James Hilton (novelist) picked "Lost Horizon" as its first title in 1939. For that reason, the novel is frequently called the book that began the "paperback revolution." Hilton is said to have been inspired to write "Lost Horizon", and to invent "Shangri-La" by reading the "National Geographic Magazine" articles of Joseph Rock, an Austrian-American botanist and ethnologist exploring the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands. Still living in Britain at the time, Hilton was perhaps influenced by the Tibetan travel articles of early travellers in Tibet whose writings were found in the British Library. Christian Zeeman, the Danish father of the mathematician Christopher
Paradise Lost (Symphony X album) Paradise Lost (Symphony X album) Paradise Lost is the seventh studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released on June 26, 2007 through Inside Out Music. It is a concept album loosely inspired by John Milton's 1667 epic poem "Paradise Lost". The album was the band's first to chart on the U.S. "Billboard" 200, reaching No. 123 and remaining on that chart for a week, as well as reaching No. 1 on "Billboard"'s Heatseekers and the top 100 in five other countries. The album's release had been delayed numerous times since the announcement on November 16, 2005 that the