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Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.
In the Action Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with Super Mario Bros ..
Set in Paris in 1828, it was voted Best French Film of the Century in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.
Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and predicts the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.
Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus affair.
In the late 20th century, Griffiths focused on the inconsistent portrayal of Horus and Set as brothers and as uncle and nephew.
Nevertheless, in these late times, the widespread temple rituals involving the ceremonial annihilation of Set were often connected with the myth.
Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly-discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments.
In the late period, Set is depicted as a donkey or with the head of a donkey.
Set from late 1925 to late 1927, the novel includes detailed descriptions of Sam and Fran's tours across Europe.
Set in the late 1920s in China, this was an early entry in a series of Vietnam war era films ( Catch-22, M * A * S * H ), which, though set in other periods of wartime, nevertheless sounded with its depictions of gunboat diplomacy what would come to be recognized as timeless themes.
The Bonzos and members of the Python team worked together in the late 1960s on the TV comedy show Do Not Adjust Your Set.
The trio were ardent followers of the punk rock and post-punk music scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s and often performed impromptu sets or backing vocals at gigs for such bands as The Monochrome Set, Iggy Pop, The Jam, Department S and The Nipple Erectors.
Set amidst Chicago's swing music revival of the late 1990s, Oscar Novak ( Perry ), an aspiring architect and his business partner, Peter Steinberg ( Platt ), have just landed a career-making opportunity with a Chicago tycoon Charles Newman ( McDermott ) who has chosen them to compete for the design of a multimillion dollar cultural center.
The actual beliefs and influence of the Cliveden Set is a matter of some dispute, though most historians of the period in the late 20th century came to consider the Cliveden Set allegations to be exaggerated.
Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200-year-long life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and his rise from humble beginnings as an impoverished aristocrat in the countryside of France to the city of Paris to become a vain and arrogant vampire.
The first known reference to Ash dates to the Protodynastic Period, but by the late 2nd Dynasty, his importance had grown, and he was seen as protector of the royal estates, since the related god Set, in Lower Egypt, was regarded as the patron deity of royalty itself.
Guitarist, Chris Stockley ( ex-Roadrunners, Delta Set ), formed psychedelic rock group Cam-Pact with Keith Glass in 1967, both had left by late 1969.
" Ready Set Learn ", the network's children's block, was slowly reduced through the years as the network deliberately redirected viewers towards the full-day line-up of children's programming on Discovery Kids until completely evaporating in late 2008, while Cable in the Classroom programming, meant for recording by teachers, had completely disappeared by the early 2000s.
In the late 1950s the term " Jet Set " began to take the place of " café society ", but " café society " may still be used informally in some countries to describe people who habitually visit coffeehouses and give their parties in restaurants rather than at home.
In late 2005 15 V Set carriages were suddenly withdrawn due to the discovery of corrosion in their underframes.
Set around the late 1920s, Maple Town Monogatari tells the story of Patty Rabbit, who soon after arriving in Maple Town, befriends a boy her age, Bobby Bear, while at the same time antagonizing the sly — if usually " endearingly " unsuccessful — thief, Wild Wolf.

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Set in the 1950s, the film depicts the twilight years of the title character, a faded Nazi starlet.
Set in 1950s London it starred James Clyde, Anita Graham, Jamie Oliver, Ian Jentle, Oliver Smith and Ray Winstone.
Set in a posh New York apartment in the course of one day in the spring of 1987, the novel contains frequent flashbacks that describe life in a black neighbourhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
Set lists have included mutated covers of songs originally performed by such diverse artists as J. Blackfoot, Doc Pomus, Bobby Lee Trammell, Gene Pitney, Reverend Horton Heat, Jessie Mae Hemphill, R. L. Burnside, Mack Rice, and Allen Page ( of the small 1950s Moon Records label helmed by early rock-and-roll producer / songwriter Cordell Jackson ), among others.
Set up in 1974, the RCN Steinberg Collection of Nursing Research contains a selection of influential nursing theses and dissertations from the early 1950s to the present day.
Set in Peru during the 1950s, it is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee.
Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle.
Set in a small town in Ireland in the late 1950s, it tells the story of Francis " Francie " Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
Set upon a two story pedestal that contains ground floor retail and the theater entrance, the tower has narrow vertical windows that sweep the eye upward and create the illusion of a much taller building ( buildings in Los Angeles were restricted from being higher than the city hall until the late 1950s ).
Set in Calcutta during the 1950s Mahanagar explores the evolving independence of middle-class women of the city.
Set in a suburban community the series focused on two families-the Chandler and the Italian-Australian Rossi families-who were linked by a long-standing vendetta stemming from an accidental death in the 1950s.

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Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.
Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).
* Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.
Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the Formics ( an insectoid alien species normally called " Buggers " by most of the population ).
Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.
Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).
Set in Venetian Slovenia, the novel, published under a pseudonym in the Yugoslav town of Ljubljana, described the efforts of a local Roman Catholic priest to preserve the use of Slovene language in church against the policies of the Italian Fascist regime.
The 2011 fictional novel, " The Berlin Boxing Club " by Robert Sharenow Set in 1930's Berlin, Germany.
Some of Styron ’ s experiences during this period inspired his third published book Set This House on Fire ( 1960 ), a novel about intellectual American expatriates on the Riviera.
Styron, feeling wounded by his first truly harsh reviews for Set This House On Fire, would spend the years after its publication both researching and composing his next novel, the fictitious memoirs of the historical Nathaniel " Nat " Turner, a slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831.
Set in Mississippi sixty-seven years after the American Civil War ended race-based slavery and twelve years after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled American women to vote, this novel by William Faulkner shows how racism and misogyny can persist ; but its exploration of human prejudices goes well beyond those two.
The Steel General, Set, and some others practice a novel martial art called temporal fugue.
Set in 1547, the novel tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London ; and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
Set in Swinging London, the novel describes one day in the life of Adam Appleby, who lives in constant fear that his wife might be pregnant again with a fourth child.
The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's " ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny .” Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions.
Set in Thailand, the novel is told from the point of view of a fictional narrator named Mischa Berlinski.
Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.
Set during the time of the sexual revolution, a central part of the novel is its recurring theme of sexuality.
Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on the 1880 novel by Pierre Loti.
Set both in the 18th century and the present day and centred on the mystery of an inscription on a rock about a death from exposure, the novel seeks to explain time and history in terms of setting and interaction.
* Gore Vidal in his 1948 novel The City and the Pillar: " The Cliveden-Churchill Set are too well entrenched and I shouldn't be in the least surprised if they created some sort of dictatorship that could never be thrown off without a revolution.
The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells.
Set in present-day Toronto, Ontario, the novel begins with three women ( Roz, Charis, and Tony ) who meet once a month in a restaurant to share a meal.

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