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Burroughs and begins
* Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business.
The book begins with the adventures of William Lee ( aka Lee the Agent ), who is Burroughs ' alter ego in the novel.
When his parents separate and his mother begins to second-guess her sexuality, Burroughs is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist, Dr. Finch.
From the age of 13 to 15, Burroughs has an intense and open sexual relationship with Bookman, which begins when Bookman forces the young boy to perform oral sex on him.
The script begins with a series of detailed, coherent explanations by Burroughs of the identities of various characters, how the film should be shot, etc.

Burroughs and power
Bookman eventually leaves Northampton and is never heard from again by Burroughs or the Finches, even after they try everything in their power to find him.

Burroughs and over
CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.
Foster's Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novels, began January 7, 1929, continuing until Rex Maxon took over the Tarzan daily on June 10, 1929.
One was acquired from nearby Kent County and was moved from Burroughs Street over the Flat River to its current location in town over the Looking Glass River.
Delayed due to protests on campus caused by student concern over the Vietnam War, the machine was moved to Burroughs Corporation's Paoli Research Center in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
The campus in Hendon is expanding dramatically over the next five to ten years using a number of London Borough of Barnet office buildings including the current Town Hall in The Burroughs as well as the construction of new buildings including a new state of the art Science Building which opened in September 2008.
" As Burroughs battles with the self and what is human, he finds that language is the only way to maintain dominance over the " powerful instruments of control ," which are the most prevalent enemies of human society.
The producers were sued by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate over the name of the film, as Derek's role and physique seemed to overshadow the focus on Tarzan.
The building was named after Dr. Raymond Burroughs who served Bethel over thirty years as academic dean, executive vice-president, and president.
Salinger, William Faulkner, Margaret Laurence, Kurt Vonnegut, Mordecai Richler, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov also ' crossover ' with each other, linking different characters and settings together over a number of different works.
It was produced by Joe Burroughs and was scheduled to be broadcast in September 1956 ; however, it was later abandoned due to concerns over a possible action by Marianne Foyster.
John Burroughs ( LE ) states that the events took place over three successive nights ( pm into am ); 24 – 25, 25 – 26 and 26 – 27 December 1980.
The Mohonk Mountain House has hosted many famous visitors over the years, such as industrialist John D. Rockefeller, naturalist John Burroughs, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and American presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Chester A. Arthur.
On January 19, 2011, Frerotte announced he would be taking over as head coach at John Burroughs School in the St. Louis area.
They also took over the licensing of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan from long-time publisher Gold Key, and began doing adaptations of other Burroughs characters such as John Carter, Warlord of Mars, the Pellucidar series and the Amtor series.
Burroughs spends his early childhood in a clean and orderly home, obsessing over his clothes, hair, accessories, and having great potential, with his parents constantly fighting in the background.
After Stuart Sternberg took over as principal owner of the Devil Rays, Brazelton was traded during the 2005 annual baseball winter meetings to the Padres for third baseman Sean Burroughs.
To the south of Phoenicia, work is also continuing on a planned section to run from the Burroughs Range Trail near Wittenberg Mountain over adjacent peaks to Route 28 that would eliminate the road walk out of Woodland Valley State Campground.
Inspired by Burroughs ' and Gysin's technique of cutting up text and rearranging it in random order, Balch had an editor cut his footage for the documentary into little pieces and impose no control over its reassembly.
Although there have been occasional reports over the years of filmmakers wanting to adapt Burroughs ' story for the screen, to date no one has seriously taken on the project.

Burroughs and Bookman
Burroughs tells Dr. Finch's adopted 33-year-old son, Neil Bookman, that he is gay.
Bookman is obsessed with the young boy, even though Burroughs has problems with their relationship ( going in phases of needing the affection of Bookman to wanting to humiliate or get away from him ) which only infatuates Bookman more.

Burroughs and by
* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).
In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).
The designation for these systems was Burroughs B2500 through B49xx, followed by Unisys V-Series V340 through V560.
Materials include corporate records, photographs, films and video tapes, scrapbooks, papers of employees and the records of companies acquired by Burroughs.
The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.
Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.
* Mangani ( Great Ape Language ) in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.
With the assistance of Grech and one of the bassist's friends, a doctor who also dabbled in country music and is now known as Hank Wangford, Parsons managed to kick his heroin habit once and for all ( a treatment suggested by William Burroughs proved unsuccessful ).
The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).
* A Princess of Mars and another 10 Mars stories ( 1912 – 1943 ) by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.
Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.
John Eric Holmes ' Mahars of Pellucidar was a sequel to Burroughs ' Pellucidar novels authorized by the Burroughs estate.
" The heresy was beyond the experimental and explicitly provocative as inspired by Burroughs.

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