Journey into the Whirlwind is the English title of the  memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg. It was published in English in 1967, some thirty years after the story begins.

The two-part book is a highly detailed first-hand account of her life and imprisonment in the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. Although Ginzburg sought to have the manuscript published in the Soviet Union, she was turned down. The manuscript was smuggled out of the country and later sold in many different languages. The first volume was published in 1967 and the second volume was published in 1979  two years after Ginzburg's death. A copy would not be published by a Russian publisher until 1990.

In the book, Ginzburg discusses a variety of her experiences.  Throughout her experiences with the Gulag, Ginzburg was able to form friendships, cultivate a love of poetry and reunite with her son Vasily Aksyonov, after her release. Readers have found these messages to be powerful and inspiring. Ginzburg wrote a sequel, Within the Whirlwind that continues from the point where she left off in the first instalment of her autobiography.

It was republished in the UK by Persephone Books in 2014 as Into the Whirlwind.

The sequel to this book is Within the Whirlwind, which was published two years after Ginzburg's death.

References

Books about Soviet repression
1967 non-fiction books
Russian autobiographies


This is a collection of the characters from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic book series created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, and its spin-off Nemo.

Overview
Character's name
Original source/author
Appearances or mention in the League universe
Brief biography/overview
Notes

Abbreviations:
ASV: Allan and the Sundered Veil
NTA: The New Traveller's Almanac
BD: The Black Dossier
MIM: Minions of the Moon
NHI: Nemo: Heart of Ice
NRB: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
NRG: Nemo: River of Ghosts
T: Tales of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

An italicised appearance is either a graphic novel or film appearance where the character is only mentioned in dialogue or otherwise referenced but not shown or a text story appearance where the character is mentioned either briefly or indirectly.

A

Alice
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
 NTA
 Mentioned in The New Traveller's Almanac, which suggests that Wonderland is somewhere underneath England and/or in a parallel universe. She is mentioned to have died following her second adventure, which had the effect of 'reversing' her body chemistry's chirality, making her incapable of digesting anything and causing her to starve.
 She is called 'A. L.', presumably for Alice Liddell, whom the character was named after.

King Arturus
 Arthurian Legend
 BD
 The King of England who had Sir Roland (Orlando) serve under him in the Knights of the Round Table. His sword Excalibur is taken by Sir Roland in the fall of Camelot.

Count Allamistakeo
 "Some Words with a Mummy", Edgar Allan Poe
 Volume 1 cover
 An immortal mummy and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
 He is shown sleeping on the cover of Volume 1, and his name and portrait displayed.

Ariel
 The Tempest, William Shakespeare
 NTA, BD
 Faerie familiar of Prospero's and a member of Prospero's Men (the 17th century League).

Artful Dodger
 Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
 Volume 1 Issue 6 (p. 3)
 Dodger leads his gang of children into London's sewers for protection against the air war between Professor Moriarty and Fu Manchu.

Ayesha
 She, H. Rider Haggard
 BD, NHI, NRB
 Immortal, brutal, deposed ruler of the African kingdom of Kor, she is robbed of her most priceless treasures by Janni Nemo while in asylum in the United States in 1925. Ayesha joins forces with Adenoid Hynkel in 1941.

B

Babar the Elephant
 Histoire de Babar (The Story of Babar), Jean de Brunhoff
 NTA
 King of the Elephants. Not mentioned by name, Babar and his elephants escort Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain through the African jungle in The New Traveller's Almanac. Mina considers them very polite, but Allan denies that their leader is really wearing a crown.

Pvt. S. Baldrick
 Blackadder Goes Forth
 BD
 The stupid soldier serving under Captain Blackadder in World War I. Not mentioned by name, he appears as visual cameo in Orlando's Trump Biography.

Josiah Bartlet
 The West Wing
 Volume 3 III
 Mentioned as having been president of the United States, leaving office by 2009. His policies were criticized by his successor, David Palmer.

Judah Ben-Hur
 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace
 BD
 Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem. Not mentioned by name, his name is written in a bust in the house of Billy Bunter.

Beowulf
 Beowulf
 BD
 A hero who aides King Hrothgar in killing the demon Grendel.

Bill and Ben
 Flower Pot Men, BBC
 BD
 A pair of creatures made up of flowerpots. Their skeletons are seen in Greyfriars School.

Sir Percy Blakeney
 The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
 The masked do-gooder, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Percy saves members of the French aristocracy from the guillotine during the French Revolution. He is a member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
 In Volume 1 Sir Percy is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film, he only appears in a painting on the wall.

Horatio Blimp
 The works of David Low
 Volume 2 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 3 BDS
 An overconfident major in the British army who leads the initial strike against the Martians. He is seen again in "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!"

Peter Blood
 Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
 NTA
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Boadicea
 a.k.a. Boudica, warrior queen of the Iceni in Roman times.
 Volume 3|1910
 Seen by Andrew Norton. He also mentions the urban legend that her bones are buried beneath King's Cross Platform 10.

Sir Basildon Bond
 Character developed by Russ Abbot as a parody of James Bond, playing on the name of a well-known brand of notepaper.
 BD
 Associate of Sir Jack Wilton.

Campion Bond
 Original character
 Volume 1 Issue 1, Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 1 Issue 5, Volume 2 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 3, Volume 2 Issue 6, NTA, BD, Volume 3 Issue 1, N
 Agent of MI5 and handler of the first Murray Group (the late 19th century League).
 Grandfather of James Bond.

James "Jimmy" Bond
 Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
 BD, Volume 3I2, Volume 3I3
 Successor and grandson of Campion, he is portrayed as an incompetent bungler, a cowardly liar, and a sadistic rapist who betrayed his country and worked for the American government as a double agent. By 2009, he is said by Emma Night to be in constant physical pain from a combination of cirrhosis, emphysema, and syphilis. Having become a national treasure, he has been replaced by a succession of namesakes shown staffing MI5 headquarters and resembling the various Bond film portrayers Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
 Identified only as "Jimmy" or as "Sir James" as the James Bond character is not in the public domain.

Dr. Peter Bradey
 The Invisible Man (1958 television series)
 BD
 Successor to Hawley Griffin in the 1946-1947 league that was led by Joan Warralson. Bradey achieved invisibility by duplicating Griffin's experiments from discovered notebooks. He is noted as being a "distinctly second rate" Invisible Man, largely due to his compulsive chain smoking and coughing fits which gave him away on several occasions.

Broad Arrow Jack
 Broad Arrow Jack, E. Harcourt Burrage
 Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 2 Issue 3-6, Volume 2 supplemental material, NTA, Volume 3I1, NHI, NRB, MIM
 Officer on the Nautilus.
 Married and fathered the child of Janni Nemo between 1925 and 1941.

Natty Bumppo
 The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
 American colonial raised by Native Americans and a member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
 In Volume 1 Natty is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption.

William George "Billy" Bunter
 The Magnet, Frank Richards
 BD
 The former student and current caretaker of Greyfriars School. He reveals that his sister Bessie Bunter had been married to the late General Sir Harold "Big Brother" Wharton and that he was a schoolmate of both Wharton and Robert Kim Cherry.
 The picture Bunter is holding in his hand (BD p. 94, pnl.3) before he calls Harry Lime, aka "Mother", aka Bob Cherry is not that of his late sister Bessie, who was an unpleasant nagging bully on top of being a female copy of her brother Billy, but that of his doting and adoring late mother.
 He is only referred to as "William" as the character is not in the public domain.

C

Caliban
 The Tempest, William Shakespeare
 NTA, BD
 Brutish servant of Prospero and member of the 1680s League, Prospero's Men.

Dr. Caligari
 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene
 BD, NRB
 Member of Die Zwielichthelden (German > "The Twilight Heroes").

Thomas Carnacki
 The Gateway of the Monster, William Hope Hodgson
 BD, Volume 3I1
 Ghost finder and paranormal detective. Member of second Murray Group (the early 20th century League), in 1910 he received threatening premonitions of a black cabal led by Oliver Haddo who plans on bringing the end of the world. However, Carnacki and his team discover that after confronting Haddo's cabal they found that the threat hasn't happened yet, and only inadvertently gives the magicians a crucial piece of information that they need to create the Moonchild.

Katy Carr
 What Katy Did, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 13, pnl.2)
 One of Miss Coote's teachers.

Jack Carter
 Jack's Return Home (Ted Lewis), Get Carter
 Volume 3I2
 Hired by Vince Dakin to investigate the murder of Basil Thomas. He later kills Kosmo Gallion the vessel of Oliver Haddo.

John Carter
 A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
 ASV, Volume 2 Issue 1, Volume 2S
 A Confederate States Army officer who is transported to Mars and leads the native resistance against the mollusk invaders. John Carter is said to be the great uncle of Randolph Carter.
 He is only referred to by his first name, as the character is not in the public domain in Europe.

Randolph Carter
 The Statement of Randolph Carter, H.P. Lovecraft
 ASV, NTA
 A Miskatonic University occultist and grand-nephew of John. Randolph met his grand-uncle and Allan Quatermain after he was lost during his dream quest and were equally brought together because of the Time Traveler who needs their help in preventing the Great Old Ones (entities which Randolph was very familiar with) from invading creation. Randolph later returns to his dream quest after seeing his vision of his future. He is later reunited with Quatermain, who was accompanied by Mina Murray while investigating Arkham's peculiars. The two vaguely remember each other, but couldn't recall their adventures in Allan and the Sundered Veil.

Roman Castevet
 Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
 Volume 3|1969
 Mentioned in name as the son of Adrian Marcato, an alias of Oliver Haddo. Castevet attempted to use Rosemary Woodhouse to give birth to an antichrist but the child died days after its birth.

Selwyn Cavor
 The First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells
 Volume 1 Issue 2 back cover, Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 22-23), BD, MIM
 A scientist who developed the Cavorite substance used for the prospective British turn-of-the-century mission to, and annexation of, the Moon in 1901. There is a memorial to him constructed in St. James Park after his death in 1901.

Professor George Edward Challenger
 The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
 NTA, Volume 3I1
 Explorer and scientist, consultant to the second Murray Group.
 He is only briefly mentioned in dialogue, never shown in the series thus far.

Olive Chancellor
 The Bostonians, Henry James
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 13, pnl.2)
 One of Miss Coote's students.

Robert Kim Cherry (aka "Harry Lime")
 The Magnet, Frank Richards, The Third Man (1949), The Ipcress File (1965), The Avengers (c.1968-1969).
 BD
 The head of MI5.
 "Bob Cherry" was the name of one of Billy Bunter's classmates at Greyfriars School and a member of the Famous Five. His appearance resembles that of actor Michael Caine, perhaps referring to Caine's film portrayals of Len Deighton's anti-hero working-class spy character Harry Palmer. He is revealed in Black Dossier to be also the amoral smuggler Harry Lime created by Graham Greene and played by Orson Welles in the film The Third Man. His codename of "Mother" refers to the code name of John Steed's portly paraplegic superior on the later seasons of The Avengers. The nickname of "Kim" refers to Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby, a Soviet double agent in MI6 who was part of the Philby-MacLean ring, another famous group of five.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang". Ian Fleming
 BD
 Magic car with personality built by Caractacus Potts.
 Has ability to fly, float and has other hidden traits.
 The car is seen in the Ministry of Love being dismantled, with the famous license plate "GEN 1" visible.
 The car is implied to be the first in the line of James Bond cars based on the common author.

Vincent Chase
 Entourage
 Volume 3III

Christian
 The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
 NTA, BD
 An etheric traveler and member of Prospero's Men (the 17th century League).
 He wandered into 1670s London after becoming wayward on his journey during his visit in Vanity Fair and was unable to return to his homeland. He was then committed to a madhouse before being rescued by Prospero. Christian later successfully returns to his world by traveling into the Blazing World.

Santa Claus
 NTA
 A Mystic Shaman of the North Pole who wears the inside out skin of a reindeer and on the Winter Solstice must send his spirit across the world guided by reindeer and dispense gifts.

Rosa Coote
 The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant, by William Dugdale
 Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 2S
 Dominatrix headmistress of an Edmonton girls' school.

Mrs. Cornelius (aka "Mrs. C")
 First appeared in The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock.
 BD
 Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain Jr.'s foul-mouthed landlady when they were staying in Brookgate.

Jeremiah "Jerry" Cornelius
 The Final Programme, Michael Moorcock.
 BD, Volume 3I2
 Jerry is seen with his sister/lover Catherine Cornelius and his brother/rival Frank Cornelius as young children in The Black Dossier and as a young man in Volume III: Century. In The Black Dossier, he and Catherine are trying to dispose of Frank's rapidly revivifying corpse.

Anna Coupeau
 Nana, Émile Zola
 Volume 1 Issue 1
 One of the prostitutes killed by Hyde.

The Crimson Avenger
 Detective Comics, Jim Chambers
 BD
 An American superhero that Mina and Allan meet during their exile from Britain.

D

Vince Dakin
 The Burden of Proof by James Barlow, and Villain
 Volume 3I2
 A gangster of London who is homosexual. Dakin hires Jack Carter to investigate the murder of Basil Thomas.

Janni Dakkar (Captain Nemo II)
 Jenny Diver and Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera
 Captain Nemo

Dan Dare
 Dan Dare, Frank Hampson
 BD
 Newly appointed as the head of Britain's resumed space program along with Jet-Ace Logan and Captain Morgan. Dare is seen on the front page of a newspaper in the Malibu pub.

Dejah Thoris
 A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
 ASV, Volume 2 Issue 1, Volume 2S
 A princess of Mars and John Carter's lover. Possibly captured or killed by the mollusk invaders, or Volume 2 takes place in the year-long interval she was held captive in the Temple of the Sun following the events of The Gods of Mars.
 Dejah Thoris is only mentioned in ASV as "almost naked ruby-clad princess". In Volume 2 Issue 1 she is only once referred to and then only as "the princess". While she may be depicted in the supplementary material to Volume 2, it may also be Kane's Princess Shizala, Gulliver's Princess Heru.

Dick Donovan
 The Man-Hunter: Stories from the Note-Book of a Detective, J. E. Preston Muddock
 Volume 1 Issue 2
 Detective and MI5 agent who handles the recruitment of Hyde and Griffin.

The Doctor
 Doctor Who
 BD, Volume 3III
 A human-looking alien who is capable of traveling through time.
 His ship, the TARDIS, can be seen on a map of The Blazing World.
 The Second Doctor appears briefly during a scene featuring Lemuel Gulliver. The First and Eleventh Doctors appear together in another cameo in Century Volume 3.

Doctor John Dolittle
 The Story of Doctor Dolittle and its sequels, Hugh Lofting
 NTA
 English doctor who can speak the languages of animals. He is never mentioned by name, but the postal service he founded in the African nation of Fantippo is mentioned in The New Traveller's Almanac. Mina Murray also states a disgust of a Spanish island's 'sport' of bullfighting in the section devoted to Europe and wishes for some 'animal lover' to put an end to this, implying the story is set before The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, where Dolittle does just that. There is mention that he stopped warring tribes on Spider-Monkey island.

Count Dracula
 Dracula, Bram Stoker
 Volume 3|2
 The Vampire Lord appears to Mina in a drug-related hallucination from seeing a bat that drives her to insanity.

DriveShaft
 Lost
 Volume 3|2009
 Rock band previously led by singer Charlie Pace.
 DriveShaft appears on a poster advertising their upcoming album Oh, Who Cares?

Hugo Drummond
 Bulldog Drummond, H.C. McNeile
 BD
 A racist, jingoistic government agent who hunts down Murray and Quatermain. He learns from Murray that Jimmy Bond has been betraying his country and was responsible for the death of Drummond's friend, industrialist John Night. Drummond is killed by Bond.

C. Auguste Dupin
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
 Volume 1 Issue 1-2
 A Parisian detective who is assigned to investigate the recent murders of prostitutes in the Rue Morgue.

E

Thomas Edison
 Real individual
 Volume 1 Issue 1
 Inventor of some of the steampunk technology of the League universe. Though the name "Thomas Edison" is never mentioned or shown in the world of League, a circuit-breaker on the final page of Volume 1 Issue 1 bears the logo "Edison Teslaton".

F

Fantômas
 Fantômas, Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
 NTA, BD
 Criminal mastermind and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux (French > "The Mysterious Men").

Samuel Ferguson
 Five Weeks in a Balloon, Jules Verne
 Volume 1 Issue 5 (p. 22, pnl.5)
 An acquaintance of Captain Nemo, who gave him his balloon, the Victoria. Samuel's name appears on a tag attached to the balloon, marking it as the property of his famed expedition. He is not shown or expressly mentioned in the series thus far.

Fevvers
 Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
 BD
 Winged acrobat whose name appears on a poster in Mina and Allan's rented lodgings.

Barney Fife
 The Andy Griffith Show
 BD
 Sheriff's deputy in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina (spelled "Maybury" in the Black Dossier.)
 Briefly mentioned in a written portion of the Dossier, he encountered the League during their stay in America in the 1950s.

Phileas Fogg
 Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
 Volume 1 cover, F
 Gentleman explorer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
 Briefly mentioned by Quatermain in the film, noting his rapid journey from Africa to Britain is nothing compared to Fogg's world tour.

President Max Foster
 Wild in the Streets
 Volume 3|2
 A hippie fascist President of the United States, mentioned by Mina. His policies lead to internment camps for those older than 30, who are then forced to drink LSD.

Frankenstein's monster
 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
 NTA, BD, III
 Frankenstein's monster is mentioned in the sixth chapter of The New Traveller's Almanac, which covers discoveries in the Arctic and Antarctic. After the events of Frankenstein, the monster wandered the Arctic for several years before discovering Toyland, a settlement inhabited by sentient mechanical toys and ruled by the female automaton Olympia. He falls in love with Olympia, seeing her as the bride he always wanted, and becomes the Prince of Toyland. Some comments from Mina Murray suggest the monster's creator (Victor Frankenstein) may have been inspired by Coppelius, who originally built Olympia.

Fu Manchu
 The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
 Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 1 Issue 6, Volume 2S, BD
 Leader of the Chinese organized crime in Limehouse, and personal and professional rival of Moriarty.
 In 1948, Limehouse having been purged by the INGSOC Party, he relocates to New York City. He is also a relative of Dr. Sachs and (according to the C.I.A.) Dr. No.
 He is never referred to by name as the character Fu Manchu is not public domain in Europe.

G

Kosmo Gallion
 The Avengers episode Warlock
 Volume 3I2
 Member of Oliver Haddo's cult who becomes the host of Haddo's spirit in 1948 following a body swap. Prior to this transformation Kosmo is described as having been "so straight" by his former fiancée Julia. As Charles Felton he is killed by Jack Carter in 1969 during a failed attempt to transfer Haddo's spirit to the body of Terner.

Galley-Wag
 The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog, Florence Kate Upton
 BD, MIM
 Rescues Mina and Allan at the end of Black Dossier and takes them to The Blazing World. He is described as being made of dark matter. In Minions of the Moon, he, his dolls, and Mina are sent on a mission to the Moon by Prospero. The Galley-Wag is captain of the Rose of Nowhere, a balloon-type craft that uses pataphysical rose-propulsion which allows it to cross dimensions and the void of space.
 The Galley-Wag's appearance in this series caused some commotion among readers as the original name given to the character by Upton, "Golliwogg", mutated into a racial slur and his appearance into a racial stereotype (both to Upton's disdain) after unauthorized use of this originally kind and heroic character by other authors (such as Enid Blyton) depicted him as someone with naughty behavior. Alan Moore defended his use of the character during an interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid on several points, noting the history of the character (which was mostly forgotten in the modern day), that he changed the name of the character to avoid the racial slur which was the only public domain character whose name was changed (for all other name changes, it was to disguise copyrighted characters to avoid lawsuits), that he made the Galley-Wag into an alien to explain away his stereotypical appearance, that only the Upton stories were canon for his Galley-Wag, that he (Moore) had already used famous offensive characters in the series without incident (such as the Chinese villain Fu Manchu), that Upton's original version was one of the few positively depicted black characters at the time Upton wrote her books (the Victorian era) and noted that Upton's original version "was a dignified and respectable figure. His courage and strength of character were ably demonstrated in his picaresque adventures, as was his intellectual acumen."

Godzilla
Godzilla
 NRB
 A radioactive monster that attacked Japan until it was slain by Janni Nemo.

Auric Goldfinger
 Goldfinger, Ian Fleming
 NTA
 Commissions an expedition to find El Dorado.

Heinz Goldfoot
 Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
 NRG
 A "Swiss-German" scientist who takes over Rotwang's engineering projects and is "very partial to ladies’ bosoms".

Dorian Gray
 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
 Volume 1 cover, Volume 1 supplemental material, Volume 2 Issue 3, F, N
 His portrait hangs in the Secret Annex; possible member of a mid-19th century League.

Grendel
 Beowulf
 BD
 The scourge of Heorot who is slain by Beowulf.

Jimmy Grey
 The Iron Fish
 Volume 2 Issue 4, BD
 Saved by Captain Nemo after the death of his parents by a Martian tripod. Later in life, as Professor James Grey and creator of the Iron Fish series of submersibles, he is a member of the Warralson Team, a surrogate League in the 1940s. A newspaper clipping on p. 14, pnl.1, of The Black Dossier suggests he was lost at sea in 1949.

Hawley Griffin
 The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
 Volume 1 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 5, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1
 Member of the Victorian League (the first Murray Group), perverted sociopath, and traitor to mankind.
 Moore derived the character's last name from the book The Invisible Man, in which he is referred to only as "Griffin", a student and scientist. Moore has said that he derived Griffin's first name from that of Dr. Hawley Crippen, the infamous Edwardian murderer. He was mentioned in the film to be already dead and his legacy lived on when Rodney Skinner stole his invisibility formula.
 Griffin only appears in paintings in BD and Volume 3I1. In BD M references him to Jimmy once (BD p. 78, pnl.3).

Lemuel Gulliver
 Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
 The leader of the 18th century League.
 In Volume 1 Gulliver is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film, he only appears in a painting on the wall. The Montegu House also features the skull of an "adult male Yahoo: Homo gulliverus".

H

H-9 (Rupert Bear)
 Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
 Volume 2 Issue 4-6, Volume 2S
 One of the creations of Dr. Moreau, he had been stalking Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain when they were searching for Moreau during the Martian invasion. H-9 later fully confronted the two when they were copulating in the woods, and brought them to Moreau. The doctor later reveals that H-9 bears a strong sexual instinct and has to pay a local gypsy to "placate" the aggressive anthropomorphic bear.

H-11 (Algy Pug)
 Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
 Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 2S
 One of the creations of Dr. Moreau.

H-14 (Tiger Tim)
 Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
 Volume 2 Issue 5-6, Volume 2S
 One of the creations of Dr. Moreau.

Oliver Haddo
 The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham
 BD, Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2
 Haddo was first mentioned in The Black Dossier, as the author of On The Descent of Gods. He makes his full appearance in the first issue of Century, and serves as an antagonist in bringing forth a Moonchild destined to bring about the end of the world. He later possessed Lord Voldemort and had him stage the events of Harry Potter's adventures. Haddo was killed by Harry during his rampage, though he makes it clear that, even in the face of his son's overwhelming power, he isn't the least bit impressed, calling Harry a "banal" wizard and Anti-Christ and telling him that he has been nothing but a disappointment to him. His still-living head is later taken by Mary Poppins, though his ultimate fate is still unknown.

Gary Haliday
 Garry Halliday
 BD
 A commercial pilot who helps to inform Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray at Birmingham Spaceport about the various space rockets.
 Gary Haliday's name is a slight alteration of Garry Halliday of the eponymous TV show.

Richard "Dick" Hannay
 The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
 BD
 Hannay once mentioned to Mina Murray that the "real 39 steps" led to the "greatest secret in British Intelligence". Following this clue led her to Greyfriars School in Kent and the real identity of "Harry Lime".

Septimus Harding
 The Warden, Anthony Trollope
 Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 2
 A reverend that wrote articles against Miss Coote, and is killed by Martians on Horsell Common.

Jack Harkaway
 Jack Harkaway's Schooldays, Bracebridge Hemyng
 Volume 1 cover
 Schoolboy adventurer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.

Fanny Hill
 Fanny Hill, John Cleland
 Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD
 Member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.

Mycroft Holmes
 The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, Arthur Conan Doyle
 Volume 1 Issue 6, Volume 2 Issue 2-4, BD, Volume 3I1
 Head of MI5 following Moriarty's death and older brother of Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes
 A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
 Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 1 Issue 5, Volume 1 Issue 6, Volume 2 Issue 3, NTA, BD, Volume 4 Issue 6
 Younger brother of Mycroft, former Consulting Detective, and retired beekeeper. He was only shown once in the series throwing Professor Moriarty into Reichenbach Falls, believing that Moriarty did not survive the fall he climbed to safety. In The New Travellers' Almanac, it is said that Mina has met the retired, bee-keeping Holmes in Fulworth.

Captain Hook
 Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
 NTA
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Horatio Hornblower
 Horatio Hornblower novels/stories, C. S. Forester
 Volume 2 Issue 3, 1910, 1969
 Fictional Royal Navy officer - Midshipman through retired Admiral - from C. S. Forester's series set in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and after (last story set during the rise of Napoleon III). While he does not appear as a character per se in any of the League stories, his column appears (and is referred to as a meeting locale) in the place and form of our world's Nelson's Column in Leagues Piccadily Circus.

Edward Hyde
 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
 Volume 1 Issue 1-Volume 1 Issue 6, ASV, Volume 2 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 6, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1,"v3I2", F, N
 The larger, evil half of Henry Jekyll and member of the Victorian League. During the Martian invasion, he developed a strong respect for Mina Murray and sacrificed himself to stop Martian tripods from crossing London Bridge. His self-sacrifice was honored in having Serpentine Park named into Hyde Park and a statue of Hyde is seen in the park in The Black Dossier.

Adenoid Hynkel
 The Great Dictator
 BD, NRB
 The dictator of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, "Herr Hynkel" led the country during World War II much as Adolf Hitler did in the real world. He appears as an antagonist only in Nemo: The Roses of Berlin.

I
The Iron Warrior
 Thrill Comics and New Funnies
 BD
 A 1930s prototype military automaton and a member of the failed 1940s Warralson league, where it served as a "faintly desperate attempt" to counterpart Edward Hyde's ferocious power. By this time, it was fairly dilapidated, so it exploded during the battle with pirate-slaver James Soames and Italian master-criminal Count Zero, thus ending the battle and disbanding the league.

Ishmael
 Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
 Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 2 Issue 4, Volume 3I1, NHI, F, N
 First mate on the Nautilus, serving under Captain Nemo and then Janni Nemo. His son takes his place in 1941.

Ithaqqa
 Ithaqua, August Derleth
 ASV
 A Great Old One that possesses Allan Quatermain and is driven off by Marisa.

J
Jeeves
 Extricating Young Gussie, P. G. Wodehouse
 BD
 Assists the second Murray Group in the Brinkley Court Affair.

Henry Jekyll
 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
 Volume 1 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 3, Volume 2 Issue 5, F, N
 A scientist who is the lesser half of Edward Hyde and member of the Victorian League.

Pirate Jenny
 The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht
 Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2, NHI, NRB, NRG, MIM
 Janni, the daughter of Captain Nemo and heir to the Nautilus. She married Broad Arrow Jack and have a grandson whose father is the descendant of Robur the Conqueror.

Tracy Jordan
 30 Rock, Tracy Morgan
 Volume 3III
 The Star of TGS with Tracy Jordan, he appears through the poster for his movie "Who Dat Ninja".

Gullivar Jones
 Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, Edwin Lester Arnold
 Volume 2 Issue 1
 One of the leaders of the Martian resistance.

K
Charles Foster Kane
 Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles
 NHI
 An extremely powerful and influential publishing magnate, Kane hires three American scientists/adventures to pursue Janni Nemo and recover the treasure that she stole from his guest, Queen Ayesha.

Michael Kane
 Kane of Old Mars, by Michael Moorcock
 Volume 2 Issue 1
 A human man transported back in time to Mars, where he establishes a ruling dynasty. Kane was mentioned in dialogue between Gullivar Jones and John Carter, which Carter believes that he is not native to Earth and that his Earth name was a "coincidence".

King Kong
 King Kong
 NHoI
 A gigantic ape which was slain in New York after its extraction from its home. The bones were returned to Skull Island.

Mister Kiss
 Mother London, by Michael Moorcock
 BD
 Professional mind-reader, stage performer, lodger at Mrs. Cornelius's boarding house.

Kutulu
 The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
 BD
 Cthulhu, the dread god of R'lyeh
 Mentioned by Oliver Haddo in "On the Descent of the Gods" as "Kutulu" and by the Rt. Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster in "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!", misheard it as "Cool Lulu".

L
Lavell
 The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
 Volume 1 Issue 2
 An astronomer who discovers jets of gas on Mars, actually the launch of the Martians' fleet.

Jedediah Leland
 Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles
 NHI
 Star reporter and long time friend of Charles Foster Kane, who discusses the aftermath of the ill-fated 1925 Antarctica expedition with him.

Ho Ling
 The Case of Ho Ling, Thomas Burke
 Volume 1 Issue 3
 Ho Ling is seen being tortured when we first see Dr. Fu-Manchu in Volume 1, Book 3, in Shen-Yan's "Barber Shop".

Jet-Ace Logan
 The Comet
 BD
 Newly appointed as head of Britain's resumed space programme, along with Dan Dare and Captain Morgan. He is seen on the front page of a newspaper in the Malibu pub.

Long John Silver
 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
 NTA
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Arsène Lupin
 Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, Maurice Leblanc
 NTA, BD
 Gentleman thief and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux.

Vesper Lynd
 Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, Eva Green
 Volume 3III
 The love interest of James Bond VI, visual cameo only.

M
"M"
 Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
 Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, BD, Volume 3I, Volume 3II, F, N
 M is the codename of the head of Britain's intelligence services. Successive incumbents in the various League eras include Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Harry Lime and Emma Night.

Doctor Mabuse
 Dr Mabuse, der Spieler, Norbert Jacques
 BD, NRB
 Member of Die Zwielichthelden.

Mac the Knife
 The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht
 Volume 3I1
 MacHeath, a charismatic butcher. His full name is Jack MacHeath, and he is the true identity of Jack the Ripper, returning to London in 1910 to commit murders again. He was caught and was about to be hanged without trial until he was vouched by a message from the 14th Earl of Gurney (the lead character from the play The Ruling Class) who confesses to all the original Ripper crimes, making MacHeath a freed man.

Nomi Malone
 Showgirls, Elizabeth Berkley
 Volume 3III
 The popular stripper, whose appearance is on a poster in the background.

Maria
Metropolis, Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
 BD, NRB
 A female automaton created to serve Dr. Rotwang.
 Serves the Hynkel regime in the Berlin Metropolis, wearing synthetic flesh for propaganda reasons.

Marisa
 Original character
 ASV
 An African maidservant and witch in the service of Lady Ragnall.

Mars Man
 Marsman Comics, circa 1948
 MIM
 Member of the 1964 league, the Seven Stars. He was a Martian explorer who came to Earth to study its "social life and civilization", but soon started fighting crime.

Andy Millman
 Extras (TV series), Ricky Gervais
 Volume 3III
 Mentioned in dialogue as appearing on a TV show.

Colonel Sebastian Moran
 The Adventure of the Empty House, Arthur Conan Doyle
 Volume 1 Issue 5
 Right-hand man of Moriarty and occasional front of his criminal empire.

Alphonse Moreau
 The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells
 Volume 2 Issue 5-6, Volume 2S, NTA
 Vivisectionist, animal experimenter and hybrid disease creator who assisted the British government. Alphonse is implied to be the uncle of Gustave Moreau.

Dean Moriarty
 On the Road, Jack Kerouac
 BD
 Member of the 1950s American League and great-grandson of James Moriarty.

Professor James Moriarty
 The Adventure of the Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle
 Volume 1 Issue 4-Volume 1 Issue 6, MIM, F, N
 Head of MI5, and the "Napoleon of Crime" who survived his climactic battle with Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls. After his aerial battle against Doctor Fu Manchu, Moriarty was presumed dead when he was floated away into space by Cavorite. Mina Murray discovered his body sixty years later, still holding the Cavorite inside a block of ice floating through space.

Mors
 The Air Pirate and His Steerable Airship
 Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 1 Issue 6BC, Volume 2S
 A German pirate of the air.

Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray (married Jonathan Harker)
 Dracula, Bram Stoker
 Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, ASV, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1-3, MIM, T, F, N
 Leader of the Victorian-era League and the League of the 20th century, the Murray Groups.

N
Hiro Nakamura
 Heroes, Masi Oka
 Volume 3I3
 A Japanese comic book geek with the ability to alter the flow of time and time-travel.
 Hiro is seen attempting to time-travel during the battle with the Antichrist. He appears as a visual cameo only.

Captain Nemo
 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
 Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, NTA, Volume 3I1, BD, F, N
 Commander of the submarine Nautilus and member of Murray's first League. He left the League during the climax of the Martian invasion when the British government heartlessly used biological weapons against the Martians, which also doomed some people who were near the aliens. Nemo died on April 12, 1910, and was succeeded by his daughter Janni (Jenny Diver). Furthermore, on request of his death, Nemo's skull was nailed to the forecastle of the Nautilus which the vessel was painted black.

Emma Night
 Emma Peel of The Avengers
 BD, Volume 3I2
 Government agent and daughter of British industrialist Sir John Night. She adopts her husband's last name when she later marries test pilot Peter Peele. It is also implied that Emma grows up to be the female M of the modern James Bond movies after her time in the Avengers serving under Mother (a.k.a. Robert Kim Cherry, a.k.a. Harry Lime). She learned the truth about her father's death. She also told Orlando she was keeping the aging Bond alive as long as possible, despite the fact that he was in great agony from several diseases. After the battle with the Antichrist was over, Emma resigned from MI5. Along with two other resigned agents, she helped move the body of Allan Quatermain (who had been killed during the battle) to Africa to be buried. She was last seen departing for locations unknown along with Mina and Orlando.

John Night
 Johnny Bull from the Greyfriars School series (The Magnet, 1908–1940) by Charles Hamilton
 Sir John Knight, father of Emma Peel of The Avengers
 BD
 Not seen on-panel, industrialist who designed many fantastic gadgets, friend of Hugo Drummond. By the 1950s, Night received contract rights for his industry in supplying a United Nations intelligence department which brought enmity from the United States government who competed for the rights. Night was killed by Jimmy Bond who works as a double agent for the United States, and his death was covered up as a result from a heart attack.
 It is implied that John Night is the grown up version of Johnny Bull, a member of the Famous Five in the Greyfriars magazine serial and (later) novel series. This would imply that John Bull was a nickname because of his tremendous strength for a child his age. He was best friends with Harry Wharton and Bob Cherry, also members of the Famous Five. Of the Famous Five, he was the least capable of tolerating Billy Bunter.

Julius No
 Dr. No, Ian Fleming
 BD
 At the beginning of Black Dossier, Jimmy Bond had just defeated a "yellow peril" enemy located in Jamaica. It is later found that Dr. No was a fabrication by the CIA as a cover-story for Jimmy Bond's assassination of John Night. His name was a hint that there was "no doctor".

Andrew Norton
 Slow Chocolate Autopsy, by Iain Sinclair
 BD, Volume 3
 Known as the "Prisoner of London", Andrew Norton travels through time but is stuck within the physical confines of London.

Nyarlathotep
 The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft
 BD
 Near the end of Black Dossier, Nyarlathotep makes a cameo appearance as an "emissary" from Yuggoth negotiating with Prospero a truce between the Blazing World and the Lloigor.

Le Nyctalope
 L'Homme Qui Peut Vivre dans l'Eau, Jean de La Hire
 NTA, BD
 Superhero and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux.

O
Gerald O'Brien
 Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell.
 BD.
 Director of MINILUV (The Ministry of Love), which was in charge of all of the intelligence agencies in Airstrip One (England). Later became head of INGSOC (The English Socialist Party) in 1952 upon the death of Big Brother. However, O'Brien was unable to maintain power, and conceded to the Conservative Party's demands to be reinstated as an official party. Soon after he was voted out of office, most of the Ingsoc government's programs were reversed.

Kimball "Kim" O'Hara
 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
 BD
 Mentioned briefly as a spy who worked in colonial India and is the reason for the middle name of Robert Cherry.

Olympia
 The Sandman, E. T. A. Hoffmann
 NTA, BD
 Queen of Toyland.

Orlando
 Matter of France/Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf/ Orlando (The Marmalade Cat)
 Volume 2 cover, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2, MIM, T
 Immortal omnisexual member of the Prospero, Gulliver, and second Murray Leagues, and mutual lover of Mina and Allan.
 For a period in his life, Orlando went by the name Vita, which is the name of Vita Sackville-West, who was the inspiration for Woolf's Orlando.
 In "Minions of the Moon" it is revealed that Orlando (as a female in 1964) is also O. from Story of O.

Captain Robert Owemuch
 The Floating Island, Richard Head
 NTA
 Explorer, perpetual traveler and member of the 1680s League, Prospero's Men. Captain of the Pay-Naught, the Excuse and the Least-in-Sight.

P
David Palmer
 24
 Volume 3III
 Mentioned as the President of the United States in 2009.

Sancho Panza
 Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes
 NTA
 Peasant servant/'squire' of Don Quixote. His brief, disastrous stint as a governor is mentioned in The New Traveller's Almanac.

Plantagenet Palliser (Elder)
 Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
 BD
 Duke of Omnium and intelligencer for the 1680s League.

Plantagenet Palliser (Younger)
 Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
 Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 1 Issue 3 back cover
 Duke of Omnium and British Prime Minister in 1898.

Sal Paradyse
 On the Road, Jack Kerouac
 BD
 Member of the 1950s American League.

Peter Rabbit
 The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
 Volume 2 Issue 6
 He was seen being fed by a mother fox to her young.

Pinocchio
 Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
 Volume 2 Issue 3
 His head is shown in the cover.

Mary Poppins
 Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
 BD, Volume 3III
 A powerful aspect of God that represents love and kindness. She has reality bending powers that are used to defeat the antichrist in 2009.

Harry Potter
 Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
 Volume 3III
 A boy wizard who was scarred by Oliver Haddo (who possessed Tom Riddle [Lord Voldemort]) with the mark of the beast to become the Antichrist and was never referred to by name. All of his adventures, friendships, and rivalries were staged to prepare him for his true purpose; even his name is false, as he is actually Haddo's son by way of Riddle's body. In his later life, the truth traumatised Harry to the point that he slaughtered all of the students, staff, and miscellaneous inhabitants of The Invisible College (Hogwarts) and killed Haddo, then kept his still-living head in a cage; he later massacred the entirety of Diagon Alley and killed his way back to the train station, where he escaped back into London. Harry then spent years hiding from the public in the now-abandoned Grimmauld Place, clawing off his mark, breaking his glasses, and shaving his head out of a paranoid fear of being found. He takes pills to manage his psychoses and constantly has to fight to keep his normal human appearance stable as he loses more and more of himself to his demonic nature. He was defeated by God (in the form of Mary Poppins) by being turned into a chalk drawing and was washed away by a thunderstorm.

Teddy Prendrick
 The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
 Volume 2 Issue 4
 Former companion of Moreau who was driven mad by witnessing his experiments. He lives his life as a hermit and an astrologer as said in the novel, and was secretly observed by Moreau's hybrids lest he ever try to tell the public about Moreau and his experiments.

Prospero
 The Tempest, William Shakespeare
 NTA, BD, MIM
 A wizard and exiled Duke of Milan who led the 1680s League. It is also stated, in Black Dossier, that Prospero is also John Suttle (Subtle from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson), and that Doll Common is Miranda's mother.

Captain Horatio Pugwash
 The Eagle, John Ryan
 NTA
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Captain Pysse-Gummes
 Zap Comix, S. Clay Wilson ("Captain Pissgums")
 Volume 2 Issue 3
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Q
Allan Quatermain
 King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
 Volume 1 Issue 1-Volume 2 Issue 6, ASV, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1-Volume 3I3, F, N
 The Great White Hunter and last remaining member of the Victorian League following the Martian invasion, alongside Mina Murray.

Quong Lee
 The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse, Thomas Burke
 Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 3I1
 A purveyor of fine teas.
 Also mentioned indirectly in Volume 3I1 (p. 13, pnl.7).

Don Quixote
 Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes
 NTA, BD
 Spaniard aristocrat turned knight-errant, member of the 16th century League, Prospero's Men.

R
A. J. Raffles
 The Amateur Cracksman, Ernest William Hornung
 NTA, BD, Volume 3I1
 Gentleman thief and member of Murray's second League. Raffles' reason for joining the League was due to being blackmailed when his burglary career was uncovered. He later fought in World War One, and died during the Second Battle of Ypres.

Lady Luna Ragnall
 The Ivory Child, H. Rider Haggard
 ASV
 A friend of Allan Quatermain who similarly faked her death. She dies of fright after Quatermain is possessed by Ithaqaa.

Becky Randall
 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
 Volume 1 Issue 2
 One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims.

Frank Reade Jr.
 Frank Reade series, Luis Senarens
 NHI
 One of the three science heroes hired by Charles Foster Kane to catch Janni Dakkar.

Frank Reade Sr.
 Frank Reade series, Luis Senarens
 NHI
 Mentioned as the creator of the Steam Man of the Prairies.

Armand Robur
 Original character
 MIM, NHI
 Son of Jean Robur, son-in-law of Janni Nemo, husband of Hira Dakkar, and father of Jack Nemo.

Jean Robur
 Robur the Conqueror, Jules Verne
 Volume 1 cover, Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 1 Issue 6 back cover, NTA, Volume 2S, BD
 A dangerous and megalomaniacal air pirate, and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux (French > "The Mysterious Men"), also as a captain of the airship Albatross. He supposedly dies during World War One when his airship was shot down at the Battle of the Somme.

Dr. Carl Rotwang
 Metropolis, Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou
 BD, NRB
 Member of Die Zwielichthelden (German> "The Twilight Heroes") and the creator of the highly advanced Berlin Metropolis.

S
Doctor Sachs
 Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac
 BD
 He is opposed by Sal Paradyse and Dean Moriarty, two other characters of Kerouac's. He kidnaps Dean Moriarty, grandson of Professor James Moriarty, in order to perpetuate the family feud between the Moriarties and his own family, that of his relative Fu Manchu. Dr. Sachs is also in league with the Nova Mob, which in the world of League are conflated to being Lovecraftian monstrosities from the dream realm of Yuggoth.
 Doctor Sax wears a black cape and slouch hat and uses a chilling laugh to instill fear in his enemies, much like The Shadow. He is a talented alchemist who suffers from Visagus Nightsoil, a rare skin disease that turns his skin mossy green at night.

Arne Saknussemm
 Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
 Volume 1 Issue 2
 One of his runic markers from his expedition into the Earth's interior is in the Secret Annex.

William Samson, Sr.
 Original character
 Volume 2 Issue 3, Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 2 Issue 6
 Father of William Samson Jr, coach driver for the first Murray group, and veteran of the conflict against the "Mad Mahdi".

William Samson, Jr., The Wolf of Kabul
 The Wizard and The Hotspur
 BD
 Former adventurer of colonial India and a member of the failed 1940's League. Son of William Samson Sr.

Sapathwa
 The Blue Dwarf: A Tale of Love, Mystery and Crime (Splendidly Illustrated) (1860) by "Lady Esther Hope" (William Stephens Hayward?). The Blue Dwarf, A Tale of Love Mystery and Crime; Introducing Many Startling Incidents In The Life of That Celebrated Highwayman, Dick Turpin (c. 1884) by Percy Bolingbroke St. John.
 Volume 1 cover
 A disguised noble criminal and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.

Scheharezade
 Thousand and One Nights
 BD
 Concubine of Caliph Haroun Al Raschid.

Sinbad
 Sinbad the Sailor, Anonymous
 NTA, BD
 Ancient explorer and lover of Orlando.

George Smiley
 Several novels by John le Carré.
 BD
 Assistant of M (a.k.a. Harry Lime) in 1958.

Captain Slaughterboard
  Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Mervyn Peake
 NTA
 Member of the Pirates' Conference.

Spring Heeled Jack
 From English folklore c. 1837
 Volume 2S
 A devil-like figure with an ability to jump great distances.

Stardust the Space Wizard
 Stardust the Super Wizard, Fletcher Hanks
 MIM
 Depicted as a monstrously cruel fascist who attempted to gain access into a secret college of science-gods.
 Defeated by Captain Universe who locked him in ice-nine and took control of his base.

Amber St. Clair
 Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
 BD
 Courtesan and member of Prospero's Men.

Stent
 The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
 Volume 2 Issue 2
 The Astronomer Royal. Killed by Martians on Horsell Common

Sun Wukong/The Monkey King
 Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en
 NTA
 Simian demigod/demon of Chinese legend, also known as the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven", found stuffed in a Chinese museum by Orlando. Orlando doesn't believe the preserved body is as old as the museum claims due to its clothes being relatively recent.

The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn, a.k.a. Captain Clegg
 Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, Russell Thorndike
 Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, F
 A pirate, smuggler, and clergyman. He is a member of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), also a member of the Pirate's Conference and the captain of the pirate ship Imogene.
 In Volume 1 Dr. Syn is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film he only appears in a painting on the wall.

T
Suki Tawdry
 The Beggar's Opera, John Gay
 Volume 3I1
 Prostitute and resident of the Cuttlefish Hotel. She appeared to be almost supernaturally aware of the eventual arrival of the Nautilus and Janni Diver's massacre of the Hotel patrons.

Terner
 Performance, Mick Jagger, Donald Cammell
 Volume 3I2
 A rockstar who is being poised to become the next Daemon of Haddo.

Nikola Tesla
 Real individual
 Volume 1 Issue 1
 Inventor of some of the steampunk technology of the League universe. A circuit-breaker on the final page of Volume 1 Issue 1 bears the logo "Edison Teslaton".

Thomas the Tank Engine
 The Railway Series
 Volume 3|2009
 Sentient steam locomotive from the Island of Sodor.
 Appears long-dead at the Invisible College, presumably killed by the Antichrist and has visual cameo only.

Thor
 Norse mythology
 BD
 A Norse thunder-god armed with a magical hammer.
 Seen in "The Life of Orlando" slaying Jormungand during Ragnarök.

The Time Traveller
 The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
 ASV, Volume 2S
 A traveller through space and time who helped defeat the forces of the Great Old Ones.

Tiresias
 Greek mythology
 BD
 Father of Orlando and Manto. He was greatly dismayed to discover from Orlando that she inherited his gender-changing ability. Tiresias sold Orlando to pirate slavers and died escorting Manto to become the Oracle at Delphi.

Mr. Toad
 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
 Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 3I1
 One of Moreau's creations. Later, in 1910, it is shown preserved in a jar of formaldehyde as a specimen in the Secret Annexe of the British Museum.

U
Captain Universe
 Captain Universe, Mick Anglo
 MIM
 Space hero who worked with Mina in her disguise as Vull the Invisible during her time as a member of the Seven Stars, a British superhero group.
 He defeated Stardust the Space Wizard, locking him in ice-nine.
 Captain Universe is one of few copyrighted characters in the series to be used with permission from his creator, therefore having no need to mask the character's background.

V
Jean Valjean
 Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
 NTA
 A man whose name appears in the graffiti of Parisian sewers.

Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
 The stories of Jacques Futrelle
 NHI
 Member of Janni Nemo's pirate crew. Sacrifices his life in order to allow Janni and Broad Arrow Jack to escape from Frank Reade and Tom Swift.

Sir Francis Varney
 Varney the Vampire, James Malcolm Rymer
 Volume 1 cover
 A vampire and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.

Venus
 Roman mythology/Under the Hill, Aubrey Beardsley
 NTA, BD
 Queen of Horselburg.

Lord Voldemort
 Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
 Volume 3I2, Volume 3I3
 Referring to himself only as "Tom" (whose middle name "is a marvel" and surname "is a bit of an enigma"), Voldemort attends the Purple Orchestra concert at Hyde Park and is possessed by the spirit of Oliver Haddo once the latter's plan to possess Terner is foiled. It is later revealed that he is an instructor at the unnamed wizarding academy, and in a flashback sequence, it is revealed that he becomes the headmaster at the time of Harry's breakdown. The enraged Harry breaks into his office and kills him, keeping his head in a cage.

W
Annie Walker
 Coronation Street
 BD
 An unseen character. She, and her husband Jack Walker, run the Malibu pub on Bayswater Road in London in the 1950s, but after the 1958 election, and the end of INGSOC, she and her husband plan on moving "back up north", ostensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p. 9, pnl.6).

Jack Walker
 Coronation Street
 BD
 The bartender of the Malibu pub on Bayswater Road in London in the 1950s, but after the 1958 election, and the end of INGSOC, he and his wife (Annie) plan on moving "back up north", ostensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p. 9, pnl.6).

Joan Warralson
 Worrals series
 BD
 Leader of the Warralson group which was formed in 1946 after Mina Murray's apparent defection to the United States. In the LOEG storyline, Captain Warralson is insinuated to have had a sexual relationship with her sidekick 'Frecks'.

Alexander Waverly
 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 BD
 Alexander Waverly is the head of U.N.C.L.E. and was mentioned in the Black Dossier as 'Al' Waverly and was revealed to be a former student at Greyfriars School. It is also mentioned in the graphic novel that when he was constructing U.N.C.L.E., his organization received equipment support from John Night's industry.

Michael Westen
 Burn Notice
 Volume 3
 Disillusioned CIA agent. Mentioned by Emma Knight as the man who revealed that it was Jimmy Bond who was responsible for the deaths of her father and uncle.

General Sir Harold Wharton, a.k.a. Big Brother
 The Magnet (1908–1940) by Charles Hamilton, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
 BD
 World War II war hero, leader of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc'''), and later Dictator of Airstrip One (England) from 1945 to 1951. Married Bessie Bunter, Billy Bunter's little sister. He was secretly assassinated in a plot orchestrated by Gerald O'Brien and Robert Cherry, the former becoming Wharton's successor.
 "Harry Wharton" was the name of one of Billy Bunter's classmates at Greyfriars School. He was Captain of the Lower Fourth Remove and an avid cricketer. Harry Wharton, along with Bob Cherry and Johnny Bull were members of the Famous Five, a tight knit group of students who, along with Billy and certain other schoolmates, had many adventures and defeated many adversaries.

Pollyanna Whittier
 Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
 Volume 1 Issue 2
 One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims.

Jack Wright Jr.
 Jack Wright series, Luis Senarens
 NHI
 One of the three science heroes hired by Charles Foster Kane to catch Janni Dakkar.

Rosemary Woodhouse
 Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
 Volume 3/2
 Mentioned in name only, she was chosen by Haddo's son to be the mother of the antichrist, but the child died soon after its birth.

Bertram Wooster
 Extricating Young Gussie, P. G. Wodehouse
 BD
 Present during the Brinkley Court Affair and was nearly oblivious to the danger of the otherworldly situation.

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Y

Z
Zanoni
 Zanoni, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
 Volume 3I1
 Immortal Chaldean sorcerer and member of the Merlin Society.

Monsieur Zenith
 The Sexton Blake series, Anthony Skene
 BD
 Albino gentleman thief who duels with Orlando for the sheer thrill of it, member of Les Hommes Mysterieux'' (French > "The Mysterious Men").

Zuki
 Original character
 Volume 3II
 A tribute band to Suki Tawdry.

Comparisons of real and historical characters

Characters as analogues of historical figures
 The Rolling Stones/The Purple Orchestra
 The Beatles/The Rutles
 Oasis/DriveShaft
 Osama bin Laden/Jack Nemo
 Anne Boleyn/Nan Bollen
 Neal Cassady/Dean Moriarty
 Joan Crawford/Blanche Hudson
 Aleister Crowley/Oliver Haddo a.k.a. Dr. Karswell, Dr. Trelawney, Adrian Marcato, Mocata, Cosmo Gallion, Charles Felton, Hjalmar Poelzig, Lord Voldemort
 Dr. John Dee/Prospero a.k.a. Johannes Suttle
 Edward Kelley/Edward Face
 Queen Elizabeth I/Queen Gloriana I
 Queen Elizabeth II/Queen Gloriana II
 Adolf Hitler/Adenoid Hynkel
 Benito Mussolini/Benzino Napaloni
 William Randolph Hearst/Charles Foster Kane
 King James I/King Jacob I
 Horatio Nelson/Horatio Hornblower
 Jack Kerouac/Sal Paradyse
 Ronnie Kray/Vic Dakin
 Ronnie Kray/Harry Starks
 Ronnie Kray/Harry Flowers
 Ronnie Kray/Dinsdale Piranha
 Reggie Kray/Doug Piranha
 G. Gordon Liddy/F. Gordon Leiter
 Richard Nixon/Max Foster
 George W. Bush/Josiah Bartlet
 Barack Obama/David Palmer
 Mick Jagger/Terner
 Siouxsie and the Banshees/Zuki and the Tawdries
 Lady Gaga/Spooky Tawdry
 Kurt Vonnegut/Kilgore Trout
 Sir Francis Walsingham/Sir Jack Wilton
 Alice Liddell/Alice
 John Sladek/John Thomas
 Michael Moorcock/James Colvin
 Tracy Morgan/Tracy Jordan
 Mark Wahlberg/Vincent Chase
 Donald Trump/Johnny Gentle

Fictional characters that are also fictional in the world of the League
 Jane Gay

References

External links
 Jess Nevins' annotations
 The League of Leagues

Lists of DC Comics characters
Characters created by Alan Moore
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen


Indo-Guadeloupeans are mostly descended from indentured workers who came mostly from South India in the late 19th century.  There are currently about 35,617 people of Indian origin living in Guadeloupe, making it home to one of the largest South Indian populations in the Caribbean.

History
Tamils in Guadeloupe trace their roots to over 40,000 indentured workers who were brought from India to Guadeloupe in 1861 to work on plantations through an agreement reached between France and the United Kingdom. The importation of Indian labor was gradually discontinued after 1883 as a result of adoption of a policy by the British Government against recruitment of labor in its territories and also because of the high mobility of Indian labor.

Over 10,000 of them perished as a result of difficult living and working conditions and the rest continued to be treated harshly until they secured some political rights in 1904 due to Henry Sidambarom's efforts. It was in 1923 that Guadeloupeans of Indian descent were granted citizenship and the right to vote. A few Indians were indentured to Saint Martin (prior to 2007 Saint Martin was a part of Guadeloupe).

After migration stopped, the Indian community gradually acculturated to the rest of the population, so much so that few of the Indians on the island speak Tamil or other Indian languages any more. However, third or fourth generation persons of Indian origin still maintain links with India in many different ways, such as adopting Indian names. Many Indians in Guadeloupe adopted French and Christian names.

There have also been Indians, specifically Sindhis, migrating to the island in recent years, setting up businesses such as gifts shops.

Current status

The city of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe and Pondicherry in India have been designated as twin cities to promote cultural links and exchanges.

The Indian community in Guadeloupe is estimated to be approximately 35,617 in a population of under 396,000. However, ethnicity statistics are not done by the French government. There are several associations to promote Indian culture in Guadeloupe, usually run by people of Indian origin. They are fairly active in organising cultural activities in all the principal towns, namely, Pointe-a-Pitre, Le Moule, Port-Louis, Capesterre-Belle-Eau and Saint-Claude.

One important Indian association is L‘Association Culturelle Guadeloupéenne des Amis de L’Inde, which has over 300 members and 2000 associates.

There are a sizeable number of Hindu Tamil temples that are located in Basse-Terre, and other regions. Tamils in Guadeloupe started studying their own language in an effort to preserve their culture and traditions. Guadeloupe Tamils initiated links with Tamil Canadians in developing their language and culture.

The French principle of laicité, meaning “secularism”, is practiced in Guadeloupe.  The French Republic forces Indian cultural associations to produce messages about Hinduism in Guadeloupe that display Indian culture independently from Hinduism.  However, it has proven to be controversial due to the French practice of laique, found in the second article of the French constitution which expresses the principle of separation between government affairs and religious institutions.  Indo-Guadeloupeans and Guadaloupean Hindus practice laicité freely in the public arena.  There is ongoing controversy since France is a laique state, thus religion is to be practiced privately. According to Meritxell Martín-i-Pardo:As French citizens, they [Guadeloupean Hindus] know that because France is a laïque state, religious practice is to be a private matter. But this is not to say that religion cannot be practiced freely or legally in France, only that it must be practiced privately. They also know that the separation of church and state, however, means that because the state conceives of religion and culture as two separate entities, in their associative work they must present their religious tradition independently of their culture.Recently, the 152nd anniversary of the arrival of the Hindus Tamil in Guadeloupe was observed. The Indian Associations in the territory are in the process of forming a committee, which will start working to realize the event.

Examples
Some Indo-Guadeloupians have acceded to important posts in the public and private sectors. Dr. Henri Bangou held the post of Senator from Guadeloupe in the French Senate. Ernest Moutoussamy has been the Député of Guadeloupe in the National Assembly of France.

See also
 Indo-Caribbean
 Indo-Martiniquais
 Indians in French Guiana
 Indians in France
 Tamils in France
 Indian diaspora
 Tamil diaspora
 Telugu diaspora
 Hinduism in Guadeloupe

References

External links
Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean
152nd birthday of the arrival of the Hindu Tamil in Guadeloupe
Francophone Indians in a remote corner of the Caribbean reclaim their Hindu identity
Guadeloupe Tourism

Further reading
Brahmanism Abroad: On Caribbean Hinduism as an Ethnic Religion
East Indians in the Caribbean

 , (India-Guadeloupe: Tribute to memory), Ernest Moutoussamy, Éditions Jasor, 2016, ,

Indians
Guadaloupe
Indo-Caribbean
Guadaloupe


The Craterian Theater at the Collier Center for the Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts center located in Medford, Oregon.

While the theater has a seating capacity of 732, the theater will frequently hold large, national concerts, dance, and theatrical tours. The Craterian Theater facility is also used for community performances, rehearsals, classes, conferences, receptions, and more. The Theater holds many different types of performances including Broadway tours, traveling musicians, and local performances for organizations such as the Rogue Valley Symphony and the Rogue Valley Chorale.

The Craterian Theater also has two theater companies that it has adopted including Teen Musical Theater of Oregon and Next Stage Repertory Company.

History
In 1923, the Page Theater burned down after ten years of performances.  At the time there were no other theaters in Medford with a large capacity, so in 1924 business owner Jeremiah Henry Cooley and attorney Porter Joseph Neff collaborated to construct one. The building was designed by architect Frank Chamberlain Clark and would be leased to George A. Hunt. The original name of the theater was decided by a 1925 contest held with a $25 prize. The winning entry, Hunt's Craterian Theater, was submitted by a Mrs. W.P. Brooks, a resident of Medford, who named it after nearby Crater Lake.

The building was renamed "Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater" in 1997 after the building was restored, in honor of Ginger Rogers, an actress who performed there as early as 1926.

As of August 30, 2012, the theater has been renamed The Craterian Theater at The Collier Center for the Performing Arts, named after James Collier, a large benefactor in the Rogue Valley.

References

Theatres in Oregon
Buildings and structures in Medford, Oregon
1924 establishments in Oregon
Tourist attractions in Jackson County, Oregon
Performing arts centers in Oregon


Green Star is a voluntary sustainability rating system for buildings in Australia. It was launched in 2003 by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).

The Green Star rating system assesses the sustainability of projects at all stages of the built environment life cycle.  Ratings can be achieved at the planning phase for communities, during the design, construction or fit out phase of buildings, or during the ongoing operational phase.

The system considers assesses and rates buildings, fitouts and communities against a range of environmental impact categories, and aims to encourage leadership in environmentally sustainable design and construction, showcase innovation in sustainable building practices, and consider occupant health, productivity and operational cost savings.

In 2013, the GBCA released The Value of Green Star, a report that analysed data from 428 Green Star-certified projects occupying 5,746,000 million square metres across Australia and compared it to the ‘average’ Australian building and minimum practice benchmarks.  The research found that, on average, Green Star-certified buildings produce 62% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and use 66% less electricity than average Australian buildings.  Green Star buildings use 51% less potable water than average buildings. Green Star-certified buildings also have been found to recycle 96 per cent of their construction and demolition waste, compared to the average 58% for new construction projects.

Rating system
Green Star benchmarks projects against the nine Green Star categories of: Management; Indoor Environment Quality; Energy; Transport; Water; Materials; Land Use & Ecology; Emissions and Innovation.

Within each category are credits which address specific aspects of sustainable building design, construction or performance. Ratings for buildings are available at the design stage ('Design' ratings), at the post-construction phase (known as 'As Built' ratings) or for interior fitouts (‘Interiors’ ratings).

Green Star - Communities rates projects at the community or precinct scale against the categories of: Liveability; Economic Prosperity; Environment; Design; Governance and Innovation.

Green Star certification is a formal process in which an independent assessment panel reviews documentary evidence that a project meets Green Star benchmarks within each credit. The assessment panel awards points, with a Green Star rating determined by comparing the overall score with the rating scale:

Green Star rating tools for building, fitout and community design and construction reward projects that achieve best practice or above, which means ratings of 1, 2 or 3 are not awarded. Ongoing performance of a building can be rated at any of the 6 star ratings.

Buildings assessed using the Green Star – Performance rating tool will be able to achieve a Green Star rating from 1 – 6 Star Green Star.

Projects
More than 1900 projects around Australia have achieved Green Star ratings.  The first building to achieve a Green Star rating was 8 Brindabella Circuit at Canberra Airport, which achieved a 5 Star Green Star – Office Design v1 rating in 2004.  In 2005, Council House 2 in Melbourne became the first building to achieve a 6 Star Green Star – Office Design v1 rating.  Flinders Medical Centre – New South Wing was the first healthcare facility in Australia to achieve a Green Star rating. Scarborough Beach Pool was the first aquatic facility to achieve a 6 star green rating. Bond University Mirvac School for Sustainability achieved the first Green Star rating for an educational facility.  Other well-known Green Star projects include 1 Bligh Street in Sydney and the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Controversy
The launch of the Green Star rating system was met with some scepticism by green groups, which argued that the rating system was funded by mostly development industry companies.  There was controversy over a proposal to expand the forest certification of timber and composite timber products, but this issue was resolved with the release of the revised ‘Timber’ credit in 2010. There has also been concern over various aspects of the timeframe for awarding of the certification, transfer of properties once awarded, and termination rights.

See also
 Green building
 House Energy Rating

References

External links
 What is Green Star?, Green Building Council of Australia

Building engineering
Sustainable building in Australia
Building energy rating
Energy conservation in Australia
Forest certification
Sustainable building rating systems


Sangram is 1993 Hindi romantic action film directed by Lawrence D'Souza, starring Ajay Devgn, Karisma Kapoor, Ayesha Jhulka and Amrish Puri. Other cast members include Danny Denzongpa, Reema Lagoo, Asrani, Laxmikant Berde, Anjana Mumtaz, Avtar Gill and Dinesh Hingoo. It was an average at the box office.

Plot
Raja and Madhu meet at a college. They start off as sworn enemies, but eventually become friends before returning to their respective homes. Raja doesn't realize that Madhu has fallen in love with him, and neither one of them know about the vendetta between their families.

Years ago, Raja's father, Thakur Surajbhan Singh Tomar, broke the heart of Thakur Shamsher Singh Rana's sister, which led to her suicide. When Shamsher finds out that his daughter is in love with Surajbhan's son, he forbids her from ever seeing him again. However, Shamsher's wife cannot bear her daughter's grief and goes to see Surajbhan's wife, asking the latter to help her bring an end to the feud between the two families. Surajbhan agrees to end the enmity and goes to talk to Shamsher. He asks Shamsher to accept their children's wishes and allow their marriage. After some initial hesitation, Shamsher agrees. However, he warns Surajbhan to not break his daughter's heart the way he hurt his sister.

Meanwhile, Raja has no idea that his marriage has been arranged with Madhu. He has fallen in love with Pallavi, a poor girl living on his father's estates. When Shamsher finds out that Raja does not want to marry his daughter, he vows to destroy Surajbhan's family. Surajbhan is also livid at Raja's defiance. Madhu goes off and promptly ingests poison, but is saved by her family. Shamsher tells Pallavi that he will kill Raja if the latter doesn't marry his daughter. Pallavi, fearing for Raja's life, tells him that she never loved him and was only marrying him for his money. A heartbroken Raja returns home. To further clinch the matter, Surajbhan sets Pallavi's hut on fire. Her father is killed, but Pallavi survives. Surajbhan asks his men to take the unconscious Pallavi and dump her body somewhere far away. But, Raja's uncle tells him the truth about Shamsher's threats and his father's actions. Raja finds Pallavi and calls a priest to officiate their marriage. Shamsher and his men attack the couple during the ceremony. Surajbhan rushes in to save his son. In the ensuring fight, Shamsher accidentally shoots Madhu. Before dying, Madhu asks Raja to forgive her and begs her father to end the family feud.

Cast
Ajay Devgan as Raja Singh
Ayesha Jhulka as Pallavi Singh
Karishma Kapoor as Madhu Singh
Danny Denzongpa as Rana Shamsher Singh
Amrish Puri as Thakur Surajbhan Singh Kanwar
Anjana Mumtaz as Karuna Singh
Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Shamsher Rana
Satyen Kappu as Pallavi's Father
Asrani as Hindi Professor Bishweshwar Trivedi
Laxmikant Berde as Teji
Dinesh Hingoo as Principal V.M.K. Shastri
Avtar Gill as Collector P.K. Dandhoo
Tej Sapru as Jagdish Singh Rana
Deven Bhojani as College friend of Raja
Brahmachari as Bansi
Cheetah Yagnesh Shetty as Shakti, Hockey College Captain.

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed Nadeem-Shravan, and the lyrics were penned by Sameer. The soundtrack was released in 1993 on Audio Cassette Venus Records & Tapes Music , While Audio Cassettes and CD is released in Melody International Limited, Which consist of 7 Songs. The full album is recorded by Kumar Sanu, Mukul Aggarwal, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy and P.Sunanda.

References

External links

1993 films
1990s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Nadeem–Shravan
Films directed by Lawrence D'Souza
Indian romantic drama films
Indian romantic action films


Hickleton is a village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 291, which had reduced slightly to 274 at the 2011 census. Hickleton is  west of Doncaster and  east of Barnsley.

There are records of Hickleton's history dating back to Saxon times although some consider the settlement to have Roman roots.

More recently, it was the "estate village" of Hickleton Hall, formerly the home of the earls of Halifax and then a Sue Ryder Care Home until 2013.

The parish church, St. Wilfrid's, is mainly of mediaeval construction with Norman features that was restored in Victorian times by George Frederick Bodley.

Two locations in Hickleton appear in the top ten worst locations in England for air quality; the village has the most polluted air in Yorkshire. There have been numerous campaigns to construct a bypass around the village and Marr to the east.

See also
Listed buildings in Hickleton

References

External links
 Hickleton Local History Society website

Villages in Doncaster
Civil parishes in South Yorkshire


The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1906 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1906. All eight districts remained Republican.

Overview

Results

District 1

District 2

District 3

District 4

District 5

District 6

District 7

District 8

See also
60th United States Congress
Political party strength in California
Political party strength in U.S. states
United States House of Representatives elections, 1906

References
California Elections Page
Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives

External links
California Legislative District Maps (1911-Present)
RAND California Election Returns: District Definitions

United States House of Representatives
1906
California


Japanese Railways may refer to:
 Japanese Government Railways
 Japanese National Railways

See also

 Japan Railways Group
 Japanese railway signals
 Nippon Railway
 Rail transport in Japan


Uatu mac Áedo (died 600)  was a King of Connacht from the Uí Briúin branch of the Connachta. He was the son of Áed mac Echach Tirmcharna (d. 575). The kinglists place his reign after his father which would put his succession in the year in 575. Prof. Byrne preserves this arrangement but points out that the Annals of Ulster do not name him as king at his death obit and he does not agree that the early Uí Briúin kings held the overlordship in Connacht.

His son Rogallach mac Uatach (died 649) was a later King of Connacht.

Notes

See also
Kings of Connacht

References

 Annals of Tigernach
 Annals of Ulster
 T.M.Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland
 Francis J.Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings
 The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy

External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork

600 deaths
Kings of Connacht
Nobility from County Roscommon
6th-century Irish monarchs
Year of birth unknown


Doctor Haydock "Doc" Greenwood (31 October 1860 – 3 November 1951) was an English footballer who played for Blackburn Rovers and made two appearances for England in 1882. "Doctor" was his Christian name and was not in recognition of any medical or academic qualifications.

Career
Greenwood was born in Blackburn, educated at Malvern College and was a member of the college football team in 1878–79. Greenwood's older brothers, Thomas and Harry, joined Blackburn Rovers shortly after the club's formation in 1875 and both played in the first match on 18 December 1875, with Thomas in goal and Harry as a forward. Thomas Greenwood was appointed captain and although Doctor was only 15, he also joined the club, soon becoming one of the stars of the side, playing as a full-back.

By 1880 Blackburn had become one of the best teams in England. Greenwood was recognised as being an outstanding full back and on 18 February 1882 he won his first international cap playing for England against Ireland. Also playing in that game were fellow Blackburn players, Jimmy Brown and Fred Hargreaves. Ireland were "totally dominated by the visitors" who won the game 13–0. This remains England's highest ever winning margin. Greenwood's next game was against Scotland on 11 March 1882. This time England team were beaten 5–1 and Greenwood was not selected for the next game against Wales.

In 1882, Blackburn became the first provincial team to reach the final of the FA Cup. Their opponents were Old Etonians who had reached the final on five previous occasions. However, Blackburn had gone through the season unbeaten and were expected to become the first northern team to win the game. Unfortunately Greenwood was injured and was unable to appear in the final, which the Old Etonians won 1–0.

Greenwood was an amateur player and in 1882 he was a member of the Corinthian committee at the time of their formation.

During the 1920s he was an active croquet player, an original member of the Buxton club with a handicap of 2.5.

References

External links

England profile

1860 births
1951 deaths
Footballers from Blackburn
People educated at Malvern College
English men's footballers
England men's international footballers
Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Corinthian F.C. players
English croquet players
Men's association football fullbacks


Erythranthe lewisii (Lewis' monkeyflower, great purple monkeyflower) is a perennial plant in the family Phrymaceae. It is named in honor of explorer Meriwether Lewis.  Together with other species in Erythranthe, it serves as a model system for studying pollinator-based reproductive isolation. It was formerly known as Mimulus lewisii.

Description
Erythranthe lewisii is a  perennial herb, with stem length ranging from 25 to 80 cm and individual leaves ranging from 20 to 70 mm.  The vegetative tissue is covered with fine hairs.  The flowers are medium in size, set on fairly long (30–70 mm) pedicels, and range in color from pale pink (generally found in the Sierra Nevada populations, sometimes separated as Erythranthe erubescens G.L.Nesom) to dark magenta (more common in the Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains populations), with a central pair of carotenoid-rich yellow nectar guides covered in trichomes on the lower lobe of the corolla.  Occasional populations of white-flowered individuals (which do not express anthocyanin pigments in the corolla) are known.

Distribution and habitat
Erythranthe lewisii is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Colorado, where it grows in moist habitat such as stream banks, and is generally found at higher elevations in montane areas.

Pollination
Erythranthe lewisii is pollinated by bees (primarily Bombus and Osmia), which feed off of its nectar and transfer its pollen.  Although it is fully interfertile with its sister species, E. cardinalis, the two do not interbreed in the wild, a difference ascribed primarily to pollinator differences (E. cardinalis is pollinated by hummingbirds) in areas of overlap.

Uses
This plant is cultivated as an ornamental in mild or coastal areas, as it does not tolerate prolonged freezing. In the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It prefers a very damp soil in full sunlight.

Native Americans ate the leaves of the plant.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery

lewisii
Flora of the West Coast of the United States
Flora of Alaska
Flora of California
Flora of British Columbia
Flora of the Cascade Range
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Medicinal plants
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


The Akron Americans was a minor league professional ice hockey team from Akron, Ohio, that played in the International Hockey League's south division during the 1948–49 season. The Americans were the first fully professional ice hockey team from Akron. The team replaced the semi-professional Akron Stars who played in the Ohio State Hockey League from 1946 to 1948.

Results

External links
 team statistics

International Hockey League (1945–2001) teams
Sports in Akron, Ohio
Defunct ice hockey teams in the United States
Ice hockey clubs established in 1948
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 1949
1948 establishments in Ohio
1949 disestablishments in Ohio
Defunct sports clubs and teams in Ohio


August 15th (Ba yue shi wu) is a 2008 short Chinese film, directed by Jiang Xuan. It has been screened in various international film festivals, including Sundance Film Festival in January 2008, Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, and the Expresión en Corto Film Festival of Mexico in June 2008.

Plot summary
Based on a true story, passengers on a city bus must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for their own safety after it is hijacked by a couple of countryside crooks. It is based on two real events, both involved women being raped, one in a train and the other in a bus, while a crowd of people stood by and did nothing to intervene. On the bus, the crooks take over and the passengers must decide how much they are willing to risk for their own safety.

Accolades
The film received the Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It is available for download from online sources, including iTunes Store, Netflix, and Xbox Live Marketplace. It was also screened at the International Critics' Week of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

References

External links

Chinese short films
2008 films


"Good Times" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was written by Dave Faulkner and released in July 1987 as the second single from the group's third studio album, Blow Your Cool!. The song peaked at number 36 on the Australian charts.

In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "Brad was off gallivanting in Los Angeles to supervise the recording of the Bangles harmonies on 'Good Times'. We had toured with them the previous year promoting Mars Needs Guitars! and we watched then go to No. 1 with "Manic Monday" as the tour began. Oh well, so much for the co-headline. That tour and its sequel two years later were some of the most fun we ever had on the road."

Track listing
7" version (BTS8)
 "Good Times" (Dave Faulkner) — 3:02
 "Hell for Leather" (live) (Faulkner) — 3:12

Personnel
 Dave Faulkner – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
 Brad Shepherd – guitar, harmonica
 Mark Kingsmill – drums
 Clyde Bramley – bass
 Richard Allan – Art Direction, Cover Design
 Allan Wright – Engineer
 Heidi Cannavo, Kathy Nauton, Paula Jones, Tchad Blake — Assistant Engineers
 Mark Opitz – Producer
 Barry Diament – Mastering

Charts

References

1987 singles
Hoodoo Gurus songs
1987 songs
Songs written by Dave Faulkner (musician)
EMI Records singles
Song recordings produced by Mark Opitz


The Macintosh Office was an effort by Apple Computer to design an office-wide computing environment consisting of Macintosh computers, a local area networking system, a file server, and a networked laser printer. Apple announced Macintosh Office in January 1985 with a poorly received sixty-second Super Bowl commercial dubbed Lemmings. In the end, the file server would never ship and the Office project would be cancelled. However, the AppleTalk networking system and LaserWriter printer would be hugely successful in launching the desktop publishing revolution.

History

Previous efforts

Macintosh Office was the company's third attempt to enter into the business environment as a serious competitor to IBM.

Following the success of the Apple II personal computer, Apple first sought to enter into the lucrative professional business market with the Apple III. A high-end computer with features geared toward the business professional, it suffered from many technical problems which plagued the system during most of its production run. As a result, Apple's reputation suffered and it lost any advantage it had entering into the business market – a full year prior to the introduction of the IBM PC.

Apple's second attempt was with the introduction of the revolutionary Lisa, a high-end computer aimed at the business community, based on the graphical user interface that was to become the basis of the Macintosh. Unfortunately it proved far too expensive and offered too few features for most businesses to justify the cost. A year later when the much less expensive Macintosh debuted, Lisa's fate was sealed. After being renamed the Macintosh XL in an effort to revive sales, a year later production ended following less than three years of poor sales.

While Apple had a hit with the Macintosh, they still needed a way to make inroads into the professional world and the Mac was already being criticized as a toy by the business community.

Strategy

Apple had initially examined local area networking through an effort known as AppleNet, which used Ethernet-like coax cable to support a 1 Mbit/s network of up to 128 Apple IIs, Apple IIIs and Apple Lisas. This was first announced at the National Computer Conference in Los Angeles in June 1983, but quietly dropped four months later. At the time, Apple commented that they "realized that it's not in the business to create a network system", and instead announced they would be waiting for IBM to release its Token Ring system in 1984.

This left Apple with no networking system until IBM released Token Ring. Internal work continued throughout, greatly aided by a series of memos from Bob Belleville, who outlined what the system would need to do and outlining the networking system, a networked laser printer, and a file server.

When the Macintosh had originally been designed it used the Zilog Z8530 serial driver chip, which had the capability of running simple networking protocols. The original aim was to produce a system known as AppleBus that would allow multiple devices to be plugged into a single port. The AppleBus concept had been dropped during development, but it left the systems with the hardware needed to support a local area network, all that was needed was the appropriate software. To address any short-term networking needs, Apple announced the development of a low-speed system running at 230 kbit/s. As the serial ports on the Macintosh were not connected in a ring, an external box (later known as LocalTalk) was used to provide "up" and "down" connections. The system was released in January 1985 as the "AppleTalk Personal Network".

Armed with the proper networking hardware, Apple set about developing the other key pieces of its business suite.
It would include a dedicated file server they code-named Big Mac. Essentially it was conceived as a fast Unix-based server which ran the Mac OS as an interface shell.
Also included was a networked hard drive intended to be plugged directly into the network.
Finally, a Laser printer which would produce typeset quality documents also shared among all the users on the network.

By January 1985 Apple was ready to launch the LocalTalk network which would allow a small office to inexpensively share its newly introduced LaserWriter printer. But the dedicated file server was up to two years away. The networked hard disk was closer, but still over a year away. By early 1985, Apple did not even offer a hard drive that worked on the Macintosh, much less a networked one. Unfortunately, Apple's newly announced network could do little else but print. As a stopgap measure, Apple had re-branded the Lisa 2/10 as the Macintosh XL and dropped the price substantially. With its built-in 10MB hard drive, greater RAM and Macintosh System emulation software MacWorks, the XL was positioned to act as the file server until Apple could develop the replacement. However, there was no file-sharing software to take advantage of the Macintosh XL. Nevertheless, based on the premise promised by the Macintosh Office, the Macintosh XL sold well at its reduced price, so well that Apple ran out of parts, forcing it to be discontinued long before the replacement network server was ready.

In the meantime, third-party developers working with Apple, such as Infosphere and Centram Systems West (later Sun Microsystems) created AppleTalk-based file sharing applications called XL/Serve (later MacServe) and TOPS respectively. The former was actually a hard disk sharing application that allowed a remote client Mac to log onto a hard drive connected to the host Mac and work on a file. However, this arrangement meant that only one user could access the file volume at a time. Nevertheless, it fulfilled one of the main features of the Macintosh Office: a networked hard drive. By contrast, TOPS was a true file sharing application. With TOPS a remote client could log onto a host Mac and access and work on any file simultaneously with another remote or the host user. In addition, TOPS did not require a dedicated host, rather every Mac could be a host, offering peer-to-peer file sharing. What's more, TOPS was not limited to the Macintosh, but could also share files across platforms with IBM PCs. Both of these products, as well as others, helped fulfill Apple's announcement of the Macintosh Office.

Nevertheless, none of the software available represented a unified solution fully supported by Apple. Following the early removal of the Macintosh XL, Apple finally delivered its first hard drive for the Macintosh. Nine months after announcing it, the Hard Disk 20 was a mere 20MB hard drive. Though a welcome addition, it was slow and delivered none of the promise of a network file server. Though third-party products made good use of it, Apple would not offer another installment of the poorly implemented Macintosh Office for well over a year. Instead Apple canceled the UNIX-based Big Mac file-server concept and chose to focus on the next generation Macintosh II.

In January 1987, Apple finally introduced its file sharing application AppleShare. Together with a faster SCSI hard drive, the Hard Disk 20SC released 3 months earlier, Apple finally offered an officially supported  unified, simple-to-use file sharing network. However, it failed to deliver on the promise of the initial announcement made 2 years earlier. At best, the Macintosh Office was a piecemeal solution run on relatively underpowered Macs, lacking many of the features offered by third-party applications before it. In fact, it would be almost 5 more years before AppleShare would offer peer-to-peer file sharing under System 7. It would take four more months for the release of expandable Macs that could accommodate the growing industry standard, Ethernet, and larger, faster built-in hard drives powerful enough to manage AppleTalk's potential to serve a large office. IBM network compatibility was still unavailable.

Legacy
Though largely considered a failure by most, The Macintosh Office ushered in the era of Desktop Publishing with the advent of the LaserWriter, the low-cost network interface which made it affordable and the resulting software developers who took advantage of the Macintosh GUI and the printer's PostScript professional looking output. More than anything this cemented the Macintosh's reputation as a serious computer and its indispensable place in the office, particularly when compared to the capabilities of its DOS based counterparts.

Timeline of Apple Inc. products

See also
 MacEnhancer

References

Products introduced in 1985
Macintosh platform
Apple Inc. hardware


The Indian Meteorological Society is an Indian non-profit organisation that promotes the advancement, dissemination, and application of meteorology and related sciences.

The society was established in 1956.

External links
Indian Meteorological Society website
Indian Meteorological Society, Kolkata Chapter website
Indian Meteorological Society, Pune Chapter website
IMS Objectives

Meteorological societies
Scientific societies based in India
Scientific organizations established in 1956