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The main character in The Claim ( 2000 ) is a surveyor for the Central Pacific Railroad, and the film is partially about the effort of a frontier mayor to have the railroad routed through his town.
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The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.
The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.
In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.
Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.
A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.
In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.
Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.
Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).
In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.
* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors
* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte
The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.
Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, is the main character of the second half of Acts.
* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma
Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.
* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack
In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.
The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.
Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.
The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.
Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.
The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.
Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).
Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.
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The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).
Baker-Berry Library is the main library at Dartmouth, comprising Baker Memorial Library ( opened 1928 ) and Berry Library ( opened 2000 ).
Lock also wrote a character guide entitled Who's Who in EastEnders ( ISBN 978-0-563-55178-2 ) in 2000, examining main characters from the first fifteen years of the show.
North's main Y2K web site was taken offline early in 2000.
The Authority's main legislative accomplishment to date has been the adoption, in the year 2000, of regulations governing exploration for polymetallic nodules.
The main opposition party was the Democratic Party or DP, which controlled a governing coalition from 1996 to 2000.
Soufrière Hills continues to play a detrimental role in both agricultural and economic activity on Montserrat. Today, Montserrat ’ s main economic activity is in construction and government services which together accounted for about 50 percent of GDP in 2000 when it was EC $ 76 million.
During the 2000 PBS documentary The Commanding Heights ( based on the book ), Friedman continued to argue that criticism over his role in Chile missed his main contention that freer markets resulted in freer people, and that Chile's unfree economy had caused the military government.
NBC brought Albert back less than two years later, and he was the network's main play-by-play man for the 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02 NBA seasons, including the finals.
* In the 2000 AD series The V. C. s Olympus Mons ' crater is covered by a massive dome to retain an atmosphere as the main settlement on the planet.
The series includes five main games ( SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies ) and three spin-offs ( SimCity: The Card Game, SimCopter and Streets of SimCity ).
* Exports-valued at US $ 25. 3 million ( 1991 ), mainly phosphates, main partners are New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, US ( 2000 )
After the war, the FAP began acquiring new material, especially MiG-29 fighters and Su-25 attack fighters which are, along with the Mirage 2000 fighters, the main combat elements of the FAP.
A cookbook published in 2000 by the CIP and National Kaoshiung Hospitality College, listed some foods of the main Taiwanese Aboriginal tribes, showing the Aborigines ’ adherence and passion for natural foods.
The first and only main draft for the league took place over a three day time period from October 28, 2000 to October 30, 2000.
The main improvement was replacing the M126 series gun with the longer 52-caliber cannon from the PzH 2000, thus the MTLS ammunition of the PzH 2000 can be used.
A map shows the main areas of the Hanford Site, as well as the buffer zone that was turned over to the Hanford Reach National Monument in 2000
Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 ( 2000 ) essays on main topics
In the presidential election campaign of 2000 and 2001, two former prime ministers, Pedro Pires and Carlos Veiga were the main candidates.
* Disney's The Kid ( 2000 ): At the end of the movie where the main character finds his 70 year old self, but – differing from other movies – there were no changes in anything that was seen ( planes, dinners and clothing ).
* The main reservation, formerly known as the Papago Indian Reservation, lies in central Pima, southwestern Pinal, and southeastern Maricopa Counties, and has a land area of and a 2000 census population of 8, 376 persons.
Outside video games, he has composed the main theme for the 2000 animated film Ah!
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