Scenic design was by William and Jean Eckart, costume design by Theoni V. Aldredge, and lighting design by Jules Fisher.

* Cléopâtre, a 1914 opera by Jules Massenet

Women of the Harem by Jules Laurens, circa 1847

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

For the 1982 animated cult-movie The Flight of Dragons produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., McLean sang the opening theme.

* Ève, an oratorio by Jules Massenet

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

A commission directed by Jules Raynaud ( head of telegraph research ) rejected his demands.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

It was first detected as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in sunlight during a solar eclipse in 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen.

The line was detected by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

A commemorative concert was held in Paradiso, with performances by Hans Dulfer, André Hazes, and Jules Deelder, and leading Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR devoted an entire issue to him.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion.

Instead of Flip or the Princess, Nemo meets Zorro, Alice and Jules Verne's Nautilus ( which was led by Captain Nemo ).

Shamed by his crimes, his parents ( Jules and Arlene ) disown him, move away, and change their name to the anagram " Thorul ".

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The hypothesis was proved by Carl Ludwig Siegel in 1929.

Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Category: Characters created by Jerry Siegel

He contributed to both of the first science fiction fanzines, The Time Traveller, and the Science Fiction Magazine, published and edited by Shuster & Siegel of Superman fame, in 1932, and by 1933 had 127 correspondents around the world.

A forerunner of the kryptonite concept was the unpublished 1940 story " The K-Metal from Krypton ", by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel.

Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he first appeared in Action Comics # 23 ( April 1940 ).

A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory ; Luthor vowed revenge.

By some accounts, the seeds for Luthor's character first appeared in The Reign of the Super-Man, also written by Siegel and Shuster.

Category: Characters created by Jerry Siegel

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

In 1969, Alan Siegel, who oversaw the design of Jerry Dior's Major League Baseball logo a year prior, created the modern NBA logo inspired by the MLB's.

It incorporates the silhouette of the legendary Jerry West based on a photo by Wen Roberts, although NBA officials denied a particular player as being its influence because, according to Siegel, " They want to institutionalize it rather than individualize it.

In Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel mentions that since 1948, ten recessions were preceded by a stock market decline, by a lead time of 0 to 13 months ( average 5. 7 months ), while ten stock market declines of greater than 10 % in the DJIA were not followed by a recession.

According to Fred Siegel, the group of militants began to be accepted, if not always admired, by " guilt-ridden liberals ", who saw its panache as a countercultural critique of West Germany's " boring bourgeois life " and who resented their nation's association with the American war in Vietnam.

In 1970, Eastwood starred in the western Two Mules for Sister Sara, with Shirley MacLaine and directed by Don Siegel.

In the winter of 1969 – 70, Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, The Beguiled, a tale of a wounded Union soldier, held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girl's school.

Eastwood starred in the thriller Escape from Alcatraz in 1979, the last of his films to be directed by Don Siegel.

His first role was that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans, written by playwrights Max Siegel and Milton Herbert Gropper ; it was also the first time that he ever acted in English.

Equation 10 in section 14 of Lectures on Celestial Mechanics by Siegel and Moser shows the relation between the masses of the bodies and the distances between them in the case of a collinear orbit.

His suicide was described by Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known wrote: " Mr. Siegel, as he lived, and also in dying, was true to the philosophy he founded: his purpose was to be fair to the world ".

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

He caught her by an arm and helped her into the kitchen.

It's late and you said they'd be here by dawn ''.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

Lived alone by the river.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

He looked at the looming hoods of the supply wagons, struck by a new inspiration.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

Then she turned back to Wilson and smiled, and he wasn't quite sure what she meant by it.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

You took me by surprise.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

He hadn't shown up too well in their eyes, letting himself be browbeaten by a woman.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.