In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Heinlein has the main character, Maureen, state that the purpose of metaphysics is to ask questions: Why are we here?

Janet Morris and Chris Morris went on to produce two more authorized Thieves ' World " Beyond " novels and a series of related novels about their immortalized character, Tempus, and the Sacred Band of Stepsons.

* Sinker ( Beyond the Black Stump ), a character in Beyond the Black Stump, an Australian comic strip

Another regular character, who had also first appeared in Beyond Our Ken, and who appeared in the script as " Dentures ", was Stanley Birkenshaw, played by Paddick and characterised as a man with ill-fitting false teeth who was utterly incapable of pronouncing the letter S without spraying saliva all over the set.

Col. Campbell is also eventually revealed to be a son of Lazarus Long, a Heinlein character originally introduced in Methuselah's Children and who reappeared in Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

Lazarus also appears as a minor character in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and plays a role in Heinlein's last novel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which is the life story of Maureen.

Beyond its specific use as a byte-order indicator, the BOM character may also indicate which of the several Unicode representations the text is encoded in.

* Infiltration Unit Zeta, a fictional robot character from the animated series Batman Beyond and The Zeta Project

Beyond the well-known structural legacies of the Pythagorean scale, and the related mathematical developments it upheld to define western classical music, relatively little is understood about the precise character of music during this period ; we do know, however, that it left, as so often, a strong mark on the culture of Rome.

Beyond its key role in the dynamic process of thrombus formation, thrombin has a pronounced pro-inflammatory character, which may influence the onset and progression of atherosclerosis.

In Christopher Durang's play Beyond Therapy ( 1983 ), the character Bruce claims that he " Wanted to see Gary Gilmore executed on television.

Much like Harley Quinn of Batman: The Animated Series, Terry McGinnis of Batman Beyond or Marvel's own Firestar of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, she was a character originally created for an animated series that was incorporated into comic book canon.

* Terry McGinnis, main character and the new batman in Batman Beyond.

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists was the first movie made primarily with motion capture, although many character animators also worked on the film, which had a very limited release.

* Wilkinson also appears as a major character in Janice Holt Giles's novel The Land Beyond the Mountains which deals extensively with Wilkinson's participation in the issue of Kentucky statehood.

* In the Christmas episode " River of Stars " from the Fox series Space: Above and Beyond, Joel Delafuente's character narrates the 1914 Christmas truce.

Batman Beyond is said to explore the darker side of many Batman projects, playing on key elements such as emotions, personal relations, fear of the unknown, technological malfunctions and the disturbing psychological elements of the character of Bruce Wayne.

It is a spin-off series based on the character Zeta from the Batman Beyond episode of the same name.

Rand was also included in Heinlein's final book, To Sail Beyond The Sunset, as a friend of main character, Maureen Johnson Long, mother of Lazarus Long.

The character is set to appear in A Fistful of Dust, confirming that The Mars Trilogy audio releases are part of the " Space: 1889 & Beyond " narrative.

A contemporary fantasy, Beyond The Veil follows a male character ( whose appearance is speculated to be based on the artist ) who, after finding a pair of rose colored glasses, proceeds to " see things ;" experiencing visions and other manifestations that may be related to the end of the world.

Anderson took time out to play the character ' Ironbar ' Bassey in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Rat kings inspired the title character in The Wyrm King, the finale of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles series.

More recently, he has voiced a number of animated characters such as Terry McGinnis / Batman, the titular character of Batman Beyond, and Ron Stoppable of Kim Possible.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

* A character in Zork I

( In each trilogy, there is a sense of assumed continuity ; that is, the player's character in Zork III is assumed to have experienced the events of Zork I and Zork II.

Similarly, events from Enchanter are referenced in Sorcerer and Spellbreaker ; but the Enchanter character is not assumed to be the same one from the Zork trilogy.

In fact, in Enchanter the player's character encounters the Adventurer from Zork, who helps the player's character solve a puzzle in the game.

* Mumboz Agrippa, a character from the Zork series of computer games

The player's character is a sweepstakes winner who wins an all expenses paid holiday to the Valley of the Sparrows, in Zork.

Text-based interactive fiction conventionally has descriptions written in the second person ( though exceptions exist ), telling the character what he is seeing and doing, such as Zork.

( Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, a freeware game that was released 12 years later, states that the character in that game is the first person to see a grue.

* General Thaddeus Kaine, a character in the computer game Zork Nemesis.

Dalboz calls the player " AFGNCAAP ", a satirical, politically-correct initialism for " Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person "— a joking reference to many adventure games, such as Infocom's original Zork games, in which the player's character has no identity, name, or background.

The player's character in Zork: Nemesis is never identified, but the hint book refers to the character as " she ," and one male NPC looks at the main character and remarks, " Hey, you're beautiful!

It signified a notable departure from the standard format of Infocom's earlier games which relied purely on text and puzzle-solving: among other features, Beyond Zork incorporated a crude on-screen map, the use of character statistics and levels, and RPG combat elements.

Beyond Zork bears many similarities to a simplified role-playing game or Multi-User Dungeon, particularly in the implementations of character statistics and levels.

( In some of Infocom's other works, the gender of the player's character is either unimportant and / or unaddressed, or could be chosen as either female or male, as in Bureaucracy, Beyond Zork, Ballyhoo, Moonmist and the Leather Goddesses of Phobos games.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Thus creativity may run all the way from making a cake, building a chicken coop, or producing a book, to founding a business, creating a League of Nations or, developing a mature character.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

Some scholars point to a character from the Babylonian cuneiform which may have been derived from a representation of the abacus.

A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

Variations in the character of the solution or in the conditions of deposition may cause a corresponding variation in the successive layers, so that bands of chalcedony often alternate with layers of crystalline quartz.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

His voice and personality are similar to and may serve as a basis of sort for the character of Gerald Goode in Judge's latest animated series The Goode Family.

For example, an IBM PC might have either a monochrome or a color display adapter ( using different display memory addresses and hardware ), but a single, standard, BIOS system call may be invoked to display a character at a specified position on the screen in text mode.

Using the techniques of modern biotechnology, one or two genes ( Smartstax from Monsanto in collaboration with Dow AgroSciences will use 8, starting in 2010 ) may be transferred to a highly developed crop variety to impart a new character that would increase its yield.

Shakespeare may have changed this aspect of his character in order to please King James, who was thought at the time to be a descendant of the real Banquo.

But Shakespeare may also simply have altered Banquo's character because there was no dramatic need for another accomplice to the murder.

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For example, the effects on the character of the agent or any other people involved in an action may be regarded as a relevant consequence.

Legal sanctions vary widely in their severity, they may include ( for example ) incarceration of temporary character aimed at reforming the convict.

A character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a movie, but as it is extraordinarily expensive to close off Times Square, those scenes will likely be filmed all at once to reduce permit costs.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

Besides this may be mentioned editions of the New Testament apocrypha, De Evangeliorum apocryphorum origine et usu ( 1851 ); Acta Apostolorum apocrypha ( 1851 ); Evangelia apocrypha ( 1853 ; 2nd ed., 1876 ); Apocalypses apocryphae ( 1866 ), and various minor writings, partly of an apologetic character, such as Wann wurden unsere Evangelien verfasst?