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one and stories
In a certain perfectly definite way, the method and the theme of his stories are one and the same.
His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.
Among the many stories about the late Speaker Rayburn is one from Rep. Dwyer, R-6th Dist..
He tried to turn right to the society page in each one, but interesting stories kept cropping up to distract him.
His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).
" Knight described The World of Null-A as " one of the worst allegedly-adult science fiction stories ever published.
Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.
Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.
There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.
At speaker meetings one or two members tell their stories, while discussion meetings allocate the most time for general discussion.
Along with some of the other major Coalition cities, Chi-Town is considered a " Mega-City " in that its entire population is housed inside one giant structure consisting of more than thirty levels, each of which are several stories high and contain a number of sub-levels.
This is one of the ways that many tribes kept their cultures alive ; it was not just a collection of stories, but of their beliefs, their ways, and their lives.
There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.
" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.
Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).
" News " today is virtually always dramatized, at least by pitting " one side " against another in the fictional journalistic concept that all stories must contain " both sides " ( as though reality could be reduced to two sides ) or by using more intensive dramatic developments similar to feature movies.
Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.
Cover of Weird Tales ( May 1934 ) depicting Conan and Bêlit ( Fiction ) | Bêlit in Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories.
It was selected as one of the best science fiction short stories of the pre-Nebula Award period by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).
According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

one and Columba
Twelve students who studied under St. Finnian became known as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ; Columba was one of them.
In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.
* Columba – or Saint Colmcille, one of the three patron saints of Ireland.
The Old Irish name Óengus is attested in Adomnán's Life of St. Columba as Oinogus ( s ) ius, showing that its etymology is from the Proto-Celtic roots * oino-" one " and * guss-" choice ".
There is one globular cluster in Columba, 7th-magnitude NGC 1851.
Saint Brigit of Kildare, or Brigit of Ireland ( variants include Brigid, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd and Bride ), nicknamed Mary of the Gael () ( c. 451 – 525 ) is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba.
If this inscription is accepted as authentic, then this manuscript was produced before 622, making its initial N one of the earliest Insular style initials, preceding even the Cathach of St. Columba.
The earliest history of the castle may begin in the time of St. Columba in the 6th century, when the predecessor of the castle may have been mentioned in Adomnán's Life of Columba: it is probably the site called Airchartdan, visited by Columba in the latter half of the sixth century during one of his visits to King Brude son of Maelchon of the northern Picts.
The name is an ' affectionate ' or hypocoristic form, and could refer either to one of the many early Irish holy men with the common name of Colmán ( eg Colmán of Lindisfarne ), or to St. Columba ( Old Irish Colm Cille ).
Saint Colm Cille, or Columba, is one of Ireland's three patron saints ( along with Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid ).
The Columba Project or Iomairt Cholm Cille, formerly known as the Columba Initiative is a program for Gaelic speakers in Scotland and Ireland to meet each other more often, and in so doing to learn more of the language, heritage and lifestyles of one another.
The Columba Initiative was inspired by the demand from Gaelic speakers in Scotland and Ireland for the chance to meet each other more often, and in so doing to learn more of the language, heritage and lifestyles of one another.
Yet another tale tells of the other Irish saints envying him to such a degree that every one of them ( apart from St Columba ) prayed for his early death ; and finally, he is supposed to have told his followers that upon his death, they were to leave his bones upon the hillside, and to preserve his spirit rather than his relics.
He was originally himself one of the managers of St Columba, and later the third Warden of Radley, but his business management was not successful in either case, and his personal responsibility for the debts contracted by Radley caused the sequestration of his Oxford fellowship.
As a contemporary, and one of the chief kings in Scotland, Bridei appears in Adomnán's Life of Saint Columba.
Although it is not known where or when this manuscript was made, the similarities to the manuscripts noted above make it likely that it was made in one of the monasteries in the network of monasteries founded by St. Columba.
Around 550 AD Columba ( also known as Colmcille ), one of the three patron saints of Ireland, founded a monastic settlement in the area.
Columba is believed to have visited the island and it is one of the proposed locations of the Columban retreat isle of Hinba.

one and is
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??
but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.
My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.
For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

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