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A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.
The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, Molotov had really proposed, we just don't know, and he has had no chance to reply.
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.
aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.
Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.
`` She says she has to finish a story ''.
In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.
For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.
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.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.
" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.
In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".
The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.
Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).
* Short story, The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race ( La Passion considérée comme course de côte ), has been widely circulated and imitated, notably by J. G.
His life has often been referred to as a true " rags to riches " story.
The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus ' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule.
He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.
The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt.

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All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.
Finding peaceful coexistence temporarily unsuitable because of domestic politics, Moscow resumed scowling and `` Smilin' Mike '' dropped quietly out of the press except for an occasional story reporting that he had been stoned somewhere in the Middle West.
If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow
She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.
Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.
* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
Variations of the story include that Dionysus had been insulted by a mortal and swore to slay the next mortal who crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his wrath.
A story has been preserved by Rufinus ( Hist.
The customer specifies scenarios to test when a user story has been correctly implemented.
* unlikely headlines, such as " SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN A CHIMNEY ", for which the copy in its entirety was " The story to fit this fantastical headline has not been thought up yet.
Television series executive producer Marti Noxon later reflected that this story might have been produced by the studio in order to frighten Whedon into taking the reins of the project.
Furthermore, he says, the story of the defeat of the ten kingdoms has been deleted and replaced by 19: 9-10.
However, Ruth's and Naomi's story has also occasionally been interpreted as sexual in nature.
The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).
Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.
The story of Jonah has numerous theological implications, and this has long been recognized.
A story was running at the time that Dr Chai Patel and others had been recommended for Life peerages after lending the Labour party money.
However, this version of the story of the declaration's origins has been described as " fanciful ", a fair assessment considering that discussions between Weizmann and Balfour had begun at least a decade earlier.

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* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )
* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )
Introduced by Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a " true crime " story.
The story of the Babington Plot is dramatised in the novel Conies in the Hay by Jane Lane.
( While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan / Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare's play.
His story was also dramatised in films such as The Last Emperor.
The 101st Airborne Division did fight in Nuenen, although the story was dramatised for the television series.
The story was dramatised in 1954 for Lux Radio Theatre, with Rennie and Billy Gray recreating their roles and Jean Peters speaking the dialogue of the Patricia Neal character.
In 1988 she narrated a dramatised television documentary, Silent Mouse, which told the story of the creation of the Christmas carol Silent Night.
Hogg's story " The Brownie Of The Black Haggs " was dramatised for BBC radio 4 in 2003 by Scottish playwright Marty Ross as part of his " Darker Side Of The Border " series.
In the week beginning 12 April 2010 BBC Radio 4 dramatised in five parts a story about the long relationship between Sarah Siddons and the famous artist Thomas Lawrence.
The serial had three strands: a monologue from Kneale recounting the background to the creation and writing of the original 1950s serials ; archive material from both the original productions and contemporary news broadcasts ; and a dramatised strand set shortly before the 1979 serial, with Quatermass being visited in retreat in Scotland by a reporter eager to write his life story.
" She received her best-known role when she was asked to play a villainous warrior woman named Xena in the episode " The Warrior Princess ", which aired in March 1995 ( R. J. Stewart, one of Pacific Renaissance Pictures ' in-house writers, dramatised the teleplay from a story that Robert G. " Rob " Tapert commissioned John Schulian to write ).
Broadcast on BBC2 on 18 February 1969, the story was dramatised by Robert Muller and directed by Rudolph Cartier and the music and sound effects were created by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Thunderbolt's story has been dramatised several times.
The story was dramatised in the 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, starring James Mason ( who plays the Dutch Captain Hendrick van der Zee ) and Ava Gardner ( who plays Pandora ).
Part of his life story was dramatised in the musical Song of Norway.
In 1988, he had a leading role in a dramatised television documentary telling the story of the creation of the Christmas carol Silent Night, called Silent Mouse.
The story was dramatised as a TV miniseries, Through My Eyes ( 2004 ), with Miranda Otto and Craig McLachlan as the Chamberlains.
The story was dramatised as part of the Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett.
It was first published in England between 1704 and 1714 ; and this story was dramatised in 1788 by John O ' Keefe for Covent Garden.
Other productions included an early example of a formatted documentary, Thighs, Lies & Beauty, an investigation of the myths and reality surrounding the beauty business for BBC1 ; The Art of Tripping, a 2 hour dramatised documentary for Channel Four on drug taking and the arts starring Bernard Hill ; a Frontline ( Channel Four ) current affairs film featuring the story of South African Jann Turner whose father was assassinated in front of her when she was 13, and as an adult returns to South Africa to look at the arguments for revenge versus reconciliation in the new South Africa ; Steven Spielberg on " Schindler's List " and Tom Hanks & The World According to Gump, both for the BBC ; and Wagner vs Wagner, for Channel Four, featuring Richard Wagner's great grandson on the composer's political and cultural legacy of anti-semitism and race hatred.
In 1983 an episode of the New Zealand television series Pioneer Women dramatised her story.
This film ran about one hundred minutes but as it is a documentary, not a dramatised story, it is not considered to be a feature film.

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