The kneecaps of Ajax were exactly the size of a discus for the boy's pentathlon, wrote Pausanias.

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.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

At Public School 179 in Manhattan, the boy's artistic abilities were recognized and he was asked to draw all of the school posters during his years there.

It is not known what the boy's name was, but he died in childhood in 83.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.

Justin, who was in the imperial guard ( the Excubitors ) before he became emperor, adopted Justinian, brought him to Constantinople, and ensured the boy's education.

In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.

The relationship became a staple of anti-papal polemics for over a century: it was said that Julius, awaiting Innocenzo's arrival in Rome to receive his cardinal's hat, showed the impatience of a lover awaiting a mistress, and that he boasted of the boy's prowess.

He removed the boy's clothing and led him outside into the snow, where, far from being upset, Victor began to frolic about in the nude, showing Bonnaterre that he was clearly accustomed to exposure and cold.

The agoge, the education of the ruling class, was, they claim, founded on pederastic relationships required of each citizen, with the lover responsible for the boy's training.

The organist of the monastery, Padre Polcano, was struck by the boy's intellect, and voluntarily instructed him in the elements of music and also in the ancient and modern literature of his country.

* The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel The Yearling, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was about a boy's relationship with a baby deer, later adapted to a children's film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Sigismund gave a ring to the boy's mother when he was born, but one day in the forest a raven stole it from her, and the ring was only recovered after the bird was hunted down.

The boy's education was undertaken by his uncle, Martin Maier, parish priest at Rottenburg on the river Neckar.

It is said that, when one official saw Keaton in full costume and makeup and asked a stagehand how old he was, the stagehand, aware of the situation with the Keatons, then pointed to the boy's mother, saying, " I don't know, ask his wife!

A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Helmore also enlisted Sullivan's assistance in creating harmonisations for a volume of The Hymnal Noted and arranged for Sullivan's compositions to be performed ; one of the boy's anthems was given at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace under the direction of Sir George Smart.

He went to the boy's Gymnasium in Tiflis, Georgia ( now Tbilisi ) and attended Moscow University, but his education was interrupted by an arrest in 1902.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

This had, perhaps, been a public gesture to honour the memory of the boy's uncle, and to quell any rumours about Charlemagne's treatment of his nephews.

" In each book, the Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, teach Dick ( the boy's name in The Cat in the Hat was not revealed, but the 1971 animated special suggested it was Conrad ) and Sally about the book's topic.

In the woods near the boy's home, the Velveteen Rabbit meets actual rabbits, and learns about the differences between himself and the real rabbits when the real rabbits prove he is not real by his inability to hop and jump.

He says you would never know that the law explicitly approves the lover's conduct by the way fathers behave when they get wind of the fact that a man is showing interest in his son, or by the way the boy's playmates tease him about having a lover.

Summarised, this is about an American boy's fight to save his grandmother's house – in which he, his sister and grandmother are living – from destruction by the sea.

* Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic about a boy's surreal dreams, includes a supporting character named " King Morpheus.

* In his 1959 short story, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, ( included in the book of the same name ) Alan Sillitoe wrote about a boy's time in a Borstal for robbing a bakery.

It still uses Tchaikovsky's original score, but completely scraps the original plot and characters, instead supplying a new story about a boy's efforts to re-connect with his mother.

In the same story, the young boy's doubts about himself provide an internal conflict, and they seem to overwhelm him.

Rosenthal won three BAFTA awards for Bar Mitzvah Boy ( about a Jewish boy's Bar Mitzvah ), The Evacuees ( based in his own war-time evacuation ) and Spend, Spend, Spend ( about the football pools winner, Viv Nicholson, directed by John Goldschmidt ).

The book is a children's story about a boy's Caribbean adventure with his grandfather, reworded from the original folk lyric of the song " Sloop John B ".

The kids bring pot, music, and alcohol to The Rec after hours, and have their own little party, where Claude ends up buying a gram of hash from Tip ( Eric Lalich ), a friend, but the party moves when an announcement about a party at a boy's house is made.

Though Ted knew about Tom, he did not enter the boy's life until recently when the villainous Vandal Savage began systematically murdering the children and grandchildren of the Golden Age heroes and heroines.

It concerned the boy's accounts of what allegedly happened, interviews with his family, statements made during the child's psychological counseling and information about the Chandler's case.

Bless Me, Ultima is about a young boy's spiritual transformation amidst cultural and societal changes in the American Southwest during World War II.

" The Sweater " is a spoken word monologue, with a musical backing track — the first 20 seconds of Syd Dale's " Walk & Talk "— revolving around a girl's thoughts about a boy's sweater.

A science fiction epic about the rise & fall of civilization on the deceptively named desert planet of Eden & one boy's universe-spanning search for the planet of his ancestors: Earth.

When Mathieu goes down to explain that Morhange cannot be visited because he has been locked up as a punishment after writing rude notes about the headmaster, he finds himself sorry for, and attracted to, the boy's beleaguered mother, and instead tells her that Morhange is at the dentist.

A child, Liir, is apparently carried to term while Elphaba is in this state, and because of this Elphaba is uncertain as to whether or not she actually is the boy's mother, she doesn't even consider the possibility until Liir is about 7 years old as he doesn't seem to resemble her or Fiyero.

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