All this, though, is simply a prelude, a curtain-raiser, for what ensues, and I doubt whether any Occidental could accurately forecast it.

This last `` rampage '' is only the prelude to the vicious blow upon her head, `` dealt by some unknown hand '' whose identity is later revealed not verbally but through a manual action -- the tracing of Orlick's hammer upon a slate.

Uribe's supporters in turn believe that increased military action is a necessary prelude to any serious negotiation attempt with the guerrillas and that the increased security situation will help to, in the long term, focus more actively on reducing most wide-scale abuses and human rights violations on the part of both the armed groups and any rogue security forces that might have links to the paramilitaries.

New Era Dianetics is really only a prelude to what is available at the high levels of the Bridge including the incidents: New Era Dianetics for OTs also known as NOTS.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

There is little story in the game except for a brief text prelude located under " Help " in the Main Menu, and a few cutscenes after the completion of an episode.

In Norse mythology, Fimbulvetr ( or fimbulvinter ), commonly rendered in English as Fimbulwinter, is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök.

The description that an initial false statement is a prelude to the making of more false statements is false ; however, even one false premise will suffice to disprove an argument.

In Marxist philosophy, Leninism is the body of political theory for the democratic organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party, and the achievement of a direct-democracy dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of socialism.

In the hardcore realm, stage invasion is often a prelude to stage diving.

Cutting cards is usually a prelude to a game, but it can be a game unto itself.

* Italy-On the first Sunday of September, the regata storica parade is staged in Venice, as prelude to the rowing contests known as regattas.

It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

This is a prelude to the acquisition of advanced weapons of mass destruction by this terrorist group.

The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in Rochester, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at Gatwick Airport.

* Mindaugas of Lithuania is baptized, in prelude to his crowning as King of Lithuania in 1253.

Also, in a prelude to the Act of Settlement to come twelve years later, the Bill of Rights barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England as " it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince "; thus William III and Mary II were named as the successors of James VII and II and that the throne would pass from them first to Mary's heirs, then to her sister, Princess Anne of Denmark and her heirs and, further, to any heirs of William by a later marriage.

The Sun Dog is set in King's fictional city of Castle Rock, Maine, and is a prelude of sorts to King's 1991 novel Needful Things.

The characteristic rhythm in the left hand is also found in Bach's Partita No. 3 for solo violin, in the A major prelude from the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and in the D minor prelude of the second book.

* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

Today, his descendants can be found in many places outside of Afghanistan, such as in America, France, Germany, and even in Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and carry the surname of Ziyaee, which is itself a derivative of the King's title.

There is a belief that she was buried between platforms 9 and 10 in King's Cross station in London, England.

But Murron is captured and publicly executed by the sheriff, who proclaims " an assault on the King's soldiers is the same as an assault on the King himself.

In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth ( both are generals in the King's army ) and they are together when they meet the Three Witches.

Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of Martin Luther King's assassination.

This passage in King's speech is a direct reference to Amos, as translated in the American Standard Version of the BibleJoshua Heschel " The Prophets ".

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

In the contemporary writing of the priest Henry of Livonia from Riga it is said that Bishop Theoderich was killed during the 1219 battle, when the enemy stormed his tent, thinking it was the King's tent.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

British forces used airpower to shock the Afghans, and the King's home was directly attacked in what is the first case of aerial bombardment in Afghanistan's history.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie ( 1974 ) is written in an epistolary structure, through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books.

" One of the UKFC's last films, The King's Speech, is estimated to have cost $ 15m to make and grossed $ 235m, besides winning several Academy Awards.

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

The King's Chamber is from east to west and north to south.

The King's Chamber is entirely faced with granite.

It is believed that the compartments were intended to safeguard the King's Chamber from the possibility of a roof collapsing under the weight of stone above the Chamber.

The only object in the King's Chamber is a rectangular granite " sarcophagus ", one corner of which is broken.

Purcell is said to have been composing at nine years old, but the earliest work that can be certainly identified as his is an ode for the King's birthday, written in 1670.

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

* In six of the Castlevania games ; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow ; there is a female vampire named Carmilla ( also spelled Camilla in Circle of the Moon ).

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Eighteen years after the show was cancelled, as a Galaxy Quest convention full of costumed fans is underway, Jason is approached by a group of people whose leader, Mathesar, says that they are aliens called " Thermians ".

Sarris interrogates Jason about the Omega 13 and forces him to admit the truth about Galaxy Quest to Mathesar, who is heartbroken after learning that Jason and his crew are make-believe.

As the Thermians take control of the ship, the actors detach the command deck and land on Earth with Brandon's help, accidentally crashing into the building where the Galaxy Quest convention is taking place.

Later that year Galaxy Quest is revived, starring the original cast, along with Laliari, a female Thermian who chose to stay on Earth as Fred's lover, and with Guy playing the ship's chief of security, " Roc " Ingersol.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

* Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, Star Trek fandom is not really like that.

Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek ; therefore a variety of elements in the former correspond to those of the latter.

The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration, which are obviously parodies of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet respectively.

* 1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.

* Maize Quest Fun Park is the " Largest Collection of People-Sized Mazes in the World " with mazes made of fence, rope, stone, turf, corn, Invisible Dog Fencing, Straw Bales, Tiles, Living Bamboo, and Earthen Mounds.

Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure / role-playing video games ( and later Action / RPG for game 5 ) designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole.

Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode.

In " Doomsday ", the Doctor states that the sonic screwdriver does not kill, wound or maim ; however, it is sometimes brandished in a threatening manner, such as in " The Christmas Invasion ", " The Impossible Planet ", " The Runaway Bride ", " The Lazarus Experiment " and The Infinite Quest.

* Jeremiah Surd is a quadriplegic hacker and antagonist from the television series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

* The album, Midnight Marauders ( 1993 ) by A Tribe Called Quest includes the song " Steve Biko ( Stir It Up )" in which Biko is mentioned very briefly during the song, mostly in the 20 second chorus.

Space Quest is a series of six comedic science fiction computer adventure games released between 1986 and 1995.

Roger Wilco is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Space Quest series, introduced in Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter in 1986.

Graduating in Space Quest V, he is promoted from a janitor to captain of the garbage scow SCS Eureka.

In Space Quest 6 his spot in the limelight ends as he is busted back down to janitor and assigned to the backwoods of the cosmos.