Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama opens with a significant asteroid impact in northern Italy in the year 2077 which gives rise to the Spaceguard Project, which later discovers the Rama spacecraft.

This method of slow interstellar travel is hinted at in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama ( 1972 ) as the spacecraft Rama is analyzed, and this theme continues in the book's sequels.

This concept features prominently in Arthur C. Clarke's 1972 award-winning novel Rendezvous With Rama ; his story concerns an interstellar spacecraft that uses the Sun to perform this sort of maneuver ( and in the process unnecessarily alarms many nervous humans ).

* Endeavour, a spacecraft from the science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Unlike Rendezvous with Rama, which depicted a utopian future and focused almost entirely on the hard science fiction elements regarding the scientific wonders of the alien spacecraft, Rama II and its sequels deconstruct Clarke's vision of human colonies throughout the solar system through a global economic crisis that forced their almost total deactivation.

** Rama ( spacecraft ), fictional spacecraft in the books

It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft.

The Rama ship and the alien spacecraft in " Rescue Party " are both cylindrical in shape, and with kilometer scale dimensions.

The book follows the story of three astronauts from the expedition in Rama II who were trapped aboard the cylindrical alien spacecraft, Rama II, heading out towards deep space.

A third force, Misurasata, appeared among the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Amerindian peoples of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, who in December 1981 found themselves in conflict with the authorities following the government's efforts to nationalize Indian land.

King of Thailand | King Bhumibol Adulyadej | Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ) of Thailand presented with regalia at his coronation in the Grand Palace in Bangkok, 5 May 1950.

* Arthur C. Clarke, A Fall of Moondust ( 1961 ), Rendezvous with Rama ( 1972 )

The main part of the text forms a dialogue between Vasistha and Rama, interchanged with numerous short stories and anecdotes to illustrate the content.

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

The heirs of Rama I became increasingly concerned with the threat of European colonialism after British victories in neighboring Burma in 1826.

King Rama VII, Prajadhipok initially accepted this change, granting the Constitution but later abdicated from his position due to conflicts with the government.

After negotiation with the king, Rama VII, and the kingdom's elite, the changes took place, ending absolute rule by the king.

This situation is similar to Rendezvous with Rama, though the ship exterior and its interactions with humans is very different.

* Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

This town is closely associated with Lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

His grandson was Raja Dasaratha, the father of Rama with whom the glory of the Kausala dynasty reached its highest point.

Rama with Sita on the throne, their children Lava and Kusha on their laps.

The main body of the narrative lacks statements of Rama's divinity, and identifications of Rama with Vishnu are rare and subdued even in the later parts of the text.

According to the modern academic view, Vishnu, who according to Bala Kanda was incarnated as Rama, first came into prominence with the epics themselves and further during the ' Puranic ' period of the later 1st millennium CE.

The Epic is traditionally divided into several major kāṇḍas or books, that deal chronologically with the major events in the life of Rama — Bāla Kāṇḍa, Ayodhya Kāṇḍa, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, Kishkindha Kāṇḍa, Sundara Kāṇḍa, Yuddha Kāṇḍa, and Uttara Kāṇḍa.

His visit to Lahore is memorable for his speeches and his association with Tirtha Ram Goswami, a professor of Mathematics, who later took monasticism as Swami Rama Tirtha and preached Vedanta in India and America.

* Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama begins with an asteroid striking Italy at 0946 GMT on September 11, 2077-destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.

According to another Jain text, Padmapurana, which narrates the story of Rama, Ravana belongs to the non-aryan clan of Vidyadhara — a highly cultured and knowledgeable people who were followers of Jainism and practised Ahimsa ( non-violence ).

Rama can refer to Ramachandra or to Krishna as Radha-Raman, another name of Krishna meaning beloved of Radha.

Monks had already dabbled in superstitions when he first came to power, and Rama I implemented a law which required a monk who wished to travel to another principality for further education to present a certificate bearing his personal particulars, which would prove a monk own's legitimacy that he had been properly ordained.

Other notable examples would be that of Tulsidas who was another devotee of Rama and Mirabai a devotee of Krishna.

Based on another verse in the Padma Purana which says that the benefit of chanting the one thousand names of Vishnu can be derived from chanting one name of Rama, and a verse in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana equating the benefit of chanting three names of Rama with one name of Krishna.

Ragi becomes blessed by absorbing the qualities of Raghava, another epithet of Rama.

It was rebuilt due to the generosity of Mumbai businessman and philanthropist, Rama Kamath, another Gaud Saraswat Brahmin ( known in British records as ' Kamati ') in 1715.

There is another cave with the statues of Lord Rama, his consort Sita and his brother Lakshmana.

The Crows ' hit " Gee " on Rama inspired another record label, Gee Records, whose most successful act was Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers.

At the suggestion of a relative, the young Sangwal was sent to live with Chan Saeng-xuto, another relative and a nanny to Princess Valaya Alongkorn, the Princess of Petchaburi, daughter of King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ) and Queen Savang Vadhana ( later Queen Sri Savarindira, the Queen Grandmother ).

According to another tradition found in the Ramayana ( VII. 62. 6 ) and the Vishnu Purana ( IV. 4. 46 ), the Shurasenas were descendants of Shurasena, son of Shatrughna, brother of Rama.

Garlapati Tenali Ramakrishna, popularly known as Tenali Rama and Vikata Kavi, was another sixteenth century court poet of the Vijayanagara empire and also one of the Ashtadiggajas.

At the Node they are subjected to physiological tests for a year while Rama is refurbished, and they are eventually sent back to the solar system, this time to collect two thousand more representatives of humanity.

An enormous Buddha image from Ayuthaya's Wat Si Sanaphet was destroyed by Burmeses in 1767, King Rama I ( 1782-1809 A. D .) incorporated its fragments to build a temple to enlarge and renovate the complex.

They soon discovered that Rama is a hollow, rotating cylinder with enormous cities, populated by other alien species that have been collected during its travels: Myrmicats ( seen in images but never encountered in the game ), Avians, Octospiders.