* 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.

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.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

A minister from the Netherlands, Dirk Van der Hoff went to the Transvaal in 1853, and became a minister in the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk, which was constituted in 1856, and in 1860 recognised as the State Church of the South African Republic, separate from the Cape Church.

He set up an attack for Dirk Kuyt but the shot went straight at the Chelsea goalkeeper.

Dirk the Daring's voice belongs to film editor Dan Molina, who later went on to perform the bubbling sound effects for another animated character, Fish Out of Water, from 2005's Disney film Chicken Little, which he also edited.

As a result of a promise he had made during the frisian rebellion, Dirk III went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Since high school, Alex went by the stage name of Dirk Lance which was apparently taken from the credits of an anonymous ' 70s porn flick.

Many NBA analysts felt that this was a good move, because not only did it remove a disgruntled Howard from the line-up, it simultaneously brought Dirk Nowitzki a quality supporting cast, with many believing that the Mavs could contend for a title after the trade went through.

From 1904 to 1908 Dirk went to the Teacher's College in Haarlem, then was a teacher until 1913.

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 ).

Dirk appeared as a contestant on the 2007 U. K. series of Celebrity Big Brother.

In Taipan, Dirk Struan is loosely based on William Jardine while Robb Struan is loosely based on James Matheson.

WordNet " is a type of an online electronic lexical database organized on relational principles, which now comprises nearly 100, 000 concepts " as Dirk Geeraerts states it.

* 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.

The first European to visit Western Australia was a Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog who on 25 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island.

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

Currently on the case of a missing cat, Dirk examines Richard and finds him to have been in a hypnotic-like state, and determines that Richard was temporarily possessed.

Richard learns of Ross's murder, and Dirk quickly surmises the ghost's plan, which if successful will erase the formation of life on Earth.

* Dirk Gently ( also known by a number of other names, including Svlad Cjelli ), the operator of the eponymous detective agency that operates based on the " fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

Many details may appear superfluous, but turn out to be integral to the plot ( such as a sofa that Richard ordered which has somehow become trapped on his staircase in a position where it not only cannot be removed, but could not apparently have arrived in the first place ; this is explained by the time machine having appeared in the staircase wall while the removal men were bringing it in, Dirk opening the door to help them get it up the stairs before the machine departed ).

The book has been adapted for stage performance as Dirk and in 2005, some fans of Douglas Adams produced an amateur radio series based on the first book.

Announced on 26 January 2007, BBC Radio 4 commissioned Above the Title Productions to make eighteen 30-minute adaptations of Douglas Adams ' Dirk Gently books ( including The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt ), running in three series of six episodes.

The first series began on 3 October 2007 and features Harry Enfield as Dirk, Billy Boyd as Richard, Olivia Colman as Janice, Jim Carter as Gilks, Andrew Sachs as Reg, Felicity Montagu as Susan, Robert Duncan as Gordon, Toby Longworth as the Monk, Michael Fenton Stevens as Michael, Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland, Wayne Forester and Tamsin Heatley.

Dirk van Hogendorp was commissioned to write a proposal, that met with considerable enthusiasm from the more progressive elements on the council, like Samuel Iperusz.

The story of the discovery of land in 64 ° S. by Dirk Gerritz on board the Blijde Boodschap in 1599 was shown to be the result of a mistake of a commentator, Kasper Barlaeus, in 1622.

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.