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Rand and foreword
Rand wrote the foreword to Rev.
Until Justice Rand wrote the foreword, Hull did not know how significant his meeting with Rand had been.

Rand and book
The book's title is a reference to the increasing coldness of Rand al ' Thor's personality and to the return of winter following the reversal in the previous book, The Path of Daggers, of the unnatural heat caused by the Dark One's manipulation of climate.
During the course of the events of the book, Rand al ' Thor made an extraordinary claim: he believed he had discovered how to cleanse the Dark One's 3000-year-old taint on saidin.
* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".
Macmillan Publishing, which had published We the Living, rejected the book after Rand insisted that they must provide more publicity for her new novel than they did for the first one.
In 1938, Knopf signed a contract to publish the book, but when Rand was only a quarter done with manuscript by October 1940, Knopf canceled her contract.
The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.
The book has a particular appeal to young people, an appeal that led historian James Baker to describe it as " more important than its detractors think, although not as important as Rand fans imagine.
Branden retained a relationship — sometimes friendly, sometimes acrimonious — with his first wife, Barbara, who wrote a successful book, The Passion of Ayn Rand, which detailed Branden's relationship with Rand and the bitter breakup.
The book was made into a motion picture in 1999 titled The Passion of Ayn Rand starring Helen Mirren as Rand and Eric Stoltz as Branden.
* The Vision of Ayn Rand ( 2009 ) ( book version of his " Basic Principles of Objectivism " lecture series )
* Ted Rand ( 1916 – 2005 ), American book illustrator
Despite the importance graphic designers place on his book Thoughts on Design, subsequent works such as From Lascaux to Brooklyn ( 1996 ), compounded accusations of Rand being " reactionary and hostile to new ideas about design.
Initially, Rand planned on publishing Anthem as a magazine story or serial, but her agent encouraged her to publish it as a book.
* Kira, the main character of the book We The Living by Ayn Rand
The book name was dropped to just Thomas Guide and colors changed to match Rand McNally colors and product line releases.
It is revealed to the reader that Rand is the Dragon Reborn following these events, which ended the first book.
Book 3, The Dragon Reborn, was in fact told almost exclusively from the points-of-view of Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, and Egwene al ' Vere, despite the fact that it is undoubtedly about Rand ( all three parties eventually follow him to Tear and are present when he pulls the sword Callandor from the Stone and proclaims himself the Dragon Reborn ), and the following books have continued in following the adventures of other characters besides Rand, to such a degree at times that in the tenth book, Crossroads of Twilight, Rand only appears in two chapters and the epilogue.
Upon this realization Rand comes to terms with himself, and finally laughs, dispersing the unnatural clouds that have been in the sky throughout the book, shining a tiny glimmer of hope on his fate at Tarmon Gai ' don.
" Randland " is a name adopted by fans to refer to the imaginary world of The Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan during the time period he calls the New Era, and is derived from the name of the central character Rand al ' Thor.
Tam al ' Thor conveys this information to Rand at the end of the book.

Rand and We
* Ayn Rand, We, the Living ( 1936 )
Rand began The Fountainhead ( originally titled Second-Hand Lives ) following the completion in 1934 of her first novel, We the Living.
We the Living is the first novel published by the Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand.
" Robert Mayhew cautioned thatWe should not conclude too quickly that these passages are strong evidence of an earlier Nietzschean phase in Ayn Rand ’ s development, because such language can be strictly metaphorical ( even if the result of an early interest in Nietzsche )”.
This version was approved by Rand and her estate and re-released as We the Living in 1986.
The American alternative rock group We The Living have explicitly stated that their name is derived from the novel and have often listed Rand and her Objectivist views as a major influence to their music.
Life magazine hired an illustrator from Sperry Rand to make drawings of the concepts Vannevar Bush had presented a few months earlier in The Atlantic Monthly magazine under the title As We May Think.

Rand and was
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.
One of the jobs was working in a burlesque revue with fan dancer Sally Rand.
The ABC was largely forgotten until it became the focus of the lawsuit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, the ruling of which invalidated the ENIAC patent ( and several others ) as, among many reasons, having been anticipated by Atanasoff's work.
Rand believed that egoism was the logical consequence of humans following evidence wherever it leads them.
Rand held that Romanticism was the highest school of literary art, noting that Romanticism was " based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition ," absent which, Rand believed, literature is robbed of dramatic power, adding:
A listing of Rand also appears in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, featuring the assessment " The influence of Rand's ideas was strongest among college students in the USA but attracted little attention from academic philosophers.
The " Critical Path Method " ( CPM ) was developed as a joint venture between DuPont Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation for managing plant maintenance projects.
This music video was shot by long time Tarantino friend Rand Vossler.
RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.
In the literature review, Rand noted that the literature in 2001 was not of high methodological quality and that " while there may exist a subgroup of people with severe mental illness for whom a court order acts as leverage to enhance treatment compliance, the best studies suggest that the effectiveness of outpatient commitment is linked to the provision of intensive services.
The influx was such that the uitlanders quickly outnumbered the Boers in Johannesburg and along the Rand, although they remained a minority in the Transvaal as a whole.
In order to suppress the epidemic and prevent its spread, it was decided to take drastic action, accordingly a Special Plague Committee, with jurisdiction over Pune city, its suburbs and Pune cantonment was appointed under the Chairmanship of W. C. Rand, I. C. S., Assistant Collector of Pune by way of a government order dated 8 March 1897.
Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.
Another pioneer of corporate identity design is Paul Rand, who was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design.
Nevertheless, with regard to Rockefeller Center, of which Hood was the chief designer, Rand, despite her earlier negative comments in her journals, was subsequently cited as having some good words for the RCA Building.
Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.
Although Rand kept the ERA team together and developing new products, it was most interested in ERA's magnetic drum memory systems.
The A-2 system was developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953 and released to customers by the end of that year.

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