The game's designers took inspiration from the post-apocalyptic novels and movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ; the first edition rules cite Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Andre Norton's Star Man's Son ( also published as Daybreak-2250 A. D .), Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

Two volumes of Sidney Lanier's poems, a gift from his wife Mary were the first books for the library.

Lanier's work with Asian instruments can be heard extensively on the soundtrack of Three Seasons ( 1999 ), which was the first film ever to win both the Audience and Grand Jury awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

Lanier's campus has been expanded numerous times since it was first built.

Lanier's style of baseball took Houston by storm.

In Lanier's hands, the logaoedic dactylic meter led to a free-form, almost prose-like style of poetry that was greatly admired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Charlotte Cushman, and other leading poets and critics of the day.

Lanier's poem " The Marshes of Glynn " is the inspiration for a cantata by the same name that was created by the modern English composer Andrew Downes to celebrate the Royal Opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, England, in 1986.

She was brought up in an almost entirely female household — evoked in Emilia Lanier's Description of Cookeham — and given an excellent education by her tutor, the poet Samuel Daniel.

Lanier's mother and father were Jewish immigrants from Europe ; his mother was a survivor from a Vienna concentration camp and his father's family had emigrated from Ukraine to escape the pogroms.

" Lanier's position is that humans may not be considered to be biological computers, i. e., they may not be compared to digital computers in any proper sense, and it is very unlikely that humans could be generally replaced by computers easily in few decades, even economically.

Some of Lanier's speculation involves what he calls " post-symbolic communication.

Portions of Lanier's poetry are used throughout the book, and in other cases passages of the book closely reflect themes in Lanier's work.

Through flashbacks throughout the book, Lanier's life is explored.

In 1926, the Purple Pup was adopted as Lanier's mascot.

In 1973, Lanier's Vanguard program was instated.

At the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, visitors are able to compare the size of their foot to that of Lanier's.

The basketball court at Lanier's alma mater, St. Bonaventure, is named after him.

Lanier's core values were translated into specific programs once he had taken office.

The Chiefs would reach the NFL playoffs only one more time during Lanier's career, in 1971, winning the AFC Western Division title.

In a two-story house, one unit may be installed in the basement to serve the first floor, another in the attic to cool the second.

On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

" The structure repeats on the first floor and in the design of two windows at the ends forming galleries, but on the large central window there are two balconies as described above.

Free exhibitions often are held on the first floor, which also provides some opportunity to see the interior design.

The replica ABC is now on permanent display in the first floor lobby of the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.

The coronation hall is on the first floor of the building.

In one of his first speeches on the floor, he commented that neither the federal nor the state government had authority to abolish slavery, asserting this was a form of property guaranteed by the Constitution.

Most of the first floor ceilings are very high and, they have over sized doorways and expansive halls.

The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on 10 November 1920, and put in its final resting place on 28 January 1921.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

The first floor has one double room and one bathroom available to students.

Lastly, on the first floor there is a house common room with a kitchen and two couches.

The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff where the courthouse sits today.

A fishing village in the originally flooded coastal area of the English Channel south of the Western Scheldt arose in the late years of the first century, when the area was held by the Counts of Flanders, vassals of the French Crown.

The mill was flooded to the level of the first floor ceilings.

The first school year was brought to an end when a heavy rainstorm flooded the building and sent the teacher and pupils fleeing to higher ground.

Iron ore was first discovered in Ely in 1883, near the west end of the flooded, abandoned mine that is now called Miner's Lake.

Having noteworthy earthworks raised above the surrounding valley floor ( flooded by chalk stream aquifers – at the most Northern extent of the London Basin ), it is likely the castle's site has been of some significance since man first populated the area.

The depth of this was shown on a larger scale in October and November 2010 when the King of Prussia Plaza flooded, causing serious damage to many of the first floor areas.

Union was one of the first towns settled in the area and was untouched during the Civil War because the Broad River flooded and turned Sherman ’ s troops away from the town.

The first of these was published on May 15, and Miller writes of the public ’ s response, “ I began to be flooded with letters of inquiry respecting my views, and visitors flocked to converse with me on the subject .” In 1834, unable to personally comply with many of the urgent requests for information and the invitations to travel and preach that he received, Miller published a synopsis of his teachings in a “ little tract of 64 pages .” These he “... scattered, the most of them gratuitously, sending them in reply to letters of inquiry and to places which I could not visit .”

Wilsonville was flooded in 1964 and the first fire station was built in 1966.

The first name of Schertz was " Cibolo Pit ," then " Cut Off ;" thus named because when the Cibolo Creek flooded, the settlement was cut off.

When the US military flooded Europe with troops during World War II, American-style programming followed and the BBC was forced to transmit these shows, first on the BBC Forces Programme and later on the BBC General Forces Programme, both on the former frequencies of the BBC National Programme.

In the first week of July 1741, grain prices at last decreased and old hoarded wheat suddenly flooded the market.

After the first photocopies were mailed to those who had sent stamped addressed envelopes, PCC was flooded with requests that the publication become an ongoing periodical devoted to general microcomputer software.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, and during the first centuries of the Middle Ages, the coastal plain between Ravenna and Rimini was flooded many times.

Sometime in the 1930s a devastating storm flooded a river, that runs alongside the field's first base line, and washed away the entire stadium in a violent flood.

Intending to strengthen his book against his critics, and being flooded by new material brought to light by the publication of the first edition, Foxe put together a second edition in 1570 and where the charges of his critics had been reasonably accurate, Foxe removed the offending passages.

For the first time in its 100-year history the Mythe Water Treatment Works flooded, resulting in the loss of tap water for 140, 000 homes over a period of two weeks.

The first of these was published on May 15, and Miller writes of the public's response: " I began to be flooded with letters of inquiry respecting my views ; and visitors flocked to converse with me on the subject.

The first leg at Anfield had to be played twice after an abandonment due to heavy rain which flooded the pitch.

On 16 June 2007 – 17 June 2007 the Palace hosted the first London Hackday which was affected by a lightning strike on the building resulting in rooftop vents opening and the hall being flooded.

Low Bradfield was the first populated place to be flooded by the Great Sheffield Flood when the Dale Dyke Dam broke on March 11th, 1864.

However, Jim's original home in the first few series was submerged when the States of Jersey flooded the valley to create the Queen's Valley reservoir in 1991.

Ironically, the first operation of the division would not be in mountainous terrain or being deployed by air, but fighting below sea level on the flooded polders around the Scheldt Estuary of Belgium and the Netherlands.

During the Battle of the Scheldt, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division had the nickname of " Water Rats " bestowed upon them by General Bernard Montgomery, in recognition of the poor conditions of terrain through which they fought, first in the Normandy landings, and then in the flooded Breskens Pocket.