The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.

The story opens in April 1861 at the " Tara " plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O ' Haras.

The story opens on a chilly night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle.

As the main part of the story opens, Block's youthful son, David, has just been killed by Maskew during an attack by the authorities on a smuggling boat.

The Odyssey opens in medias res, in the middle of the overall story, with prior events described through flashbacks or storytelling.

The story opens in late 2201.

The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.

The story of this volume ( which takes place some 500 years after Seldon ) ties up all the loose ends, but opens a brand new line of thought in the last dozen pages.

The film opens with the narration: " This is the story of a ship " and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard.

* Raymond Chandler's 1938 detective story " Red Wind " opens with a description of the Santa Anas and their effect on the populace.

The story opens with Branwen's brother Bendigeidfran ( Brân the Blessed ), King of Britain, sitting on a rock by the sea at Harlech and seeing the vessels of Matholwch King of Ireland approaching.

The story opens with Bran, King of Britain, sitting on a rock by the sea at Harlech and seeing the vessels of Matholwch approaching.

Nearly every episode opens, following the opening credits, with Hamner's voice-over ( ostensibly speaking as the present day John-Boy ), briefly reminiscing about the events about to be depicted and setting up the story.

As the story opens, it becomes clear that Lanser has no idea of how he got aboard or who he really is.

The story opens with Captain Haddock having a nightmare of being visited by Bianca Castafiore, who demands that he take his medicine ( actually a bottle of Loch Lomond whisky ).

" These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, where every inhabitant would enjoy “ the illusion of living on the second floor ,” accomplished by folding concrete floor planes ( like “ bamboo mats ,” claims the firm ), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard.

The story opens with the jury finding Grant guilty of murder.

The film's title sequence story ( based on the original story by Dan O ' Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin ) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth.

The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold, sarcastic matron.

* January 5-The Wiz, a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.

: With work a new era opens in the history of European story telling … this poem reinvents the genre we call narrative romance ; in some important respects it also initiates the vernacular novel.

Personally, I don't blame him for giving up the dive, much as I regret losing the story ''.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.

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.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

The celebration and many other events are now run by the Arbroath Abbey Timethemes a local charity, and tells the story of the events which led up to the signing.

The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.

In Jacob M. Appel's short story, " The Grand Concourse " ( 2007 ), a woman who grew up in the iconic Lewis Morris Building returns to the Morrisania neighborhood with her adult daughter.

* unlikely headlines, such as " SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN A CHIMNEY ", for which the copy in its entirety was " The story to fit this fantastical headline has not been thought up yet.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

Bigfoot gained international attention when the story was picked up by the Associated Press.

The fifth book brings the story up to Bede's day, and includes an account of missionary work in Frisia, and of the conflict with the British church over the correct dating of Easter.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story.

She turned it to Matthew 9: 2, which tells the story of Jesus healing a man who was sick with palsy, and after pondering the meaning of the passage, found herself suddenly well and able to get up.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

However, by the end of the story, there is usually retribution to the characters who end up misusing them, and a moral is taught.

The story ends with George standing up during a machine-gun barrage.

" Tests on these isotopes can give a precise record of where the person lived up to the age of 14 ," noted The Times of London in its story on the testing.

At this time, the Jews made up a substantial number in Rome, and their synagogues, frequented by many, enabled the Gentiles to become acquainted with the story of Jesus of Nazareth.