He was a conscientious and effective commanding officer, popular with the men under his command — an affection still retained by Wimsey's former soldiers many years after the war, as is evident from a short passage in " Clouds of Witness " and an extensive reminiscence in " Gaudy Night ".

The next year, he travels ( in Clouds of Witness, 1926 ) to the fictional Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire to assist his older brother Gerald, who has been accused of murdering Captain Denis Cathcart, their sister's fiancé.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

* Clouds of Witness ( 1926 )

In the mystery novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers and its series adaptation by BBC Television, Lord Peter Wimsey solves the case by reference to Manon Lescaut.

The 1926 novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers depicts the ( fictional ) trial in the House of Lords of a duke who is accused of murder, and eventually acquitted.

Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey book, Clouds of Witness, depicts trial of a peer ( Wimsey's brother ) by the House of Lords.

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A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the Islington and Hampstead libraries in the early 1960s.

* Sayers, Dorothy L. Clouds of Witness ( 1926 ) ISBN 0-06-080835-7

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There is also a reference to this in Dorothy Sayers's novels The Nine Tailors ( chapter entitled The Second Course ; " He turned to his right, knowing that it is unlucky to walk about a church widdershins, ...") and Clouds of Witness (" True, O King, and as this isn't a church, there's no harm in going round it widdershins ").

If Lord Peter is in the top rank of society, being a friend of the Prince of Wales ( Clouds of Witness, & Thrones, Dominations ), then Bunter is a prince among domestic staff.

In October or November 1918 Wimsey was buried in a dug-out by a shell, and was rescued, inter alia ( Clouds of Witness ), by Bunter.

Several times afterwards, Bunter preserved Wimsey ’ s life, notably from quicksand in Yorkshire ( Clouds of Witness ).

c. 1880-1889 Mervyn was born in Kent, one of seven, a brother was called Meredith ( Clouds of Witness & Thrones, Dominations ); Lord Peter was born in 1890 and is described as being the younger ( Whose Body?

1922 / 3 ( November ) Clouds of Witness ( published 1926 ) As Lord Peter is 33, the action takes place in 1922, possibly 1923.

The following dialogue in Dorothy Sayers ' 1926 novel " Clouds of Witness " shows what the term implied in British society at the time.

Later we have Till the Clouds Roll By ( Victor Fleming, 1919 ), where anamorphosis is used to depict the nightmare effects of indigestion in a comic manner.

Clouds is not the only Aristophanes comedy which portrays conflict between an older man and his younger counterpart.

He is an immortal who claims to have been born billions of years ago, in the Ancrindo Nebula, in the direction of the Magellanic Clouds.

* November 27 – NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.

American actor Peter Weller, whom Antonioni directed in Beyond the Clouds, explained in a 1996 interview: " There is no director living except maybe Kurosawa, Bergman, or Antonioni that I would fall down and do anything for.

The mystery surrounding the destructive " Omega Clouds " ( which are introduced in The Engines of God ) is left unexplored until Omega.

Clouds form when the dewpoint of water is reached in the presence of condensation nuclei in the troposphere.

Sydney is famous for its alternative rock scene, boasting such names as The Celibate Rifles, indie rockers The Clouds, The Vines and The Crystal Set, to electronic music pioneers Severed Heads, Single Gun Theory, The Lab, Itch-E and Scratch-E and local favourites Sneaky Sound System. and is the original home of the now national alternative rock festival the Big Day Out, which began in Sydney in 1992 featuring local bands such as You Am I and The Clouds and international groups like Nirvana.

* Aristophanes ' play The Clouds is performed as is Sophocles ' play Maidens of Trachi and The Putine ( The Bottle ), by Cratinus.

This saying is alluded to in Aristophanes's Clouds.

Two new tracks were also written and recorded, one of which is " Above the Clouds ".

Xiangshan, Sun's hometown in Guangdong, was renamed Zhongshan in his honor, and there is a hall dedicated to his memory at the Temple of Azure Clouds in Beijing.

The only Remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such as may perhaps be found on the tops of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds.

Sekhmet is the subject of " Lionheart " a song about the goddess by the symphonic power metal band, Amberian Dawn from their The Clouds of Northland Thunder album.

The Weaverville Joss House ( also called " The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds "), a Taoist temple, was built in 1874 and is California's best preserved example of a Gold Rush-era Chinese place of worship.

Moultonborough is home to the " Castle in the Clouds ", an estate set in the Ossipee Mountains.

Immediately after Maboroshi, there is a chapter entitled Kumogakure (" Vanished into the Clouds ") which is left blank, but implies the death of Genji.

Maria's background is as diverse as her interests ; as she's half-Chinese and half-Italian, in the episode " Gray Clouds ", Maria accuses sharon of being racist because her boyfriend Griffin is also of many nationalities, but she embraces all the good stuff both cultures have to offer.

She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems, " Clouds " ( Swedish: Moln ).

* In chapter 18 of the novel, Poirot gives a list of murderers from previous cases of his, more precisely The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), Death in the Clouds ( 1935 ), The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 1928 ) and The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ).

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

His work Ukigumo ( Floating Clouds, 1887 ) is widely hailed as Japan's first modern novel.

Akiyama is one of main character in Saka no ue no kumo ( Clouds over the slope ), a novel by Shiba Ryotaro, which was broadcast as a historical drama on the Japanese television network NHK from 2009-2011.

Another is her late novel Ukigumo ( Floating Clouds, 1951 ), which was made into a movie by Mikio Naruse in 1955.

* Clouds End ( 1996, heroic fantasy novel )

Notable successes included Mother ( 1952 ) ( Okasan ), a realistic look at family life in the postwar period, which received theatrical distribution in France, and 1955's Floating Clouds ( Ukigumo ), a doomed love story based ( like many of Naruse's films ) on a novel by Fumiko Hayashi.

* Betty Collins Jones, Clouds across the Moon ( Carrollton, Ga., 1991 ), romance novel.