• Backwards to Britain (French: Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse) is a semi-autobiographical novel by the French writer Jules Verne, written...
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    Paris he fictionalized his recollections to form the backbone of a semi-autobiographical novel, Backwards to Britain (written in the autumn and winter of...
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    Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth...
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    first published 1992, unfinished) Voyage en Angleterre et en Ecosse (Backwards to Britain, 1860, first published 1989) Joyeuses Misères de trois voyageurs...
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    basis for the very loose adaptation Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967), a caper-style British comedy starring Burl Ives and Terry-Thomas. The 1961 Czechoslovak...
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    trying to delay Fogg's journey to keep him in British territory. However, after Fogg reaches America, Fix helps Fogg complete his bet to get him back to the...
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    and world literature. The novel was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French fortnightly periodical, the Magasin...
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    Nautilus is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious...
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    novel, this series portrays Nemo's anti-imperialist struggle against the British East India Company. A working drawing of the Nautilus. Captain Nemo's stateroom...
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    University of Picardy Jules Verne was established in 1970 as a successor to the former University of Amiens. It was initially simply called the University...
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  • opposite path) causing them to interact in opposite chronological order. The British police drama Rellik ("killer" spelled backwards) begins with the police...
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  • Vista Distribution. Overseas, the film was distributed by Walt Disney British Films Ltd, a studio-owned subsidiary in the UK, and other local distributors...
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    The Mysterious Island (category Articles that link to Wikisource)
    September 1875 Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the...
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  • may be forceful enough to launch an extreme amount of material from the crust and mantle into a sub-orbital trajectory, leading to significant further damage...
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  • to recognize patterns in meaningless data), coincidental phonetic reversal, or as deliberate responses to the allegations themselves. The backwards playing...
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  • Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) (category Films set in the British Raj)
    from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved May 7, 2024. Claesson...
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    Chinese fugitive whose real name is Lau Xing, who took the name to avoid custody by British authorities. He was played by Jackie Chan. In the 1972 animated...
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    New Bern, North Carolina (category Articles to be expanded from September 2023)
    I". Bill Thayer's Web Site. Chicago, IL. Retrieved July 11, 2024. Backwards to Britain, edited by William Butcher (Chambers, 1992) Browning, Judkin. Shifting...
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    instead of being surrendered to the British authorities. The Duncan sets sail for Tabor Island, which, by sheer luck, turns out to be Captain Grant's shelter...
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    mysteriously saved many times by a benefactor who refuses to reveal himself, causing his own achievements to seem less significant. In the 2002 novel Captain Nemo:...
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    that now, having left British soil, he will no longer try to delay Fogg's journey but instead support him in getting back to Britain, where he can arrest...
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    Rohmer. Brothers Samuel and Sebastian Melville want to marry their niece Helena Campbell off to the hilariously awful scientist Aristobulus Ursicles...
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  • Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal...
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  • Eternal Adam", The Barsac Mission, Paris in the Twentieth Century, Backwards to Britain Kurt Vonnegut* — Armageddon in Retrospect, Look at the Birdie, Sucker's...
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    attracted to the intriguing and noble Fogg as she shares in the adventures. When they finally reach Britain and appear to have arrived too late to meet the...
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  • Mysterious Island (1961 film) (category British fantasy adventure films)
    The film was mostly cast with British actors. Michael Craig was under contract to Rank. Michael Callan was under contract to Columbia at the time. Percy...
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    father's objections. By 1883 his father was reconciled to the marriage and Michel got married—only to abandon his newlywed wife and begin a relationship with...
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  • Retrocausality, or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an...
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    harbor of Saint-Jean "forms a kind of pendant to Elgor Bay." The despatch boat Santa-Fé arrived on Oct. 1858 to construct the lighthouse, which was inaugurated...
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    French backwards and relieving the pressure on the Prussians. The central plank of France's war against Britain in 1759 was a plan to invade Britain, authored...
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