The gorges may have helped inspire the idea of Shangri-La in James Hilton's book Lost Horizon in 1933.

Hilton's hypothesis is that Peel wished to actually be deposed on a liberal issue so that he might later lead a Peelite / Whig / Liberal alliance.

* In an episode of Robot Chicken, Bizarro is portrayed as Paris Hilton's boyfriend using his Bizarro speech to insult Paris in what on the surface appears to be a compliment.

Hilton's name can still be seen (" C Hilton 1903 ") carved on the wall of what was once the schoolhouse, since then a mechanic's garage, and now a barn.

Sleep Inn and Sleep Inn and Suites are lower mid-priced and can be compared to Marriott's Fairfield Inn, Wyndham's Microtel, Hilton's Hampton Inn, or IHG's Holiday Inn Express. The first location opened in the United Kingdom in 1989.

The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in 1934.

The U. S. branch of Hilton hotels was reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton Hotels Corporation purchased the hotels division of United Kingdom-based Hilton Group plc, which had acquired Hilton's International operations in 1987 ( the companies had been separated originally in 1964 ).

In July 2004, Salomon dropped his lawsuit against the Hilton family after Paris Hilton's privacy lawsuit was thrown out of court.

Tied only by T. J. Cloutier later that same season at the Reno Hilton's World Poker Challenge, when his pocket sevens were defeated by Ron Rose's pocket Aces.

1956 was Hilton's best season.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

Burck has also made appearances in several music videos, including Cake's " Short Skirt / Long Jacket ", Tyler Hilton's " When It Comes ", and Nickelback's " Rockstar ".

Hilton's novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in three hour-long episodes under its Classic Serial banner:

Building began under Hilton Hotels, which purchased Bally Entertainment in 1996 ; Hilton's casinos were subsequently spun off into Park Place Entertainment, which purchased Caesars World in 2000 and changed its name to Caesars Entertainment Inc in 2004.

Rex appeared on Paris Hilton's My New BFF in his " Dirt Nasty " persona and in Kesha's video for her song " Tik Tok ".

* " In Love With a Bad Idea " contains lyrics which were once a part of a short poem by Good entitled " Paris Hilton's Vagina ".

The next days may show where things stand.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

As the ungoverned days of the automobile and the airplane are long since relegated to the past, so is the carefree attitude toward what a boatman may and may not do ; ;

The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.

Indeed, the failure of home-building as a whole to respond this year to somewhat greater availability of mortgage financing, and the increasing reports of pockets of unsold homes and rising vacancy rates in apartment buildings, may also signal in part that the lush days of big backlog demand for housing are reaching an end.

Where a growing season may, with luck, allow 60 days without frost, and where the soil is poor, sandy, quick-drying and subject to erosion, many farmers fail.

During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

He may also be formally addressed as " Your Grace "— or, more often these days, simply as " Archbishop ", " Father " or ( in the current instance ) " Dr Williams ".

Permanent PSAs may be initially removable ( for example to recover mislabeled goods ) and build adhesion to a permanent bond after several hours or days.

It may take several days after a user signs up before it starts working.

Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.

For a genome as large as the human genome, it may take many days of CPU time on large-memory, multiprocessor computers to assemble the fragments, and the resulting assembly will usually contain numerous gaps that have to be filled in later.

Night dew may occur in up to 180 days per year.

This syndrome may be hard to recognize, as it starts several days after delivery, for example, as late as 21 day for chlordiazepoxide.

Consecutive days may be grouped into other periods such as the week.

With a special pointing device, or by crossing out past days, it may indicate the current date and weekday.

The astronomer's mean tropical year which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices is currently 365. 24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars, but the astronomer's value changes over time, so William Herschel's suggested correction to the Gregorian calendar may become unnecessary by the year 4000.

The memorial is located in an open plaza and may be visited freely from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week.

These klepto chloroplasts may only have a lifetime of a few days and are then replaced.

Capybara gestation is 130 – 150 days, and usually produces a litter of four capybara babies, but may produce between one and eight in a single litter.

Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

But, who knew, that might be coming one of these days.

Most mail these days consists of nothing that could truly be called a letter.

In these days of serious shortage of properly trained teachers qualified to teach physically handicapped and mentally handicapped children, the establishment of such an institute will be a major contribution to the field.

A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

A man could be tossed outside the dimension of time by a stray bullet these days.

You should be prepared to stay in your shelter full time for at least several days and to make it your home for 14 days or longer.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

This bill should be paid within 30 days.

Whenever there is a thaw or a few sunny days, you'll be likely to find a brave little blossom or two.

The roof timbers are precut and the panels standard so that the house can be completely enclosed in a matter of three or four days.

Following single-dose treatment, milk should be discarded for 4 days following treatment.

This means that if your insured vehicle is laid up for more than 30 days, insurance can be suspended and a proportionate return of your premium made to you.

If you will be using your car more than fifteen days, which isn't all unlikely, the daily rates drop quite sharply to $.86 a day for the Fiat 500 and to an infinitesimal $.30 a day for the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon.

The average sludge age based on displacement of solids was calculated to be 14.5 days.

Radiopasteurization has also been successful, and the shelf life of chicken can be extended to a month or more under refrigerated storage as compared with about 10 days for the untreated product.