Navajos call this “ The Long Walk ”.

* Valkenburgh, Richard Van Long Walk by Very Slim Man, Desert Magazine, April, 1946

Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.

* The Long Walk ( 1979 )

Historically, only members of Pop were entitled to furl their umbrellas or sit the wall on the Long Walk, in front of the main building.

* Long Walk Home ( 2002 )

Two major motion pictures have been filmed in Montgomery: The Long Walk Home, set during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Big Fish, partially shot at Huntingdon College.

As a result of the Long Walk of the Navajo, the Hopi enjoyed a short period of peace.

The Long Walk is a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original.

In 2000 the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.

One hundred teenage boys participate in an annual walking contest called " The Long Walk ", which is the " national sport ".

The Long Walk is not only a physical trial, but a psychological one, as the Walkers are continually pressed against the idea of death and their mortality.

Four years earlier the Major took Stebbins to the finish of a Long Walk and now Stebbins feels that the Major has set him up to be " the rabbit ", motivating other runners to walk farther to prolong the race, just as rabbits are used in dog races.

At the end of the book, having gone farther than any Long Walk in history-the Long Walkers reached Massachusetts for the first time in seventeen years-Garraty decides to give up after realizing that Stebbins has shown almost no weaknesses over the duration of the Walk.

* Raymond Garraty-survivor and winner of the Long Walk.

* Arthur Baker-Art Baker is one of the first Walkers to befriend Garraty during the Long Walk and is also one of the Musketeers.

Right before he is killed, he asks Garraty for a final favor if Garraty wins the Long Walk.

Despite being the predicted winner of this year's Long Walk, having been described as " moose-like " and able to walk long distances with little difficulty, Scramm succumbs to pneumonia.

* The Major-Little to no biographical information is presented about the Major within the book, but due to Stebbins ' testimony, it is inferred that he is at the very least in his mid-to-late thirties and has been running the Long Walk for at least 13 years, but likely much longer.

* The Crowd-The Long Walk bystanders play an increasingly significant role as the Walk progresses.

Billions of dollars are wagered on the Long Walk.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

Long before he reached the protection of the stage door, Andy was recognized.

Willie's partner was Long Jim Barnes, who tried to keep count.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

Long disputed, the predominantly German-speaking region of Alsace or Elsaß was annexed by Germany in 1871 ; after World War I, it was reintegrated into France.

Their return was blocked, and they resolved to march on Athens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the Battle of Tanagra.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

Long ago, his master was murdered by Jade Fox ( Cheng Pei-pei ), a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills.

Athel Long CMG, CBE was the last Administrator and the first Governor of the Cayman Islands.

Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.

His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including a fear of crowds, and although admitted to high school after attending eight years of grammar school ( Long Valley School, whence dates the earliest known photo of him ), he never went to high school.

Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.

The Communists, tipped-off that a Nationalist offensive was imminent, retreated in the Long March, during which Mao Zedong rose from a mere military official to the most influential leader of the Communist Party of China.

The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political position of the Grandees in the New Model Army.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.