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* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.
The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.
" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.
The remainder of the story then describes the subsequent investigation.
Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.
The story describes the citizens of the 22nd century, which became technically high advanced at one side, but totally immoral on the other side.
Therefore, in order to preserve the precious mysticism of his materialistic paradigm, he describes the story ’ s setting as empty, vague, and above all enigmatic.
Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.
One story from the work entitled From My People describes a slave who went out and sought a mojo conjurer that gave him a mojo to run away from home.
The story describes the slave's mojo as fixing him into many formations, and he ultimately dies because he misuses its power.
This story describes an expedition from a Utopian Socialist Earth arriving at a Mars which is divided between two oppressive, warring empires.
' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.
* Origin myth, a story or explanation that describes the beginning of some feature of the natural or social world
The story of Balaam in Numbers 22, describes a non-Jewish prophet who honors God and refuses to curse Israel and who is generally presented favorably.
A well-known story in the collection One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea.
Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.
Poe himself describes the enthusiasm his story had aroused: he claims that the Sun building was " besieged " by people wanting copies of the newspaper.
The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.
The Judeo-Christian story of creation describes God creating birds, and commanding them to multiply, but makes no direct mention of eggs.
The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.
Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.
Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.
In the previously mentioned version, this short story describes the first settlers coming to Mars, the " Lonely Ones ", the ones that came to start over on the planet.

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Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records the dying man's narrative and confessions.
The series featured a " flip-cover " format, with 22 pages of the book following the story of the card set and six pages detailing previous encounters leading up to the invasion.
" This was elaborated by George Speaight in his Punch & Judy: A History ( 1970 ), who explained that the plotline " is like a story compiled in a parlour game of Consequences ... the show should, indeed, not be regarded as a story at all but a succession of encounters.
The regressing world in which they find themselves is discovered to be the product of Jory Miller, another half-lifer whom Runciter encounters earlier in the story while communicating with Ella.
The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years or so of chance encounters in New York City.
According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounters with the crowds, a Boer War veteran asked Elizabeth, " Are you Scots or are you English?
American novelist Thomas Berger created a modern version of the story in his 1994 novel Robert Crews, in which the protagonist is a middle-aged alcoholic who survives a plane crash at a rural lake, and eventually encounters his " Friday ," a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.
From the early 17th century to the middle 18th century European colonists reported encounters with gray-eyed American Indians who claimed descent from the colonists ( although at least one, a story of a Welsh priest who met a Doeg warrior who spoke the Welsh language, is likely to be a hoax ).
The novel was the last of a story arc published to coincide with the series ' 30th anniversary in 1993, in which the Seventh Doctor encounters various alternate realities that have been created due to the Monk's meddling with time, including a reality where the Third Doctor was killed in his confrontation with the Silurians ( Blood Heat ), attempting to distract the Doctor while he helps the Vardans to invade Earth, thus getting their mutual revenge on the Doctor for their losses during their past confrontations with him.
The episode in the Book of Leinster ( Recension II ), called Imthúsa Chon Ruí meic Dáire ( header ) or Oislige Amargin ( text ), offers by and large the same story, but adds more explicit detail, notably on the point of Cú Roí's sense of honour in his encounters with Cú Chulainn and Amairgin.
Despite Shatner's doubts, Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day ( the Star Trek characters ' past ).
It tells the story of an African American itinerant worker who encounters a group of East German nuns, who believe he has been sent to them by God to build them a new chapel.
Episodes ( chapters ) in Ulysses relate a series of encounters and incidents in Bloom's contemporary odyssey through Dublin in the course of the single day of 16 June 1904 ( although episodes 1 to 3, 9 and to a lesser extent 7, are primarily concerned with Stephen Dedalus, who in the plan of the story is the counterpart of Telemachus ).
Planescape: Torments gameplay often focuses on the resolution of quests through dialogue rather than combat, and many of the game's combat encounters can be resolved or avoided through dialogue or stealth ; a review of the game in incite PC Gaming says that " The game is almost entirely story driven, and by asking the right questions you should only have to get violent a handful of times.
Sadie Thompson ( 1928 ) is an American silent film that tells the story of a " fallen woman " who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco.
* In his short story " The Celestial Omnibus ", published in 1911, E. M. Forster makes Browne the first " driver " that the young protagonist encounters on the magical omnibus line that transports its passengers to a place of direct experience of the aesthetic sublime reserved for those who internalize the experience of poetry, as opposed to those who merely acquire familiarity with literary works for snobbish prestige.
* In William Faulkner's short story Beyond an old man leaves his body at the moment of death and visits a sort of ante-purgatory where he encounters the shade of a man who may be Robert Ingersoll.
The third and longest section of the work is chapters 13 – 99, an episodic adventure story in which Xuanzang sets out to bring back Buddhist scriptures from Leiyin Temple on Vulture Peak in India, but encounters various evils along the way.
Ethan himself feels attraction to Terrence, but not to the various women he encounters throughout the story.
These boss encounters draw elements from antagonists seen in classic horror stories, and defeating the boss will advance the story of the game.
* Richard A. Fletcher, The Cross and the Crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims
In his 1977 short story collection The Consul ’ s File Paul Theroux posits that the phantom is an invention of Malay wives who wanted to discourage their husbands from random sexual encounters with women that they met on the road at night.
The Wandering Jew appears in the subplot of Raymond and Agnes ’ story in The Monk and foreshadows Ambrosio ’ s encounters with supernatural devilish spirits.

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