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The top story contains more than thirty alcoves separated from each other by spandrels of blue and yellow tile.
A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction.
* 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.
The vita of Columba contains a story that has been interpreted as the first reference to the Loch Ness Monster.
According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").
The Moonstone contains a number of ideas that have established in the genre several classic features of the 20th century detective story:
This kind of shot is one in a scene which neither contains any of the characters in the story, nor is a Point of View shot seen by one of them.
Based on George Griffith's Stories Of Other Worlds, it contains six stories, the illustrations from their original publication, a worldbook taking the story forward to 1920, a spaceship design spreadsheet, five adventures, plus the novelisation A Honeymoon In Space.
What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.
* Gothic horror – Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror.
Hamlet also contains a favourite Shakespearean device, a play within the play, a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story.
George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.
This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.
The Book of Genesis contains the story of Jacob and Esau focusing on the sale of Esau's birthright to Jacob and the conflict that had spawned between their descendant nations because of this sale.
* The librarian can use the catalogue to find out whether the library owns an item with a particular title or author, or that contains a short story, chapter, song, or poem with a particular title, or to compile a list of books by a particular author or on a particular subject.
Each division contains the story of a single adventure in the career of Gilgamesh.
It covers the story of the Lombards from their legendary origins in the north in ' Scadinavia ' and their subsequent migrations, notably to Italy in 568 / 9 to the death of King Liutprand in 744, and contains much information about the Byzantine empire, the Franks, and others.
This story is credible because the piña colada contains coconut cream as one of the primary ingredients, and the coconut cream of " Coco López " ( which is the pioneer ) was invented in 1954 in the University of Puerto Rico by Ramón López Irizarry.
The Biblical Book of Joshua contains the story of the miraculous Battle of Jericho.
While its predecessors tended to restore the status quo ante at the end of each episode, allowing out-of-order viewing, DS9 contains story arcs that span shows — or seasons — and one installment often builds upon those that aired earlier, with several having cliffhanger endings.
The 1963 edition of the short story collection The Happy Highwayman contains examples of abandoned revisions ; in one story published in the 1930s (" The Star Producers "), references to actors of the 1930s were replaced for 1963 with names of current movie stars ; another 1930s-era story, " The Man Who Was Lucky ", added references to atomic power.
Along with the iconic main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out.

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and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.
Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.
In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.
There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first half of the story.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.
Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.
Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.
For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.
" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.
Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).
* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.
Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.
Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.
Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.
Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.
His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.
The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.
Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.

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