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2 unusual facts about Babel


Asian witchcraft

Solomon disbelieved not; but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind sorcery and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut.

Babel-17

Delany hoped to have Babel-17 originally published as a single volume with the novella Empire Star, but this did not happen until the 2001 reprint.


Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya

In another piece, The Library, based on the story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges, Adyanthaya makes use of the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan to explore the notion of deposits.

Babel II

Video game developer Yu Suzuki of Sega says Babel II was his main inspiration in the creation of the arcade game Psy-Phi.

Babel Middleware

Babel development and maintenance is currently funded by United States Department of Energy,

Babel Rising

Graphically, the initial inspiration was taken from the very famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose representation of the tower of Babel is part of modern imagery.

Charango

Famous film music composer Gustavo Santaolalla, composer for several popular films (including Babel, 21 Grams & The Motorcycle Diaries) makes extensive use of the Charango and Ronroco in many of his compositions.

Component-based software engineering

Part of the Babel Scientific Programming Language Interoperability System (SIDL and Babel are core technologies of the CCA and the SciDAC TASCS Center - see above.)

Empire Star

Delany hoped to have it first published as part of an Ace Double with Babel-17, but instead it was published with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom.

Hosidius Geta

Philip Hardie, "Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento," in Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner (eds), Severan culture (Cambridge, CUP, 2007).

Idil Ibrahim

Directed by Topaz Adizes (City, Seven Miles Alone) and produced by Corinne Golden Weber (Babel, 21 Grams, Revolutionary Road), it was an official selection of the 2009 Cinéma du Réel festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Intelligent design and science

Robert T. Pennock Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism.

Jeff Noon

217 Babel Street (2008) - co-written with Susanna Jones, Alison MacLeod and William Shaw, originally only available online, now no longer available

217 Babel Street was a collaborative project between four authors, Susanna Jones, Alison MacLeod, William Shaw and Noon.

Juan Campodónico

He also created the Bajofondo project alongside iconic producer and two-time Academy Award winner for Best Original Score Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain and Babel).

Les clefs de babel

Les clefs de babel (literally The keys of Babel) is a French language children's novel written by Carina Rozenfeld.

Mallku Caballero

Mallku Caballero (born 1963) was previously a Director of the Board and CTO at Babel Networks Ltd. where he led the development of Babelgum, a P2P technology web-TV platform.

Marie-Anne de La Ville

Among her clients were Madame de Grancey, an acquaintance of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and the marquis de Feuquieres, previously the client of La Voisin, who reportedly hired her to summon a demon by the name of Prince Babel.

Mostly Harmless

In the alternate ending, after the destruction of Earth, the description of the Babel fish from the earlier series is replayed with an additional section, which states that dolphins and Babel fish are acquainted, and that the dolphins' ability to travel through possibility space (first mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) and elaborated on in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish) is shared by the Babel fish as well.

Pierre-Philippe Choffard

While still very young he showed great aptitude for drawing flowers and ornaments, and was placed with an engraver of maps named Dheulland, but he afterwards received lessons from Babel, an engraver of ornaments, and is said to have had also the benefit of the advice of Nicolas Edelinck, Balechou, and Cochin.

Robert Fyfe

He appeared in the movies Xtro, The 51st State, Around the World in 80 Days and Babel.

Ryan Babel

One of the first Premier League players to use Twitter to communicate with fans, in January 2011, Babel posted an photoshopped image on Twitter of referee Howard Webb in a Manchester United shirt following Liverpool's 1–0 defeat to United in the FA Cup.

The Dragons of Babel

Later on, Will travels with Centaurs, acquires a surrogate daughter named Esme who has no memory of her past and may be immortal, witnesses the clash of Giants, and travels to Babel as a refugee.

Tina Chancey

Baroque Recorder Concerti - Concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi, Graupner, Naudot, and Babel featuring recorder virtuoso Scott Reiss.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Lenkiewicz has participated in many group exhibitions including Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg in 2011; as well as Babel, in Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille in 2012.


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