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old and fable
In fable Faunus appears as an old king of Latium, son of Picus, and grandson of Saturnus, father of Latinus by the nymph Marica.
Because of the Egyptian location wherein the scene is staged, it is not impossible to scope in this biblical tale also a more recent echo of the very old Egyptian fable of the two brothers Bata and Anpu.
In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.
"— an old proverb Lydgate included in his moral fable The Churl and the Bird
#* Significance: Party constitution ( 黨章 ) is passed ; CPC Chairman Mao Zedong is named leader of CPC ; Mao Zedong Thought enshrined in CPC Party Constitution for first time ; Mao retells the fable of " the old fool who moves a mountain " ( 愚公移山 ) in his closing address.
Leo IX assured the Patriarch that the donation was completely genuine, not a fable or old wives ' tale, so only the apostolic successor to Peter possessed that primacy and was the rightful head of all the Church.
However, the most serious loss is that of his translation of Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa's Arabic version of the old Indian fable book Kalila and Dimna ( Panchatantra ), which he put into Persian verse at the request of his royal patron.
Others that have gained currency through anthologies include ‘ The Destined Hour ’ ( 1953 ), a re-telling in verse of the old ‘ appointment in Samarra ’ fable, and ‘ Spain 1809 ’, the story of a village woman's courage during the French occupation in the Peninsular War.
Leonard Maltin praised the film upon its DVD release, saying " Millions is a winning and unpredictable fable from England that will charm viewers both young and old.
The musical fable, employing a nearly bare stage, explores the contrasts between youth and old age, innocence and corruption, love and ambition, and poverty and wealth.
The story and metaphor of The Dog in the Manger derives from an old Greek fable which has been transmitted in several different versions.
Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you .”

old and living
As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.
He caught up with the old man in the living room.
Although she looks sweet, frail, and old, she fears neither dead nor living.
Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, teaches that the first death, or death brought about by living on a planet with sinful conditions ( sickness, old age, accident, etc.
She was married in 515 to Eutharic ( c. 480 – 522 ), an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line, who had previously been living in Visigothic Hispania, son of Widerich ( born c. 450 ), grandson of Berismund ( born c. 410 ), and great-grandson of Thorismund ( died after 400 ), King of the Ostrogoths c. 400.
Remarque often refers to the living soldiers as old and dead, emotionally drained and shaken.
To remedy this and to restore the old established chancery style, the Pope selected out of the many then living Abbreviators seventy, and formed them into a college of prelates, and decreed that their office should be perpetual, that certain emoluments should be attached to it, and granted certain privileges to the possessors of the same.
* Senex: ( Latin for " old man ") A henpecked, sardonic Roman senator living in a less fashionable suburb of Rome.
Job is blessed once again and lives on another 140 years after the ordeal, living to see his children to the fourth generation and dying peacefully of old age.
Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".
In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 15, 000 years old, suggest that cannibalism took place amongst the people living in or visiting the cave, and that they may have used human skulls as drinking vessels.
In 1980 Susan Wirth, a 35 year old teacher living in San Francisco, was abducted by her parents to be deprogramed from her leftist political views and activities.
She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man.
Isaac Newton wrote of the earth, "“ Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in æthereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations, And according to the condition of all other things living ought to have its times of beginning youth old age & perishing .”
She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").
* Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World Published in 2009, is a theological piece that addresses fears of terrorism, natural disasters, rejection, growing old and offer suggestions on how best to cope, ultimately living with purpose and differentiating between God and nature.
Henry was born in 1394 in Porto, probably when the royal couple was living in the city's old mint, now called Casa do Infante ( Prince's House ).
The story is about a family living on land that is a bit ashamed of their old uncle who still lives in the sea, refusing to come ashore like " civilized " people.
This means that Christ goes through every stage of human life, from infancy to old age, and simply by living it, sanctifies it with his divinity.
Mehmed the Conqueror, the Ottoman sultan living in the 15th century, European sources say “ who was known to have ambivalent sexual tastes, sent a eunuch to the house of Notaras, demanding that he supply his good looking fourteen year old son for the Sultan ’ s pleasure.
His father, Heinrich Kepler, earned a precarious living as a mercenary, and he left the family when Johannes was five years old.
In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.
Current old institutions like the Oil Workers Union and the National Education Workers Union ( Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion ) are sordid demonstrations of how the use of government benefits are not being applied to improve the quality in the investigation of the use of oil or the basic education in Mexico as long as their leaders show publicly that they are living wealthly and in the case of the Teachers Union represented by Elba Esther Gordillo, they are not allowing government to input a way to evaluate and improve the knowledge of the Mexican teachers allowing to incompetent elements to use those places to escalate in the Union or to avoid the responsibility for they were hired.
As a boy, the young Peter Wimsey was, to the great distress of his father, strongly attached to an old, smelly poacher living at the edge of the family estate.

old and Richard
Richard Nelson explains: The needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as " divine warrior ," and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.
Edward V and his 10-year old brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London and their uncle made himself king as Richard III.
Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".
Richard declared that his younger brother – despite being 27 years oldwas merely " a child who has had evil counsellors " and forgave him, but removed his lands with the exception of Ireland.
One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.
Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.
* Top Gear, British television series, featuring an episode following a desert challenge in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt to drive three old cars across Botswana, including the Kalahari Desert
Richard was only 9 years old when his father died.
At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.
Only 18 years old, Richard played crucial roles in the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury that resulted in Edward's restoration to the throne in spring 1471.
* Jones, Richard H. Mysticism and Morality: a new look at old questions ( Lexington Books, 2004 ).
Manuel's position as pianist was filled by old friend Stan Szelest ( who died not long after ), then by Richard Bell.
* October 25 21-year old Michael D ' Oyly Carte, grandson of theatrical impresario and hotelier Richard D ' Oyly Carte, is killed in a car crash in Switzerland
Her father, Richard, was the younger brother of Sir Robert Bowes, a descendant of an old Durham family and her mother, Elizabeth, was an heiress of a Yorkshire family, the Askes of Richmondshire.
As Ida showed signs of flagging, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte realised that, for the first time since 1877, no new Savoy opera would be ready when the old one closed.
By contrast, Richard II had no children and Richard's heir-presumptive Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old.
It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, and thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, and caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
She also appears as an old woman in Richard III.
Although he was only eighteen years old, Richard was already an experienced commander and had led a division at the Battle of Barnet.
Richard, 44 years old when they met, had earlier resolved to remain a bachelor in order to better serve the public.
For the first two seasons Bill Daily, Dick Martin, Richard Paul, and Bob Barker were among the male semi-regulars who filled Dawson's old spot on the panel.
By 1925, the work of the court had increased to the point where the old building was too small, so extensions were designed by Richard Wells.

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