In 1966, after being the exclusive artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the " Doctor Strange " feature in Strange Tales, Ditko left Marvel for reasons never specified.

Indeed, Richard allegedly issued orders for Strange ’ s execution on the battlefield, although in the event these were never carried out.

Queen Victoria wrote after his death that though she regretted his passing, she had never liked or respected him: " Strange, and solemn to think of that strong, determined man, with so much worldly ambition – gone!

He never married and on his death in 1957 the baronies of Murray and Glenlyon and earldom of Strange became extinct, the barony of Percy was passed on to his kinsman the 10th Duke of Northumberland ( see Baron Percy ), while the barony of Strange fell into abeyance ( see Baron Strange ).

A planned compilation of material from the band's Factory and Sire years was announced in 2001, but the album, Strange Dancing, was never released.

King was not destroyed by the Montesi formula because he had never taken blood from a living human being, but still required Doctor Strange to perform a complete blood transfusion for King to survive, which restored him to human form.

Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane — like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones ; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one ; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short ; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it ; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body ; who mouths justice and invented hell — mouths mercy and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell ; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself ; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all ; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself ; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!

Strange incidents have occurred ; one is that although John could go anywhere in the house he could never enter a locked room containing his uncle's trunks.

While Rutherford's solo albums had been moderately successful, he had never managed a Top 40 hit ( except in Canada, where " Maxine " from Acting Very Strange sneaked in at # 39 ); Mike + the Mechanics scored three of them, including two US Top 10s, " Silent Running ( On Dangerous Ground )" and " All I Need is a Miracle ".

Has a reminder of his victory over him he gave Strange a brand like wound that will never heal and causes him intense pain from time to time.

Although never a headlining character, Strange has had a consistent presence in the DC Universe.

IGN ranked Adam Strange as the 97th greatest comic book hero of all time stating that while Strange has never been a major force in the DCU, the character makes a perfect vessel for the zaniest stories the writers at DC can come up with.

Strange uses his abilities to see the event, claiming that is not really him (" Of course there's chaos magic ... I would never use the Eye that way .").

Although Clinton was never found to have broken the law by Ken Starr, Ruddy published his book, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, regardless.

The single for " Strange Little Girl " was never released outside of Germany.

The community support for the company was at an all time high ; Strange Sisters reached a new kind of notoriety, and an explosion of activity under one roof like the city of Toronto had never seen.

In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, every demon that the player can own has a unique password of thirty-two characters that can be used to summon that demon from the Compendium even if the player has never encountered it.

His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

Three novels from this period, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough for Love, won the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

In 1982, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Strange Affair.

Chief amongst the films which exemplify Hu's blend of Chan Buddhism and unique Chinese aesthetics is his trilogy A Touch of Zen ( which won the Technical Prize in 1975 Cannes Film Festival and which many regard as his masterpiece ), Raining in the Mountains and Legend of the Mountains ( both dating from 1979, and shot in Korea ), all of which were loosely based on Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Their dual talents led to some ingenious mountings for machine guns, the use of which famously won Hawker the first air combat Victoria Cross, and nearly cost Strange his life, when he reached up to change the drum on a Lewis gun he had mounted on the top plane of his Martinsyde ( long before the Foster Mount became de rigueur ) and the machine flipped on its back, threw Strange from the cockpit and went into a flat spin from.

By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter ( 1978 ), which she co-authored with her second husband, won The Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book.

He won the Democratic nomination unopposed, and in the general election, he narrowly defeated Republican lawyer Luther Strange for a third, nonconsecutive four-year term in all with the previous six years he served as Lieutenant Governor, Folsom is the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor in Alabama history with ten years of service with his third term ending on January 17, 2011.

After a two-year stint ( 1967 – 68 ) with his own nationally broadcast mid-morning CBC radio show Gerussi, Words and Music, Gerussi won the lead role on the popular CBC family adventure series The Beachcombers ( 1972 – 90 ) created by Marc and Susan Strange.

The League disappears shortly after, both admiring that Strange beat an alien invasion using only his wits, but also lamenting how painful it must be to have won the battle only to lose his loved ones again.

Strange Days at Blake Holsey High has been nominated for several awards, but won none.

Beyond the Horizon ( 1920 ), for which he won his first Pulitzer Prize ; he later won Pulitzers for Anna Christie ( 1922 ) and Strange Interlude ( 1928 ) as well as the Nobel Prize in Literature.

These include The Boys on the Bus, an intimate portrait of the Edmonton Oilers as they won the 1987 Stanley Cup, Les Canadiens, a history of the Montreal Canadiens, and Strangers in a Strange Land, which depicted the trials and tribulations of a Canadian movie crew in China as it shot a feature film about the legendary doctor, Norman Bethune.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

* In the 1983 comedy Strange Brew, which is loosely based on Hamlet, the protagonists are given jobs at Elsinore Brewery.

Frankenstein draws heavily on a forged document feel, as do Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many of the works of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H. G.

* WikiQuote on Stranger in a Strange Land includes many uses of grok

The first vignette, " Strange to Meet You ", had been shot for and aired on Saturday Night Live in 1986, and paired Roberto Benigni with comedian Steven Wright.

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

* Billy Strange: guitar on " Andmoreagain " and " The Daily Planet "

Their concept piece was revived on the second album by the Greek band Anger Department, oddly called ' The Strange Dreams of A Rarebit Fiend ', again after a McCay-comic.

In 1999, Strange Company used Quake II in Eschaton: Nightfall, a horror film based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft.

She and Billy Strange worked on the arrangement, and it was Sinatra's idea to change from a mid-tempo romp ( as sung in Cher's hit single ) to a ballad.

** QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, a 1985 book adapting lectures by Richard Feynman on quantum electrodynamics

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

Dr. La Forest Potter of New York City published Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities, which focused on homosexuality, in 1933, probably to exploit the interest in the subject generated by the American publication of Radclyffe Hall ’ s novel The Well of Loneliness and Blair Niles ’ s Strange Brother.

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

# Phone Call / I Realise how much She is Like the Others / A Strange Customer / Watching Palantine on TV / You're Gonna Die in Hell / Betsy's Theme / Hitting the Girl

The tracklisting for The Collection 1977 – 1982 included the new single " Strange Little Girl ", which had originally been recorded on a demo in ' 74 and rejected by EMI.

Tori Amos covered " Strange Little Girl " on her 2001 Strange Little Girls album.

Tori Amos included a cover of the song " Time ", from Rain Dogs on her 2001 album Strange Little Girls.

; Strange Little Tour: This tour was Amos's first since becoming a mother in 2000 and her first tour fully solo since 1994 ( Steve Caton was present on some songs in 1996 ).

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.