From Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen.

* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.

Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.

The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

* Manhattan features in Vernor Vinge's 1985 science-fiction novella The Ungoverned.

The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant ; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

In Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime, flying personal autons, autonomous robotic devices, serve the " High-Techs " as bodyguards or sensory enhancement.

This " something else " is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity.

Vinge's characters speculate that the Spiders descend from an ancient star-faring civilization, and that the anti-gravity material and other strange artifacts have connections with that civilization.

* Canberra, a fictional planet mentioned in Vernor Vinge's science fiction books.

Vernor Vinge's short story " The Ungoverned " depicts anarcho-capitalists defending against an invading government.

Example contract corporations in this story include Big Al's Protection Racket ( a police service ) and Justice, Inc. Anarcho-capitalism is also discussed in Vinge's novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime, which both occur in the same literary milieu as " The Ungoverned ".

Vinge's more recent novel A Deepness in the Sky involves a stateless nonhuman society.

A more limited form of stasis field is the " bobble ", found in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority setting.

* In Vernor Vinge's 1972 short story " Long Shot ", the story of an attempt at embryo space colonization is told from the point of view of the artificial intelligence bearing the embryo through interstellar space.

Stiegler also wrote the short story, " The Gentle Seduction " based on Vinge's ideas about a technological " singularity ," the exponential growth of future technology that will drastically affect the human condition.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha and his daughter, Princess Hatice ( wife of the former ) directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.

Callistus suggested Lollia Paulina, Caligula's third wife and Agrippina's former sister-in-law instead.

As Clinton fell far behind former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire polls, following Super Bowl XXVI, Clinton and his wife Hillary went on 60 Minutes to rebuff the charges.

On 15 March 2010, Andersson appeared on stage in New York with former wife Anni-Frid Lyngstad to accept ABBA's award of induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

Cuauhtémoc took power in 1520 as successor of Cuitláhuac and was a cousin of the former emperor Moctezuma II, and his young wife, who would later be known as Isabel Moctezuma, was one of Moctezuma's daughters.

His wife managed to get him released from prison, and he wrote letters to his former wife, and told her he never ceased loving her.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

* 810 ( Kōnin 1 ): In Heizei's name, the former emperor's ambitious third wife,, and her brother Nakanari organized an attempted rebellion, but their forces were defeated.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

A former English plumber turned evangelist who lived simply and read nothing but the Bible from the time his wife taught him to read, Wigglesworth traveled around the world preaching about Jesus and performing faith healings.

His second wife was Kay Marvis ( m. 1945 – 51 ), née Catherine Dittig, former wife of Leo Gorcey.

* Agricola's De Re Metallica translated by former President H. Hoover and his wife L. H.

* Archie: An ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife, he is taken in by Melanie and then later became Scarlett's coach driver.

Called " Bertie " in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells ( a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer ) and his wife Sarah Neal ( a former domestic servant ).

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind

Urban's erstwhile patroness, Queen Joan I of Naples, deserted him in the late summer of 1378, in part because her former archbishop had become her feudal suzerain.

But his first all-out noir was Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), for staff producer Joan Harrison, Universal's first female executive and Alfred Hitchcock's former secretary and script assistant.

In 2009, the university hired men's basketball coaches Cameron Dollar, former assistant at University of Washington, and women's coach Joan Bonvicini, former University of Arizona coach and one of the winningest women's college basketball coaches.

The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.

Hauer returned to science fiction opposite Joan Chen with Salute of the Jugger ( 1990 ), in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world.

Jones soon obtained from Freud rights to the English translation of his work and in 1924 the first two volumes of Freud's Collected Papers appeared in translations edited by Jones and supervised by Joan Riviere his former analysand and, at one stage, ardent suitor.

When Horne's first marriage was dissolved, he was sought out by a former girlfriend, Joan Burgess, daughter of a neighbour at King's Norton.

True Hollywood Story episode featuring Dynasty, former ABC executive Ted Harbert stated, " The truth is we didn't really believe that we had this thing done as a hit until Joan Collins walked down that courtroom aisle.

Joan Rivers ( born Joan Alexandra Molinsky ) went one step further and named herself after a former agent, Tony Rivers, when he told her to change her name.

After a season of rotating center squares, former Hollywood Squares panelist Joan Rivers joined the series as the permanent center square.

Davis and Joan Crawford played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion.

Outraged, Joan reluctantly submitted, saying that she would pray for her former husband.

In 2004, the Army in the United States received a $ 1. 6 billion donation in the will of Joan B. Kroc, third wife of former McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.

These schools include: Holy Name School which serves Holy Name of Jesus parish ( now operating at the site of the former Assumption parish's Church ): Saint Joan of Arc School which serves Saint Rose de Lima Church on Grattan Street ; and Saint Stanislaus School which serves the St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish Bishop and Martyr on Front Street.

These include Assumption School which served the former Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish, Saint Patrick's School which served the former Saint Patrick's parish ( closure of this parish is currently in dispute ), Mount Carmel School which served the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish, and Saint George School which served Saint George's parish that merged with Saint Rose de Lima / Saint Joan of Arc School.

WWII Comanche Code Talker Charles Chibitty, Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford, WWII ace Robert S. Johnson, three time NBA champion Stacey King, former NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson, Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, infamous University of Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, NFL Pro Bowlers Will Shields and Jammal Brown, and 2006 Contender champion boxer Grady Brewer.

* Coming Home: Levittown Revisited, a photographic essay by former Levittowner Joan Klatchko who has lived abroad for many years

From 1999 to 2002, the Marquess and the Marchioness, the former Henrietta Joan Tiarks, were the subjects of the Tiger Aspect Productions reality series Country House in three series, totalling 29 episodes, which aired on BBC Two.