Vatican , the human government, and the New Human Empire , the government of the vampiric Methuselah .... Abel, Cain, and Seth took the Methuselah s side while Lilith supported the Vatican, which guarded ... of particles to filter out UV radiation , protecting the Methuselah population. Both groups use lost ... , an underground city of enslaved Methuselah. It is these Methuselah who operate and manufacture the lost ... ended up in a war against each other when the Methuselah returned to Earth. Nine hundred years later ... ways to co exist with the Methuselah despite the distrust and hatred still evident on both sides. The Vatican serves as the primary leader for the people in the on going struggle for peace with the Methuselah .... The Methuselah refer to humans as Terrans , or the Short Lived Race . ref name Manga2 Methuselah The Methuselah, or Long Lived Race, are vampire like creatures that feed on human blood and have supernatural ... 59816 675 0 ref Their name is likely derived from the biblical figure Methuselah, who was reported to have lived 969 years. Methuselah have a prolonged lifespan, superior strength, and enhanced speed ... Trinity Blood isbn 978 1 59816 674 3 ref In addition to their athleticism and stamina, Methuselah ... of a blade that comes out of the arms, claws, or even as sharp, prehensile hair. Some Methuselah have displayed an ability to control some elemental powers such as fire and ice. All Methuselah are capable ... adaptation, some Methuselah are shown to have the ability to fly. Methuselah are created in two ways from being born from Methuselah parents or from a human being infected with the Bacillus bacteria that causes the vampire like conditions. The Methuselah must drink blood in order to replenish .... Unlike vampires of myth, Trinity Blood s Methuselah can have children and they can and must ... the Methuselah s body instead of just their red blood cells. Also, silver can cause them serious injury and death as it acts as an antibiotic to the Bacillus. When being born, a Methuselah behaves as any ... more details
stood at about 2 meters tall. The plant was nicknamed Methuselah , after the longest lived person in the Bible. Methuselah is remarkable in being the oldest known tree seed successfully germinated ... years, which was once a major food and export crop in ancient Judea. Methuselah reportedly flowered ... more details
MMP is a three letter acronym that may refer to International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots MM&P , a maritime labor union Manitoba Marijuana Party, now Freedom Party of Manitoba , a Canadian political party Mathematics Mechanization Platform Marchwood Military Port , a Military Port in Marchwood , UK Mass market paperback , a bookbinding format Massively Multi Player, a type of online game Massively multiprocessing, large symmetric multiprocessing SMP computer systems Matrix metalloproteinase enzymes Memphis Motorsports Park , a race track in Millington, Tennessee, United States Metal Mind Productions , a Polish music label Methuselah Mouse Prize , for research into slowing cellular ageing Minuteman Project , 2005 action to deter illegal immigration Millennium Mathematics Project , of the University of Cambridge Minute Maid Park , a ballpark in Houston, Texas, United States Miss Moneypenny , secretary to James Bond s boss Mixed member proportional representation , a voting system currently used for some bodies in Germany, New Zealand and other countries Moldova Metallurgical Plant, see Moldova Steel Works Multi Man Publishing , a wargame company Tokyo Mew Mew , also known as Mew Mew Power, a Japanese cartoon Maintenance Management Professional Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele County, Utah. The Marian Movement of Priests Catholic disambig de MMP it MMP ja MMP pl MMP ... more details
States discovery status Published Planetbox catalog names Methuselah, PSR B1620 26 b, PSR ... of Scorpius the Scorpion . It bears the unofficial nicknames Methuselah and the Genesis planet due ... planettour.asp?StarCatID pulsar&PlanetID 30 title Methuselah PSR B1620 26 c work Extrasolar ... author Lee, J.W. et al. year 2008 ref Though not officially recognized, the name Methuselah is commonly used for the planet in popular articles. The name comes from the biblical person Methuselah ... 399.shtml title Planet Methuselah Discovered author Gary Denke year 2003 accessdate 2008 09 01 ref ... system , while the latter name is used astronomically. Methuselah is the only planet to have received ... Methuselah was introduced, capturing press attention around the world. ref name Sigurdson ... 17 cite web url http www.extrasolar.net planettour.asp?StarCatId pulsar&PlanetId 30 title Methuselah ... more details
Einhorn s absurdist comedy The Living Methuselah , appearing in his book of plays entitled http www.untitledtheater.com GMS.htm The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock , gives another perspective on both Serach and Methuselah . In it, Methuselah and Serach have lived to modern day, through all the major ... more details
Infobox Album Name Preach On Sister, Preach On Artist LaWanda Page Type Album Released 1973 Recorded 1972 Label Laff Records Genre Comedy Last album Watch It, Sucker Watch It, Sucka br 1972 This album Preach On Sister, Preach On br 1973 Next album Pipe Layin Dan br 1973 Preach On Sister, Preach On is the third solo album by United States American comic and actress LaWanda Page , her fourth release overall including a collaboration album with the comic duo Skillet & Leroy under the title, Back Door Daddy under the eponymous stage name LaWanda . The album featured her revising the raunchy preacher monologues first introduced on her most popular release, Watch It, Sucker Watch It, Sucka , including explicit infused bits on classic Bible stories. The most famous bit of the album, however, includes the comic s monologue on Sister Bessie and Brother Harold , describing two people engaged in an hours long sexual intercourse . Like in her previous albums, LaWanda is introduced as The Queen of Comedy . Tracklisting Adam and Eve Methuselah Moses Joshua Sampson and Delilah David and Goliath Elijah Jeremiah John The Baptist Paul Sister Bessie Brother Harold Dog Fashion All the Way Virgins Amen for the High Rachel Category 1973 albums Category Comedy albums by American artists ... more details
, the only bounty reward bounty her grandfather could never catch. Rain Jewlitt More commonly known as Methuselah ... human being. Yuca is the reincarnation of the spirit of Methuselah, the name later applied to Rain ... never catch was the immortal Methuselah. His trademark weapon was his scythe , which Machika now ... Rain like that was because he was tired of living as the spirit of Methuselah, being reborn ... 1999 manga Category Shinshokan manga fr Meteor Methuselah ja ru Immortal Rain tl Immortal ... more details
saved book title Genealogy from Adam to Zerubbabel subtitle The Complete Guide cover image cover color White Genealogy from Adam to Zerubbabel The Complete Guide Overview Descendants of Adam and Eve Genealogy from Adam to Zerubbabel Lineage tracing Adam Seth Enos biblical figure Enosh Kenan Mahalalel Jared biblical figure Jared Enoch ancestor of Noah Enoch Methuselah Lamech father of Noah Lamech Noah Shem Arpachshad Salah biblical figure Shelah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah Abraham Isaac Jacob Israel Judah biblical person Judah Perez son of Judah Perez Hezron Ram biblical figure Ram Amminadab Nahshon Salmon biblical figure Salmah Boaz Obed biblical figure Obed Jesse David Solomon Rehoboam Abijah of Judah Abijah Asa of Judah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram of Judah Joram Ahaziah of Judah Ahaziah Jehoash of Judah Joash Amaziah of Judah Amaziah Uzziah Azariah Jotham of Judah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh of Judah Manasseh Amon of Judah Amon Josiah Jehoiakim Jeconiah Pedaiah Zerubbabel Hananiah Shecaniah Neariah Elioenai Miscellany Davidic line Davidic dynasty Category Books of Chronicles Category Bible genealogy ... more details
of need. He is helped particularly by Methuselah Redwall Methuselah , an old and grizzled librarian ..., and with Methuselah s help eventually divines where the sword is hidden. Unfortunately, it isn t there any ..., an abbreviated version of his full name Martin Methuselah Mortimer. Also, Brother Alf is now known ... Methuselah Redwall Brother Methuselah Redtooth Fangburn Badger Mother Constance Constance the Badger ..., Methuselah claimed that one of the accounts of Cluny comes from a town dog. The horse present .... In all later books in the series there has never been reference to good foxes. Brother Methuselah ... more details
2000X is a dramatic anthology series released by National Public Radio and produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. There were 49 Play theatre plays of various lengths in 26 one hour radio program programs broadcast weekly and later released on the Internet. Plays were adaptations of futuristic stories, novels and plays by noted authors. Producer director Yuri Rasovsky and host consultant Harlan Ellison won the 2001 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Science Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program. Plays in the series Image 2000xbig.png right Bradbury, Ray . Pillar of Fire Fredric Brown Brown, Fredric . Blood . Knock short story Knock Burroughs, Edgar Rice . The Moon Maid Octavia Butler Butler, Octavia E. Bloodchild Karel apek Capek, Karel . R.U.R. Terry Dowling Dowling, Terry . The Only Bird in Her Name Dryden, John . A ll for Love D rrenmatt , Friedrich. The Mission of the Vega . E. M. Forster Forster, E. M. The Machine Stops L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard, L. Ron. Ole Doc Methuselah Gerald Kersh Kersh, Gerald . A Little Bank Deposit Rudyard Kipling Kipling, Rudyard . As Easy as ABC C. M. Kornbluth Kornbluth, C. M. The Marching Morons Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin, Ursula K. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Murray Leinster Leinster, Murray . The Mad Planet Thomas Henry Lister Lister, T. H. A Dialogue for the Year 2130 Jack London London, Jack . A Curious Fragment C. L. Moore Moore, C. L. Northwest Smith Shambleau William F. Nolan Nolan, William F. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep Yuri Rasovsky Rasovsky, Yuri . It Came from Outer Pinsk . Millennium Bug . Millennium Bug II . Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase in the New Century Frank M. Robinson Robinson, Frank M. The Hunting Season Robert Sheckley Sheckley, Robert . The Watchbird Shaw, George Bernard . The Thing Happens from Back to Methuselah Robert Silverberg Silverberg, Robert . A Sleep and a Forgetting Henry Slesar Slesar, Henry . Merchant Theodore Sturgeon ... more details
to April 21 sol 456 462, April 21, 2005 Spirit Drives to Methuselah Spirit Rover Spirit has had a great ... Rover Spirit drove over to a piece of outcrop called Methuselah. Spirit is healthy and doing fine Sol ... the outcrop is pretty old and has given it the informal name Methuselah. ref 2 2 Sol 461 Using the panoramic ... 21, 2005 The plan is for Spirit to drive about 4 meters 13 feet closer to Methuselah in order ... spent this week April 22 to April 30, 2005 studying an outcrop called Methuselah, focusing on the Keystone ... extensive imaging of Methuselah. It used its panoramic camera to shoot frames that will be joined together ..., a rock that is part of the Methuselah outcrop. The rover also used its miniature Theremal Infrared ... Methuselah image Category Mars Exploration Rover ... more details
Matusalem & Company is a family owned manufacturer of premium Caribbean rum. Founded in Santiago de Cuba , it is now produced in the Dominican Republic . History Matusalem & Company was founded by brothers Benjamin Camp Benjamin and Eduardo Camp , who left Spain and settled in Cuba for the purpose of establishing a rum distillery. In 1872 , the Camp brothers, along with their partner Evaristo Alvarez , established the Matusalem brand in Santiago de Cuba. The Camp brothers brought with them their knowledge and expertise in the Solera system of blending and distillation used in making Spanish brandy . The name Matusalem is Spanish for Methuselah , the Old Testament patriarch said to have lived for 969 years. It was chosen as a reference to the aging process used in producing the brand. The name is taken from the popular Spanish proverb Mas viejo que Matusalem, which means Older than Methuselah. In 1912, Benjamin Camp returned to Spain, leaving the company in the hands of his brother Eduardo. The Camp and Alvarez families were united when Evaristo Alvarez daughter married the son of Eduardo Camp. During the next 25 years, the Company grew and thrived under the leadership of Claudio Alvarez LeFebre, the son of Evaristo Alvarez. During the 1930s, Prohibition in the United States made Cuba a favorite vacation destination for Americans, introducing Cuban rum and the cocktail to American tastes. During the 1940s, Claudio Alvarez LeFebre was succeeded by his son, Claudio Alvarez Soriano. Under his leadership, Matusalem and Company captured fifty percent of the Cuban rum market. Disaster struck the family in 1956 when the elder Alvarez died, and six months later, the younger Alvarez died of lung cancer. Following the Cuban revolution 1959, the family owned Matusalem brand went into exile, and Matusalem and Company was established in the United States. The Cuban government continued to make rum in the former Matusalem factory in Santiago de Cuba, marketing the product as Ron S ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Andrew Jackson Slide rule Slipstick Libby is a fictional character featured in the so called Future History series of science fiction novel s by Robert A. Heinlein . He is an enormously talented and intuitive mathematician, but received little formal education. His talent was first appreciated in the short story Misfit short story Misfit , where he helps guide an asteroid into the correct orbit after the guidance computer has failed. In Methuselah s Children , it is revealed that later, Libby joins the military, and discovers he is part of the Howard Families , an experiment designed to breed humans with very long lifespans. When the Howards are forced to flee Earth by persecution from the short lived rest of humanity, Libby provides a way of escape by fitting a light pressure drive to the New Frontiers , the starship they have stolen. When the New Frontiers is later hijacked by alien technology and moved at speeds faster than light, Libby figures out how to reproduce the effect. When the Howards return home, Libby and Lazarus Long go into business together exploring and colonizing new planets. Long will later comment that the two of them are single handedly responsible for the deterioration of Earth, as the galactic diaspora they created caused all the best brains to leave the planet. Some time between the events of Methuselah s Children and Time Enough for Love , Libby dies. Long places Libby s body in orbit around the last planet they pioneer, intending to return and take it back to Earth for disposal in the Ozark Mountains , where Libby grew up. When Long returns for the body, however, it is not there. This information is revealed by Long in conversations during the first half of Time Enough for Love. Between the first and second half of the book, Long experiments with time travel, and one of his first test runs was to retrieve the coffin from a point in the past, thus explaining its disappearance. However, rather than dispose of t ... more details
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in the Septuagint but not the Vulgate. Methuselah survived the Flood according to the Codex Vaticanus ... s Ark . Other manuscripts of the Septuagint, such as the Codex Alexandrinus , have Methuselah dying ... right 365 align right 1122 align right 165 align right 365 Methuselah align right 687 align right 187 ... numbers in the other two versions. The Samaritan chronology has Jared and Methuselah dying in Noah s 600th year, the year of the Flood. The Masoretic chronology also has Methuselah dying .... The Lucianic text of the Septuagint has Methuselah surviving the Flood and therefore the 100 year differences were not an attempt by the Septuagint editors to have Jared, Methuselah, or Lamech ... more details
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Other uses Lifeline disambiguation Life Line is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein . Published in 1939, it was Heinlein s first published short story. The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero s invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life. Pinero is mentioned in passing in the novels Time Enough for Love and Methuselah s Children when the practically immortal Lazarus Long mentions having been examined and being sent away because the machine is broken . Heinlein was motivated to write the story by a contest in Wonder Stories Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine promising 50 US to the winner, but ended up submitting it to a rival magazine, Astounding magazine Astounding , and was paid 70 approximately 1085 in 2008 . It made a later appearance in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein , a collection of short stories published in 1966, in Expanded Universe Heinlein Expanded Universe in 1980, and in a Baen edition of The Man Who Sold The Moon , ISBN 0 671 65623 6, 1987. In Grumbles from the Grave , on receiving the check for the story Heinlein is reported to have said, How long has this racket been going on? The amount was the equivalent of about 500 in 1984, or approximately one month s rent on a nice apartment. Future History Category 1939 short stories Category Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein Category Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact sf story stub fr Ligne de vie nouvelle ru ... more details
Image Pasttomorrow.jpg thumb 150px Cover of the original 1967 printing of The Past Through Tomorrow The Past Through Tomorrow is a collection of Robert A. Heinlein s Future History stories. Most of the stories are part of a larger storyline of a rapidly collapsing American sanity, followed by a theocracy theocratic dictatorship . A revolution overthrows the theocracy and establishes a free society which, nonetheless, does not save the pseudo immortal Lazarus Long and his Howard Families from fleeing Earth for their lives. Most editions of the collection include a timeline showing the chronology of the stories including stories never written, such as The Stone Pillow , which was to occur during the period of the theocracy , time of birth and death of the significant characters, and commentary by Heinlein. The specific short stories included vary with the edition, but typically include Life Line , 1939 a month before Misfit Misfit short story Misfit , 1939 The Roads Must Roll , 1940 Requiem short story Requiem , 1940 If This Goes On , 1940 Coventry short story Coventry , 1940 Blowups Happen , 1940 Orphans of the Sky Universe , 1941 Methuselah s Children , 1941 fixup extended and published as a novel , 1958 Logic of Empire , 1941 We Also Walk Dogs , 1941 Space Jockey short story Space Jockey , 1947 It s Great to Be Back , 1947 The Green Hills of Earth , 1947 Ordeal in Space , 1948 The Long Watch , 1948 Gentlemen, Be Seated , 1948 The Black Pits of Luna , 1948 Delilah and the Space Rigger , 1949 The Man Who Sold the Moon , 1950 The Menace From Earth , 1957 Searchlight short story Searchlight , 1962 Reception Algis Budrys hailed the collection as some of the finest writing science fiction has ever known, describing it as a magnificent compendium, coincidentally a rewarding and perhaps accurate cross section of a writer s career. ref Galaxy Bookshelf , Galaxy Science Fiction , October 1967, pp.191 92 ref References Reflist Future History Heinlein books DEFAULTSORT Past Th ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cleanup rewrite date May 2009 Immortal Coil is a Star Trek The Next Generation novel written by Jeffrey Lang, published by Pocket Books in February 2002. Story When a newly developed Android robot android developed by Starfleet is destroyed, Lieutenant Commander Data helps investigate the incident and who is responsible. During the course of his search he discovers he is not as unique as he once believed. During the run of the original Star Trek series many other robots and androids were seen, yet Data is often referred to as the only android in existence during the time of Star Trek The Next Generation . Immortal Coil explains what happened to those other robots and androids, and how Data fits into their histories. The story references several previously seen artificial intelligences and characters Exocomps from the TNG episode The Quality of Life Star Trek The Next Generation The Quality of Life Androids from the TOS episode What Are Little Girls Made Of? The M5 computer from the TOS episode The Ultimate Computer Flint and Reyna from the TOS episode Requiem for Methuselah Doctor Ira Graves from the TNG episode The Schizoid Man Star Trek The Next Generation The Schizoid Man Commander Bruce Maddox from the TNG episode The Measure of a Man Star Trek The Next Generation The Measure of a Man Dr. Noonien Soong , Data s creator, first seen in the TNG episode Brothers Star Trek The Next Generation Brothers External links Memoryalpha article Immortal Coil Star Trek publications Star Trek Category 2002 novels Category Star Trek novels Category Star Trek The Next Generation novels StarTrek novel stub ... more details
For other individuals with this name Ahijah File Ahijahs and Jeroboam.jpg thumb 180px Gerard Hoet , Ahijah s prophecy to Jeroboam , 1728. Ahijah the Shilonite Hebrew Name 1 Ahiya Hashiloni was a Levite ref 1 Chr. 26 20 ref prophet of Shiloh Bible Shiloh bibleverse 1 Kings 11 29 HE bibleverse nb 1 Kings 14 2 HE in the days of Solomon , as mentioned in the Hebrew Bible s 1 Kings . The Hebrew Bible records two of his prophecies bibleverse 1 Kings 11 31 39 HE , announcing the rending of the ten tribes from Solomon and bibleverse 1 Kings 14 6 16 HE , delivered to Jeroboam s wife, foretelling the death of the king s son, the destruction of Jeroboam s house, and the captivity of Kingdom of Israel Samaria Israel beyond the river. According to 2 Chronicles , Ahijah also authored a book, described as Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite which contained information about Solomon s reign. ref 2 Chr. 9 29 ref This text, however, has not survived and is one of the lost texts mentioned in the Hebrew Bible . Rabbinic tradition credits Ahijah with having lived a very long life, ref TB Baba Batra 12lB ref linking his life span with that of antediluvian patriarch s such as Methuselah and Noah . References reflist Prophets of the Tanakh Persondata NAME Ahijah the Shilonite ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Biblical prophet DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ahijah the Shilonite Category Hebrew Bible people Category Solomon Category Books of Kings Category Date of death unknown Hebrew Bible stub cs Achij it Achia he nl Ahia ru sr yi ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 Distinguish City Road Orphan date February 2009 The Road City is a fictional socio economic entity invented by noted science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his novelette , The Roads Must Roll , published in 1940. Heinlein s vision of a Road , always capitalized, was a fully enclosed Slidewalk or multi speed conveyor belt whose cargo was people and freight, stretching from city to city, and operating at maximum speeds of 100 miles per hour. The Road City was a consequence of this, clearly noted in the story, where people whose livelihood depended on the Road began to live in new communities built along its length. Factories were located along the Road because of easy transport for their goods and materials. Entire businesses established themselves on the conveyor strips to cater to travelers while they moved from city to city, and the people who worked in those business lived within easy reach of the Road itself, living in the country but working in the city . At the time of writing, the flight to the suburbs had not yet taken place in the USA. Superhighway s were known from the example of German autobahn s but had not taken hold. Heinlein predicted that superhighways would cause what is now called urban sprawl along their routes, and the Road City took the concept further by having the transportation become the core of the urban development. In Heinlein s Future History , the Road Cities succumb to even more technological progress and social change. In The Man Who Sold The Moon D. D. Harriman calls them moribund . In Methuselah s Children they are empty relics littering the landscape. Category Robert A. Heinlein Category Megastructures Sf stub ... more details
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