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The Liexian Zhuan, sometimes translated as Biographies of Immortals, is the oldest extant Chinese hagiography of Daoist xian "transcendents; immortals; saints; alchemists". ". The text, which compiles the life stories of about 70 mythological and historical xian, was traditionally attributed to the Western Han dynasty editor and imperial librarian Liu Xiang (77–8 BCE), but internal evidence ...
Works with lone immortals can be further subdivided into those where the immortality is a secret and those where it is not. [13] Conversely, the 1990 novella Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl features a lone mortal in a world where everyone else is immortal, [9] [10] [19] as does the 2009 film Mr. Nobody. [11] [20]
Even after publication of English-language novels stopped in 2001 both publishers continued to put out original novels in Germany until license shifts occurred in 2008. By that time, Catalyst Game Labs announced that new English Shadowrun novels would be released starting in 2009. Since then, novels, novellas and "enhanced" fiction books have ...
English: PDF version of MediaWiki Users Guide from English Wikiboooks This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
1555 – Marian Restoration: Because he opposed Catholicism, John Rogers was burned at the stake (pictured) as the first English Protestant executed for heresy under the reign of Mary I. 1945 – World War II : American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest enemy-civilian internment camp run by the Empire of ...
Interactive Forms is a mechanism to add forms to the PDF file format. PDF currently supports two different methods for integrating data and PDF forms. Both formats today coexist in the PDF specification: [38] [53] [54] [55] AcroForms (also known as Acrobat forms), introduced in the PDF 1.2 format specification and included in all later PDF ...
Note that many if not most immortal characters listed here are not completely immune to death; at minimum they must at least be capable of living indefinitely and never dying from old age or natural causes. However, many of these characters are often still vulnerable to death from injuries caused by violence, suicide, or accidents.
The Immortal King Rao is a 2022 debut novel by Canadian and American writer Vauhini Vara, published by W. W. Norton & Company. The novel follows the legacy of King Rao, a tech CEO who motioned the world toward corporatocracy , as his daughter pens a letter about his rise to power. [ 1 ]