He also wrote and appeared on a local comedy series, The Late, Late Show, hosted by his friend Lenny Clarke and written by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Arthur Clarke also wrote an essay in which he described the game and how he got hooked on it.

In letters to Clarke he wrote of the absurdity of the existing system, complaining primarily about the unfairness of it to authors, and " he parallels between Locke's commentary and those reasons presented by the Commons to the Lords for refusing to renew the 1662 Act are striking ".

Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange.

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.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

Clarke later wrote the short story " The Curse ", which takes place in a post-apocalyptic Stratford-upon-Avon.

The novel first took shape in July 1946, when Clarke wrote " Guardian Angel ", a short story that would eventually become Part I of Childhood's End.

At the time he wrote the novel, Clarke was interested in the paranormal, and it wasn't until much later than he became, in his words, " an almost total sceptic ".

Aldiss and Wingrove wrote that Childhood's End rested on " a rather banal philosophical idea ," but that Clarke " expressed is simple but aspiring language that vaguely recalls the Psalms combined with a dramatized sense of loss undeniable effect.

In the late 1980s, Roy Clarke wrote novels featuring Compo, Clegg and Seymour.

Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote The Puppet Masters in 1953.

The Guardian's Betty Clarke wrote a negative review, saying that " Her cover of Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night is full of reverberating notes and sultry asides, but reveals a fundamental lack of sincerity that renders her threatening when she is trying for tender.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a parody of Coleridge's poem, describing his tumultuous experience co-scripting the film 2001.

* John Henry Clarke wrote that " In 1787, Hahnemann discovered the best test for arsenic and other poisons in wine, having pointed out the unreliable nature of the " Wurtemberg test ," which had been in use up to that date.

He also edited the Clarke Papers ( 1891 – 1901 ), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson ( 1885 ), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603 – 1693 ( 1903 ), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Cooper's book rallies the opinions of other contemporary Black authors, such as the poet George Elliott Clarke, who wrote her preface.

Clarke wrote " Let's Get Together " for the pop girl group Girl Authority for their second album, Road Trip.

Through her daughter who married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier, Clarke was the ancestress of author Daphne Du Maurier, who wrote the novel Mary Anne about her life.

Her daughter, born of her marriage to Clarke, married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and was the mother of the caricaturist George du Maurier ( 1834 – 96 ) and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier ( 1907 – 1989 ), who wrote a book about her ( Mary Anne ).

Clarke wrote:

She wrote that Colonel Thomas Clarke had been told by Maitland, " it was too late to think of committee member's widow Mrs. Nichol as I have pledged my word to Mrs. Secord that as soon as possible she should have the key.

In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a local television show Lenny Clarke's Late Show featuring Wright and Leary, in collaboration with Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke ( 7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989 ) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.

Based on this account, Wen-Djang Chu wrote that 80 % of the 600, 000 or more Zunghars were destroyed by a combination of disease and warfare, which Michael Clarke described as " the complete destruction of not only the Zunghar state but of the Zunghars as a people.

* 22C3: Lecture on Freenet's new algorithm ( on Google Video ) An explanation of the Freenet architecture and implementation ( as of 30 December 2005 ) given by Ian Clarke and Oskar Sandberg

In the novel Childhood's End ( 1953 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, all humans have a collective premonition, also described as a memory of the future, of horned aliens which arrive to usher in a new phase of human evolution.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

While more prevalent in the beginning years of science fiction with writers like Arthur C. Clarke, new authors still find ways to make the currently impossible technologies seem closer to being realized.

The union was happy, with biographer Peter Clarke writing that the marriage gave Keynes " a new focus, a new emotional stability and a sheer delight of which he never wearied ".

Williams and Clarke were successful in getting Coddington's patent rescinded, but Clarke remained in England until 1664 to secure a new charter for the colony.

* Geoffrey Toye, the D ' Oyly Carte musical director for the first London revival in 1921, supplied a new overture to replace the original overture arranged by Hamilton Clarke.

In July, Clarke brought his new wife home to England, but towards the end of the month, it became clear that the marriage would not last ; Clarke spent most of his time reading and writing, and talking about his work.

Decades later, Clarke was in the process of preparing a new edition of the book after recent events had dated the story.

In 1990, Clarke added a new foreword and revised the first chapter, changing the space race from the Moon to Mars.

This led to many leaving the workshop making way for a new generation of musicians in the early 1970s including Malcolm Clarke, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb and Peter Howell.

While Clarke was against this initially, he accepted his new role.

A number of these delegates walked out of the World Congress, and would eventually leave the International, including the leader of the new British section, John Lawrence, George Clarke, Michele Mestre ( a leader of the French section ), and Murray Dowson ( a leader of the Canadian group ).

Blamire left in 1976, when Michael Bates fell ill shortly before filming of the third series, requiring Clarke to hastily rewrite the series with a new third man.

The new programme was written by Roy Clarke and used different actors to follow the activities of the principal characters from Last of the Summer Wine in the months leading up to World War II.

Although the new characters were not originally intended to be carried over to the television programme, Roy Clarke included them in four of the following six episodes of the 1985 series, beginning with the episode " Catching Digby's Donkey ".

He did design the Clarendon Building at Oxford ; the Codrington Library and new buildings at All Souls College, Oxford ; parts of Worcester College, Oxford with Sir George Clarke ; the High Street screen at The Queen's College, Oxford and six new churches in London.

The new county was created to satisfy southwestern Clarke County residents ' demand for their own county after the county seat was moved from Watkinsville to Athens by the General Assembly in 1872.

Also the same year, a new county was developed around the new college town, and Jackson lost territory to the new Clarke.