Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

The Hetman's `` ideas '' for news stories or editorial campaigns were by no means always fruitless or lacking in merit.

Thus such great American documentaries as The River and The Plow That Broke The Plains were composed as visual stories rather than as illustrated lectures.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

The people who told the stories were sincere.

And the stories they told were true.

When the original stories were related ( e. g. The War against the Rull ) this was often successful.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

Houses often stood four or five stories tall, with single-story rooms facing the plaza ; room blocks were terraced to allow the tallest sections to compose the pueblo's rear edifice.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

There were several revolts, the stories of chaos leading to an invasion by King William of the Norman Sicilians.

During the late 19th century, ideas about the legendary nature of Atlantis were combined with stories of other lost continents such as Mu and Lemuria.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.

There are " trickster stories ", about the different trickster figures of the tribes ( Saynday for the Kiowa ; Coyote for the Navajo ; and so on, who were both helpful and dangerous figures in the belief.

" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.

Morton introduced the recurring characters and continuing stories that were a major feature of the column during his 51-year run.

A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets ( Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah ), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

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.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of " the Illustrated Man ", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.

Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his " Johnny Black " tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his " Drinkwhiskey Institute " stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel.

After this come three seemingly unrelated short stories.

Listeners found the sinister announcer much more compelling than the unrelated stories.

First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont.

Bahuchara Mata is a Hindu goddess with two unrelated stories both associated with transgender behavior.

Like the ' mad poet ' Navarth, he first appeared in the Demon Prince sequence but also is alluded to in a number of other unrelated stories.

While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga.

New York Town was a critical success, drawing parallels to Joyce's Dubliners due to it being a series of short, unrelated stories centered around New York City, and Kirwan was praised for painting a picture of the everyday life of New Yorkers, although the appearance of guest singers such as David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Christine Ohlman was noted for highlighting the weakness in Kirwan's own voice.

# The Cat Who Had 14 Tales, 1988 ( ISBN 0-515-09497-8 ): an anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats.

The film is named after a Stephen King short story of the same title, but aside from a single scene, the stories are unrelated.

An unrelated collection of stories by Isaac Asimov, also entitled I, Robot, was published in 1950.

Stephen King's novels and short stories form an intricate and highly developed mythos, drawing in part on the Lovecraftian, with characters such as the demonic Crimson King and Randall Flag appearing in several ( otherwise unrelated ) works, as well as a supernatural force known only as " The White ".

The stories are unrelated to the Blackthorne series.

As was the case in the second part of Great Space Battles, the book is a collection of many unrelated very short stories about dangerous planets and space disasters.

* Left to His Own Devices includes both the novel of the same name, printed for the first time, which forms part of the White Crow sequence, and also a few related and unrelated stories, some of which take place in the Weerde shared universe created by the collective Gentle belonged to, Midnight Rose.

Each week, the show featured unrelated stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin.

The stories are presented in what is regarded as Biblical chronological order in an attempt to allow the listener to connect the stories together to form one frame of reference regarding the Bible rather than just a series of unrelated stories.