Fictional descriptions of memetic engineering include Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation Trilogy ( New York: Bantam Books, 1991 ), George Gurdjieff's artificial mythology Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( New York: Penguin USA, 1999 ); Neil Stephenson's novels Snow Crash ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1993 ) and The Diamond Age ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1996 ); and Robert W. Chambers ' unearthly The King in Yellow ( Buccaneer Books, 1996 ) tome, which influenced seminal horror author H. P. Lovecraft.

He formed a double act with Neil Mullarkey, another former Footlights member, and the duo mostly did satirical spoofs of television shows ' title sequences to accompanying music, several times on television.

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

" Neil Jillett of Australia's The Age reviewed the film positively, noting that despite some " directorial slackness ", the film was " a lively work that is sophisticated and innocent, witty and farcical, satirical and unmalicious, intelligent but not condescending, full of concern with big issues but not arrogantly didactic, thoroughly Australian but not nationalistic.

The British satirical magazine Private Eye nicknames journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil ' Brillo ' in reference to the appearance of his hair.

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death ( Columbia, 1976 ).

BCS theory, proposed by John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer ( BCS ) in 1957, is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since its discovery in 1911.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

Election defeats under, first, Michael Foot, then Neil Kinnock, led Labour to abandon the policy in the late 1980s.

Neil first saw Tim play with Split Enz in 1972, he said, " That performance and those first songs made a lasting impression on me.

The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

* Neil Gaiman, in the first issue of his comic Sandman, introduced the grimoire titled Grimorium Magdelene.

My Favorite Headache, Lee's first solo album, was released on November 14, 2000 while Rush was on a hiatus due to tragedies in drummer Neil Peart's life.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.

Another scandal was " Cash for Questions ", in which first Graham Riddick, and David Tredinnick accepted money to ask questions in the House of Commons in a newspaper " sting ", and later Tim Smith and Neil Hamilton were found to have received money from Mohamed Al Fayed, also to ask questions in the House.

* 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission ( July 20 in North America ).

At first Neil refused the offer, but as the other members of Rock Candy became involved in outside projects, Neil grew anxious to try something else.

In 1962 Neil Bartlett discovered the first chemical compound of a noble gas, xenon hexafluoroplatinate .< ref name =" bartlett "> Compounds of other noble gases were discovered soon after: in 1962 for radon, radon difluoride, and in 1963 for krypton, krypton difluoride ().

Neil Alden Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012 ) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.

In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.

On becoming an MP for the first time, his father said " Remember Neil, MP stands not just for Member of Parliament, but also for Man of Principle ".

The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline ( 2009 ), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

Neil Jordan first drafted the screenplay for The Crying Game in the mid-1980s under the title The Soldier's Wife, but shelved the project after a similar film was released.

* July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 ( Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins ) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.

An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon at 02: 56 UTC, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.

* August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, Commander of Apollo 11 ( d. 2012 )

Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony.

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, explores a boy's memories triggered by a Punch and Judy show.

His debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published in 2007 and will be adapted into a feature film by director Neil Jordan.

* The Sandman: Endless Nights, a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

In Neil Gaiman's award winning novel American Gods, thunderbirds feature prominently.

Mead is mentioned many times in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel, American Gods ; it is referred to as the drink of the gods.

Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

These include Thursday's fictions by Richard James Allen and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

According to biographer Neil McAleer, Clarke may have been uncertain about publishing the novel because of its thematic focus on the paranormal and transcendence with the alien Overmind.

* Stardust ( novel ), a 1998 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman

* Stardust ( 2007 film ), adapted from the Neil Gaiman novel

Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of " Coraline ", based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

Joanna Scanlan plays a character called Mormo in the 2007 movie Stardust, which is based on a novel by Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples of this device.

He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for Heroes, Judith Tarr's fantasy series, The Hound and the Falcon and the Alamut series, Robert Carter's " The Language of Stones " series, the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the books of the Welsh author Jenny Sullivan and in Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider Trilogy.

He has a small appearance in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, and implied to be Elvis.

The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.

* In Neil Gaiman's best selling novel Neverwhere Islington is an angel that lives under London, named after the Angel tube station.

American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman that contains Anansi ( under the name Mr. Nancy ), among other mythological characters.

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, soma is referred to be " concentrated prayer ", a drink enjoyed by the gods ( who feed on people's worship ), such as Odin.

* Mr. Punch, a fictional character in The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch graphic novel by Neil Gaiman