The classic hero often came with what Lord Raglan ( a descendant of the FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan ) termed a " potted biography " made up of some two dozen common traditions that ignored the line between historical fact and mythology.

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans online edition ISBN 1-4021-4474-1 ; classic older biography

In the biography John Coltrane: His Life and Music, published in 1999, Lewis Porter noted that ODJB's classic, " Margie ", was a " specialty " of John Coltrane, a song he performed regularly in his early career.

He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.

The classic MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia, as well as the current Sporting News Baseball Record Book both credit Radbourn with 60 wins ( against 12 losses ), as does his National Baseball Hall of Fame biography.

Dalby's The Tale of Murasaki, a fictional biography of Murasaki Shikibu, an 11th-century court poet, whose work The Tale of Genji is considered a classic, was published in 2000.

In the preface to the biography of Wolff Claus Sybill writes that he could be described as a classic case study for the Nazi representative of the upper bourgeoisie: " Wolff himself is and remains (...)

Her biography was included in the Confucian classic Biographies of Exemplary Women ( Lienü Zhuan ), compiled by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang.

Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

Publishers met this demand with inexpensive criminal novels called Krimi, which like the film noir of the era ( such as the classic M ), explored methods of scientific detection and psychosexual analysis.

Today considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews and controversy when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty.

The State Cinema where Eddie met Roger in the classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit can be found in Grays.

Brazil met France in the quarter-finals and the match is considered an absolute classic of " total football ".

In his first defense of the WBC title on June 9, 1978, Norton and new # 1 contender Larry Holmes met in a classic fight.

Fulci and Argento met in 1995 and agreed to collaborate on a horror film called Wax Mask ( a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price horror classic House of Wax, based on a story by Gaston Leroux ).

Director Frank Capra met with Wilson Markle about colorizing the perennial holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, Meet John Doe and Lady for a Day based on Grant's enthusiasm.

The Hawkins and Webster recording is a jazz classic, the coming together of two giants of the tenor saxophone, who had first met back in Kansas City.

For example, if one met another human who lived on Mars, this person would be a framling ( a classic example is Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land ).

Coulson met Lynch in the 1970s and performed various behind the scenes functions during the five year filming of his low budget classic Eraserhead ( 1977 ).

Like Alien, the film met with success, spawned numerous sequels and became a cult classic.

The public first met him on 4 January 1970 at the Game of chance, a sequence of the television broadcast TV Sunday he won six consecutive times, singing tunes rather classic before choosing to devote themselves to imitation.

Aside from the continuity issues arising from " The Five Doctors " that are never addressed nor apparently acknowledged, Mel is the first companion who had already met the Doctor before he met her and vice versa, and the only such companion in the classic era, setting a precedent for revived era companions such as River Song and others.

His love of cigars and chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royces gave him the air of a classic self-made businessman, and any enquiries about his early life were met with a gruff response ; " There are some things people don't need to know.

A few of those Conover met on the rails were Mexican nationals, and in his next book, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants ( 1987 ), he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, describing them as " the true modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo.

He is probably also among the least well-known of the classic 1950s contactees, individuals who claimed to have met and talked with friendly human-looking Space Brothers from other planets, and to have ridden in their spacecraft.

The film met the general expectations by gaining a lot of new attention for Jerry Cotton and the classic series of novels of the same name.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

Stephens had written his classic `` incidents of travel '' about these regions a hundred years before, and Catherwood, who had studied Piranesi in London and the great ruins of Egypt and Greece, had drawn the splendid illustrations that accompanied the text.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

The government of the UK produces the classic 1: 50, 000 ( replacing the older 1 inch to 1 mile ) " Ordnance Survey " maps of the entire UK and with a range of correlated larger-and smaller-scale maps of great detail.

Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.

* Jīng / Ching 經 as it is used here means " canon ," " great book ," or " classic.

Other passages, alluding to Domitian's love of epigrammatic expression, suggest that he was in fact familiar with classic writers, while he also patronized poets and architects, founded artistic Olympics, and personally restored the library of Rome at great expense after it had burned down.

Gormenghast trilogy is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

The film has become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity since Jackson's success with the Lord of the Rings films.

Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films.

* December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

" Compare this with the beginning of the Confucian classic " Great Learning " which begins with " The Way of learning to be great consists in manifesting the clear character, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good " one can clearly see the correlation with the Roman virtue prudence especially if one transliterates clear character as clear conscience.

Nearby Llangennith Beach, with its soft sands, consistent beach break and great facilities, was listed as the best place to learn how to surf in Britain by The Observer ( 2006 ) and one of the 10 ' classic surfing beaches by The Guardian ( 2007 ).

Split bamboo rods are generally considered the most beautiful, the most " classic ", and are also generally the most fragile of the styles, and they require a great deal of care to last well.

The great or classic era of piracy in the Caribbean extends from around 1560 up until the mid 1720s.

The Red Shoes is also arguably the most famous work done by Powell and Pressburger and is considered one of their great works as well as a classic of British cinema.

The Wind is almost certainly the best-a silent classic, revived in recent years by producer / director Kevin Brownlow with a Carl Davis score, which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career ... Sjostrom treats the inevitable clash between Letty and her new surroundings with considerable realism and detail, allowing Gish as much leeway as possible to develop her performance.

" GameSpy said that the game features " great visuals, imaginative game design and some classic Nintendo magic.

Jia Yi's essay, admired as a masterpiece of rhetoric and reasoning, was copied into two great Han histories and has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese political thought as a classic illustration of Confucian theory.

Maharishi Bhrigu () was one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, in ancient India, one of the many Prajapatis ( the facilitators of Creation ) created by Brahma ( The God of Creation ), the first compiler of predictive astrology, and also the author of Bhrigu Samhita, the astrological ( Jyotish ) classic written during the Vedic period, Treta yuga.

It is home to some very classic tobacco barns that are great examples of Mid-West design at the time.

There was more strong material on the album, including Johnston's " South Of The Border ", Simmons ' " Take Me To The Highway ", a great version of the Isley Brothers ' " Need A Little Taste Of Love ", and a version of The Four Tops classic, " One Chain ( Don't Make No Prison "), which had been covered by Santana years before.

" They concluded that it is " a classic that sparked a phenomenon that is still burning strong " and that " all great stories are timeless and Zeta Gundam is no exception.

' Silappadikaram ', the great Tamil classic, calls the Holy Hills, ' Nediyon Kunrams '.

The eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric.