In a review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan, D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University wrote " For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

In a story recounted by Professor Richard Holmes, just three days before D-Day, during a reception in the London Ritz Hotel, Patton shouted across a crowded reception in the direction of paratroop commander General Jim Gavin, " I'll see you in the Pas De Calais, Gavin!

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Professor Moriarty's first appearance and his end occurred in Doyle's story " The Adventure of the Final Problem ," in which Holmes, on the verge of delivering a fatal blow to Moriarty's criminal ring, is forced to flee to continental Europe to escape Moriarty's retribution.

Professor Moriarty appeared in a flashback sequence ; a 135-year old Holmes had a brief cameo at the end of the story.

* In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty.

Another story, " The Adventure of the Greek Invertebrate " ( a play on " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ", the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft ), features Professor Moriarty's brothers, the colonel and the station master, and offers an explanation for the lack of variety in their forenames.

Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine.

" At various times the text refers to " Sir Roderick Murchison, Professor ( Richard ) Owen, Professor ( Thomas Henry ) Huxley, ( and ) Mr. Darwin ", and thus they become explicitly part of the story.

In the Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, Professor Pennyroyal is a bogus historian who leads the protagonists of the story to near death.

This is in the area where the Bible reports Samson to have lived, and Professor Shlomo Bunimovitz, a co-director of the dig, was reported as saying that the artefact helps " anchor the story in an archaeological setting.

Nemo tells Professor Aronnax that his intention was to have the story of his life, which he was in the process of writing when Aronnax and his companions were cast upon the Nautilus, sealed in an unsinkable casket and thrown overboard by the last survivor of the Nautiluss crew, in the hope that it would be washed up somewhere.

In March 2010, the PBS FRONTLINE TV program in the United States showed a documentary called " The Suicide Tourist " which told the story of Professor Craig Ewert, his family, and Dignitas, and their decision to commit assisted suicide using Sodium Pentobarbital in Switzerland after he was diagnosed and suffering with ALS ( Lou Gehrig's Disease ).

As Feuerbach told the story, " When Professor Daumer held the north pole a magnet towards him, Kaspar put his hand to the pit of his stomach, and, drawing his waistcoat in an outward direction, said that it drew him thus ; and that a current of air seemed to proceed from him.

* Edgar Allan Poe's humorous short story, " The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ," features the staff of an insane asylum being tarred and feathered.

As seen in the OVA, the story began with Professor Kokubunji ( a character similar to the professors seen in other Super Robot series, such as Professor Saotome of Getter Robo ) discovering cave paintings somewhere underground placed by the " Super Paleolithic people ".

The story also provides an explanation as to the antagonism between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

Professor of literature Basil Willey commented in 1956, " In ' Ulysses ' the sense that he must press on and not moulder in idleness is expressed objectively, through the classical story, and not subjectively as his own experience.

Increasing the Captain's problems, two over-zealous Paris Flash reporters concoct a story claiming that Haddock and Castafiore intend to get married ( following a misinterpreted conversation with the very hard-of-hearing Professor Calculus ), and an avalanche of congratulations from friends from all over the world pour in for several hours.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ;

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ; it is notable that, according to textual scholars, in the Jahwist version of the story it is only the Joseph tribes that are among these migrants, since it only recounts Jacob as having met Rachel, and the matriarchs of the other Israelite tribes-Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah-do not appear.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and doesn't mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

Devora Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, says that the story of Jacob and Laban also resonates with the covenant with Abraham, more frequently interpreted as applying to the Exodus: " your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them ....

Condover Hall is an elegant Grade I listed three story Elizabethan sandstone building, described as the grandest manor house in Shropshire, standing in a conservation area on the outskirts of Condover village, Shropshire, England, four miles south of the county town of Shrewsbury.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

* In the 2D fighting game series BlazBlue, a recurring character named Lambda-11 appears in the various games ' story modes and as a playable character.

This made continuing story arcs and the appearance of recurring characters much more feasible.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

Some are never to be seen again following the conclusion of a story arc, while others make recurring appearances.

In his short story " Evidence " Asimov lets his recurring character Dr. Susan Calvin expound a moral basis behind the Three Laws.

The rest of the story concentrates on comparing and contrasting the two rivals during a race through " The Heart of Africa " ( a recurring phrase in the story ).

' Leitmotif ' is sometimes used by literary or dramatic critics to refer to a recurring event, image, object or character in a story, poem, film or play.

( The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring, whom Marlowe married in Chandler's unfinished final novel Poodle Springs — after initially rejecting the idea because he knew it would not last.

The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).

The Cybermen returned as a parallel version and appeared in the 2006 series ' two-part story, " Rise of the Cybermen " and " The Age of Steel ", and have been recurring villains in the revived series since.

In his last two seasons, he introduced another recurring gag where he would read a news story and then record a " note to self " on a tape recorder, regarding the story he had just read.

La Dispute's first LP has a recurring theme of this story, including the album title: Somewhere At the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair.

In October 2005, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a bimonthly Haunted Mansion comic book anthology, with the main recurring story ( Mystery of the Manse ) centered around " Master Gracey " and inspired by the sea captain concepts proposed for the attraction by Ken Anderson in the 1950s.

A few popular music artists have used elements of the Merry England story as recurring themes ; The Kinks and their leader Ray Davies crafted The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society as a homage to English country life and culture: it was described by Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as an album " lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions "; Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) also contains similar elements.

Some Xindi became important recurring characters as the 24-episode story arc unfolded.

The series is notable for its recurring characters and ambiguous continuity ; though each game is its own self-contained story, the names of the two lead characters are, invariably, Ryu and Nina.

His recurring role is based not only on the story of Rumpelstiltskin, but also on the Beast in the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

His stories do not have a recurring single character, instead the characters are based on the children to whom he first told the story, including his own children.

* Motif ( narrative ), any recurring element in a story that has symbolic significance or the reason behind actions

Jeff MacKay had recurring roles on Magnum, P. I., and later JAG ( 1995 – 2005 ), and Marta DuBois played the role of Magnum's estranged wife Michelle, long presumed dead, in a story arc that spanned most of that's show's run.

Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider ; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self ; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.