Fatal familial insomnia is a hereditary prion disease in which degeneration of the thalamus occurs, causing the patient to gradually lose his ability to sleep and progressing to a state of total insomnia, which invariably leads to death.

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Note: The authorship of The Fatal Conceit is under scholary dispute.

Louisa May Alcott's Gothic potboiler, A Long Fatal Love Chase ( written in 1866, but published in 1995 ) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre.

ISBN 0-07-071676-5 ), and the co-author ( with Rachel Caspari ) of Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction ( ISBN 0-684-81013-1 ), which reviews the scientific evidence and conflicting theories about how human evolution has been interpreted, and how its interpretation is related to views about race.

It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrP < sup > C </ sup >, but can also develop spontaneously in patients with a non-inherited mutation variant called sporadic Fatal Insomnia ( sFI ).

Having a child will secure McClure's casting as McBain's sidekick in McBain IV: Fatal Discharge, but Selma is unwilling to bring a child into a loveless relationship and decides to leave McClure.

Also, 2005's Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945 is based on Dewey's time and death in Vietnam and written by journalist and Dewey family friend Seymour Topping.

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American thriller blended with horror, directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer.

* Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the wreck of the Andrea Doria Author Joseph Haberstroh-Although the author states that the Gilboa Quarry his character trains at is near Cincinnati he describes driving on Old State Route 224 and passing Gilboa's giant fiberglass bull.

The films Play Misty for Me and Fatal Attraction are two examples, as is the memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen ( and the movie based on it, with Winona Ryder as Kaysen ).

Boycie ( John Challis ) 1982-2003 — A shady used car salesman and a frightful snob with a machine gun laugh who " thinks anyone with a pound less than him is a peasant ", according to Rodney in " Fatal Extraction ".

SNK Playmore USA released its first game on Xbox Live Arcade, which is Fatal Fury Special.

SNK is now currently supporting Nintendo's Virtual Console service on the Wii in the US with Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes.

Fatal Recordings is a feminist record label, established by German industrial / techno artist Hanin Elias.

* The eighteenth-century play The Fatal Secret by Lewis Theobald is a reworking of The Duchess of Malfi, imposing Aristotle's " unities " and a happy ending on the plot

Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death ( commonly shortened to The Curse of Fatal Death ) is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999.

* The title " Curse of Fatal Death " is a tautology ( it being impossible to have a death that is not fatal ), which parodies the sometimes melodramatic and tautological titles of the original series ( an example being the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin ).

* The Curse of Fatal Death has been released digitally via iTunes ( UK store only ) and is available on the Red Nose Day channel on YouTube.

After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on May 18 of the same year under Christie's original title.

# Fatal Extraction ( January 15, 1989 ) – After appearing on a TV talk show in which he explains his view on the issue of abortion (" ugly, stupid, poor people should not be allowed to have children "), Alan discovers while driving home that there is as much as £ 1 billion worth of oil located beneath the Hackney Marshes.

* Atkins is the subject of the " Fatal Femmes " episode of the Secret War documentary series, aired in the United States on the Military Channel.

The 1931 film The Sleeping Cardinal ( also known as Sherlock Holmes ' Fatal Hour ) is loosely based on " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " The Final Problem ".

The Fatal Vision case, as it has come to be known, has a very long legal history, not all of which was covered by the book and movie.

His " Another " costume is a very slightly modified version of his Fatal Fury Wild Ambition costume.

Fatal poisoning in humans is very rare, only occurring after eating a lot of yew foliage.

" Although she often fights and argues with Yuri, she has displayed a much softer side to her personality, revealing in the Sim Hell mini-series that her biggest fear is that of losing Yuri, and having very watery eye's over the death of the original Yuri during Fatal But Not Serious.

However, they criticized that the fighting system is very similar to other SNK games such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.

DC Comics acquired the rights to all the former Quality Comics characters in 1956 along with a bulk buy of them all, but has yet to make use of Madame Fatal beyond a few very brief cameos and a few mere mentions that made light of the character's transvestite M. O.

Fatal Racing supports graphics resolutions of 320 × 200 and 640 × 480, the latter being very demanding on the hardware available at the time of the game's release.

Fatal poisonings are extremely rare ; one case of an infant eating small quantities of a philodendron resulting in hospitalization and death has been reported.

In July 1981, the Blade ran a front-page story entitled " Rare, Fatal Pneumonia Hits Gay Men ," making the paper one of the first gay newspapers in the country to write about the disease that has come to be known as AIDS.

Former world light middleweight champion Terry Norris, whose Fatal Fight Foundation acts to protect boxers, made an appeal for the Gerald McClellan Trust, noting " McClellan's organs are starting to shut down because of his brain injury.

The first was in 1977 when a 10-year-old Hawai ' ian boy, night fishing with his father at Hanamaulu Bay, Kaua ' i, was killed when a needlefish jumped from the water and pierced his eye and brain .< ref >" A Fatal Brain Injury Caused by a Needlefish ".

These films include such financially fruitless and critically scorned films, such as Showgirls, The Lonely Lady, Mommie Dearest, Cool as Ice, Boxing Helena, Manos: The Hands of Fate, North, The Wicker Man, Fatal Deviation, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, and Troll 2, which have become inadvertent comedies to film buffs.

* The Fatal Fury game series has two capoeira fighters, Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson, master and student.

*( editor ) Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England, London: Allen Lane, 1975.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

), Fatal Women.

* The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, 1988.

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

Fatal mistakes have occurred, for instance, when a child molester regarded by the Pieter Baan Center as " not dangerous " killed a child upon release.

Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.

" Later, the " Gold System " was bundled with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury.

The first three games released were Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes.

As of July 2009, Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown II, Metal Slug 3, Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The King of Fighters ' 98 have been released.

Paramount's successful run of pictures extended into the 1980s and 1990s, generating hits like Airplane !, American Gigolo, Ordinary People, An Officer and a Gentleman, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Footloose, Pretty in Pink, Fatal Attraction, the Friday the 13th slasher series, as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

* Kathy Reichs in her 2001 novel Fatal Voyage.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

Games usually confine characters to moving left and right and jumping, although some games such as Fatal Fury: King of Fighters allow players to move between parallel planes of movement.

SNK released Fatal Fury a few months before Street Fighter II.

Fatal Fury placed more emphasis on storytelling and the timing of special moves, and added a two-plane system where characters could step into the foreground or background.

Meanwhile, SNK released several fighting games on their Neo-Geo platform, including Samurai Shodown II in 1994, Real Bout Fatal Fury in 1995, The Last Blade in 1997, and annual updates to their The King of Fighters franchise.

Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves from 1999 was considered one of SNK's last great games, and the company announced that it would close its doors in 2001.

Notable story arcs of this time are " The X-Tinction Agenda " in 1990, " The Muir Island Saga " in 1991, " X-Cutioner's Song " in 1992, " Fatal Attractions " in 1993, " Phalanx Covenant " in 1994, " Legion Quest "/" Age of Apocalypse " in 1995, " Onslaught " in 1996, and " Operation: Zero Tolerance " in 1997.