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This event was immortalized in Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, part of the D ' Artagnan Romances ( D ' Artagnan is one of the Mousquetaires du Roi, or Three Musketeers, in this series ).
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In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
Ritter died in 1810 and Oersted not only lived to see the event occur but was the author of it.
In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.
The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.
Followin' such an event there was usually a harvest of `` fallen hides '', and the ranchers needed skinnin' knives instead of brandin' irons.
They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.
A vague feeling that Anthony Payne had had it coming was hardly a thought and was, in any event, reprehensible.
to Joan Sheldon the conditional bequest of ten thousand to be paid to her in the event that she was still in Mrs. Meeker's employ at the time of the latter's death.
The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.
She was moving up to the allowance department after winning a $10,000 claiming event.
The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.
Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.
The work was presented as the final event in the Town Hall Festival of Music.
When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.
He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be " tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.
His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.
The conduct of David after the event was such as to show that he had no complicity in the act, though he could not venture to punish its perpetrators ( 2 Samuel 3: 31-39 ; cf.
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** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).
While Oldsmobile only sold 725 Limiteds in its three years of production, the car is best remembered for winning a race against the famed 20th Century Limited train, an event immortalized in the painting " Setting the Pace " by William Hardner Foster.
The event, which occurred as darkness descended onto Wrigley Field, became immortalized as the Homer in the Gloamin.
After a ten-month siege in 1624 – 25, the city surrendered to the Spaniards under Spinola ; the event was immortalized by Diego Velázquez.
Kethry presents Kero with her magical sword Need, and Kero rides after the bandits herself ( watched over, unbeknownst to her, by Kethry's Shin ' a ' in partner Tarma ), successfully rescuing Dierna in an event later immortalized in a song called " Kerowyn's Ride.
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The most important political event was the election on September 23 of Alexandre Millerand as president of the republic.
The lynching of the De Witt brothers is depicted with a dramatic intensity in the first four chapters of The Black Tulip, a historical fiction novel written by Alexandre Dumas, père in 1850, and this event has implications for the whole plot line of the book.
Its most famous resident is likely Alexandre Bilodeau, who became the first Canadian athlete to win a gold medal in an Olympics held on Canadian soil when he took the podium in the Men's Moguls event at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC.
It was in 1419 that the legend first appeared in the Crónica de Portugal, and was accepted as fact, until Alexandre Herculano first reexamined the event, judging it a " pious fraud ", in his investigation in the middle of the 19th century.
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The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary ( roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister ) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen — considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity.
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Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.
In the event, though, the plans were rejected, in part because " American opinion was naturally reluctant to accept the principle of equality of treatment so novel in debtor-creditor relationships ".
The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.
The novel Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback edition ) is a detective story concerning a murder that takes place at the SCA's largest annual event, Pennsic War.
The event is also depicted in the 1901 novel Kongens Fald ( The Fall of the King ) by Johannes V. Jensen ( Collier-MacMillan Canada Ltd ; 1995.
Today, this version of the novel is considered to be a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature ; however, when published it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of Gombrowicz's drama Ślub in Spanish ( The Marriage, El Casamiento ) in 1948.
In Britain, the legal maximum speed of precluded road racing, but in April and May 1900, the Automobile Club of Great Britain ( the forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club ) organised the Thousand Mile Trial, a 15-day event linking Britain's major cities, in order to promote this novel form of transport.
With the notable exception of Phoebus and Esmerelda's meeting, almost every major event in the novel takes place in the cathedral, atop the cathedral or can be witnessed by a character standing within or atop the cathedral.
The original title was derived from an event in the novel.
Numerous science fiction stories and novels center around an impact event ; possibly the best-selling was the novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.
He died on April 15, 1938, of an unknown illness now thought to have been a form of malaria, an event fictionalized in Roberto Bolaño's novel Monsieur Pain.
Adam is the person who leaked the community's illegal activities to the police ten years prior to the start of the novel, which was the event that instigated the community's mass suicide.
The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.
* A central event in the fantasy novel Titus Groan is the burning of the library of Earl Sepulchrave, which was the earl's sole pleasure in life-leading to his madness and eventual death.
The first novel of Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, La Casa Grande, focuses on this event, and the author himself grew up in close proximity to the incident.
In the 1999 film Fight Club ( but not the novel on which it is based ), the climactic event is the destruction of credit card records – dramatized as the destruction of skyscrapers – effecting debt relief.
Hwang also collaborated on the multi-media event Icarus at the Edge of Time, adapted from Brian Greene's novel.
The novel started as a collaboration between Rolfe and Harry Pirie-Gordon, but in the event the latter only supplied the copious heraldic details pertaining to the characters.
The alternate history novel begins with the premise that Zangara succeeded in assassinating Franklin D. Roosevelt, using this historical event as its point of divergence.
The " major " event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work, leaving the rest of the novel at a low-key tone.
This event is described by James Fenimore Cooper in the introduction to his novel The Pioneers.
Varus does not actually appear in the novel, but his defeat by the Germans is an important event.
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