Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

Its intricate plot and humorous, intimate portrayal of pre-Victorian dandyism kept gossips busy trying to associate public figures with characters in the book.

Its cast of characters included two illegal immigrants, an Irish landlord, a Chinese Cockney, a Scottish Arab and numerous other racial stereotypes ; Milligan himself took the part of Mr Van Gogh, described as " an illegal Pakistani immigrant ".

Its characters and slogans, such as " The Truth Is Out There ", " Trust No One ", and " I Want to Believe " became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s.

In his seminal book The Theatre and Its Double ( 1938 ), Artaud described theatre as " la réalité virtuelle ", a virtual reality in which, in Erik Davis's words, " characters, objects, and images take on the phantasmagoric force of alchemy's visionary internal dramas ".

Its characters and their actions are exclusively divine ( the story takes place for the most part in an abstract " heaven ", before Time ), and it deals entirely with the nature of the beginning of the World.

Its inhabitants are the homeless, but also people from other times, such as Roman legionaries and medieval monks, as well as fictional and fantastical characters.

Its plot and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films.

Its concepts of free-flowing text, paragraph tagging, and codes for attributes and special characters anticipated similar concepts inherent in HTML and XML.

Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices.

Its servo-controlled carriage also permitted the use of proportional spaced fonts, where characters occupy a different amount of horizontal space according to their width.

Its jokes were threadbare and the repetition of the same characters made them seem no more than stereotypes.

Its sequencing in the box set represented the opening stages of the journey that the core characters in Springsteen's work take ; Springsteen said, " Then you get ' Sandy '.

Its inscription, written by a Syrian monk almost a thousand years earlier and in both Chinese characters and Persian script, begins with the words, " Let us praise the Lord that the faith has been popular in China "; it told of the arrival of a missionary, A-lo-pen ( Abraham ), in AD 625.

Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using narration and leitmotifs to carry the story via rhyming melodic lyrics that express the feelings of the various characters.

Its monochrome text mode could display 80 × 25 text characters and was MDA compatible.

Its stately lines are usually composed of four characters or four syllables ( Chinese characters are monosyllabic ).

Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character, Leonard, are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song ( the characters of Stormella, Zoey, Arrow, Slyly and Leonard closely parallel the Rankin-Bass characters of The Bumble, Clarice, Fireball, Hermey the Dentist, and Yukon Cornelius respectively ).

Its main characters are four plasticine dogs: Rex, Wendy, Bad Bob and Vince.

Its discoverers claim that, on the basis of 268 characters sampled from all major Mesozoic mammal clades and principal eutherian families of the Cretaceous, Eomaia is placed at the root of the eutherian " family tree " along with Murtoilestes and Prokennalestes.

In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Its jokes, characters and story line are as wispy as the ghosts themselves, and a good deal less substantial ".

Its genesis owes something to the influence of Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius stories, though Moorcock and Talbot agree that the similarities between the characters are limited.

Its life history is much simpler than that of the truly colonial bumblebees and can serve as an example of the life cycle of many other species.

Its worst tendency was that of detonating prematurely, approximately a thousand feet in front of the launching aircraft, but it also had many motor failures, erratic flights, and fuzing problems.

Its oldest layer, called the Yahwist, may date from the time of Solomon, although many scholars now believe that it should be dated considerably later.

Its design resembles that of Berkeley DB without replicating it exactly, and has a feature set that includes many of those found in the traditional Berkeley DB and others that are specific to the Java Edition.

Its widespread use in many Roman structures, a key event in the history of architecture termed the Roman Architectural Revolution, freed Roman construction from the restrictions of stone and brick material and allowed for revolutionary new designs in terms of both structural complexity and dimension.

Its seeds ( each one contained within a fruit, which is dried ) are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.

Its covers featured dynamic images by Frank Frazetta that, for many fans, presented the definitive impression of Conan and his world.

Its central importance to many biochemical pathways suggests that it was one of the earliest established components of cellular metabolism and may have originated abiogenically.

Its conferences and workshops focused on writing, editing, and publishing, with many of its members interested in all three.

Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the mythological allusions behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.

Its Indo-European origins are confirmed by the many cognate words in other Indo-European languages: It is cognate with Greek πέρδομαι ( perdomai ), Latin pēdĕre, Sanskrit pardate, Avestan pərəδaiti, Italian pettare, French " péter ", Russian пердеть ( perdet ') and Polish " pierd " << PIE * perd wind loudly or * pezd same, softly, all of which mean the same thing.

Its high malleability, ductility, resistance to corrosion and most other chemical reactions, and conductivity of electricity led to many uses of gold, including electric wiring, colored-glass production and even gold leaf eating.

Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions.

Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

Its advantages are most pronounced when the receiving country applies unprofitable exchange rate regulations ( as has been the case for many typical receiving countries such as Pakistan or Egypt ) or when the banking system in the receiving country is less complex ( e. g. due to differences in legal environment in places such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia ).

Its intended purpose was as a more politically acceptable alternative to British Isles, which is disliked by many people in Ireland.

Its 2, 138 pages prompted Playfair to remark that “ The great size of the book, and the obscurity which may justly be objected to many parts of it, have probably prevented it from being received as it deserves .”

Its 72 clauses defined the ideal behaviour for the Knights, such as the types of garments they were to wear and how many horses they could have.

Its Preface is world famous and has been used in many studies of the creative process as a signal instance in which a poem has come to us directly from the unconscious.

Its strategic location has instigated many wars between rival powers on its territory.

Its artistic legacy includes the employment, since the 1920s, of many well-known graphic designers, illustrators and artists for its own publicity posters.

Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole ( Créole Martiniquais ).

Its small stature and short generation time facilitates rapid genetic studies, and many phenotypic and biochemical mutants have been mapped.

Its genetic features, including many known and mapped phenotypic mutants and a large number of progeny per cross ( typically 100-200 ) facilitated the discovery of transposons (" jumping genes ").

Its most vigorous promoter in Europe was William Bateson, who coined the terms " genetics " and " allele " to describe many of its tenets.