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	Timeline of the Marvel Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Events occurred that inspired Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, although the Marvel Universe's version of Frankenstein monster is a generally heroic character rather than the somewhat amoral character of the novel.
		In this timeline, mutants are hunted down and either killed or imprisoned by the Sentinels who control the world's governments.
		The 30th century of the parallel timeline of Other-Earth is the home of Kang the Conqueror, whose divergent counterparts include Immortus and Iron Lad; he uses the 40th century as his homebase.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_the_Marvel_Universe (4470 words)

	Sacred Texts Timeline
		This is a timeline which gives the history of sacred texts, as well as a few other relevant events.
		I have included a few dates, events and documents which are or may be entirely fictional.
		According to John Lightfoot (1602-1675), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and a contemporary of Ussher, man was created on "October 23, 4004 B.C., at nine o'clock in the morning" [chr].
	www.sacred-texts.com /time/timeline.htm (757 words)

	2001-2100
		(Contemporary accounts.) Entry from the Enterprise exploration timeline: "A terrorist attack on the United States leaves thousands of innocent civilians dead, a horrific tragedy that forces all nations of the world to re-evaluate their values and priorities, and galvanizes the people of Earth to strive harder to put their differences behind them."
		(contemporary accounts) Entry from the Enterprise exploration timeline: "On February 1, the entire crew of seven aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia is killed when the ship breaks up in the Earth's atmosphere.
		These events are so critical to Earth history, that Borg from the 24th century come to this time to attempt to keep the launch of the Phoenix from happening.
	members.tripod.com /starbase_10/timeline3.htm (4893 words)

	Welcome to Yoknapatawpha: Scope of Project
		Literature acts in its role as a mirror of these events, for as Hippolyte Taine explained, literature is the interaction of the moment the race, and the milieu.
		The novel in particular is the vehicle which provides the reader with the most in-depth view of life or of a certain period, for it is difficult to separate literature from its historical roots because literature cannot be created in a vacuum.
		By exploring the fictional world that Faulkner created based on the evidence left to him, we can interpret this postage stamp of Mississippi soil through the eyes of both a historian and a local.
	mason.gmu.edu /~mhess3/clio1/Yoknapatawpha/welcome2.html (881 words)

	TIMELINE 5th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		Major Books and Events of the Decade 410-420 A.D. Rome is sacked by the Visigoths 410 Roman Empire is invaded by Huns 410 Rome is pillaged by King Alaric I of the Visigoths - Pope Innocent I survives because he is out of Rome, trying to arrange a peace with the Roman Emperor Honorius.
		Christy's History Timeline: 400-699 A.D. Innocent I [401-417] Bishop of Rome is forced by the Mongol Hun to exchange a royal prince of Rome in exchange for Atila the Hun who is sent to Northern Italy to ensure peace.
		Christy's History Timeline: 400-699 A.D. 425-455 Emperor Valentinian III "Placidus Valentinianus, later the emperor Valentinian III, was born in 419, the son of the emperor Honorius' sister Galla Placidia and the patrician, later emperor, Constantius.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline5.html (15978 words)

	TIMELINE 2nd CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		Marguerite Yourcenar's fictional works set in the past, which also include: * "Le coup de grace" * "L'Oevre au noir" * "Anna" * "Soror" as well as her contemporary novels, plays, essays, and translations made her an officially "immortal" writer in France, where she became, in 1980, the first woman elected to the Academie francaise.
		This is during the reign of Roman Emperor Antoninus and the plague ran its course by 180.
		He should not be confused with his more notorious contemporary, Eutropius the Eunuch, who was a powerful advisor to the Emperor Arcadius and Consul in 399 (prior to being beheaded for high treason).
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline2.html (9588 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - A Timeline of Timelines
		Leonardo da Vinci is both the first to use rectangular coordinates to analyze the velocity of falling objects and the first to recognize a correlation between the particular climate and precipitation of a given time period and the shape of the resultant tree rings.
		Joseph Priestley, an English chemist, publishes the first of several timelines that contemporary audience would recognize as such: "A Chart of Biography" compares the life spans of 2,000 celebrated men from 1200 BC to 1750 AD, using bars set against a linear time axis to denote their life spans.
		Joseph Priestley's timeline was shortly followed by political economist William Playfair's invention of the bar chart, an innovation whose merits remained unrealized for several decades.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/13/timelines.php (2709 words)

	Bibles as a World-Building Device (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We also integrated characters' personal timelines with the general timeline of the story; a character had just moved into a good area of the city in 2061, which suggested a way in which he could prosper in a story set slightly earlier.
		A sly science fictional treatment of sex as a worldbuilding tool is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a SF novel about a society in which all people are sexually undifferentiated most of the time, but when they come into season, may become either male or female, and don't know which in advance.
		The succession of events, the paradigm, makes sense, and the choice of events at a particular moment, the syntagma, is characteristic of the society and the character making the choice.
	world.std.com /~swrs/library/bible.htm (1119 words)

	Philosophical Critiques: Pseudo-Theories of Cosmology
		Furthermore, if we admit the theory of homogeneous matter, we must endow the beings of the universe with the same natural aptitudes and, therefore, with a basic principle of finality which is the same in all.
		Contemporary dynamism maintains that energy is the ultimate that is known by man in nature.
		The contemporary form of dynamism is a reaction against philosophical atomism, which asserted that bodies are essentially inert.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilpseudocosmo.htm (3750 words)

	Civics Online - [Re]Envisioning the Democratic Community
		This event illustrates the growing anti-Britain sentiment in the colonies, and was one of many events that influenced the emergence of the United States as a nation.
		In the wake of the Revolution came events as varied as the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America and the rebellions of slaves who saw the contrast between slavery and proclamations of liberty.
		This expedition was a very significant event for the newly emerged nation, because they wanted to catalog and map lands that many considered critical for this nation, yet also “wild” and dangerous.
	www.matrix.msu.edu /~civics/timeline (18022 words)

	A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Rescue and Liberation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fictional account of an American GI (2nd generation American of German/Jewish ancestry) who goes AWOL and disguises himself as an SS officer in order to rescue children.
		While this is a work of fiction, it may still be of interest: Written in the late 30s-early 40s, and published in 1942, it was immediately translated and became a big bestseller in a number of allied countries, including the U.S. It was even printed in an "armed forces edition" for U.S. troops.
		The book is a combination of oral history by real-life participants of the holocaust drama and the author's analysis of the events, containing numerous photographs, letters, and poems dated from the War times to the present day.
	www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/timeline/RESCUE2.htm (5242 words)

	So, You Want to Write a Timeline
		This is also known as the PowerPoint timeline: a series of bullet points that describe the events of a series of discrete intervals (either days, months or years).
		The Los Alamos Crisis from Johnny Pez's Drowned Baby Timeline spawned a (sadly, short-lived) variant timeline called For All Drowned Babies which followed the course of a war between the USA and Europe that was avoided in the main timeline.
		There are also participative timelines with a single author, responding to and shaping their story extensively based on reader feedback.
	www.anthonymayer.net /ah/writingGuide.html (5993 words)

	Jonathan Hayman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This cartoon family is blue collar and deals with economic and social problems that do not exist in the "fictional world" of most other shows.
		The show appeals to so many age groups because the jokes are taken in different ways depending upon the era in which one was raised.
		But at the same time, it is also a "knowing and sharp satire upon the excessive, complex, hypocritical and often idiotic state of contemporary American culture" (Henry 92).
	www.indiana.edu /~t311/timeline/1990SIMPSONS.html (1574 words)

	The College Honors Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It provides students with an appreciation of the richness of Islamic civilization, unquestionably one of the great cultural traditions of the world, and an understanding of the important issues facing the contemporary Muslim World whose geographic dimensions are, in fact, global.
		This course introduces assorted topics in contemporary “real world” mathematics, with the idea of improving mathematical literacy and appreciation along with teaching certain specific areas of mathematical knowledge.
		It thus provides students with an appreciation of the richness of Islamic civilization, unquestionably one of the great cultural traditions of the world, and an understanding of the important issues facing the contemporary Muslim World whose geographic dimensions are, in fact, global.
	www.ric.edu /honors/all_courses.html (3389 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Looking for the History in Historical Fiction: An Epidemic for Reading
		After students have finished reading their historical fiction novels, share the list of nonfiction books and any additional nonfiction resources that are available.
		Is your text fiction because of inaccuracies (which are proved by your nonfiction research) or is it historical fiction because it is set in a particular time period?
		Students may write a literary analysis of one of the historical fiction novels using the information they gathered in their research as their guide.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=404 (2116 words)

	Telepathic Jellyfish Strike Back in New 'Preternatural' Book
		Good metafiction -- fiction about fiction -- is hard to write, a matter of juggling the literal plot with the commentary one wishes to make about the genre.
		Her comments respond to beliefs and attitudes in contemporary society while still fitting within the literal bounds of the story.
		On the one hand, there are useful truths to be found in science fiction, and they’re not as esoteric as science fiction’s detractors may think.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/preternatural_too_000524.html (708 words)

	1901-2000
		Sources: Enterprise exploration timeline, Captain Archer has a picture of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the wall of his cabin, and there is picture shown to Ilia of this ship in Star Trek-The Motion Picture.
		This is the point where the Star Trek timeline and the actual events of history begin to most clearly diverge.
		Although some events have been shown to be slightly different in the Star Trek universe in years prior to 1968, it is with the episode "Assignment: Earth" featuring Gary Seven that we first see a clearly divergent history, that is not "fixed" at the end of the episode.
	members.tripod.com /starbase_10/timeline2.htm (3025 words)

	Rochester Contemporary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It seems to be a hypothetical or imaginary location in which real events take place.
		He could be described as an electronic libertarian, whose EFF was created to combat government intrusion into and corporate control of international computer networks and other cyberspace territories.
		The exhibit includes a most instructive and useful timeline recounting the evolution of 3-D still photography and film, with examples of the consumer-market cameras and their results.
	www.rochestercontemporary.org /interiordialogues.html (2663 words)

	DCU Chronology Introduction
		Such shared fictional worlds perhaps reach their apotheosis in the comic-book universes (entire metaphysical cosmologies, actually) created over the years by comics’ two largest publishers, Marvel and DC.
		They’re also a starting point for determining what past events are still canonical in the current reality (the JLASF and TitansSF timelines are particularly useful in this regard, for finally re-establishing many past events as valid parts of the teams’ histories, if not for their dating).
		Events and characters I deem particularly notable are highlighted in bold.
	dcu.smartmemes.com /_DCTL_MainIntro.html (2786 words)

	Character Based Literacy Glossary
		Using factual events as a springboard to write what is essentially fiction.
		Contemporary rhythmic speech used to involve students in explication of text.
		Plan or script reflects scenes from the text, perhaps the events of a chapter in the text.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/publications/cblp/overall/glossary.html (1359 words)

	TV \| February 1963
		While current events such as the space race, the cold war, and civil rights rocked the nation, the most successful shows in February 1963 offered an escape from these real life anxieties.
		While these shows did not directly address current events in their episodes, they were nevertheless more dramatic and realistic than the Westerns, without the guarantee of a happy ending.
		However, it is harder for a show situated in a contemporary setting not to be influenced by current events than a show set in the past.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG03/dumlao/feb1963/tv.html (4157 words)

	Samuel Beckett Resources and Links
		With his fiction, Beckett straps us into the front seat of a roller-coaster mind with fifty-mile hills, explosive drops, impossible curves, and tracks that splinter and scream with the constant threat of disaster.
		Timeline A chronology of his life and works in the context of his times.
		A ten day Scottish-led international event that took an "innovative and radical approach" to Beckett in presenting a programme of theatre, dance, film and educational events, and a new contemporary chamber opera.
	www.samuel-beckett.net (8563 words)

	Art:21 . Online Lesson Library . War & Conflict . Lesson 2—War on Film \| PBS
		Contemporary artists and art photography have a complicated relationship to the photojournalistic images that come to us from around the world in newspapers and news magazines.
		Ask them to write about the event presented in the photograph from their own perspective, incorporating both independent research as well as their own initial responses and assumptions from the first time they saw the image.
		Have them create a photojournalistic record of the events of that war or conflict by combining found or altered images taken from magazines, written essays and/or captions for their selected images, and/or additional drawings or sketches.
	www.pbs.org /art21/education/war/lesson2.html (1639 words)

	A Look Into Darkness
		Although historians attribute the birth of the horror genre to many different cultural and political events, most agree that Europe’s Inquisition was at the center of it (Carroll, Ward).
		It was many of the tales and artwork spun from this era that was the beginnings of gothic fiction.
		The second is an unexpected, unpredictable or uncontrollable event or status in the story.
	www.msu.edu /~jordand3/Study.htm (1597 words)

	College of Staten Island - Graduate Catalog - Cinema
		This proposal should be in the form of an extended written treatment, which should include, at minimum, a description of the project, a specific timeline for the stages of production and post-production, and an account of the research undertaken for the project's development, where appropriate.
		The course also examines the contemporary artistic field, especially through the effect of evolving technologies on distinct genres such as documentary, personal essay, and fine-art approaches to film, video, and multimedia.
		Students are encouraged to write criticism about contemporary activity in the field or produce a media-based work (with permission of instructor).
	www.csi.cuny.edu /catalog/graduate/cinema.php3 (2408 words)

	The Opera \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Similar concerns were paramount in the contemporary French opera, whose leading composer was the German-born Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864).
		The passion, violence, and impropriety so prominently featured in opera ran contrary to the ideals of contemporary bourgeois society, and artists' portrayals of spectators, particularly women, watching from the privacy of their boxes suggest the constraints placed upon them as well as the attraction of opera's cathartic subject matter.
		Frustrated with the physical limitations of contemporary theaters, Wagner found the means to build a new house to his own specifications at Bayreuth in Bavaria, and here he departed from established convention by darkening the auditorium during performances and covering the orchestra pit so as to focus all attention on the stage.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/opra/hd_opra.htm (2569 words)

	War between humanity and the AIs begins with the end of the world Perspectives on 2501-2800 AD
		The Timeline is meant to be the 'harder' of the two works, in terms of science and predictions.
		The perpetrators of the event were apparently a very small enclave, so small and self-sufficient as to leave no clues to the planning of the event that even the staggeringly knowledgable SS AI can find afterwards.
		The net effect was the inorganics lost their effective authority over many organics, but the organics had to replace this authority with their own-- a process which required time and resources and negotiations between diverse local colony authorities, and so weakened the organics' overall hand in the larger conflict.
	www.jrmooneyham.com /spprs4.html (9110 words)

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