However, the bunyip appears to have formed part of traditional Aboriginal beliefs and stories throughout Australia, although its name varied according to tribal nomenclature.

In February, 2011, he formed a tribute band " Bill Haley Jr. and the Comets ," performing his father's music and telling the stories behind the songs.

The short stories that he wrote during this period formed the basis for another of his best-known books, Mafeking Road.

Panamanians Mariano Arosemena, Manuel María Ayala, and Juan José Calvo, as well as Colombian Juan José Argote, formed the writing team of the new newspaper, whose stories would circulate throughout every town in the isthmus.

In the case of the Big Sleep the two main stories that formed the core of the novel were Killer in the Rain published in 1935 and The Curtain published in 1936.

The so-called " Mother Goose " rhymes and stories have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes.

The exterior was formed by 80 Doric arcades of four stories each, but only two arches now remain.

He heavily revised his major novels and many of his stories for a selected edition of his fiction, whose twenty-three volumes formed an artistic autobiography which he called " The New York Edition " to emphasise his continuing ties to the city of his birth.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

Hartmann bases Keller's fame chiefly on 15 short stories, the five mentioned above ; the five contained in the second volume of Die Leute von Seldwyla ( 1874 ): “ Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe ,” “ Der Schmied seines Glücks ,” “ Dietegen ,” “ Kleider machen Leute ,” and “ Das verlorene Lachen ”; and five in Züricher Novellen ( 1878 ): “ Hadlaub ,” “ Der Narr auf Manegg ,” “ Der Landvogt von Greifensee ,” “ Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten ,” and “ Ursula .” The milieu is always that of an orderly bourgeois existence, within which the most manifold human destinies, the most humorous relations are progressing, the most peculiar and hardy types of endurance and reticence being formed.

In the early 20th century Hermann Gunkel demonstrated that, unlike the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob stories, the Joseph story formed a single unitary story with literary rather than oral origins.

Berg, who continued to write every episode, insisted that no studio audience be used and made sure everyday events formed the base for the stories ; she was once quoted as saying she avoided " anything that will bother people ... unions, fund raising, Zionism, socialism, intergroup relations.

The epic stories formed the basic information to draw the paintings during the reign of King Rama I ( 1782 – 1809 ).

The Secret Seven also appeared in seven short stories by Blyton, including a mini-novella explaining how the Secret Seven was formed.

In 2006, Kapur formed Liquid Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

Cohen did not pay a reprint fee to the authors of these stories, and this brought him into conflict with the newly formed Science Fiction Writers of America.

C. S. Lewis referred to his older brother, Warren (“ Warnie ”), as “ my dearest and closest friend .” The lifelong friendship formed as the boys played together in their home, Little Lea, on the outskirts of Belfast, writing and illustrating stories for their created world called " Boxen " ( a combination of India and a previous incarnation called " Animal-Land ").

The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hezar-afsana or the " Thousand Myths " ( or ).

He formed an effective partnership with Owen Wister, who became the leading writer of Western stories at the time.

When Royce runs the story, Callahan extorts the paper's board of directors into firing Spider, who by that point has already formed an alliance to have his future stories published by " The Hole ".

In 1927, Hammett began writing linked stories, which formed the basis for his first two novels, Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, both released in 1929.

His 1951 play I Am a Camera, together with Christopher Isherwood's short stories, Goodbye to Berlin ( 1939 ), formed the basis of Joe Masteroff's book for the Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret ( 1966 ).

* A variety of stories about a few of the players from the MIT Blackjack Team formed the basis of The New York Times Best Seller, Bringing Down the House written by Ben Mezrich.

After his death, stories called him the Ecstatic Doctor or Divine Doctor, and his views formed a link between the Friends of God and the Brethren of the Common Life, the ideas which may have helped to bring about the Reformation.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

Their stories include the classic " Mimsy Were the Borogoves " ( the basis for the film The Last Mimzy ) and " Vintage Season ".

These stories frequently show the activities of many members of a police force or government agency in their efforts to apprehend a killer who is selecting victims on some obscure basis.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

Robert Silverberg had written an introduction to Warm Worlds and Otherwise, arguing on the basis of selections from stories in the collection, that Tiptree could not possibly be a woman.

The Literacy Campaign was one of the success stories of the Sandinistas ' reign and Cuba played an important part in this, providing teachers on a yearly basis after the revolution.

With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, the brothers established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies.

In literature, the myth was not only the basis for a retelling such as " Contendings "; it also provided the basis for more distantly related stories.

Evenings with the Orchestra is more overtly fictional than his other two major books, but its basis in reality is its strength, making the stories it recounts all the funnier due to the ring of truth.

He recorded her telling folk stories in her native language, and then used the recordings as a basis for sounds that became the Ewok language and were performed by voice actors who imitated the old woman's voice in different styles.

It has never been published together with the novels, as it is connected only on the basis of being set during the Galactic Empire, after the Robot stories and before the Foundation series.

Science fiction scholar James Gunn writes in 1982, " The Asimov robot stories as a whole may respond best to an analysis on this basis: the ambiguity in the Three Laws and the ways in which Asimov played twenty-nine variations upon a theme ".

Formal religion necessarily forms a central part of Cadfael's life as a Benedictine monk, and religion provides the basis for his character as well as for the atmosphere and action of the stories.

This is often ignored in other stories to be able to have the rivals meet on a daily basis as in the case of Scrooge's other rival, Flintheart Glomgold ( who in the Barks stories lives in South Africa ) with John primarily managing his activities from a large business building he owns in Duckburg, and the three characters sitting at the same table in the Billionaires ' Club of the city.

Traditional stories told by the Anishinaabeg are the basis for the oral legends.

James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, which in turn was the basis for South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, also a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Camp legend, the basis for many campfire stories, was a character named " Three-fingered Willie.

Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story " Full Pack ( Hokas Wild )".

In other words, the reproduction of information or stories form the basis of the perception of leadership by the majority.

The Swedish minister and missionary Petrus Læstadius ( 1802 – 1841 ; brother of Lars Levi Læstadius, founder of the largest Christian revival movement in Norrland ) collected old stories and myths in the area in the 19th century, which create the basis for our knowledge from that time.

The Disney company continued to liaise with the Commission and its director, James Delargy, over the coming decade based on Disney's desire to use Irish folklore as the basis of a film but, to Delargy's disappointment, eventually decided to make an adaptation of Irish-American writer Herminone Templeton Kavanagh's 1903 collection of stories ' Darbie O ' Gill and the Good People.