Possessed by the persona of her grandfather Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Alia fears that her mother, about to return to Arrakis, will recognize her " abomination.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Vladimir Harkonnen from The Dune Encyclopedia

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.

Abulurd and his wife have two sons: Glossu Rabban ( later nicknamed " Beast Rabban " after he murders his own father ) and Feyd-Rautha ; Vladimir later adopts the boys back into House Harkonnen, and Feyd becomes his designated heir.

The Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is instructed by the Sisterhood to collect the genetic material of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ( through conception ) for their breeding program.

This Harkonnen is nearly identical to the film's version of Vladimir in both appearance ( minus the belt-mounted suspensors ) and personality, and also dies by poisoning.

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In the service of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, De Vries is a Mentat — a human specially trained to perform mental functions rivaling computers ( which are forbidden universe-wide ).

It is also possible to vary the discipline: In Dune, the Tleilaxu create " twisted Mentats " for Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ( Piter De Vries being the most notable example ).

According to the breeding program, she was to produce a daughter, who would marry Feyd-Rautha, a nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

In Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme is, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter ( planned to be born of the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides ) and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, nephew of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ( himself secretly the natural father of the Lady Jessica ).

Interestingly, the personality that eventually possessed Alia was that of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Alia's grandfather, whom she murdered as a child in the events of Dune.

Alia becomes possessed by the memory-ego of her ancestor, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who sets out to destroy the Atreides empire.

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Unknown to both of them, she is the illegitimate daughter of his rival, Vladimir Harkonnen.

He has been framed for this by lifelong enemy, Vladimir Harkonnen.

This approach is due to Vladimir Fock, Wendell Furry and Robert Oppenheimer.

* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 ( Russian: Союз 1, Union 1 ) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.

The chief EU negotiator is Vladimir Drobnjak.

The term is still found in use in Russia today ( for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian media as a " chekist " due to his career in the KGB ).

The 2011 contemporary classical concept album Troika is composed of new orchestral songs set to Russian, English, and French-language poetry by five multilingual Russian-born writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.

The young Baron Vladimir is described as an exceedingly handsome man, possessing red hair and a near-perfect physique.

Stoiber is known for backing Vladimir Putin and there have been comparisons to Gerhard Schröder.

Vladimir Putin is known to have given Stoiber " extreme forms of flattery " and privileges such as a private dinner at Putin's residence outside Moscow.

The Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies, led by Hoxha's wife Nexhmije, quoted Vladimir Lenin: " The fundamental principle of the foreign policy of a socialist country and of a Communist party is proletarian internationalism ; not peaceful coexistence.

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a particularly elaborate variation.

Latest history says ( Vladimir Dedijer ) that the person who's being arrested is Ferdinand Behr, German by nationality who tried to save Gavrilo's life not to be beaten by the crowd.

This sketch is abstract-real historical understanding needed for developing political strategy and tactics must involve " concrete analysis of concrete conditions " ( Vladimir Lenin ).

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.

That the play calls on only male actors, with scarcely a reference to women, has caused some to look upon Vladimir and Estragon's relationship as quasi-marital: " they bicker, they embrace each other, they depend upon each other

* 1938-1992: Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia ( Grand Duke Vladimir died with only female issue, and so the title should pass to the senior male member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp.

Vlad is a male given name, sometimes short for Vladislav or Vladimir.

Numbers of total prisoners and massacred victims are unknown but Vladimir Dedijer estimates 32, 000 male prisoners in Goli otok only ; other historians estimates 4, 000 killed.

On 23 December 1969 Vladimir issued a controversial decree whereby in the event of him predeceasing the living male Romanovs that he recognised as dynasts then his daughter Maria would become the " Curatrix of the Imperial Throne ".

Nicholas ' position is that he is the most senior male dynast after the death of Vladimir as he believes the children of Grand Dukes of Russia who did not marry equally, would not be dynasts, while Princes of Russia only had to marry people of good standing and that their children would be dynasts.

" Her father, Vladimir Cyrillovich, was considered by some to be the last male dynast of the Romanov family.

In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov describes a gynandromorph butterfly, male on one side, female on the other, that he caught as a youth on his family's Russian estate.

The group's male vocalists were Vladimir Kočiš Zec and Rajko Dujmić.

Vladimir ( Владимир, old spelling: Владимѣръ ) is a male Slavic given name of Church Slavonic and Old Slavic origin, now widespread throughout all Slavic nations.

She calculates that a daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen must produce a daughter by an Atreides ; this daughter will then be bred with another Harkonnen heir, to produce the male Kwisatz Haderach.

This title was allowed for use by all the male agnates of Princess Olga, but that only ended up including Prince Vladimir before the line went extinct.

Vladimir Nabokov alluded to the game using the name " word golf " in the novel Pale Fire, in which the narrator says ' some of my records are: hate — love in three, lass — male in four, and live — dead in five ( with " lend " in the middle ).