Some fictional approaches definitively establish the independence of the parallel world, sometimes by having the world differ from the book's account ; other approaches have works of fiction create and affect the parallel world: L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, taking place on an astral plane, is populated by the daydreams of mundane people, and in Rebecca Lickiss's Eccentric Circles, an elf is grateful to Tolkien for transforming elves from dainty little creatures.

* Eccentric ( mechanism ), a wheel that rotates on an axle that is displaced from the focus of the circle described by the wheel

Weight training is a type of strength training that uses weights rather than elastic, Eccentric Training or muscular resistance to increase strength.

Its name is the most meaningful pun in the story: outwardly it is an Eccentric ( drop-out from the Culture ) which dedicates its enormous resources to presenting tableaux of historical events ( mainly battles ) populated by passengers in suspended animation ; but in fact it is a sleeping member of Special Circumstances, the Culture's covert operations organization.

The name of Sleeper Service is thus double-pronged — it is a Sleeper Service to human beings in Storage, and a Sleeper Service within SC, as it has produced a massive war-fleet during the 40-year period it has spent behaving as an Eccentric.

In addition to The Detroit News and Free Press, Detroit's two metropolitan daily newspapers, Southfield is served by the Southfield Eccentric, a suburban paper that reports on local and community events, which is published twice a week, on Sunday and Thursday.

In a chapter of his book, Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, John Michell cites Huges as pioneering the idea of trepanation in his 1962 monograph, Homo Sapiens Correctus, which is most often cited by advocates of self-trepanation.

* Eccentric structures may resemble follies, but the mere presence of eccentricity is not proof that a building is a folly.

The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases ( 2003 ) is an anthology of fantasy medical conditions edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, and published by Night Shade Books.

Eccentric and arrogant behaviour towards colleagues is said to have alienated many former supporters, and, while he promoted the development of his own cult of personality, by 1964 he was dedicating more time to foreign affairs than local political developments.

Eccentric multimillionaire Ezra Ounce ( Hugh Herbert ), whose main purpose in life is raising American morals through a nationwide campaign, wants to be assured that his fortune will be inherited by upstanding relatives, so he visits his cousin, Matilda Hemingway ( Zasu Pitts ) in New York City, in Horace's view the center of immorality in America.

At the end of the novel, Yang is named as the " Western Eccentric " of the new Five Greats.

Eccentric behavior is often considered whimsical or quirky, although it can also be strange and disturbing.

Eccentric is a descriptive term for ships and not a group in its own right ; for example, ROU Shoot Them Later was both Eccentric and part of the AhForgetIt Tendency of the Culture Ulterior.

An additional reason that Eccentric ships can be part of the military command is that some Eccentrics may use their Eccentric status as a cover for SC or simply to conceal their political allegiances within the Culture.

The Louisville Eccentric Observer ( also called LEO Weekly but widely known as just LEO ) is a free weekly newspaper ( urban alternative weekly ), distributed every Wednesday in over 800 locations throughout the Louisville, Kentucky area, including areas of southern Indiana.

After the break-up, Dajeil froze her pregnancy and subsequently remained in a state of intense depression for 40 years, and the ship changed its name to Sleeper Service and started acting as an Eccentric.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

The shaped canvases took on even less regular forms in the Eccentric Polygon series, and elements of collage were introduced, pieces of canvas being pasted onto plywood, for example.

* Eccentric Melody ( for Elliott Carter's 90th birthday ) ( 1998 ), for cello solo

*" The Eccentric Member for Galway: The Story of Richard Martin, Animal Rights Pioneer ", Peter Phillips, ISBN 1-898594-76-7 ; Parapress, 2003.

Eccentric contractions are being researched for their ability to speed rehab of weak or injured tendons.

* The Eccentric Member for Galway, Peter Phillips, 2003.

Maclean recounts how Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly were executed there in the context of The Great Game, and how Joseph Wolff, known as the Eccentric Missionary, barely escaped their fate when he came looking for them in 1845.

After being awarded an MBE in 2005, Scott joked that the award should stand for " Mad, Bonkers and Eccentric ".

She searches for quietness and strength in her inner fantasy world, and friendship and love on the internet, becoming ever more detached from the real world and eccentric in the eyes of her schoolmates and parents (" Eccentric ", " Digital Deceit ", " Through Square Eyes ").

Eccentric and at crossroads, he is searching for a protégé to groom so that he may take a backseat.

She lost to Democratic challenger John Yarmuth, former publisher and editorialist of the Louisville Eccentric Observer ( LEO ), an alternative newsweekly.

* In 1998, a Disney Tribute Album entitled We Love Mickey ~ Happy 70th Anniversary ( Walt Disney Records ), featuring covers of Disney songs by Japanese artists, included a remake by The Eccentric Opera.

Theoretically, Culture military doctrine excludes any Eccentric ships from being members of high-level Special Circumstances ( SC ) " military commands " ( more properly known as a patchwork of SC Core Groups, Sub-Committees, and Committees ), and presumably precludes them from Special Circumstances membership completely.

Among his other works are Det hvide Hus ( The White House, 1898 ), Excentriske Noveller ( Eccentric Stories, 1885 ), Stille Eksistenser ( Quiet Existences, 1886 ), Liv og Død ( Life and Death, 1899 ), Englen Michael ( The Angel Michael, 1902 ), a volume of poems ( 1889 ), and recollections, Ti Aar ( Ten Years, 1891 ).

* Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh ( 1996 ), The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries: a Celebration of Eccentric Lives.

The Louisville Eccentric Observer ( LEO ), a popular alternative newspaper, was founded in 1990, and the Snitch Newsweekly was established in the 1990s.

On 5th February, they played Summer Storm Festival, in Bangalore alongside, Theorized ( India ), Eccentric Pendulum ( India ), Nothnegal ( Malé ) and the headliner band Opeth.

* 2Spare-Top 10 Most Eccentric People you didn't know

#" Eccentric " – 4: 10

Eccentric sheave, with strap and eccentric rod fitted.

Eccentric bottom bracket on a Burley Design | Burley tandem bicycle held in place with two set screw s

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GCUs ' Minds are sometimes somewhat eccentric ( not to be confused with Eccentric – see below ).

Ships which appear to have mental ' instability ' ( though only compared with the very reasoned rationality of the other Culture Minds ) or act in ways that are otherwise considered eccentric or at odds with accepted standards of behavior are considered to be Eccentric.

Eccentric Jupiters may disqualify a planetary system from having Earth-like planets in it because a massive gas giant with an eccentric orbit may remove all Earth mass planets from the habitable zone.

* Eccentric orbital ring systems-these are rings that are in the form of a closed shape with varying altitude

" The Eccentric Archive-An Interview with Judith Halberstam " in Trikster – Nordic Queer Journal # 1, 2008.

Kozintsev contributed the " Salvation in the Trousers " section to the Eccentric Manifesto, published on 9 July 1922 ( the other contributors were Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich and Georgii Kryzhitskii ) and was involved with the Factory of the Eccentric Actor group.