This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of " Operation Meteor ": the scientists ' plan for revenge against OZ.

For example, a newspaper story begins with the journalists and photojournalists and then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required.

Guy begins the story as a " Questerian " ( Trekkie ) who played a small role as a disposable crewman.

He begins the story young, if not an actual child.

The Death of Klinghoffer ( 1991 ): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

" Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly begins with an extensive analysis of the Laocoön story.

She begins the story as a closed-off person, but as the novel unfolds her character begins to be more open and understanding.

The story begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the White Base, arriving at the secret research base located at the Side 7 colony to pick up the Federation's newest weapon.

In contrast to American animation, the script and storyboards are created together, and animation begins before the story is finished and while storyboards are developing.

He then begins to tell the story of his return from Troy.

As Julia signals Luis about the other players ' cards, he begins telling them the story of how they got there.

The story begins in a future world where global warming has resulted in global temperatures so high that in most of the world it is unsafe to be outside without special cooling gear during daylight hours.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

The story begins with the protagonist, Simon, as an ordinary teenager.

The story begins with the white siblings Barbra ( Judith O ' Dea ) and Johnny ( Russell Streiner ) driving to rural Pennsylvania to visit their father's grave.

Bereshit ( Genesis ) begins with the so-called " primeval history " ( Genesis 1 – 11 ), the story of the world's beginnings and the descent of Abraham.

Shemot ( Exodus ) begins the story of God's revelation to his people Israel through Moses, who leads them out of Egypt ( Exodus 1 – 18 ) to Mount Sinai.

( His escape begins the story.

Some see an internal contradiction between the mention already in Genesis 10: 5 that " From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with his own language " and the subsequent Babel story, which begins " Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words " ( Genesis 11: 1 ).

Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story.

There are difficulties in this story, of which the following are the principal elements:

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

It was around this time that J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range ; he parodied the principal editors as " The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford " in the story Farmer Giles of Ham.

The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.

The principal scriptures discussing Krishna's story are the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa, the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana.

Besides the subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, the principal innovation Shakespeare made to this story was the death of Cordelia and Lear at the end.

" Robert Riskin was assigned to develop the story for the screen and wrote four drafts, submitting the last on May 6, 1933, three days before principal photography began.

The principal source for the story is Plutarch's " Life of Mark Antony " from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

The hero finding out that his girl has been carrying on incestuous relations with her father ... a host of moronic or otherwise mentally diseased characters ... people dying from cancer, suicides-these are the principal elements of the story.

The Tale of Taliesin ( Hanes Taliesin or Ystoria Taliesin ) is a genuine legendary story about Taliesin which is preserved in two principal redactions dating from the mid-16th century and the early 17th century but which probably derives from older sources.

Oz initially features in a minor dream sequence in Whedon's premiere story arc, " The Long Way Home " arc amid a collage of friends and family, but is not featured in any principal role until the 2009 story arc " Retreat ", written by Jane Espenson.

She appeared notably as the omniscient Radio DJ in The Warriors, and as ( Leonna Barrett ) the mother of an expelled student in Lean on Me, a story of famous American principal Joe Louis Clark.

In the preface of the novel he notes that the story originally came from a desire on his part to write a detective story where the principal character, the villain, is ignorant of who the detective is.

" Variety wrote " script vividly brings to life the principal characters in this story of a shattered marriage, though Pinter's resort to flashback technique is confusing in the early stages.

The principal setting of the story is Marwood Zoo ( Marwood is John Cleese's middle name ), a fictional zoo that resembles Marwell Wildlife.

The story also claimed that the principal refused and that she would rather lose her job.

Constructing a sure chronology for Henryson's writings is not possible, but his Orpheus story may have been written earlier in his career, during his time in Glasgow, since one of its principal sources was contained in the university library.

Although Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel, as well as stories from similar military schools during the 1960s to create the setting for the story, he has explicitly stated that the novel's plot and principal characters are a product of his imagination.

The Mexica themselves had a story about how their city was founded after being led to the island by their principal god, Huitzilopochtli.

Pugachov told the story that he and his principal adherents had escaped from the clutches of Catherine.

Technobabble's principal use in most science fiction, in particular more hard science fiction, is to conceal the true ( impossible ) nature of materials, technologies, or devices mentioned in the story, frequently because of a violation regarding the current understanding regarding the laws of physics.

Our principal source for the story is Josephus, who wrote: