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Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.
The plot of the now famous movie, Hoosiers, was based on the story of the 1954 Milan team and seems to typify the hysteria related to basketball in the state of Indiana.
Curiously, this particular story seems to have been first recorded by Samuel Pepys as early as 1667, long before the French Revolution.
Canoe said, " The story feels forced and the performances dreary, with the notable exception of Cruz, who seems to be in a different film from the rest of the cast.
Heinlein's first novel, For Us, The Living ( written 1939 ), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story " Misfit " ( 1939 ) deals with an organization that seems to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space.
The story was the basis of André Ernest Modeste Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-Lion and seems to be the inspiration for the opening to Richard Thorpe's film version of Ivanhoe.
The story was later repeated by Otloh's vita ; at that time, the Ragyndrudis Codex seems to have been firmly connected to the martyrdom.
Like the tale in the introduction to the fourth day, Panfilo's tale seems to derive from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.
As there has been very little evidence to corroborate any one story, it seems that the truth may never fully be revealed.
However, when the story moves to the Aranya Kanda and beyond, it seems to turn abruptly into fantasy with its demon-slaying hero and fantastic creatures.
This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.
She seems to have pre-deceased her husband, after bearing him a son, David ap Gwion, and therefore there can be no truth in the story that she married into the Corbet family of Caus Castle ( near Westbury, Shropshire ) and later, Moreton Corbet Castle.
He represented Lincolnshire in the Parliament of 1555 and 1559, and Northamptonshire in that of 1563, and he took an active part in the proceedings of the House of Commons until his elevation to the peerage ; but there seems no good evidence for the story that he was proposed as Speaker in 1563.
Many people mostly people between 11-18 have been using the phrase " Come at me bro " and " Cool story " which became famous as a Meme many years ago however now it seems it is the answer to every insult and a reply to every story.
By the end of the story he seems to have learnt his lesson and feels as guilty as Sheila does for his part in Eva Smith's death.
The story now takes a more sinister turn, as we learn that Isis ' brother seems to have cooked up her impossible mission in an attempt to discredit her and put her out of the picture in a bid to take over the leadership of the cult.
Most of its picaresque quality has been lost in the screen version ; its philosophy is vague, its characterization blurred and its story so loosely knit and episodic that its telling seems interminable.
:" It seems especially disarming now in its genius for keeping its story indirect yet its meaning perfectly clear.
Ford's statement also seems to be the basis for the claim that Haycox himself relied upon Guy de Maupassant's story.
The ballad tells the story of a headstrong woman who is frustrated because her father seems to love her sister more than her.
The same story introduced Li ' l Pete, Black Pete's fraternal twin brother who seems to be afflicted with dwarfism.
It seems that the story of the Golden Fleece had little resonance for Athenians of the Classic age, for only two representations on Attic painted wares of the fifth century have been identified, a krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a kylix in the Vatican collections.

story and originate
They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.
The " pluck yew " pun is a definitively false etymology and seems to originate from the 1996 email that circulated the story.
The Royal Chilkat Robe Originated with the Nisga ' a People, called Gwiis Halayt this is the Chieftain's Blanket, worn mainly by head Chiefs, the story of the Chilkat: When the Wife of a Nisga ' a Chief who came from Tlingit Came to live amounst the Nisga ' a She Learned the art of weaving the Chilkat from from her new family, she wove a very nice Chilkat dance apron, when she died the Nisga ' a Sent the weaving back to her Tlingit Family, who in turn wanted to learn this art of the Chilkat weaving, they unwove the apron to learn how it was woven, with the great smallpox epidemic most of the Nisga ' a Chilkat Weavers died, so the art of weaving the chilkat was almost lost to Nisga ' a, the Chilkat then became known to originate from Tlingit.
Jocelyn states that he rewrote the ' life ' from an earlier Glasgow legend and an old Gaelic document, so that some elements of the story may originate in a British tradition.
The places, concepts and some of the characters featured in Amerzone originate from Sokal's work in the 1980s with the comic Inspector Canardo, especially the fifth story in the series, L ' Amerzone.
Although his background is not mentioned in the show, the accompanying MVCreations comic series published an origin story for him ( as Icons of Evil # 1, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore ) in which he is revealed to originate from the Berserker Islands, where he first encounters Keldor before his transformation into Skeletor.
False balance can sometimes originate from similar motives as sensationalism, where producers and editors may feel that a story portrayed as a contentious debate will be more commercially successful to pursue than a more accurate account of the issue.

story and Panchatantra
Pampinea's clever tale originates in either the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit story from the 4th century AD, or The Histories of Herodotus.
The concept of the frame story dates back to ancient Sanskrit literature, and was introduced into Persian and Arabic literature through the Panchatantra.
An early example of the " story within a story " technique can be found in the One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to earlier Persian and Indian storytelling traditions, most notably the Panchatantra of ancient Sanskrit literature.
The Nights, however, improved on the Panchatantra in several ways, particularly in the way a story is introduced.
In the Panchatantra, stories are introduced as didactic analogies, with the frame story referring to these stories with variants of the phrase " If you're not careful, that which happened to the louse and the flea will happen to you.
This scene bears resemblance to the story of The Fox and the Crow in the Panchatantra.
The version of the story found in the Indian Panchatantra concerns a lion who is persuaded that the cure for his sickness is the ears and heart of an ass.
The film revolves around four short stories subjected on issues of women emancipation, based on a story from the Panchatantra which travels in its various versions to modern times.
In Sanskrit literature the story cycle is known as Panchatantra, while it was often called Fables of Bidpai in early modern Europe.

story and work
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.
The story of Alcaeus is partly the story of the scholars who rescued his work from oblivion.
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.
Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.
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.
Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.
As a curiosity, the famous work Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has a complex – and disputed – story of copyright expiry.
Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story.
Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.
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.
In the first story of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Die Wichtelmänner, the title protagonists are two naked mannequins, which help a shoemaker in his work.
According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.
Many books still appeared after that, but were mainly story books made up from recycled work.
A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors ' performances to effectively " re-imagine " and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole.
Nevertheless, in 1942, Alessandro Blasetti produced his Quattro passi fra le nuvole ( Four Steps in the Clouds ), the story of a humble employee, considered by many others as the first neorealist work.
The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 gives David Gans, a disciple of the Maharal, as a source for the story, citing his historical work Zemach David, published in 1592.
Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Thompson himself first used the term referring to his own work on page twelve of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: " But what was the story?

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