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  Mongo (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongo is the fictional planet where the action of the comic strip (and later movie serials) of Flash Gordon is located.
Part of the planet is covered by the forest realm of Arboria, another by caverns and mountains, and part is the frozen kingdom of Frigia.
Mongo is inhabited by a number of different cultures, some quite technologically advanced, that have been falling one by one under the domination of the vicious tyrant Ming the Merciless, including the Lion Men, the Hawk Men and the Blue Magic Men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongo_(planet)   (161 words)

  
 Mongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name of a giant gingerbread man in the movie Shrek 2; the name of this character is a reference to the Blazing Saddles Mongo.
A Mongolian monetary unit, 100 mongo equal 1 Tugrug.
Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private eye with dwarfism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongo   (322 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer: News Feature - September 7 - 13, 2000
Planet Zambodia's most famous Memphis resident claims that he was sent to Earth to offer atonement, redemption, and enlightenment to Earthlings and to save us from various natural disasters.
Mongo's ability to skirt the letter of the law was in evidence again recently when he added a "beach" to the front of The Castle.
Mongo claims that he is being targeted by a group of Central Gardens residents, led by the apartment manager of one of the buildings, intent on destroying any restaurant or nightclub that attempts to set up shop in Ashlar Hall, as The Castle was originally named.
www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue603/n_fea603.asp   (944 words)

  
 "Rogue Planet Crisis of 1935
Mongo's scientists had long known of the existence of other universes and one of these scientists created a way to open a rift between universes.
Every year the planet Mongo’s orbit caused it to pass through a spatial anomaly which caused the mysterious disappearance of rockets, sailing ships, people, etc. (A similar phenomenon has been encountered on earth and labeled the "Bermuda Triangle").
The "rogue planet" (as the press dubbed Mongo) was discovered by a Dr. Bronson (a highly fictionalized version of his account was later written by Philip Wylie as the novel "When Worlds Collide").
www.pjfarmer.com /secret/contributors/rogueplanet.htm   (808 words)

  
 Article: Making Believable Planets, by Peter Jekel
Mesklin, the planet in Mission of Gravity, is extremely flattened out, so that there is a significant variation in gravity at the poles and the equator; the equator, because it is further from the center of the planet, has less gravity, whereas the poles, which are closer to the planet center, have very high gravity.
A moon waxes when it circles the side of the planet furthest from its sun and wanes when it circles the side of the planet closest to its sun.
The magnetic field is not a constant across the planet; it's greatest at the magnetic poles, and weakest at the magnetic equator.
www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020225/planets.shtml   (2707 words)

  
 newtimesbpb.com | News | The Alien Has Landed
But when Mongo sleeps, he does it on a little mat in the family room, like a poverty-stricken college student.
When I'd first met Mongo the week before, his hair was grayish and seemed to have some kind of oil in it.
Mongo looks to be in his 50s, but he says he's 333 years old.
www.newtimesbpb.com /Issues/2006-01-19/news/norman.html   (603 words)

  
 www.cliffordcroft.com free ebook
Mongo, unfortunately, needed to be near either the person or the scene of the event he wished to see the future of; and even so, his flashes of insight were infrequent, unpredictable, and sometimes even wrong.
Mongo was probably affected like the rest of them, but maybe, while Wender was here, he had an incidental thought....
Mongo gave a scream to show his lack of appreciation as he struggled to hang on.
www.cliffordcroft.com /mindbender.html   (21085 words)

  
 The Outer Rim: Paradigm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
"It was raining on Mongo that morning." That is the syndrome described by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle in his observation of oversimplication when creating a planet for a science fiction story.
It is the planet's gravity that will determine a lot of the other parameters that you must look at.
There is a change in the orbital eccentricity on a 97,000 year cycle, a change in precession (tilt of planet on its axis) every 22,000 years and a change in the axial tilt every 41,000 years.
outer-rim.lweb.net /paradigm/archives/30jekel.html   (2998 words)

  
 Mongo - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
First discovered during the filming of the hit movie, flash "a-aa" Gordon, Planet Mongo has a dense atmosphere of almost pure vapourized Cannabis and is home to only one man...
A number of recent guests to the planet have been Robert Anton Wilson, the creator of quantum, Aarondrew Lowrenson the shameless rascal, and Tim "The tool-man" Taylor.
The evil ruler of Mongo, 6 month old George The Merciless has been trying to take over the unvirse recently with the help of Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, but Michael Moore wanted to make a documentry about it and provided him with toys in return.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Mongo   (274 words)

  
 Mongo Products
Mongo has been a Class V whitewater guide and head boatman for Timberline Tours in Colorado for over 15 years.
Mongo has a reputation in the whitewater recreation industry as producing the best gear money can buy.
Mongo's love of the river and the outdoors inspires him to continue to create those items necessary to improving the quality of your "experience outdoors" when you find the time.
www.mongoproducts.com /index.cfm?do=about   (316 words)

  
 Tony LoBue's Flash Gordon Web Site...
In direct contrast is Charles Middleton, representing the apex of serial villains as the slick, culpable, ruthless Ming the Merciless, the ruler of the gypsy {i.e., wandering} planet Mongo.
Flash, a blonde Yale graduate and famous polo player, along with friend Dale Arden, are taken to the planet Mongo in a rocket by Dr. Alexis Zarkov (Irish character actor Frank Shannon) as Earth faces total destruction from the approaching globe.
Mongo is a combination of the futuristic and the primitive.
flashgordon.ws /flash.htm   (2210 words)

  
 ASP: What Have We Learned About Halley's Comet?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Furthermore, planets are generally much smaller than stars and the surface or atmosphere on which starlight can reflect is thus very limited.
When the planet is on one side of its star, its gravity pulls the star ever so slightly to that side.
Should planets be discovered someday orbiting other stars, it will be difficult to resist speculating whether some of these planets may be capable of supporting life as our Earth does.
www.astrosociety.org /education/publications/tnl/06/halley2.html   (1226 words)

  
 Amazon.com: An Affair of Sorcerers: Books: George C. Chesbro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mongo the Magnificent, is a criminology professor and private detective, who earned his college tuition by working in a circus as the star acrobat.
In this novel, Mongo gets three cases at once: the University Chancellor hires him to find out if a new professor is doing anything fishy; a nun hires him to prove that a psychic healer is not a murderer; a little girl hires him to find her deceased father's stolen book.
Mongo sensibly asks a friend near Smathers' previous university to help with the background check, but he neglects to pursue the fact that Smathers is a pedophile, then inexplicably refuses to report to his client.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/096745039X?v=glance   (1577 words)

  
 Planet Smoothie
Mongo.") who was so strong he punched out a horse.
Planet Smoothie provides balance in a world of extremes - healthy, convenient meals for people on the go.
From "Welcome to the Planet" to "have a nice day" the passion is back.
www.my-fbs.com /planetsmoothie   (404 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer: City Reporter - September 16, 1998
Prince Mongo’s Planet – later called Saint Mongo’s Planet though the sign outside never changed – was cited numerous times for serving alcohol to minors.
Last year a $15 million wrongful death suit against Mongo, over his responsibility in the 1992 deaths of two underage boys who were allegedly drinking at his club, was withdrawn when attorneys for the two boys’ families determined they had insufficient evidence to go to trial.
Prince Mongo’s Planet was ultimately shut down twice in 1995 for nonpayment of state taxes and violations of the county’s building codes.
www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue500/cr500.htm   (1965 words)

  
 Outpost.com | Image Entertainment-DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Journeying to the fourth planet, they discover that their old enemy from Mongo, Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton), whom they had believed dead, is still alive, and has formed an alliance with Azura (Beatrice Roberts), the Witch Queen of Mars.
From Azura's planet, and under her protection, he is operating a gigantic Nitron ray that is destroying Earth's atmosphere.
And the evil emperor of Mongo, his Nitron ray destroyed and his escape cut off on all sides by the now hostile Martian forces, is finally destroyed by the accidental result of his own machinations and treachery.
www.outpost.com /product/3772326   (642 words)

  
 Prince Mongo of Memphis and another planet ordered to remove space-talking mannequins - Stormfront White Nationalist ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The yard belongs to Robert "Prince Mongo" Hodges, the Memphian who claims to be from another planet.
Mongo claimed many these items are decorations, and it would be a violation of his rights if he were forced to move them.
Mongo says he plans to appeal the decision.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=38105   (298 words)

  
 Flash Gordon, Flash Gordan, images, Sam Jones, Ornella Muti, Ming the Merciless, Dale Arden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Flash is forced to travel to the planet Mongo the source of a vast meteor attack on the Earth.
On Mongo Flash shows off his football skills, enchants the Emperer's daughter, fights for his life, and frees the Planet Mongo from its evil ruler Ming..
Ming is the Emperer of the Planet Mongo.
www.movieprop.com /tvandmovie/reviews/flashgordoncharacters.htm   (919 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Original Flash Gordon Collection, The - The Peril From Planet Mongo at Epinions.com
The man is Dr Zarkov, the inventor of the rocket-ship, who intends to try to save the world by flying the rocket-ship to the planet and using the planet's radio-activity to divert it from its course.
Prince Barin, is portly, balding, possessed of a Clark Gable moustache, the rightful ruler of the planet Mongo, displaced by the usurper Ming.
He lands on Mongo, and in the first of his fights, his clothes are rent by the huge anthropoids with which he has to wrestle.
www.epinions.com /content_127947083396   (1985 words)

  
 Planet Ark : New York 'Mongo' Hunters Find Treasure in Trash
Botha has presented the lives of these New Yorkers in a recently published book, "Mongo: Adventures In Trash." Mongo is American slang for any discarded material that is retrieved.
Among those who scavenged the city for unnoticed treasures was Sarah, who found a U.S. Civil War-era baby crib, and her fourth husband found enough building materials at construction sites to build an entire house.
Aside from the thrill of finding a piece of treasure, mongo hunters find other satisfaction in their work.
www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/26008/story.htm   (944 words)

  
 An Interview with The Mongo (and you wondered about Memphis politics and The Ford Family)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Robert Hodges, better known by his self-styled moniker Prince Mongo, is a Memphis eccentric and minor political personality.
He claims to be the ambassador of the planet of Zambodia.
mongo's dog's name was stussy (at least that was the dog that he had in Ft. Lauderdale in 2000).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1542701/posts   (2091 words)

  
 djournal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Prince Mongo is a walking commentary, an artful dodger, a bright, beguiling fellow, somehow underlining human absurdity with his own bizarre dress and behavior.
Robert "Prince Mongo" Hodges is from the planet Zambodia, sent here to save us from earthquakes, hurricanes and from taking ourselves too seriously.
He must continually be on guard so that aliens from his home planet don't locate him with their homing devices and ferry him home to rule.
www.djournal.com /pages/story.asp?ID=197005&pub=1   (597 words)

  
 The Return of Flash Gordon
The assumption seems to be that the Gordon family have been living on Mongo all this time.
He was aware that his charges had no interest in returning home until they had helped their friends, but felt he would cross that bridge when he came to it.
The original Flash Gordon was, of course, a polo player and, at the time of his first trip to Mongo, the younger Ray Gordon was a noted skateboarder.
www.pjfarmer.com /secret/contributors/FlashII2.htm   (1033 words)

  
 The Holloway Pages: Pulp Heroes: Flash Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roaring over a beautiful city on the surface of the new planet, the rocket crashlands on the side of a mountain, the force of the impact apparently being sufficient to jar the planet into a new orbit.
On Mongo, for such is the name of the new planet, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov come under the baleful influence of Ming the Merciless, Emperor of the Universe.
On Mongo, they meet up with old friends Prince Barin and Princess Aura, now married and played by different actors, and enlist the aid of Queen Fria of Frigia to fight Ming, the treacherous Sonja, and the villianous Captain Torch to once again save the Earth.
home.comcast.net /~cjh5801a/Flash.htm   (3821 words)

  
 Shadowfoot: Flaming Golf Balls? Alien Princes? Fur Loincloths? Sardines & Eggs? Anti-Demon Hair? Liberace?! ...
The newspaper identified him as "Prince Mongo, a neighbor who has known the Hassan family for years." There was no further explanation.
One of Mongo's greatest passions is helping the homeless, or street people, as he prefers to call them.
But after I spent a couple of hours with Mongo, he showed me the cooler in the back of his truck, full of ice and leftover food from a morning delivery.
shadowfoot.blogspot.com /2006/01/flaming-golf-balls-alien-princes-fur.html   (2163 words)

  
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An All-American athlete who was kidnapped from Earth and thrust into the middle of a raging war on the distant Planet Mongo.
Caught between the forces of Prince Barin, the rightful ruler of Mongo, and Ming the Merciless, self-proclaimed emperor of the universe, this ordinary man became a hero by displaying extraordinary courage.
Under Flash's leadership, the oppressed people of Mongo were finally able to rise up and escape Ming's long reign of terror.
www.kingfeatures.com /features/comics/fgordon/charactMaina.htm   (209 words)

  
 GOP and the City: You Gotta Love Memphis
Ford claimed her victory was due to Memphians prefer family tradition, with a straight face she said, "I believe in carrying on family traditions".
Mongo was ordered to remove "space talking" mannequins from his front yard.
In the end, Prince Mongo makes more sense than the voters of Memphis, who have voted to place another Ford in office.
gopandthecity.blogspot.com /2005/09/you-gotta-love-memphis.html   (312 words)

  
 Did you Know...?: A Visit to Mongo
It's none other than the Planet Mongo, that odd land of fast evolution and great diversity, where Flash Gordon fought some of his most notorious battles with some very unusual enemies.
Zarkov is busy preparing to go into space to investigate the mysterious Planet Mongo, which happens to be on a collision course with Earth.
The three find themselves faced with one peril after another at the hands of Mongo's bizarre inhabitants - namely the vile Ming the Merciless, who is set upon destroying the Earth.
scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=1899&si=126   (567 words)

  
 Flash Gordon at DVDwolf.com
Ming intends to conquer planet earth, and hunky Flash teams up with several of his daring female admirers, as well as the brilliant Dr. Zarkov, in an effort to thwart the monomaniacal evil-doer.
A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth.
Flash Gordon - Peril From Planet Mongo (1966): Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to Mongo on a special mission at the request of Barin, their friend from Arboria.
www.dvdwolf.com /Reviews/F/Flash_Gordon.html   (1190 words)

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