There are many entertaining anecdotes regarding Nimzowitsch — some less savory than others.

There are a number of anecdotes about the premiere of the Ninth.

There are many anecdotes about his precocity while a toddler, and he made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager.

Aelian's anecdotes on animals rarely depend on direct observation: they are almost entirely taken from written sources, often Pliny the Elder, but also other authors and works now lost, to whom he is thus a valuable witness.

During World War I the dachshunds ' popularity in the United States plummeted because of this association and there are even anecdotes such as a Dachshund being stoned to death on the high street of Berkhamsted, England at this time because of its association with the enemy.

212 BCE ), a colorful figure about whom many historical anecdotes are recorded, is remembered along with Euclid as one of the greatest of ancient mathematicians.

It was sometimes so convincing that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with DOCTOR for several minutes until the machine's true lack of understanding became apparent.

Similar anecdotes are corroborated by Groucho's friends, not one of whom went without being publicly embarrassed by Groucho on at least one occasion.

Booth also railed against Lincoln in conversations with his sister Asia, saying, " That man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds.

Although there are anecdotes of unprovoked Komodo dragons attacking or preying on humans, most of these reports are either not reputable or caused by defensive bites.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

Literary structuralism often follows the lead of Vladimir Propp, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and Claude Lévi-Strauss in seeking out basic deep elements in stories, myths, and more recently, anecdotes, which are combined in various ways to produce the many versions of the ur-story or ur-myth.

Both of these books are composed of individual short stories ( which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions ) set within a larger narrative story ( a frame story ), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers.

There are a number of anecdotes and jokes about such situations, as the imagery of these situations is considered to be funny.

" It is unknown whether such vignettes are factual accounts of events in Demosthenes ' life or merely anecdotes used to illustrate his perseverance and determination.

Within these grandiloquent lives are tales and anecdotes which tie miracles, saints and their relics to a great diversity of local areas, furnishing his audience with greater knowledge of their local shrine, and providing them with evidence of the work of God in their immediate vicinity, thus greatly expanding their connection with and understanding of their faith.

Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul, whilst it is fascinating to study works such as these which must have excited their audience to such an extent.

There are many anecdotes concerning his love for mangoes .. Rabindranath Tagore was fond of mangoes and has written poems about its flowers-aamer monjori.

At the end of 1910 / early 1911 he was also a dog salesman ( a profession he was to attribute to his hero Švejk and from which some of the improbable anecdotes told by Švejk are drawn ).

No single tractate of the key Rabbinic texts, the Mishnah and the Talmud, is devoted to theological issues ; these texts are concerned primarily with interpretations of Jewish law, and anecdotes about the sages and their values.

Flavius Philostratus recalled one of his anecdotes: " And I have read in the discourse of Juba that elephants assist one another when they are being hunted, and that they will defend one that is exhausted, and if they can remove him out of danger, they anoint his wounds with the tears of the aloe tree, standing round him like physicians.

The details of the campaign, as related by Livy, and illustrated by the incidental anecdotes of Plutarch, are full of horror and they make clear that Cato reduced Hispania Citerior to subjection with great speed and little mercy.

Curtiz had a lifelong struggle with the English language and there are many anecdotes about his failures.

In this view, her activity as goddess of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's " jealousy ", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient cult.

Important works from the 100s include the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends ; and the letters of the orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius.

The court of Emperor Wen was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compilation of a large collection of short prose anecdotes, A New Account of Tales of the World ( Shishuo xinyu ).

By contrast, antiquarian works as a literary form are organized by topic, and any narrative is short and illustrative, in the form of anecdotes.

His Parriana ( 1828 ), based around Samuel Parr, is a vast and ill-digested compilation of literary anecdotes and criticisms.

He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.

Sacks considers that his literary style grows out of the tradition of 19th-century " clinical anecdotes ," a literary style that included detailed narrative case histories.

There are many references to pipa in Tang literary works, for example, in A Music Conservatory Miscellany Duan Anjie related many anecdotes associated with pipa.

Nevertheless, Wu Rui continued to " devote himself to literary pursuits ," and as a child Wu acquired the same enthusiasm for literature — including classical literature, popular stories, and anecdotes.

Thus he became one of the first to contribute to the most important literary art-form for the Cynics: thousands of anecdotes were accumulated ( and invented ) concerning Diogenes, Crates and other Cynics, all of them providing moral messages through the actions of the Cynics.

Rushdie discussed many of his literary works, political views, and personal anecdotes in Penn's Irvine Auditorium.

Diana tries to impress her husband by reading books from the lists of The New York Times Book Reviews but he soon leaves her ( as she feared he would ) for another waitress, Mandy, who enthralls him with literary ( but possibly made up ) anecdotes.

Between 1775 and 1805, he wrote his Memoirs of a Traveler, Now in Retirement, which contains a wide-ranging miscellany of Dutens ' life " interspersed with historical, literary, and political anecdotes relative to the principal personages of the present age ".

*" Francis Zuccarelli, R. A ." in Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England: with critical remarks on their productions ; by Edward Edwards, deceased, late teacher of perspective, and associate, in the Royal Academy ; intended as a continuation to The anecdotes of painting by the late Horace Earl of Orford.

Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who strung together his anecdotes late at night after the serious business of the day was done, was astonished at its success.

Kay's portraits were collected by Hugh Paton and published under the title A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes ( Edinburgh, 2 vols.

Anthony was going through his first drug / alcohol rehab period ( in which Terry remarked that " he had a serious problem -- he missed all of 1989 "), and had his own separate scene with Blossom in the kitchen, late at night, as he gave her sage anecdotes about their lives.

They attended meetings regularly until the late 1980s and helped many struggling alcoholics by recounting their anecdotes and life lessons they had learned throughout the years.

Jocoseria — whose title comes from a 1598 collection of jokes and anecdotes, referring to its jocose and serious contents — was released in late 1883, and enjoyed decent sales despite the lack of critical plaudits, to such an extent that Browning's already-completed follow-up Ferishtah's Fancies was delayed for nearly a year so as not to crowd it out of the shops.

In the New York City of his youth in the late 1930s to a rooftop overlooking Times Square on New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with his remembrances and anecdotes, inserting his memories of urban legends of the radio stars, and is told in constantly changing plot points and vignettes.