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75 relations: Airplane, Airship, Alan Moore, Alternate history, Arthur Constantin Krebs, Autorotation, Balloon, Batman, Botanical name, Brian Augustyn, Captain Nemo, Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius, Character (arts), Charles Bronson, Charles Renard, Chatham Islands, Circumnavigation, Classics Illustrated, Clipper, Count Dracula, Count Orlok, DC Comics, Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff, Doctor Mabuse, Earth, Eduardo Barreto, Eiffel Tower, Electric battery, Elseworlds, Fantômas, From the Earth to the Moon, Gil Formosa, Graphic novel, Great Pyramid of Giza, Gyrodyne, H. G. Wells, Heavy Metal (magazine), Helicopter, Human sacrifice, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Josephine Balsamo, Jules Verne, Kevin J. Anderson, Kevin O'Neill (comics), Kim Newman, Léon Benett, Lift (force), Master of the World (1961 film), Master of the World (novel), Multirotor, ..., Mystery airship, Ottoman Empire, Philadelphia, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Propeller (aeronautics), Pseudonym, Push-pull configuration, Quercus robur, Rotwang, Smithsonian Institution, Statue of Liberty, Strategic bombing, Sven Lindqvist, Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South, The Bloody Red Baron, The First Men in the Moon, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, The Lottery Ticket, The Shadow, Timeline of aviation – 19th century, Victorian era, Vincent Price, Voyages extraordinaires, World War I. Expand index (25 more) »
Airplane
An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.
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Airship
An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power.
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.
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Alternate history
Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.
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Arthur Constantin Krebs
Arthur Constantin Krebs (16 November 1850 in Vesoul, France – 22 March 1935 in Quimperlé, France) was a French officer and pioneer in automotive engineering.
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Autorotation
Autorotation is a state of flight in which the main rotor system of a helicopter or similar aircraft turns by the action of air moving up through the rotor, as with an autogyro, rather than engine power driving the rotor.
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Balloon
A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, air or water.
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Batman
Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).
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Brian Augustyn
Brian Augustyn (born November 2, 1954) is an American comic book editor and writer.
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Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo—also known as Prince Dakkar—is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905).
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Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius
Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius is a novel by Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2002 by Pocket Books.
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Character (arts)
A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).
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Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor.
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Charles Renard
Charles Renard (1847–1905) born in Damblain, Vosges, was a French military engineer.
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Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation is navigation completely around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).
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Classics Illustrated
Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.
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Clipper
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the middle third of the 19th century, generally either a schooner or a brigantine.
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Count Dracula
Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.
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Count Orlok
Count Orlok (Graf Orlok) is the main antagonist and title character portrayed by German actor Max Schreck (1879–1936) in the classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.
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Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff
Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff (The Air Pirate and His Steerable Airship) was a German dime novel with 165 issues from 1908–1911.
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Doctor Mabuse
Doctor Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in the novel Dr.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Eduardo Barreto
Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra (1954 – December 15, 2011) was an Uruguayan artist who worked in the comic book and comic strip industries including several years of prominent work for DC Comics.
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Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (tour Eiffel) is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
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Electric battery
An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, smartphones, and electric cars.
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Elseworlds
Elseworlds was the publication imprint for American comic books produced by DC Comics for stories that took place outside the DC Universe canon.
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Fantômas
Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).
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From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.
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Gil Formosa
Gil Formosa is a French cartoonist and an illustrator.
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Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.
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Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
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Gyrodyne
A gyrodyne is a type of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system that is driven by its engine for takeoff and landing and also includes one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica.
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Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.
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Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual.
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Jean-Marc Lofficier
Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22, 1954) is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comics and translations of a number of animation screenplays.
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Josephine Balsamo
Josephine Balsamo (a.k.a. Countess Cagliostro) is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of Arsène Lupin, the notorious gentleman burglar created by Maurice Leblanc.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author with over 50 bestsellers.
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Kevin O'Neill (comics)
Kevin O'Neill (born 1953) is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law (with writer Pat Mills), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (with Alan Moore).
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Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer.
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Léon Benett
Léon Benett (born Hippolyte Léon Benet; 1839–1917) was a French painter and illustrator.
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Lift (force)
A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts a force on it.
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Master of the World (1961 film)
Master of the World is a 1961 science fiction film based upon the Jules Verne novels Robur the Conqueror and its sequel, Master of the World.
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Master of the World (novel)
Master of the World (Maître du monde), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne.
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Multirotor
A multirotor or multicopter is a rotorcraft with more than two rotors.
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Mystery airship
Mystery airships or phantom airships are a class of unidentified flying objects best known from a series of newspaper reports originating in the western United States and spreading east during late 1896 and early 1897.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher.
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Propeller (aeronautics)
An aircraft propeller, or airscrew,Beaumont, R.A.; Aeronautical Engineering, Odhams, 1942, Chapter 13, "Airscrews".
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).
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Push-pull configuration
An aircraft constructed with a push-pull configuration has a combination of forward-mounted (tractor) propellers and backward-mounted (pusher) propellers.
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Quercus robur
Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.
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Rotwang
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
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Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale or its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both.
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Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist (born April 28, 1932) is a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction, whose works include Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing.
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Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South
Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (Nord contre Sud) is the full title of the English translation of the novel written by the French science-fiction author Jules Verne, and centers on the story of James Burbank, an antislavery northerner living near Jacksonville, Florida, and Texar, a pro-slavery southerner who holds a vendetta against Burbank.
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The Bloody Red Baron
The Bloody Red Baron is a 1995 Alternate history/horror novel by British author Kim Newman.
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The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories".
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
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The Lottery Ticket
The Lottery Ticket (Un Billet de loterie, 1886) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne.
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The Shadow
The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media.
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Timeline of aviation – 19th century
This is a list of aviation-related events during the 19th century (1 January 1801 – 31 December 1900).
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.
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Voyages extraordinaires
The Voyages extraordinaires (literally Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys) is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror
