Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.

Van Vogt systematized his writing method, using scenes of 800 words or so where a new complication was added or something resolved.

Van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics centre, partly financed by his writings, until he " signed off " around 1961.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Van Vogt generally shortened non-Aristotelian logic to null-A in his description of logic systems incorporating three or more values, to represent relatively ' subjective ' conclusions from inductive logic, rather than relying strictly on the binary, deductive reasoning.

Van Vogt highlights the aspect of general semantics in his science fiction science fiction ( SF ) stories, that portrays the general semantics as a speech evaluation tool.

Van Vogt depicted the general semantics as a method of evaluation used to analyze the reasoning of others.

Van Vogt was not the only Golden Age writer of SF influenced by Alfred Korzybski.

The World of Null-A appeared originally as a 1945 serial in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, which was edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Van Vogt revised and shortened the tale for the 1948 novel release by Simon and Schuster.

It should be noted that Damon Knight and Van Vogt differed on a number of points of personal ideology.

Waardenburg syndrome ( also Waardenburg ­ Shah Syndrome, Waardenburg-Klein syndrome, Mende's syndrome II, Van der Hoeve-Halbertsma-Waardenburg syndrome, Ptosis-Epicanthus syndrome, Van der Hoeve-Halbertsma-Gualdi syndrome, Waardenburg type Pierpont, Van der Hoeve-Waardenburg-Klein syndrome, Waardenburg's syndrome II and Vogt ’ s syndrome.

: Richard Matheson " Sorry, Right Number ", Jerome Bixby and Joe Dean " Share Alike ", Theodore Sturgeon " Talent ", Wallace West " Listen, Children, Listen ", William F. Temple " The Whispering Gallery ", Robert Moore Williams " The Piping Death ", A. E. Van Vogt " The Ghost ", Philip James " Carillon of Skulls ", Henry Kuttner " Pile of Trouble "

Van Vogt follows the plot somewhat more closely, concentrating his invention on the background of his empire while emphasizing the hero's vulnerability.

* Van Vogt, A. E. " Dear Pan Pal "

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Henry Moseley's work showed experimentally in 1913 ( see Moseley's law ) that the effective nuclear charge was very close to the atomic number ( Moseley found only one unit difference ), and Moseley referenced only the papers of Van den Broek and Rutherford.

Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.

Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.

" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

It is not clear, however, if Van der Heul exercised this degree of responsibility because Kidd was nominally a privateer.

Van der Smissen always seemed a likely candidate for Weygand's father because of the striking resemblance between the two men.

However, it was always understood in its symbolic sense as well: the pontifices were the ones who smoothed the " bridge " between gods and men ( Van Haeperen ).

Anthony is credited as a songwriter for the album along with the rest of the band as is always the case for Van Halen albums.

Along the red portion of the isotherm which is unstable ; the Van der Waals equation fails to describe real substances in this region because the equation always assumes that the fluid is uniform while between a and c on the isotherm it becomes more stable to be a coexistence of two different phases, a denser phase which we normally call liquid and a sparser phase which we normally call gas.

Van Zandt maintains a certain look, always wearing gypsy clothes and a bandana on stage, while donning a noticeable pompadour toupee on The Sopranos.

Dick Van Dyke, who made his TV debut on Bilko says he " was always fascinated with Phil's sense of timing.

Robert E. Van Voorst states that the idea of the non-historicity of the existence of Jesus has always been controversial, and has consistently failed to convince scholars of many disciplines.

* Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year, 1942, Simon and Schuster

Despite the " 0 " in its route number, U. S. 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route ; it has always ended at Van Horn, Texas.

When U. S. President Andrew Jackson decided he needed to purge his Cabinet of supporters of U. S. Senator John C. Calhoun, the always helpful Martin Van Buren was able to convince the president to appoint McLane to be the Secretary of the Treasury.

Tris Coffin, Herb Vigran, John Eldredge, best known as Harry Archer on Meet Corliss Archer ( 1954 ), Philip Van Zandt, and Ben Welden made multiple appearances over the course of the show, always as different villains.

" Asked if he would be going to heaven or hell, Van Der Beek said that he had " always believed that each religion is a little bit right and a little bit wrong.

The commercial ends with the phrase " The great ones always figure it out " with Jimmy Rollins clearly frustrated at Van Pelt's videos.

Though Van Tillians do, at one point, " put themselves in the shoes " of the opponent, " for the sake of argument ", to demonstrate where that position would lead, they claim that they can only do so because this is actually God's world, and man is actually God's creature, made in God's own image, and as such can never completely shut God out ( in living or thinking ) — hence there is always a common basis for dialogue, even though it is, in the presuppositionalist's view, a basis which the opponent is not usually willing to acknowledge and which is decidedly biased rather than neutral.

Van Buren was devoted to his shy, blue-eyed bride, whom he always called " Jannetje ", a Dutch petform of Johanna.

Van Mander even goes on to state that he nearly always had a large commission in the workshop that he would work on late at night, and the pupils who stayed latest would undress him ( taking off his shoes and stockings ) and put him to bed before they left.

New York Times critic Lawrence Van Gelder wrote that the show had a " cornucopia of splendidly interpreted song ," and " is a potent blend of visual eloquence and historical sweep that engages the eye and touches the heart while its songs soothe the ear, occasionally work mischief on the funny bone, and always raise the spirits.

In Japan, this fastback wagon was a special model called the Sunny California, aimed at private buyers unlike the square-backed 3-and 5-door Sunny Van ( although for the Japanese market these vans were always fully glazed and usually had a back seat ) meant for the long-standing Japanese commercial wagon market.

Van Gelder remained active in music, most notably as the engineer for most of Creed Taylor's CTI Records releases, a series of proto-smooth jazz albums that were financially successful but not always well received by critics.

This quickly resulted in a royal decree ( Koninklijk Besluit number 81, 11 February 1833 ) issued by King William I pronouncing that as long as the Dutch Navy will exist there will always be a ship named ' Van Speijk ' to ensure his memory.

Jean-Pierre is successful at getting Harvey to buy a fake Van Gogh painting-he has always wanted one.

The common static electric sparks seen under low-humidity conditions always involve voltage well above 700 V. For example, sparks to car doors in winter can involve voltages as high as 20, 000 V. Also, physics demonstration devices such as Van de Graaff generators and Wimshurst machines can produce voltages approaching one million volts, yet at worst they deliver a brief sting.

Johnson had told Van Pelt to hit him every time he used that word, but while waiting outside the apartment Johnson says it, and frustrated with Van Pelt for always hitting him, physically forces him to stop, showing his anger.