Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Like many of the medieval towns of Tuscany, Montalcino experienced long periods of peace and often enjoyed a measure of prosperity.

Like many of the eighth day it has a theme in common with many tales from the ancient and medieval era and it is not possible to point to one source that served as Boccaccio's inspiration.

Like any medieval border, the territory of each Tribunal is not precisely defined.

Like most medieval monarchs, he founded several churches and monasteries most important of which are the monastery of Canons regular of St. Augustinein Trzemeszno, founded in the 12th century, and a Benedictine monastery of Holy Cross atop the Łysa Góra which was founded in place of an ancient pagan temple.

Like medieval Jewish groups, the Dwarves use their own language only amongst themselves, and adopted the languages of those they live amongst for the most part, for example taking public names from the cultures they lived within, whilst keeping their " true-names " and true language a secret.

Like most medieval buildings, the windows at Chartres suffered badly from the corrosive effects of atmospheric acids during the Industrial Revolution and subsequently.

Like the other early medieval universities ( Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge, Padua ), the University of Paris was already well established before it received a specific foundation act from the Church in 1200.

Like the old village centre with its small houses and the church with late medieval 15th century clock tower ( on picture, wooden top from 1642 ), and the old farms, surrounded by modern houses nowadays.

Like so many medieval princes, Edmund gained his identifying nickname from his birthplace of Langley, now Kings Langley in Hertfordshire.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Discworld, in this case Rock and Roll music and stardom, with nearly disastrous consequences.

Like other cities of Cyprus, it has suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, and in medieval times when its harbor silted up ( a sign that the island was deforested and overgrazed ) the population moved to Larnaca, on the open seafront farther south.

Like the signori of late medieval and Renaissance Italy, the tyrants usually seized power at the head of some popular support.

Like Latin in medieval Europe, Arabic shares both the role of intellectual language as well as the role of liturgical language in much of the Islamic world.

Like many towns in the West Country, Okehampton grew on the medieval wool trade.

Like the medieval Liveries of the City of London, the company plays a full role in the governance of the City, including the election and support of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs.

Like some other forms of gram-negative sepsis, septicemic plague can cause disseminated intravascular coagulation, and is almost always fatal without treatment ( the mortality rate in medieval times was 99-100 percent ).

Like many of the smaller towns of Umbria, Narni is still of strikingly medieval appearance today, with stone buildings, and narrow cobblestone streets.

Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen.

Like the harpsichord, the virginals has its origins in the medieval psaltery to which a keyboard was applied, probably in the 15th century.

Like the pound of 12 troy ounces ( 373 g ), the mark was also used as a unit of currency, e. g. in many Shakespearean plays set in medieval England, and in various incarnations in Germany and Finland until the adoption of the euro in 1999.

Like his other early poems – " Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere " and " Galahad " – the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources.

Like their father, Ambrose and Robert Dudley adopted the bear and ragged staff, the heraldic device of the medieval Earls of Warwick.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

Like modern open-circuit scuba with single-hose regulators, they consisted of one or more high pressure diving cylinders and a diving regulator ( the Aqua-Lung ) that supplied the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure via a demand valve.

Like the modern crankshaft, Al-Jazari's mechanism consisted of a wheel setting several crank pins into motion, with the wheel's motion being circular and the pins moving back-and-forth in a straight line.

Like the first Zürich issue, it consisted of pairs of stamps, each printed in black on yellow-green paper, depicting the city's arms, and inscribed " Poste de Genéve " at the top and " Port local " at the bottom.

Like nearby Lviv ( Lwów in Polish ), the city's population consisted of a great number of nationalities, including Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Germans, Czechs, Armenians and Lipka Tatars.

Like its Apollo LM predecessor, Altair consisted of two parts: an ascent stage which houses the four-person crew ; and a descent stage which has the landing legs, the majority of the crew's consumables ( oxygen and water ), and scientific equipment.

Like the Beylerbey, the Sanjak-bey drew his income from a prebend, which consisted usually of revenues from the towns, quays and ports within the boundary of his sanjak.

Like most southern style kung fu, it has limited kicks and jumps and consisted mainly of fist, palm and clawing techniques.

He had repeated the basic ideas of Pokrovski on the 1812 campaign and he managed to interpret Napoleon from the viewpoint of the class-struggle saying that “… the Napoleonic era is the birth of the stubborn conflict of new social and economic forces, a conflict which did not begin with Napoleon or end with him, and whose basic significance consisted in the victorious assault of the middle class against the feudal and the semi-feudal order in France and Europe .” Like Pokrovski, Tarle, in this book, treated Russian people ’ s patriotism and the talents of the Russian commanders as of lesser significance.

The King, their next album, received critical reviews ; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of Madonna's " Like a Virgin ".

Like God, this book existed from all eternity, not only in potentiality, but in actuality ; and the Creation consisted merely in the appearance of that which was latent in the first " Sefirah ," " Or HaGanuz ," or, as it is called, " Keter ' Elyon ", which emanated from God.

Like other early railways, it followed canal practice in that it consisted of essentially level sections linked by inclines ( taking the place of the canal's locks ), where the trains were drawn up and lowered down by rope.

Like most other polearms of the time, it consisted of two parts: shaft and blade.

Like Chep Lap Kok, geologically Lam Chau consisted of granite.

Like the United States Congress, the Confederate Congress consisted of two houses: a Senate, whose membership consisted of two senators from each state ( chosen by their state legislature ), and a House of Representatives, with members popularly elected by residents of the individual states.

Like most of Fukuoka City, the construction in Jōnan-ku is relatively recent, as the area consisted mostly of fields after World War 2, lacking even paved roads.

Like the implied nature of his self-help tape business, his prior enterprise actually consisted of drug-running.

Like their father Luis Tanori before them, they became respected militia chieftains among their peoples, and were commissioned brigadier generals in the French Army by Emperor Maximilian during the Franco-Mexican War as leaders of the Sonoran Indian troops, being that Maximillian made a pact with the indigenous nations of Sonora, which consisted of allowing Sonora independent statehood in the form of an indigenous confederation known as the Confederación India de Sonora if France won the war.

Like Alpha it had no expansion symbol, and the text on the bottom left consisted of only the artist credit.

Like many stadiums built at the time, it consisted of two bowed sideline grandstands with free-standing bleachers behind the end zones ; the stadium's original form was substantially similar to that of BB & T Field at Wake Forest and Memorial Stadium at Indiana University.

Like the Beylerbey, the Sanjak-bey drew his income from a prebend, which consisted usually of revenues from the towns, quays and ports within the boundary of his sanjak.

: Like the Model 3, the Model 3A consisted of a Hardwood Stratocaster style body, maple neck with rosewood fretboard ans 22 frets, however the Model 3A had 2 humbuckers with a 5 way switch to include coil tap.

A CD single that consisted of the Johny Fiasco remix of the song and two additional remixes of " Like I Love You " was released on February 3 and February 6, 2003 in the United Kingdom and Canada respectively.