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A mysterious man named Roosta brings Zaphod to Zarniwoop's office, where they wait until the building lands on Frogstar World B. Roosta gives Zaphod final instructions before he leaves: Go through the window on his way out, not the door.
Frogstar World A is the first planet of the Frogstar system and the home of the Frogstar fighters which take Zaphod Beeblebrox to Frogstar World B. Frogstar World A is described as an altogether more congenial place than Frogstar World B.

Frogstar and is
Marvin subsequently saves Zaphod's life by engaging in a battle of wits with a vicious ( yet stupid ) automated tank, and then is abandoned on the planet Frogstar B when Zaphod is sent to the Total Perspective Vortex.
When Zaphod and Marvin reach the fifteenth floor of the Guides office, half of the building is lifted off the ground by Frogstar Fighters.
In the original radio series, the Frogstar system does not exist and the Total Perspective Vortex is said to be located on " The Frogstar ".
Frogstar World B is said to be " the most totally evil place in the galaxy ".
Although there is no statue of Arthur on Frogstar B, the bird people came about the same way ; there is no archeologist called Lintilla in the part of the books that concerns itself with Frogstar B ; however, the spaceport with the massively delayed spaceship is there.
Frogstar B is the home of the Total Perspective Vortex, a machine that effectively annihilates one's soul by showing one in an instant the whole infinity of creation and oneself in relation to it.

Frogstar and .
However of the stories of Zaphod's visit to the Frogstar, the Guide says " 10 % are 95 % true, 14 % are 65 % true, 35 % are only 5 % true and the rest are told by Zaphod Beeblebrox ", and listeners are presented with one " version " of that visit.
The books later expanded the Frogstar into a full system with three known habitable planets.
Frogstar B was thrown into poverty through an event termed the Shoe Event Horizon.
Many years ago, Frogstar World B was " a thriving, happy planet-people, cities, shops, a normal world.
In the continuity of the books, Frogstar World B is the future site of Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

World and C
World Bank / International Monetary Fund | IMF protesters smashed the windows of this PNC Financial Services | PNC Bank branch located in the Logan Circle, Washington, D. C. | Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D. C.
Other multilateral organizations — including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations agencies, European Union, and the African Development Bank -- and bilateral donors — including Germany, Japan, the European Union, and the United States — are significant development partners for the C. A. R.
The earliest descriptions of a global communications network came long before the World Wide Web entered popular awareness, though not before traditional science-fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and some social commentators such as James Burke began predicting that such networks would eventually form.
In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.
Forbes also contends that significant Canadian defence spending during the Second World War favoured powerful political interests in Central Canada such as C. D.
During World War II, a dog tag could indicate only one of three religions through the inclusion of one letter: " P " for Protestant, " C " for Catholic, or " H " for Jewish ( from the word, " Hebrew "), or ( according to at least one source ) " NO " to indicate no religious preference.
Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.
Engraving of Kilroy was here | Kilroy on the National World War II Memorial | World War II Memorial in Washington, D. C ..
* Gamma World Cryptic Alliances and Unknown Enemies by Owen K. C.
* C. Gill, T. Whitmarsh, and J. Wilkins ( eds ), Galen and the World of Knowledge ( New York and Cambridge, 2009 ) ( Greek Cultures in the Roman World ).
* Tinkov, S., Bekeredjian, R., Winter, G., Coester, C., Polyplex-conjugated microbubbles for enhanced ultrasound targeted gene therapy, 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, 16 – 20 November, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, < http :// www. aapsj. org / abstracts / AM_2008 / AAPS2008-000838. PDF >
* 1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, D. C., troops disperse the last of the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans.
* 1932 – U. S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D. C.
Germany And The Two World Wars, William C. Kirby ( trans .).
* Watt, D. C. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938 – 1939.
During World War I, she promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds, through an exhausting series of fund-raising speeches that kicked off in Washington, D. C., where she sold bonds alongside Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, and Marie Dressler.
AsDB, C, CCC, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, International Monetary Fund, IMO, Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, IOC, ITU, NAM, OIC, OPCW, SAARC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, World Health Organization, WIPO, WMO, WTO
* 1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D. C. in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
* 2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C.
" Mackal and Powell were interviewed before and after this expedition for the TV program Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.
The Club has produced two Welsh international bowlers ; Mr. C Standfast in 1937 and Mr. B Hawkins who represented Wales in the 1982 World Pairs and captained Wales in 1982 and 1984.
After teaming up with Emery Roth and Sons on the design of the World Trade Center, they teamed up again on other projects including new defense buildings at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C.

World and is
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.
The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.
Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.
Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.
With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.
In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.
While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.
There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.
World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).
Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure is more important than aiding them economically, E. M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the World Affairs Council Monday night.
No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.
George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

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