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* At the conclusion of Umberto Eco's " The Name of the Rose ", the unique Medieval library which is at the center of the book's plot is burned and totally destroyed.
At the book's climax, Jacen and Jaina face off in a final lightsaber duel aboard Caedus ' flagship, the Anakin Solo.
* At the end of David Eveleigh's All Hallows Eve, there is a teaser image for a forthcoming sequel in which Eve, the book's protagonist, will battle Fantômas.
A 2004 article in Skeptic Magazine states that Däniken took many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories " The Call of Cthulhu " written in 1926, and " At the Mountains of Madness " written in 1931.
" At least part of the negative academic reception to Sexual Personae can be attributed to Paglia's ignoring such prominent structuralist / post-structuralist thinkers as Althusser, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, knowledge of whom had become de rigueur in the academic humanities by the book's 1990 publication.
Jason Colavito claims that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from Le Matin des Magiciens ( Morning of the Magicians ), that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories " The Call of Cthulhu " and " At the Mountains of Madness ".
A 2004 article in Skeptic magazine states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories " The Call of Cthulhu " and " At the Mountains of Madness ".
At the book's end he returns to our world in time to cover Niels Bohr's escape to Sweden and prevent the Gestapo from capturing him-thus facilitating Bohr's part in the Manhattan Project and effectively fulfilling the prophecy that Ogier would return at the time of France and Denmark's grave need.
At the book's end, Aornis pressures Thursday to kill herself so that Aornis will prevent the world from turning into Dream Topping.
At the book's end, David expresses the conviction that he is happy and thankful, and does not care how long he has to live.
At the book's end, a new, optimistic self called " The Blonde " emerges, preceding Sybil's final integration into a single, whole individual with full knowledge of her past and present life.
At the book's end Harald remains with the gnawing doubt that he may have caused their deaths-and, while not making him doubt the rightness of what he did, it does make him less than jubilant at his well-earned victory.
At the book's end she leaves the Doctor again to become Time's Vigilante, using a short-range time hopper mounted on a motorcycle to patrol a particular segment of time ; in effect doing what the Doctor does, but on a smaller scale.
At the book's conclusion, Marlowe is rewarded by providence when an old flame ( Linda Loring from the previous novel, The Long Goodbye ), gets back in touch.
At several points in the novel, the characters or narrator foreground their existence as characters in a story, further highlighting the book's fictionality.
At the book's climax, Gertrude sees flames in the distance and realizes that her mother-in-law's house has indeed been attacked.
At the end of the book's last chapter, Koestler summarizes its content and his intentions as follows: " In Part One of this book I have attempted to trace the history of the Khazar Empire based on the scant existing sources.
At the rock of falling flowers the boy is attacked by robbers, and all of the pots are smashed, leaving him with just a single shard to display his master's skill ( hence the book's title ).
At the time of publication, there was considerable fan speculation as to the origin of the book's title.

At and end
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.
At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
At four-o'clock, or four-thirty, the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; ;
At the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome receive the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pope on the rock.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.
At the end of the monologue the audience would applaud.
At the end of a shaft of light, the pews appeared to be broad stairs in a long dungeon.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.
At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.
At the end of the run, the strips in the third and sixth positions in each chamber were dried, stained for 1 hr, washed and dried, while the other strips were maintained in a horizontal position at 1-degree-C.
At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.
At the end of this pass, the table indicates which index words and electronic switches are not available for assignment to symbolic references.
At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.
At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.
At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.
At the end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.
At the end of the corridor Alec noticed a door marked: Fire Stairs.
At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.
At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.
At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.
At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.
At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.

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