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121The Three Periods — is a Quebec sovereigntist strategy. Before the 1993 federal election in Canada, Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Jacques Parizeau evoked a strategy for attainment of Quebec independence called the Three Periods. The strategy is partly inspired by the… …
122The Sublimed — are those alien civilizations in The Culture series of science fiction works by Iain M. Banks who have left the material universe behind ( subliming ) to take up an immaterial existence. They are mentioned in the novels Excession , Matter and… …
123The Black Dwarf — was a satirical radical journal of early 19th century Britain. It was published by Thomas Jonathan Wooler, starting in January 1817 as an eight page newspaper, then later becoming a 32 page pamphlet. It was priced at 4d a week until the Six Acts… …
124The Boggart — is a children s novel by Susan Cooper published in 1993 by Macmillan. The book was nominated for a Young Reader s Choice Award (Grade 4 8) in 1996. It tells the tale of a family from Canada, the Volniks, who inherit a castle in Scotland. They… …
125The Clock Maker — is an American comic book published by Image Comics starting in January 2003. The comic was written by Jim Krueger and pencilled by Matt Smith (Act I) and Jason Baroody (Act II). The title was launched during a new superhero comics initiative at… …
126The Kents — is the title of a 12 issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics, from August 1997 to July 1998, that told the story of a troubled generation of Superman s foster family s history in the mid to late 19th century. Following mostly the… …
127The Philosophical Society of England — was founded in 1913 by a group of largely amateur philosophers concerned to provide an alternative to the formal university based discipline. The society has passed through a series of changes in direction, including a period during which it… …
128The Long Arm of Looney Coote — is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the November 1923 issue of Cosmopolitan and in the United Kingdom in the December 1923 Strand . It features the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, and …
