As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.

* December 13 – Wold Newton meteorite: A meteorite falls at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England.

This meteorite fall is subsequently used as a literary premise by science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family.

Farmer suggested in two " biographies " of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life ), that the real meteorite ( Wold Cottage meteorite ) which fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach.

Other popular characters included by Farmer as members of the Wold Newton family are: Solomon Kane ; Captain Blood ; The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg ; The Time Traveller ( main character of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ); Allan Quatermain ; A. J.

The Wold Newton Universe ( or WNU ) is a term coined by Win Scott Eckert to denote an expansion of Philip José Farmer's original Wold Newton Family concept ( introduced in Tarzan Alive ( 1972 )).

Eckert introduced the term in 1997 on his website, An Expansion of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe.

Eckert uses Farmer's concept of the Wold Newton Family as a unifying device, and expands the universe that the Wold Newton Family inhabits by documenting crossovers between fictional characters from various media and genres.

Characters incorporated into the WNU are not necessarily blood relatives, descendants, or ancestors of those present at the 1795 Wold Newton meteor strike, but they all exist in the same shared fictional universe.

Farmer himself penned a number of crossover fiction stories and novels set in what is now termed the Wold Newton Universe ; not all characters in Farmer's Wold Newton fiction are core members of the Wold Newton Family, but all are linked into the larger WNU via connections with Farmer's primary Wold Newton Family works, Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.

Many post-Farmerian " parascholars " have attempted to expand the WNU to include characters of their liking into the WNU, and often into the Wold Newton family proper.

Although the two terms are used almost interchangeably, there is an important distinction: Wold Newton Family members-those who are descended from or otherwise related to the individuals exposed to the meteor strike ; and Wold Newton Universe members, unrelated to the family, who have met one or more family members in crossovers.

Author Kim Newman has stated that his Anno Dracula series was partially inspired by the Wold Newton family.

The juxtaposition of characters from different sources in the same story is similar to science fiction writer Philip José Farmer's works centering around the Wold Newton family or Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series.

Many other family surnames, such as Massedalen, Noer, Gaasvigen, Wold, Amoth and Rundhaug, have simply disappeared from the township, the owners having moved to Manitoba or Saskatchewan before 1920 or else died off more recently due to lack of offspring.

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" a " forgotten " Doc Savage adventure ( see the Wold Newton family ).

Other Rothschild properties included Bentley Priory and Champneys ( near Wigginton ), both in Hertfordshire, and the family still owns an estate at Ashton Wold near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the family home of Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild.

Most episodes took advantage of both the Wold Newton family and metafictional possibilities of the premise.

McGee has also been linked to the Wold Newton family described in Phillip Jose Farmer's Tarzan Alive, and included on a genealogical chart in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.

Many of the works of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton family sequences ( which has also been explored and developed by other authors ) also utilize and interweave numerous otherwise unrelated fictional characters into a rich family history by speculating familial connections between them ( such as a blood-relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan ).

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Fogg is a member of Farmer's Wold Newton family.

Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers and Rozsika Edle Rothschild ( née von Wertheimstein ), a Hungarian sportswoman and member of the first Jewish family in Europe to be ennobled.

Given its exposed spot on the top of Stow Hill, the town is often referred to with the couplet " Stow on the Wold, where the winds blow cold and the cooks can't roast their dinners ", but there is no source for this.

The anthology series Tales of the Shadowmen edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier is also based on the Wold Newton concept and includes characters from French literature.

The Wold Cottage meteorite was largest meteorite observed to fall in Britain, and is the second largest recorded in Europe ( after the Ensisheim meteorite

In an essay found in Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005 ), author Chuck Loridans contributes an article entitled " The Daughters of Greystoke " wherein he posits that Modesty is the daughter of Tarzan and La of Opar.

" Wold " is used as the name for various open rolling upland areas in the North of England, including the Yorkshire Wolds and the Lincolnshire Wolds, although these are, by contrast, chalk uplands.

southern side of the Great Wold Valley in the district of Ryedale, and is

The main result was the " Wold decomposition " by which a stationary series is expressed as a sum of a deterministic component and a stochastic component which can itself be expressed as an infinite moving average.

No such multiplex is on air yet for North Yorkshire, however there is an MXR ( Chrysalis ) regional multiplex broadcasting from Acklam Wold, but BBC York is not part of this.

Acklam Wold is the strongest frequency on 103. 7 which is for Ryedale and the Vale of York, and the 140 ft transmitter also has the commercial station, Minster FM on 104. 7.

It is a member of Chipping Norton and Stow on the Wold Methodist Circuit.

Typically this concept confines itself to one publishing company's output ( although concepts such as the Wold Newton family extend the boundaries considerably ), and it is most common in the main superhero universes of DC and Marvel.

Wold, is derived from the Old English Wald meaning forest.

The Wold Cottage meteorite ( also called the Wold Newton meteorite ) fell near to Wold Cottage farm in 1795, a few miles away from the hamlet of Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England.

The name derives from the White Fathers of Africa, a Catholic missionary group, that bought the Stony Wold Sanitarium and opened a Seminary to train priests there in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

The county stretched from Wold Newton in its northern tip, to a different Wold Newton at its most southern point.

Harryman has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant ( with composer Erling Wold ), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.

Away from the thesis Wold and Cramér did some joint work, their best known result being the Cramér – Wold theorem ( 1936 ).

The DAB signals come from the Bauer Humberside 11B multiplex from three transmitters at Cave Wold ( most powerful, three miles south of High Hunsley, and a BT microwave transmitter which also has the MXR Yorkshire multiplex ), Buckton Barn ( Bridlington, also has Yorkshire Coast Radio on 102. 4 ) and Bevan Flats ( Grimsby, also transmits Compass FM on 96. 4 ).

BBC Radio York broadcasts from its studios in York on 95. 5 ( Olivers Mount, Scarborough ), 103. 7 ( Acklam Wold transmitter near Leavening, midway between York and Malton ) and 104. 3 ( Woolmoor, near Upsall four miles north of Thirsk close to the A19-for Harrogate, Northallerton and the Yorkshire Dales ) FM, 666 ( Fulford ), 1260 ( Row Brow, Scarborough ) AM and by RealPlayer from their website.

* Edward Topham ( 1751 – 1820 ), English journalist, playwright, poet, and landowner from Wold Newton, Yorkshire

On 24 June, he marched from Gloucester to Stow on the Wold, where he received intelligence that the King was marching eastward from Oxford into the Parliamentarian-held eastern counties, and soon received orders from the Parliamentarian Committee of Both Kingdoms to pursue him.