Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).

Though evidence suggests Heart of Darkness may be pessimistic, Joseph Conrad ’ s Darwinian world view can counter this understanding.

Heart of Darkness attests to Conrad ’ s paradigm through its motif of, as Sandya Shetty puts it, “ ontradictions, ambiguities, and discontinuities .” Conrad contradicts himself in the novel both to discourage people from believing that they can understand the world and, paradoxically, to encourage people to explore the vast awe inspiring world more.

When Marlow ’ s helmsman dies, Conrad describes him as “ heavier than any man on earth ,” but after Marlow throws him into the river, he is carried off “ like a wisp of grass ”.

Conrad furthers this cycle in his description of grass engulfing Fresleven ’ s dead body.

Grass — a new fleeting life — replaces the fleeting grass-like human lives of Conrad ’ s characters.

While Conrad ’ s materialism does not prove him an optimist, as he believed, or a pessimist, as a surface reading of his book may suggest, it provides an important filter through which one may discern his world view.

Walter Anderson points out that as with most mystics, instead of limiting his action, Conrad ’ s romantic paradigm inspired him to believe in seizing the day.

The body of the report, from Conrad ’ s materialistic perspective, is good because it describes a people in tune with nature.

Furthermore, the fact that the savages are easily overlooked provides further evidence for Conrad ’ s innate optimism.

To maintain papal claims to Tuscany, Honorius appointed Albert, a papal marquis, to rule in the pope ’ s name in opposition to the imperial Margrave of Tuscany, Conrad von Scheiern.

Conrad found little help in Italy and with Honorius ’ support, Lothair was able to keep his throne.

Darwent with his Paria Petroleum Company Limited, and Conrad F. Stollmeyer ( who was great grandfather of Republic Bank ’ s then Chairman, former West Indies cricket captain, Jeffrey Stollmeyer ), an entrepreneur of that period who felt that a combustible fuel could not be distilled out of the asphalt from the pitch lake.

After Zwinger ’ s father ’ s death, Christina married the noted humanist Conrad Lycosthenes ( Wolffhart ).

In return, they recognized Lothair as emperor, Conrad abandoned his title of King of Italy, and both promised to assist him in another Italian campaign, before a ten-year ‘ Landpeace ’ was declared.

Upon hearing of the French invasion, Otto II ’ s mother Adelaide of Italy, who was Lothair's mother-in-law, sided with Lothair over his own son and moved to the court of her brother King Conrad at Bourgogne.

While waiting for Conrad ’ s reply, Lucius decided to take matters into his own hands.

Tacitus ’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005.

He had already produced a version of the New Testament, which was issued at Geneva in 12mo by Conrad Badius on 10 June 1557, but this differs from the version included in the Geneva or ‘ Breeches ’ bible, for which Whittingham is generally held to be mainly responsible.

After an engine fell off a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 causing it to crash with the loss of all passengers and crew in 1979, Conrad spearheaded McDonnell Douglas ’ s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to allay the fears of the public and policymakers, and save the plane ’ s reputation.

In 1989, Conrad ’ s youngest son, Christopher, was stricken with a malignant lymphoma.

Wooden buildings were erected on Main Street and Pecan Street, many by Conrad Pfluger – one of Henry Pfluger, Sr .' s eight sons.

After Conrad ’ s death, NASA planted a tree in his honor.

NASA ’ s call for a human return to the Moon and the increased interest in space transportation are the foundation of this year ’ s Conrad Award aerospace challenges.

* The Duel, a short story by Joseph Conrad, recounts the story based on true events of two French Hussar officers who carry a long grudge and fight in duels each time they meet during the Napoleonic wars.

The crew are often disgusted by his foul habits, such as squirting ink or eating from trash cans, though he is mostly oblivious to their true feelings about him, having referred to Hermes Conrad and Bender as friends.

He was the son of Conrad III of Germany and his second wife Gertrude von Sulzbach and thus the direct heir of the crown, had there been true heredity.

John looks back, sees Conrad, and then transforms into his true identity: the Super Morph.

He marketed “ t ” versions of his amplifiers incorporating the sound of the Mark Levinson and Conrad Johnson designs which caused him some criticism by those who failed to understand the true nature of the challenge — that it was possible to duplicate an audio amplifier's sound in two completely dissimilar designs.

He quotes Conrad as saying, " Heart of Darkness is experience ... pushed a little ( and only very little ) beyond the actual facts of the case.

" In response to these accusations of anti-Semitism, composer and Oberlin College professor Conrad Cummings wrote a letter to the editor defending " Klinghoffer " as " the closest analogue to the experience of Bach's audience attending his most demanding works ," and noted that, as someone of half-Jewish heritage, he " found nothing anti-Semitic about the work.

The term was coined in 1958by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the " unmotivated seeing of connections " accompanied by a " specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness ", but it has come to represent the human tendency to seek patterns in random information in general ( such as with gambling ), paranormal phenomena, and religion.

Two brothers, one a retired, but influential cleric ( Franklyn ) and the other a biologist of note ( Conrad ), independently conclude that humans must increase their lifespans to three centuries in order to acquire the wisdom and experience needed to make complex civilizations functional.

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

The Roi des Belges, the Belgian riverboat Conrad commanded on the upper Congo, 1889

An agent Conrad met when travelling in the Congo, Georges-Antoine Klein, could also have served as a model for Kurtz ( in German klein means " small " and kurz means " short ").

In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the serenity of the contemporary Thames is contrasted with the savagery of the Congo River, and with the wilderness of the Thames as it would have appeared to a Roman soldier posted to Britannia two thousand years before.

The Congo Reform Movement, which included among its members Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Booker T. Washington, and Bertrand Russell, led a vigorous international movement against the mistreatment of the Congolese population of the Congo.

As early as 1813, Conrad Will ( namesake of Will County ) conducted a large salt extraction operation, using slave labor, on the banks of the Big Muddy River, south of Murphysboro.

Next, Conrad applied for and he was accepted by the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Patuxent, Maryland, where he was assigned as a Project Test Pilot.

The book also inspired the Pictorialist album by the band Static-X, a song by the Bethel, Maine-based thrash metal band Theory of Negativity off of their 1994 self-titled album, and an opera entitled Black River ( composed 1975, revised 1981 ) by Conrad Susa.

Note: In 1752, Conrad Weiser reported visiting Queen Aliquippa, at “ Aliquippa's Town ” located on the Ohio at the mouth of Chartiers Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River near McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh.

A German expedition against the Junior Dukes was launched in 1146, but due to flooding of the Oder River and the pressures on the German king by the margraves Albert the Bear and Conrad of Meissen, the campaign failed.

Sometime in the late 1850s or early 1860s, Conrad Hambrecht settled in section 21 of Le Roy Township on the Upper Iowa River near the Old Village of Leroy.

At first, it seemed that the exile would just be for a few months, thanks to the family connections of Duchess Agnes ; however, the hurried and insufficiently prepared expedition failed to cross the Oder River ), and finally failed because of the strong opposition of the former Władysław II's subjects and the problems of Conrad III in Germany caused by his extended travels.

Conrad Kohrs ventured into the Sun River Valley west of Great Falls looking for more grazing land.

The days of " free grass " soon ran out and Conrad Kohrs left the Sun River Valley.