James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ), and in his stories " The Princess and the Tin Box " in The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ) and " The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man " in Lanterns and Lances ( 1961 ).

* Last Man Standing Coop, a Doom 3 cooperative-play modification

", in response to Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man.

* Also excluded were several films in the Zane Grey western series, including To the Last Man ( 1932 ), that were licensed to a theatrical reissue distributor at the time of the MCA deal, as well as all the Hopalong Cassidy films purchased by star William Boyd, and are currently under the control of U. S. Television Office, founded by Boyd.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Apocalyptic fiction is concerned with the end of civilization through war ( On the Beach ), pandemic ( The Last Man ), astronomic impact ( When Worlds Collide ), ecological disaster ( The Wind from Nowhere ), or some other general disaster or with a world or civilization after such a disaster.

A few Saint stories crossed into science fiction and fantasy, " The Man Who Liked Ants " and the early novel The Last Hero being examples.

Official film adaptations of Matheson's novel appeared in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, in 1971 as The Omega Man, and the 2007 release I Am Legend.

* Francis Fukuyama ( 1952 – ) The End of History and the Last Man ( 1992 )

Nelson Mandela practiced Nguni stick fighting as a child, and it was featured on the Discovery and BBC reality TV show Last Man Standing.

The influence of these films is most apparent in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) starring Clint Eastwood and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing ( 1996 ).

* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

" The time traveler eventually arrives in a ruined city in A. D. 1, 001, 930, where he is met by an old man who claims to be the Last Man still alive, and who says he knew the time traveler was coming because he read in an ancient history book that he himself ( the Last Man ) had arrived from the future in A. D. 502, 101 in the same time machine the time traveler was using.

When the time traveler goes to sleep, the Last Man does indeed take the time machine back to A. D. 502, 101, leaving the time traveler stranded.

After one more film role as an aging doctor in The Last Angry Man ( 1959 ), for which he was again nominated for an Oscar, his failing eyesight and other health problems forced him to retire from acting.

He retired from filmmaking in 1959, soon after receiving his sixth Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man ; however, he made a final television appearance in the series Saints and Sinners in 1962.

He has since acted in many English language films including The Man in the Iron Mask, 102 Dalmatians, and Last Holiday.

The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct-to-video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega.

" Anthony Boucher praised the novel, saying " Matheson has added a new variant on the Last Man theme ... and has given striking vigor to his invention by a forceful style of storytelling which derives from the best hard-boiled crime novels ".

He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

On the previous day, 29 May 1744, Pope called for a priest and received the Last Rites of the Catholic Church.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

The BBC wanted to cancel Last of the Summer Wine for years in favour of a new programme aimed at a younger audience, but the show remained too popular for cancellation ; even repeats received ratings of as much as five million viewers per episode.

Gilbert's idea was warmly received, but production was postponed because Lucasfilm Games assigned its designers, including Gilbert, to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure.

At Last led Lauper it received one nomination awards at the 2005 Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ) for " Unchained Melody ", being the first time that it indicates the award in six years.

She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), Chocolat ( 2000 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) and Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2001 ).

Despite extensive promotion by Benson, Home At Last generally received negative reviews, including that of Rupert Loydell who described it as " a disorganised, half-produced, and ultimately unsatisfying hotchpotch of songs ".

Last year, the band received a Division II rating at Region Marching Competition in Fort Smith Northside, for Region 2.

In response to The Last Days of Hitler, Trevor-Roper received a death threat from the Stern Gang for his supposed over-emphasis on Hitler's charisma, which the authors of the death threat felt had exonerated the German people.

On the day of the 2005 Last Night, the hall management received word of a bomb threat, which led to a thorough search of the Albert Hall for 5 hours, but the concert took place with a modest time delay.

She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America ( 1994 ), received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions ( Les Parents Terribles ) ( 1996, her sixth Broadway show ) and, though she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo ( 1997 ).

Perkins co-wrote, with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

This peaked with The Diary and The Last of a Dying Breed, which received overwhelmingly positive reviews and sales, and earned him Lyricist of the Year at the 2001 Source Awards.

All other sins may be forgiven through true repentance: shirk speaks of associating partners with God after having received the Divine Guidance, as it is said in the Quran and Hadith that when one submits to God ( i. e. embraces Islam ), their " accounts " ( of sins and righteous deeds used to determine the standing of a person on the Last Day ) are numbered from that moment.

During the 1490s, emperor Maximilian I invested a lot of effort into perfecting the sport, for which he received his nickname of " The Last Knight ".

Revenue may refer to business income in general, or it may refer to the amount, in a monetary unit, received during a period of time, as in " Last year, Company X had revenue of $ 42 million.

Last year it received 873 new Nazarenes.

An acknowledgment will be sent for all " Data Only Last " packets that are successfully received ; this will also acknowledge all preceding " Data First Middle " packets.

Thomas received his first major film roles, appearing in Winning ( 1969 ) with Paul Newman, about auto racing, and Last Summer ( also 1969 ) with Barbara Hershey, a summer coming-of-age movie.

Willard completed a sold-out run of his " one-man show " Fred Willard: Alone At Last !, advertised as a one-man show but actually featuring a cast of 10, and received Los Angeles Artistic Director Awards for Best Comedy and Best Production.

Both of Leno's lead-in, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Last Call with Carson Daly, also received increased viewership.

Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.