When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.

When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.

When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches upon the sublime.

And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??

* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ ’ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

In the Book of Matthew 24: 15, of the New Testament, Jesus gives attestation to Daniel, " When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand )".

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

When transitioning from one date notation to another, people often write both Old Style and New Style dates.

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

When Hughes left office, a prominent journal remarked " One can distinctly see the coming of a New Statism ... which Gov.

When the Avengers and the New Avengers are fighting Skadi, the Serpent ends up joining the battle and breaks Captain America's shield with his bare hands.

When police raided one such bar, the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village section of New York City in June 1969, patrons fought back, leading to the Stonewall Riots.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice Baptism by Immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When the New York run for Butterflies Are Free ended, he received an offer to repeat his performance in Hawaii, opposite Barbara Rush.

When Danny did return to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or to get a job, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities.

When he moved to Salisbury, Allen met Thomas Young, a doctor living and practicing just across the provincial boundary in New York.

When the settlers protested his language Allen continued the tirade, threatening to send any troops from New York to Hell.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

When the North Tower was struck at 8: 46 a. m., many executives began evacuating their employees from the upper floors of the South Tower.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 out of the main British colonies in the region, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland ( now Lesotho ), and Swaziland ( the " High Commission Territories ") were not included, but provision was made for

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

When South America became attached to North America creating the Isthmus of Panama, the Arctic region cooled due to the strengthening of the Humboldt and Gulf Stream currents, eventually leading to the glaciations of the Pleistocene ice age, the current interglacial of which is the Holocene Epoch.

When occupying positions in the South Dublin Union and Jacob's factory, the rebels got involved in physical confrontations with civilians trying to prevent them from taking over the buildings.

" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

When the fourth dorm ( Marks ) was built, there was one corner of the quad available ( the northwest ) and one directional name, " South ", remaining.

When South Africa reached 248 / 8, Cronje declared ; both teams then forfeited an innings leaving England a target of 249 to win the Test, which they did with two wickets left and only five balls remaining.

When the South Branch and North Branch connect to form just the Kalamazoo River, it then flows through the rest of Calhoun County.

When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out in South Asia, the 21st Native Infantry, then stationed in Karachi, declared allegiance to rebels and joining their numbers on 10 September 1857.

When the Union of South Africa was founded in 1910 the colony was still controlled by the British and moves were made to transfer it to the Union.

When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison ( the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales ), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development.

When national boundaries that do not match ethnic boundaries are drawn, such as in the Balkans and Central Asia, ethnic tension, massacres and even genocide, sometimes has occurred historically ( see Bosnian genocide and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots ).

When the platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and sketch were sent back to Great Britain by Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales.

When South Africa became a republic in 1961, Pretoria remained its administrative capital.

When South America reconnected to Central America 3 million years ago, there was some dispersal southward, but South American species did not move into Central America.

When Crowe was four years old, his family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where his parents pursued a career in film set catering.