Within the novel itself, the title emerges most explicitly whenever Gail Hightower sits at his study window waiting for his vision of Van Dorn's cavalry raid.

When Van Dorn launched an expedition against St. Louis, a strategy McCulloch strongly opposed, it was again McCulloch's reconnaissance that contributed most to what little success Van Dorn's plan was able to achieve.

In May, Van Dorn was murdered and Forrest assumed command of the cavalry on Bragg's left flank ; most of Van Dorn's Mississippi troopers were transferred back to their home state in May.

Dorn's main work, his magnum opus, is Gunslinger.

Unlike his TNG co-stars, this was Michael Dorn's second Star Trek film, having appeared on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, portraying his TNG character's grandfather, Colonel Worf, who defended Kirk and McCoy on their trial.

( An exception to this was in late 1862 when Lee's invasion of Maryland was coincident with two other actions: Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and Earl Van Dorn's advance against Corinth, Mississippi.

After completing his task, Larrel regains his sanity and uses the Heartstone Gem to discover the source of the evil, which apparently resides in the dwarven city of Dorn's Deep.

After carving their way through Upper Dorn's Deep, Wyrm's Tooth, and Lower Dorn's Deep, the party at last reaches Brother Poquelin ( John Kassir ) – the villain of the game.

In a two – day battle, Curtis held off the Confederate attack on the first day and drove Van Dorn's force off the field on the second day.

Dorn's appearance in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was as Colonel Worf, representing Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy at their trial on Qo ' noS and also unmasked the real assassin: Colonel West.

Dorn's voice deepened from his years of playing Worf.

Dan Curry created the bat ' leth for Michael Dorn's Star Trek: The Next Generation character, Worf in 1990.

Rust was raised to the rank of brigadier general on March 4, 1862, and was transferred back to Arkansas, where he was assigned to General Earl Van Dorn's Army of the West.

Returning to the field in the fall of 1862, Tilghman became a brigade commander in Mansfield Lovell's division of Earl Van Dorn's Army of the West, following the Second Battle of Corinth.

Dorn's final examiner at Black Mountain was Robert Creeley, with whom, along with the poet Robert Duncan, Dorn became included as one of a trio of younger poets later associated with Black Mountain and with Charles Olson.

After graduation and two years of travel, Dorn's family settled in Washington state, the setting for his autobiographical novel By the Sound ( originally published as Rites of Passage ), which describes the grinding poverty of life in " the basement stratum of society.

Popular horror novelist Stephen King admired Dorn, describing his poetry as " talismans of perfect writing " and even naming the first novel of The Dark Tower series, " The Gunslinger ," in honor of Dorn's poem.

King also opened both the prologue and epilogue of " The Stand " with Dorn's line, " We need help, the Poet reckoned.

* Elmborg, James K ( 1998 ) A Pageant of Its Time: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties.

* Chemo Sábe α Edward Dorn publisher's site feature's a piece on "... Dorn's last collection of poems, written while battling cancer and the drugs he took to fight the disease.

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the White House, is the most famous address of the free world.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

Conium maculatum has been used as a sedative and in treatments for arthritis and asthma in addition to its most famous use: as a “ humane ” method of killing criminals and philosophers.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.