The Crichton

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John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology. His novels often explore that technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background. Crichton received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead. Initially writing under a pseudonym, he eventually wrote 26 novels, including The Andromeda Strain , The Terminal Man , The Great Train Robbery , Congo , Sphere , Jurassic Park , Rising Sun , Disclosure , The Lost World , Airframe , Timeline , Prey , State of Fear , and Next . Several novels, in various states of completion, were published after his death in 2008. Crichton was also involved in the film and television industry. In 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to utilize 2D computer-generated imagery. He also directed Coma , The First Great Train Robbery , Looker , and Runaway . He was the creator of the television series ER and several of his novels were adapted into movies, most notably the Jurassic Park franchise.

Cusworth Hall

Doncaster

Cusworth Hall ist ein Landhaus aus dem 18. Jahrhundert im Dorf Cusworth in der Nähe von Doncaster in englischen Verwaltungsbezirk South Yorkshire. Das von English Heritage als historisches Gebäude I. Grades gelistete Haus liegt inmitten des Landschaftsparks Cusworth Park und ist ein gutes Beispiel für ein Landhaus im georgianischen Stil. Heute beherbergt es ein Museum. Das Landhaus wurde aus Werkstein gebaut und mit Schiefer eingedeckt. Das Haupthaus ist rechteckig und hat eine Teilung von 6 × 5. Angeschlossen sind zwei Flügel für die Dienerschaft mit einer Teilung von 5 × 2.

Dartford Borough Council

Dartford

The Borough of Dartford is a local government district in the north-west of the county of Kent, England. Its council is based in the town of Dartford. It is part of the contiguous London urban area. It borders the borough of Gravesham to the east, Sevenoaks District to the south, the London Borough of Bexley to the west, and the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex to the north, across the River Thames. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Dartford, the Swanscombe Urban District, and part of the Dartford Rural District. According to the 2011 Census, its population was 97,365.

Darwen Library

Darwen

Darwen is a market town and civil parish located in Lancashire, England. Along with its northerly neighbour, Blackburn, it forms the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen — a unitary authority area. Its residents are known as "Darreners". The main road through Darwen is the A666 towards Blackburn to the north and Bolton to the south, and ultimately at the Pendlebury boundary with Irlams o' th' Height where it joins the A6, about 18 miles north-west of Manchester. Darwen's population decreased to 28,046 in 2011 and is made up of five wards. The town stands on the River Darwen, which flows from south to north and is visible only in the outskirts of the town, as within the town centre it runs underground.

Dean Castle

Kilmarnock

Dean Castle liegt im Dean Castle Country Park bei Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Schottland. Der Name stammt von „The Dean“ ab, einer schottischen Bezeichnung für ein bewaldetes Tal. Die Burg ist der Stammsitz der Familie Boyd. Auch vor der Ernennung zu Baronen war das Oberhaupt der Familie zugleich erblicher Chief des Clan Boyd und damit schon seit Jahrhunderten der Herr von Kilmarnock. Dean Castle besitzt eine enge Beziehung zu herausragenden Persönlichkeiten und bemerkenswerten Ereignissen der schottischen Geschichte: König Robert I. ‚the Bruce‘ gab der Familie Boyd das Land zum Dank für ihre Dienste in der Schlacht von Bannockburn; König Jakobs III. Schwester Mary heiratete in die Familie ein; einige wichtige Covenanters waren hier inhaftiert; Bonnie Prince Charlies Aufstand wurde von William, 4. Earl of Kilmarnock unterstützt. Robert Burns wurde hier vom damaligen Besitzer, dem Earl of Glencairn, ermutigt, seine Werke zu veröffentlichen.

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. First formed around 1731, the department incorporates the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Oxford

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education is a department within the University of Oxford that provides continuing education mainly for part-time and mature students. It is located at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford, England. Some 15,000 students comprise the department, of which roughly 5,000 study for an Oxford University award or credit-bearing course. Other types of course offered by the department include online courses, short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend courses and summer schools.

Dorman Museum

Middlesbrough

Dorman Museum is a local and social history museum located in Linthorpe within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. From its official opening on 1 July 1904 initial thematical leanings were towards the natural sciences, although galleries of the local Linthorpe Pottery, work by eminent Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser and the history of Middlesbrough, have largely replaced this emphasis. The remains of the original Victorian/Edwardian collection of stuffed and mounted animals is now in a single room, the Nelson Room, and consists of various taxidermied birds in their original cases with painted decorative backgrounds, and a variety of birds' eggs. The museum was founded by Sir Arthur Dorman of the Dorman Long engineering company in honour of his son George Lockwood Dorman, who died of enteric fever at Kroonstad in the Second Boer War.It is one of two cultural institutions run by Middlesbrough Borough Council along with the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. Having undergone major refurbishment and extension it reopened in 2003 and is home to a wide variety of collections.

Dumfries House

Auchinleck

Dumfries House ist ein Herrenhaus rund zwei Kilometer westlich der schottischen Stadt Cumnock in der Council Area East Ayrshire. 1971 wurde das Bauwerk in die schottischen Denkmallisten in die höchste Kategorie A aufgenommen. Auf den weitläufigen Ländereien des Herrenhauses befinden sich drei weitere Kategorie-A-Bauwerke, ein Taubenhaus, eine Brücke sowie zwei Lodges.