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he tells stories of the Thousand and One Nights, and conjures up before us the bazaars of Damascus.
In the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherazade is portrayed as being the " voice of sanity and mercy ", with her philosophical position being generally opposed to punishment by death.
The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).
The most famous fables from the Middle East were the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights.
* One Thousand and One Nights ( also known as Arabian Nights, ca.
The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.
One Thousand and One Nights was the first erotic animated feature film, and at 130 minutes, it remains one of the longest animated films.
Arabic Manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights dating back to the 1300s
* A Thousand and One Nights with Toho ( 東宝千一夜 Toho senichi-ya ) ( 1947 )
* Some of the tales of Sinbad the Sailor from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights were taken from the Odyssey.
It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).
The appearance of Antoine Galland's first modern translation of the Thousand and One Nights ( or Arabian Nights ) ( from 1704 ; another translation appeared in 1710 – 12 ) would have an enormous influence on the 18th century European short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and others.
A well-known story in the collection One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea.
In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.
Fiammetta tells this story, which originates from The Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Some suggest One Thousand and One Nights or the Ephesian Tale may have given some inspiration to the author for this tale, but not enough that either could definitely been called a source.
Other notable previous recordings of it include Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, the Pantschantantra, and One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.

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In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).
Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.
Burton's original 10 volumes were followed by a further six entitled The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, which were printed between 1886 and 1888.
* Poetry from " The Thousand Nights and One Night " read in English-Mathers version
* The Wild Wild West ( 1965 ) episode The Night of a Thousand Eyes ... Peavey
* Night Has a Thousand Eyes ( 1948 )
* Cornell Woolrich – Night Has a Thousand Eyes
She became a stalwart nostalgia feature of TV variety shows such as The Night Of A Thousand Stars and The Good Old Days.
He became a familiar face to movie audiences throughout the 1960s, notably for his performances in A Thousand Clowns ( 1965 ) ( repeating his stage performance ), The Night They Raided Minsky's ( 1968 ) and Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).
In May of 2012, she headlined at the Night of a Thousand Gowns, a huge charity gala in NYC, where she also filmed a cameo for Adam Barta's new " Q & A " music video.
* A Thousand Nights and a Night ( Shadow Night-1 ) ( 1996 )
* The Thousand Faces of Night ( 1961 )
* Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy
In one of the tales in Burton's 1885 translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Kafur, the eunuch, says:
Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize in 1993
* Sir Richard Burton-The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 by Richard Francis Burton, printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only, printed in the USA
For one of his famous parties, on 24 June 1911, " The Thousand and Second Night " ( based on The Arabian Nights ), he required his over 300 guests to dress in Oriental costuming.
Broadway credits include starring or supporting roles in 1776, A Thousand Clowns, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and A Little Night Music.
*( 1960 ) One Thousand and One Night Stands ( autobiography, with Gray Poole )
Strasser was an Honorary Chair of the Imperial Court of New York's Annual Charity Coronation Ball, " Night of A Thousand Gowns ," on March 21, 2009.
She was previously made a Dame of the Imperial Court of New York in March 2007, and attended the 2008 " Night of A Thousand Gowns.

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The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.
Maharishi Sthapatya Veda is a system of architectural and planning principles based on " ancient Sanskrit texts " The movement also operates numerous schools and universities, offers monastic programs called Mother Divine and Thousand Headed Purusha, operates health centers such as The Raj and Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center, assorted businesses such as Maharishi Ayurveda Products International and several TM-centered communities.
This device occurs in the One Thousand and One Nights, which binds several tales in a story cycle.
The literary device of the unreliable narrator was used in several fictional medieval Arabic tales of the One Thousand and One Nights.
The One Thousand and One Nights collection includes several tales featuring " sea people ", such as " Djullanar the Sea-girl ".
There are also several swamps and ponds, including Lake Buel on the Monterey line, and the Thousand Acre Swamp in the southeast corner.
The events were also celebrated in literature, with several publications, including Asinius Quadratus's History of a Thousand Years, specially prepared for the anniversary.
The city has several music, art and dance organizations, such as Brockville Artists Studio Association, Brockville Community Choir, Brockville Concert Association, Brockville Musicians ' Association, Brockville Operatic Society, City of Brockville Pipe Band, and the Thousand Islanders Chorus.
On several Midniters ' songs, in particular the live version of " Land of a Thousand Dances ", Drummer George Salazar is as ferocious as the best rock players of the time.
The One Thousand and One Nights is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several other works.
The classic, however, continued to circulate in other parts of the Chinese-speaking world with its inclusion in the Chinese Almanac ( 通勝 ) along with several other classics such as the Thousand Character Classic.
The power of the Barmakids in those times is reflected in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ; the vizier Ja ' far appears in several stories, as well as a tale that gave rise to the expression " Barmecide feast ".
They ultimately donated several hundred acres of their personal property to the newly formed Conejo Valley YMCA for the city of Thousand Oaks, California, both of which celebrated their 40th anniversaries in 2004.
The McCreas ultimately donated several hundred acres of their personal property to the newly formed Conejo Valley YMCA for the city of Thousand Oaks, California.
The Thousand and One Nights is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several other works.
Maharishi Sthapatya Veda is a system of architectural and planning principles based on " ancient Sanskrit texts " The movement also operates numerous schools and universities, offers monastic programs called Mother Divine and Thousand Headed Purusha, operates health centers such as The Raj and Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center, assorted businesses such as Maharishi Ayurveda Products International and several TM-centered communities.
This device dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, which connects several tales together in a story cycle.
The main historical sources are to be found in the Chinese histories ( particularly detailed during the Han and early Tang dynasties ), the accounts of several Chinese pilgrim monks, a few Buddhist histories of Hotan that have survived in Tibetan, and a large number of documents in Khotanese and other languages discovered, for the most part, early this century at various sites in the Tarim Basin and from the hidden library at the “ Caves of the Thousand Buddhas ” near Dunhuang.
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.
In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year among several other iconic literary masterpieces such as: ' Breakfast at Tiffany ´ s ' by Truman Capote, ' Doctor Zhivago ' by Pasternak and ' Lolita ' by Nabokov.
With Carpathian Wolves, the band drew several bigger metal label ’ s attention and signed to Austrian label Lethal Records, which released Thousand Swords, which is seen as the band ’ s best release and as a cult album by many fans and black metal scene members, in 1995.
The family lived for several decades in Thousand Oaks, California.
Starting with their 1999 album, One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine, they have released several albums that they only sold while on tour ; these albums most frequently contain remixes of songs that appeared on their most recent full-length.
Jenkins has written several books on politics, history and architecture, including England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses.

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