I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.

Yet his editors did not abandon their sense of story value.

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.

Alan Cameron states: " It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously ; no one did so in antiquity ".

Gregory did not set out to write a chronological, historically anchored story of St. Benedict, but he did base his anecdotes on direct testimony.

The Triangle version ( Winer, Berlitz, Gaddis ) of this story specifies that they did collide and crash, but there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over of water.

A news story appeared in April 2009 claiming that the CNP had reformed following a conference in Bodmin, however it did not contest any elections that year.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Conan is not superhuman, though ; he did need the providential help of Zelata's wolf to defeat four Nemedian soldiers in the story The Hour of the Dragon.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

He then stopped working for them because the policies of their licensor Disney did not allow for the return of original art for a story to its creators.

In the end, whether Arnold intentionally fabricated the story, for a desired effect, is left to the audience ( in interviews associated with the re-release of the film, he says he did ).

Jesus endorses the use of the medical assistance of the time ( medicines of oil and wine ) when he praises the Good Samaritan for acting as a physician, telling his disciples to go and do the same thing that the Samaritan did in the story.

The famous story in which Galileo is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is apocryphal, but he did find that the path of a projectile is a parabola, and he is credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton's laws of motion ( such as discovering the property of inertia ).

An article by Martin Gardner revealed that Dr. Walter Siegmeister used the pseudonym ` Bernard ', but not until the publishing of Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 100, 000 years of dragons, dwarves, the dead, lost races & UFOs from inside the Earth, in 1989, did the full story of Bernard / Siegmeister become well known.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

Weaknesses of this story include the unlikely mispronunciation of hussar as Hoosier and the fact that Lehmanowsky did not come to Indiana until 1833, by which time the term was already well established.

According to CIA operational cables, only then did he tell his " fabricated " story about Al Qaeda members being dispatched to Iraq.

# The originators of the story did indeed intend for the story to be taken literally.

Buchanan was not as credulous as many, and he did not include the tale of MacAlpin's treason, a story from Giraldus Cambrensis, who reused a tale of Saxon treachery at a feast in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia Regum Britanniae.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

A similar story appears in the later Sörla þáttr, where Heimdall does not appear.

Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.

There were two illustrators for the story, both of which appeared in the magazine but which do not appear in modern printings of the book.

In this story there appear to be two Davroses: one is a head in a tank and apparently a decoy for assassins ; the other is in his usual chair ( which can now hover ), emerging from hiding when the decoy is assassinated.

Meanwhile, the reversed gambler's fallacy may appear to apply in the story of Joseph Jagger, who hired clerks to record the results of roulette wheels in Monte Carlo.

However, elements of Belleforest's version which are not in Saxo's story do appear in Shakespeare's play.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the wizard Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann and final rest in Avalon.

The story is about a supernatural and ominous board game which makes animals and other jungle hazards appear upon each roll of the dice.

Blacksmiths are credited with magical powers in many parts of the world, and it is significant that the Boudas are workers in iron and clay ; in the Life of N. Pearce ( i. 287 ) a European observer tells a story of a supposed transformation which took place in his presence and almost before his eyes ; but it does not appear how far hallucination rather than coincidence must be invoked to explain the experience.

Mecha appear in the game as a prominent part of the story line and part of the game's innovative combat system as well as a mini-game fighting arena.

* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

Some early Robin Hood stories appear to be unique, such as the story wherein Robin gives a knight, generally called Richard at the Lee, money to pay off his mortgage to an abbot, but this may merely indicate that no parallels have survived.

This is the only Kirk-era TV or movie story in which Kirk didn't appear.

The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings ; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work ; the names of characters such as " Gandolf " and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End.

This feature does not appear in stories about werewolves before the 19th century ( the claim that the Beast of Gévaudan, an 18th-century wolf or wolf-like creature, was shot by a silver bullet appears to have been introduced by novelists retelling the story from 1935 onwards and not in earlier versions ).

Fındık Sekiz tells a story about two cars, that appear sometimes as personified figures, and that take the semi-autobiographical protagonist Meto on a mystical journey.

It is notable as the first appearance of Firestar in a Marvel Comics story, though the version of Firestar that exists within Marvel continuity would not appear until Uncanny X-Men # 193 ( May 1985 ).

Several different variants of the " Cinderella " story, which has its origins in the Egyptian story of Rhodopis, appear in the One Thousand and One Nights, including " The Second Shaykh's Story ", " The Eldest Lady's Tale " and " Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers ", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders.

Despite the divorce story, Ní Mháille and Bourke appear as mentioned as husband and wife in English documents of the period, so appeared to remain married, at least allied, as far as the English were concerned.

" it would not immediately appear to refer to the Equatorial-African River Zaire ( River Congo ), as the River Zaire of the story is described as being in Libya, which is in North Africa.

The story that his father presented Edward II as a newborn to the Welsh as their future native prince did not appear until the 16th century.