* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

Crowley mentions that ancient magicians would purify themselves through arduous programs, such as through special diets, fasting, sexual abstinence, keeping the body meticulously tidy, and undergoing a complicated series of prayers.

Some of the earliest mentions of the carol occur in the works of the French poet Chretien de Troyes in his series of Arthurian romances.

Other DS9 episodes to make reference to the animated series include " Broken Link ", where Elim Garak mentions Edosian orchids ( Arex is an Edosian ) and " Tears of the Prophets " where a Miranda class starship is called the USS ShirKahr ( sic ) after Shikahr, the city from " Yesteryear ".

* Anita Blake, main character of the Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, is a necromancer, and there are numerous other mentions of necromancy.

* In the Legion of Super-Heroes animated series, Brainiac 5 mentions a " Great Crisis " which resulted in many historical records being lost.

* The FOX series, Fringe, a sci-fi show that involves alternate realities and parallel worlds, mentions a major event took place in the year 1985, the same year Crisis on Infinite Earths was first published.

In the WB series Gilmore Girls, Rory mentions feeling like she is on The Ricki Lake Show, with Lorelai then replying, " Go, Rory!

* Simon Green mentions The King in Yellow as a deity possibly worshiped by the older members of the Londinium Club in The Unnatural Inquirer, a book in the Nightside series.

The short-lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip mentions the film and its writer Paddy Chayefsky multiple times after a character's outburst on live television.

In the foreword, Mac Rauch mentions that the Buckaroo Banzai series would be continued in a series of novels.

Jeffrey Bell mentions in his DVD commentary during the closing credits of the Angel series finale " Not Fade Away " that two people were credited and paid for Angel without needing to ever step on the set.

Griffin mentions Manhattan as the hometown of a main character in his Brotherhood of War ( novel series ).

* In the " Left 4 Dead " video game series there are multiple mentions of military bombing runs of infected areas.

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

If a player in Starship Titanic mentions characters or quotations from the Hitchhiker's Guide series, the game will accuse the player of mixing up different universes.

For example it is revealed that Archie attended Flushing High School, a real high school located in Flushing Queens, while Edith mentions several times throughout the series that she shops at Gertz Department store, a then existing department store located in Jamaica and Flushing, Queens.

" Although she mentions " contrived plot devices ", she also refers to the series as " clever " and " an extremely entertaining concept ".

No reference is made to Steve's job during the series, but in a DVD commentary, Moffat mentions that Steve is, like him, a writer.

1380 ) mentions Bernardo del Carpio in one of his cantigas, which combines the theme of the good life in Castile with a series of loores, or lyric paeans, to a series of Greek, Roman, Biblical, chivalric, and Arab heroes.

He is also revealed to have been in the Navy in 1976-1979 as he mentions his service multiple times throughout the series.

Oriolo's biography page also mentions a 52-episode cartoon series then in the works, titled The Felix the Cat Show, which was slated to use CG graphics.

However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.

Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister at the time.

* Since 1997, a series of cultural, art, music and entertainment events have taken place in November at various locations in the town, under the title, Novembernebel ( November fog )

Eventually these were restored to the prophet Joseph Smith and various others in a series of divine conferrals and ordinations by angelic men who had held this authority during their lifetimes ( see this partial list of restoration events ).

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.

It begins with an epistolary address to the reader followed by an apocalyptic description of a complex series of events derived from prophetic visions which the author claims to have seen.

The consequent severe operational disruption to the national network and the company's spiralling costs set in motion the series of events which resulted in the ultimate collapse of the company and its replacement with Network Rail, a state-regulated, not-for-dividend company.

In the more recent series of the franchise, special instances have occurred whereby contestants are allowed to view televised events which are usually as a reward for winning a task.

From the success of this campaign, the company started a series of events and sponsored locations.

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.

The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication ( replicationreeling in fish ).

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

The chronicler of the crusade which was to follow, Peter de Vaux de Cernay, portrays the sequence of events in such a way that, having failed in his effort to peacefully demonstrate the errors of Catharism, the Pope then called a formal crusade, appointing a series of leaders to head the assault.

One of the major events that is held at the circuit, along with DTM and A1GP, is the RTL Masters of Formula 3, where Formula Three cars of several national racing series compete with each other ( originally called Marlboro Masters, before tobacco advertising ban ).

Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau ’ s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.

After barricading all of the doors, Ash descends into the cellar to find some extra shotgun shells, and while down there he experiences a series of strange events such as mysterious voices and blood seeping from numerous crevices and openings in the walls.

Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

* statements assuming a combination of intention and probability (" they are moving ") to distinguish the likely series of events and dependencies (" if they can sell their house they might move to Agrestic or if they can't, to Gardendale ") in which the probability that an attempt to do something complex may fail is explicitly acknowledged and not assumed certain.