he tells stories of the Thousand and One Nights, and conjures up before us the bazaars of Damascus.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

One popular technique is to mock external interfaces or data to mimic other stories which might not be played out during an iteration ( as those stories may have been relatively lower business priority ).

" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

One columnist stated in April 1981 that " the microcomputer industry abounds with horror stories describing the way Commodore treats its dealers and its customers.

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

Don Quixote, Part One contains a number of stories which do not directly involve the two main characters, but which are narrated by some of the picaresque figures encountered by the Don and Sancho during their travels.

Thomas was an accomplished writer of prose poetry, with collections such as Potrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ) and Quite Early One Morning ( 1954 ) showing he was capable of writing moving short stories.

One of Wollheim's short stories, " Mimic ," was made into the feature film of the same name, released in 1997.

# " Encyclopedia Brown, The Boy Detective in One Minute Mysteries " ( This episode adapted 6 of the Encyclopedia Brown stories from the books, including Encyclopedia's very first case-" The Case of Natty Nat ", " The Case of the Scattered Cards ", " The Case of the Civil War Sword ", " The Case of the Foot Warmer ", " The Case of the Bitter Drink " and " The Case of the Great Merko ".

One solution is to see the patriarchal stories as resulting from God's decision not to remain alienated from mankind: God creates the world and mankind, mankind rebels, and God " elects " ( chooses ) Abraham.

One reason for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human inability to view the world from any perspective but a personal one.

One of the best known of all Irish stories, Oidheadh Clainne Lir, or The Tragedy of the Children of Lir, is also part of this cycle.

One of her shortest stories, " Ain " is a sympathetic portrait of a scientist whose concern for Earth's ecological suffering leads him to destroy the entire human race.

One of the most widely published Japanese manga artist, nearly all of his stories have been translated into other languages, including English.

One collection of her stories has been published.

There are also two or three short stories which share common themes and some background elements with Known Space stories, but which are not considered a part of the Known Space universe: Bordered in Black and One Face ( see the collection Convergent Series ), and possibly The Color of Sunfire.

One of the last stories of this type, describing an Earth poet's study of Martian language and literature.

It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

One of the most attractive things about avocados is that they do not require processing of any kind.

they expired amid indescribable fantods, imploring the Blessed One to forgive their desecration.

One subject changed when given only the information that some people have something happen to their arm when they relax.

One should keep in mind that many of the exciting possiblities of roleplaying are largely unexplored and have not been used in industry to the extent that they have been in military and other areas.

One such disagreement, which will receive attention in this next chapter, concerns the question whether rates for different kinds of service, in order to avoid the attribute of discrimination, must be made directly proportional to marginal costs, or whether they should be based instead on differences in marginal costs.

One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews: `` It's the twentieth century, and they don't have to wear beards ''.

One veracious woman tells me she has used thin potato parings for both corns and calluses on her feet and they remove the pain or `` fire ''.

One good indication of the two men's personalities is the way they reacted to meeting their own heroes.

( `` One of the reasons they get along fine '', says a sportswriter who is friendly with the two men, `` is that both realize Mantle is head-and-shoulders above Maris ''.

One study found that slightly altering photographs so that they more closely resembled the faces of study participants increased the trust the participants expressed regarding depicted persons.

One is that people will be more helping when they know that their helping behavior will be communicated to people they will interact with later, is publicly announced, is discussed, or is simply being observed by someone else.

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 his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.

One can get by without referring to charts, but they are an important tool and a part of good anchoring gear, and a skilled mariner would not choose to anchor without them.

One of the main differences is that while animists believe everything to be spiritual in nature, they do not necessarily see the spiritual nature of everything in existence as being united ( monism ), the way pantheists do.

One possibility was that they should revert to the crown, another that they should be redistributed to his family.

One theory is that they or part of them dwelt or moved among other coastal people perhaps confederated up to the basin of the Saale ( in the neighbourhood of the ancient canton of Engilin ) on the Unstrut valleys below the Kyffhäuserkreis, from which region the Lex Angliorum et Werinorum hoc est Thuringorum is believed by many to have come.