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The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman — named after Anno Dracula ( 1992 ), the series ' first novel — is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.
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Anno and Dracula
In Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, Count Dracula takes the title of Lord Protector upon marrying Queen Victoria and becoming Prince Consort.
Harris appears as a vampire in Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, as the mentor and vampire sire of one of the novel's main characters.
Author Kim Newman has stated that his Anno Dracula series was partially inspired by the Wold Newton family.
* Daniel Dravot appears in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series as a functionary of the secret Diogenes Club.
The juxtaposition of characters from different sources in the same story is similar to science fiction writer Philip José Farmer's works centering around the Wold Newton family or Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series.
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series ( 1992 –) returns to Stoker's Count Dracula and gives the genre a somewhat post-modern spin.
* Kim Newman's novel Anno Dracula depicts Moriarty as the spokesman of a league of villains drawn from popular fiction.
In the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman and the novel I, Vampire by Michael Romkey, he is a vampire.
While many of the characters from Newman's Diogenes Club stories appear in the Anno Dracula novels, they are not the same versions as appear in those stories, nor is the Diogenes Club itself exactly the same.
Unusually for the series, several of the borrowed characters in Anno Dracula have no links to the period.
First published in October 1992, Anno Dracula has won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Assembly's Fiction Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel, and was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
Anno and series
After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.
Three of the four mecha designers credited on Char's Counterattack went on to direct their own anime series: Hideaki Anno ( Neon Genesis Evangelion ), Yutaka Izubuchi ( RahXephon ) and Koichi Ohata ( Burst Angel along with several other OVAs ).
Although it is not technically an Anno Dracula story, as it occurs before the events of Anno Dracula diverge from those in Dracula, it may still be considered as an adjunct to the series.
* Anno Dracula Character Guide: a complete guide to all the fictional characters appearing in the Anno Dracula series
In adapting the first seven volumes into an anime television series, director Hideaki Anno kept the same general scenes and dialogue but modified the overall feel and focus of the series, making it into a " personal case study of relationships ".
Some elements from these books ( in particular his heroine Genevieve Dieudonné ) later reappeared in the award-winning Anno Dracula series.
The series was created by Toho, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax.
Anno and by
Examples of continuous numbering include counting by regnal year, principally found in the writings of German authors, for example Mommsen's History of Rome, and ( most ubiquitously ) in the Anno Domini year-numbering system.
The Anno Domini year numbering was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome during 525, as a result of his work on calculating the date of Easter.
The CE / BCE designation uses the year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, who started the Anno Domini designation, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date.
Pope Pius XI, in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: " Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.
This was because all resolutions passed by a given session of the Sejm formed a whole resolution, and, as such, was published as the annual ' constituent act ' of the Sejm, e. g., Anno Domini 1667.
The Book of Jubilees states that Ur was founded in 1688 Anno Mundi ( year of the world ) by ' Ur son of Kesed, presumably the offspring of Arphaxad, adding that in this same year wars began on Earth.
The Polus Antarcticus map of 1641 by Henricus Hondius, bears the inscription: ” Insulas esse a Nova Guinea usque ad Fretum Magellanicum affirmat Hernandus Galego, qui ad eas explorandas missus fuit a Rege Hispaniae Anno 1576 ( Hernando Gallego, who in the year 1576 was sent by the King of Spain to explore them, affirms that there are islands from New Guinea up to the Strait of Magellan )”.
Maybe St. Maria ad Gradus was an unfinished work of Richeza's brother and completed by Anno II, who wanted to secured part of the Ezzonen patrimony in this way.
Whether this was done at the behest of Anno II, or whether it may have made by Richeza, isn't clarified.
** Royal Arch Masons take this year as the epoch for dating their documents Anno Inventionis after the beginning of the Second Temple by Zerubbabel.
* The encyclical Quadragesimo Anno ( On Reconstruction of the Social Order, literally " in the fortieth year ") of 1931 by Pope Pius XI, encourages a living wage, subsidiarity, and advocates that social justice is a personal virtue as well as an attribute of the social order, saying that society can be just only if individuals and institutions are just.
* In the Anno Domini timeline of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the term Gundam is the generic designation of a line of unique and highly effective mobile units developed by Celestial Being, such as the GN-001 Gundam Exia and GN-002 Gundam Dynames.
Dionysius Exiguus ’ Anno Domini era ( which contains only calendar years AD ) was extended by Bede to the complete Christian era ( which contains, in addition all calendar years BC, but no year zero ).
The organisers of Belgian heritage, Anno Expo ( planning the 50th anniversary celebrations of Expo ' 58 ), in the city of Mechelen announced a " cultural guerrilla strike " by asking people to send in their old photographs of the Atomium and requested 100 photoshoppers to paint over the balls.
In 1062, Henry was abducted by a group of men, including the Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne and the Otto of Nordheim, in a conspiracy to remove Agnes from the throne.
Hence, the Coptic year is identified by the abbreviation A. M. ( for Anno Martyrum or " Year of the Martyrs ").
The Anno Domini era became dominant in Western Europe only after it was used by the Venerable Bede to date the events in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731.
For most of its existence, the People's Party has explicitly defined itself as Catholic and anti-socialist ; the ideal of subsidiarity as defined by the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno is generally considered one of the historical cornerstones of its agenda.
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