Madonna of the Rocks in The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

Freelance writers and authors who aspire to be the next Stephen King and Dan Brown are known to submit manuscripts of their latest literary creations hoping for their big break are only to be bombarded with numerous rejection letters from major publishing houses.

" Mickey " McBride and his son Edward, along with minority owners including McBride business associate Dan Sherby, Brown and four others.

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Ağca has stated that upon his release he wants to visit Pope John Paul II's tomb and partner with Dan Brown on writing a book.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

** Dan Brown, American author

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Hanks next starred in the highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code, based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.

Hanks's next endeavor, released on May 15, 2009, was a film adaptation of Angels & Demons, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown.

* Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code ( 2003 ), follows the Holy Blood, Holy Grails conspiracy theories line.

* Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol ( 2009 )

* November 3 Former Enron finance director Dan Boyle and former Merrill Lynch bankers Daniel Bayly, Robert Furst, William Fuhs and James Brown are each convicted of one conspiracy count and two counts of wire fraud and face up to 15 years in prison

He also edited and presented The Real Da Vinci Code, a documentary for Channel 4's Weird World series which countered the claims made by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code.

Randall Tin-Ear, Doug Holland, Jeff Kay, " Ninjalicious " ( AKA Jeff Chapman ), Sky Ryan, Tim Brown, Josh Saitz, Dan Halligan, Heath Row, Jeff Koyen, Bob Conrad, Jen Angel, Seth Robson, Karl Wenclas, Asha Anderson, Emerson Dameron, Jerod Pore, Jim Goad, Cullen Carter, Steen Sigmund, Darby Romeo, Jim Hogshire, Debbie Goad, Cali Macvayia, Don Fitch, Jeff Potter, Joel McClemore, Kris Kane, Marc Parker, Paul T. Olson, Robert W. Howington, Sean Guillory, Ruel Gaviola, Jeff Somers, Tom Hendricks, Chip Rowe, Brent Ritzel and Shaun Richman.

Under new owner Dan Gilbert, the team hired a new head coach, Mike Brown, and a new general manager, former Cavaliers forward Danny Ferry.

With the drafting and signing of David Thompson and Marvin Webster and the acquisitions of Dan Issel and Bobby Jones and with Larry Brown coaching, they had their best seasons in team history in their first two seasons as the Nuggets, with the team making the ABA finals in 1975 – 76.

Brown of Hilton Hotels, Timothy V. Wolf of MillerCoors, and Dan Rose of Facebook.

Historical and cultural sites in Elbert County include the Nancy Hart cabin, the Dan Tucker gravesite, the Stephen Heard Cemetery, the Petersburg Township site, Vans Creek Church, the Elbert County Courthouse, the Elberton Seaboard-Airline Depot, the Rock Gym, the Granite Bowl, the Elberton Granite Museum and Exhibit, the Richard B. Russell Dam, the Elbert Theatre, the Georgia Guidestones, Richard B. Russell State Park, and Bobby Brown State Park.

In the film adaptation of Dan Brown ’ s Angels and Demons ( 2009 ), the third of four kidnapped cardinals is burned to death, after previously being branded with the ambigram “ fire ”; later in the film the main villain commits self-immolation in St Peter ’ s Basilica.

It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and featured, at various times, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Richard Dawson, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Larry Hovis, Jeremy Lloyd, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Gary Owens, Pamela Rodgers, Barbara Sharma, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin and Jo Anne Worley.

* Dan Brown, author ( The Da Vinci Code )

" In the words of Dan Lowenstein, a Democrat and political appointee of former California governor Jerry Brown, " The Federalist Society is one of the few student organizations putting on public events that contribute to the intellectual life of the law school.

* The Rape of Tamar, novel by Dan Jacobson ( ISBN 1-84232-139-0 )

The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.

* Hyperion ( Simmons novel ), the first in a series of novels by Dan Simmons

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

INWO was mentioned in Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons, but as a computer game.

* Legion ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a Horus Heresy novel by Dan Abnett

* In the novel The Terror by Dan Simmons ( 2007 ).

* Dan Simmons, science-fiction author ( who dedicated his novel Ilium to the college )

In the novel " Hyperion " by Dan Simmons, the Yggdrasil is one of four miles-long Treeships in existence, and the spaceship on which the seven pilgrims to Hyperion are transported, under the command of " the true voice of the tree " Het Masteen and his Templar crew.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

Robert A. Heinlein in his 1957 novel The Door into Summer suggested the possibility of a robotic Drafting Dan.

* The Terror ( novel ), a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons

* A rather imaginative variation on throat singing is featured in the 2007 Dan Simmons novel, The Terror.

This theory, with no other basis than Lincoln and Leigh's hypothesis, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

This speculation was the topic of the book The Templar Revelation ( 1997 ) by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, and plays a central role in Dan Brown's fiction novel The Da Vinci Code ( 2003 ).

In 2011, Campfire Books published a graphic novel called Jason and the Argonauts written by Dan Whitehead.

* The Terror, Dan Simmons, Horror novel, 2007.

Dan Waddel's The Blood Detective is a murder novel set in the past and present-featuring Notting Dale.

Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film adapted from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, starring Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer, was adapted by James Poe from the novel.