• Wells's vision of the future, implicit all through his early work and partly set forth in Anticipations and A Modern Utopia, is most fully expressed in two books written in the early 'twenties, The Dream and Men Like Gods.

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  • "The same beach that I built my boyhood sand castles and learned to flailingly swim, it was that same beach, that one legendary day, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor descended from the heavens, like gods from Olympus, in a helicopter ... and landed on those sands, " Sheen said.

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  • In one of the buildings, Hawaiian Hall, she replaced exhibits that had been arranged in chronological order with floors divided into different "realms of understanding, " covering topics like Hawaiian gods, legends and beliefs.

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  • The market, like the Greek gods on Olympus, has a cruel streak.

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  • The ascension, years later, of horror gods like Cronenberg and Raimi to critical and mainstream respectability validated all those hours of flipping through Fangoria.

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  • And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.

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  • "France still has the odd percentage of films that make it internationally, like Xavier Beauvois's 'Of Gods and Men, ' which had a very appealing humane message, " the actor adds.

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  • Gaiman, whose "Doctor Who" episode explored the doctor's most longstanding relationship in an unprecedented way, is known for the groundbreaking "The Sandman" graphic novel series and books like "Neverwhere, " "American Gods" and "Coraline, " which was turned into an Academy Award-nominated animated film in 2009.

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  • While we were hoping for the Optimus Prime (there's more than meets the eye), it looks like they've settled on Optimus Maximus (the god of gods).

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  • He would say 'I am not a god of gods, I am a human being, and I don't like to be put in this position.

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  • Sometimes called drool, Babylon, bear soup, vulture soup, white face, moustache broth, chalk and nectar of the gods, pulque is the sort of drink you have to learn to like, if only because you have never tasted anything like it before.

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