Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie October Sky tell the story of how a coal miner's son, inspired by Sputnik, started building rockets in the mining town where he lived.

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

* In The Simpsons episode " Father Knows Worst ", when Homer falls asleep while building a balsa wood model of Westminster Abbey, he has a vision of the ghost of Anne of Cleves played by Pamela Hayden.

The Homer Chamber of Commerce is also located within the former hotel At one time, part of the building housed the defunct West and Company department store, owned by H. O.

In 1932, shortly before Homer Collyer went blind, he purchased the property across the street from their house at 2077 Fifth Avenue, with the intent of developing it by putting up an apartment building.

Marge is still a housewife, Bart ( now 25 ) works as a successful building demolition expert, Maggie is a teenager who wears a necklace with her pacifier attached and apparently never shuts up ( although each time she opens her mouth in the episode, she is interrupted ) and Homer still works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in Sector 7G, with Milhouse as his supervisor.

With Lisa sure to lose, Homer decides to help her by stealing some plutonium from the power plant and building a small working Class II plutonium fission reactor.

During the end credits, Homer runs into the concert hall, claiming the building is a death trap.

Across Homer street is The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts, ( formerly The Ford Centre for the Performing Arts ) also designed by Moshe Safdie as a complementary building to library square.

As his first activity, Burns has Homer throw silver dollars from the top of a tall building, which instead of winning him popularity just causes injuries and terrifies the crowds below.

She is supportive of Sonny's rocket building, but often finds herself at odds with her husband, Homer Sr., about the rocket building.

The building on Warwick Boulevard that formerly housed Homer L. Ferguson High School, which closed in 1996, was remodeled as part of the Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts at Christopher Newport University.

Meanwhile, Homer prepares for Springfield University's homecoming football game by building a float that he has fashioned out of flowers he has stolen from Ned Flanders.

They highlighted scenes " such as the building of the ' Lucky Savage ' casino and the destruction of Homer's chapel by an earthquake and a river of lava ," but also noted that " Some of the episode's best humor is back in Springfield, after Homer makes Bart the man of the house — as Bart fills in for Homer at the nuclear plant, Mr. Burns berates " Homer " for his poor performance record, gets tired of talking and ends up just poking Bart with a stick.

She wants to buy one, but Homer says that he can save money by building one instead.

After Homer buys nearly everything on the menu at Krusty Burger, burrito filling hits the windshield and, unable to see the road, he swerves towards the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, crashes into the main building and crushes a safety inspector.

The Homer Laughlin Building, at 317 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, is a landmark building best known for its ground floor tenant, the Grand Central Market, the City's largest and oldest open air market.

Homer reluctantly covers for them by claiming the cigarettes as his own and demonstrates it by smoking in the building.

In chapter 41, while the hero Sigurd is riding his horse Grani, he encounters a building on a mountain.

In a lousy mood to begin with, he gets very drunk and enters a condemned building, where he encounters Death.

Spider-Man encounters him in a secret lab within a Japanese industrial factory building another solar generator apparently to power the P. H. A. N. T. O. M. s.

* The corner of a building Lola runs around and encounters the Street Bum ( Runs 1 & 2, no Bum in 3 though )-Corner of Ziegelstraße and Monbijoustraße.

Even this offer attracted no subscribers: it meant building 1, 750 miles of road through desert and mountain, at enormous freight costs for supplies, with frequent bloody encounters with Indians, and no probable early business to pay dividends.

In addition to a comprehensive look at how to DM a 4th Edition campaign or adventure, it contains information on building encounters, aquatic and mounted combat, skill challenges, traps and hazards, rewards, NPC creation, artifacts, monster creation, and template, along with a sample town and short adventure so that DMs can start running their first 4th Edition adventure right away.

The assassin motorcycle cop then encounters McCoy in the garage of Guzman's building and kills him to eliminate a potential witness.

O ' Shea also makes appearances at the park, occasionally performing in the reptile encounters that take place outside the building, where guests can learn more about some of the park's reptiles.

The title was discontinued with issue # 214, in March 2007, to make way for a new Batman anthology series, Batman Confidential, which focuses on more personal events in Batman's life ( first encounters, building of new technology etc.

The building of a cult of personality around Ko encounters the problem of her bad songbun, even though it is usually passed on by the father.

He encounters two strange women: Elaine ( Faye Dunaway ), a woman who always had a dream of building a flying machine, and her stepdaughter Grace ( Lili Taylor ), who is jealous of Elaine and dreams of killing herself and being reincarnated as a turtle.

Repetition and duration are central to building the density of each node, and therefore, of the network ; and every practitioner coming to the lab knows there will be new encounters and engagements every day.

The second version was parodied on Robot Chicken, in which Rachael Leigh Cook ( who provided the voice acting ) goes on a psychopathic rampage, destroying everything she encounters, ending eventually with her smashing herself in the head and falling down a building.

They dragged him inside the building.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

And trailer makers, those most industrialized and therefore most efficient of homebuilders, say they save hundreds of dollars by always building from the inside out.

Noticing Russell's horse in front of the long log building, he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put up a good fight, so he began working his way down the ditch to join him.

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

Then he was striding across the room, his thoughts confused but the worry building swiftly inside him as he snatched up the note.

Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.

a postától jövök it would mean one is coming from being stood next to the post office, and that you were not inside the building.

Passivhaus building codes in particular bring unusually good interior air quality, because the buildings change the air several times per hour, passing it though a heat exchanger to keep heat inside.

The Institute focuses on helping communities develop by " mobilizing neighborhood assets " — building from the inside out rather than the outside in.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

During the 1970 – 1978 restoration works and excavations inside the building, and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck.

However, inward-hinged doors can also escalate an accident by preventing people from escaping the building: people inside the building may press against the doors, and thus prevent the doors from opening.

For example, an exterior shot of a building at night followed by an interior shot of people talking implies that the conversation is taking place at night inside that building-the conversation may in fact have been filmed on a studio set far from the apparent location, because of budget, permits or time limitations.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

Typically, galvanized piping rusts from the inside out, building up plaques on the inside of the piping, causing both water pressure problems and eventual pipe failure.

The main part of the building is a distinctive conical shape with a spiral walkway and large atrium inside, similar to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

During the Classical period an important public building, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates.

Perhaps the most significant contribution from Gilliam was the scene where Brian accidentally leaps off a high building and inadvertently lands inside a starship about to engage in an interstellar war.

The full title awarded to Macau by King Joao IV is still displayed to this day inside the Leal Senado, though the building and emblem itself date from the 19th century.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.