Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women.

Additionally, there are a small number of recorded folk tales that, while not strictly mythological, feature personages from one or more of these nine cycles.

Tennyson's works prompted a large number of imitators, generated considerable public interest in the legends of Arthur and the character himself, and brought Malory's tales to a wider audience.

The themes in the tales have become part of the folklore of a number of nations and express the national imaginations of a variety of cultures.

The continued popularity of the Robin Hood tales is attested by a number of literary references.

This senryū, which can also be translated " Catching him / you see the robber / is your son ," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation ( provided by a short comment called a maeku or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples ) and / or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts ( plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc .).

Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.

This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles ( tekerlemeler ), and proverbs.

Texts of the Egyptian tradition emerge later and contain many more tales of much more varied content ; a much larger number of originally independent tales have been incorporated into the collection over the centuries, most of them after the Galland manuscript was written,

Both Lefays are allusions to Morgan Le Fay, a powerful sorceress in a number of versions of King Arthur's tales, who is often portrayed as evil.

Also, there were a number of ten-cent, paper covered books of the period that featured medieval romance stories and soap opera-ish tales.

A number of tall tales were spun by both sides afterwards in an attempt to make their actions appear morally justified.

Furthermore, there have been a number of tales about a dead person returning from the grave to visit his / her beloved or spouse and bring them death in one way or another, the narrative poem Lenore ( 1773 ) by Gottfried August Bürger being a notable 18th century example.

For example, one of the main tales of Book II chapter 3 concerns a Norwegian tailor, and a number of Norwegian words such as bakvandets, Knut Oelsvinger and Bygmester Finnegan ( the latter a reference to Ibsen's Bygmeester Solness ) are used throughout.

Official investigations produced no evidence of widespread conspiracies or of the slaughter of thousands ; only a small number of verified crimes have even remote similarities to tales of SRA.

Although the original tales were passed on orally, there were later a number of written stories of Twm Siôn Cati.

The epic took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the 14th century ; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another.

All Arabian fantasy tales were often called " Arabian Nights " when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as " Arabian Nights " despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.

Bandello wrote a number of poems, but his fame rests entirely on his extensive collection of Novelle, or tales ( 1554, 1573 ), which have been extremely popular.

There are therefore a number of recurring figures, such as a man who, in the early tales, enjoys pricking women's breasts with pins and, at his reappearance in the tales in the ' murderous passions ' category, delights in killing women by raping them atop a bed of nails.

During the Edo Period these tales had been adapted by professional writers and woodblock-printed in a form a called kusazōshi ( cf. chapbooks ), but a number of local variant versions of the tales have been collected in the field as well.

Starting from an initial state and initial input ( perhaps empty ), the instructions describe a computation that, when executed, will proceed through a finite number of well-defined successive states, eventually producing " output " and terminating at a final ending state.

A number of Islamic writers and the 13th century Italian Marco Polo describe how this was obtained by sublimation from zinc ores and condensed onto clay or iron bars, archaeological examples of which have been identified at Kush in Iran.

Icosahedral virus capsids are typically assigned a triangulation number ( T-number ) to describe the relation between the number of pentagons and hexagons i. e. their quasi-symmetry in the capsid shell.

The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.

For example, a number of legends describe miraculous events surrounding Mary's birth and marriage to Joseph.

In American English the word corporation is widely used to describe incorporated entities, especially those that have a large number of shareholders, and in respect of which, ownership can be transferred without the need for the consent of other shareholders.

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, and the number of fish each springtime in a lake.

ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK – USA Security Agreement ( Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, referred to by a number of abbreviations, including AUSCANNZUKUS and Five Eyes ).

When used to describe offered traffic, a value followed by “ erlangs ” represents the average number of concurrent calls that would have been carried if there were an unlimited number of circuits ( that is, if the call-attempts that were made when all circuits were in use had not been rejected ).

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

A large number of operas – 14 in all – followed in the decade after 1843, a period which Verdi was to describe as his " galley years ".

Using a statistical description for data, information theory quantifies the number of bits needed to describe the data, which is the information entropy of the source.

A number of descriptions exist that attempt to describe exactly what the kundalini experience is:

The dimensionless Reynolds number is an important parameter in the equations that describe whether flow conditions lead to laminar or turbulent flow.

A limited number of contemporary sources describe the history of the Merovingian Franks, but those that survive cover the entire period from Clovis ' succession to Childeric's deposition.

The nibble is used to describe the amount of memory used to store a digit of a number stored in packed decimal format within an IBM mainframe.

The number of tally marks required in the unary numeral system for describing the weight would have been w. In the positional system, the number of digits required to describe it is only, for.

This attitude incurred the enmity of the opponents of the Interim, especially after he cancelled a number of passages in the second edition of his Psalterium in which he had violently attacked the position of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, whom he now requested to prohibit all polemical treatises proceeding from Magdeburg, while he condemned the preachers of Torgau who were imprisoned in Wittenberg on account of their opposition to the Interim.

* During the ten year period that Gaius Licinius ( Calvus ) Stolo is tribune in Rome ( 376 BC to 367 BC ) he does much to reduce the enmity between patricians and plebs by reforming a number of laws.

It is widely speculated that Doria ’ s prevarication and lack of zeal were due to his unwillingness to risk his own ships ( he personally owned a substantial number of the " Spanish-Genoese " fleet ) and his long-standing enmity towards Venice, his home city's fierce rival and the primary target of Ottoman aggression at that time.

After the first World Cup held in Uruguay in 1930, the enmity between the football federations of Uruguay and Argentina prevented the competition from being played for a number of years.

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