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* Northern Lights, a 1975 novel by American author Tim O ' Brien
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The Oxford of Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights is similar, a world that is " both familiar and strange ".
* 2009: Rock n Rebels Tour II ( with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, Black Stone Cherry, Alice in Chains, Cypress Hill, Robert Randolph and the Family Band )
In 1975, now having relocated to California and built their own studio, Shangri-La, The Band released Northern Lights – Southern Cross, their first album of all-new material since 1971's Cahoots.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels, coming together to form an epic, by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights ( 1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America ), The Subtle Knife ( 1997 ), and The Amber Spyglass ( 2000 ).
The London Royal National Theatre staged a major, two-part adaptation of the series in 2003 – 2004, and New Line Cinema released a film based on Northern Lights, titled The Golden Compass, in 2007.
** Video ( 01: 42 ) – Northern Lights – Story of Geomagnetc Storm ( Terschelling Island – 6 / 7 April 2000 ).
Northern Lights is a common name for the Aurora Borealis ( Polar Aurorae ) in the Northern Hemisphere.
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* In the United Kingdom, the term was used until 1974 in England and Wales, and until 1975 in Scotland and 1976 in Northern Ireland, " both for a city or town which is organized for self-government under a municipal corporation, and also for the governing body itself.
He briefly became Minister for the Northern Territory in late October 1975, but lost that post when the Whitlam Government was dismissed by Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975.
In the aftermath, Turkish Cypriots declared a separate political entity in the form of the Turkish Federative State of Cyprus in 1975 and by 1983 made a unilateral declaration of independence as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was recognised only by Turkey.
The de facto state of Northern Cyprus was proclaimed in 1975 under the name " Turkish Federated State of Northern Cyprus ".
In July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.
* Acadian Driftwood ( 1975 ), a popular song based on the Acadian Expulsion by Robbie Robertson that appeared on The Band's album, Northern Lights-Southern Cross.
He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School and upon graduation, started attending Northern Illinois University ( NIU ) in the fall of 1975.
A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").
Northern Virginia is home to a sizable Vietnamese-American community that began to develop with immigration from South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
In 1975, the Northern City Line, known by that time as the Highbury branch, was transferred from London Underground to British Rail ; it is now served by First Capital Connect.
Northern Irish progressive rock band Fruupp included a song called Gormenghast, inspired by the novels, on their fourth and final album Modern Masquerades, released in 1975.
Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and served in the Scots Guards from 1975 to 1981, with service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia.
* Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention ( 1975 – 1976 ) – a failed attempt to find a solution to the status of Northern Ireland.
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Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
One of the sub-plots in this novel ( on occupying the Siberian " Northern Resource Area ") would later form part of the main plot of Clancy's later novel The Bear and the Dragon.
A specific impetus for the novel was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which imposed heavy fines upon law enforcement personnel in Northern states if they refused to assist the return of people who escaped from slavery.
The Australian indigenous tradition brought to this mix novel elements, including new instruments, some of which are now internationally familiar, such as the didgeridoo of Northern Australia.
Since then, many writers have credited this novel with focusing Northern anger at the injustices of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law and helping to fuel the abolitionist movement.
A special collector's edition of Bright Day was re-issued by Great Northern Books in 2006, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication of this novel.
* Northern Lights: A novel by Philip Pullman that loosely parallels the plot of The Snow Queen in that a young girl travels north to find her kidnapped friend.
More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights ( the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass ).
The 2007 film version of the first novel, The Golden Compass ( originally Northern Lights ), used the college for location filming.
* Capricornia ( novel ), a novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert, set in the Northern Territory.
* Great Northern ?, a novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, named after the diver
The Australian indigenous tradition brought to this mix novel elements, including new instruments, some of which are now internationally familiar, such as the digeridoo of Northern Australia.
Russell's third novel, A Thread of Grace, tells a fictional story within the fact-based setting of the Resistance in Italy during World War II and the plight of Jewish refugees in Northern Italy escaping from Nazi persecution throughout Europe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, " the little lady who started this big war ," started writing her influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall while her husband was teaching at the College, and Brigadier General ( and Brevet Major General ) Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin alumnus and professor, was responsible for receiving the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
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