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    The Sleeper Awakes is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely...
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  • name for the chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (1731), by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on Nicolai's hymn The Sleeper Awakes (1910)...
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  • plot of the 1910 H. G. Wells novel The Sleeper Awakes. In 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Kim Newman writes that Sleeper's "vision of the future...
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    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach...
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    The Seven Sleepers (Greek: ἑπτὰ κοιμώμενοι, romanized: hepta koimōmenoi; Latin: Septem dormientes), also known in Christendom as Seven Sleepers of Ephesus...
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    Wells' The Sleeper Awakes (1910), the Sleeper identifies a cylinder ("a modern substitute for books") with "The Man Who Would Be King" written on the side...
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  • dystopian novel Brave New World and H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes. The film was released in the United States on October 8, 1993, to mixed reviews...
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  • Sleepers Awake is a progressive metal band formed in 2005 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. In 2005, friends Rob Bradley and Chris Thompson created Sleepers...
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    Rip Van Winkle (category Short stories set in the 18th century)
    Wells's The Sleeper Awakes, a man who sleeps for 203 years wakes up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world...
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    "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (literally: Awake, the voice is calling us) is a Lutheran hymn written in German by Philipp Nicolai, first published...
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  • Waterbed (category History of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    Broadway." The protagonist Graham is placed on a waterbed in a glass case during his coma of 203 years in the 1898 H. G. Wells novel "The Sleeper Awakes". Science...
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  • Their efforts are successful, and the sleeper awakes, surviving the process. Once recovered he is able to talk with the modified Russian, and discuss his...
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  • frightening vision of the future. Huxley referred to Brave New World as a "negative utopia", somewhat influenced by Wells's own The Sleeper Awakes (dealing with...
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    Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy, and When the Sleeper Awakes (1899) by H. G. Wells. Prolonged sleep, like the later more familiar time machine, is used...
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    Alarm clock (redirect from The Alarm Clock)
    prepare tea or coffee. A sound is produced when the drink is ready, so the sleeper awakes to find the freshly brewed drink waiting. Delayed sleep phase...
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    Roehampton (category Districts of the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    station is situated between the two areas. Roehampton is an important location in H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes. Roehampton, along with five...
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    The Time Machine has had two film versions (1960 and 2002) while Sleeper in part is a pastiche of Wells's 1910 novel The Sleeper Awakes. With the drop-off...
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  • Jim Perry (television personality) (category Sale of the Century)
    1990. In later years he authored two self-awareness books titled The Sleeper Awakes, A Journey to Self-Awareness (1991) and There's Gotta Be a Pony: Considerations...
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    Tannhäuser. H. G. Wells' Sleeper watches an adaption in The Sleeper Awakes (1910). He also references it in his short story "The Man Who Could Work Miracles"...
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    Metropolis (1927 film) (category Films of the Weimar Republic)
    Karel Čapek's R.U.R., and his own The Sleeper Awakes. Wells called Metropolis "quite the silliest film", but the New York Herald Tribune called it "a weird...
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  • that the "change coincided with a big life change in that I moved from London to Scotland". A year later, he released the album The Sleeper Awakes, inspired...
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  • Floyd C. Gale was more positive in his 1957 review, comparing the book to The Sleeper Awakes and writing that "Heinlein paints a detailed picture of both...
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  • Sanford and Son, as indicated by the theme music heard. The episode is a loose adaption of the novel The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells, where a time traveler...
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    H. G. Wells (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes (1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more...
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    Story of the Days To Come" (1897) and When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) (also republished as The Sleeper Awakes), written by H. G. Wells, which take place...
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  • in the Heart of Helsinki is the first live album and video by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It was recorded live on 21 March 2014 at the Circus...
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  • Anthony West (author) (category British expatriates in the United States)
    author and literary critic. West was born Anthony Panther West Fairfield, the son of British authors Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. His parents never married...
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    variants such as "Katy Dear", "Molly Dear", "The Green Fields and Meadows", "Awake, Awake, Ye Drowsy Sleepers" and others (Laws M4 & G21, Roud 711, 2260...
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  • Wells' The Sleeper Awakes (1899, 1910) predicted the spirit of the 20th century: technically advanced, undemocratic and bloody. Next to prognoses of the future...
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    "The Door in the Wall" is a short story by H. G. Wells first published in the Daily Chronicle in 1906 and first collected in his The Country of the Blind...
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