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Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.
' " An example which combines homophonic and homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line " You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.
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.
* Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.
* Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series ( radio, printed novels, TV series, feature film, etc.
VHS release: The original television version of Shada was released in 1992 on VHS and featured linking narration by Tom Baker and was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of Douglas Adams's script ( except in North America ).
More contemporary examples of nonsense verse are Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the 1972 song ' Prisencolinensinainciusol ' by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano.
A novel entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, based on the game, was written by Terry Jones.
* Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ( 1988 )
The second book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was inspired by the song " Grand Hotel ", from Procol Harum's album of the same name.
* h2g2 a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
* In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the title character saves the world, in part by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream ; if Coleridge had completed the poem an alien ghost would have ' encoded ' certain information within the completed work that would have allowed him to make repairs to his spaceship in the past at the cost of wiping out all life on Earth.
This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The internet service derived its name from the " Babel fish ", a fictional species in Douglas Adams's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that could instantly translate languages.
In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels, the titular character — a " holistic " detective — is implied to have psychic powers on occasion.
The play's two chief influences are Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy and the role play game Space 1889, although another is Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall.
It is named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio, play, and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
* Babel fish, a fictional creature from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
* Douglas Adams's " increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy " started as a BBC radio series and was adapted to a trilogy which eventually grew to five novels.
Trefil found new fame in 2005 when it was used as a location for the alien Vogon homeworld in the film of Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
* Bug-eyed monsters were mentioned in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
* Mr. L. Prosser, a minor character appearing at the beginning of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Notable examples include Douglas Adams's babel fish, the TARDIS from Doctor Who, the translator microbes in Farscape, and the universal translator from Star Trek.

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* 1890 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( d. 1998 )
JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.
* Semper Mars ( 1998 ) by Ian Douglas depicts the Cydonia region of Mars as home to ancient alien ruins where mummified early humans are found in 2040.
* Browning, Douglas and Myers, William T., eds., 1998.
Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.
Douglas Irwin ’ s 1998 paper examines the validity of the opposite tariff hypotheses posed by the Republicans and Democrats in 1890.
* Kendall, Richard ; Degas, Edgar ; Druick, Douglas W .; Beale, Arthur ( 1998 ).
A description of the Beowulf cluster, from the original " how-to ", which was published by Jacek Radajewski and Douglas Eadline under the Linux Documentation Project in 1998.
A Perfect Murder is a 1998 remake directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in which the characters of Halliday and Swann are combined, with the husband ( Douglas ) hiring, or rather coercing, his wife's lover ( played by Viggo Mortensen ) into a scheme to kill her.
In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).
* Marjory Stoneman Douglas ( 1890 1998 ), American conservationist and writer
Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday, and who is exactly 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito.
* Douglas Young ( after Ernest Diehl ), Teubner edition ( 1998 )-ISBN 3-519-01036-4
Douglas Jimerson, a tenor from Baltimore who has released CDs of music from the Civil War era, released Stephen Foster's America in 1998.
In 1998 Douglas was knocked out in the first round of a fight with heavyweight contender Lou Savarese.
* Thunderhead, a 1998 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child which uses the fungus and illness as a central plot point.
A Perfect Murder is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen.
* Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham ( 1998 )— cabinet minister
Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre ( Gaelic: Raibeart Dùghlas Mac an t-Saoir ; 15 December 1913 2 February 1998 ) was the Leader of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) from 1947 1956 and a doctor by profession.
* Simple Simon, a book written by Ryne Douglas Pearson on which the 1998 action thriller Mercury Rising is based
Marjory Stoneman Douglas ( April 7, 1890 May 14, 1998 ) was an American journalist, writer, feminist, and environmentalist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.
Some of Douglas ' stories were collected by University of Florida professor Kevin McCarthy in two edited collections: Nine Florida Stories in 1990 and A River In Flood in 1998.

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