He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

Teochew cuisine bears more similarities to that of Fujian cuisine, to which it shares same dishes, which may be due to Chaoshan and Fujian's cultural and language similarities and geographic proximity.

The Chinese LT-2 LGB bears many similarities to the Russian KAB-500L.

Whilst the process of meiosis bears a number of similarities with the ' life-cycle ' cell division process of mitosis, it differs in two important respects:

The concept of Istislah in Islamic law bears some similarities to the natural law tradition in the West, as exemplified by Thomas Aquinas.

It was originally based on the Dutch spelling and still bears some similarities to it.

It bears many similarities to Scottish English through influence from Ulster Scots, which has many distinct characteristics and is often seen as a variety of Scots.

Due to certain similarities of form, the velvet worms were usually grouped with the water bears to form the taxon Protoarthropoda.

Jeulmun pottery bears basic design and form similarities to that of the Russian Maritime Province, Mongolia, and the Amur and Sungari river basins of Manchuria and the Jōmon culture in Japan.

Today's War on Drugs bears many similarities to earlier drug laws, particularly in the motivation to prevent drug use.

The story bears many similarities in plot and concepts to Variable Star written by Spider Robinson from an incomplete outline created by Heinlein around the time this book was written, and published in 2006.

American consul James W. Davidson described in The Island of Formosa ( 1903 ) how the Han Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in their aboriginal victims ' flesh, a practice also mentioned by Owen Rutter in Through Formosa ( 1923 ), whose account bears some similarities to Davidson's.

For instance, the ceremony for conjuring a horse closely relates to the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights and French romances ; Chaucer ’ s The Squire's Tale also bears marked similarities.

In Hilton's final novel, " Time and Time Again " ( 1953 ), protagonist Charles Anderson bears clear biographical similarities to Hilton himself.

Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age bears some similarities to Elrond's narrative in The Fellowship of the Ring during the chapter " The Council of Elrond "; both do not divulge any details about how Arnor was destroyed and how Gondor became kingless.

Although it bears similarities to both traditional encryption and steganography, it cannot be classified under either category.

Furthermore, the slaying of Typhon by Zeus bears similarities to the killing of Vritra by Indra ( a deity also associated with lightning and storms ), and possibly the two stories are ultimately derived from a common Indo-European source.

Maurice Leblanc's novel L ' Île aux Trente Cercueils ( translated in English as The Secret of Sarek ) features an island called Sarek, off the coast of Brittany, and bears obvious similarities to Sark.

Bruno's own life bears some similarities to Kaspar Hauser's, and his own unbalanced personality was often expressed on set.

The Canadian Charter bears a number of similarities to the European Convention, specifically in relation to the limitations clauses contained in the European document.

He is known to have lived in the dialect region of the Pearl Poet and is thought to have written the poem, St. Erkenwald, which some scholars argue bears stylistic similarities to Gawain.

The femora of male cave bears, however, bore more similarities in size to those of kodiak bears.

It bears some similarity to the UK series Drop the Dead Donkey.

No characters from the Kung Fu television series carried over into the comic series, though the character Lu Sung, in an early issue, bears a strong resemblance to Kwai Chang Caine with the addition of a moustache.

The cartoon series Chilly Willy helped perpetuate this myth, as the title penguin would interact with northern-hemisphere species such as polar bears and walruses.

The PowerBook 190, released in 1995, bears no resemblance to the rest of the PowerBook 100 series, and is in fact simply a Motorola 68LC040-based version of the PowerBook 5300 ( and the last Macintosh model to utilize a Motorola 68k-family processor ).

* Space Quest: Incinerations-another original hi-res installment, with a more action-oriented approach in the traditional adventure genre and with a modern sensibility, which " completely re-imagines the whole Space Quest series as a sci-fi action thriller, focusing hard on character and drama while still managing to be just as tongue-in-cheek and funny as anything else that bears its name.

A movie adaptation, Escaflowne: The Movie was released on June 24, 2000, but bears only a basic resemblance to the original series.

The Red Faction series bears remarkable similarity to the Mars trilogy, with a similar overarching storyline ( the martian revolution ) and many of the same techniques were used to change the surface.

With a unique, sparse drawing style that contrasted greatly with other cartoons of the day, not to mention the novelty of a human character in a field crowded with talking mice, rabbits, and bears, the Mr. Magoo series won accolades for UPA.

The following year, Baffin again sailed as pilot of the Discovery, sailing to the west of Greenland and north up through the Davis Strait, where he discovered the large bay to the north which now bears his name, together with the series of straits which radiate from its head and were named by him Lancaster, Smith and Jones Sounds, in honour of the patrons of his voyages.

He is the initiator of human life, of new historical ages, and financial enterprises: according to myth he was the first to mint coins and the as, first coin of the libral series, bears his effigy on one face.

The player takes control of an alien ( who bears a striking resemblance to the race of aliens from the Alien series of films ) aboard a huge spacecraft filled with many extraterrestrial creatures.

This series bears little resemblance to the original manga or the first TV series, as the plot is extremely different and the characters have been completely reworked and changed.

A 10-year renewal program has already seen the creation of Asia Trail, a series of habitats for seven Asian species, including sloth bears, red pandas, and clouded leopards.

Bremen is also the title of a manga series by Haruto Umezawa about a four-member punk rock band, each member of which bears a physical resemblance to one of the four animals in the fairy tale.

The New York Times Janet Maslin expressed similar sentiments in a 1988 review of the Berenstain Bears ' video series, calling the bears " a thoroughly disagreeable bunch.

Genesis of a Hero by John Eyers is a direct sequel to the first book, which bears no relation to events in series two and three.

On the Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard, news reporter Hilly Burford bears a strong resemblance to Caray, both in appearance and speech.

The animated series Partridge Family 2200 A. D., which debuted in 1974, features Keith and Laurie Partridge going to a futuristic space high school called " Galaxy High ," and Laurie's friend Marion Moonglow ( a Martian ) bears a striking resemblance to the Wendy Garbo character from this series.

A single issue bears a number in an 8xxx series ; this appears to be a 12 " private pressing disc.

The series focuses on the escapades of the eponymous " Gummi Bears ", anthropomorphic bears who are the last remnants of a once-great civilization of Gummis that fled the land centuries ago when humans, jealous of the advancements and magical skills of the Gummi Bears, forced the species into exile.

The ancient Gummis left behind small, scattered populations of bears, such as the main group of the series the Gummi-Glen Gummis.