Nonetheless, they are probably allied to him in some way, since Wilbur Whateley, the half-human son of Yog-Sothoth, tried to summon them so that they could control Wilbur's more tainted twin and make it reproduce.

The case remains controversial, as Wilbur's psychiatric files are sealed, and both she and Mason are deceased.

The next day, Joan Raymond comes to Chick and Wilbur's apartment and feigns love for Wilbur.

Charlotte has the idea of writing words in her web extolling Wilbur's excellence (" some pig ," " terrific ," " radiant ," and eventually " humble "), reasoning that if she can make Wilbur sufficiently famous, he will not be killed.

They befriend Chad Finletter ( nephew of the Great Tomato War veteran, Wilbur Finletter ) who, after saving the pair from a tomato attack, gets Tara a job at his uncle Wilbur's Tomatoless Pizza Parlor.

Chad is a bright ten-year-old boy living with his Uncle Wilbur, working as a pizza delivery boy for Wilbur's Pizza Palace.

Wilbur's father ran a barbershop in the riverside town to provide for his family, which also included daughters Eva and Lula.

Other running jokes centered on Wilbur's character being a huge klutz and inadvertently causing harm to himself or others.

Homer, upon learning Wilbur's secret, considers it morally wrong.

Sandra, a gifted surgeon who has studied Dr. Frankenstein's notebooks, has been posing as Wilbur's girlfriend as part of Dracula's scheme to replace the Monster's brutish brain with a more pliable one — Wilbur's.

In private, Sandra admits that Stevens ' questions, Joan's credentials, and Wilbur's curiosity in the basement have made her nervous enough to put the experiment on hold.

Just as Sandra prepares to open Wilbur's skull, Talbot and Chick storm in.

Awareness of Lilienthal's accident and Wilbur's experience, motivated the Wright Brothers to design their plane in " canard " configuration.

Continuing the tradition of Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, Wilbur's poetry finds illumination in everyday experiences.

Less well-known is Wilbur's foray into lyric writing.

With the arrival of the railroad later that year, Wilbur's growth increased rapidly with the establishment of bigger hotels, a bank, a lumber mill and countless other businesses.

This series of flights marked Wilbur's last flying before a public audience.

Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel, Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, in the U. S. in 2003 ( Universal released the film internationally ).

Capri Candela played Wilbur's girlfriend Capri.

Wilbur's wife, the former Marguerite May Blake, was a college friend of Hoover's wife, and was one of Lou Hoover's closest friends in Washington during Mrs. Hoover's years as First Lady.

In a famous episode of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and Thoosa ( a nereid ), who lives with his fellow Cyclopes in a distant country.

The Metamorphoses showed that Ovid was more interested in questioning how the laws interfered with and ruined people's lives rather than writing epic tales like Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey.

His mother was a gifted amateur watercolorist and Homer's first teacher, and she and her son had a close relationship throughout their lives.

Judge Harm cites Homer's sociopathic behavior and short temperament as the main reason why Bart should not live with him, evident when he threatened the lives of the whole jury and swears a vicious revenge against Bart after he mistakenly believed that he will win.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Attempts to find classical or Late Latin influence or analogue in Beowulf are almost exclusively linked with Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid.

In modern Homeric scholarship many of Homer's " nods " are explicable as the consequences of the poem being retold and improvised by generations of oral poets.

In Homer's language, objects which are daidala are finely crafted.

The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

* Homer's Iliad at Gutenberg ( there are many different translations at Gutenberg )

In the 1920s, James Joyce managed " a more upbeat version " of Hamlet — stripped of obsession and revenge — in Ulysses, though its main parallels are with Homer's Odyssey.

Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds.

So far as can be seen, the chief interest in Homer's works is that of human feeling and emotion, and of drama ; indeed, his works are often referred to as " dramas ".

However, while his poetry features some Aeolisms there are no words that are certainly Boeotian — he composed in the main literary dialect of the time ( Homer's dialect ): Ionian.

Most scholars today agree with Homer's priority but there are good arguments on either sides.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

There are similarities between the story of The Return of Ringo and the last song of Homer's Odyssey.

It has been suggested that two styles of combat are being described ; an early style, with thrusting spears, dating to the Mycenaean period in which the Iliad is set, and, anachronistically, a later style, with throwing spears, from Homer's own Archaic period.

These are the earliest traces of the original Mycenaean Spartan civilisation, as represented in Homer's Iliad.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

Sirens are found in many Greek stories, particularly in Homer's Odyssey.

They are the comic elements of the story, which is basically a play on Homer's Odyssey IX.

The Cyclopes seen in Homer's Odyssey are of a different type from those in the Theogony and they have no connection to blacksmithing.

Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, and they are mentioned by Hesiod, and in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

Homer's physical features are generally not used in other characters ; for example, in the later seasons, no characters other than Homer, Lenny, and Krusty the Clown have a similar beard line.