Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

His most notable work during this period was three animated TV adaptations of short stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Brothers, The White Seal and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and a famous commercial for Kia-Ora which can be found here http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = 5LvLn9PWln8.

") Dacoits existed in Burma as well as India, and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Private Mulvaney was hunting Burmese " dacoits " in The Taking of Lungtungpen.

The Human Boy was a collection of schoolboy stories in the same genre as say, Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., though different in mood and style.

An interesting literary interpretation of this period of Christianity and the character of Paul can be found in Rudyard Kipling's short story " The Church that was at Antioch ".

Nicknamed " Kim " after the young boy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, Philby attended Aldro preparatory school.

One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably The Star Rover ( 1915 ); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventure and his chanting, shamanic verse ; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch.

Rudyard Kipling's Works

Rudyard Kipling's works were sometimes collected by him, sometimes he was forced into doing so by publishers of ' unauthorised ' editions ( Abaft the Funnel, From Sea to Sea, for example ), and sometimes his work was never collected.

* Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words ( 2008 ) ed.

Posthumous collections of Rudyard Kipling's poems include:

Sleipnir has been and remains a popular name for ships in Northern Europe, and Rudyard Kipling's short story entitled " Sleipnir ," late " Thurinda " ( 1888 ) features a horse named " Sleipnir.

Baden-Powell's personal experiences in India led him to adopt Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as a major influence for the Cub Scouts ; for example, the name used for the Cub Scout leader, Akela ( whose name was also appropriated for the Webelos ), is that of the leader of the wolf pack in the book.

Another appearance of the walrus in literature is in the story " The White Seal " in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, where it is the " old Sea Vitch — the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep ".

* Rudyard Kipling's short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills is published in Calcutta, India.

Such stories include Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills, Nancy McKenzie's Queen of Camelot, and Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill.

Sussex by the Sea is regarded as the unofficial anthem of Sussex ; it was composed by William Ward-Higgs in 1907, perhaps originally from the lyrics of Rudyard Kipling's poem entitled Sussex.

In Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill ( 1906 ), Puck, the last of the People of the Hills and " the oldest thing in England ", charms the children Dan and Una with a collection of tales and visitors out of England's past.

It is the story of " Noisy " Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling's.

Sea cows appear in Rudyard Kipling's short story " The White Seal ", where they show the title character a place of refuge from human hunters.

* We're Here, from Rudyard Kipling's book, Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling's Kim ( 1901 ) combined the influence of the picaresque novel with the modern spy novel.

Records Karloff made for the children's market included Three Little Pigs and Other Fairy Stories, Tales of the Frightened ( volume 1 and 2 ), Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and, with Cyril Ritchard and Celeste Holm, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

* ' The Son of God Goes Forth to War ': Biblical Imagery in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King by Larry J. Kreitzer.

Rudyard Kipling, who wrote a history of the Irish Guards, in which his own son fought and was killed, noted that, " it is undeniable that Colonel Alexander had the gift of handling the men on the lines to which they most readily responded ... His subordinates loved him, even when he fell upon them blisteringly for their shortcomings ; and his men were all his own.

Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.

Rudyard Kipling published short story collections for grown-ups, e. g. Plain Tales from the Hills ( 1888 ), as well as for children, e. g. The Jungle Book ( 1894 ).

* April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.

How the Leopard Got His Spots, in Just So Stories ( 1902 ), by Rudyard Kipling, tells of an Ethiopian man and a leopard, both originally sand-colored, deciding to camouflage themselves with painted spots, for hunting in tropical forest.

This version of the ritual, written by both Gardner and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca.

Rudyard Kipling's short story " Quiquern " collected in The Second Jungle Book ( even though it is not a jungle story ) tells how two young Inuit hunters, desperate to find food for their starving tribe, believe they are being guided by Quiquern / Qiqirn, only to discover that the many-legged " spirit " is actually a pair of sled dogs whose collars had become entangled.

In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Rudyard Kipling.

The name was suggested by Fred Underwood, an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard is a shipping and storage point for wheat grown in the area.

When entering town you are greeted with a sign reading " Rudyard, 596 nice people and 1 old sore head !, rip snorting and raring for business ".

Another attraction is Mowglis Mountain, named for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book hero.

It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.

The Rudyard Lake was built in 1797 by the engineer John Rennie, for the Trent and Mersey Canal company, to provide water for the Caldon Canal.

He was both an admirer and a critic of Rudyard Kipling, praising Kipling as a gifted writer and a " good bad poet " whose work is " spurious " and " morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting ," but undeniably seductive and able to speak to certain aspects of reality more effectively than more enlightened authors.

Valiente also noticed that a chant in one ritual in the book was based upon the poem " A Tree Song " from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, which she had enjoyed as a child.

He was visited here by his friend Rudyard Kipling.

The community was originally named " Pine River ", however, because there was already another town in Michigan with that name, it was changed in 1890 to Rudyard.

It is said that it was named after Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Schools original mascot was the Rudyard Panthers and orange, black, and white as their colors.

Rudyard was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 22 July 1850.

It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim ( 1901 ).