* Superman is real, Clark Kent the mask: Pre-Crisis interpretations of Superman assumed that Clark Kent was the " mask " and Kal-El the person ( in the classic story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow ?, when Superman's dual life is revealed, he completely abandons his Clark Kent persona ).

Approaching a given genre, certain assumed background information covers the nature and purpose of possible predictable elements of the story, such as the appearance of dragons and wizards in high fantasy, warp drives in science fiction, or shootouts at high noon in Westerns.

It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs.

Dungeon, the mainframe precursor to the commercial Zork trilogy, is generally assumed to be in the public domain and is available from The Interactive Fiction Archive as original FORTRAN source code, a Z-machine story file and as various native source ports.

Sometimes the animals assumed human forms in order to ensure their descendants retained their human shapes, other times the origin story is of a human marrying a normal animal.

A German bookseller and Freemason, living in Paris, working under the assumed name of C. Lenning, embellished the story further in a manuscript titled " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry " probably written between 1822 and 1828 at Leipzig.

It can be assumed that he actually is of Scottish descent as it was stated that both he and Scrooge are distantly related to Bogey McDivot in John Lustig and Vicar's comic book story " Family of Fore.

In Genesis 22 as well as the Qur ' an, there is a story about Abraham's binding of Isaac, although in the Qur ' an the name of the son is not mentioned and assumed to be Ismail.

* Boris Akunin's The Jack of Spades ( a Erast Fandorin story ), where Momus is the pseudonym assumed by a character

There is a story ( related in the Miscellany ) that at a conference Littlewood met a German mathematician who said he was most interested to discover that Littlewood really existed, as he had always assumed that Littlewood was a name used by Hardy for lesser work which he did not want to put out under his own name ; Littlewood apparently roared with laughter.

The sacred falls also enters into their oral tradition by a story of a warrior's first wife who killed herself and their two children in anguish and forlorn love for the husband who had assumed a second wife.

Graham had posed for a Life Magazine cover story, printed weeks in advance of the assumed series schedule, referring to her as " TV's sexiest star " which appeared two weeks later in their January 27, 2006 issue.

This combination at the time was considered a " revolutionary approach " in the film industry, which until then assumed a star was all that was needed for success, regardless of the story or production quality.

Although neither the first Omen movie nor its novelisation mention what year the story takes place, it can be assumed that its setting was intended to be the year the movie was released ( i. e. 1976 ).

Pheiffer says: “ This fanciful story of the origin of the Septuagint is merely a pretext for defending Judaism against its heathen denigrators, for extolling its nobility and reasonableness, and first striving to convert Greek speaking Gentiles to it .” Schürer classes the letter with a special kind of literature, “ Jewish propaganda in Pagan disguise ,” whose works are “ directed to the pagan reader, in order to make propaganda for Judaism among the Gentiles .” Andrews, too, believes that the role of a Greek was assumed by Aristeas in order “ to strengthen the force of the argument and commend it to non-Jewish readers.

A reporter covering the zoning story for The New York Times came across the block association ’ s submission to City Planning, and mistakenly assumed that the name Tribeca referred to the entire neighborhood, not just one block.

* Piccadilly-Although usually assumed to be named after Piccadilly, London, it is likely to be an anglicisation of the Kaurna pikodla, " two eyebrows ", being part of the same dreaming story that gave rise to " Uraidla ".

In his book The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick outlines the story of how Thiel came to make his investment: former Napster and Plaxo employee Sean Parker, who at the time had assumed the title of " President " of Facebook, was seeking investors for Facebook.

In the conclusion of the story, having been assumed to be dead in the attack, they are seen in their new identities of Sam and Sandra Hollis ( in homage to the late Mason ), with dyed blonde hair.

At first it was assumed to have begun in the paint shop above Clairmont's woodworking shop and the Seattle newspaper erroneously ran this story the next day.

Because Enos begins his story by telling of his " wrestle which had before God, before received a remission of sins ", it is sometimes assumed that he had been rebellious prior to that time.

It is assumed that Ayumi and Satsuki are in a relationship, near the end of the story.

A token character is a character in a work of fiction who only exists to achieve the minimum compliance with assumed normality for the environment described in the story.

Caragiale reportedly took little interest in editing Timpul over that period, but it is assumed that several unsigned chronicles, covering foreign events, are his contributions ( as are two short story adaptations of works by the American author Edgar Allan Poe, both published by Timpul in spring-summer 1878 ).

All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

Joshua's two final addresses challenge the Israel of the future ( the readers of the story ) to obey the most important command of all, to worship Yahweh and no other gods.

The story of the banshee began as a fairy woman keening at the death of important personages.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

An important early film to move beyond the concept of the scenic was In the Land of the Head Hunters ( 1914 ), which embraced primitivism and exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Only the story was important to him, not the actual drawings.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

Pushkin is particularly important, as his short story The Queen of Spades ( 1833 ) was adapted into operas and movies by both Russian and foreign artists.

It was his first " love story between two men " where two men bond over their duty, skills and careers while considering their friendship to be more important than any affection towards a female.

In the Qur ' an's narrative of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son ( XXXVII: 102 ), the name of the son is not mentioned and debate has continued over the son's identity, though many feel that the identity is the least important element in a story which is given to show the courage that one develops through faith.

The story of Nur Jahan occupies an important place in the history of Jahangir.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

* allegory: An extended metaphor wherein a story illustrates an important attribute of the subject.

* The Big Test ( 1999 ) ISBN 978-0-374-52751-8 ( The story of how standardized tests ( such as the SAT ) became very important in the United States )

Commentators have become important in communicating the relevance of the characters ' actions to the story at hand, filling in past details and pointing out subtle actions that may otherwise go unnoticed.

It was an important story for Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich that O ' Neil had become suicidal and had left the military after his son's death.

He had enormous influence on the 20th century's most important ghost story writer, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

Special arrangements were made with the German radio operators to be listening to through the night of 5 / 6 June 1944, using the story that a sub-agent was about to arrive with important information.

Shortly after the deal was closed, Jack Warner announced the company and its subsidiaries would be " directed more vigorously to the acquisition of the most important story properties, talents, and to the production of the finest motion pictures possible.