Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

Pullman's Palace Car Co. capital stock certificate ( 1884 )

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Pullman's publishers have primarily marketed the series to young adults, but Pullman also intended to speak to adults.

The Thames also features prominently in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as a communications artery for the waterborne Gyptian people of Oxford and the Fens.

* In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Lord Asriel constructs an " adamant " fortress.

* The ' Ancient of Days ' is a term for God in Phillip Pullman's ' His Dark Materials ' trilogy.

* In Philip Pullman's novel Count Karlstein, the Wild Hunt is featured as a major plot element, only here it is composed entirely of huge phantom hounds and just one huntsman: the evil demon Zamiel, who is actually named " the Demon Huntsman " in the novel.

Harpies are commonly depicted as a race of bird-women, such as in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials book series.

These rivers play an important role in The Tiger in the Well, the last Sally Lockhart mystery in Philip Pullman's trilogy.

More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights ( the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass ).

Exeter College is the real life basis for the fictional Jordan College in Philip Pullman's novel trilogy His Dark Materials.

In Philip Pullman's less well-known little book " Lyra's Oxford " there is a pull-out map which clearly shows the building we know as Exeter College to be Jordan College.

Philip Pullman's previously mentioned trilogy, His Dark Materials, presented the theme of a negligent or evil God to a wider audience, as depicted in the 2007 film The Golden Compass based on the first book of this trilogy.

Also Faust, Bomber, Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun, Brighton Rock, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Fluke, Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan, Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Day of the Triffids, The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, The Queen's Man, The Solitaire Mystery, The Swimming Pool Library, The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders, Under the Net, Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old.

Pullman's business community had expressed concerns that playing the game away from the area would be detrimental to the local economy.

WSU is among the co-sponsors of Pullman's annual National Lentil Festival that attracts many visitors on the weekend before university classes begin in August.

Martin Stadium, the Cougars ' football stadium since 1972, holds more than 35, 000 spectators, which makes it the smallest stadium in the Pac-12 conference, but still allows it to hold 125 percent of Pullman's population, including the nearly 20, 000 student population.

In Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels, the European main characters often express fear of tartars, a term apparently referring to many Asian races, as the story takes place far from Mongolia.

* In Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, there is an attempted poisoning by the Master of Jordan College ( the novel ) or an official of the Magisterium ( the film ) of one of the major characters, Lord Asriel, via a decanter of Tokaji in the first chapter.

* His Dark Materials, a two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel directed by Nicholas Hytner starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Dominic Cooper ( 2003 )

* Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is strongly influenced by Winstanley's writings, including the idea of the Republic of Heaven.

The controls over new building and renovation, administered by the City of Chicago, are explained in the Beman Committee's Homeowner's Guide ( the Committee is named after Pullman's original architect, Solon Spencer Beman )

Hytner's directorial work for theatre includes The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Carlos, Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel ( 1992 ), Southwark Fair and The Alchemist, Measure for Measure ( 1987 ), The Tempest ( 1988 ) and King Lear ( 1990 ), The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar ( 1992 ), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh ( 1997 ), The Winter's Tale ( 2001 ), Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill ( 2001 ), Henry V ( play ) ( 2003 ) and England People Very Nice ( 2009 ).

Pullman's allegories are tied together by surface story symbolism depicting warfare between knowledge and religious superstition.

* His Dark Materials: A Look into Pullman's Interpretation of Milton's Paradise Lost, by Karen D. Robinson.

Leonardo da Vinci's " Lady with an Ermine " ( 1489 – 90 ), along with two portraits by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Hans Holbein the Younger, helped inspire Pullman's " dæmon " concept.

Maxwell has written the libretto for an opera based on Philip Pullman's The Firework Maker's Daughter, with music composed by David Bruce, and directed by John Fulljames, the founder of The Opera Group.

The Republic of Heaven, in Philip Pullman's philosophical fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials from 2000, refers to the idea that humans must build their happiness in the here and now, and that the official Church's emphasis on the afterlife is no more than a diversion by the powerful to repress the common people, even by the monarchical sound of its name: the Kingdom of Heaven.

He was scheduled to direct Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, but in May 2006 was replaced by Chris Weitz.

* Grace Pullman ( Sheila Hancock ) ( 2007 – 2011 ): Grace is Sandra Pullman's mother, and the widow of Sandra's father, Gordon, who committed suicide by carbon monoxide inhalation.

* 1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.

During the economic panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demands for their train cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped.

* May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a " wildcat " ( without union approval ) strike in Illinois.

President Cleveland sent federal troops to Illinois to end the Pullman strike — workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, which made railroad cars, had struck after wages were cut.

When the ARU struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over pay cuts, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike.

In 1894 Debs became involved in the Pullman Strike, which grew out of a compensation dispute started by the workers who constructed the train cars made by the Pullman Palace Car Company.

Diamond Jim Brady, the legendary financier, gourmand and gemophile, got his start here in 1902 when he established the Standard Steel Car Company, which merged with the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1934 to create Pullman-Standard, a monopoly that was eventually broken by the government.

The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867, owned and operated most sleeping cars in the United States until the mid-20th century, attaching them to passenger trains run by the various railroads ; there were also some sleeping cars that were operated by Pullman but owned by the railroad running a given train.

Horace Porter, ( April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921 ) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U. S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.

Resigning from the army on December 31, 1873, Porter became vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company.

The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4, 000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages.

During a severe depression ( called panic of 1893 ), the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for new passenger cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped.

* 1870s and 1880s: Strikes break out against railroads and the Pullman Palace Car Company.

Two years later, wage cuts at the Pullman Palace Car Company, just outside Chicago, led to a strike, which, with the support of the American Railway Union, soon brought the nation's railway industry to a halt.

During the major economic depression of the early 1890s, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages in its factories.

Historic Pullman was built in the 1880's by George Pullman for his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company.

The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

The original Pullman Palace Car Co., had been organized on February 22, 1867.

This was not to be, however, as on May 11, 1894 the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company launched a wildcat strike against their employer, sending notice to the ARU's office by telegram.

A new train was built in 1888: three brand-new Pullmans were shipped over in parts from the Pullman Palace Car Company in America, and assembled by the LB & SCR at Brighton.

With supporters from the Knights of Labor and from the immediate vicinity of Chicago, workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company went on strike in June 1894.