* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell ( guest-star Warren Clarke ) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London.

The Christmas ceremony is accompanied by a reading of A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church.

The highest-ranked female player in the world as of May 2012 is Jenny Clarke of New Zealand.

Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.

It is the sole species of the genus Anethum, though classified by some botanists in a related genus as Peucedanum graveolens ( L .) C. B. Clarke.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

In 2006, Leary and Lenny Clarke appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments .< ref >

However, Clarke states that the Star Child is not concerned that many would be killed by the fallout passing through Earth's atmosphere.

The work is based on a speech given at DEF CON 13 by Ian Clarke and Swedish mathematician Oskar Sandberg.

Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.

This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads.

Heinlein is usually identified, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, as one of the three masters of science fiction to arise in the so-called Golden Age of science fiction, associated with John W. Campbell and his magazine Astounding .< ref >

John Locke's close relationship with Clarke, along with the respect he commanded, is seen by academics as what led to this decision.

In the SETI context, the name has been used for radio telescopes in fiction ( Arthur C. Clarke, " Imperial Earth "; Carl Sagan, " Contact "), was the name initially used for the NASA study ultimately known as " Cyclops ," and is the name given to an omnidirectional radio telescope design being developed at the Ohio State University.

" The Sentinel " is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, which was expanded and modified into the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Clarke expressed impatience with the common description of it as " the story on which 2001 is based.

The Sentinel ( published 1982 ) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, including the eponymous " The Sentinel ", " Guardian Angel " ( the inspiration for his Childhood's End ), " The Songs of Distant Earth ", and " Breaking Strain ".

The Fountains of Paradise is a Hugo and Nebula Award – winning 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

Although the hyperfilament is constructed from " continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystal ", Clarke later expressed his belief that another type of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene, would play the role of hyperfilament in a real space elevator.

The story is set in the fictional equatorial island country of Taprobane, which Clarke has described as " about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka )", south of its real world location.

" The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat ", caricature of Frederick's lover, Mary Anne Clarke by Isaac Cruikshank, 15 March 1809.

Senior officer Mark ( Robin Clarke ) radios Sandy, his lover, from the Operations Room to stall for time as Kate and operations chief Gary ( Stephen Grives ) leave to commandeer chainsaws.

The authenticity of this work has been hotly disputed, especially by Dr Francis Clarke in his two volume work The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues.

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Clarke has stated that each book of the series takes place in its own universe and, apart from its basic concepts, has no consistent relationship with one another.

It has been alleged but remains unconfirmed that later in life, Booth became a Roman Catholic, possibly converted by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, who however died in the Protestant Episcopal faith and was buried in an Episcopal ceremony.

London Underground voiceover artiste Emma Clarke has recorded a number of spoof announcements, available on her personal website.

F. W. Clarke has calculated that a little more than 47 % of the Earth's crust consists of oxygen.

Clarke has calculated the relative abundance of the principal rock-forming minerals with the following results: apatite = 0. 6, titanium minerals = 1. 5, quartz = 12. 0, feldspars = 59. 5, biotite = 3. 8, hornblende and pyroxene = 16. 8, total = 94. 2 %.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

Clarke Ingram, who maintains a memorial website to the failed DuMont Television Network, has suggested that Fox is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont, since Metromedia was spun off from DuMont and Metromedia's television stations formed the nucleus of the Fox network.

Indiana travels to Mozambique to aid Dr. Clare Clarke ( a Katharine Hepburn type, according to Lucas ) who has found a 200-year-old pygmy.

* Science fiction novel Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter has some of its lead characters from the year 2037.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.

" Guardian Angel " has also appeared in two short story collections: The Sentinel ( 1983 ), and The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001 ).

In Australia Clarke has gone on to establish himself as a top script writer and personality.

Clarke has stated that the inspiration for Fred Dagg came primarily from his uncles who would talk in such a way, using intonation and speech rhythm, to cause laughter without the standard telling of jokes.

Alan J. W. Bell responded that Radio Times has always been anti-Last of the Summer Wine, and Roy Clarke remarked that people who dislike the show " shouldn't switch it on " unless they are " too idle to turn it off ".

( One exception is Phyllis Boyle, who has allied herself with the TransNats ; she is on Clarke when the space elevator cable is cut and sent flying out of orbit to a fate unknown by the conclusion of the book.

Her influence is strongest during the later events of Red Mars, where by the 2061 revolution she has been placed in charge of the asteroid Clarke that serves as the counterweight of the First Space Elevator.