Various news stories told of a reporter's quest to locate a set, and some dealers marked the prices up above the suggested retail price of US $ 229.

A 1999 study, frequently referenced in news stories but difficult to actually locate, by a member of the American Board of Forensic Odontology found a 63 % rate of false identifications.

In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus ) and the polished, witty fables of James Thurber.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines.

It is the last of the " Lazarus Long " cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or World as Myth — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere ( for example ) the Land of Oz is real.

Pohl paid one cent per word for the stories he bought for If, whereas Galaxy paid three cents per word, and like Gold he regarded Galaxy as the leading magazine of the two, whereas If was somewhere he could work with new writers, and try experiments and whims.

The stories are set in a fictional country somewhere in Central Europe, at different times in the period 1150-1965 ( though only two take place before the 20th century ).

These as well tend to crash somewhere in every story, but are a major means to get to the exotic countries where the stories often happen.

According to a park commissioner, after the vandals saw the stories in print, they would always deposit the stolen pieces, which weighed about 100 pounds, somewhere in the park.

Similarly, like the giant in the popular British stories of Jack and the Beanstalk, the zmeu returns home to his fortress from his raids into human lands sensing that a human ( Făt-Frumos ) is lying in ambush somewhere nearby.

* H. P. Lovecraft places it somewhere near The Nameless City in his stories.

Folk stories claim that the tree grows somewhere in the Phetchabun Mountains and hoaxes are common ; these include pictures of Nariphon girls growing from trees as well as dry Nariphon maidens.

In Anglo-Saxon terminology these would be called graphic novels, but this term is rarely used in Europe, and is not always applicable as albums often consist of separate short stories, placing them somewhere halfway between a comic book and a graphic novel.

For the game's last-ever appearance, Louis threw the ball, and it hit somewhere between the 18th and 20th stories and never came down since there is no 19th story.

As in other shared universes, the stories are set in a milieu shared with other writers, but usually it's done with other author's stories being set safely somewhere off to the side of the main story threads.

" The main thing is making it Dreaming a story that is going somewhere, that feels like it's going somewhere and it will be one huge story that is going somewhere rather than these sorts of little stories that basically go ' Person A, who you've never met before nor do you care about, has a problem.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Such sightings and stories may simply be a more modern manifestation of earlier stories of mythical black dogs and other such creatures in remote areas of Britain, such as those that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Meanwhile, the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, is a spyhunter for Britain in the stories " The Adventure of the Second Stain " ( 1904 ), and " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans " ( 1912 ).

Many films made in Britain drew on true stories, such as The Dam Busters ( 1954 ), Dunkirk ( 1958 ), Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) telling the life of Douglas Bader and Sink the Bismarck!

This was a form popularised in Britain and recounted stories of real escapes from ( usually German ) P. O. W.

Welsh legend supports that this happened, with stories such as Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig ( English: The Dream of Emperor Maximus ), where he not only marries a wondrous British woman ( thus making British descendants probable ), but also gives her father sovereignty over Britain ( thus formally transferring authority from Rome back to the Britons themselves ).

Ussher was very reluctant to arrive at firm judgements as to the sources ' authenticity — hence his devotion of a whole chapter to the imaginative but invented stories of King Lucius and the creation of a Christian episcopate in Britain.

" The Loss of a Reputation ; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875 ", California Historical Quarterly 53 ( Summer I974 ): 115-30, stories about Gold Rush lawlessness slowed immigration for two decades

In Britain, during the 1960s, she appeared in the drama series Play of the Month, as well as on the children's TV programme Jackanory, reading the stories of Alison Uttley.

The studio attempted to replace Garner's character with a Maverick cousin who had lived in Britain long enough to pick up an English accent, played by Roger Moore, but Moore quit the series due to a decline in script quality after only 15 episodes, noting that if he had had stories like Garner's early ones, he would have stayed.

One of Boiardo's main achievements was his fusion of the Matter of France, the tradition of stories about Charlemagne and paladins such as Orlando, with the Matter of Britain, the legends about King Arthur and his knights.

The Lady of the Lake is featured in Marvel Comics in the stories of Captain Britain.

His work in the Soviet Union also gained him notoriety in Britain, with many of his stories being reprinted in the Daily Express and Financial Times.

An article by Hubert Griffith in the servicemen's fortnightly Royal Air Force Journal dated April 18, 1942, also chronicles the appearance of gremlins, although the article states the stories had been in existence for several years, with later recollections of it having been told by Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots as early as 1940.

Though some of the characters and stories are present across Britain, most belong to specific countries or regions.

While Arthur is the chief subject of the Matter of Britain, other lesser-known legendary history of Great Britain, including the stories of Brutus of Britain, King Cole, King Lear, and Gogmagog, is also included in the Matter of Britain: see Legendary kings of the British.

In Britain and North America a bungalow today is a residential house, normally detached, which is either single story, or has a second story built into a sloping roof, usually with dormer windows (" one and a half stories ").

Ironically, issues of Uncanny X-Men during the time of this Excalibur had much in common with the original Excalibur: lighthearted stories by Chris Claremont, colorful art by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer, characters including Nightcrawler and Rachel Summers, and even a cameo appearance by Captain Britain.

These works were a common phenomenon in pre-WWI Europe, involving fictionalised stories of possible invasion or infiltration by foreign powers ; Le Queux's specialty, much appreciated by Northcliffe, was the German invasion of Britain.

However, Alan Davis has stated that the designation of Earth 616 was actually first made by Dave Thorpe, the previous writer of the UK-published Captain Britain stories.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

They sometimes employ a large parabolic array of mirrors ( some facilities are several stories high ) to focus light to a high intensity.

Eventually, under the guidance of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the stories were edited, revised and sometimes rewritten.

Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.

* Remnants of contemporary culture accordingly appear as valued antiquities or sometimes just as unrecognized survivals, lending a rare feeling of nostalgia for the present to the stories.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

In these stories the word " chaos " means " disorder ", and this formless expanse, which is also sometimes called a void or an abyss, contains the material with which the created world will be made.

People who work for Disney generally do so in relative anonymity ; the stories only carry Walt Disney's name and ( sometimes ) a short identification number.

Traditionally, Lois Lane ( and sometimes others ) would often suspect Superman of truly being Clark Kent ; this was particularly prominent in Silver Age stories, including those in the series Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane.

" In Golden Age detective stories, an outsider — sometimes a salaried investigator or a police officer, but often a gifted amateur — investigates a murder committed in a closed environment by one of a limited number of suspects.

" Told in stark and sometimes elegant language through the unemotional eyes of new hero-detectives, these stories were an American phenomenon.

The Digimon series has a large number of video games which usually have their own independent storylines with a few sometimes tying into the stories of the anime series or manga series.

The Prose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.

Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic.

The Gospels of Luke, Matthew and Mark ( known as the Synoptic Gospels ) include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence, and sometimes exactly the same wording.

A lighted candle would be sitting on the night stand beside her bed and after she was through delivering one of her bizarre stories, sometimes a re-written nursery rhyme, she'd giggle, wink to the camera, and blow out the candle ... end of skit.

In modern folklore and fiction the Wendigo found in the stories of many Algonquian peoples is sometimes considered to be similar to lycanthropes, in that humans could transform into a non-human form.

Nasreddin ( / ALA-LC: Naṣraddīn Juḥā, Turkish: Nasreddin Hoca,,, Nasreddīn Hodja Bosnian: Nasrudin Hodža ) was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages ( around 13th century ) and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.

He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or the butt of a joke.

Show Boat, West Side Story, Brigadoon, Sweeney Todd, Evita, The Light in the Piazza, The Phantom of the Opera and others tell dramatic stories through complex music and are now sometimes seen in opera houses.