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One and tale
One of these, " Surrender into the Roses " ( also known as " Carmilla " and " Coming Up ") was inspired by the tale.
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 touchstone of the authentic fairy tale is that it is presented as wholly credible.
One such tale is Echtra Nerai (' The Adventure of Nera ') concerning one Nera from Connacht who undergoes a test of bravery put forth by King Ailill.
One of the many versions of a certain tale regarding his creation of the staff method takes place during the Red Turban Rebellion in the Yuan Dynasty.
Some suggest One Thousand and One Nights or the Ephesian Tale may have given some inspiration to the author for this tale, but not enough that either could definitely been called a source.
One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries ; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different origins.
From Chiapas and the western Guatemalan Highlands comes the tale of Younger Brother and his jealous Elder Brethren: Youngest One becomes the Sun, his mother becomes the Moon, and the Elder Brethren are transformed into wild pigs and other forest animals.
One tale says that pygmy hippos carry a shining diamond in their mouths to help travel through thick forests at night ; by day the pygmy hippo has a secret hiding place for the diamond, but if a hunter catches a pygmy hippo at night the diamond can be taken.
It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.
One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented there in 1957 ; Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (" it will make a damn mess "), hence the name.
One version of a late Classical tale relates that she was of such striking beauty that both Heracles and Achelous wanted to marry her and there was a contest to win her hand.
Writing for The One, Paul Presley stated that " Lucasfilm appears to have taken all of the elements that worked in its previous releases and, not only incorporated them into this tale of scurvy swashbuckling, but even improved on them in the process!
One local tale of its name comes from a story in which a bartender yells, " Soak Hell " at a patron.
One tale recounts how Wong defeated a group of 30 gangsters on the docks of Guangdong with a staff.
One of the stories they describe is the tale of Urashima Tarō, which has been identified as the earliest example of a story involving time travel.
No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.
The history of Nordland is a tale about the gifts from the sea: One of the most productive seas in the world providing food all year since ancient times, the same sea creates a climate more moderate than any other place in the arctic ; even the bedrock itself enriched by sea living organisms millions of years ago in the geological past.
Similarly in Persian literature, " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights, describes the protagonist Bulukiya learning of alternative worlds / universes that are similar to but still distinct from his own.

One and recounted
One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In 1943, Willkie published One World, a book for popular audiences which recounted his world travels on the Gulliver and urged that America accept some form of " world government " after the war.
* November 14 – A vision is allegedly encountered by various military personnel in Europe at 22: 30 hours ( as recounted on the television series One Step Beyond ).
One theory was later recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written a few decades after the event, but partly from first-hand sources, and the contemporary Burgundian Jean de Waurin's chronicle.
This will be recounted in Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero.
It was this marriage that prompted De Havilland to move to Paris and her adjustments to life there was recounted in her memoir, Every Frenchman Has One.
One story embodying this theme is that recounted by the epic heroine Shakuntala to explain her own parentage.
One version, from Shropshire, recounted by K. M. Briggs in her book A Dictionary of Fairies, refers to Will the Smith.
One former villager recounted that her father returned to Al-Manshiyya about 10 days after the attack and found it had been razed.
One of the first matriculants, Molly Thomas, recounted the experience of the first class of students in A London Girl of the 1880s, published under her married name, M. V.
Gotlieb recounted how the idea for cosmetic surgery first came to her after a visit with friends in Washington D. C. " One of them said to me, ' It must be nice living in Toronto.
One voice in support of this view is that of Ion Petrovici, a Junimist academic, who recounted that hearing Iorga lecture had made him overcome a prejudice which rated Maiorescu above all Romanian orators.
This is a segment in which the past week's news shown on Channel One is recounted in summarized rap format by Flocabulary.
Davis recounted that he had some great discussions with Mack ; " He was brilliant ... he was wrong, but he was very good ... One of the problems with human intelligence is that we are so good at defending ideas that we arrived at irrationally.
One of Theodore Roosevelt's most popular books, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913 – 14.
One of the Bell daughters, Elsie K. Morton, recounted the family's experience there in her memoir, Crusoes of Sunday Island.
One of the most memorable visits was that of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, which is recounted in the aforementioned book.
One can hear an early echo of the problem of identity, for example, in the narrative of struggles between ' nativist ' ( Shintoist ) and Sinophile factions at the dawn of Japanese history, as recounted in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki.
One, recounted by W. H.
One former picture bride recounted her decision: “ I had but remote ties with him yet because of the talks between our close parents and my parents ' approval and encouragement, I decided upon our picture-bride marriage.
One Pair Of Feet ( 1942 ) recounted her work as a nurse, and subsequently she worked in an aircraft factory and on a local newspaper in Hitchin – her experiences in the latter field of work inspired her 1951 book My Turn To Make The Tea.
One of the survivors, PFC Eugene Nielsen, recounted his tale to U. S. Army Intelligence on January 7, 1945.
The Government responded by sending in the Military to quell the protests and arrest the labour workers accused of instigating the strike, what happened next is known as the banana massacre where an undetermined number of people were killed by the Colombian Army ; this event was recounted by Gabriel García Márquez in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
One famous tale recounted by Steadman Upham, president of Chapman University, in his address Wooden Leg or Table: The Changing Landscape of American Education ( 1999 ) is how he lost a verbal duel with rock musician Frank Zappa.

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