She explains the origin of mankind within the story to the game's main protagonist, Desmond Miles, through his ancestor, Ezio Auditore.

That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

In fact, this very story, along with some hints from " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", provides the key to the origin of the ' Derleth Mythos '.

Later episodes shifted to the usual origin story, in which Kal-El landed on Earth as a baby and was raised by the Kent family.

He ascribes the origin to the 1208 Battle of Fellin, not the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219, based on the earliest source available about the story.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

Both of these accounts draw on the story by Herodotus ( i, 94 ) of the Lydian origin of the Etruscans.

Ackerman named the sexy comic-book character Vampirella and wrote the origin story for the comic.

The Cosmos also tell them a story of ancient origin.

In 2004, Page Bryant wrote the Sci-Fi story The Second Coming of the Star Gods, which deals with Khufu ´ s alleged celestial origin.

The new understanding, even if it recognised the Israelites as Canaanites by origin, still treated the post-Conquest biblical story as real history.

As the fossil record for the Cryptobranchidae shows an Asian origin for the family, the story of how these salamanders made it to the eastern U. S. has been a point of scientific interest.

The story is likely to have its origin in Taoism.

Some of Coleridge's contemporaries denounced the poem and questioned his story about its origin.

Sometimes the animals assumed human forms in order to ensure their descendants retained their human shapes, other times the origin story is of a human marrying a normal animal.

A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory ; Luthor vowed revenge.

In the origin story printed in Adventure Comics # 271 ( April 1960 ), young Lex Luthor is shown as an aspiring scientist who resides in Smallville, the hometown of Superboy.

The existence of Moses as well as the veracity of the Exodus story is disputed amongst archaeologists and Egyptologists, with experts in the field of biblical criticism citing logical inconsistencies, new archaeological evidence, historical evidence, and related origin myths in Canaanite culture.

CMF units were sometimes scorned by AIF soldiers as " chocolate soldiers " or " chockos ", because " they would melt under the pressure " of military operations ; or in an alternative version of the story of the origin of this term, as a result of the 1930s ' uniforms of Militia soldiers, these soldiers were considered by AIF volunteers and some civilians as soldiers only for show like the soldiers in garish 19th century dress uniforms shown on tins of chocolates that were commonly sold in Australia in the 1930s, hence the name " chocolate-tin soldiers " for Militia members.

The story of Talos, the Cretan man of brass, who heated himself red-hot and clasped strangers in his embrace as soon as they landed on the island, is probably of similar origin.

The Heart of the Beast described in the Nez Perce origin story

This is an origin story to explain the seasons.

Graham King's GK Films acquired the film rights and plan to release an origin story reboot by 2013.

In any case according to his origin story Pah-Peh-Rheo was born an Egyptian.

After he decided to settle on the origin story aspect of his outline, Shyamalan began to write the screenplay as a spec script with Bruce Willis already set to star in the film and Samuel L. Jackson in mind to portray Elijah Price.

Because of loose continuity, there's more than one origin story for why he became Darkwing Duck-starting with " Paraducks " ( inspired by his own time-travelling adult self ) and ending with " Crash Reunion " ( a random disguise so he could defend his high school prom from Megavolt ) and " A Star is Scorned ".

" ( Some later accounts of Robin's origin have stated that the name comes from the American robin bird, not from Robin Hood, Frank Miller's All Star Batman and Robin being a notable exception ; sometimes both sources are credited, as in Len Wein's The Untold Legend of the Batman.

This run lasted until # 74, with a brief run thereafter in Adventure Comics # 461-466, but it had three significant developments: It introduced the popular character Power Girl in All Star Comics # 58 ; it chronicled the death of the Golden Age Batman in Adventure Comics # 461-462 ; and, after nearly 40 years, it finally provided the JSA with an origin story in DC Special # 29.

In the 1994 novel Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, whose publication predated the release of Star Trek: First Contact by two years, Cochrane had been portrayed as a human of Earth origin.

Earth was also the planet of origin for at least one other sentient species, the Voth, according to the Star Trek: Voyager episode Distant Origin.

In 2004, Page Bryant wrote the Si-Fi story The Second Coming of the Star Gods, which deals with Khufu's alleged celestial origin.

* In the Star Trek episode The Changeling, ( season 2, episode 3 ) Captain Kirk mentions the legend when he learns of the origin of the Nomad probe.

* Origins of the Yellow Star-Ancient Islamic origin of the Yellow Star

* 1990: Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, " for reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin.

Roman Kroitor was credited by George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars films, as being the origin of the concept of The Force, an important thematic element tying together all the Star Wars films.

* Ian Douglas in " Star Carrier Singularity " has a Tipler cylinder created by aliens of unknown origin

In line with the original nature of the CAF, restored airframes of US origin would bear traditional US ' star-and-bar ' roundel markings on their fuselage and wings, though they would use the Star with Dot on appropriate, pre-war and early-war aircraft.

Whereas the demi-gods of the various worlds such as Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo and Dark Star Dugradigdo had physical presence in that world, they appear in the Black World as " Lost Ships ", intelligent space ships of unknown origin that have powerful or somewhat divine powers with more advanced technology than any other device in the universe.

This festival is also the origin of ' Star Gazey Pie ', a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with fish heads protruding through the pastry.

The origin of the name " Three Rivers Hotel " is not because the " hotel " was ever at the junction of the three rivers-Burdekin, Star and Clarke as stated on numerous web sites.

It has the traditional name Mesarthim, of obscure origin, and has been called " the First Star in Aries " as having been at one time the nearest visible star to the equinoctial point.

In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode " The Terratin Incident ", a ray of unknown origin strikes the Enterprise and causes everyone aboard to begin gradually shrinking.

On the Euphrates, Sadalsuud was known as Kakkab Nammaχ, the Star of Mighty Destiny ; that may have given origin to the title of the manzil, as well as to the astrologers ' name for it — Fortuna Fortunarum.

The Romulans were one of the Federation's chief antagonists in Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured in many episodes, and a canon explanation of the their origin was given in that series.