The story of Nicodromus, while it proves the existence of a democratic party, suggests, at the same time, that it could count upon little support.

( A popular story, consistent with some historical evidence, suggests the street was named after Hume.

He suggests that the story told to Herodotus could have been the result of almost two centuries of telling and retelling by Pyramid guides.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

* The Delani / Sonnabend Halls-recalling the intertwining story of an ill-fated opera singer, Madalena Delani, with a theoretician of memory, Geoffrey Sonnabend, whose 3-part work Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter suggests that memory is an elaborate construction that humankind has created, " to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events.

Once they have reached the peak of their ambitions, Ken and Tanaka create Otakuland, the equivalent of Disneyland for otaku ( the story suggests Otakuland to be located in the same city of Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, as the original Tokyo Disneyland.

Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge suggests possible connections or parallels in Osiris ' resurrection story with those found in Christianity:

Young also suggests that the story about Coubertin's having sketched the velodrome were untrue, and that he had in fact given an interview in which he suggested he did not want Germans to participate, something he later denied in a letter to the Kaiser.

According to Clark, again posting on the TrekBBS, dissatisfaction over the finale episode is the driving factor behind the continuation novels / relaunch including a story arc that suggests that Trip's death in the finale was not as it seemed.

His description of the story of the Virgin Birth demystifies Biblical language and suggests that Mary was just another unfortunate fallen woman: it is " an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost ".

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

Dumézil also suggests that Víðarr's spatiality is seen in the Vishnu of the Vedic traditions, both etymologically ( the < i > Vi </ i >- root ) and mythologically, citing the story of Bali and Vishnu.

The same was true in ancient Israel through most of the monarchy – for example, the story of Achan in Joshua 8 suggests an extended family as the major social unit.

The authors are well aware that it also provides an excuse for mere titillation: in a typically self-referential joke, a character in the story suggests the scenes exist: " only to sell a bad book filled with shallow characters pushing a nonsense conspiracy ".

Lady Audley's Secret is, furthermore, a story about gender and class, and Lady Audley's objectionable upward mobility — the book is practically a ' how to ' guide — suggests a threat to the paradigm of social class.

Wilson regards the story with caution, since Holbein's friends attended his bedside ; and Peter Claussen suggests that he died of an infection.

Regarding the argument of implausibility of Muslims fabricating the story, Shahab Ahmed in the Encyclopedia of the Qur ' an states that " the widespread acceptance of the incident by early Muslims suggests, however, that they did not view the incident as inauspicious and that they would presumably not have, on this basis at least, been adverse to inventing it.

The story features an old Scrooge-like man called Mr. Petercoo and tonally suggests a Dickensian social consciousness.

Shippey also suggests that, while Tolkien discouraged reading this story as allegory, a good case can be made that Nokes represents the literary, critical approach to studying English, belittling the contributions of the philological approach represented by the previous Master Cook.

Alternatively, the comic book story " Mickey's Strange Mission " from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories # 245 ( 1961, by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry ) suggests a cultured ancestry for Pete, giving his full name as the genteel Percy P. Percival.

John Russell Taylor's official biography of Hitchcock, Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock ( 1978 ), suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another movie project:

Finally, unable to wait any longer, Bill suggests Harold climb the first story himself and then switch his hat and coat with Bill, who will continue on from there.

After hearing Henry's story, His Excellency denies him entry and suggests he try the " other place ", where Martha is waiting for him, hinting that there might be " a small room vacant in the annex ".

S. Reinach suggests that the story that Salmoneus was struck by lightning was due to the misinterpretation of a picture, in which a Thessalian magician appeared bringing down lightning and rain from heaven ; hence arose the idea that he was the victim of the anger or jealousy of Zeus, and that the picture represented his punishment.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

Together with his Icelandic friend Eiríkr Magnússon he was the first to translate many of the Icelandic sagas into English, and his own epic retelling of the story of Sigurd the Volsung was his favourite among his poems.

This part of the opera is primarily inspired by the story of the legendary hero Sigurd in Norse mythology.

The Völsungasaga ( often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs ) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan ( including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians ).

Except for the change in name, probably inspired by the Thidrekssaga, the story of Regin, Sigurd and Fafner in Wagner's opera Siegfried follows closely the text of the Eddas.

Sigmund / Siegmund is also the name of Sigurd / Siegfried's father in other versions of the Sigurd story, but without any of the details about his life or family that appear in Norse Völsung tales and poems.

Throughout the story, a number of characters who are both historical and legendary are introduced: Sigurd the Powerful, Hákon Paulsson, Sigurd the Stout, Ragnvald, Earl of Møre, Earl Magnus Erlendsson later styled the saint, Ragnvald Kali Kolsson and Harald Maddadsson.

The Sigurd stones # Hunninge Image Stone | Hunninge Image Stone on Gotland, Sweden, with imagery that probably refers to Atlakviða, or another story or poem on the same events.

A January 15, 1941 story in the Des Moines Register announced the ABC as " an electrical computing machine " with more than 300 vacuum tubes that would " compute complicated algebraic equations " ( but gave no precise technical description of the computer ).

Ian Kaplan of BearCave. com gave the book three stars out of five, saying that while he was " not entirely satisified " and felt that the " story tends to be shallow ", " Jeter does deal with the moral dilemma of the Blade Runners who hunt down beings that are virtually human in every way.

Büttner, gave him a task: add a list of integers in arithmetic progression ; as the story is most often told, these were the numbers from 1 to 100.

Howard never gave a strict height or weight for Conan in a story, only describing him in loose terms like " giant " and " massive ".

His story has not been confirmed, and some details he gave to the press have been pointed out as factually inaccurate.

It drew on feelings of awe, it implied the story was set in the past, it gave an impression of isolation or being cut off from the rest of the world and it drew on the religious associations of the Gothic style.

In this story, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, settled in Indiana later in life and gave lectures on the " Wars of Europe " in which he extolled the virtues of the hussars, which his audience heard as " hoosiers ".

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.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

The earliest known story states that in the 1800s, Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresí ( El Pirata Cofresí ), to boost his crew's morale, gave them a beverage or cocktail that contained coconut, pineapple and white rum.

Sanders argues that a plot to foster belief in the Resurrection would probably have resulted in a more consistent story, and that some of those who were involved in the events gave their lives for their belief.

The Soong episodes later gave rise to a story arc where the Klingons were attempting to improve their species through the continuation of Soong's work.

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: " Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard, there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about movie.

One humorous story relates that one of his paintings was rejected and instead of keeping it, he gave the canvas to a maid who used it as her table cover.

Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star rating and described it as one that " involves us deeply in the story, and then it reveals that the story is really about something else altogether.

Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet of paper which has survived as part of another manuscript:

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

" Watson, Jr., later gave a slightly different version of the story in his autobiography, where he said the initial market sampling indicated 11 firm takers and 10 more prospective orders.

In 1911, Paul Langevin gave a " striking example " by describing the story of a traveler making a trip at a Lorentz factor of.

The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor Tiberius.

Legend has it that the Buddha himself created the first depiction of the bhavacakra, and the story of how he gave the illustration to King Rudrāyaṇa appears in the anthology of Buddhist narratives called the Divyavadana.

Boucher and McComas gave The Illustrated Man a mixed review, faulting the framing story as " markedly ineffective " and the story selection for seeming " less than wisely chosen.