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Pellucidar and is
Using a mechanical drill, his heroes discover a prehistoric world, called Pellucidar, 500 miles below the surface, that is lit by an inner sun.
Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.
In a notable crossover event between Burroughs ' series, there is a Tarzan story in which the Ape Man travels into Pellucidar.
In Burroughs ' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell.
Pellucidar is lit by a miniature sun suspended at the center of the hollow sphere, so it is perpetually overhead wherever one is in Pellucidar.
The events of the series suggest that time is elastic, passing at different rates in different areas of Pellucidar and varying even in single locales.
Pellucidar is populated by primitive people and prehistoric creatures, notably dinosaurs.
Though Burrough's novels suggest that the Mahar realm is limited to one relatively small area of the inner world, John Eric Holmes ' authorized sequel Mahars of Pellucidar indicates there are other areas of Mahar domination.
In the 1996 novel Tarzan: The Epic Adventures by R. A. Salvatore, Pellucidar is featured in the later part of the story.
In this episode, however, Pellucidar is merely described as being a region below Africa where dinosaurs still live.
The Hollow Earth milieu of Skartaris in the Warlord series of comic books by Mike Grell, published from 1976 – 1989, is essentially a translation of Pellucidar into the graphic medium, with the admixture of magic and elements of the Atlantis myth.
In James P. Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ), a pair of rival scientific teams compete to reach Pellucidar ; the story concludes before the goal is attained.
In John Crowley's Little, Big ( 1981 ), a drug named Pellucidar is mentioned and appears to have an exhilarating and even aphrodisiac effect.
In Philip Jose Farmer's " Riders of the Purple Wage ", there is a concept known as " the Pellucidar Breakthrough "
In the Tunnels Series, the Garden of the Second Sun is strongly based on Pellucidar.
The story is purportedly relayed back to earth via the Gridley Wave, a sort of super radio frequency previously introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, the third of Burrough's Pellucidar novels, which thus provides a link between the two series.
Pellucidar is lit by a miniature sun suspended at the center of the hollow sphere, so it is perpetually overhead wherever one is in Pellucidar.

Pellucidar and surface
Although the inner surface of the Earth has an absolute smaller area than the outer, Pellucidar actually has a greater land area, as its continents mirror the surface world's oceans and its oceans mirror the surface continents.
Burroughs's Pellucidar has oceans on the outer surface corresponding to continents on the inner surface and vice versa.

Pellucidar and world
Vietnam veteran SR-71 pilot Travis Morgan passed through a hole in the Earth's crust while flying over the north pole in 1969 and landed in the underground world of Skartaris, a place strongly reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar.
* Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote adventure stories ( beginning with At the Earth's Core in 1914 ) set in the inner world of Pellucidar including at one point a visit from his character Tarzan.

Pellucidar and inner
Burroughs ' Pellucidar series could arguably be considered sword-and -( inner ) planet, as it follows most of the plot conventions described below.

Pellucidar and which
More generally, Fulwiler suggests, the theme of " alien races more powerful and more intelligent than man ", which recurs frequently in Lovecraft's writings, may derive from Burroughs ' Pellucidar stories.

Pellucidar and book
The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
* von Horst's Pellucidar-articles, book summaries, publishing histories, pastiches, glossary, languages, maps, hollow Earth theory, and film and TV reviews by Pellucidar scholar, David Critchfield.

Pellucidar and series
The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).
Pellucidar also appears in an episode of the Disney cartoon series The Legend of Tarzan, loosely inspired by Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
* Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Pellucidar series using the Journey to the Centre of the Earth concept.
He illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs ' books, including the Tarzan series, Barsoom series, and Pellucidar series.
They also took over the licensing of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan from long-time publisher Gold Key, and began doing adaptations of other Burroughs characters such as John Carter, Warlord of Mars, the Pellucidar series and the Amtor series.

Pellucidar and .
Burroughs has also used this technique extensively in his other novels, particularly the tales of Pellucidar.
This moon has its own plant life and ( presumably ) animal life, and hence either has its own atmosphere or shares that of Pellucidar.
Innes and Perry eventually unite the tribes to overthrow the Mahars ' domain and establish a human " Empire of Pellucidar " in its place.
While the Mahars are the dominant species in the Pellucidar novels, they seem confined to their handful of cities.
All or most of the human inhabitants of Pellucidar share a common world-wide language.
Pellucidar also harbors enclaves of various nonhuman or semi-human races.
* The Mahars-The master race of Pellucidar who resemble Rhamphorhynchus.
John Eric Holmes ' Mahars of Pellucidar was a sequel to Burroughs ' Pellucidar novels authorized by the Burroughs estate.
Publication of Holmes ' follow-up novel, Red Axe of Pellucidar, reportedly ready for print in 1980, was supposedly blocked by the estate, and only saw print much later in a limited private edition.
Pellucidar has appeared in one movie adaptation.

is and accessible
This is a public bathing beach, easily accessible by tramway from the center of Athens.
As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.
Then, too, the utmost clinical flexibility is necessary in judiciously combining carefully timed family-oriented home visits, single and group office interviews, and appropriate telephone follow-up calls, if the worker is to be genuinely accessible and if the predicted unhealthy outcome is to be actually averted in accordance with the principles of preventive intervention.
AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) for top secret information when used in an NSA approved cryptographic module ( see Security of AES, below ).
Shown is a sign indicating an accessible fishing platform at Drano Lake, Washington ( state ) | Washington.
The Arc de Triomphe is accessible by the RER and Métro, with exit at the Charles de Gaulle — Étoile station.
The port is accessible by the largest ships, but its accommodation is indifferent.
In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.
Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....
In Bordeaux, the Garonne River is accessible to ocean liners.
One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics is graph theory, which also has numerous natural connections to other areas.
Esoteric Christianity is a term which refers to an ensemble of spiritual currents which regard Christianity as a mystery religion, and profess the existence and possession of certain esoteric doctrines or practices, hidden from the public but accessible only to a narrow circle of " enlightened ", " initiated ", or highly educated people.
The very early universe, which is still poorly understood, was the split second in which the universe was so hot that particles had energies higher than those currently accessible in particle accelerators on Earth.
The higher altitudes of the islands are accessible on the islands of Fogo, where there is a road to the volcano and walks up to the crater, and the mountainous Santo Antão where there are hiking routes.
The AstroBus lines operate with modern Chinese YUTONG buses, and are accessible to Cuban Residents of Cuba with their ID Card, and is payable in Cuba Pesos.
A-consciousness, on the other hand, is the phenomenon whereby information in our minds is accessible for verbal report, reasoning, and the control of behavior.
This is partly compensated for, however, by the presence of easily accessible open space on the university campuses, including Harvard Yard and MIT's Great Lawn, as well as the considerable open space of Mount Auburn Cemetery.
The most accessible example of a category is the category of sets, where the objects are sets and the arrows are functions from one set to another.

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