Like many other ideas in Tolkien's mythos, the notion of half-elves is borrowed from Norse mythology, in which elves occasionally had children with humans.

Like most aspects of the Daredevil mythos, her character grew darker and more three-dimensional when writer / artist Frank Miller oversaw the comic book in the early 1980s.

Like older legends and myths, these narratives can rarely be traced to an original source.

Like many aspects of his life, his death, too, is blended with legends and speculation.

Like Joseph, Nicodemus became the object of various pious legends during the Middle Ages, particularly in connection with monumental crosses.

Like other " historical " takes on the Arthurian legends, the series postulates that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West.

Like many other United legends, Hughes quickly became a favourite at Old Trafford by scoring on his debut.

Labels like the " Fania All Stars ", leaders like Tito Puente, legends Like Celia Cruz and RM & M Record Label Created who passed away this year ( 2009 ), Ralph Mercado, all contributed to stars like Hector LaVoe, Ruben Blades and many, many more.

Like many urban legends, the " golden rivet " is perpetuated for the amusement of " old salts " at the expense of the gullible.

Like any other medieval city, Tallinn ( known as Reval from the 13th century until the 1920s ) has gathered legends around itself.

Like Rassilon, various contradictory legends surround the Other, some hinting that he had powers surpassing that of Rassilon or Omega, and some even suggesting that he was not born on the Time Lords ' home world of Gallifrey.

Like many former monastic sites, Beaulieu has its fair share of legends attached.

Like his opponent Glyndŵr, Gam has gained a sheen of legend and many stories about him are late oral traditions, folklore and family legends which may be unreliable.

Like other Cebu towns ’ legends as to how they were named, Samboan ’ s also came about from a language barrier between the European and natives.

Like most of the towns of the country, it is fraught with legends although most of them have no basis in fact.

Like strawberries in December, pansies are far more exciting in February than in May.

Like the other policy-making groups, these are middle class in their educational attitudes, and they attempt to act in the general public interest, as they see it.

Like an alphabet the phonemes of syllable initials are represented by individual symbols, but like a syllabary the phonemes of the syllable finals are not ; rather, each possible final ( excluding the medial glide ) is represented by its own symbol.

Like his creation the Necronomicon, Alhazred is often referenced in works that are not generally considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos, either as a subtle nod to Lovecraft or to create a connection to his world.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

Like class Ia ambers, these are based on communic acid ; however, they lack succinic acid.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Like gregarines they are commonly parasites of the epithelial cells of the gut but may infect other tissues.

Like the harp these instruments do not belong to the violin family and are not homogenous with the string choir.

Like other hydrocarbons, alkynes are generally hydrophobic but tend to be more reactive.

Like other members of the genus, all three are aerobes capable of producing endospores.

Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. Like other forest ungulates, bongos are seldom seen in large groups.

Like many forest ungulates bongos are herbivorous browsers and feed on tree / bush leaves, bushes, vines, bark and pith of rotting trees, grasses / herbs, roots, cereals, shrubs and fruits.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Like the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change.

Like moral panics, conspiracy theories thus occur more frequently within communities that are experiencing social isolation or political dis-empowerment.

Like all state routes outside major cities, they are only two-lane arterials and do not support heavy traffic.

Like Case, many cyberpunk protagonists are manipulated, placed in situations where they have little or no choice, and although they might see things through, they do not necessarily come out any further ahead than they previously were.

) Like the buy bet the commission is adjusted to suit the betting unit such that fraction of a dollar payouts are not needed.

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 the C ++ and Java programming languages, object-oriented COBOL compilers are available even as the language moves toward standardization.

Like white dwarfs these objects are extremely compact and are supported by degeneracy pressure, but a neutron star is so massive and compressed that electrons and protons have combined to form neutrons, and the star is thus supported by neutron degeneracy pressure instead of electron degeneracy pressure.

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

Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.

Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employed satire, in this case to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete.

Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as " Haircut ", " Some Like Them Cold ", " The Golden Honeymoon ", " Alibi Ike ", and " A Day with Conrad Green ".

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

" Eshaghian's documentary, Be Like Others, chronicles a number of stories of Iranian gay men who feel transitioning is the only way to avoid further persecution, jail and / or execution.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

Like all Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, most of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes have stories about their people surviving the flood.

" Like all of Buechner's stories, this one will make you laugh and cry.

Like the oldest in Ohio County, it is a Greek Revival building with two stories and a Doric portico supported by fluted columns ; it has ornamental iron stairs and a clock tower.

Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, " The Minority Report " questions the existence of free will.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Like many old buildings, Ordsall Hall has stories of hauntings.

Like the majority of Australians, Lawson lived in a city, but had had plenty of experience in outback life, in fact, many of his stories reflected his experiences in real life.

Asher proposed to call the disorder " Munchausen Syndrome ," commenting: " Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely ; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful.

Like their previous albums, Catch Without Arms was a concept album ; however, differing from the concrete stories and events surrounding their earlier releases, Catch Without Arms was about opposites, mainly focused on positives and negatives.

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

Like It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Time, and many other time travel stories using this concept, it is clear that these alternative presents / futures are mutually exclusive with the protagonists ' own — so, strictly speaking, the universes are not parallel in that they cannot co-exist, rather they oscillate between one or the other.

Like his previous works, the theme is very much morality, even where the stories themselves have a tendency to describe rather immoral behaviour.

Like other early science fiction writers of the period, he was influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, whose technological adventure novels had become popular in translation in the rapidly modernising Meiji era Japan.

Like most of the Man-Kzin Wars short stories, its canonicity is unknown.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

Like the two Troubles stories it was collected as a graphic novel in 1990, but religious protests led to it being quickly withdrawn from sale, apparently on the orders of publisher Robert Maxwell.