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As Stith Thompson points out, talking animals and the presence of magic seem to be more common to the fairy tale than fairies themselves.
* Stith Thompson, American folklore scholar, was born and grew up in Bloomfield.
At Bloomington, he wrote several essays about his native Chewa tribe for the folklorist Stith Thompson, who introduced him to Edward Sapir, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, to which, after four semesters, he transferred.
Other early members were Stith Thompson and J. Frank Dobie, who both began teaching English at the university in 1914.
In 1915, at Lomax's recommendation, Stith Thompson became the society ’ s secretary-treasurer.
The same year, Stith Thompson edited the first volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, which Dobie reissued as Round the Levee in 1935.
Reprinted in Stith Thompson ’ s Round the Levee.
The folklorist Stith Thompson, although crediting Schoolcraft's research with being a " landmark ," was quite critical of him: " Unfortunately, the scientific value of his work is marred by the manner in which he has reshaped the stories to fit his own literary taste.
The classification is based on Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography, ( Helsinki, 1961 ).
* Stith Thompson ( see also Aarne-Thompson classification system )
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.
First developed by Antti Aarne ( 1867 – 1925 ) and published as Verzeichnis der Märchentypen in 1910, the tale type index was later translated, revised, and enlarged by Stith Thompson ( 1885 – 1976 ) in 1928 and again in 1961 ( Dundes, 195 ).
The American folklorist Stith Thompson translated Aarne's motif-based classification system in 1928, enlarging its scope.
* Thompson, Stith.
Based on the system of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson.

Stith and index
The puzzle has been found in the folklore of African-Americans, Cameroon, the Cape Verde Islands, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ghana, Italy, Russia, Romania, Scotland, the Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe .< sup >, pp. 26 – 27 ;</ sup > It has been given the index number H506. 3 in Stith Thompson's motif index of folk literature, and is ATU 1579 in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification system.

Stith and which
Charles Stith founded an annual Black-Jewish Seder in Boston which inspired many interfaith Seders with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish participants in Boston and nationally.
A little known American inventor, Henery T. Stith, developed a continuous track prototype, which was, in multiple forms, patented in 1873, 1880, and 1900.

Stith and be
* May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.

Stith and .
* August 16 – John Stith Pemberton, American founder of Coca-Cola ( b. 1831 )
* January 8 – John Stith Pemberton, Inventor of Coca-Cola ( d. 1888 )
John Stith Pemberton ( July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888 ) was a Confederate veteran and an American pharmacist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.
The Nuggets had two lottery picks that year and drafted University of Notre Dame forward LaPhonso Ellis and University of Virginia guard Bryant Stith.
His son, Richard Kennon, Jr., was also a member of the House of Burgesses and married the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling, the emigrant, and his second wife, the former Anne Stith.
The inventor of Coca-Cola, Dr. John Stith Pemberton, was wounded in this battle.
Polo was founded by Abraham Stith in 1832.
Pemberton's French Wine Coca was a coca wine created by the druggist John Stith Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola.
* Manhattan Transfer, a science fiction novel by John E. Stith

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In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.
A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.
In 1790 with his apprenticeship nearing its end, Thompson made the unusual request of a set of surveying tools in place of the typical parting gift of fine clothes offered by the company to those completing their indenture.
In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.
However, a decision was made at the 1806 company meeting to send Thompson back out into the interior.
On July 23, 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday.
However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about nuclear winter ".
In addition, the authors of the 2007 study above state that " because of the use of the term ' nuclear autumn ' by Thompson and Schneider, even though the authors made clear that the climatic consequences would be large, in policy circles the theory of nuclear winter is considered by some to have been exaggerated and disproved Martin, 1988.
Under Rosen's tenure, the Giants promoted promising rookies such as Will Clark and Robby Thompson, and made canny trades to acquire such players as Kevin Mitchell, Dave Dravecky, Candy Maldonado, and Rick Reuschel.
The M3 was not necessarily more effective, but was made primarily of stamped parts and so could be produced with a fraction of the expense and time of the Thompson.
After some soundings were made in 1918 by Reginald Campbell Thompson, H. R. Hill worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow.
Ken Thompson of the Plan 9 operating system group at Bell Labs then made a small but crucial modification to the encoding, making it very slightly less bit-efficient than the previous proposal but allowing it to be self-synchronizing, meaning that it was no longer necessary to read from the beginning of the string to find code point boundaries.
In other matches that season, Gloucestershire made its first visit to Old Trafford Cricket Ground in July to play Lancashire and this was the match immortalised by Francis Thompson in his idyllic poem At Lord's.
At 11: 45 near Neckarstadt ( Mannheim-Käfertal ), shortly after Patton's car had stopped for a train and accelerated after its passing, a 2½ ton GMC truck driven by Technical Sergeant Robert L. Thompson ( 1925 – 1994 ) made a left turn in front of Patton's Cadillac at an uncontrolled intersection, and without anyone seeing the truck make a turn signal.
The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.
So uncustomary was the French Aesthetic viewpoint that, when Pierrot made an appearance in an eponymous pantomime ( 1893 ) by Alfred Thompson, set to music by the American composer Laura Sedgwick Collins, The New York Times covered it as an event, even though it was only a student production.
" The remaining members of the band — Smith, Gallup and Cooper — made several appearances as a trio before it was announced in June that Porl Thompson would be returning for the band's 2005 Festival summer shows, as well as their set at Live 8 in Paris on 2 July.
Initial CEO Dr. Larry Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei as designs for the site were made.
Danot made a longer film, Pollux et le chat bleu, in 1970 which was also adapted by Thompson and shown in Britain as Dougal and the Blue Cat.
Between 1843 and 1846, during the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, five Mexican land grants were made in what became San Joaquin County: Campo de los Franceses, Pescadero ( Grimes ), Pescadero ( Pico ), Sanjon de los Moquelumnes and Thompson.
On 14 November Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defence of Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.
* Scobie Malone, a character in 20 novels by Jon Cleary, one of which was made into the film Scobie Malone ( 1975 ), starring Jack Thompson
On two of the Dresden Codex's very first pages, god D is shown within the maw of a caiman representing the earth ; a case has been made for identifying the caiman as the deity's transformation ( Thompson, Taube ).

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