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story and wedding
According to the story, the Spanish cooks of Louis XIII's bride, Anne, helped to prepare their wedding feast, and insisted upon improving the rich brown sauce of France with Spanish tomatoes.
Reference is made within the story to the York Minster, where the climactic wedding takes place, and to the Bishop of Sheffield, although the Diocese of Sheffield was not founded until 1914.
" The story put out about the wedding veil was that decorous brides were naturally too timid to show their faces in public until they were married.
The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story.
The story involved Fitz returning to Manchester after several years of living in Australia with Judith and his son James ( who had been born during the final series of the original programme ) to attend his daughter Katy's wedding.
Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.
In the story of Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig (), he is Emperor of Rome and marries a wondrous British woman, telling her that she may name her desires, to be received as a wedding portion.
Viewers were deluded into thinking that it was an authentic clip of a real accident at a real wedding ; but a story in USA Today in 2009 revealed it was a hoax.
It was directed by Ferdo Delak and was a romantic story featuring a signature of a wedding contract on the top of Triglav.
When actual reports arrived, the story was quickly edited without notice online, to more accurately recount the actual occurrences at the wedding ceremony.
Little of the original story was retained beyond the marriage between a midget and an average-sized woman and their wedding feast.
In a story on the production of The Italian, a newspaper reported that a hundred pounds of rice were bought for the film's wedding scene.
Harmonia is renowned in ancient story chiefly on account of the fatal necklace she received on her wedding day.
Towards the end of the story Odysseus instructs Phemius to perform wedding songs to conceal the dying Suitors ' cries from passers-by.
A Tudor ballad, the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, tells the story of an ostensibly poor man who gave a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding.
She insists on riding Widow-Maker before, during or after the wedding ( depending on variations in the story ).
An article written in 1940 on the occasion of their 59th wedding anniversary tells the story of one long-time farming family in the area.
Although the other reporters leave after getting their story, one stays behind: on-camera entertainment reporter Peter Malloy ( Tom Selleck ), who wants to wait the week out so he can cover Howard's wedding to Emily.
An endearing story of his wedding day adventures made the newspaper in 1895, indicating the level of local affection for the ' Duke '.
Though the film mainly focuses on the union of Jim Levenstein and Michelle Flaherty, for the first time in the series, the story centers around Steve Stifler, and his outrageous antics including his attempt to organize a bachelor party, teaching Jim to dance for the wedding, and competing with Finch to win the heart of Michelle's lovely sister, Cadence.
Around episode 535, the prison wedding of Delaney and Warren marked the end of a number of story strands and the mass exodus of many characters.
During the festival, the aravanis reenact a story of the wedding of Lord Krishna and Lord Aravan, followed by Aravan's subsequent sacrifice.
Something which is neither quite tragedy nor quite comedy, something which touches the heights and depths of sentiment and reveals the dark places of the human heart without lingering long enough there to crystallise the painful impression, a love story broken for a moment into passionate chords by absence and inconstancy and intrigue, and then reunited to the music of wedding bells.

story and feast
The myth Enki and Inanna tells the story of the young goddess of the É-anna temple of Uruk, who visits the senior god of Eridu, and is entertained by him in a feast.
Buchanan was not as credulous as many, and he did not include the tale of MacAlpin's treason, a story from Giraldus Cambrensis, who reused a tale of Saxon treachery at a feast in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia Regum Britanniae.
Layamon added to the story when he adapted Wace's work into the Middle English Brut in the early 13th century, saying that the quarrel between Arthur's vassals led to violence at a Yuletide feast.
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 story was the basis of a 1947 children's book, Stone Soup ( ISBN 9780689878367 ), by Marcia Brown, which featured soldiers tricking miserly villages into cooking them a feast.
Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.
A story that Empress Catherine the Great did not wish to share her patronal feast with the Leavetaking of the feast of the Presentation of the Theotokos and hence changed the date is not supported by historical evidence.
The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.
Runeberg's poem tells a story of Sandels having a feast while the enemy mounts a premature attack.
The only official night opening during the story of Bazaar occurred during the feast organized for the return of Sultan Abdülaziz from Egypt, when the Sovereign crossed the illuminated market riding an horse among the rejoicing populace.
This does not fit with any part of the Christian story of St. Brigid, and so is likely a part of the older polytheistic tradition behind the feast day.
Expanding on a scene from the classic tales in which a knight is poisoned at Guinevere's feast and the queen is accused of the crime, Karr turns her story into a murder mystery with Kay as the detective attempting to discover the truth.
The story of Fled Bricrenn (" The Feast of Bricriu ") tells how he once held a lavish feast for Conchobar mac Nessa and the heroes of Ulster in his house at Dún Rudraige ( modern Dundrum, County Down ), but knowing his reputation the Ulstermen had to be threatened to attend.
The chorus represents the Jewish people throughout, although they adopt the tone of the Babylonians when telling the story of the feast.
The Gauls return to their village ( Vitalstatistix regaining his original weight from having banquets at the inns they visited earlier in the story ) and have their traditional, huge feast — without Vitalstatistix this time, however, for his wife has something to say about his intention to eat well again and put the shield to an offensive rather than defensive use!
In The Karate Kid, when an arrogant rival misbehaves, Miyagi tells Daniel a story about Okinawa: there was a bull that terrorized everyone, but one fine day there was a feast, when everyone was scared no more.
The Annals of Niederaltaich add a legend to the story: before the feast, at the Strudengau on the Danube near Grein, the devil was supposed to have appeared to the bishop and threatened him already, but the bishop was able to repel him.
It also figures in William Makepeace Thackeray's short story " The Bedford-Row Conspiracy " as the musical center piece of a political feast pitting the Whigs against the Torys and in Arnold Bennett's novel " Leonora " as music considered more suitable for a ball by the older gents to the likes of the Blue Danube Waltz.
This feast may represent a Christian adaptation of the pagan feast, Cervulus, integrating it with the donkey in the nativity story.

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