Clarke's political career began at the age of 18 when he was the election agent for the Labour MP James Dempsey.

They include Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, and a reading of Milton ’ s Paradise Lost ; two volumes on the political novel-Political Fictions and Social Visions ; a study of Marcus Clarke, a selection of Marcus Clarke's writings and a reissue of Clarke ’ s stories ; and Studies in Classic Australian Fiction.

Clarke's work in the 1980s is fiercely stark and political, including the David Leland plays Beloved Enemy ( 1981 ) on multinational corporations and Psy-Warriors ( 1981 ) on military interrogation.

In director Jeff Clarke's broad English-language adaptation, the story is moved to post-war Italy around the reign of Umberto II, infused with elements of organized crime, and political humour is added.

The novel's theme of transcendent evolution also appears in Clarke's Space Odyssey series, and is attributed to the influence of British author Olaf Stapledon.

This happened often during the 1980s when Roy Clarke's commitment to Open All Hours prevented the production of a full series every year.

According to Cagney, Clarke's ex-husband had the grapefruit scene timed, and would buy a ticket just before that scene went onscreen, go enjoy the scene, leave, then come back during the next show just in time to see only that scene again.

Interest rates, inflation and unemployment all fell during Clarke's tenure at HM Treasury.

The latter of these made his reputation as a book illustrator ( this was during the golden age of gift-book illustration in the first quarter of the twentieth century: Clarke's work can be compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac ).

The battle is described in Suzanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, during the time that Jonathan Strange is serving under Lord Wellington.

Republicans inside and outside the Bush administration vigorously attacked both Clarke's testimony and his tenure during the hearings.

Amongst the new prisoners to arrive at the prison during Clarke's sentence was John Daly.

Melton recounts that " vocationally, the most influential force in my life was the writings of a man I never met but who became my hero, Elmer Talmage Clark ... while my contemporaries became enthused with UFO's, Elvis Presley, or Alabama football, during my last year in high school one of Clarke's books, The Small Sects in America, captured my imagination.

He also became interested in the phenomenon of ball lightning, probably because of the connection between plasmas and their role in fusion power schemes, and in 1980 he appeared in the Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World episode ' Clarke's Cabinet of Curiosities ' where he described his experiments at Los Alamos, carried out during lunch breaks, to create ball lightning using a large storage battery of the type then used in submarines.

Clarke's poor form during the 2005 Ashes series and his failure to score a test century for over a year saw him dropped from the Test team in late 2005.

* Lips ( in Stanley Clarke's band during the 70's )

As she explains, " Both Clarke's and O ' Brian's stories are about a complicated relationship between two men bound together by their profession ; both are set during the Napoleonic wars ; and they share a dry, melancholy wit and unconventional narrative shape.

Of the above 114 pieces, 95 make up complete Clarke's six major short collections published during his life.

Clarke's account of the post-9 / 11 period was corroborated in later years by Marine Lieutenant General Greg Newbold, former director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who retired in 2002, and by Army General John Batiste, former commander of the First Infantry Division, who retired in November 2005, and who in 2001 and 2002 had been the Senior Military Advisor to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

Consistent with Clarke's account of the period, Newbold told an interviewer in 2007 of his dismay over the focus on Iraq, which seemed " irrelevant ", in meetings in late 2001, and " that Saddam, and not Osama bin Laden or Mullah Omar, was most on the Bush administration's mind.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).

The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay ; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others.

According to CiteSeer, Ian Clarke's " Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System " was the most cited computer science paper of 2000.

His parents were unable to afford Eton or Harrow, so in the summer of 1803 he was sent to board at John Clarke's school in Enfield, close to his grandparents ' house.

That autumn, Keats left Clarke's school to apprentice with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary who was a neighbour and the doctor of the Jennings family.

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

Grace recorded in his Reminiscences that he saw his first great cricket match in 1854 when he was barely six years old, the occasion being a game between William Clarke's All-England Eleven ( the AEE ) and twenty-two of West Gloucestershire.

Clarke's first whistle, the Meg, was pitched in high A and was later made in other keys suitable for Victorian parlour music.

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

Clarke's novel was nominated for the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004.

Clarke's portrayal of the Overlords as devils was influenced by John W. Campbell's depiction of the devilish Teff-Hellani species in The Mightiest Machine, first serialized in Astounding Stories in 1934.

At the request of Clarke's agent ( and unbeknownst to Clarke ) the story was edited by James Blish who rewrote the ending.

Clarke's original version of " Guardian Angel " was later published in the Winter 1950 issue of New Worlds magazine.

After Clarke's nonfiction science book The Exploration of Space ( 1951 ) was successfully received, he began to seriously focus on his writing career.

" While praising Clarke's work as " Stapledonian its historic concepts and also for the quality of its prose and thinking ," they concluded that Childhood's End was " an awkward and imperfect book.

" P. Schuyler Miller characterized the novel as " all imagination and poetry ," but concluded it was " not up to some of Clarke's other writing " due to weakness in its " episodic structure.

Clarke's efforts earned him his second Hart Trophy and Parent was the lone recipient of the Vezina Trophy.

Based on Clarke's novel The Moonbather, the play was first performed by the Scunthorpe Little Theatre Club from 7 October to 11 October 2003.

Some, such as film critic Ben Mankiewicz, have asserted that Mae Clarke's surprised and seemingly somewhat angry reaction to the grapefruit was genuine, as she hadn't been told to expect the unscripted action.

The game was also notable for Bobby Clarke's two-handed slash that broke Valeri Kharlamov's ankle.

Clarke's success was such that Brown felt he had to pledge to keep to Clarke's spending plans in January 1997, ahead of the election which was due to be held in May 1997 because the Labour Party considered its economic credibility to be its biggest electoral weakness.