The king of Orissa had built the great temple at Puri and wished to install Jagannatha in it, and he found a Brahmin to fetch it from Seori-Narayan, but nobody knew where it was except the old hermit, Savar.

It was the elite cavalry of Sassanid Persia, who were the forerunners of the later Arabian Faris, the Caucasian horsemen, the Indian Suwar ( derived from Persian Savar ), and the Turkish Tarkhans.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

BBC Radio 4 dramatised all of the novels from 1993-2001 with June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

This supplemental rule book includes the remaining elements from the Merlin novels, such as Broken Patterns, and allows players to create Constructs such as Merlin's Ghostwheel.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

It is unknown when dual wielding was first used in fiction, but it was likely from early western novels before spilling over into other works.

Many titles for novels and films have been drawn from Housman's poetry.

* Benjamin Franklin " Hawkeye " Pierce, the fictional character from the M * A * S * H novels, film, and television program

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

His writings from this period included a series of historical novels, featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era.

A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle

* Cassiopeia Black, a pure-blood witch from Harry Potter novels

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

* Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras ( who fit certain physical requirements ) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.

Seeing the slanting hand, Kate knew uneasily that it was from the Yankee colonel.

Seeing the opportunity, Marsin ordered his cavalry to change from facing Eugene, and turn towards their right and the open flank of Churchill's infantry drawn up in front of Unterglau.

Seeing the hand of Destiny in these events his friend Brutus called the grieving party to order, explained that his simplicity had been a sham, and proposed that they drive the Tarquins from Rome.

Seeing herself the target of so much animosity she fled from the palace in fear of her life and proceeded to the camp at Ardea.

Seeing this, Caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy ’ s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back.

The Sci Fi Channel presented an audio drama series, Seeing Ear Theatre, on its website from 1997 to 2001.

Seeing Uncle Remus leaving from a distance, Johnny rushes to intercept him, taking a shortcut through the pasture, where he is attacked and seriously injured by the resident bull.

A palantír ( sometimes translated as " Seeing Stone " but literally meaning " Farsighted " or " One that Sees from Afar "; cf.

Seeing this as a sign from God he adopted the golden cross against a blue background as his banner, though the golden cross was changed later to a yellow cross due to practicality.

Seeing a flower that he has retrieved from the gutter falling apart in his hand, the girl kindly offers him a fresh flower from her shop, and a coin.

Seeing her exposed, Heracles promised to save her on condition that Laomedon would give him the wonderful horses he had received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus ' kidnapping of Ganymedes.

Seeing Timagoras dead, Meles repented and threw himself down from the same rock.

Seeing that the battle was lost, Zhang Shijie picked out his finest soldiers and cut about a dozen ships from the formation in an attempted breakout to save the emperor.

Seeing the manner in which our wounded had been mutilated after being dragged from the hospital ... we were very bitter and did not spare wounded Zulus ".

Seeing their bodies as they were processed back to Assisi, Fernando meditated on the heroism of these men ; inspired by their example, and longing for the same gift of martyrdom, he obtained permission from church authorities to leave the Augustinian Canons to join the new Franciscan Order.

Seeing the massive outflow of people from agriculture into cities, the government started to massively subsidize the cooperatives in order to make the standard of living of farmers equal to that of city inhabitants ; this was the long-term official policy of the government.

Seeing the strength of the Union attack at that point, Beauregard insisted that Johnston leave the area of immediate action and coordinate the overall battle from a position to the rear.

" Space Is Deep " and " You Shouldn't Do That " / " Seeing It As You Really Are " from this tape were released on Hawkwind Anthology.

Seeing his method didn't work he cut a piece from a birch sapling with his tomahawk and tried to kill the bear by clubbing him to death.

Seeing this, the police chief requested an investigation from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Seeing the success of this, Hinckley came up with the idea of putting in a rail line that would pass through Darby and continue all the way to the semi-rural city of Chester in what became known as the Darby Improvement Hinckley's plans met with initial resistance from farmers, and at the end of the first year, he had managed to buy only one farm.

Seeing themselves as defenders of the Union, they called themselves ' Liberal Unionists ' though at this stage most of them did not think it was going to be a permanent split from their former colleagues.