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* Several stories written by the Danish author Karen Blixen ( or Isak Dinesen ) take place in Helsingør, including " The Supper at Elsinore " in her first published volume of stories, Seven Gothic Tales.
He turned to stories with an escapist flavour: an expedition to a meteorite ( The Shooting Star ), an intriguing mystery and treasure hunt ( The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure ), and a quest to undo an ancient Inca curse ( The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun ).
Many of these stories have their backgrounds in movies, for example Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan Grillà ( 1961 ) is based upon Frank Capra's Lost Horizon ( 1937 ); not to talk about all the stories starring Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs, obviously based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ).
Similar " prodigal son " stories followed, including Chuck Moll, Keoma, The Return of Ringo, The Forgotten Pistolero, One Thousand Dollars on the Black, Johnny Hamlet and also Seven Dollars on the Red ( where the hero is a father ).
Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly " Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " and " The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor ", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.
The device is also used to great effect in stories such as " The Three Apples " and " The Seven Viziers ".
Seven viziers attempt to save his life by narrating seven stories to prove the unreliability of women, and the courtesan responds back by narrating a story to prove the unreliability of viziers.
Sometime before 1969 Tolkien wrote the essay Of Dwarves and Men, in which detailed consideration was given to the Dwarves ' use of language, that the names given in the stories were of Northern Mannish origin, and Khuzdûl being their own secret tongue and the naming of the Seven Houses of the Dwarves.
His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni ; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation telling stories from mythology of heroic disasters ( Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll.
Seven short stories appear in two collections of Le Guin's work ( and some have been reissued elsewhere ).
Among the stories described in this section are the romance of Zal and Rudāba, the Seven Stages ( or Labors ) of Rostam, Rostam and Sohrab, Sīyāvash and Sudāba, Rostam and Akvān Dīv, the romance of Bijan and Manijeh, the wars with Afrāsīyāb, Daqiqi's account of the story of Goshtāsp and Arjāsp, and Rostam and Esfandyār.
The Secret Seven also appeared in seven short stories by Blyton, including a mini-novella explaining how the Secret Seven was formed.
He is a official member of the Secret Seven, but many members don't count him as one, due to his regular usefulness in the denouement of the stories.
Less drastic but no less apparently fatal, the fox in The Golden Bird, the foals in The Seven Foals, and the cats in Lord Peter and The White Cat tell the heroes of those stories to cut off their heads ; this restores them to human shape.
Chapter Seven gives various stories of encounters and dialogues.
The Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktale motifs classifies these stories as number 766, relating them to the tale of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.
Seven of the stories in Henryson's cycle are Aesopian fables derived from elegiac Romulus texts, while the other six ( given in italics ) are Reynardian in genre.
Seven of Aesop's more famous stories and morals are related in this album ( or what are intended to be his fables but are often overshadowed by the bickering of the two brothers ).
Seven short stories and three novellas set between 1881 and 1900.

Seven and are
* 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
She has only the ability to create a soulless body, and thus she is “ persuaded to undertake the journey to heaven to ask for a soul ,” and “ the Seven Liberal Arts produce a chariot for her ... the Five Senses are the horses ”.
Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).
Seven hundred of them, including those formed with prefixes, of which fifty ( or considerably more than half ) have ge -, are simple nouns.
The Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean cultures are represented, and the Greek collection includes important sculpture from the Parthenon in Athens, as well as elements of two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos.
Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years ' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
Jews hold that other nations and peoples are not required ( nor expected ) to obey the Law of Moses, with the notable exception that the only laws Judaism believes are automatically binding ( in order to be assured of a place in the world to come ) on other nations are known as the Seven Laws of Noah.
Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.
Seven stripes ( segments ) are used to represent each digit in a basic calculator.
Seven of the army's nine generals are relatives of the president ; the other two are from his tribe.
While the Councils are part of the " historic formularies " of Anglican tradition, it is difficult to locate an explicit reference in Anglicanism to the unconditional acceptance of all Seven Ecumenical Councils.
Among his most famous roles are Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) and Calvera in The Magnificent Seven.
Some notable Japanese films are Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, Tampopo, In the Realm of the Senses, and Godzilla.
* 1929 – Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
* 2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines ' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
* 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Seven canons, four of these doctrinal canons and three disciplinary canons, are attributed to the Council and accepted by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches ; the Roman Catholic Church accepts only the first four .< ref >
The Mishnah uses the term for an uncultivated person: " Seven characteristics are in an uncultivated person, and seven in a learned one ,"
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are a World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings ( such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors ) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.
* 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D. C.

Seven and inspired
In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).
Seven episodes were remade for BBC Radio 2 and the series also inspired a novel.
The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).
The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.
The film also inspired a television series, The Magnificent Seven, which ran from 1998 to 2000.
In one tale, " The Seven Viziers " ( also known as " Craft and Malice of Women or The Tale of the King, His Son, His Concubine and the Seven Wazirs "), a courtesan accuses a king's son of having assaulted her, when in reality she had failed to seduce him ( inspired by the Qur ' anic / Biblical story of Yusuf / Joseph ).
The Locost is not to be confused with the similarly named Locust which is also a Lotus Seven inspired car.
For instance The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which itself was inspired by Red Harvest, an American detective novel by Dashiell Hammett.
Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences ( inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in Seven Samurai ), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would be perfected in The Wild Bunch.
His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years ' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday ; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education.
Ramanuja was inspired by the Holy Hymns of the Alwars singing the glory of the Lord of the Seven Hills.
Many other teams have developed Molly, inspired by the unhistorical but very effective military formations of Seven Champions ( e. g. Ouse Washes, Gog Magog, Handsome Molly in New Jersey ) whilst others have taken it in new directions, equally unhistorical but at their best equally effective in very different ways ; e. g. Norwich Shitwitches ( now renamed Kit Witches ), Pig Dyke Molly.
* Seven generation sustainability, the idea that decisions should be considered for their impact on the seventh generation to come, inspired by the laws of the Iroquois
McLaren's next film, Camera Makes Whoopee ( 1935 ), was a more elaborate take on the themes explored in Seven Till Five, inspired by his acquisition of a Ciné-Kodak camera, which enabled him to execute a number of ' trick ' shots.
Believing that a distinct Canadian art could be developed through direct contact with nature, The Group of Seven is most famous for its paintings inspired by the Canadian landscape, and initiated the first major Canadian national art movement.
However, it has been argued that the story is a much later invention of mediæval Irish historians, inspired by their knowledge of the Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, written by the early 5th century Gallaecian cleric, Paulus Orosius.
The rugged beauty of the area inspired landscapes by artists of the Group of Seven.
The rugged scenery of this region has inspired works by Canadian artists, particularly the Group of Seven, who rented a boxcar from the Algoma Central Railway during excursions through this region.
The hip hop duo Reflection Eternal was inspired by Seven and they took samples from " Carol Ann " for the song " Memories Live " on their album Train of Thought.
The anime and live action film inspired by the original light novels have been released in English by The Right Stuf International, while Seven Seas Entertainment released four of the light novels and the manga.
Gahagan as She, which inspired Disney's evil queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ( 1937 film ) | Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

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