This work is taken as a chronicle of the last and greatest of the persecutions, in spite of the moral point each anecdote has been arranged to tell.

One famous anecdote has her mother bartering a German-made sewing machine for sixty kilograms of rice with which to feed the family.

An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying " If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta ", the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: " If.

One anecdote has Quinn arriving on-set for the first time in full costume, whereupon Lean, mistaking him for a native, asked his assistant to ring Quinn and notify him that they were replacing him with the new arrival.

" The quote is apocryphal ; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that " The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.

In Mormonism, testifying is also referred to as " bearing one's testimony ," and often involves the sharing of personal experience — ranging from a simple anecdote to an account of personal revelation — followed by a statement of belief that has been confirmed by this experience.

His wit was legendary ; an anecdote has a fellow professor saying to him " I have discovered a french expression in Cicero.

The doctor from whom Lord Peter originally heard the anecdote has moved on and is not grateful to be vindicated.

" Although Matlock has said that one of his biggest influences is the Faces, the Beatles anecdote is fictional.

Campan recalls a pleasant anecdote: the king said to the duc de Noailles, that with Madame du Barry he had discovered new pleasures ; " Sire-answered the duke-that's because your Majesty has never been in a brothel.

" The anecdote has been proven to be a completely fictional story.

One anecdote has the village children, displeased with his serious temperament, throwing him into Lake Erie.

This celebrated story is told with variations by many ancient authors, and a similar anecdote has been told of Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, and ( if the names be not fictitious ) Panacius and Acestinus.

He frequently begins a technical discussion with an anecdote that draws parallels between a real-life experience he has had, and the article's subject matter.

For example, the Stan Rogers song, " Barrett's Privateers ", being sung in a traditional style and having lyrics that relate an anecdote of maritime history, makes a convincing sea ballad and has been adopted into the repertoire of maritime music performers.

The later tale has plainly incorporated elements from the famouos anecdote of " Luck of the Sea and Luck of the Mountains " ( Hoderi and Hoori ) found in Nihon Shoki.

In his appearances, he has frequently attacked the government, and once memorably misheard the host mentioning Ant and Dec as Anton du Beke, and proceeded to tell an anecdote about du Beke.

Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan has described the Hawthorne effect as ' a glorified anecdote ,' saying that ' once you have got the anecdote, you can throw away the data.

An anecdote told by Ernest Hemingway has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet ( known in the Parisian literary circles as " Monsieur Bébé " – Mister Baby ) with decadence for his tryst with a model: " Bébé est vicieuse.

The anecdote has achieved the status of an urban legend on the Internet, as there are numerous versions in which the name of the scientist varies ( e. g., Arthur Stanley Eddington, Thomas Huxley, Linus Pauling, or Carl Sagan ) although the rest is the same.

In introductions to it he has told the anecdote of a psychiatrist and patient who admitted they had discussed it one day in therapy, without realizing at the time that one had read one book and one the other.

According to an anecdote by Serpent Isle project leader Bill Armintrout, Origin Systems has lost the source code to both " Serpent Isle " and its add-on " The Silver Seed ", and Electronic Arts is not planning on any kinds of rewrites for modern systems.

Reiniger has expressed mild interest in the title and suggests passing it to his younger brother Harlan Reiniger a historian and PBS documentary producer, but in general considers the title an anecdote and curiosity of no real world importance.

John McMasters recounted an anecdote about an unnamed Swiss aerodynamicist at a dinner party who performed some rough calculations and concluded, presumably in jest, that according to the equations, bumblebees cannot fly.

Allen periodically recounted an anecdote that occurred during his first full season as the announcer of the Yankees.

Strange recounted a personal anecdote in Ted Newsom's documentary, 100 Years of Horror ( 1996 ).

Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

Another anecdote recounted by Williams described how his mother's handbag caught fire when her cigarette ash fell in.

In an amusing anecdote recounted in Blackwood's Magazine, Dr. Mayne is said to have bequeathed a trunk to an old servant, noting that it contained something that would make him drink.

The moral anecdote of the " Apega of Nabis ", recounted by the historian Polybius, described a supposed mechanical simulacrum of the tyrant's wife, that crushed victims in her embrace.

A frequently recounted anecdote is, that when inspecting a corvette and its crew, he suddenly threw his hat on the deck and called it an unexploded bomb.

An anecdote explaining the origins of the term “ Kutama ” is recounted by the tenth-century Ismaili jurist, al-Qadi al Nu ‘ man in his work entitled Iftitāḥ al-da ‘ wa, in which a preacher by the name of Abu ‘ Abd Allah al-Shi ’ i encountered a group of Shi ’ i Kutama on the pilgrimage at Mecca in 893 CE.

The name appears to come from an anecdote about Adolf Hitler, recounted by a diplomat who, while waiting for an audience, saw, through a partly open door, Hitler throw himself down on the floor and start biting the carpet.

After finishing the strip, Spiegelman visited his father to show him the finished work, which had been partially based an an anecdote he had heard about his father's Auschwitz experience.

Accounts of direct personal experience are commonly equated to anecdotal evidence where the evidence is anecdote, hearsay or represents a conclusion deduced from generalisation.

* " A thoughtful blend of insight, experience, anecdote, and passion that will stand for a long time as the definitive integration of technological and human thought.

But after the Lateran Council in 1099, he boldly sided with the archbishop and the beautiful anecdote is related, showing his simple sincerity, how when Anselm was on his way to Windsor, Osmund knelt before him and received his forgiveness.

For example, Socrates, in I. x, relates an anecdote which he had heard, and says that neither Eusebius nor any other author reports it, yet this anecdote is found in Sozomen, I. xxii, the similarity of diction showing that the text of Socrates was the source.

It is possible to guess, then, that Socrates ' opponents had cited his poor or distant relationship with his wife and or mother, and that Xenophon was concerned to counter this ; with an anecdote showing Socrates did have great respect, at least, for the role of mothers held in society.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the " Blue Danube " waltz, and then wrote the words " Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!

Eusebius of Caesarea in his Praeparatio Evangelica ( book V ) seems to have been the first Christian apologist to give Plutarch's anecdote, which he identifies as his source, pseudo-historical standing, which Eusebius buttressed with many invented passing details that lent verisimilitude.

The composer Andrew Ford relates this revealing anecdote: " the first time I ... met him, as a student composer ..., he ... me some very valuable advice.

A frequently repeated anecdote holds that the 17-year-old Barry at first performed so unskillfully that she was fired from the company several times, but was transformed into a brilliant actress by the coaching of her lover, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

The anecdote on the Colbert-Le Gendre meeting was related in a 1751 article in the Journal Oeconomique by the French minister and champion of free trade, René de Voyer, Marquis d ' Argenson — which happens to also be the phrase's first known appearance in print.

The Colbert-LeGendre anecdote was relayed in George Whatley's 1774 Principles of Trade ( co-authored with Benjamin Franklin )-which may be the first appearance of the phrase in an English language publication.

Pliny also recorded an anecdote that was making the rounds among Hellenistic connoisseurs of the first century CE: Apelles travelled to Protogenes ' home in Rhodes to make the acquaintance of this painter he had heard so much about.

In a second fire anecdote, similar to the first one, but less cited, is the incident of the mill owner Bolander.

Another anecdote from the late 1940s tells how the socialist intellectual G. D. H. Cole got into a third-class compartment on the train back from Oxford to London, to break off conversation with Simon ; to his dismay Simon followed suit, only for both men to produce first class tickets when the inspector did his rounds.

There is a well-known anecdote about where Lowell lived when he first arrived at Kenyon.

According to an anecdote related by Samuel R. Delany, when Sturgeon first submitted the story, the editor ( John W. Campbell ) not only rejected it but phoned every other editor he knew and urged them to reject it as well.

There is a famous political anecdote concerning famous Greek politician and ex prime minister of Greece for many years Andreas Papandreou, who upon first hearing, then mostly unknown, George Mitsikostas imitating him on the radio having a conversation with leader of the then opposition and also former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, called his minister alarmed upon a scam being raised against his party by imposters.

The first appearance of the anecdote is in Vladimir Dahl's " Rasskazy o vremenakh Pavla I " (" Stories of the time of Paul I "), a short piece published in the journal Russkaya Starina in 1870 ; he reported it as told by his father, Jochan Christian von Dahl ( 1764-1821 ).

Nigel Powers, upon seeing him, says " Blimey, I thought I smelled cabbage ", thinking he is a carny ( referring back to an anecdote from the first Austin Powers movie ).

The title refers to an anecdote ( 1956 ) in which the rabbit used in her first pregnancy test died from jumping off the examination table, thereby shrugging off any responsibility for her ever-growing family.

An anecdote from the creation of the first Star Wars movie involves the Tunisian customs enquiring what a part of C-3PO's costume ( listed as " assorted greebles ") was.

According to an anecdote related by Samuel R. Delany, when Sturgeon first submitted the story, his editor not only rejected it but phoned every other editor he knew and urged them to reject it as well.

This is not entirely fair: reports from his playing days do not criticise him, and he owes his notoriety to an oft-repeated anecdote which first appeared in an October 1892 issue of Pastime magazine, a weekly sporting journal that was edited by Nicholas Lane ' Pa ' Jackson, founder of the Corinthians Football Club and a committee member of the Football Association.

The Abbasid court physicians gained high standing and trust once accepted and employed by the caliph, as illustrated by the anecdote in which Harun al-Rashid used Jibril to try to humble his vizier Yahya al-Barmaki on an occasion when Yahya entered the caliph ’ s presence without first gaining permission.

The first buddy will begin a long anecdote about Brasky, interrupted by the second drunkenly blurting out something embarrassing ( e. g. " I'm a convicted sex offender ", " Every morning I crap the bed ").

An anecdote first published in 1906 has Benjamin Franklin answer a woman who asked him, " Well, Doctor, what have we got – a Republic or a Monarchy?