Like Johnson's adaptation, the ballad farce concentrated on the Induction, omitting entirely the Petruchio / Katherina story.

A third story is that Johnson's partner, Leon Douglass, derived the word from his wife's name ' Victoria.

One story, mentioned in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), has a Sybarite sleeping on a bed of rose petals, but unable to get to sleep because one of the petals was folded over.

Creative nonfiction may be structured like traditional fiction narratives, as is true of Fenton Johnson's story of love and loss, Geography of the Heart, and Virginia Holman's Rescuing Patty Hearst.

The story opens when she is engaged by a famed photographer to do the make-up for a photography session being held in Johnson Johnson's apartment.

The community of Rasselas, Pennsylvania, located in Elk County, was named after Rasselas Wilcox Brown, whose father, Isaac Brown, Jr., was fond of Johnson's story.

Twenty years later, when Johnson ran for U. S. Congress, Mike Kelleher, his Democratic rival, had the story documented on a website dedicated to the photograph and Johnson's reactions, saying " It would be funny, if it weren't so serious ..."

The dates in Johnson's story do not add up.

Rumors of these royal mountain residences were part of the inspiration for Samuel Johnson's short story, Rasselas.

Johnson's life story and death were remarkably similar to that of an unrepentant segregationist leader in Louisiana, William M. Rainach of Claiborne Parish, a state legislator and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in his state's 1959 primary election.

* A second, also highly fictionalized, version of Johnson's story appeared in Charles Bronson's 1981 movie Death Hunt.

Johnson is the sole character featured in The Halo Graphic Novel story, " Breaking Quarantine ," which details Johnson's escape from the Flood in Halo: Combat Evolved, and a main character in the 2007 novel Halo: Contact Harvest.

The song tells the story of Mrs. Johnson, a widowed mother of a teenage girl, who becomes outraged when one afternoon her daughter brings home a note from her school's PTA decrying Mrs. Johnson's supposedly scandalous behavior by small-town standards, which, according to the PTA, is setting a bad example for her daughter.

ABC subsequently ran an update to the story, which included an 147-page response from Vicki Johnson's lawyer in response to ABC's questions about Steve Tarabokija.

The Brothers Bloom, Johnson's second film, is a con-man story starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, and Rinko Kikuchi.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.

After the sun rises, the fake town is a perfect replica, right down to the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse.

" Whether Johnson's description was entirely truthful or embellished is unclear, but it seems likely that Teach understood the value of appearances ; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies, than rely on bluster alone.

In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of " pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

After the war, as President of what is now Washington and Lee University, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and intersectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates.

" A further theory is that it derives from Johnson's word skavoovie, with which he was known to greet his friends.

First is Robert Johnson's " Traveling Riverside Blues ", one of the best-known examples of Delta blues slide guitar.

… in most of the irregular Playes of Shakespeare or Fletcher ( for Ben Johnson's are for the most part regular ) there is a more masculine fancy and greater spirit in all the writing, then there is in any of the French.

This action is due to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.

Johnson's architectural work is a balancing act between two dominant trends in post-war American art: the more " serious " movement of Minimalism, and the more populist movement of Pop Art.

The institution's Hines College of Architecture is also housed in one of Johnson's buildings.

Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record that stands to this day.

A sweeping Republican victory in the 1866 Congressional elections in the North gave the Radical Republicans enough control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and began what is called " Radical Reconstruction " in 1867.

In the words of Benjamin F. Perry, President Johnson's choice as the provisional governor of South Carolina: " First, the Negro is to be invested with all political power, and then the antagonism of interest between capital and labor is to work out the result.

' Johnson's Blue ' is a hybridisation between G. himalayense ( southwestern China ), with G. pratense ( European meadow cranesbill ).

One of the most pervasive myths is that several of Ketchel's teeth stuck in Johnson's glove, because the filmed fight shows Johnson touching his wrist after having knocked Ketchell out.

Mounds, Illinois July 4, 1910-One dead and one mortally wounded is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up the town in honor of Jack Johnson's victory at Reno tonight.

After a subpar stretch in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team had a brief resurgence with coach Karl, culminating in a famous 1987 Western Conference Semifinal match against Magic Johnson's Lakers, which is still shown on TV in the NBA's Greatest Games series.

* November – John Casor flees Anthony Johnson's farm, sparking the legal basis for slavery in the United States.

Originally named Kingston, the town was created in 1734 as part of Royal Governor Robert Johnson's Township Scheme, but before, that Mckevlin founded it first, starting the basis for the city.

This may be linked to a more general argument against abstraction, such as Mark Johnson's argument that it is, " necessary ... for abstract meaning ... to have a bodily basis.

At the trial, it was revealed that after stabbing Mr Johnson they had gone on to attack another man in the area and also damaged two cars. Mr Johnson's family later had two applications for criminal injuries compensation rejected on the basis that he had contributed to his own death by leaving the safety of his home to confront the teenagers about their noisy behaviour.

In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's " Carolina Shout ", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.

The earliest musical adaptation of the play was an anonymous ballad farce based on Charles Johnson's Cobbler of Preston ( 1716 ).

Bradley also suggested that official Navy protests of Secretary Johnson's actions in cancelling construction of its supercarrier, the USS United States were due to improper personal or political, even mutinous motives, calling Navy admirals " fancy dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals ", and who were in " open rebellion against the civilian control.

The Raiders had a great chance to score a touchdown early in the game after cornerback Charles Woodson intercepted Buccaneers quarterback Brad Johnson's pass on the third play of the game and returned it 12 yards to the Tampa Bay 36-yard line.

* Etaoin Shrdlu, or a portion of the phrase, is the name of a character in many works of fiction, including: Elmer Rice's 1923 play The Adding Machine, Charles G. Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby, Bill Holman's comic strip Smokey Stover, Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, and the novel Psychoshop by Roger Zelazny and Alfred Bester.

In 1929, both the first Howard Johnson's restaurant and Howard Johnson's company received an incredible break due to an unusual set of circumstances: The Mayor of nearby Boston, Malcolm Nichols, prohibited the planned production of Eugene O ' Neill's play, Strange Interlude, from performing in his city.

Under Johnson's leadership, England moved away from being a forward-dominated side and towards the 15-man rugby that Woodward wanted them to play.

Johnson's site advises PC-based players to download the Macintosh version and play using an emulator, specifically mentioning Executor, but other open source emulators will work as well.

In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary his definition of " Pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".

Also able to play flanker, he complemented Johnson's more powerful play with mobility, but perhaps more importantly he pioneered the contesting of the opposition's line-out throws.

Johnson's Lakers reached the 1980 NBA Finals, and took a 3 – 2 lead, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar could not play in Game 6 due to injury.

Oscar says he will read Dr. Johnson's play if she pretends he really is wounded.

The play was also memorable for play-by-play commentator Gus Johnson's call.

Hodgson was included in Johnson's squad to tour Australia in June 2010, although he did not play in the Tests.

The seed for Johnson's play was his having read that an autographed photograph of Einstein was found amongst Marilyn Monroe's possessions upon her death.

Film Four's movie critic wrote: " Roeg really is the perfect director to bring Johnson's stage play to the screen.

Replays showed that Johnson's knee hit Lucas ' helmet, and Lucas did not move again after falling to the ground. Later replays and reports showed nothing abnormal on the play.

Johnson's playing career began in 1902 in the Montreal City Hockey League where he would, at times, play with his junior, intermediate and senior teams all in the same weekend.

When it became known that Lichtenhein would gain Johnson's salary for playing in the series, Johnson contemplated refusing to play.

During a League Cup game against Plymouth Argyle, Johnson's son ( Lee Johnson ) accidentally scored a goal after attempting to play the ball back to Argyle's keeper ( who had kicked the ball out because of an injury to a Plymouth player ).

In 1998, he played Carry On actor Sid James in the Royal National Theatre's production of Terry Johnson's stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, a behind-the-scenes look of the love affair between Sid James and his co-star Barbara Windsor, which was subsequently made into a ITV drama called Cor, Blimey!