* On Athena's Birth-Two interpretations of Goddess Athena's birth story.

Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

On 18 March, Friese-Greene sent a clipping of the story to Thomas Edison, whose laboratory had been developing a motion picture system known as the Kinetoscope.

On March 13, 1993, TNT aired a new version of the story directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz.

On several occasions MacLean noted that she ranked EC's interpretation as superior to her own story.

" On the other hand, in Letter 153 he said, " I tried to show allegorically how might come to be taken up into Creation in some plane in my ' purgatorial ' story Leaf by Niggle.

On distribution, derivative works that elaborate on a game's fictional universe or story are automatically licensed to Microsoft and its business partners.

' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.

Press coverage of punk misbehavior grew intense: On January 4, 1977, the Evening News of London ran a front-page story on how the Sex Pistols " vomited and spat their way to an Amsterdam flight ".

" The old story of the Samaritan has been the model of the spirituality of the council " ( Paul VI., address, Dec. 7 ): On 8 December, the Council was formally closed, with the bishops professing their obedience to the Council's decrees.

On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, " The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt — The 20th Century Express ": " At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.

On June 2, 2009, the MMORPG RuneScape released a quest titled " The Hunt For Red Raktuber ", which is loosely based on this story.

On his return to Greenland he tells the story and inspires Leif Ericsson to organise an expedition, which retraces in reverse the route Bjarni had followed, past a land of flat stones ( Helluland ) and a land of forests ( Markland ).

On NBC, the television show Starting Over used Sylvia Villagran as the voice-over narrator to tell a story.

On February 8, 2007, the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford opened the National Cold War Exhibition at RAF Cosford in Shropshire to tell the story of the cold war.

* Cloverfield ( 2008 ): On 22 May, the events of the story take place.

On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area.

A nearly identical story is told by Plutarch, in his On Isis and Osiris, of the goddess Isis burning away the mortality of Prince Maneros of Byblos, son of Queen Astarte, and being likewise interrupted before completing the process.

His first published story was " To the Man On Trail ", which has frequently been collected in anthologies.

On the Parkinson show in November 1974 Burton told a funny story about meeting Churchill ; however, according to Robert Hardy, it was not true.

On his return to Corinth, the king didn't quite believe Arion's story.

He reappears in the Sandman sequel Endless Nights, in the story Destruction-On the Peninsula, where he is shown guiding and babysitting Delirium after a mental breakdown, and assisting in the excavation of a site that contains relics from a possible future.

In the story " On the Peninsula ," she states that there are many possible futures, like squillions of worms wriggling to the same place.

Actual local disasters were worked into some story lines, such as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake which destroyed the newly-completed Olive View Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley ; and a 1973 brush fire on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The Book of Liang records the story of the foundation of Funan by the foreigner Hùntián ( 混塡 ): " He came from the southern country Jiào ( 徼, an unidentified location, perhaps on the Malaysian Peninsula or in the Indonesian archipelago ) after dreaming that his personal genie had delivered a divine bow to him and had directed him to embark on a large merchant junk.

In 1947, Betty MacDonald published what became a popular book, The Egg and I, telling her story of marrying and then moving to a small farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

The book was a fictional treatment of the familiar Billy the Kid story, relocated from New Mexico to the Monterey Peninsula in California.

Among them, the story of the year 391 became very controversial as the text of the stele is not clear and it mentions Japan's presence in the Korean Peninsula in the 4th century, which Korean scholars reject.

It is based on the true story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah ( Arabic: قيس بن الملوح ‎) from the northern Arabian Peninsula, in the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th century.

Fitchett in How England Saved Europe: The story of the Great War, Vol. III, The war in the Peninsula: "... it is also a dramatic justification of Moore's strategy that he had drawn a hostile force so formidable into a hilly corner of Spain, thus staying its southward rush.

How England Saved Europe: The story of the Great War, Vol. III, The war in the Peninsula, London, 1900. OCLC 220800886.

The story is seen as an allegorical explanation of the fact that kumara won't grow south of Banks Peninsula.

Due to the game's story which involves war in the Korean Peninsula, the game was banned in Republic of Korea until 2003.

" The Dancing Girl of Izu " tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl on the onset of puberty.

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

** " The Coming of Atlas ", a DC Comics story arc featuring Atlas

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

* unlikely headlines, such as " SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN A CHIMNEY ", for which the copy in its entirety was " The story to fit this fantastical headline has not been thought up yet.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

Ian Kaplan of BearCave. com gave the book three stars out of five, saying that while he was " not entirely satisified " and felt that the " story tends to be shallow ", " Jeter does deal with the moral dilemma of the Blade Runners who hunt down beings that are virtually human in every way.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

However, this version of the story of the declaration's origins has been described as " fanciful ", a fair assessment considering that discussions between Weizmann and Balfour had begun at least a decade earlier.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

Chaplin built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, which became the film's " climactic incident ", and turned The Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

For example, ' 30 ' was widely used in journalism to mean " end of story ", and has been used in other contexts to signify " the end ".

In fact, this very story, along with some hints from " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", provides the key to the origin of the ' Derleth Mythos '.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

Asimov also explored the idea of the cyborg in relation to robots in his short story " Segregationist ", collected in The Complete Robot.

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.