Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

These names are from the love story of, Qī Xī, in which Niú Láng and his two children, β and γ Aquilae, are separated from their mother, (, ), the star Vega, by the Milky Way.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

She had run out of things to say to Noel and so she told him a story about " four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.

Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) gives the same story but names the runner Philippides ( not Pheidippides ).

One story names his origins as the exhausted breath of An ( god of the heavens ) and Ki ( goddess of the Earth ) after sexual union.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

In this, the murdered king has two sons — Hroar and Helgi — who spend most of the story in disguise, under false names, rather than feigning madness, in a sequence of events that differs from Shakespeare's.

The names of the days of the week are modeled on the seven days mentioned in the Creation story.

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.

Taking their names from the story of Lot in the Book of Genesis, " Lot " and " Lot's Wife " are two solitary pillars of rock topping two valleys near Sandy Bay.

The 1963 edition of the short story collection The Happy Highwayman contains examples of abandoned revisions ; in one story published in the 1930s (" The Star Producers "), references to actors of the 1930s were replaced for 1963 with names of current movie stars ; another 1930s-era story, " The Man Who Was Lucky ", added references to atomic power.

Stolen tells the story of five fictional Aboriginal children by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne, and Shirley.

The words will often follow a theme, such as TV cops ' names or types of curry, and will sometimes spell out a sentence, rarely relevant, if read separately from the story.

The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings ; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work ; the names of characters such as " Gandolf " and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End.

Z-code files usually have names ending in. z1,. z2,. z3,. z4,. z5,. z6,. z7 or. z8, where the number is the version number of the Z-machine on which the file is intended to be run, as given by the first byte of the story file.

These company names are listed on the upper story windows of what is now the Main Street USA section of Walt Disney World:

Popular legends include an ox named " Bloem " owned by one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fountain on his property, while another story names Jan Blom ( 1775 – 1858 ), a Korana KhoiKhoi leader who inhabited the area.

The story took some liberties — for instance, the " Dragons " of Venus were portrayed as humanoids and the planets ' names were changed — but the spirit of the story was relatively faithful.

A Korean folk story relates how, when he was young, Uisang fell in love with a beautiful girl, Myo Hwa (" Delicate Flower ") but she was chosen by the king of Silla to be sent as a gift to the Chinese Emperor thus thwarting their relationship.

* Lauren Groff's short story " L. DeBard and Aliette " from her collection Delicate Edible Birds recreates the story of Héloïse and Abélard, set in 1918 New York.

* With Delicate Mad Hands ( 1981, winner of the Hayakawa Award for foreign short story in 1993 )

The first Cardinal story, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers ' Association Silver Dagger, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best novel.

The elaborate " Passing of the Veils " ceremony is essential to the Royal Arch Degree in the Irish system and after it is completed it is followed immediately by the Royal Arch degree itself, containing the story of the restoration of Solomon's Temple under King Josiah.

Based on a story by Jeff Arch, it stars Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin and Meg Ryan as Annie Reed.

Arch: a promoter, not a poet: the story of Arch Ward.

According to historian Arch Getty, Nicolaevsky's story is a " persistent myth.

The A, B, and C exhibit halls extend across 12 < sup >< u > th </ sup ></ u > Street one story up ( the 200 level ) from the street level ( 100 level ), between 11 < sup >< u > th </ sup ></ u > and 13 < sup >< u > th </ sup ></ u > Streets and Arch and Race Streets.

The story climaxes during the purification ceremonies of Belial's Day Eve with an intellectual confrontation between Dr. Poole and the Arch Vicar, the head of the Church of Belial ( much like the confrontation John the Savage has with Mustapha Mond in Brave New World ).

* THE MOURNER: In a Landscape of Sadness, Offering Just Her Presence, New York Times, 10 / 1 / 2001 the story of Carol O ' Neill, wife of a founder of Sandler O ' Neill

The examples Aarseth gives include a diverse group of texts: wall inscriptions of the temples in ancient Egypt that are connected two-dimensionally ( on one wall ) or three dimensionally ( from wall to wall or room to room ); the I Ching ; Apollinaire ’ s Calligrammes in which the words of the poem “ are spread out in several directions to form a picture on the page, with no clear sequence in which to be read ”; Marc Saporta ’ s Composition No. 1, Roman, a novel with shuffleable pages ; Raymond Queneau ’ s One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems ; B. S. Johnson ’ s The Unfortunates ; Milorad Pavic ’ s Landscape Painted with Tea ; Joseph Weizenbaum ’ s ELIZA ; Ayn Rand ’ s play Night of January 16th, in which members of the audience form a jury and choose one of two endings ; William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter ’ s Racter ; Michael Joyce ’ s Afternoon: a story ; Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle ’ s Multi-User Dungeon ( aka MUD1 ); and James Aspnes ’ s TinyMUD.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

But the Garibaldi volumes were more than a romantic story.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

The story goes that the Fairies of Doon Hill were angry with the Rev.

The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer ( or in another version of the story, she changed herself into a doe ) and jumped out between them.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

A 1950 cover story in Time even included photos of two of his employees, whose roles in the production were detailed by Capp.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.

The next few years, continuing this story in a fairy-tale manner, were hard and poverty stricken, but cramful of useful experience.