The story first appeared in written form in Vitruvius ' books of architecture, two centuries after it supposedly took place.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.

Another version of the story proposes that researchers were preparing magnetic and gravitational measurements of the seafloor to detect anomalies, supposedly based on Einstein's attempts to understand gravity.

Berlitz and Moore's account of the story ( The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility ) claimed to include supposedly factual information, such as transcripts of an interview with a scientist involved in the experiment, their work has also been criticized for plagiarising key story elements from the novel Thin Air which was published a year earlier.

Elizabeth was aware of the political ramifications of the story of Richard II: according to a well-known but dubious anecdote, in August 1601 she was reviewing historical documents relating to the reign of Richard II when she supposedly remarked to her archivist William Lambarde, " I am Richard II, know ye not that?

The story given to visitors by castle tour guides states that one seat in the chapel is always reserved for the " Grey Lady " ( supposedly a ghost which inhabits the castle ), thought to be Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis.

This story supposedly inspired an ancient ritual in Athens: " The Festival of the Dew Carriers " or Arrhephoria.

Another story is that she took the Palladium, an image of Athena that had fallen from the sky and supposedly provided Troy its protection, with her.

In this case the " frame story "— that is, the fictional creator's life — can be considered metafictional, since each story ( or other work ) supposedly created by that character adds a little to his or her own ( fictional ) story.

According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has written extensively about his hometown, the most likely story as to how the town received its name was that when George Frederick Colton was looking for gold in the area in 1897, he supposedly said that it would take a searchlight to find gold ore there.

Castlereagh supposedly told this story to Sir Walter Scott, and called the apparition " The Radiant Boy.

The deuterocanonical Old Testament story Bel and the Dragon has some similarities to locked room mysteries ; the hero Daniel debunks the worship of an idol that supposedly eats food offerings left for it in a sealed room, by exposing the secret entrance used by the priests who take the food for themselves.

* In the " Roorback forgery " of 1844 the Chronicle of Ithaca, New York ran a story, supposedly by a German tourist called Baron von Roorback, that James K. Polk, standing for re-election as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, branded his slaves before selling them at auction to distinguish them from the others on sale.

As the story is told, this tablet was found by Alexander the Great at Hebron supposedly in the tomb of Hermes.

According to his story, the Jews had drained Simon of his blood, supposedly for use in baking their Passover matzoht and for occult rituals that they allegedly practiced in private.

John, or ' Johnny ', as he was called before The War, is a lover of literature, and is influenced by three separate cultural icons: the concept of becoming a Hero, in the sense of the legendary figures of ancient Greece ; Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face, in which legend predicts that a great man will appear, whose face is identical to the natural stone face which, in the Hawthorne story, is a local landmark ; and finally, the quest to find the legendary Raintree, which was supposedly planted somewhere in Raintree County by John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed.

The late Karl Haas told a story ( supposedly true ) about a violinist in an orchestra having a confectioner make him a mute entirely from candy, so that he could surprise his desk partner by eating the mute after finishing with it.

Traditionally, the allegedly afflicted girls are said to have been entertained by Parris ' slave woman, Tituba, who supposedly taught them about voodoo in the kitchen of the parsonage during the winter of 1692, although there is no contemporary evidence to support the story.

" Though widely reported, and followed by an anonymous political flyer featuring a doctored photo supposedly showing Hoover and Mrs. Booze dancing together, which was circulated throughout the South, the story did not prevent Hoover from being elected President of the United States the following month.

He, along with his entire nation, is also the giant responsible for the building of the Tower of Babel-construction of which was supposedly started by him 201 years after the event of the Great Flood ( see biblical story of Noah's Ark & c .).

* The Ambassadors of Death ( with uncredited rewrites by Trevor Ray, Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke ; supposedly Whitaker's least favourite story.

This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of " Operation Meteor ": the scientists ' plan for revenge against OZ.

For example, a newspaper story begins with the journalists and photojournalists and then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required.

Guy begins the story as a " Questerian " ( Trekkie ) who played a small role as a disposable crewman.

He begins the story young, if not an actual child.

The Death of Klinghoffer ( 1991 ): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

" Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly begins with an extensive analysis of the Laocoön story.

She begins the story as a closed-off person, but as the novel unfolds her character begins to be more open and understanding.

The story begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the White Base, arriving at the secret research base located at the Side 7 colony to pick up the Federation's newest weapon.

In contrast to American animation, the script and storyboards are created together, and animation begins before the story is finished and while storyboards are developing.

He then begins to tell the story of his return from Troy.

As Julia signals Luis about the other players ' cards, he begins telling them the story of how they got there.

The story begins in a future world where global warming has resulted in global temperatures so high that in most of the world it is unsafe to be outside without special cooling gear during daylight hours.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

The story begins with the protagonist, Simon, as an ordinary teenager.

The story begins with the white siblings Barbra ( Judith O ' Dea ) and Johnny ( Russell Streiner ) driving to rural Pennsylvania to visit their father's grave.

Bereshit ( Genesis ) begins with the so-called " primeval history " ( Genesis 1 – 11 ), the story of the world's beginnings and the descent of Abraham.

Shemot ( Exodus ) begins the story of God's revelation to his people Israel through Moses, who leads them out of Egypt ( Exodus 1 – 18 ) to Mount Sinai.

( His escape begins the story.

Some see an internal contradiction between the mention already in Genesis 10: 5 that " From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with his own language " and the subsequent Babel story, which begins " Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words " ( Genesis 11: 1 ).

Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story.