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Encyclopedia Articles on: Verne OR Vernes

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  • Verne, Jules
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    VERNE, JULES vurn; zhul vern, 1828...achievements of the 20th cent. Verne is especially known to English...In 1989 the manuscript of Vernes long-lost 1863 novel Paris...See A. B. Evans, Jules Verne Rediscovered (1988...
     
  • La Verne
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    LA VERNE l vurn, city (1990 pop. 30,897), Los...a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1906. La Verne, which began as a citrus-processing center...industries are in the area. The Univ. of La Verne and a water filtration plant that serves...
     
  • Green Flash
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...explained by James Prescott Joule in a letter to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1869 and popularized in Jules Vernes novel Le Rayon Vert (1882; tr. The Green Ray, 1883). The green flash occurs primarily because the atmosphere acts like...
     
  • Moskenstraumen
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...3 m) per second. It is a danger to small ships and has been described with great imagination by Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
     
  • Science Fiction
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...space. Science fiction is generally considered to have had its beginnings in the late 19th cent. with the romances of Jules Verne and the novels of H. G. Wells . In 1926, Hugo Gernsback founded the pulp magazine Amazing Stories, devoted exclusively to...