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== [[The Bible]] ==
===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** ''More than Rubies'', multi-issue arc (Proverbs 31:10)
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]:
** ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' (novel) (Psalm 23:4)
** ''[[Stranger in
** ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' (novel) (Revelation 13:18)
** "[[Let There Be Light]]" (short story) (Genesis 1:3)
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** ''Vengeance Is Mine!'' (Romans 12:19)
* [[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld]]''
** ''[[
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] series
** ''Clouds Of Witness'' (Hebrews 12:1)
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** "Revelations"
** "Passing Through Gethsemane" (allusion to Matthew 26:36 or Mark 14:32)
*
** "Valley of Darkness" (Psalms 23:4)
** "Exodus"
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== Shakespeare ==
===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** "Sound and Fury" (''[[Macbeth]]'' V.i)
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** ''First Gravedigger'', novel (minor character in ''[[Hamlet]]'')
* [[Terry Pratchett]]
** ''[[
* Marcel Proust
** ''Remembrance of Things Past'' (Sonnet 30), English translation of the novel ''A la recherche du temps perdu''. Proust actually objected to the Shakespeare reference in the title, which his publisher insisted on in order to boost sales. Nowadays the title is usually translated literally: "[[In Search Of Lost Time]]".
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== Lord Acton ==
=== Comic Books ===
* "Absolute Power", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (letter to Mandell Creighton)▼
* ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'', radio show▼
* ''Absolute Power'', the Marvel [[Ultimate Universe]]/Squadron Supreme crossover miniseries.
=== Literature ===
* ''Absolute Power'', novel by David Baldacci, later made into a movie starring [[Clint Eastwood]]
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* "Absolute Power", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (letter to Mandell Creighton)
=== Radio ===
▲* ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'', radio show
== Douglas Adams ==
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== John Quincy Adams ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Ensigns of Command", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ("The Wants of Man", poem)
== Aeschylus ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (title of play)
=== Theatre ===
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''[[Beast Machines]]'' episode▼
* ''Prometheus Unbound'', play by Percy Shelley
=== Western Animation ===
▲* "Prometheus Unbound", ''[[Beast Machines]]'' episode
== Archimedes ==
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== [[Aristotle]] ==
===
* "Men of Good Fortune", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (''Rhetoric'', treatise)
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== Isaac Asimov ==
=== Literature ===
* The titles of ''In Memory Yet Green'' and ''In Joy Still Felt'' -- a two-volume autobiography -- were drawn by the author from a poem by [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]]. It's something of a [[Zig-Zagging Trope]], though, since it's ''Asimov's'' autobiography.
== James Aubrey ==
=== Comic Books ===
* ''Brief Lives'', multi-issue ''[[The Sandman]]'' arc and subsequent single-volume collection (title of biography collection)
== The Bhagavad Gita ==
=== Literature ===
* "I Am Become Death", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Given the nuclear explosion during this episode, this is almost certainly by way of Oppenheimer, who was quoting the Bhagavad Gita.▼
* ''[[Known Space|Destroyer Of Worlds]]'', by [[Larry Niven]]
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* "I Am Become Death", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Given the nuclear explosion during this episode, this is almost certainly by way of Oppenheimer, who was quoting the Bhagavad Gita.
=== Meta ===
* On this very wiki: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]
== Otto von Bismarck ==
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== Ray Bradbury ==
=== Film ===
* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' - The [[Michael Moore]] documentary about the presidency of [[George W. Bush]], referencing Bradbury's classic ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''. Mr. Bradbury accused Mr. Moore of "stealing" his title, though he himself has invoked the Literary Allusion Title several times in his career.
== John Bradford ==
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== W. B. Cannon ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Fight or Flight", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' (''Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement'', scientific paper)
== Lewis Carroll ==
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== Johnny Cash ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Folsom Prison Blues", ''Supernatural'' episode (title of song)
== Raymond Chandler ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Casualty]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Dallas]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Duet]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Flying Blind]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Full House]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Growing Pains]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[McLeod's Daughters]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Persuaders!]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Rifleman]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Torkelsons]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode (title of novel)
== Child Ballads / folk songs ==
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== Arthur Conan Doyle ==
=== Literature ===
* ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]'', novel by Mark Haddon ("Silver Blaze", short story)
== Al Dubin ==
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== Euripides ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Whom Gods Destroy", ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode ("Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad", epigram)
== Eleanor Farjeon ==
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== John Fogerty ==
=== Comic Books ===
* "Bad Moon Rising", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (title of song)
=== Meta ===
* "[[Bad Moon Rising]]", All The Tropes.
== Robert Frost ==
=== Comic Books ===
* "Before I Sleep", ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)▼
*
=== Literature ===
* ''Perish Twice'', novel by Robert B. Parker ("Fire and Ice", poem)
* "The Road
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* "Before I Sleep", ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
* "Road Less Traveled", ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''Stargate: SG-1'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
=== Music ===
* "Miles to Go Before I Sleep", song recorded by Celine Dion ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
== Galileo Galilei ==
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== George Gershwin ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Rhapsody in Blue", ''[[Farscape]]'' episode (title of orchestral piece)
== W. S. Gilbert ==
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== John Milton ==
* ''[[
* ''Tripping the Light Fantastic'', album by [http://www.theenid.com/ The Enid]
* ''Tripping the Live Fantastic'', live double album by [[Paul McCartney]]
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== Jean-Paul Sartre ==
* "[[Firefly (TV series)/Recap/E14 Objects in Space|Objects in Space]]", ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode (''Being and Nothingness'', book)
* "Other People", short story by Neil Gaiman (''No Exit'', play)
* "No Exit", episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' (title of play)
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