Several abridged editions have been published which delete some or all of the extra tales in order to concentrate on the central narrative.

Several tales of the Arabian Nights focus on eunuchs, who were part of the society in which the tales were composed.

Several Star Trek tales are stories or events within stories, such as Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, J.

Several tales describe the enmity between him and the Ulster hero Cú Chulainn, who eventually kills him.

Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, use this device to foreshadow what is going to happen, as a special form of literary prolepsis.

Several fragmentary stories are also included in Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation of the complete tales, Rabbi Nachman's Stories.

Several of these tales involve the Kappa, mischievous water sprites.

Several other characters from the movies had previously died in novels and tales, such as Het Nkik, the Jawa in the cantina.

Several other tales exist which are described as remscéla to the Táin, some of which have only a tangential relation to it.

Several tales tell of Kintarō's adventures, fighting monsters and demons, beating bears in sumo wrestling, and helping the local woodcutters fell trees.

Several Buffy scholars assert that a sexual element similar to what is presented in classic fairy tales is evident in " Hush ".

Several of his major works have a rural setting — they include Năpasta, În vreme de război, La hanul lui Mânjoală, Calul dracului, Păcat, and O făclie de Paşte, as well as fragments of the pseudo-fairy tales he authored late in life.

Several internal narrators then tell him various tales, intended to convince him that supernatural phenomena are real.

Several characters that had been mentioned in only one ballad, such as David of Doncaster or Arthur a Bland, are thus developed more fully by Pyle's novelistic treatment of the tales.

Several claims have developed around St Mary's Church in order to explain the supernatural tales.

Several of the Pontine tales have titles taken from the famous " unrecorded " cases of Holmes which Watson often alluded to, including the matters of " Ricoletti of the Club Foot ( and his Abominable Wife )," " The Aluminium Crutch ," " The Black Cardinal ," and that of " The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant.

Several publications, including All-Star Comics ( publishing tales of the Justice Society of America ), Leading Comics ( publishing tales of the Seven Soldiers of Victory ) and other comic books introduced a " shared-universe " among several characters during the 1940s until the present day.

Several elements in its narrative structure follow formulaic elements in the methodology that was formulated by Antti Aarne and his translator Stith Thompson ( the Aarne-Thompson classification system ) and by the earlier, more generalized method of Vladimir Propp, who used Russian folk tales.

Several inscriptions record with elequence his tales of military conquests.

* Several examples ( parables, fables and tales ) which serve as moral education at the end of each episode.

Several medieval Arabian Nights tales such as " Sinbad the Sailor ", " The City of Brass " and " The Three Apples " also had nonlinear narratives employing the in medias res and flashback techniques.

Several horror films, Kairo, Dark Water, Yogen, the Grudge series and One Missed Call met with commercial success.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Several months later, she appeared in the first episode, entitled " One Blonde Too Many ", of NBC's one-season The Tab Hunter Show, a sitcom starring the former teen idol as a bachelor cartoonist.

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

Several different variants of the " Cinderella " story, which has its origins in the Egyptian story of Rhodopis, appear in the One Thousand and One Nights, including " The Second Shaykh's Story ", " The Eldest Lady's Tale " and " Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers ", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders.

Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights feature early science fiction elements.

Several of these networks also offer additional digital-only channels, including ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24, SBS Two, 7Two, 7mate, One HD, Eleven, GEM and GO !.

Several other Elves, Dwarves and Men also arrived at Rivendell on separate errands ; at the Council of Elrond they learned that all of their errands were related to the fate of the One Ring, and they should decide what to do about it.

Several different variants of the story appear in the medieval One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, including " The Second Shaykh's Story ", " The Eldest Lady's Tale " and " Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers ", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders.

Several objections were filed with the reasons for objection listed as, " One, the judges of the election administered the oath to themselves swearing in each other ; and Two, the words ' for incorporation ' were written on one ballot while ' against corporation ' was written on another ballot.

* Several movies have used the town as a backdrop, including In and Out with Kevin Kline, One True Thing with Renée Zellweger and Meryl Streep, My Giant with Billy Crystal, and Turbulence with Ray Liotta.

Several major companies are or have been headquartered in McLean including Booz Allen Hamilton ; Capital One ; Cardinal Bank ; Gannett ; Hilton Hotels Corporation ; Mars ; MicroStrategy ; Primus Telecom ; Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC ); Sunrise Senior Living, and USA Today.

Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop standards, including the title song ; " Where or When "; " My Funny Valentine "; " The Lady Is a Tramp "; " Johnny One Note " and " I Wish I Were in Love Again ".

Several presidential aircraft that have formerly served as Air Force One ( Sacred Cow, Independence, Columbine III, SAM 26000, and other smaller presidential aircraft ) are on display in the presidential hangar of the National Museum of the United States Air Force ( located at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio ) and at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington ( earlier VC-137B SAM 970 ).

Several characters in the game may join The Nameless One on his journey, and most of these characters have encountered him in the past or have been influenced by his actions in some way.

Several readings by Lewis are collected on The Enemy Speaks, an audiobook CD published in 2007 and featuring extracts from " One Way Song " and " The Apes of God ", as well as radio talks titled " When John Bull Laughs " ( 1938 ), " A Crisis of Thought " ( 1947 ) and " The Essential Purposes of Art " ( 1951 ).

Several of the songs on The Hard Way, including " Burn One Down ", were initially reported to be Black's responses to his situation with Ham.

* Several MOSs combine both in a back-to-back combined course called One Station Unit Training ( OSUT ), the longest recruit training in United States Armed Services, which can last up to 22 weeks.

Several established religions believe that their founder represents the coming of the Promised One of previous scriptures, and that the spread of their teachings will ultimately bring about the desired society of unity and justice.

One type of explanation at the level of assertion exploits the view that assertion implies or expresses belief in some way so that if someone asserts that p they imply or express the belief that p. Several versions of this view exploit elements of speech act theory, which can be distinguished according to the particular explanation given of the link between assertion and belief.