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  Civilizations in Babylon 5 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As the Babylon station was conceived as a political and cultural meeting place one of the show's many themes is the cultural and social interaction between civilizations.
There are five dominant civilizations represented on Babylon 5, and several dozen less powerful ones, these five make up the advisory board of the league of non-aligned worlds while the remaining other races make up the body of the non-aligned world.
After the Earth-Minbari War and the commencement of the Babylon Project, the League consisted of the previous worlds underneath a governing council, the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, consisting of the major worlds of Earth, Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime, and the Vorlon Empire.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Civilizations_in_Babylon_5   (1682 words)

  
 Babylon 5 TV Movie - The Legend Of The Rangers
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a spin-off of the popular scifi series Babylon 5.
The original creative team behind the popular science-fiction Babylon 5 television series and movies are on board to produce the all-new full-length action adventure Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, to premiere exclusively on SCI FI in 2002.
Babylon 5 series cast members may also appear, with the movie serving as the pilot for a potential SCI FI Channel series.
www.isnnews.net /babylon5/movies/b5lotr.shtml   (1302 words)

  
  Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created by, produced, and written by J.
The Minbari ambassador to Babylon 5 is Delenn, a Minbari woman of the religious caste and member of the Gray Council.
The Narn ambassador to Babylon 5 is G'Kar.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Babylon_5.html   (1233 words)

  
 Babylon - Tower of Babel - Crystalinks
The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr.), who made it the capital of his empire.
This parallels the destruction of ancient Babylon, overthrown pursuant to the prophecy of the 13th chapter of Isaiah.
5 and 6), the tower was overthrown by the winds; according to Yaqut (i, 448 f.) and the Lisan el-'Arab (xiii.
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 Babylonian - Tower of Babel
Babylon (Babylonian, Bab-ilim or Babil, 'Gate of God'), one of the most important cities of the ancient world, whose location today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, 90 km (56 mi) south of Baghdad, Iraq.
The Babylonian civilization, which endured from the 18th until the 6th century BC, was, like the Sumerian that preceded it, urban in character, although based on agriculture rather than industry.
Nabonidus left the city of Babylon under control of his son Belshazzar and lived for a while in the city of Harran and later in the oasis of Teima, in the Arabian Desert.
www.crystalinks.com /babylonian.html   (4415 words)

  
 Babylon 5 (DVD) Review
Babylon 5 follows the daily events that transpire on Babylon 5, a five-mile long space station from the year 2258.
Similar in function to the United Nations, Babylon 5 is tasked with preserving the peace between the five primary space-traveling civilizations - the Earth Alliance, the Mimbari Federation, the Centauri Republic, the Narn Regime, and the Vorlon Empire.
The Babylon 5 DVD (Season 1) features a number of exciting episodes including the series premiere "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which the crew of Babylon 5 awake to find that the Narn have launched an attack on a Centauri colony.
www.sponsordirectory.com /Free-Content/Article/Babylon-5--DVD--Review/7710   (682 words)

  
 BABYLON 5 MUX THEME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace: a self-contained world five miles long located in neutral territory, a place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens, a shining beacon in space, all alone in the night.
Babylon 5 is a five kilometer long space station in neutral space more or less central to all five of the major empires.
Babylon 5 is home to humans and aliens in various roles, some arriving or departing every day, others working there full-time.
www.pcnet.com /~jdutka/b5/rp/theme.html   (1095 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Babylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of the most important cities of the ancient Middle East, it was on the Euphrates River and was north of the cities that flourished in S Mesopotamia in the 3d millennium BC It became important when Hammurabi made it the capital of his kingdom of Babylonia.
The name is sometimes given to the whole civilization of S Mesopotamia, including the states established by the city rulers of Lagash, Akkad (or Agade), Uruk, and Ur in the 3d millennium BC Historically it is limited to the first dynasty of Babylon established by
Zerubbabel [Hebseed of Babylon], in the Bible, a grandson of King Jehoiachin (exiled in 597 BC) and governor of Jerusalem.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Babylon   (478 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Episode Guide Season One-Ritterson's Episode Guides
Babylon 5 hosts a festival celebrating the religious diversity of the station’s inhabitants.
The Babylon 5 staff is under investigation and may be ordered to have telepathic scans.
Babylon 4 mysteriously reappears and we learn something of its fate, but we are left with a sense of foreboding.
www.geocities.com /rittersonkeys/bseason1.html   (1781 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Press Release
"Babylon 5" has carved a niche in the TV universe despite the vagaries of syndication scheduling — and the initial skepticism of Trekkies.
While "Star Trek: Voyager" is adrift in remote space and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" is stuck at a kind of galactic toll bridge, "Babylon 5" sits at the churning center of a tenuous peace between Earth and alien civilizations.
Babylon 5, characters, names, and all related indicia are trademarks of Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP.
www.zocalo.nildram.co.uk /PR960605.html   (565 words)

  
 BABYLON 5 ISN News: The Zocalo Today
Babylon 5 brought many of us together -- and it remains with us, despite the fact that is no longer in production.
Second, G’Kar is coerced into relinquishing his position and sanctuary on Babylon 5, but the Narns on the station convince him that his best choice is to stay put and continue doing what he’s been doing with the resistance.
BABYLON 5: Bruce Boxleitner discusses his fond return to the J Michael Straczynski universe in the new straight-to-DVD stories The Lost Tales.
www.isnnews.net   (4065 words)

  
 Babylon 5 - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
5 is a massive, self-sufficient space station that serves to bring together representatives from various races, both human and alien, to resolve their differences peacefully.
5 is the center of political intrigue and conflict, and eventually becomes a pawn in a massive interstellar conflict from which it emerges with a Pyrrhic victory over forces of darkness and chaos.
Babylon 5 is often cited as raising the bar for science fiction television, using an arc-driven storytelling style now prevalent not only in sci-fi, but in mainstream dramas as well.
www.geocities.com /rittersonkeys/babylon5.html   (3828 words)

  
 Herodotus and the City of Babylon
Whether or not his accounts of some of Babylon’s morally questionable customs reflect historical reality, he is responsible (at least in part) for its reputation as a place of hubris, hedonism, and depravity.
He also relates that Babylon has no doctors, but that sick persons are laid out in public places, and passersby are required to inquire about their maladies and provide medical advice where they can.
The Babylon that Herodotus visited in the mid-fifth century BC would have been that reconstructed by Nebuchadnezzar II, the same Babylon inhabited by the exiled Jews of the Old Testament.
www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/herodotus-babylon.html   (2475 words)

  
 B5TECH.COM - The Babylon 5 Tech-Manual.
Babylon 5 - Last of the Babylon stations, constructed by Earth after the Earth/Minbari war as an intergalactic meeting place where races can pursue peaceful negotiations and the exchange of culture, ideas.
Babylon Project - A project proposed and implemented in the hopes of creating a place in neutral territory where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.
Civil War, Minbari - Averted conflict between the Warrior and Religious Castes of Minbar in 2261, where the Warrior Caste attempted to seize power.
www.b5tech.com /science/glossary.htm   (4385 words)

  
 Babylon
Babylon is first mentioned in documents only in the late 3rd millennium BC, although the site was settled in prehistoric times.
The Kassites transformed Babylon the city-state into the country of Babylonia by bringing all of southern Mesopotamia into permanent subjection and making Babylon its capital and thus the administrative center of a large kingdom.
A History of Babylon, from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest.
www.occultopedia.com /b/babylon.htm   (2902 words)

  
 Earliest Civilizations, the Steppe, Vedas, Upanishads, and the Mandukya Upanishad
Earliest Civilizations, the Steppe, Vedas, Upanishads, and the Mandukya Upanishad
There can be civilization without writing (the Incas), and perhaps writing without much in the way of cities (runes), but the creation of writing gives to the earliest historical civilizations a role that prior urban culture (as at Jericho) could not match.
Sumerian civilization, however, did not die, since most of its elements, and the cuneiform writing system itself, were adapted to writing a Semitic language, Akkadian, whose daughters, Babylonian and Assyrian, bore the literature of subsequent Mesopotamian civilization, even while lovingly preserving knowledge of Sumerian.
www.friesian.com /upan.htm   (5980 words)

  
 IGN: Illuminating Babylon 5's Shadows
The Babylon 5 feature film has resided in the shadowy hall of rumor and supposition for over a year now, but details at last have emerged.
Unidentified forces of a hostile nature are using this technology against the galaxy's various civilizations, and Earthforce intelligence officer Diane Baker embarks on a mission to uncover the conspiracy.
Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows at IGN
movies.ign.com /articles/571/571938p1.html   (475 words)

  
 Babylon 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Babylon 5 is the fifth Babylon space station, a modified version of an O'Neill Cylinder.
Babylon 5 is substantially smaller than the previous stations, due to budget constraints after the failure of the first four stations.
One of the aspects of Babylon 5 was that many of its characters had profound spiritual and/or religious beliefs ("The Parliament of Dreams").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babylon_5   (4886 words)

  
 "Party on, Babylon - Civilizations do end"
Babylon, one of the key cities of Mesopotamia and of the eastern hemisphere, was laid to waste along with all of Sumeria due primarily to salinization.
Babylon is often referred to by Rastafarians generally as modern society, typified by the U.S. or unjust, regimented society.
As a result, Babylon is so well circulated as a concept that I overheard a father telling his young son in a public toilet to not touch the room's fixtures and surfaces because "Babylon is filthy."
www.culturechange.org /e-letter-Babylon.html   (1636 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- BABYLON 5: THE MOVIE COLLECTION
Unfortunately, the arrival of the ambassador from a mysterious race of aliens known as the Vorlons is marked by an assassination attempt that threatens to destroy Babylon 5 and its mission of peace.
IN THE BEGINNING is a prequel to the events of the BABYLON 5 television series, which chronicles the dire situations and war that actually lead to the creation of the Babylon 5 station.
However, when the artifact is brought back to Babylon 5 for further study, it begins to have a bizarre effect on the inhabitants of the station and it may hold the key to a deadly secret that exists beyond hyperspace.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2004/b5tmc-dvd.htm   (976 words)

  
 Civilizations in Babylon 5
There are five dominant civilizations represented on Babylon 5, and several dozen less powerful ones.
Already advanced when humanity was young and capable of space travel for well over a thousand years, the Minbari Federation is a caste society, its people divided into the worker, warrior, and religious castes.
On the Advisory Council of the Babylon Station the League is represented by delegates from each member world, who as a group must come to a consensus to cast one vote on behalf of the entire League.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Civilizations_in_Babylon_5.php   (2041 words)

  
 fozbaca.org: Babylon 5 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Babylon 5, because it told one awesome story.
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers Premiers, January 19, at 9pm ET/PT Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is an all-new two-hour telefilm from the original creative team behind the hit sci-fi show Babylon 5.
As far as I'm concerned, my favorite show, Babylon 5, jumped the shark when they moved to TNT for the fifth season and those bastards started making decisions.
fozbaca.org /archives/babylon_5   (842 words)

  
 CSP: Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is the brainchild of J. Michael Straczynski.
There is hostility and conflict between the races and those squabbles expand as the story grows (it takes place over 5 years, just as the series does) into a conflict that threatens all of the worlds and all civilizations.
All told, I'd recommend Babylon 5 wholeheartedly to anyone who is a sci-fi fan, and to anyone who is not a sci-fi fan but wants to invest themselves in a long, grand, complex story.
www.clarkschpiell.com /home/babylon5.shtml   (1092 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Russian WebRing
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space.
Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors.
An Engligh site about babylon 5, If you understand English and Love babylon 5, then this is the next place to stop, take a look.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Babylon 5: The Complete Second Season (The Coming of Shadows)
The year 2259 is a crucial one for Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5.
As tensions and hidden agendas increase on the station and on Earth (starting with the assassination of President Santiago that closed Season One), as well as throughout the various empires and confederacies that color the interstellar maps, Bab 5 is an increasingly hopeless fulcrum between galactic peace and cosmic obliteration.
Continuing what began in the previous DVD release, The Universe of Babylon 5 is a sharp four-part interactive guide to the Babylon 5 historical timeline, ten Season Two character profiles, Tech Files on spacecraft, and Data Files on alien races and other coolness in these discs.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/babylon5.season02.q.shtml   (956 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In the Beginning (Babylon 5): Books: Peter David,J. Michael Straczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With Babylon 5, the series had been envisioned as a five-year epic, and that epic sports one helluva backstory.
By far the best of the Babylon 5 movies, the book form may also be the best of its kind.
The Earth-Minbari war is one of the key elements of the Babylon 5 universe, but its origins and (more importantly) implications were not fully covered in the series.
www.amazon.com /Beginning-Babylon-5-Peter-David/dp/0345424522   (1625 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers : Plot
This made-for-TV movie from the creators of the television series Babylon 5 follows the adventures of the Rangers, a team of humans and Minbari aliens who have been drilled in combat and martial arts skills as they set out to bring law, order, and justice back to interstellar civilizations torn apart during the Shadow Wars.
However, as the Rangers attempt to right the wrongs of their old enemies, new foes emerge, and the philosophically enlightened Rangers also have to make a fit member of their team out of a new recruit with an overabundance of attitude.
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, which features Dylan Neal, Alex Zahara, and Andreas Katsulas, premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel cable network on January 19, 2002.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/211285/plot.jhtml   (174 words)

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