Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.

Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.

Like live action, machinima is recorded in real-time, and real people can act and control the camera.

Like Pascal, the p-code is strongly typed, supporting boolean ( b ), character ( c ), integer ( i ), real ( r ), set ( s ), and pointer ( a ) types natively.

Like many of Garner's books, the novel is set in the real landscape of Cheshire, in this case focused around Alderley Edge, and features the fictional characters interacting at genuine sites, such as the sandstone escarpment of the Edge, the Wizard's Well, the open mine pits, and the Beacon.

Like much of Florida, the Great Depression came early to Pinellas with the collapse of the real estate boom in 1926.

Like her real father, he has a study and sits there during the day and will not talk to Coraline for long.

Like many other would-be real estate magnates in the area at the time, his Florida investments were nearly worthless after the freeze, and he returned to his home in the North.

Like most early western communities, Wisner's real existence dates only from the time of the arrival of the railroad.

Like Weller, he was not sure about the character but Richter convinced him by " claiming what a real feast for an actor this wonderful Jekyll and Hyde character was ", the actor said.

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.

Like earlier Roland drum machines, it does not sound very much like a real drum kit.

Like other security companies, G4S targets sectors: energy, utilities, and chemical / petrochemical, financial institutions, government, hospitals and healthcare facilities, major corporates, industrials and construction, ports and airports, residential communities, retail and commercial real estate, transit systems

Like the play by Friedrich Schiller and the opera by Gaetano Donizetti, it takes considerable liberties with history in order to achieve increased dramatic effect, in particular two fictitious face-to-face encounters between the two Queens ( who never met in real life ).

Like the earlier plays, it depicts Anderson as " a person of intrinsic worth victimized by the greed and fears of others " and did not attempt to decide her real identity.

Like his predecessor Liu Gong, Liu Hong is generally not regarded as a real monarch, so he is also not included in the list of emperors of the Han Dynasty.

Like his previous film, Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 ) was also a fictionalized account of a real trial, this one about the Nuremberg Trials held after the defeat of the Nazis in World War II.

Like real cricket, the rules of the game are massively convoluted, leading to a perpetual state of war between the players over their interpretation.

Like the first film, footage of real sharks filmed by Australian divers Ron & Valerie Taylor were used for movement shots that could not be convincingly achieved using the mechanical sharks.

Like Stan and Ollie, Vanessa and her friends finagle a long-distance road trip to a rock concert fooling their parents, but everything that can go wrong does, including a twist of fate that destroys their alibi ( a fire right next door to one of Vanessa's friends ' house where they were supposed to be staying ), and the parents eventually discover the real truth.

Like traditional fantasy sports, players draft a team of real world athletes who then score fantasy points according to set scoring rules.

Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based on a real person — in this case, a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at the University of Edinburgh while Conan Doyle studied medicine there.

Like The Muppet Show, Greg the Bunny treated puppets as though they were real creatures within the reality of the show, although in this show, they were treated as a racial minority, sometimes struggling against second-class citizenship.

* Like many of Tolkien's Hobbit names, ' Took ' is a real ( though rare ) English surname.

: Like Jack himself, he is only known as the " Scotsman " ( voiced by John DiMaggio ) rather than a real name, and he is one of only two characters to appear in four episodes-" Jack and the Scotsman ", " Jack and the Scotsman II ", and " The Scotsman saves Jack " which consists of two consecutive episodes.

Like many other fictional elf races, they are excellent archers.

Like the letter from the fictional ' friend ' in the Biographia, it brilliantly suggests how a compressed fragment came to represent a much larger ( and even more mysterious ) act of creation.

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 ).

Like most technologies in the Star Trek fictional universe, the exact operation of shield technology is never precisely described.

Like the Anthology project that it lampooned, it featured tracks ostensibly from all periods of the Rutles career, sequenced to reflect the fictional band's chronology.

* Silvius ( fictional character ), a minor character in the pastoral comedy As You Like It

* Jess Bhamra, fictional character in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham

* Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964.

He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.

Like Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, Pokémon Gold and Silver are played from a top-down perspective, or third-person, with players directly navigating the protagonist around the fictional universe, interacting with objects and people.

Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional Pine Hollow Stables, while dealing with problems in their personal lives.

Like the first two films of the series, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes of the film.

Like Stanislavski, Brecht disliked the shallow spectacle, manipulative plots, and heightened emotion of melodrama ; but where Stanislavski attempted to engender real human behavior in acting through the techniques of Stanislavski's system and to absorb the audience completely in the fictional world of the play, Brecht saw Stanislavski's methodology as producing escapism.

* Rosalind ( As You Like It ), fictional character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It

Like It and Dreamcatcher, its setting is the fictional town of Derry, Maine.

Like the later Three Colors: Blue, it showcased Preisner's musical score as a major plot element, crediting his work to the fictional Van den Budenmayer.

Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was an utopia, a fictional place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations.

Like Amery, the fictional character of James Deveraux is born to a distinctive British family, having MPs and Secretaries of State as relatives.

Like other fictional detectives, he is notable for extraordinary powers of observation and deduction ; and on at least one occasion, he has managed to escape being shot by catching a bullet in his teeth.

Like most of his works the novel is based in Malgudi, the fictional town in South India.

Like many other bands of the sub-genre, Thergothon have lyrics either directly referencing Lovecraft's fictional works, poetry, or around themes he promulgated.

Like the fictional character, Talyllyn was built in 1864, and has worked on its original railway since 1865.