The writing process for The Tropic Rot started a few weeks after Poison the Well finished up the touring cycle for Versions.

All he had to go by was the definition of the frigid zone as the latitudes north of the line where the celestial arctic circle was equal to the celestial Tropic of Cancer, the tropikos kuklos ( refer to the next subsection ).

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.

In 2008, the film Tropic Thunder had Robert Downey Jr. in an Oscar nominated performance where he plays an Caucasian Australian actor who is so committed to method acting an African American character that he has his skin surgically darkened, much to the annoyed bemusement of his actual African American co-players in the cast.

Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike, Philip Roth, Gore Vidal, John Rechy and William Styron.

He stars as a failed actor turned high school drama teacher in the 2008 film Hamlet 2 and had a role in Tropic Thunder, playing the inexperienced director.

The purchase included sunscreen brand Hawaiian Tropic, which Playtex had bought a few months earlier, and Sun Pharmaceuticals Corp., which manufactures the Banana Boat suncreen products.

Tropic of Cancer " has had a huge and indelible impact on both the American literary tradition and American society as a whole.

" In 2008, she had a role in the movie Tropic Thunder, and in the same year became the first ( and to date the only ) journalist to interview the entire Obama family as a whole.

She also had parts in commercials for AT & T and TrimSpa, and she was a spokesmodel for Hawaiian Tropic.

Clearly listed as a hurricane in the summary table, it is all but dismissed in the report as " apparently of minor importance till it had moved north of the Tropic of Cancer " and then nothing else is said.

He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in supporting roles in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, as well as starring in the films She's Out of My League, The Trotsky, How to Train Your Dragon and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; Obelisk published five more books by Miller, as well as Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero ( 1930 ), Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice ( 1939 ), Cyril Connolly's first book and only novel, The Rock Pool ( 1936 ), James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere and Pomes Penyeach ( 1932 ), Frank Harris's My Life and Loves ( 1934 ) and Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book ( 1938 ), Squadron 95 by war hero Harold Buckley, James Hanley's Boy ( 1935 ) and Limericks by Norman Douglas.

The hunt got its name from the Sunday magazine supplement to the Miami Herald called ' Tropic ', in which Dave Barry had a regular column.

In Sexual Politics, a book originally published in 1970, Kate Millett wrote that Miller " is a compendium of American sexual neuroses ," showing " anxiety and contempt " toward women in works such as Tropic of Cancer.

France has also been more permissive in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: Joyce's Ulysses ( published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( both published by Olympia Press ), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer ( published by Obelisk Press ).

Prior to her professional wrestling career, Wolf was originally a model for bikinis and Hawaiian Tropic.

France has also been more permissive in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: Joyce's Ulysses ( published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( both published by Olympia Press ), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer ( published by Obelisk Press ).

As with the Tropic of Cancer, most places along the Tropic of Capricorn have arid or semi-arid climates, though with the Tropic of Capricorn this unfavourable environmental state is exacerbated by the fact that in Australia and Southern Africa tectonic activity and glaciation have been largely absent since the Carboniferous 300 million years ago, so that the aridity is compounded by extremely infertile soils.

As a result, areas in Brazil adjacent to the Tropic are extremely important agricultural regions, producing large quantities of crops such as coffee, and the natural rainforest vegetation has been entirely cleared.

Reeve has been around the world three times for the BBC television series Tropic of Cancer, Equator, and Tropic of Capricorn, and has travelled extensively in more than 100 countries, including troubled states in Africa, the Caucasus, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Far East and Central Asia.

Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller which has been described as " notorious for its candid sexuality " and as responsible for the " free speech that we now take for granted in literature.

It appeared in the final episode of the TV show Six Feet Under and has also been prominently featured in the movies Arthur, Three Kings, A Knight's Tale and Land of the Lost, as well as in the trailer for the movie Tropic Thunder and in the end credits music in episode 24 (" One Day in the Valley ") of Entourage.

His novels about 1950s British National Service such as " The Virgin Soldiers " spawned two film versions, in 1969 and 1977, whilst his Tropic of Ruislip and Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective have been adapted for television ( the former as Tropic in 1979 and latter having also spawned a film version, in 1981 ).

The Tropic Hunt debuted in 1984, and as of 2007 there have been a total of 16 Hunts ( plus one played-from-home ' non-hunt ').

The edge of the Frigid Zone ought to be as far south from the North Pole in latitude as the Summer Tropic is from the Equator.

Furthermore, Gerbert instructed Constantine that the north pole could be measured with the upper and lower sighting tubes, the Arctic Circle through another tube, the Tropic of Cancer through another tube, the equator through another tube, and the Tropic of Capricorn through another tube.

In all crossings of the Tropic of Cancer with Mexican federal highways, this is the only place where the latitude is marked with absolute precision and where the annual drift between 2005 and 2010 can be appreciated.

The Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern tropic, marks the most southerly latitude on the Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead.

In Australia, areas on the Tropic have the most variable rainfall anywhere in the world and thus even the wetter areas cannot be generally farmed since irrigation sources invariably dry up in drought years.

Since Chile extends from a point about north of the Tropic of Capricorn to a point hardly more than north of the Antarctic Circle, a broad selection of the Earth's climates can be found in this country.

For powered aviation, the course of a round-the-world record must start and finish at the same point and cross all meridians ; the course must be at least long ( which is the length of the Tropic of Cancer ).

Some stars within the far northern constellations, such as Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor, roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer (+ 23½ °), will be circumpolar stars that never rise or set.

Some Stars within the far southern constellations, such as Crux, Musca, and Hydrus, roughly south of the Tropic of Capricorn (- 23½ °), will also be circumpolar stars.

This method does not work so well closer to the equator ( i. e. between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn ) since, in the northern hemisphere, the sun may be directly overhead or even to the north in summer.

The caye has a small airstrip serviced by Tropic Air and Maya Island Air, and can be reached by plane from Belize City as well as by numerous fast sea ferries.

So that a person or location said to be " in the tropics " is situated south of the Tropic of Cancer and north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

: Lehrer, at the end of the song, said that he often wanted to write a mathematics textbook someday that would be a million seller, entitled " Tropic of Calculus ".

Prior to the court decisions in the United States in 1959-1966 that legalized the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill, the book continued to be considered unprintable, and was circulated clandestinely in privately printed limited editions, one of which was printed in 1951 in Chicago from hand-set type by John Hecht for editor, Franklin J. Meine.

These Tropic Lightning soldiers were scheduled to be replacement squads in the ground campaign ; however, after observing their outstanding performance in desert warfare training, the Assistant Commander of Third U. S. Army asked for them to become the security force for the Army's Forward Headquarters.

Based on climatological classification and general weather conditions and nearness to the Tropic of Cancer and exposure to high tropical pressure system and being in the midst of hot and shallow waters, the island tends to be hot and humid most of the year.

As one moves towards the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, the parameter at first increases: in the Himalayas the permanent snow line can be as high as 5, 700 metres ( 18, 700 feet ), whilst on the Tropic of Capricorn no permanent snow exists at all in the Andes because of the extreme aridity.