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This story describes the rippling outward of colonization, the first wave being loner, pioneer types, and the second, also Americans, being from the " cabbage tenements and subways " of New York.
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* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.
The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.
" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.
The remainder of the story then describes the subsequent investigation.
Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.
The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land.
The story describes the citizens of the 22nd century, which became technically high advanced at one side, but totally immoral on the other side.
Therefore, in order to preserve the precious mysticism of his materialistic paradigm, he describes the story ’ s setting as empty, vague, and above all enigmatic.
Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.
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.
The story describes the slave's mojo as fixing him into many formations, and he ultimately dies because he misuses its power.
This story describes an expedition from a Utopian Socialist Earth arriving at a Mars which is divided between two oppressive, warring empires.
' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.
* Origin myth, a story or explanation that describes the beginning of some feature of the natural or social world
The story of Balaam in Numbers 22, describes a non-Jewish prophet who honors God and refuses to curse Israel and who is generally presented favorably.
A well-known story in the collection One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea.
Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.
Poe himself describes the enthusiasm his story had aroused: he claims that the Sun building was " besieged " by people wanting copies of the newspaper.
The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.
The Judeo-Christian story of creation describes God creating birds, and commanding them to multiply, but makes no direct mention of eggs.
The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.
Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.
Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.
In the previously mentioned version, this short story describes the first settlers coming to Mars, the " Lonely Ones ", the ones that came to start over on the planet.
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Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.
As Feuerbach told the story, " When Professor Daumer held the north pole a magnet towards him, Kaspar put his hand to the pit of his stomach, and, drawing his waistcoat in an outward direction, said that it drew him thus ; and that a current of air seemed to proceed from him.
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" Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " is a short story set at the beginning of Earth's age of space colonization and genetic manipulation.
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists.
This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States.
At the very end of the story, Ender leaves on a colonization ship and never returns to Earth as part of a treaty so no countries or groups on Earth can use him.
Now that it is over, the colonists hope the story of their battle will inspire Earth's population to restart the colonization program.
Released to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the series, it also contains several minutes of new footage that depicted story events that were initially planned but not animated for the endings of the television series ( the launch of the Megaroad colonization ship captained by Misa Ichijyo ) and the film ( the final concert on Earth for Lynn Minmay ).
Achebe's writing about African society, in telling from an African point of view the story of the colonization of the Igbo, tends to extinguish the misconception that African culture had been savage and primitive.
That story saw their homeworld threatened by a growing timestorm, and so, having been compiling a list of metallic planets intended for conquest & colonization, they targeted Cybertron for emergency colonization.
The story is set in the 22nd century where space travel, planet colonization and anti-gravity basketball are practically everyday things.
The story revolves around the eventual discovery of the American continents by the Yilané, who are searching for new resources and territories for colonization.
* The second is the interwoven story of Sergeant Major Plunkett and his Irish wife Maud, who live on the island and must reconcile themselves to the history of British colonization of St. Lucia.
* In Vernor Vinge's 1972 short story " Long Shot ", the story of an attempt at embryo space colonization is told from the point of view of the artificial intelligence bearing the embryo through interstellar space.
* Embryo space colonization is treated with derision in Kurt Vonnegut's satiric short story The Big Space Fuck.
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and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.
Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.
In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.
There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first half of the story.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.
Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.
Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.
For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.
" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.
Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).
* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.
Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.
Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.
Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.
Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.
His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.
The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.
Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.
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