Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

In a tradition from the Arabian Nights, a collection of myths and folk tales, Muhammad was said to have warned his followers against staring at youth because of their beauty: " Be careful, do not gaze at beardless youth, for they have eyes more tempting than the houris.

The appearance of Antoine Galland's first modern translation of the Thousand and One Nights ( or Arabian Nights ) ( from 1704 ; another translation appeared in 1710 – 12 ) would have an enormous influence on the 18th century European short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and others.

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.

The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.

The history of the Nights is extremely complex and modern scholars have made many attempts to untangle the story of how the collection as it currently exists came about.

Some scholars have seen an ultimate Indian origin for the Nights.

Scholars have assembled a timeline concerning the publication history of The Nights:

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

Stories from the One Thousand and One Nights have been popular subjects for films, beginning with Georges Méliès's Le Palais des Mille et une nuits in 1905.

One of the earliest mentions of the coconut also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights story of Sinbad the Sailor, he is known to have bought and sold coconuts during his fifth voyage.

) Newton-John became the second female ( after Linda Ronstadt in 1977 ) to have two singles – " Hopelessly Devoted to You " and " Summer Nights " – in the Billboard Top 5 simultaneously.

Arabian Nights was not translated into English until the mid 18th century, although Shakespeare could have known it by word of mouth.

Cloves were traded by Muslim sailors and merchants during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, the Clove trade is also mentioned by Ibn Battuta and even famous One Thousand and One Nights characters such Sinbad the Sailor is known to have bought and sold Cloves.

Some say the sailor had fond memories of trips to North Africa, some have said he had a friend that had been captured by the Barbary Pirates and was imprisoned in old Mogador and others have speculated that popular literature of that era was the Arabian Nights and the mysterious markets on the North African coast.

Past themes have included New York ( 2012 ), The Seven Deadly Sins ( 2011 ), A Hard Day's Night ( 2010 ), Tokyo: The Neon Sunrise ( 2009 ), Great Ball of Fire ( 2008 ), Back in the Day ( 2007 ), Karishma ( 2006 ), Showdown ( 2005 ), Arabian Nights ( 2004 ), Hakuna Matata ( 2003 ) and Ocean Bound ( 2002 ).

Many of these Decca recordings have been used in such television shows and Hollywood movies as Homefront, ER, The Brink's Job, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Swing Shift, Raggedy Man, Summer of ' 42, Slaughterhouse-Five, Maria's Lovers, Harlem Nights, In Dreams, Murder in the First, L. A.

She has been part of two ensemble casts that have earned Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast ( Boogie Nights and Bobby ).

Nights become colder, and residents often awake to a thick fog blanketing the Armidale valley, but by 9 am fogs have cleared to be followed by a bright sunny day.

In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.

Her breakthrough role proved to be that of the porn starlet " Roller Girl " in 1997's Boogie Nights, in which she appeared in scenes with frontal nudity and received several award nominations.

Although there had been earlier films such as European Nights ( 1959 ) and World by Night ( 1960 ) that could arguably be pointed to as examples of the genre, the origins of the mondo documentary are generally traced to the Italian film Mondo Cane ( A Dog's World, a mild Italian profanity ) that was made in 1962 by Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi and proved a commercial success.

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

For inspiration, Cook listened to Pere Ubu, Philip Glass and Alexander Nevsky, read The Dictionary of the Khazars, Einstein's Dreams, and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and for fun at " Bad Movie Nights ", watched such films as The Naked Lunch and Wolf Devil Woman.

Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone, two feature length documentaries, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood movies ( Boogie Nights and Wonderland ).

* Yahya ibn Khalid of Harun al Rashid ( Whose son Jafar bin Yahya was an inspiration for the aforementioned Arabian Nights Jafar )

Events in her life were the inspiration for the custodial problems of character Amber Waves in Boogie Nights ( 1997 ), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

The film was a thirty-minute mockumentary shot on video called The Dirk Diggler Story ( 1988 ), about a well-endowed male porn star ( inspired by John Holmes, who also served as a major inspiration for Boogie Nights ).

Postmodernist writers often point to early novels and story collections as inspiration for their experiments with narrative and structure: Don Quixote, 1001 Nights, The Decameron, and Candide, among many others.

The Society was the inspiration for Timothy Shay Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians and his Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.

Joyce Carol Oates also used Poe's " The Light-House " as an inspiration for the story ' Poe Posthumous, or The Light-House ' in her collection Wild Nights!

He was said to carry two books in his saddlebags while travelling: the Bible and the Arabian Nights, which he used as inspiration when he named places.

He is also, according to Sir Richard Burton, the principal inspiration for one of the voyages of Sinbad the sailor in the Arabian Nights.

* Turner's 1967 Daytona 500 car designed by Smokey Yunick, seen to the right, was the inspiration for the car driven by the Talladega Nights character Reese Bobby.

Costumes for O drew inspiration from many sources: commedia dell ' arte, the Baroque, India, the Arabian Nights, as well as Venetian courtly fashions.

It is possible to complete some of the levels ' goals by wandering around the landscape of Nightopia as Claris or Elliot ( pursued by an egg-shaped alarm clock which will wake up the child and end the level if it catches the player ), but the majority of the gameplay centers on Nights ' flying sequences, triggered by walking into the Ideya palace near the start of each level and merging with the imprisoned acrobat.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

At some time, probably in the early 8th century, these tales were translated into Arabic under the title Alf Layla, or ' The Thousand Nights '.

Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.

Early examples of the foreshadowing technique of repetitive designation, now known as " Chekhov's gun ", occur in the One Thousand and One Nights, which contains " repeated references to some character or object which appears insignificant when first mentioned but which reappears later to intrude suddenly in the narrative ".

As a child, he was fascinated by the adventures recounted in the book, and he attributes some of his creations to his love of the 1001 Nights.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

Nights during this time of the year are comfortable, some 17-20 degrees.

The details leading up to and following Kile's death are detailed to some degree in Buzz Bissinger's book, " Three Nights in August.

Another early example is the famous Arabian Nights, in which Sheherazade narrates stories within stories, and even within some of these, more stories are narrated.

Perhaps most stunning was his appearance and speech during Legendary Nights, an HBO documentary series that profiled some of its most famous bouts.

Varro's literary output was very large ; Ritschl estimated it at 74 works in some 620 books, of which only one work survives complete, although we possess many fragments of the others, mostly in Gellius ' Attic Nights.

This concept can also be seen in The Arabian Nights in which a sorceress takes some lake water in her hand and over it speaks " words not to be understood ".

Other works of the post-war period, like the short novels A Garden of Repose ( 1944 ), Ward No 4 ( 1946 ) and Cold Nights ( 1947 ), contain some of his strongest writings.

His first commercial CD release saw some success in Georgia, and the album Dark Days, Bright Nights caught the attention of Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records.

Joe Shuster illustrated a Tijuana-bible-styled erotic work called Nights of Horror in the early 1950s ; his male characters are strongly reminiscent of Superman and some of his female characters resemble Lois Lane.

' Arjun, Pratidwandi, filmed by Satyajit Ray ( English title: The Adversary ), Aranyer Din-Raatri ( The Days and Nights of the Forest, also filmed by Satyajit Ray ), Ekaa ebong Koyekjon are some of his well known works of fiction.

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd also aired in reruns on GoodLife TV ( now known as AmericanLife TV ) for some time.

From 1997 to 2004, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom hosted " hard ticket " special events called E-Ride Nights, where a limited number of resort room guests ( usually 5, 000 ) were allowed to purchase special tickets that allowed them to stay in the park and ride some of the rides ( typically those that had been, or would have been, E ticket rides ) for an extra three hours after the park had closed to other guests.