" Alternatively, they might be folded to make small cheap books or " chapbooks " which often drew on ballad stories.

In many cases, these stories will describe a series of failed attempts to make land before the solution is found.

Essanay specialized in Westerns featuring " Broncho Billy " Anderson, and Kalem sent Sidney Olcott off with a film crew and a troupe of actors to various places in America and abroad to make film stories in the actual places they were supposed to have happened.

* Two consecutive healing stories of women ; both make use of the number twelve ( and ).

Hawks considered the novel to be " one of the greatest detective stories of all time " and was eager to make it his first sound film.

The Talmud, which often uses stories to make a moral point ( aggadah ), tells of a highly respected rabbi who found the Messiah at the gates of Rome and asked him, " When will you finally come?

In 2012, the Mezcal Jazz Unit of Montpellier, France, collaborated by Internet with Grayhawk Perkins, a historian of the Muskogean nation, to make a recording titled Thirteen Moons which features " the soulful chants of ancient folk tales and more modern stories told in Mobilian.

There are numerous study Bibles available with extensive notes on the text and background information to make the Biblical stories more comprehensible.

Writers would have the ability to change stories or make alternate endings, giving readers more material to enjoy.

In his numerous books and stories depicting conflict in science-fictional or fantasy settings, Anderson takes trouble to make both sides ' points of view comprehensible.

Similarly, by studying inanimate objects, Holmes can make astonishingly detailed deductions about their owners, including Watson's pocket-watch in " The Sign of the Four " and a hat, a pipe, and a walking stick in other stories.

The stories make fun of US Western-style diligent farmers and Spaghetti Western-style bounty hunters.

Because the two model stories contained religious pacifists to make it necessary not to use gun, all the successors contained religious groups or at least priests ( sometimes as one of the heroes ).

A magazine for the better propagation of the views of the new brotherhood was at the same time projected, which was to make a specialty of social articles, besides poems and short stories.

The Journal and the World were not among the top ten sources of news in regional papers, and the stories simply did not make a splash outside New York City.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

His work was popularised by an article in the Analog Science Fiction and Fact publication, where Tom Ligon ( who has also written several science fiction stories ) described how the fusor would make for a highly effective fusion rocket.

Beginning in 1965, Preminger made a string of films in which he attempted to make stories that were fresh and distinctive, but the films he made, including In Harm's Way ( 1965 ) and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ( 1970 ), became both critical and financial bombs.

They help children understand the difference between good and evil ," that Rowling's approach was Christian, and that the stories illustrated the need to make sacrifices in order to defeat evil.

The later stories were inspired by ecological concerns that were beginning to make headlines at the time – this has led to Jeff Arnold in the telefantasy journal Timescreen to draw parallels between Timeslip and the similarly inspired adult drama series Doomwatch ( 1970 – 72 ).

It is possible that independent legends associated with Polyphemus did not make him a Cyclops before Homer's Odyssey ; Polyphemus may have been some sort of local daemon or monster in original stories.

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

" When asked for his response to these statements Colin Powell said that " it might have been better for members of Congress who have heard these stories to ask us about the stories before going public with them so we don't make a difficult situation that much more difficult " and he alleged that Aristide " did not democratically govern or govern well ".

A few who praised it commented that Excessions complexity and frequent use of in-jokes make it advisable for new readers of Banks ' Culture stories to start with other books.

A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.

He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called " Bagdad-on-the-Subway ," and many of his stories are set there — while others are set in small towns or in other cities.

This distinction is most obvious on the front page: whereas tabloids tend to have a single story dominated by a headline, broadsheets allow two or more stories to be displayed, the most important at the top of the page —" above the fold ".

He was sometimes known as " the quiet one " for his less obvious contributions to the group, but privately he was a good teller of stories who immensely enjoyed talking with fans.

He called the work a collection of Vietnam War crime stories with some obvious flaws which the author had not verified.

Much of the success Peet's stories have enjoyed is due to the memorable themes they contain: trying when there's not much obvious hope, not allowing taunting of others to prevent individual success, finding compromise in solutions and others.

Unlike most other children's authors, Peet did not dumb down the vocabulary of his stories, but somehow managed to include enough context to make the meaning of difficult words obvious.

He has been a popular target of the British tabloid press since 1996, who he stated have subjected him to entrapment and blackmail, printed obvious falsehoods about him, also targeting his family and friends in attempts to extract stories from them.

Most obvious is the inclusion of a limited level of fear and violence which is noticeably absent from other stories in the series.

The origin of this urban myth is a fragment of an Icelandic Saga, apart from the obvious flaws in using stories as historical sources, " the north " referred to would be north from an Icelandic perspective.

The main sources of study are from the Ming and Qing period, since the dialectal differences were not as obvious until Ming times, and lie in historical folk songs, tanci (, a kind of ballad or lyric poem ), local records, legendary stories, baihua novels, educational material produced for the region, notes which have survived among individuals ' effects, the linguistic descriptions made by foreigners ( primarily by missionaries ), and the bibles translated into Wu dialects.

Will, Lyra, and the Gallivespians decide to free all the ghosts, and strike a deal with the harpies ; in exchange for guiding them to a suitable place to open the window, and leading all subsequent spirits to the window afterwards, the harpies will demand to hear the life stories of all the spirits who pass through their realm, and have a right to bar access to any who have nothing to tell-with the obvious exception of infants who are too young to have experienced anything -, thus encouraging all to live rich, full lives and experience the wonders of the present world.

There are also fewer stories in general in the Vinaya of the subsidiary school, the-Lokottaravada ( Lokuttaravada ), and many of them give the appearance of badly connected obvious interpolations, whereas in the structure of the Sthavira recensions the stories are integrated into the whole scheme.

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Trout is referenced in passing as having written stories for a gentleman's magazine called Stagman, an obvious sendup of Playboy.

It is obvious that my earliest stories followed the path of Western realism ... A little later, as the Chinese revolution developed, my fiction changed with the needs of the age and of the Chinese people ...

These stories have obvious difficulties.

More than the other boys, Jeff's character is obvious caricature of Maori stereotypes, assembled from clichés drawn mostly from Witi Ihimaera stories and Once Were Warriors.

Bass ' Hive series of stories are replete with obvious and not-so-obvious references to nomenclature commonly used in pathology, including eponymic puns ( note a male character's observation of a female character's attractive " Howell-Jolly body ").

The stories are classified as potboilers due to their conventional and predictable story lines, almost obvious plots, and scant characterization.

Aside from the obvious toning down of the urgency of survival for the sake of a young viewing audience, the series shares the two stories ' secret world of the animals style as well as its dark and foreboding natural setting.