The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill ( painter ) | Thomas Hill, ( 1881 )

* Milligna ( or Your Favourite Spike ) ( 1972 ) The title is based on Milligan's introduction in The Last Goon Show of All as " Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error ".

At the ceremony for the driving of the Golden spike | " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869

Opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, the road established a mechanized transcontinental transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.

It was here on May 10, 1869, that Stanford drove The Last Spike ( or golden spike ) which is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, that joined the rails of the transcontinental railroad.

It thus helped prepare the television audience for At Last the 1948 Show, Spike Milligan's Q series, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

The line had been used earlier in Spike Milligan's script for The Last Goon Show of All, performed on 5 October 1972.

* Governor General's Awards for: The Last Spike, 1972 ; Klondike, 1958 ; The Mysterious North, 1956.

* 1972 The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885

The storyline feeds into the " Twilight " and " Last Gleaming " arcs of Buffy Season Eight, concluding Season Eight in 2011 ; Spike comes into possession of a spaceship, which follows him into his Buffy comic debut.

The only time Cheney actually visited the town of Cheney was on September 18, 1883, following the " Last Spike Ceremony " which was the joining of the eastern and western divisions of the railroad.

The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill ( painter ) | Thomas Hill, ( 1881 )

As head of the railroad company that built the western portion of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " over the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, Nevada, and Utah, Stanford presided at the ceremonial driving of " Last Spike " in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.

* Pierre Berton – The Last Spike

In 2010 Ignorant announced plans to do a tour called The Last Supper, performing Crass songs from the period 1977-1982 with largely the same band that performed with him at Shepherd's Bush, including Gizz Butt, Bob Butler and Spike Smith.

Pratt, Towards the Last Spike.

* Non-Fiction: Pierre Berton, The Last Spike.

The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill, ( 1881 )

The ceremony to drive in the Last Spike was originally to be held on May 8, but was postponed two days because of bad weather and a labor dispute on the Union Pacific side.

* The Genesis song " Driving the Last Spike " describes the life of the navvies.

The " Golden Spike " ( aka " The Last Spike ") is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

Last week the board, by a 4 to 3 vote, decided to ask voters whether they prefer the 6-3-3 ( junior high school ) system or the 8-4 system.

Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

When Christ returns, the soul rejoins its risen body to be judged by Him in the Last judgment.

* " The European Side of the Last Phase of the Development of ALGOL 60 " by Peter Naur

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.

* The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( October 2001 ; ISBN 0-89526-167-7 )

Death of the Last Croatian King, by Oton Iveković

The Christian Martyrs ' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme ( 1883 ).

The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

The most celebrated single question in the field, the conjecture known as Fermat's Last Theorem, was solved by Andrew Wiles but using tools from algebraic geometry developed during the last century rather than within number theory where the conjecture was originally formulated.

concluded that a certain equation considered by Diophantus had no solutions, and noted without elaboration that he had found " a truly marvelous proof of this proposition ," now referred to as Fermat's Last Theorem.

The 1621 edition of Arithmetica by Bachet gained fame after Pierre de Fermat wrote his famous " Last Theorem " in the margins of his copy:

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

** Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey ( 1814 )

In the gospel of John, the account of the Last Supper has no mention of Jesus taking bread and wine and speaking of them as his body and blood ; instead it recounts his humble act of washing the disciples ' feet, the prophecy of the betrayal, which set in motion the events that would lead to the cross, and his long discourse in response to some questions posed by his followers, in which he went on to speak of the importance of the unity of the disciples with him and each other.