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    Robur the Conqueror (French: Robur-le-Conquérant) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as The Clipper of the...
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  • Master of the World is a 1961 colour science fiction film based on the 1886 Jules Verne novel Robur the Conqueror and its 1904 sequel Master of the World...
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    all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant inventor. (He was previously featured as a character in Verne's Robur the Conqueror.) Robur has...
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  • "strength". It can refer to: Robur the Conqueror, an 1886 novel by Jules Verne, also known as The Clipper of the Clouds Master of the World (novel), Verne's...
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    Sandorf, 1885) The Wreck of the "Cynthia" (L'Epave du "Cynthia", 1885) The Lottery Ticket (Un billet de loterie, 1886) Robur the Conqueror (Robur-le-Conquérant...
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    from the novels Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World) during the Crimean War, along with Captain Nemo and Passepartout. Fehrmann, Andreas. "The Fascination...
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    French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays,...
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  • Solitano, Jr. in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook "Excelsior!", motto of the fictional Weldon Institute in Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror "Excelsior...
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  • of the Prairies. Original character MIM, NHI Son of Jean Robur, son-in-law of Janni Nemo, husband of Hira Dakkar, and father of Jack Nemo. Robur the Conqueror...
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    Air pirate (redirect from Pirate of the air)
    from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020. Farrell, John (May 5, 2020). "The legacy of Verne continues—Nemo Rising: Robur the Conqueror...
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    kills another crewman. The novel's later pages suggest that Captain Nemo went into undersea exile after his homeland was conquered and his family slaughtered...
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    ending of the 1991 film The Rocketeer. Albatross: a 19th-century large propeller-powered airship in the novel Robur the Conqueror, aka Clipper of the Clouds...
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    mentioned in the sci-fi novel Robur the Conqueror (1886) by Jules Verne (Chapter XV: A skirmish in Dahomey). Dahomey Mino were represented in the 1987 film...
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    Jean Passepartout (category Around the World in Eighty Days characters)
    one of the officials captured by Robur during the Crimean War, along with Captain Nemo and Cyrus Smith. In the 1919 film version, Around the World in...
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    Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published...
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    Jules Verne (category Members of the Ligue de la patrie française)
    and both the game and his uncle's name would be memorialized in two late novels (The Will of an Eccentric (1900) and Robur the Conqueror (1886), respectively)...
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  • Mysterious Island (1961 film) (category Films based on The Mysterious Island)
    the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne (which was the sequel to two other novels by Verne, 1867's In Search of the Castaways...
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    after a valiant but unequal struggle with the pirate submarine. In the 1904 book The Master of the World, Robur's secondary vehicle, Terror, is a strange...
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  • Baudelaire The Albatross (novella), a 1971 novella by Susan Hill The Albatross, the fictional propeller-sustained airship in Jules Verne's novel Robur the Conqueror...
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    Robur the Conqueror, published in 1886. H. G. Wells, writing in 1899 in his novel The Sleeper Awakes, has his main character, Graham, ram one of the enemy's...
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    from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020. Farrell, John (May 5, 2020). "The legacy of Verne continues—Nemo Rising: Robur the Conqueror...
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    Captain Nemo (category Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas)
    to found a dynasty whose descendants have conquered most of the world, Captain Nemo was, according to the French authorities, "slain and his accursed...
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  • Land (film) The Land That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot Robur the Conqueror Thule A. H. W. (Jul 30, 1972). "Room at the top of the world". New...
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    port of the Nautilus. Having escaped the maelstrom at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, the Nautilus sailed the oceans of the world until...
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  • Altshuller made the first attempt to catalogue science fiction technologies of the time. Alongside first prediction of a particular technology, the list may...
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    powerful airship for his novel Robur the Conqueror, which was published in the US in 1887. The airship stories of the prolific science fiction author...
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  • example, the undersea sequences include references to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and the aircraft Albatross from Robur the Conqueror. Another...
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    From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (French: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel...
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    carriages. The Kingdom of Dahomey has been depicted in a number of different works of fiction or creative nonfiction. In the novel Robur the Conqueror (1886)...
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    novel Robur The Conqueror, he writes of "the striking experiments of Captain Krebs and Captain Renard". In 1888 Krebs and Gustave Zédé designed the first...
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