David Langford's monthly fanzine Ansible includes a regular section " As Others See Us " which offers numerous examples of " sci-fi " being used in a pejorative sense by people outside the genre.

* Brian Stableford and David Langford's The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000

* About The Eye of Argon — David Langford's page with links to the complete text ( HTML ) and scans of the original fanzine pages ( PDF ).

David Langford's 1988 parody collection The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two contains a parody of " The Gateway of the Monster ", in which the creature manifests not as a human hand, but as another body part entirely.

* Sir David Brewster -- a short biography

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

Both David and his elder brother Charles were short, about with small hands and feet.

John stopped short of trying to actively enforce this charter on the native Irish kingdoms, but historian David Carpenter suspects that he might have done so, had the baronial conflict in England not intervened.

Ridiculed by Huelsenbeck as ‘ the Caspar David Friedrich of the Dadaist Revolution ’, he would reply with an absurdist short story Franz Mullers Drahtfrühling, Ersters Kapitel: Ursachen und Beginn der grossen glorreichen Revolution in Revon published in Der Sturm ( xiii / 11, 1922 ), which featured an innocent bystander who started a revolution ' merely by being there '.

* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "

It is not known whether pterosaurs practiced any form of parental care, but their ability to fly as soon as they emerged from the egg and the numerous flaplings found in environments far from nests and alongside adults has led most researchers, including Christopher Bennett and David Unwin, to conclude that the young were dependent on their parents for a relatively short period of time, during a period of rapid growth while the wings grew long enough to fly, and then left the nest to fend for themselves, possibly within days of hatching.

* Communications satellites short history by David J. Whalen

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

David Livingstone also lived in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire from 1862 for a short time.

As the American Revolution approached, General David Wooster and other influential residents hoped that the conflict with the government in Britain could be resolved short of rebellion.

The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

* In David Drake's short story As Our Strength Lessens in Keith Laumer's Bolo series, a sentient tank named after the battle of Maldon discusses the battle with a human officer.

Modern settlement on the ridge began in the City of David in 1873-1874, when the Meyuchas family, a Jewish rabbinical and merchant family that had lived in Jerusalem since their expulsion from Spain, moved a short distance outside the city walls to a house on the ridge.

He joined David Frost's production company and was to star in a number of ITV shows including a short film during this period.

* Sum ( book ), a 2009 collection of short stories by David Eagleman

In addition, David Foster Wallace references the Jolt Cola ad campaign in the short story " Mister Squishy ," originally published in McSweeney's and collected in Oblivion: Stories.

In March 2012, The Criterion Collection released " In Which We Serve " on Blu-ray and DVD as part of the " David Lean Directs Noel Coward " Box Set, which includes a short documentary on the making of In Which We Serve.

Benton Ridge is the setting of David Foster Wallace's short story " Asset ", published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The New Yorker.

The appearance of the male Guardians, modeled after then-Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, is elderly, short, and blue-skinned with large heads and white hair.

David Thomson on Claude Chabrol's Madame Bovary: " has to rate as one of the most accomplished actresses in the world today, even if she seems short of the passion or agony of her contemporary, Isabelle Adjani ".

* " Closer ", a short story by David Malouf from his collection Dream Stuff

* A 2002 short story by Glen David Gold entitled " The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter " alludes to the myth and gives the name to the deceitful clown of the story, who cries " heedless crocodile tears.

After being told he is too short for a carnival ride while attempting to impress an older girl ( Kimberlee M. Davis ), 12-year-old Josh Baskin ( David Moscow ) from Cliffside Park, New Jersey goes to a wishing machine called Zoltar Speaks, and wishes that he was " big.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

The story can be compared to that of a 13th century Hittite king who was forced to take the throne after a lifetime of loyalty when his life was in danger: like David, he was assisted by his god, whose divine will decided the course of events.

In the genealogy which concludes the story, it is pointed out that Obed is the father of Jesse, and thus the grandfather of David.

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

* David Morrell's story The Fifth Profession features a sequence where the assassins are armed with Bokken.

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

In his Creation Myths of the World, David Leeming argues that, in the Christian story of the crucifixion, the cross serves as " the axis mundi, the center of a new creation ".

In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that, in the Bible story, as in other flood myths, the flood marks a new beginning and a second chance for creation and humanity.

In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists Moses, Jesus, and King Arthur as examples of the " heroic monomyth ", calling the Christ story " a particularly complete example of the heroic monomyth ".

In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists the story of Abraham and Isaac and the story of Christ's death as examples of this theme.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).

The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 gives David Gans, a disciple of the Maharal, as a source for the story, citing his historical work Zemach David, published in 1592.

* Kings ( U. S. TV series ), a 2009 series loosely based on the Biblical story of King David

The student David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus is credited with discovering and cataloguing the majority of the Kullervo story.

In a 2008 story from the Daily Telegraph ( London ), writer David Gritten offered the following observation on " Forever Changes " while discussing a documentary on Love.

As the main part of the story opens, Block's youthful son, David, has just been killed by Maskew during an attack by the authorities on a smuggling boat.

The Bible provides a number of references to nails, including the story in Judges of the wife who drives a nail into the temple of her husband while he is asleep, the provision of iron for nails by King David for Solomon's Temple, and of course the crucifixion of Christ.

However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and Gottfried Leibniz, rejected the story.

A similar story is told, for example, in Jewish sources about King David, and in Persian folklore about the Mongolian warlord Tamerlane and an ant.

As made clear in the earlier story of Absalom's rebellion, to possess the royal harem was in this society tantamount to claiming the throne ; this applied even to a woman who had shared the bed of a king advanced in age, though she had no intimate relations with King David.