotting adventure to sail around the world in 79 days and beat the original record set by Phinny's father.

This usually makes Verne have to pull on his hood to keep him out of trouble.

He plays several mind tricks on Jay Kay and his reactions, almost exactly fit in with the lyrics, for example with the line I'm throwing out my laser beams, he shoots lasers at the candyman, and with I pick up a little free agent, he picks up a dwarve secret agent ( Verne Troyer ) who shoots the candyman, but gets thrown away.

When they got into the vehicle, another vehicle pulled up behind them, three men ( Verne Miller, Charles " Pretty Boy " Floyd, and Adam Richetti ) got out and opened fire on the car with Nash and the law enforcement officers.

Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit ; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.

In the late 60s, he was a mid card performer for Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) out of Minneapolis.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

The hollow interior of the Earth seen in Journey to Middle Earth by The Asylum bears some similarity to Pellucidar, although the film was intended as a film adaptation of a novel by Jules Verne.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published the first work on space travel, which was inspired by the writings of Jules Verne

At the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by the inspiration of fiction by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

Even though it was independent from the surface for a very short duration, the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus reached worldwide celebrity after having been mentioned by Jules Verne in his adventure book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ; but Jules Verne wildly exaggerated its dive duration without external air supply.

A first Novel Les Révoltés de la Bounty ( The Mutineers of the Bounty ) was published by Jules Verne in 1879.

That replacement was to be Miss M. Verne McNeely, a redoubtable lady who was a member of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and also ran a bookshop.

The narwhal was one of two possible explanations of the giant sea phenomenon written by Jules Verne in his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

While Verne Lundquist replaced Summerall on games with lead analyst John Madden, Buck ( who was at the time the network's lead Major League Baseball announcer ) filled in for Lundquist, teaming with Dan Fouts to call two games ( both of which coincidentally featured the Cardinals, who had moved from St. Louis to Arizona by that time ).

He was married three times: Celia Lovsky ( 1934 – 13 March 1945, divorced ); Kaaren Verne ( 25 May 1945 – 1950, divorced ) and Anne Marie Brenning ( 21 July 1953 – 23 March 1964, his death ).

* Jules Verne Trophy – established in 1993 the race was designed to be a race against the clock, not other boats.

Later, " The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier than Air Machines " was established, with Nadar as president and Verne as secretary.

By his own account and that of many others, around the age of 11 years old, Oberth became fascinated with the field in which he was to make his mark through reading the writings of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, re-reading them to the point of memorization.

The University of La Verne was founded in 1891 as Lordsburg College by members of the Church of the Brethren, a German Christian sect originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren.

The University of La Verne College of Law was founded in 1970 and is located in Ontario, California.

* Verne Troyer, actor, was born in Sturgis, but grew up in Centreville, Michigan.

Lu Verne was formerly serviced by Iowa Highway 408, which was decommissioned in 1980.