Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Alfonso XIII appears as " King Buby " in Luis Coloma's story of Ratoncito Pérez ( 1894 ), which was written for the King when he was 8 years old.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

A similar story appears in the later Sörla þáttr, where Heimdall does not appear.

Disobedience appears in the story of Achan ( stoned for violating the herem command ), the Gibeonites, and the altar built by the Transjordan tribes.

Barnabas ' story appears in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul mentions him in some of his epistles.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

In Lope de Vega's miscellany La Circe-con otras rimas y prosas ( Madrid 1624 ), the story of her encounter with Ulysses appears as a verse epic in three cantos.

Her nickname appears as a store name in the story " Christmas in Duckburg ", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney ’ s Christmas Parade # 9, published in 1958.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

In Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre Diana appears to Pericles in a vision, telling him to go to her temple and tell his story to her followers.

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Similar wording appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story, The Bargain Lost, although not at the very beginning.

Inside this main flashback there develops cross-cutting to another story, happening at the same time, and at first apparently unconnected with it, though the connection eventually appears.

Geoff usually appears in private conversations in his office with Mike, and is often the catalyst for Mike to question the reassurance he has been given by a producer that the story of the moment is being ethically pursued.

* First Encyclopaedia of Tlön appears in the short story " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " by Jorge Luis Borges.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

As it is part of the story that these individuals ' beliefs are not produced by reliable mechanisms or backed by veridical perceptual experiences, the claim that the justification of our beliefs depends upon such things appears to be seriously challenged.

Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.

* In the 2D fighting game series BlazBlue, a recurring character named Lambda-11 appears in the various games ' story modes and as a playable character.

This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros ", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

The fifth book brings the story up to Bede's day, and includes an account of missionary work in Frisia, and of the conflict with the British church over the correct dating of Easter.

Ian Kaplan of BearCave. com gave the book three stars out of five, saying that while he was " not entirely satisified " and felt that the " story tends to be shallow ", " Jeter does deal with the moral dilemma of the Blade Runners who hunt down beings that are virtually human in every way.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

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.

The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.

The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

In the UK and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in comic book magazines, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more.

The first episode in that book deals with the story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the enamoured sea-god seeks a love filtre to win Scylla's love, only to have the sorceress fall in love with him.

However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.