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De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.
In particular, De Camp argued the plots of the novels are heavily driven by coincidence ; while many things just happened in the romances, the novels are still weakened by the dependence on it.
De Camp was born in New York City, one of three sons of Lyon de Camp and Emma Beatrice Sprague.
De Camp once noted that he rarely used pen-names, " partly because my own true name sounds more like a pseudonym than most pseudonyms do.
An aeronautical engineer by profession, De Camp conducted his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology ( where his roommate was at one point noted rocket fuel scientist John D. Clark ), and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech in Aeronautical Engineering 1930.
De Camp was also a surveyor and an expert in patents.
De Camp eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy as a reserve officer.
De Camp was a member of the all-male literary and dining club the " Trap Door Spiders " in New York City, which served as the basis of Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the " Black Widowers ".
De Camp himself was the model for the character named " Geoffrey Avalon ".
De Camp was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America ( SAGA ), a loosely-knit group of Heroic fantasy writers that was founded during the 1960s.
De Camp was a materialist who wrote works examining society, history, technology and myth.
De Camp had the mind of an educator, and a common theme in many of his works is a corrective impulse regarding similar previous works by other authors.
De Camp wrote a number of lesser-known but nonetheless significant works that explored such topics as racism, which he considered to be more accurately described as ethnocentrism.
De Camp was best known for his light fantasy, particularly the " Harold Shea " series and " Gavagan's Bar " series, both written in collaboration with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt.
De Camp also produced a few more of this genre on his own.
De Camp wrote three sword and sorcery sequences of note.
De Camp also wrote historical fiction, set in the era of classical antiquity from the height of the Persian Empire to the waning of the Hellenistic period, which forms a loosely-connected series based on their common setting and occasional cross references.
De Camp enjoyed debunking doubtful history and pseudoscientific claims of the supernatural, and explaining how ancient civilizations produced structures and architecture thought by some to be beyond the technologies of their time, such as the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
De Camp was guest of honor at the 1966 World Science Fiction Convention.
De la Union sent Montforte with 2, 800 infantry and 800 cavalry to reinforce the Camp of Trompettes and Del Puerto with 2, 000 more to help Venegas.
De La Soul have influenced numerous other hip hop artists such as Camp Lo, The Black Eyed Peas, and Digable Planets.
Upon the urging and encouragement of the activist Cardinal Archbishop of Manila Jaime Sin, millions of Filipinos trooped to Camp Aguinaldo along Epifanio De los Santos Avenue ( EDSA ), where Enrile and Ramos have been holding operations, to give their moral support and prayers for the reformist soldiers.
In comedy he was ably supported by his wife, Marie Therese De Camp, whom he married on 2 July 1806.

De and Ley
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Raza Odiada featured the single " La Ley De Plomo ", whose music video proved successful on music channels such as MTV, featuring late at night on heavy metal shows.
* Kristiaan De Ley, Liberian Ambassador-at-Large to UNESCO.
Throughout her successful career, Ely Guerra has collaborated with artists including Sussie 4, Control Machete, José Fors, Fratta, La Ley and Quem, and has also participated in the soundtracks for the films Amores perros, De la calle, and Vacas vaqueras.

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Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.
But as you can also see, it's not a painful exercise at all, because Henri De Courcy -- the `` happy '' bodybuilder -- looks as though he were having the time of his life!!
Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.
Ambrose's siblings, Satyrus ( who is the subject of Ambrose's De excessu fratris Satyri ) and Marcellina, are also venerated as saints.
Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.
In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.
Darkman was also a financial success and De Laurentiis had multi-picture deal with Universal and so Army of Darkness became one of the films.
Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.
A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.
It is also a special case of De Morgan algebra and Kleene algebra.
In addition to these works on astronomical timekeeping, he also wrote De natura rerum, or On the Nature of Things, modelled in part after the work of the same title by Isidore of Seville.
For many film-goers, De Palma's gangster films, most notably Scarface and Carlito's Way, pushed the envelope of violence and depravity, and yet greatly vary from one another in both style and content and also illustrate De Palma's evolution as a film-maker.
De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).
Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei writes Si fallor, sum (" If I am mistaken, I am ") ( book XI, 26 ), and also anticipates modern refutations of the concept.
The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.
Cronenberg also worked for nearly a year on a version of Total Recall but experienced " creative differences " with producers Dino De Laurentiis and Ronald Shusett.
De Vries kills Yueh but he also dies with Leto in the assassination attempt ; however Harkonnen survives.
The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing ( 道德經: 道 dào " way "; 德 dé " virtue "; 經 jīng " classic " or " book ") also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text.
De Vita Caesarum is also the source of several outrageous stories regarding Domitian's marriage life.
Twelve graduates of Dalhousie have also served as provincial premiers across Canada, including Allan Blakeney, John Buchanan, Alex Campbell, Amor De Cosmos, Darrell Dexter, Joe Ghiz, John Hamm, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Russell MacLellan, Gerald Regan, Robert Stanfield, Clyde Wells, and Danny Williams.
The cast also comprised Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Du Val, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering and Joe De Santis.

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