* According to Homer Hickam's memoir, Rocket Boys, and its movie production, October Sky, the early rockets he and his friends built were ironically named " Auk ".

* Homer Hickam's classic memoir Rocket Boys and the film October Sky tell how a coal miner's son was so inspired by Sputnik, he began to build rockets to the surprise and consternation of his hometown.

* Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again ISBN 978-0-520-26587-5 A former college president attended St. John's College and wrote a memoir about his experience reading Homer, rowing Crew, and examining the importance of a liberal arts education in today ’ s society.

Hammond also wrote the preface to Brother Asaiah, As Remembered by Martha Ellen Anderson and Friends, a memoir of the life of Homer businessman and peace activist Brother Asaiah Bates, which was published in 2006 following the deaths of both Bates and Hammond.

Rocket Boys ( also known as October Sky ) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

* Homer H. Hickam, Jr .' s " Rocket Boys "

* Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys ( 1998 )

" NASA had spent a lot of money training her ; she also filled a niche, obviously, being a woman of color ," said Homer Hickam, a training manager for NASA ’ s space station efforts who later wrote the book Rocket Boys which was adapted into the film October Sky.

Sexual Inadequacy " ( an episode of The Simpsons ), Abraham Simpson asks Homer whether pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is what's wrong with Marge ; a cartoon episode of Rocket Power, in which a dimwitted character named Twister successfully spells the word on his spelling test ; High School Musical 2: What's What Edition refers to this as the longest word.

Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner.

Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys / October Sky, was one of the first scuba explorers of Guanaja, first visiting in 1973.

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" Some scenes in the movie, such as Marge's emotional video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving Kavner exhausted.

It is well known for being a setting in the movie " October Sky " as writer Homer Hickam is a Big Creek High School alumnus.

" Then He Kissed Me " was the opening song to which Elisabeth Shue danced around her bedroom in Adventures in Babysitting ( 1987 ); it was the song in which Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco enter the Copacabana on their first real date in the movie Goodfellas ( 1990 ); and it was featured during the episode ' Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play ' on The Simpsons ( 2006 ).

Other work included on-camera guest appearances on such series as The Polly Bergen Show, as Homer Winch on The Beverly Hillbillies, The Virginian, The Lucy Show, Claude Wilbur on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dan Raven, and The Brady Bunch, as well as a 1960 movie that included a compilation of Three Stooges shorts ( Stop !, Look and Laugh ), and a part in the Jerry Lewis movie Which Way to the Front ?.

It was notably spoofed during the Medieval Times sequence in the Jim Carrey movie The Cable Guy, in The Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer, and on Futurama as the national anthem of Dr. Zoidberg's home panet, Decapod 10.

Levy appeared in the corner of a poster hanging outside the movie theatre in Springfield in the " See Homer Run " episode of The Simpsons.

Lenny has a short career as an actor in which he has a minor role in a horror movie that Homer takes Bart and Lisa to.

The car ends up being so overpacked that Homer has no room in it and ends up being carried home by Rainier Wolfcastle in a baby harness built for an adult and used in the Rob Schneider movie My Baby is an Ugly Man!

In another episode entitled " Bonfire of the Manatees " Homer mistakes the Springfield Mafia, led by Fat Tony, for the Gay Mafia, thinking they wanted to make a gay porn movie in his house.

It was called Homer ( after the device from a James Bond movie ).

References to the 1991 remake include: Sideshow Bob's tattoos ; the shot of him leaving the prison gate ; the scene with him smoking in the movie theater ; part of his " workout " scene ; his hiding under the Simpson family's car ; Wiggum's rigging wire around the house to a toy doll as an alarm ; his suggestion that Homer can do anything to someone who enters his home ; Bob, strapped under a car, pulling up beside Bart for a conversation ; and Homer's hiring a private investigator who attempts to persuade Bob to leave town.

The scene in which Homer receives the key to the executive washroom is a reference to the movie Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ?.

Homer and Marge go to a movie together, only to be joined by Moe, and Homer learns from Lenny and Carl that Marge and Moe are having what is called an " emotional affair.

Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a movie and he has to bring Ned Flanders ' children with him, because Ned has taken the senior citizens for ice cream to celebrate Jasper's birthday.

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called " What Would Jesus View ?".

After listening to Lenny mention he had a small part in the horror movie The Redeadening as a gardener, Homer takes the kids to see the movie.

* American Pie: The movie Homer wants to see ( before Rod and Todd object ) is called Teenage Sex Wager, which is the premise to this raunchy late 1990s teen comedy series.

* My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Homer thinks there is a movie called My Big Fat Greek Salad.

The scene of Homer studying for the final exam contains a reference to the Ludovico technique from the movie A Clockwork Orange.

For the ceremony, Bart and Lisa splice in home movie footage of Homer at his worst ( passed out on the floor drunk and almost naked during Christmas, losing Maggie in a poker game, and chasing Bart down the street while wielding a chain mace ) to prove to everyone that Homer is a bad father and a worse person.

* October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor ( Homer Simpson from ' The Simpsons ')

A project for a new review, brought up by Sydney Smith in Jeffrey's flat ( on Buccleuch Place ) in the presence of Henry Brougham ( afterwards Lord Brougham ), Francis Homer and others, resulted in the appearance on 10 October 1802 of the Edinburgh Review.

While her husband was still suffering the effects of his injury from the previous October, Laura set out early the next morning to warn the Lieutenant herself, reportedly walking roughly from present day Queenston through St. Davids ( stopping at the home of her half-brother Charles, who was ill in bed ), Homer, Shipman's Corners ( present-day St. Catharines ) and Short Hills at the Niagara Escarpment before arriving at the camp of allied Native warriors who led her the rest of the way to FitzGibbon's headquarters at the DeCew house.

Homer Martin Adkins ( October 15, 1890 – February 26, 1964 ) was the 32nd governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

The English poet Keats wrote " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " for his friend Charles Cowden Clarke in October 1816.

Homer Lusk Collyer ( November 6, 1881 – March 1947 ) and Langley Wakeman Collyer ( October 3, 1885 – March 1947 ), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became famous because of their bizarre nature and compulsive hoarding.

" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " is a sonnet by English Romantic poet John Keats ( 1795-1821 ) written in October 1816.

* Homer Hickam, aerospace engineer whose youth was depicted in the 1999 film October Sky

On October 1999, Books in Canada published an article entitled " Modern Homer " about a supposedly newly-discovered Greek poet Andreas Karavis, with an interview, a photograph, and an essay by David Solway.

* October Sky ( Homer Hickam )

" Homer the Heretic " is the third episode of The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > fourth season, which originally aired on FOX in the United States on October 8, 1992.

In its original broadcast, " Homer the Heretic " finished 36th in ratings for the week of October 5 – 11, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 12. 0, equivalent to approximately 11. 2 million viewing households.

* Homer Hankies were given to all fans during what was to be the last regular season game at the Metrodome on October 4, 2009.

* On October 6, 2009, the Star Tribune and the Minnesota Twins announced that there would be a 2009 Homer Hanky available.

* October – Homer Ramsdell succeeds Benjamin Loder as president of the Erie Railroad.

It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 28, 1993, and features three short stories called " The Devil and Homer Simpson ", " Terror at 5½ Feet ", and " Bart Simpson's Dracula ".

In its original American broadcast, " King-Size Homer " finished 45th ( tied with Melrose Place ) in the ratings for the week of October 30 to November 3, 1995, with a Nielsen rating of 10. 0.