Furthermore, when the bishops ' seats were transferred back from Coventry to Lichfield, and from Bath to Wells, these sees reverted to being secular.

The see of Worcester held spiritual jurisdiction over the whole of Gloucestershire not covered by the see of Bath & Wells until the establishment of the sees of Bristol and Gloucester after the reformation, both converted from abbeys.

Two cathedrals, Bath and Coventry, shared their sees with Wells and Lichfield, respectively.

The epilogue sees the Doctor and Peri depart Karfel to return Herbert – or H. G. Wells as he is known – to his own time.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

Declaring that he would exit the pop world " to study mime at Sadler's Wells ", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third.

At the end of August he had a dinner with H. G. Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article.

Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as " The Father of Science Fiction ".

Wells studied in his new school until 1887 with a weekly allowance of twenty-one shillings ( a guinea ) thanks to his scholarship.

In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells ; the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ), whom he married in 1895.

With his wife's consent, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.

Wells reprised his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work, A Short History of the World, and two long efforts, The Science of Life ( 1930 ) and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind ( 1931 ).

Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.

Wells was a diabetic, and a co-founder in 1934 of what is now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people living with diabetes in the UK.

A dialogue with my utopian self ( with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells )", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.

His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called " The Father of Science Fiction ".

Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Wells has stated that the fact that Origen seems to have read something different about the death of James in Josephus than what there is now, suggests some tampering with the James passage seen by Origen.

Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase hit comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series " Whistler ".

This act of interplanetary genocide in effect ties Niven's Mars with the older Wells / Stapledon tradition.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

She had been involved in relationships with Havelock Ellis and H. G. Wells during this period of estrangement.

Wells or the Gothic romances of Mary Shelley, were set in a world that is recognizably that of the author and introduced only a single fantastic element — or at most a fantastic milieu within the author's world, as with Lovecraft or Howard.

In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.

Wells suggested that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the New Testament epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the Gospel tradition of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades.

Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition.

According to Wells, the Gospel tradition was a later stage of the development of the Jesus myth, which was given a concrete historical setting and subsequently embellished with more and more details.

Wells allows for the possibility that certain elements of the Gospel traditions might be based on a historical figure from the first-century Palestine: " he Galilean and the Cynic elements ... may contain a core of reminiscences of an itinerant Cynic-type Galilean preacher ( who, however, is certainly not to be identified with the Jesus of the earliest Christian documents ).

In his book The Jesus Myth ( 1999 ), Wells departed from his earlier insistence that there was no historical figure behind the Jesus of the gospels, acknowledging the Q document as early historical evidence.

However, Wells still argues that Paul's Jesus was " a heavenly, pre-existent figure who had come to earth at some uncertain point in the past and lived an obscure life, perhaps one or two centuries before his own time.

" Wells ' claim of a mythical Jesus has received support from Earl Doherty, Robert M. Price and others.

George Albert Wells, who now argues a more moderate form of the Christ myth and who rejects Doherty's view that the mythical Jesus of Paul did not also descend to Earth, has nonetheless described The Jesus Puzzle as an " important book ".

R. Joseph Hoffmann considers that there are " reasons for scholars to hold " the view that Jesus never existed, but considers Doherty " A ' disciple ' of Wells " who " has rehashed many of the former ’ s views in The Jesus Puzzle ( Age of Reason Publications, 2005 ) which is qualitatively and academically far inferior to anything so far written on the subject ".

But Wells ' book Did Jesus Exist?

And the debates continue, e. g. Wells changed his views over time and while he used to argue that there was no historical evidence supporting the existence of Jesus, he later modified his position, and in his later book The Jesus Myth accepted the possible existence of Jesus based on historical sources, although still disputing the gospel portrayals of his life.

Wells, who is generally accepted as a leader of the movement to deny the historicity of Jesus.

When Wells was still denying the existence of Jesus, he criticized the Pauline epistles for not mentioning items such as John the Baptist or Judas or the trial of Jesus and used that argument to conclude that Jesus was not a historical figure.

James D. G. Dunn addressed Wells ' statement and stated that he knew of no other scholar that shared that view, and most other scholars had other and more plausible explanations for the fact that Paul did not include a narrative of the life of Jesus in his letters, which were primarily written as religious documents rather than historical chronicles at a time when the life story of Jesus could have been well known within the early Church.

Dunn states that despite Wells ' arguments, the theories of the non-existence of Jesus are a " thoroughly dead thesis ".

While Wells no longer denies the existence of Jesus, he has responded to Dunn, stating that his arguments from silence not only apply to Paul but all early Christian authors, and that he still has a low opinion of early Christian texts, maintaining that for Paul Jesus may have existed a good number of decades before.