The setlist for these shows was similar to the setlist he'd use during the upcoming 1997 Earthling Tour.

Bowie went back on the road in support of this album, with his Earthling Tour taking place between May 1997 and the end of the year.

In the last phase of the war between the Alliance of Free Stars and the Hierarchy of Battle Thralls, the Tobermoon, an Earthling ship, discovered an ancient Precursor subterranean installation in a cave on the surface of an uninhabited planet in the Vela star system.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

* Earthling ( 1997 )

Earthling is the twentieth studio album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via BMG Records.

On 9 January 1997, the day after Bowie turned 50, Bowie held a 50th birthday concert for himself, performing tracks off his Earthling album as well as a selection of songs from his back catalogue.

" I'm Afraid of Americans " is a song and single by David Bowie from the 1997 album Earthling.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

Freudenthal considered that such a language should be easily understood by beings not acquainted with any Earthling syntax or language.

These were three small creatures from outer space who slept on " Professor Bentine's " ceiling and who had come to Earth to learn the ways of Earthling children.

Earthling is a term commonly used in science fiction to identify humans as opposed to extraterrestrials.

Suspecting that these might be their remaining Earthling ancestors, the people of Darius sends both Proco Jr. and Tiat Young to help them.

As the Martians leave, they meet two Venusians searching for a suitable Earthling for their own experiment.

Space Ship Earthling number Seven ultimately succeeds, and the consequences of their success form the basis of the plot for the novels which follow.

Shortly before reaching Sol the little fleet was attacked by an unknown ship ; Captain Burton, commanding the Earthling ship, intercepted the alien ship before it could damage the defenseless Precursor starship, but was killed in the short fight, leaving the genius young man in command.

There is also a David Bowie song entitled " Seven Years in Tibet ", from his album Earthling.

In episode 28 of the animated series Young Justice titled " Earthling ", Adam Strange improvises a performance of the second verse of Jabberwocky in order to distract a patrol while on the planet Rann.

: Like the Captain, D is in fact a woman, but appears masculine to Earthling eyes.

Literature and science have created a wealth of demonyms that are not directly associated with a cultural group, such as Martian for hypothetical people of Mars ( credited to scientist Percival Lowell ), Jovian for those of Jupiter or its moons, Earthling ( from the diminutive-ling, ultimately from Old English-ing meaning " descendant ") as a possible name for the people of Earth ( as also " Terran ", " Terrene ", " Tellurian ", " Earther ", " Earthican ", " terrestrial ", and " Solarian " – from Sol, the sun ), and Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians from the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag in the satire Gulliver's Travels.

Some internationally known Sri Lankan metal bands include Stigmata, Chitral Somapala, Whirlwind, Old Castles Massacre, Funeral In Heaven, Paranoid Earthling.

While Colombo being a breeding ground for many hard rock bands like Stigmata, Kandy gave birth to the pioneer Grunge outfit Paranoid Earthling which was the first rock band to emerge from the Hill Capital.

* 1950 Dimension X-The Potters of Firsk ( Radio Show July 28, 1950 from the story by Jack Vance ) Used multiple times by the Earthling supervisor to describe the indigenous population of planet Firsk.

Earthling was the first Bowie album recorded entirely digitally, " entirely on hard disk.

" In the 1998 Grammy awards Earthling was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance and the song Dead Man Walking was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

The music videos for Earthling were elaborate.

Fab 5 Freddy and Futura 2000 took hip hop graffiti to Paris and London as part of the New York City Rap Tour in 1983.

He also took part in the ESU USA Tour ( the debating tour of the USA run by the English-Speaking Union ).

The Unleashed Tour took place in arenas on multiple continents.

In November 2005, Williams took home the MTV Europe Music Award for ' Best Male ', but also, entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1. 6 million tickets in one single day.

The resulting Peugeot Talbot Sport, established at Bois de Boulogne near Paris, debuted its Group B 205 Turbo 16 at the 1984 Tour de Corse in May, and took its first world rally win that same year at the 1000 Lakes Rally in August, in the hands of Ari Vatanen.

The band then took a short break after finishing the Ozzfest 2000 Tour, playing two acoustic shows at Artist Direct Studios.

Prince again took his post-Revolution backing band ( minus the Bodyguards ) on a three leg, 84-show Lovesexy World Tour ; although the shows were well received by huge crowds, they lost money due to the expensive sets and incorporated props.

After the Ghost in the Machine Tour concluded in 1982, the group took a sabbatical and each of the members pursued outside projects.

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

In May 2002, the band announced its " Farewell Tour ", which took place across the USA during 2003 and 2004.

Later in 2012, they took the Shout It Out world Tour to The Phillipines and Australia as well.

After the departure of the other band members, bassist Jerry Only took over as singer and recruited veteran punk rock musicians to continue the band. As the sole remaining member of the Misfits, Jerry Only took over lead vocal duties in addition to playing bass guitar and recruited veteran musicians Dez Cadena, former guitarist of Black Flag, and Marky Ramone, former drummer of the Ramones, for a Misfits 25th Anniversary Tour which lasted intermittently for nearly three years.

Sorbier brought forth 36 artillery pieces from the Imperial Guard Artillery Park and also took command of 49 horse artillery pieces from Nansouty's Ist Cavalry Corps and La Tour Maubourg's IV Cavalry Corps, as well as of Viceroy Eugène's own artillery, opening up a massive artillery barrage.

In July and August 2003, Chao and her colleagues, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, took a bus across the country on their Jobs and Growth Tour, aimed at promoting the benefits of the Bush Administration's tax cuts.

However, the " In Solvent See " Tour took place as planned, and began on October 30.

Def Leppard began their " Downstage Thrust Tour ", on 27 June, which took them across the US and into Canada.

He also took part in the English-Speaking Union's Tour of the United States of America.

The best example is the Australian Tour of 1970-71 when he took 31 wickets ( 22. 83 ) in the six tests, but only 7 wickets ( 71. 57 ) in the six other first-class matches on the tour.

In his World Tour of Scotland, Connolly reveals that at a trailer show during the Edinburgh Festival, the Humblebums took to the stage just before the late Yehudi Menuhin.

Dennis took part in the 2007 L ' Étape du Tour, cycling an open stage of the Tour de France for amateurs which was held in the mountains 2 weeks before the main event.

As an amateur cyclist, Rasmussen completed part of the notorious Alpe d ' Huez stage of the 2008 Tour de France the day after the professional race took place.

In July and August 2003, Evans and his colleagues, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, took a bus across the country on their Jobs and Growth Tour, aimed at promoting the benefits of the Bush Administration's tax cuts.