Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.

Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends, and can be much more colorful than the typical etymologies found in dictionaries, often involving stories of unusual practices in particular subcultures ( e. g. Oxford students from non-noble families being forced to write sine nobilitate by their name, soon abbreviated to s. nob., hence the word snob ).

Malory based his book — originally titled The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table — on the various previous romance versions, in particular the Vulgate Cycle, and appears to have aimed at creating a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Arthurian stories.

That is, teachers provide phonics instruction opportunistically, within the context of stories or student writing that feature many instances of a particular letter or group of letters.

Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories.

The crucial idea is that myth is not simply a collection of stories permanently fixed to a particular time and place in history, but an ongoing social practice within every society.

After the death of band member Greg Ham on 19 April 2012, many stories reported his disappointment at the ruling and " suggesting that this particular case and the ruling completely destroyed his life ".

I had, instead, the stories and their tellers ' reasons for remembering in their own particular ways.

Interesting aspects of topical philately include design mistakes and alterations, for instance, the recent editing out of cigarettes from the pictures used for United States stamps, and the stories of how particular images came to be used.

In its primary and more technical meaning ' myth ' refers to a story or group of stories that serve to explain how a particular society views their world.

It has been argued that the fact that the surviving ballads were preserved in written form in itself makes it unlikely they were typical ; in particular stories with an interest for the gentry were by this view more likely to be preserved.

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories.

The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories ( which may have no particular scientific or futuristic component ), and even literary stories that contain fantastic elements, such as the work of Jorge Luis Borges or John Barth.

King is a fan of baseball, and of the Boston Red Sox in particular ; he frequently attends the team's home and away games, and occasionally mentions the team in his novels and stories.

Many long-running US soap operas established particular environments for their stories.

Irrespective of such criticism, it is undeniably true that red tops have more openly political leanings ; stories can, and do, include calls for the resignation of a particular politician, or include political comment inside of an article.

This particular adaptation, which used film footage of the city and stories from the community, was adapted and directed by Alan Lyddiard who then re-created it at Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in 2005.

Though they are typical hagiographical stories, they also display Becket ’ s particular gruffness.

Often the hero's personal relationships are complicated by this dual life, a common theme in Spider-Man and Batman stories in particular.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.

A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the " Pedlar of Swaffham " and Paulo Coelho's " The Alchemist "; Jorge Luis Borges ' collection of short stories A Universal History of Infamy featured his translation of this particular story into Spanish, as " The Story Of The Two Dreamers.

" Literature " is a highly ambiguous term: at its broadest, it can mean any sequence of words that has been preserved for transmission in some form or other ( including oral transmission ); more narrowly, it is often used to designate imaginative works such as stories, poems, and plays ; more narrowly still, it is used as an honorific and applied only to those works which are considered to have particular merit.

However, for most alloys there is a particular proportion of constituents ( in rare cases two )— the eutectic mixture — which gives the alloy a unique melting point.

This information was then summarized as pieces of papyrus scroll into one big yearly account for each particular sub — division of the estate.

Alternate hydrogen bonding patterns, such as the wobble base pair and Hoogsteen base pair, also occur — in particular, in RNA — giving rise to complex and functional tertiary structures.

The " normal " ensemble — a body of strings supplemented by winds — and movements of particular rhythmic character were established by the late 1750s in Vienna.

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

) The one major exception to this in practice is the axiom of choice — unless studying this axiom in particular, the majority of researchers do not usually worry whether a result requires the axiom of choice.

Still, even when used in this second sense, the word is often restricted to apply only to societies that have attained a particular level of advancement — especially the founding of cities.

Conservative Jews who reject the concept of verbal revelation believe that God revealed his will to Moses and other prophets in a non-verbal form — that is, God's revelation did not include the particular words of the divine texts.

The cane toad is now considered a pest and an invasive species in many of its introduced regions ; of particular concern is its toxic skin, which kills many animals — native predators and otherwise — when ingested.

# Commonality — there must be one or more legal or factual claims common to the entire class ( in some cases, it must be shown that the common issues will predominate the proceedings over individual issues, such as the amount of damages due to a particular class member ),

Decisions of Catholic Church councils — in particular, those of the Council of Tours ( 1163 ) and of the Third Council of the Lateran ( 1179 )— had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

Ironically, although the ID tags include religion as a way of ensuring that religious needs will be met, some personnel have them reissued without religious affiliation listed — or keep two sets, one with the designation and one without — out of fear that identification as a member of a particular religion could increase the danger to their welfare or their lives if they fell into enemy hands.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

The dominatrix is a female archetype which operates on a symbolic mode of representation, associated with particular attire and props that are drawn on within popular culture to signify her role — as a strong, dominant, sexualised woman — linked to but distinct from images of sexual fetish.

" Schatz states that he would be "... more likely to use it in a live situation than on a recording — for a solo or to punctuate a particular place in a song or tune where I wouldn't be obliterating someone's solo.

* local buses of various sorts — in particular, for bus mastering on modern systems

In many of Plato's dialogues, such as the Meno, and in particular the Theaetetus, Socrates considers a number of theories as to what knowledge is, the last being that knowledge is true belief that has been " given an account of " — meaning explained or defined in some way.

It was composed as an encyclical letter — that is, one not directed to the members of one church in particular, but intended rather to be circulated and read in all churches.