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Thing (alien) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Thing seeks to escape the Antarctic base where it is trapped by the cold. Thing has assimilated various hostile alien life forms in its past, so it can transform into a polyglot chimera that combines the most fierce aspects of life forms it has assimilated (fangs, tentacles, talons, spiderlegs). Some of these speculate that The Thing was the owner of the UFO it was aboard that crashed into Antarctica. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thing_(alien)   (885 words)

Thing (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thing is also the traditional host of a poker game held regularly that is open to most of the superhero community. The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe, a founding member of the superhero team The Fantastic Four. The Thing is typically able to hold his own amongst the strongest superhumans due to his indominitable resolve, tough rocky hide, and exceptional fighting skills he learned as a normal human. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thing_(comics)   (1917 words)

Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thing is a character in the form of a disembodied hand in The Addams Family television and movie series. The Volkswagen Thing is the name given to the VW Type 181, an automobile briefly sold in the 1970s. A thing is an object--that is, a being, an entity--or a concept. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thing   (205 words)

Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thing is a character in the form of a disembodied hand in The Addams Family television and movie series. A thing is an object--that is, a being, an entity--or a concept. The Volkswagen Thing is the name given to the VW Type 181, an automobile briefly sold in the 1970s. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thing_%28disambiguation%29   (186 words)

Spring Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adam Cadre, author of several works of Interactive Fiction, including the well-known Photopia, 9:05, and Varicella, announced the Spring Thing in 2001, both to promote works that would be longer than those entered into the Interactive Fiction Competition, and to encourage authors to submit works to the general public during other times of the year. Spring Thing is an annual competition to highlight works of Interactive Fiction (text adventure games and other literary works). As with the more well-known Interactive Fiction Competition, works submitted to the Spring Thing must be released as freeware or public domain. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spring_Thing   (186 words)

Thing (assembly) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The thing met at regular intervals, legislated, elected chieftains and kings, and judged according to the law, which was memorized and recited by the "law speaker" (the judge). The assembly of the thing was typically held at a specially designated place, often a field or common, like þingvellir, the old location of the Icelandic Thing. The thing was the assembly of the free men of a country, province or a hundred (hundare/härad/herred). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thing_(assembly)   (888 words)

Wrong Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where 'the good is the enemy of the best', the merely good -- although good -- is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. A Wrong Thing is a design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrong_Thing   (145 words)

Swamp Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He did in fact have Swamp Thing meet Jesus in issue 88 (proving that it was Veitch's depiction of Christ, rather than the event of Him appearing that caused the censorship). Not content with retconning the Swamp Thing's origin story, about a year later Moore would reveal that the creature styled after Holland was no ordinary plant, but a plant elemental and representative of all plant life on Earth. During the autopsy, Woodrue discovered that the Swamp Thing's physiology was only superficially human, its organs little more than crude, nonfunctional, vegetable-based imitations of their human counterparts, and that there was no way that the Swamp Thing's body could have been derived from a human corpse. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swamp_Thing   (3721 words)

Swamp Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On May 1982, DC Comics revived the Swamp Thing series after the mild success of the Wes Craven film of the same name (which is now obscure compared to the comics). Although Swamp Thing was on the cover of the 24th and final issue, Holland appeared as human throughout the interior story. Due to the close premieres of each comic, it is unlikely that either comic was directly derivative of the other - although in an interview Gerber noted that Wein and Man-Thing creator Gerry Conway were roommates, and had simultaneously came up with similar characters by coincidence. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swamp_Thing   (4311 words)

Thing I Wish People Had Told Me When I Was Growing Up This "Things I Wish..." thing that I have been doing has been an ongoing project for a long friggin time, with my last blog containing all my info going down years ago I have had to start again..I haven't got far. I wish someone had told me that High School wasn't the end all and be all of everything. This was going to someday be "The Great Canadian Novel"..how will i go on.. j-things.blogspot.com   (4311 words)

Thing (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thing is also the traditional host of a poker game held regularly that is open to most of the superhero community. He is portrayed by Michael Bailey Smith (as Ben) and Carl Ciarfalio (as the Thing) in the former and Michael Chiklis (in both roles) in the latter, where general consensus holds his to be the most comic-accurate portrayal in the film. The Thing is typically able to hold his own amongst the strongest superhumans due to his indominitable resolve, tough rocky hide, and exceptional fighting skills he learned as a normal human. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thing_(comics)   (2100 words)

Swamp Thing Encyclopedia Article @ CompleteIdiot.com (Complete Idiot) In the second Swamp Thing Annual, modelled on Dante's Inferno, Swamp Thing followed Abigail, encountering classic DC characters such as The Spectre, Etrigan, and The Phantom Stranger en route, and eventually rescued her. Swamp Thing also appeared with Superman in DC Comics Presents and with Batman in The Brave and The Bold. Swamp Thing #1 (1st series, October-November 1972, by Wein and Wrightson) was then begun, fast-forwarding to the 70s, and relating a completely different origin for the frightfully foliaged character. www.completeidiot.com /encyclopedia/Swamp_Thing   (3963 words)

thing The thing met at regular intervals, legislated, elected chieftains, and judged according to the law, memorized and recited by the "law speaker" (the judge). The thing was the assembly of the free men of a hundred (härad/herred) or a similar district. Hierarchies of things could exists, so that the local things were represented at the thing for a larger area, for a province or land. www.fact-library.com /thing.html   (437 words)

The Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The creature itself is never named but is always referred to as The Thing. However, a Thing mini-series was announced in 2004 and is expected to be released in December 2005/spring 2006. In 2004 another The Thing collector's edition DVD was released. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thing   (1362 words)

Promise of Science: Alien Life Encounters with alien life (and the events surrounding these encounters) can be representative of a wide range of things, ranging from fear of communism and cold war paranoia to the exploration of consciousness. The Thing From Another World (1951, US) is one of the first films to express a fear of being taken overtaken by unknown visitors. Alien intelligence that has not yet been encountered by mankind is found in the depths of the oceans of earth by a dive team. www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/promise/alien_life.html   (1226 words)

Bad Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since in these two sources the Bad Things include death, in the US the term has come to be a sort of ironic euphemism for a serious problem whose consequences would be lengthy and horrifying to describe. A Bad Thing, written with capital letters for added emphasis (and with the words similarly emphasised when spoken) is something which has negative consequences for the subject under discussion. Yeatman, which speaks of rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things, and has since become a mainstream idiom in the United Kingdom. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bad_Thing   (287 words)

Legal Definition of Thing Things public, res publicae, the property of which was in the state, and their use common to all the members of it, as navigable rivers, ways, bridges, harbors, banks, and the right of fishing. Things sanct were those which by certain reverential awe arising from their nature, something augmented by religious ceremonies, were guarded and defended from the injuries of men; such were the gates and walls of a city, offences against which were capitally punished. Things sacred were those which were duly and publicly consecrated by the priests, as churches, their ornaments, etc. Things religious were those places which became so by burying in them a dead body, even though no consecration of these spots by a priest had taken place. www.lectlaw.com /def2/t024.htm   (632 words)

Watchman Nee, Church Affairs (excerpts) After these things are taken care of, certain matters have to be made known to the brothers, and certain matters have to be made known to the deacons. This does not mean that an elder in the church should always look for causes to be angry or for things to rebuke or that he should handle church affairs with harshness. In the Bible there are discussions in order to deal with things, but discussion is for seeking light and not for making decisions. www.livingstream.com /watchman-nee/1575938049_Cexcerpt.html   (8421 words)

Man-Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Unlike the intelligent and plant-based Swamp Thing of DC Comics, the Man-Thing is a nearly mindless mass of slime with no particular affinity to any living thing, but nevertheless it often becomes an accidental hero as it stumbles upon various crime and horror scenarios. One important detail that was not altered, however, was that the Man-Thing's former identity was still Ted Sallis, though in the film he is portrayed as a Native American shaman instead of a scientist. The Man-Thing has often been erroneously described as Marvel's attempt to imitate the similar and more famous DC Comics character Swamp Thing, but this is unlikely given that both debuted within a few months of one another. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Man-Thing   (1255 words)

Big Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Big Thing is an album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988, (see 1988 in music). Turning to more synth- and bass-heavy grooves than their previous efforts, Big Thing was seen by many as the band's " house music" album. Duran Duran were known primarily as a early 80s new wave synth-pop act, and the band was sitting at a career crossroads; Big Thing was their stab at maintaining musical credibility. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Thing   (1255 words)

The Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, a Thing mini-series, perhaps unrelated to the Sci-Fi Channel's version, was announced in 2004 and is expected to be released in December 2005/spring 2006. John Carpenter's The Thing is a 1982 science fiction film directed by John Carpenter. In 2004 another The Thing collector's edition DVD was released. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thing   (1507 words)

living thing - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about living thing Living things are not only greatly dependent on their physical surroundings, they are also interdependent on other life forms. For example, all living things require water and a range of other chemical substances, and life as we know it can exist only within a limited range of temperatures. Although biologists have a vast knowledge of living things, they find difficulty in defining life and locating the dividing line between living and nonliving things. encyclopedia.farlex.com /living+thing   (1221 words)

Alan Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He concludes that the swamp creature is a plant which had absorbed the memories and imitated the life of a dead man; Swamp Thing was never human. DC followed Swamp Thing's success by recruiting British writers like Grant Morrison, Jamie Delano, Peter Milligan and Neil Gaiman to write comics in a similar vein, often involving radical revamps of obscure characters, and thus laid the foundation of what became the Vertigo line. Woodrue, who was also the villain Floronic Man, soon concludes that Swamp Thing is a superficial imitation of a man, his lungs cannot pump air, his brain does not contain neurons. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Moore   (6390 words)

Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Swamp Thing Swamp Thing found out he was simply a conglomeration of vegetable matter that had absorbed the fading memories of a corpse left to rot in the bog. Swamp Thing first appeared in 1972, but had roots in a story published a year earlier. In 1982, Swamp Thing was adapted into a movie &; not exactly a record-smashing box-office bonanza, but DC deemed it a big enough deal to warrant reviving the comic book. www.toonopedia.com /swamp_th.htm   (751 words)

CultTVman's Swamp Thing Page: Swamp Thing -- the 1983 movie Swamp Thing emerges from the murky bayou to rescue Alice from Archane's hencmen. Swamp Thing and Alice are pursued and captured. The Swamp Thing series was a spin off of the movie series produced in the 1980's. www.culttvman.com /swampthing/movie1.html   (308 words)

Luscious Tubers: Sexuality & Swamp Thing Swamp Thing may seem an unlikely sex symbol, but thanks to Alan Moore, his story is a potent exploration of the virtues of free love. Swamp Thing's sex fruit, which seems to function as his primary sexual organ, is found by Chester, an old hippie tromping through the swamp. SWAMP THING's sex positive viewpoint is not limited to the lives of its main characters. www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=768   (1232 words)

Graphic novel review - Swamp Thing 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing - Alan Moore, John Totleben, Steve Bissette, Shawn McManus Swamp Thing was previously about the ghost of a man refusing to leave behind the real world and creating himself a body made of plants, through which he could shamble about the swamp and interact with the human's from his past. Moore's deft plot and dialogue shift the Swamp Thing into a new paradigm without tarnishing the continuity of the series. The artwork is also superb, with Bissette and Totleben creating a classic vision of the swamp, even if the colour is a little lacking due to the simplistic technology used when the book was first published. www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/swampt01/swampt01.htm   (269 words)

Wikipedia:Disambiguation - Simple English Wikipedia The word or phrase in parentheses should be one of two things: a generic noun describing what the specific title is an instance of (for example, Mercury (element), Seal (mammal)); or the subject or context to which the term applies (for example, Union (set theory), Inflation (economics)). Mercury is also a planet, a car, a record label, and many other things. There is rarely any need for links directly to disambiguation pages--in most cases links should point to the article that deals with the specific meaning intended, and not to a disambiguation page. simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation   (1314 words)

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