One famous apocryphal quote attributed to him upon hearing an explanation of the extremely complicated mathematics required to demonstrate Ptolemy's theory of astronomy was " If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on creation thus, I should have recommended something simpler.

One account, possibly apocryphal, claims that he installed an ally as a senior civil servant despite the man being illiterate.

One perhaps apocryphal story tells of a banker who spot-checked a Wang calculator against a mortgage table and found a discrepancy.

Some Muslims also hold to the apocryphal prophecies regarding the coming of the Paraclete ( Praiseworthy One ), such as that in the Epistle of the Apostles, as referring to Muhammad.

" One possibly apocryphal story relates that he first attained the name after arriving at a tailor shop to pick up a suit he had ordered.

One such example is mentioned by Josephus and the deuterocanonical book of 3 Maccabees in connection with the Egyptian Jews, though the story is probably apocryphal.

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

One widely reported guest appearance — Hunter S. Thompson's, in " New Year's Pete " — has been described as " apocryphal " by show creator Will McRobb, who has said the Hunter Thompson listed in the credits is instead a similarly named extra.

One apocryphal story about the HCF instruction goes back to the late 1960s, when computers used magnetic core memory.

One such Fool's Mate is widely reported to have occurred in a possibly apocryphal 1959 game between Masefield and Trinka which lasted just three moves: 1. e4 g5 2.

One theory, most likely apocryphal, originated with Polish engineer and army officer Tadeusz Lisicki ( who knew Rejewski and his colleague Henryk Zygalski in wartime Britain but was never associated with the Cipher Bureau ).

One of the anecdotal and possibly apocryphal tales told in support of Mountbatten Pink was the story of the cruiser HMS Kenya ( nicknamed " The Pink Lady " at the time due to her Mountbatten Pink paint ), which during Operation Archery covered a commando raid against installations on Vågsøy Island off the Norwegian coast.

One report has a Nubian army sacking Cairo in the eighth century to defend the Christians, but this is probably apocryphal.

One, possibly apocryphal, attribution is to Reverend Henry Williams.

One interesting, perhaps apocryphal Parsi legend relates the course of the initial meeting between Jadi Rana and the newly landed emigrants: When the Zoroastrians requested asylum, Jadi Rana motioned to a vessel of milk filled to the very brim to signify that his kingdom was already full and could not accept refugees.

One apocryphal story, first appearing in the ( 597 CE ) Lidai sanbao ji 歷代三寶紀, concerns a group of Buddhist priests who supposedly arrived in 217 BCE at the capital of Qin Shi Huang in Xianyang ( near Xi ' an ).

One apocryphal story claimed that once when Cushing was campaigning from a wagon on a South Boston street corner for a candidate for the state legislature, his parish priest pulled him aside and told him, " Make up your mind ; either you're going to be a priest or a politician!

One ( possibly apocryphal ) story claims that in 1972, US President Nixon received 50g of Dà Hóng Páo, at the estimated cost of 250, 000 US Dollars in 2011 money.

One ( unverified, and probably apocryphal ) account of the origin of the locality's name comes from the Spanish adjective mojado / a, meaning " soaked, wet ", and apparently applied due to the frequent return of the village's fishermen to port drenched in the storms of the area.

Lu Cheng () wrote an essay attempting to prove this book is apocryphal, named " One hundred reasons about why Shurangama Sutra is apocryphal " ().

At the center of the area they discover the Nameless City ( the setting of the Lovecraft story of the same name ) and in Derleth's text the domain of the Great Old One Hastur.

One of the entrances to the Cleeves Cove cave system ; the ' Elf Hame ' of the Bessie Dunlop story.

The Hollywood film Air Force One ( film ) starring Harrison Ford recounts the fictional story of the hijacking of the famous aircraft by six Kazakh ultra-nationalist terrorists.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

One famous story which persisted through history related to a gift Abd al-Rahman was given while in Málaga.

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The 2006 film One Night with the King is a reenactment of the biblical story of Esther.

For instance, the name " Lord Sto Odin " in the story " Under Old Earth " is derived from the Russian words for " One hundred and one ", сто один.

These were story concept albums which named as O3: A Trilogy, Part One, O3: A Trilogy, Part Two, and O3: A Trilogy, Part Three.

The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

Cervantes's meta-fictional device was to make even the characters in the story familiar with the publication of Part One, as well as with an actually published fraudulent Part Two.

One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way.

One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.

One story names his origins as the exhausted breath of An ( god of the heavens ) and Ki ( goddess of the Earth ) after sexual union.

One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve story.

One enduring legacy of Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

One of these poems further intrigued him, and he began to rework the headnote to turn it into first a short story and then a novella.

One story has it that his passion for Homer was born when he heard a drunkard reciting it at the grocer's.

One requirement for hard SF is procedural or intentional: a story should try to be accurate, logical, credible and rigorous in its use of current scientific and technical knowledge about which technology, phenomena, scenarios and situations that are practically and / or theoretically possible, and later discoveries do not necessarily invalidate the label.

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One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.