* A space elevator is also constructed in the course of Clarke's final novel ( co-written with Frederik Pohl ), The Last Theorem.

In the third and final round he formed an alliance with Eurosceptic John Redwood, who would have become Shadow Chancellor and Clarke's deputy if Clarke had won the contest.

United Australia Party challenger Frederick Lee appeared to have won the seat on the second count after most of independent Guildford Clarke's preferences flowed to him, and it was not until final counting of preferential votes that Curtin knew he had won the seat.

His final budget in 1993 was more sympathetically received by financial specialists than John Major's 1990 budget or Kenneth Clarke's budget of November 1993.

* 3001: The Final Odyssey, the final novel in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series takes place in 3001.

It is the fourth and final book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

* 3001: The Final Odyssey, the final novel in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series takes place in 3001.

The latter game, against VfB Stuttgart in Stockholm, was Clarke's final appearance for the club.

Clarke's worldwide breakthrough came in 2000 when he won his first World Golf Championship event defeating Tiger Woods in the final 4 & 3 at the 2000 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship at La Costa Resort and Spa.

Matches between Wisden's team and Clarke's quickly became the highlight of the cricketing year.

Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama opens with a significant asteroid impact in northern Italy in the year 2077 which gives rise to the Spaceguard Project, which later discovers the Rama spacecraft.

This happened often during the 1980s when Roy Clarke's commitment to Open All Hours prevented the production of a full series every year.

Arundel and longtime bassist McClanahan quite the band, leading in short order to Clarke's decision to retire the band later that year.

They were married in a Nashville hotel on December 30, 1857 and after living for a year with Mosby's parents, the couple settled in Bristol, Virginia which was close to Clarke's hometown in Kentucky.

" Their predictions were the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's character HAL 9000, who accurately embodied what AI researchers believed they could create by the year 2001.

Melton recounts that " vocationally, the most influential force in my life was the writings of a man I never met but who became my hero, Elmer Talmage Clark ... while my contemporaries became enthused with UFO's, Elvis Presley, or Alabama football, during my last year in high school one of Clarke's books, The Small Sects in America, captured my imagination.

Clarke's poor form during the 2005 Ashes series and his failure to score a test century for over a year saw him dropped from the Test team in late 2005.

A " gold bug " in 1896, Clarke's opposition to William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate was so great that he bolted the party and participated in the subsequent " Gold Bug " convention in Indianapolis that nominated Senator John M. Palmer later that year.

In 1819 entered a poem for the Chancellor's Gold Medal ; this was awarded to Macaulay, but Clarke's poem Pompeii, published in the same year, was judged second.

Clarke's real breakthrough year was in 1993 when he won his maiden European Tour event and played his way to 8th position on the Order of Merit.

Clarke's fine year continued when he placed tied second in the Volvo PGA Championship and followed it up the week after with his seventh European Tour win at the Compass Group English Open ahead of Michael Campbell and Mark James.

With hindsight Stephen Clarke's A year in the Merde has been a trail-blazing forerunner of a new " fish-out-of-the-water " genre.

The Public Enemy, released that same year, contained one of cinema's most famous ( and frequently parodied ) scenes, in which James Cagney pushes a half grapefruit into Clarke's face, then goes out to pick up Jean Harlow.

He asked her to have dinner with him that night at P. J. Clarke's.

His parents were unable to afford Eton or Harrow, so in the summer of 1803 he was sent to board at John Clarke's school in Enfield, close to his grandparents ' house.

In the family atmosphere at Clarke's, Keats developed an interest in classics and history, which would stay with him throughout his short life.

* 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, commencing the New York Conspiracy of 1741.

The last chapter of the novel would be finished in Atlanta while Clarke and Macauley discussed racial issues ; these conversations may have influenced the development of the last chapter, particularly Clarke's choice of making the character of Jan Rodricks — the last surviving member of the human species at the end of the novel — an African American.

Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told Ebony magazine about his appreciation for Clarke's story and expressed his personal interest in working on a future film adaptation of Childhood's End.

This method of slow interstellar travel is hinted at in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama ( 1972 ) as the spacecraft Rama is analyzed, and this theme continues in the book's sequels.

Interest rates, inflation and unemployment all fell during Clarke's tenure at HM Treasury.

Clarke's position in the Wembley crowd was right behind the linesman at the time, and he shouted at the official to award a goal.

The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to establish itself at the Lagrangian point of the Jupiter-Io system.

Adam Clarke's Commentary has an exposition of the issues at stake in this passage and contends that the vow Jephthah made was not as rash as it sounds.

The adaptation of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke's novel as 2001: A Space Odyssey won the Academy Award for Visual Effects and offered thematic complexity not typically associated with the science fiction genre at the time.

According to a family tradition, given by William Turner, on settling at Norwich he went through Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ( 1712 ) with his congregation, adopted its view, and came forward ( 1737 ) in defence of a dissenting layman excommunicated for heterodoxy on this topic by James Sloss ( 1698 – 1772 ) of Nottingham, a pupil of John Simson.

Bobby Clarke's Bombers jersey on display at the 2007 Memorial Cup in Vancouver.

Notably, he injured his right hand early in a 10 round match against rated fighter Henry Clark and then nearly jabbed Clarke's head off, beating him at his own game as it were, to win on points.

In 2005, he came out in opposition to Kenneth Clarke's candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party, calling Clarke's record in government " unrivalled ; a record of failure which at every level has never been matched ".

Clarke's statue is one of two statues that was presented by the State of Arkansas to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol.

* The Motif of First Contact in Arthur C. Clarke's SF Works, an excerpt from Zoran Živković's Master's thesis at Fantastic Metropolis

When Annie Clarke's husband John dies from leukaemia at an early age, her close friend Chris Harper, anxious to purchase a comfortable sofa for the visitors lounge in the hospital where he was treated, hits upon the idea of printing a calendar featuring some of the members of the Knapely chapter of the Women's Institute discreetly posing nude while engaged in everyday activities, such as baking and knitting, in order to raise funds.

Clarke's political career began at the age of 18 when he was the election agent for the Labour MP James Dempsey.

Dickie was Clarke's election agent at the 2010 General Election where Clarke came a distant fourth with just 5. 8 % of the vote, barely saving his deposit.

While McDaid stated that his presence at the hearing was due to personal connections – Clarke's mother was a constituent and a patient in his general practice in Letterkenny – the opposition Fine Gael party objected to his appointment and ministers from Fianna Fáil's coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, indicated their unwillingness to remain in office should McDaid be appointed.