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Haggard's and use
According to Haggard's daughter Lilias, the phrase " She-who-must-be-obeyed " originated from his childhood and " the particularly hideous aspect " of one rag-doll: " This doll was something of a fetish, and Rider, as a small child, was terrified of her, a fact soon discovered by an unscrupulous nurse who made full use of it to frighten him into obedience.
The Allan Quatermain character has been expanded greatly by modern writers ; this use is possibly due to Haggard's works passing into the public domain, much like Sherlock Holmes.

Haggard's and first
The novel was an early example ( and Haggard's introduction implies it was the first ) of modern efforts in English at pastiching Viking saga literature.
The band took first prize at a high school talent contest playing Merle Haggard's, " Sing Me Back Home.
Haggard's first song was " Skid Row ".
In 1968, Haggard's first tribute LP Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to acclaim.
Jules Verne's first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon published in 1863 and H. Rider Haggard's first novel King Solomon's Mines published in 1885, both describe journeys of English travellers on Safari and were best sellers in their day.
Indeed, Haggard's story is one of the first in modern literature to feature " a slight intrusion of something unreal " into a very real world-a hallmark of the fantasy genre.
" Zikali plots and finally achieves the overthrow of the Zulu royal House of Senzangakona, founded by Shaka and ending under Cetewayo ( Cetshwayo kaMpande ) ( Haggard's questionable spelling of Zulu names is used in the first instance ).
In 1990 it became the first of Merle Haggard's Capitol albums to be re-released ( anywhere ) on CD when it was reissued by EMI-Toshiba in Japan in its entire original repertoire.

Haggard's and also
The Grateful Dead also performed Haggard's " Sing Me Back Home " numerous times between 1971 and 1973.
She also explained Merle Haggard's influence on her career, stating " I had every album he ever put out ", and would sing " every song he did ", along with her brother, Pake and sister, Susie.
Facsimile illustrations of an antique vase, made-up by Haggard's sister-in-law, Agnes Barber to resemble the sherd of Amenartas, were also included.
He also voiced King Haggard's wizard Mabruk in The Last Unicorn and provided several voices for the Jackson Five cartoon series between 1971 and 1973.
The name derives from a stock character in African-American oral traditions, " Joe the Grinder ," who is also prominent in Merle Haggard's song " The Old Man of the Mountain.
It is possible, given Marland's affinity for classic and pulp literature that McCord was also partially inspired by H. Rider Haggard's character Allan Quatermain, who was a heavy influence on the Indiana Jones character.
Using Haggard's time line, he suggests that Harry, son of Allan and Stella Quatermain, fathered a son, also named Harry, whom Allan Quatermain raised as his own.
Miller is also the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World ; Or, The Adventure of the Wayfaring God, a pastiche of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He also worked on adult novels, including editions of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.

Haggard's and with
The main-line departure platform slumbered like the rest ; the booking-hutches closed ; the backs of Mr Haggard's novels, with which upon a weekday the bookstall shines emblazoned, discreetly hidden behind dingy shutters ; the rare officials, undisguisedly somnambulant ; and the customary loiterers, even to the middle-aged woman with the ulster and the handbag, fled to more congenial scenes.
After he had earned a local reputation, Haggard's money problems caught up with him.
During the early to mid 1970s, Haggard's chart domination continued with songs like " Someday We'll Look Back ", " Carolyn ", " Grandma Harp ", " Always Wanting You ", and " The Roots of My Raising ".
The album, recorded in Haggard's living room with no overdubs, featured Haggard's longtime bandmates The Strangers as well as Frizzell's original lead guitarist, Norman Stephens.
Haggard's number one hit single " Mama Tried " is featured in the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris as well as in Bryan Bertino's " The Strangers " with Liv Tyler.
Along with Haggard's prior novel, King Solomon's Mines, She laid the blueprints for the " Lost World " sub-genre in fantasy literature, as well as the convention of the " lost race ".
Like Pratt, Haggard committed suicide on a train from Cairo to Palestine, but in Haggard's case it followed the end of a relationship with a beautiful Egyptian woman, rather than unrequited homosexual love.
Despite the tremendous liberties both movies took with the source material, Allan Quatermain was loosely based, mostly, on the book sequel of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, entitled Allan Quatermain.
In the early to mid 2000s, there was debate over replacing " Where the Columbines Grow " with John Denver's " Rocky Mountain High " or Merle Haggard's rare song " Colorado ".
Wariner, along with Lee Roy Parnell and Diamond Rio, recorded a cover of Merle Haggard's " Workin ' Man's Blues " as the fictional band Jed Zeppelin for the late-1994 tribute album Mama's Hungry Eyes.

Haggard's and then
Initially, the 22 people who met in the basement of Haggard's house formed his church, which then grew to rented spaces in strip malls.

Haggard's and among
The other two were among the best in Scott's career: Village Tale ( 1935 ), " a touching, still-obscure melodrama about small-town gossip and hypocrisy " directed by John Cromwell, and She ( 1935 ), a superb adventure-fantasy adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel.

Haggard's and influential
According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".
According to Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

Haggard's and writers
Haggard's Lost World genre influenced several key pulp writers, including Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy and Abraham Merritt.

Haggard's and such
* In H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines the protagonists discover multiple settings said to belong to, or having been built at the request of King Solomon, such as ' Solomon's Great Road ' and the mines themselves.
Rider Haggard's recreation of the Sherd of Amenartas, now in the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum. Haggard contended that romances such as She or King Solomon's Mines were best left unrevised, because " wine of this character loses its bouquet when it is poured from glass to glass.
Songs such as Merle Haggard's " The Fightin ' Side of Me ", and " Okie from Muskogee " have been perceived as patriotic songs which contain an " us versus them " mentality directed at the counterculture " hippies " and the anti-war crowd, though these were actually misconceptions by listeners who failed to understand their satirical nature.
Examples of this kind of cinema abound and include jungle epics such as Tarzan and The African Queen, and various adaptations of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel titled King Solomon's Mines.

Haggard's and .
His cover of Chinga Chavin's " Asshole from El Paso ", a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee " is, perhaps, his most famous song.
The Knitters were devoted to folk and country music ; their take of Merle Haggard's " Silver Wings " " may be the definitive version.
Haggard's works included many fantastic elements.
A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the early 21st century than Haggard's other work or the general run of Victorian adventure fiction.
Improvements in our understanding of the Viking period have done surprisingly little to falsify Haggard's imagination of its setting, and the book should still hold appeal to any reader interested in the period.
Ophir is the subject of H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines, which places the lost city in South Africa.
King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel, has been adapted to the following films:
* The Chinga Chavin song " Asshole From El Paso " ( most famously recorded by Kinky Friedman ), a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee ", mentions El Paso in both the lyrics and the title.
Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.
This peak was originally named Aysha in the 1904 maps of the region, and was renamed Ayesha after the heroine of Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She.
Haggard's father died when Merle was nine years old.

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