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* The Pale Horse ( 2010 )
* The fourth stanza was quoted by Lachesis to Zane in Piers Anthony's novel On a Pale Horse, the first of his Incarnations of Immortality series.
* Behold a Pale Horse ( film )
MacInnes's other spy novels include Assignment in Brittany ( 1942 ), Decision at Delphi ( 1961 ), and Ride a Pale Horse ( 1984 ).
Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series is inaugurated by On a Pale Horse, which introduces protagonist Zane, who inadvertently assumes the immortal role of psychopomp, Thanatos, through a confluence of circumstances surrounding a noncommittal suicide attempt.
Behold A Pale Horse ( 1964 ) was a post-Spanish Civil War epic based on the book Killing A Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger and starred Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif, but was both a critical and commercial flop ; Zinnemann would later admit that the film " didn't really come together.
* 1 On a Pale Horse ( 1983 )
In On a Pale Horse, Gaea teaches Zane five patterns of thought, each represented by diagrams of five short lines.
* Caroline and Charles Todd's book A Pale Horse ( 2008 ) takes place in and around Uffington and centres around the White Horse.
He wrote one of the prologues for famed feminist poet Hayashi Fumiko's 1929 I Saw a Pale Horse () and was active in the radical artistic circles of his time.
* The film Behold a Pale Horse ( 1963 ), directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif, includes a scene in Lourdes that is crucial to the plot.
Following this breakthrough role, Sharif played a variety of characters, including a Spanish priest in Behold a Pale Horse ( 1964 ) and the Mongolian conqueror in Ghengis Khan ( 1965 ).
* Katherine Anne Porter-Pale Horse, Pale Rider
** The Pale Horse
* Major Despard and Rhoda, now his wife, reappear in The Pale Horse ( 1961 ), the only time suspects were re-used by Christie.
It should perhaps be noted that Despard's given name has metamorphosed from " John " in Cards on the Table to " Hugh " in The Pale Horse, not the first time Christie apparently forgot the name of a character.
* Killing a Mouse on Sunday-made into the film Behold a Pale Horse ( 1964 ).
Mount Weather is mentioned extensively in Milton William Cooper's 1991 book Behold A Pale Horse.
Even in the one novel in which she appears without Poirot ( The Pale Horse ), Mrs Oliver does not function as a detective, in that she rarely participates in the investigation and contributes only tangentially to the solution.
She is more usually used for comic relief or to provide a deus ex machina through her intuitive or sudden insights, a function that is especially apparent in Third Girl, in which she furnishes Poirot with virtually every important clue, or in The Pale Horse, where she inadvertently helps the investigators to determine the type of poison used to kill the murder victims, saving the life of another character.
All her subsequent appearances ( save The Pale Horse ) were in Poirot novels:
* The Pale Horse ( 1961 ) — Oliver's only appearance in a Christie novel without Poirot
In the BBC Radio 4 plays, Ariadne Oliver has been played by Stephanie Cole ( Cards on the Table and The Pale Horse ), and by Julia McKenzie ( Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly and Elephants Can Remember ).

Pale and Mrs
Mrs Oliver now contacts Mark with a key connection that she has made: another victim of the Pale Horse ( Mary Delafontaine ) has lost her hair during her illness.

Pale and Oliver
When Mark goes to Much Deeping with the famous mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, to a village fete organised by his cousin, he learns of a house converted from an old inn called the Pale Horse, now inhabited by three modern " witches " led by Thyrza Grey.
The novel also marks the return of partial first-person narrative, a technique that Christie had largely abandoned earlier in the Poirot sequence but which she had employed in the previous Ariadne Oliver novel, The Pale Horse ( 1961 ).
* Oliver Schmidt: Session-Keyboards ( on Thy Pale Dominion )

Pale and becomes
After 1805 the Pale gradually shrinks, and becomes limited to the following areas:
The town of Pale at this point becomes an important logging and wood products center in the region.

Pale and with
Initially it was mainly spoken in an area known as the Pale around Dublin, with Irish spoken throughout the rest of the country.
Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".
Under the leadership of Damar, the Cardassian Union, along with the Dominion, continued to gain ground over the Klingon-Federation alliance, and even after Benjamin Sisko and Elim Garak tricked the Romulans into breaking their nonaggression treaty with the Dominion and joining the alliance (" In the Pale Moonlight ") they still managed to keep the upper hand.
The situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties.
The origins and justification of the name " Pestilence " as a distinct Horseman are unclear, though some translations of the Bible do mention " plague " ( e. g. the NIV ) or " pestilence " ( e. g. the RSV ) in connection with the fourth, Pale horse ( see above ).
* May Day, a 5. 0 % abv golden ale, available April and May, is made with East Anglian Pale Ale malt, and hopped with First Gold
* Diamond Ale, a 4. 1 % abv beer, brewed with Pale Ale and Premium Cara malts, with Sovereign hops and locally-sourced honey, produced to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II
It does pair well with Pale Ale and Champagne.
By the late 15th century the Pale became the only part of Ireland that remained subject to the English king, with most of the island paying only token recognition of the overlordship of the English crown.
Map showing the situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighbouring counties
The cries of Badb may also be an ill omen: Cormac's impending death is foreshadowed with the words " The red-mouthed badbs will cry around the house, / For bodies they will be solicitous " and " Pale badbs shall shriek ".
Pale ale was a term used for beers made from malt dried with coke.
American Pale Ales are generally around 5 % abv with significant quantities of American hops, typically Cascade.
Smithwick's has introduced a Pale Ale product advertised as 100 % pale ale malt and aromatic hops with a 4. 5 % alcoholic content.
In 1994 the Hair of the Dog Brewing Company produced a Strong Pale Ale with an alcohol by volume ( ABV ) of 29 %.
By the 1390s the Lordship had effectively shrunk to the Pale with the rest of the island under the control of independent Gaelic-Irish or rebel Cambro-Norman noble families.
At about age 15 John Dudley probably went with his guardian to the Pale of Calais to serve there for the next years.
The first bands to attract the shoegazing label ( Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Ride, Moose, Lush and Pale Saints ) were largely influenced by My Bloody Valentine, and emerged in the wake of their breakthrough in 1988 with the " You Made Me Realise " single and the album Isn't Anything, and the shoegazing label has more recently been applied to My Bloody Valentine themselves.
At Olympic Studios, with session drummer ( and non-Paramount ) Bill Eyden, producer Denny Cordell, and sound engineer Keith Grant, the group recorded " A Whiter Shade of Pale " and it was released on 12 May 1967.
They reunited for a single performance five months later, when " A Whiter Shade of Pale " was named joint winner ( along with Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody ") of the Best British Pop Single 1952 – 1977 at the BRIT Awards, part of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
They described this loyal Finnish audience as " the best in the world " and played a unique three-verse version of A Whiter Shade of Pale with a guitar solo from Geoff Whitehorn.

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