* Cyclops ( novel ), a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler

* The treasure hunt of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novel Inca Gold centers on the decryption of a quipu's message.

An example from the thriller genre includes Clive Cussler, who made appearances in his own novels as a " rough old man " who advised action hero Dirk Pitt.

Dirk Pitt is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of bestselling adventure novels written by Clive Cussler.

The name Dirk Pitt is a registered trademark of Clive Cussler.

Dirk Eric Pitt is a renowned adventurer.

Dirk is the son of Senator George Pitt of California.

With a woman named Summer Moran, he has twin children: a son, Dirk Pitt, Jr., and a daughter, Summer Pitt.

As revealed by twenty-three-year-old Dirk Pitt Jr when the two meet in the concluding chapters of the novel Valhalla Rising, Summer in fact survived, badly maimed by the incident, and refused to seek him out because she wanted Pitt to remember her as he knew her.

Dirk Pitt received a commendation for shooting down Admiral Sandecker's plane during the Vietnam War.

Pitt is actually named after Dirk Cussler, son of the author, who incidentally is also co-writer of the newest Pitt adventures with his father.

When Dirk Pitt is not traveling, which he is doing most of the time, he lives in his unique home-a remodeled and refurbished hangar on the grounds of Washington National Airport, near Washington, D. C .. A cast-iron stairway leads into a cluttered apartment with maps of the sea and models of ships scattered all about.

In the course of his work as a marine engineer of the National Underwater and Marine Agency ( NUMA ), an oceanographic research organization headed by Admiral James Sandecker with Rudi Gunn as second in command, Dirk Pitt has made numerous important shipwreck discoveries, as well as thwarted a large number of plans by villains intent on global catastrophe or world domination.

Dirk Pitt went on, in the more recent novels, to become the head of NUMA when Admiral James Sandecker was appointed as Vice President of the United States by President Ward after the Vice President unexpectedly died in office.

In the later novels Dirk Pitt meets an odd, eccentric individual, sometimes explicitly identified as Clive Cussler, sometimes hinted at (" C. C.

Another primary theme of the Dirk Pitt novels is that the merger and combination of the modern and the ancient are of value.

Compare the ultra modern computer lab run by Hiram Yeager to the unorganized book collection of St. Julien Perlmutter, both are used to the advantage of Dirk Pitt even within the same novel.

The deep interest of Dirk Pitt in seeking out shipwrecks and solving old puzzles often leads to discoveries useful in the modern world.

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was released in 1983, it is actually the first Dirk Pitt novel chronologically.

As well, unlike in the first game, the actions the player must do are prompted by a brief flash of what Dirk should use or where he should go next.

In Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the well-known line from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, " Weave a circle round him thrice ", is interpreted as the salute of an alien culture: " He waved hand round in a circle, three times.

* In the animated series and action figure line Spiral Zone, Colonel Dirk Courage rode the Rimfire, a large monowheel with an attached cannon.

This was due to there being Bee infestations in the nearby rocky hills, during the building of the railway line in 1904 by General Christiaan de Wet and Dirk Cornelis Lourens, who lived there.

For the second goal, he first cleared the ball off his own line and ran deep into the Italian half, then received the ball and crossed it to Dirk Kuyt who headed it down to Wesley Sneijder to slot between the post and the advancing Gianluigi Buffon.

* A 1970 drama-documentary about the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, Upon this Rock, featured Dirk Bogarde as the older Prince.

* Bobbejaan Schoepen — The Belgian Pop & Rock Archive ( Dirk Houbrechts and the Flanders Music Center, 2001 ).

While all this is going on, Antique Rock Television is filming a Behind the Music-type show about Dirk and Nikki, and Nikki is trying to remaster her old albums for a re-release.

In 1997 Henry Notroff ( clarinet ) and Dirk Trageser ( guitar & vocals ) also were added, and live recordings of different concerts and rehearsal room sessions were compiled into their first CD Rock ' n ' Roll 13.

Club's chairman Dirk Scheringa stated in 2007 that he wished to expand the stadium capacity to 40, 000 by 2010.

Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

In 1986 Dirk Benedict starred as a low-life band manager " Harry Smilac " in the movie " Body Slam " along with Lou Albano, Roddy Piper, and cameo appearances by Freddie Blassie, Ric flair, and Bruno Sammartino.

by Dirk Hoeges.

* Digital Micronesia – Marshalls by Dirk HR Spennemann, Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management

When Dirk Jansz Smient left, he was replaced by George Frederik Wreeden.

The Mavericks, led by Dirk Nowitzki ( the eventual NBA Finals MVP ), took the series in six games.

* Guide to Secure Communications with the One-time Pad Cipher ( pdf ) by Dirk Rijmenants

* 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

* True Symphonic Rockestra, an opera-oriented project founded by Dirk Ulrich featuring Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie accompanied by opera tenors Vladimir Grishko and Thomas Dewald

* October 25 – Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.

* Battle of Vlaardingen: Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II at Vlaardingen.

E. A. Guggenheim introduced the symbol G for the Gibbs free energy in 1933, and the same symbol was used also by Dirk ter Haar in 1966.

Other film treatments have included a 1983 British television documentary produced by Thames Television, narrated by Sir Dirk Bogarde entitled, Schindler: The Documentary ( released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story ), and a 1998 A & E Biography special, Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List.

From Hell was partly inspired by the title of Douglas Adams ' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in that it explores the notion that to solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in which it occurred.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.

These trademark elements from Doctor Who were removed by Adams for Dirk Gently.

Realising Michael was influenced by Coleridge's works, Dirk instructs Reg to take them to the 19th century, allowing Dirk to interrupt Coleridge long enough to disrupt the ghost's possession and prevent the second part of " Kubla Khan " from ever having been written.