However, simultaneously an Alien entity known as the Ly-cilph, a non-corporeal race from a distant galaxy, comes into contact with the dying man.

The player takes control of an alien ( who bears a striking resemblance to the race of aliens from the Alien series of films ) aboard a huge spacecraft filled with many extraterrestrial creatures.

Vril Dox, Garryn Bek, Strata, Lyrissa Mallor, and the Durlan appeared as prisoners of the Alien Alliance who helped stage a breakout from the Starlag, a prison spacecraft overseen by the alien race known as the Citadel.

2006: The Alien Nation exhibition is presented with inIVA, exploring the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary art.

* DM-39 Psychic Splash: This set introduced a Psychic Evolution creature, the SP (" Espy ") set of creatures, as well as the Alien, Soul Command, and World Command race of creatures.

The Alien Sky remains the principal fictional exploration of a very light-skinned Eurasian ( mixed race, British-Indian ) woman who has married a white man by pretending to be white ; A Male Child is set principally in London and deals with the domestic effects of losing a family member to imperial service ; and The Chinese Love Pavilion, after an Indian opening, is largely concerned with events in Malaya under Japanese occupation.

She is ordered by her superior officer General Rykov to retrieve an artifact from an area known as " Zeta Site " which houses part of an Alien hive as well as technology from an alien race ( the race of the " space jockey " found by the Nostromo crew in Alien ).

* Alien Metron, a race of alien creatures originally featured in the 1967 tokusatsu TV series, Ultra Seven

The TechnoCore is the ' race ' of Artificial Intelligences ( AIs ) in Dan Simmons ' sci-fi novel Hyperion.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Of the Bragnings as a race and of Hálfdan the Generous nothing else is known.

* Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibiting discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, creed, and national origin.

Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. ( April 29, 1951February 18, 2001 ) was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR.

An internationally known foot race called the Bix 7 is run during the festival.

By the time of the Civil War, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the country, known for his orations on the condition of the black race and on other issues such as women's rights.

Also known as SEFAC ( Scuderia Enzo Ferrari Auto Corse ), Ferrari did in fact produce one race car, the Tipo 815, in the non-competition period.

Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as " Dero ", live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface.

Factors that are known to cause variation in the levels of GH and IGF-1 in the circulation include an individuals genetic make-up, the time of day, their age, sex, exercise status, stress levels, genetics, nutrition level and body mass index ( BMI ), disease state, race, estrogen status and xenobiotic intake.

Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

The race is known in the United States as " The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports " or " The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports " for its approximate duration, and is also called " The Run for the Roses " for the blanket of roses draped over the winner.

While it is popularly known as Laconia, the location of the race was moved from Belknap Recreation Area to Loudon in 1964.

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

The series is set in a fictional galaxy as part of an alternative universe, where planets are overseen by a powerful race of space-travelers known as Ancients.

This is an example of what is known as an evolutionary arms race, in which bacteria continue to develop strains that are less susceptible to antibiotics, while medical researchers continue to develop new antibiotics that can kill them.

The first of many such conflicts was known as the Watermelon War of 1856, where U. S. soldiers mistreated locals causing large-scale race riots that U. S. Marines eventually put down.

* The Coripies-Also known as the Buried People, the Coripies are a race of short eyeless carrion-eaters.

On the eve of the marathon, all the entrants of the race except for the Finns, whose positions were known, filed a petition asking Nurmi's entry to be accepted.

The attempt to claim F ( ST ) invalidates the human race concept is known as " Lewontin's Fallacy ".

In America, the earliest known race dates back to 1756 in New York, when a pettiauger defeated a Cape Cod whaleboat in a race.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

For instance, in Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness " it is proposed that humankind was actually created as a slave race by the Old Ones.

As the closing credits roll the Inquisitors race to the Old Bailey by double-decker bus, to the tune of " Devil's Galop ", only to arrive just as the words " THE END " appear.

On the Fourth, annual festivities include a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of the Old Courthouse, a waiter's race in Phoenix Park, a parade, a country music concert, and fireworks.

Taken from the Old English warg, the wargs or wild wolves are a race of fictional wolf creatures in J. R. R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth.

A race also forms for part of the time off Old Head at the SE part of South Ronaldsay.

Eventually, however, the human race rose up and fought back against the Old Ones, banishing them to other dimensions.

) Other species include the Veloxi, large insects who demand bribes from ships which violate their space ; androids, Interstel models which can be part of the crew, and a mechanical " race " ( the Mechans ) left over from the days of the Old Empire ; the Elowan, a pacifistic race of sentient plants ; the Thrynn, reptile creatures who are primarily interested in money ; Spemin, gelatinous blobs who are known for their cowardice ; the Gazurtoid, octopus-like zealots who regard all " air-breathers " as infidels ; and the Uhlek, a destructive fleet of ships with a hive mind.

The story begins on a planet called Arth, which is a haven for the survivors of the human race ( aka the " Old Empire ").

* Explanations for the origins of religions as reactions to contact with an alien race, including interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible.

Upon meeting the " Old Ones "-an ancient race who enjoyed near immortality-the Necrontyr's jealousy caused them to go to war with them.

The word " race ", interpreted to mean common descent, was introduced into English in about 1580, from the Old French rasse ( 1512 ), from Italian razza, which may have been derived from the Arabic Word " ras " " رأس " meaning the head of someone or something.

The word, meaning " horse people ", is a compound of the Old English words éoh (" horse " or " war horse ") and théod (" people ", " race "); it is cognate with Old Norse jóþjóð (" horse people ").

* Adirondack Canoe Classic, a three-day, canoe race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake ( also known as the " 90-miler ")

Kirsten Seaver contends that the word Skræling was a direct Old Norse translation of the Latin word Pygmaei, and referred to this newly discovered and misinterpreted monster race indigenous to North America.

* 9 February 2003-Manchester United drop two priceless points in the Premier League title race as they can only manage a 1-1 draw with City in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford.

* 16 February 2003-One of the most decisive games of the season sees Arsenal cancel out Manchester United in the double race with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford.

Because of this only a half-marathon race was held that year and the marathon was moved to the spring of 1988 and attracted Heileman Brewing Company to sponsor the 1988 Old Style Chicago Marathon.

The name of the tune, Old Hundredth is also the title of a short Science fiction story by Brian Aldiss, in which the human race have evolved the ability to transcend their physical bodies and exist as music and energy, thus attaining peace and simplicity.

It is based on the short story " My Old Man ", by Ernest Hemingway, about a jockey being threatened by a mobster after winning a race he had agreed to throw.

" This embrace of neo-Confederate views is not exclusively about race, but is related to a pragmatic political realization that the " retrospective romanticization of the Old South " and secession presented many possible themes that could be used as conservatives attempted to reverse the national changes initiated by the New Deal.

This is said to be due to the actions of an ancient spacefaring race known as the Old Ones.

They increased the annual output of Old Blue ( and later other females ) by removing the first clutch over every year and placing the eggs in the nest of the Chatham race of the Tomtit, a technique known as cross-fostering.