He subsequently wrote three novels merging these overarching themes, The World of Null-A and The Pawns of Null-A in the late 1940s, and Null-A Three in the early 1980s.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

It is unknown when dual wielding was first used in fiction, but it was likely from early western novels before spilling over into other works.

In the early 20th century, numerous examples abound of heroes and heroines of pulp novels, paperbacks and comics depicted wielding two pistols, most notably the pulp hero, the Shadow.

William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy novels are famous early cyberpunk novels.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

Bellamy's early novels, including Six to One ( 1877 ), Dr. Heidenhoff's Process ( 1880 ), and Miss Ludington's Sister ( 1884 ) were unremarkable works, making use of standard psychological plots.

Other well-known examples of early epistolary novels are closely related to the tradition of letter-books and miscellanies of letters.

The early films were often melodramatic in tone, and there was a distinct preference for storylines which were already known to the audience-in particular adaptations of Shakespeare plays and Dickens ' novels.

; Forgotten Futures VII: Tsar Wars: Based on the late 19th century novels of George Griffith, Tsar Wars is a setting for the struggle between the anarchist Terror and the forces of oppression in the early 20th Century, and the return of the Tsar's heir to the utopia of 2030 AD.

He began to write novels, including an early version of Burmese Days but nothing else survives from that period.

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, who wrote historical and early SF novels and stories wrote Mertvec-ubiytsa ( Dead murderer ) in 1879.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

From quite early in his career, he sought a better way to organise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels.

In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...

The novels are set in Britain contemporaneously with when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s.

Crawford Gribben has shown that there were successful rapture fiction novels as early as 1913, with some earlier works identified as dating from 1905.

Because of such significant deviations from the animated series, movies, and subsequent sequels the novels themselves are not considered canonical ; however, the detailed account of past events leading up to the introduction of the mobile suit and early skirmishes of the OYW are more or less accepted in the continuity.

... how early this basic truth was recognized by the sages of India, since it appears as the fundamental tenet of the Vedânta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa, is proved by Sir William Jones in the last of his essays: " On the Philosophy of the Asiatics " ( Asiatic Researches, vol.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

File: Column drum Ephesus. JPG | Room 22-Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, early 4th century, BC

Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The first single, " Feels Just Like It Should " was released early in June, the second, " Seven Days in Sunny June " released on 15 August 2005, followed by the third, "( Don't ) Give Hate A Chance " on 7 November 2005.

* The Seven Sisters ( Sette Sorelle ), the most prominent Italian football clubs in Serie A during the 1990s and early 2000s: Juventus F. C., A. C. Milan, F. C.

In an early and highly influential article, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, the psychologist George Miller suggested that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two and that that was well known at the time ( it seems to go back to the 19th-century researcher Wundt ).

The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices ( part of Christian ethics ) that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct Christians concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin.

Pope Leo X first granted the title " Defender of the Faith " to King Henry VIII in 1521, rewarding him for his support of the Papacy during the early years of the Protestant Reformation, particularly for his book the Defence of the Seven Sacraments.

One of the results of this was the Spanish decision to remain neutral during the early part of the Seven Years ' War.

The Seven Days Battles followed in late June and early July 1862, during which Union General McClellan threatened to take Richmond but ultimately failed.

His early life was depicted in Hollywood films such as Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet.

The Seven Sages ( of Greece ) or Seven Wise Men ( Greek: οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί, hoi hepta sophoi ; c. 620 BC – 550 BC ) was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century BC philosophers, statesmen and law-givers who were renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom.

Seven early episodes were novelised for a book, written by Jeremy Lloyd, called Are You Being Served?

) US supplemental carriers Seven Seas Airlines, Capitol International, President Airlines and Transocean Airlines, as well as various South European and Scandinavian charter operators, figured prominently among Gatwick's early overseas users.

By the early 1990s, the community celebrated the opening of the Seven Oaks Senior Center and two new elementary schools, Seven Oaks and Joppa View.

An early home, Seven Hearths was built in 1740 have seen 1770 and reputedly the oldest clapboard house in the county ( moved to its present location in 1934 ).

Founded in 1917, the parish was originally located in downtown Mars, but by the early 2000s, membership had swelled so much that a new facility was constructed just outside of the neighboring Seven Fields borough along PA 228 in 2008.

This inn, the Seven Stars, was shown on maps as early as 1759.

In 1872, Keller published Seven Legends ( Sieben Legenden ), which dealt with the early Christian era.

In early 1980, when Anderson and Wakeman left Yes, Anderson started recording again with Vangelis ; and by summer 1980, Jon & Vangelis had released Short Stories, followed in November by Jon's solo album Song of Seven and a major British tour with The New Life Band.

The town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia during the First Silesian War early in the Seven Years ' War.

His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years ' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday ; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education.

His other early appearances included Dixon of Dock Green ( 1962 ), The Morecambe & Wise Show, The Seven Faces of Jim ( 1961 ) with Jimmy Edwards, a production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever ( 1968 ) and the storyteller in several episodes of Jackanory ( 1969 ).