This novel became one of the most popular in New Zealand history, and Crump ’ s success continued with the more fictional Hang on a Minute Mate ( 1961 ), One of Us ( 1962 ), There and Back ( 1963 ), Gulf ( 1964 ), A Good Keen Girl ( 1970 ), Bastards I Have Met ( 1971 ), and others, which capitalized on the appeal of his good-natured itinerant self-sufficient characters and idiomatic “ blokey ” writing style.

Starting with their first shareware game series, Commander Keen, Id Software has licensed the core source code for the game, or what is more commonly known as the engine.

However, the developers of id had a contract with Softdisk requiring them to write several more games, one of which became Keen Dreams.

Originally for Keen 1 he drew some graphics for Exit signs which he made look a bit more alien by changing the ordinary Latin letters a bit.

While the original Keen only has fifteen letters displayed anywhere ( A, B, C, D, E, H, I, K, L, N, O, S, T, X and Y ), later games have more.

In the years since the release of utilities to modify the levels and graphics in the original Keen series in early 2002, more than fifty mods have been made, most of which feature Commander Keen as the protagonist.

At least two Commander Keen skins have been created for the Doom source port Doom Legacy, cementing Keen's connections with Doom in a more positive light.

The longest serving character Julia Parsons, played by Diane Keen, confirmed her departure from the show after more than nine years in April 2012, leaving on 18 May 2012.

According to prominent Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

Debuted for the 2009 model year, the Acura TL featured a more aggressive interpretation of Acura's latest styling vocabulary, known as " Keen Edge Dynamic.

According to Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

Some Heterodox economists, including Mauro Gallegati, Steve Keen and Paul Ormerod, have shown more interest, but also criticized trends in econophysics.

Two years later, he was appointed head of the Experimental Department, and his innovations there gained him the reputation as the leading British innovator of punched-card technology ; Keen was granted more than sixty patents.

Keen to showcase the band to a possibly more receptive British audience ( Melody Maker had already described the band as a deliciously unsettling proposition ), record label Mushroom / Infectious made them the first signing to their London-based branch.

Discouraged, Keen ceased recording after one more single in 1976.

However, to complete their contractual obligation to Softdisk, they did several more games for them including Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Rescue Rover, Hovertank 3D, Rescue Rover 2, Tiles of the Dragon, Catacomb 3D and Keen Dreams ( the " lost " episode of the Commander Keen series ).

While versed in the use of Aura Battlers, more often than not Keen serves as a support pilot, sortieing in the Fou fighter unit.

The songs on the album that Keen didn't write range from Johnny Cash's often-covered classic, " I Still Miss Someone " to Townes Van Zandt's more obscure " Snowin ' on Raton ".

Keen for more success, Stalin had ordered the Red Army to encircle German Army Group South by thrusting through to Rostov-on-Don.

In his book Debunking Economics: The naked Emperor of the Social Sciences, the Australian economist Steve Keen has attempted to counter Marx's theory ( in his view Marx's pre-1857 view, specifically ) from a post-Keynesian perspective, by arguing that machines can add more product-value over their operational lifetime than the total value of depreciation charged during those asset lives.

Keen that more research should be done in this field, he published " The Psychology of Happiness " in 1987, 2nd edition 2001.

One of the more noteworthy recent investigations into mediumship is known as the Scole Experiment, a series of mediumistic séances that took place between 1993 – 98 in the presence of the researchers David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and Montague Keen.

Steve Keen notes, following George Stigler, that if firms do not react strategically to one another, the slope of the demand curve that a firm faces is the same as the slope of the market demand curve.

Keen to rush out an LP for the Christmas market, Mega Records pressed the band for an album and it was hastily recorded, mixed, and released within a few weeks.

Watkins was trying to market his patent nut-making machine in England and Keen saw the potential of the business.

* BK ( musician ) ( born 1973 ), the working name of the English hard house producer Ben Keen

* Harold Keen ( 1894 – 1973 ), British engineer

In 1973, Hudson and Ford then quit to form Hudson Ford, with the line-up of Chris Parren ( keyboards ), Mickey Keen ( guitar and sound engineer ), and Ken Laws ( drums ).

Harold Hall " Doc " Keen ( 1894 – 1973 ) was a British engineer who produced the engineering design, and oversaw the construction of, the British bombe, a codebreaking machine used in World War II to read German messages sent using the Enigma machine.

In 1973, Keen released a solo album for Track, entitled Previous Convictions, which featured Roger Felice and Jimmy McCulloch on some tracks.

The Commander Keen series, a platform game introducing one of the first smooth side-scrolling game engines for MS-DOS, brought Id Software into the gaming mainstream.

* In the id Software game Commander Keen, Keen explores Mars in the first episode and keeps a Martian pet for the remainder of the series.

A preview included with id's very first release, 1990's Commander Keen, advertised a game entitled The Fight for Justice as a follow-up to the Keen trilogy.

Unlike the first game which had a happy and friendly atmosphere, almost everything in this game is hostile towards Keen, from the floating machine gun robots to the electrified floors.

In the first game, Keen is exploring on Mars when aliens steal four spaceship components that he must get back.

The player usually first discovers the alphabet in the first Commander Keen game, Marooned on Mars, where Keen telepathically hears an alien inside a shrine say: " It is too bad you cannot understand the Standard Galactic Alphabet, human ".

In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series which was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards.

He has pioneered or popularised the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including " adaptive tile refresh " for Commander Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3-D, Catacomb 3-D, and Wolfenstein 3-D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse ( formally known as z-fail stencil shadows ) which he devised for Doom 3, and MegaTexture technology, first used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

According to the Ladies Club, the first teacher was Linnie Keen Campbell Lane.

* The Brazos River is mentioned in three Lyle Lovett songs: " Walk Through the Bottomland "; " Texas River Song " on the Step Inside This House album ; and " Front Porch Song ", which Lovett co-wrote with Robert Earl Keen, on Lovett's eponymous first recording.

He designed most of the first episode of Doom, most of the levels in Quake, half the levels in the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny.

They are both killed and replaced for the first series by Laura Dickens ( Diane Keen ), the only female Sandbagger, killed at the end of the first series.

The Dopefish first appeared in Commander Keen episode IV, and references to it have appeared in many other video games since.

Another set of sisters, Sylvia Heal and Ann Keen, had both been elected at the 1997 election, also, meaning that neither pair of sisters holds the record for being the first.

* Keen Kutter, a trade name first used by Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1866

Tom Hall first conceived of the Dopefish as one of 24 potential characters for Keen 4.

Commander Keen first encounters the Vorticons on Mars in episode 1, Marooned on Mars, when he discovers they have disassembled his spaceship and scattered the pieces across the planet.