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In Lars Jensen and Vicar's comic book story " Happy Birthday, Flintheart Glomgold ", Glomgold's nephew Slackjaw Snorehead is introduced.
Written entirely in Swedish, with lyrics and book by Björn Ulvaeus, Lars Rudolffson, and Jan Mark, it attempted to streamline the story back to its original form and eliminate the aspects of political potboiler that had come to define the show.
The story of Lars Porsena and the Roman hostage Cloelia is the basis of the libretto Il trionfo di Clelia ( 1762 ) by Pietro Metastasio.
Lays of Ancient Rome ( 1842 ) by Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1800-1859 ) tells the legendary story of the Roman Horatius defending the bridge into Rome against Lars Porsena's oncoming Etruscan army.
* NPR story about the cease-and-desist order, and Lars Ulrich's involvement
Before Lars ' appearance, Danae came along to see Jeffrey building the spaceship — consequently making her appear in the rest of the story.

story and Roman
The Catholic Encyclopedia remarked that " the real story of the antipope was lost and he obtained in local Roman history the status of a saint and a confessor.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of St Alban, is followed by the story of Augustine's mission to England in 597, which brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.
A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.
Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.
Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.
The story that she and her ladies dressed as Amazons is disputed by serious historians, sometime confused with the account of King Conrad's train of ladies during this campaign ( in Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ).
The ancient historical writers, chiefly Suetonius and Tacitus, write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, and portray the Emperors in generally negative terms, whether from preference for the Roman Republic or love of a good scandalous story.
According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.
The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf.
In 451 BC, according to the traditional story ( as Livy tells it ), ten Roman citizens were chosen to record the laws ( decemviri legibus scribundis ).
In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.
Geoffrey's story spread widely, appearing in more and less elaborate form in adaptations of his work such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd.
The other ancient form of short story, the anecdote, was popular under the Roman Empire.
Each academic unit is designed with a two story temple front facing the quadrangle, while the library is modeled on the Roman Pantheon.
Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls " makes reference to Trimalchio, reading, " There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.
The oldest known version of this story is a French romance from the 13th century called Roman de la Violette ou de Gerard de Nevers by Gilbert de Montreuil.
Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.
Much of what is known of this century comes from the works of the Roman historian Polybius, whose main concern is the story of how Rome comes to dominate the known world.
Ağır Roman tells the tragic story of a young hero who grows up in Cholera quarter but finally fails and commits suicide.
Proserpina () or Proserpine () is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime.

story and hostage
* William Marshal also appears as a supporting character in Thomas B. Costain's out of print novel Below the Salt, and Sharon Kay Penman's novels Time and Chance and Devil's Brood, as well as a minor appearance in Penman's When Christ and His Saints Slept, illustrating the story about young William's time as King Stephen's hostage and John Marshal's defiance.
A young hostage, Julie ( Heather Wahlquist ), has a broken arm, and she and her boyfriend Mitch ( Shawn Hatosy ) claim that a car crash caused it, but due to some holes in their story John and another hostage, Lester ( Eddie Griffin ), are able to conclude that the two are lying and that Mitch had actually beat Julie up.
Lluis Bonet, writing in La Vanguardia, called the film " a terrible tender love story ", agreeing with the director that the best scene was that in which Marina, initially held hostage by Ricky against her will, finally asks to be tied up by him so she will not be tempted to flee from the love he has successfully provoked in her.
The first major story arc-defining event in the series is the turf war for top dog status between Bea Smith and Franky Doyle, culminating in a prison riot in which Meg Jackson is held hostage, and her husband, prison psychiatrist Bill Jackson ( Don Barker ), is stabbed to death by inmate Chrissie Latham ( Amanda Muggleton ).
Part of the propaganda issued by both the Marduk priesthood and Cyrus is the story of Nabonidus taking the most important cultic statues from southern Mesopotamia hostage in Babylon.
However in this story when Batman prevents a robbery and is knocked out by sleeping gas, Catwoman prevents her thugs from murdering him, though quickly claims she wants him as a hostage.
The crew report their first story on a young British boy held as a hostage by Saddam Hussein ( Jerry Haleva ).
The Nathan West and Kylen Celina story is a reoccurring theme following Kylen, who had been taken hostage by the Chigs ( episode 1. 03 ).
In her 2004 bid for her first full term in the Ohio Senate, Padgett was challenged by Democrat Terry Anderson of Athens, Ohio, who in the 1980s had been held hostage by Islamic radicals in Lebanon when working on a story for the Associated Press.
According to one story, their son, Battista, was to be delivered as a hostage to the commander of the Neapolitan troops.
She's captured and held hostage midway through the story
In the Drawn Together episode " Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree ", Jimmy Kimmel sings the song during a story in which Spanky Ham has left the Drawn Together house and taken a 9 to 5 job as a hostage negotiator.

story and is
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.
It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.
And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.
The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.
An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!
Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.
The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.
The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

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