Selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos ' translation of Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques, retold for young people.

The first aircraft to successfully take off from water was Henri Fabre's Fabre Hydravion, first flown on 28 March 1910.

Jean-Henri Fabre's last home and office, the Harmas de Fabre in Provence, stands today as a museum devoted to his life and works.

Among Fabre's other plays are the Convalescent de qualité ( 1791 ), and L ' Intrigue épistolaire ( 1791, supposedly including a depiction of the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze ).

* Insects, New Delhi, National Book Trust of India, Revised edition 1994.

* Insects, New Delhi, National Book Trust.

* Modern Classification of Insects, Agra, Satish Book Enterprise, 1974.

* Insects, New Delhi, National Book Trust, 1971, 1977

* Indian Insects, Agra, Satish Book Enterprises.

In 1170, the Book of Ely retold and embroidered the story and made the battle two fights, with the second being a fortnight long against overwhelming odds.

* The Boy's Mabinogion ( 1881 ), based on the early Welsh legends of King Arthur, as retold in the Red Book of Hergest.

* ( 1952 ) Famous Chinese Short Stories, retold by Lin Yutang, The John Day Book Company, reprinted 1952, Washington Square Press

Anant Pai ( 17 September 1929 – 24 February 2011 ), popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters.

When Andrew Lang retold the first ( in 1889 ) for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the hero's name as " Charming "; the second, for The Green Fairy Book, as " King Charming ".

Many stories about these early singers were retold in the Kitab al-Aghani or Book of Songs by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.

* 2000 Blue Peter Book of the Year, the inaugural Blue Peter Book Award, for The Pilgrim's Progress retold

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

* Animal Farm Book Notes from Literapedia

There was keen competition between the two from the introduction of the The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing | Algebra into Europe in the 12th century until its triumph in the 16th.

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

One might add to this list Alfred's translation, in his law code, of excerpts from the Vulgate Book of Exodus.

Textual scholars attribute the biblical genealogy to the Book of Generations, a document originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source.

Homer mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book 4 of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War.

AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

* The Archbishopric of Canterbury, from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest, by John William Lamb ", Published 1971, Faith Press, from Google Book Search

He wrote a book called Al-Tibb min al-Kitab wa-al-Sunna ( Medicine from the Book and the Life of the Prophet ) describing the Islamic medical practices from the time of Muhammad.

* MP3 CD, a disc that contains MP3 files in Yellow Book format rather than converted from MP3 to Red Book format

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

With this connection, Anubis became the patron god of embalmers: during the funerary rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a priest wearing the jackal mask supporting the upright mummy.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

However, in other sources such as the Book of Jubilees ( chapter 10 v. 18-27 ), Cornelius Alexander ( frag.

Book on Alexander Selkirk

Alexander Dallas Bache: Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century Book ( New York / Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2011 ).

According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.

"' Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules ': three early medieval poems from the ' Book of Taliesin.

1-9 ) and the Book of Arda Viraf dates Zoroaster 258 years before the era of Alexander the Great ( 356-323 BC ) which dates Zoroaster from 614-581 BC.

Other major illustration projects included an 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, and the collection A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley ( 1897 ).

There were also prose translations of French books of chivalry that survive from the 1450s, including The Book of the Law of Armys and the Order of Knychthode and the treatise Secreta Secetorum, an Arabic work believed to be Aristotle's advice to Alexander the Great.

" The Death of Koschei the Deathless " is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, which itself is included in The Red Fairy Book.

John White Alexander, Manuscript Book mural ( 1896 ), Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D. C.

These British Book of Knowledge encyclopedias were edited not by Arthur Mee, but by a series of different editors including Harold FB Wheeler ( The Book of Knowledge, circa 1935 ), John Alexander Hammerton ( The Book of Knowledge, 1955 ) and Gordon Stowell ( The New Book of Knowledge, 1959 ).

* Alexander Jones ( 1986 ) Book 7 of the Collection, part 1: introduction, text, translation ISBN 0-387-96257-3, part 2: commentary, index, figures ISBN 3-540-96257-3, Springer-Verlag.

* The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus wrote the Library of World History, of which Book 17 covers the conquests of Alexander.

Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10 ( Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 ) ( Clarendon ancient history series ).

As a result, his niece " Janet Alexander, only daughter of John Alexander and the deceased Agnes Graham " received her uncle's share in the lands of Gartmore ( Sheriff Court Book, Stirling ).

Book five is about the reign of Elagabalus from 218 through 222, and book six deals with the reign of Severus Alexander from 222 to 235.

* Rumble, Alexander R. “ Exeter Book .” Medieval England: an Encyclopedia.

Even though Alexander Pope made her a centerpoint in the heroic games of The Dunciad in Book II — she is, in Pope's view, " vacuous "– he does not dismiss her for being a woman, but for having nothing of her own to say.

Also deserving mention is Alexander Delamaine ( died 1687 ), a wealthy London tobacco merchant who began The Great Book in 1682, which became the Muggletonian archive.