Two stories will illustrate what I have in mind.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

* Two consecutive healing stories of women ; both make use of the number twelve ( and ).

* Two short stories

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

In 2003, Fastow was a prominent figure in 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America by the reporters who had broken some of the key stories in the saga, Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller.

Two of McGovern's stories, " To Say I Love You " and " Brotherly Love " ( from the first and third series respectively ), received Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.

A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the " Pedlar of Swaffham " and Paulo Coelho's " The Alchemist "; Jorge Luis Borges ' collection of short stories A Universal History of Infamy featured his translation of this particular story into Spanish, as " The Story Of The Two Dreamers.

Two of his stories appear in the third volume of Mirth of a Nation.

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published his collection of 11 short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag.

Two stories by Hrabal ( Hovory lidí ) appeared in 1956 as a supplement in the annual Zprávy spolku českých bibliofilů ( Report of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles ).

Two conflicting stories of how frontman Scott Weiland and bassist Robert DeLeo met have been described by the band ; one was that Weiland and DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California in 1986.

Two sisters of Bertie's father play major roles in most of the stories and novels.

Two stories account for how Rolla was named.

Both Time and Life magazines did stories on Nanty Glo as their prime exhibit for their coverage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's taking control of the nation's coal mines after mine workers defied a Congressional law by going on strike at the height of World War Two.

Two differing stories tell of the naming of Ravenswood.

* Two stories from In the Teeth of the Evidence ( 1939 )

Two collections of true crime stories ( based on material gathered by anonymous researchers ) written by Lee alone that had been originally published in The American Weekly were collected into volumes.

Two seminal stories were originally published in 1964 and were collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters ( Harper & Row, 1975 ).

** The Man with Two Left Feet ( collected stories )

Two different stories about its roots exist.

One large text which has survived, The Book of Two Principles ( Liber de duobus principiis ), elaborates the principles of dualistic theology from the point of view of some of the Albanenses Cathars.

Two prominent Canadian authors ( both very hostile to the " Chicago School " philosophy ) argue that government at times has to intervene to ensure competition in large and important industries.

Two sizes of primer pocket uniformer tools exist, the larger one is for large rifle ( 0. 130-inch nominal depth ) primer pockets and the smaller one is used for uniforming small rifle / pistol primer pockets.

Two large circular currents, one in the northern hemisphere flowing clockwise and one south of the equator moving anticlockwise, constitute the dominant flow pattern.

Two kinds of lizards, the Mourning Gecko ( Lepidodactylus lugubris ) and Snake-eyed Skink ( Ablepharus boutonii ) are present on Malden, together with brown libellulid dragonfly and large colonies of Sooty Terns and other migratory seabirds ( nineteen species in all ).

Two large dams ( see below ) are under construction as part of the IIRSA regional integration project.

Two representative mathematical results describing such patterns are the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem.

Two large inns were built during the war.

Perth's metropolitan area is formally divided into a number of local government areas, which themselves consist of a large number of suburbs, extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south, and east inland to The Lakes.

During World War Two, the Swiss franc was the only remaining major freely convertible currency in the world, and both the Allies and the Germans sold large amounts of gold to the Swiss National Bank.

Two, or possibly three, large portal stones were set up just inside the north-eastern entrance, of which only one, the fallen Slaughter Stone ( 4 ), long, now remains.

The Two Doctors introduced a weapon called the Meson Gun ( as named in the Jim'll Fix It Sketch, A Fix with Sontarans ), a large silver rifle with a red fuel tank in the centre which was used by Group Marshal Stike and Varl in the third episode.

Two large plant families that he first recognized are still in use today: the Asteraceae and Brassicaceae.

Two ghettos were set up in the old town centre for the large Jewish population – the smaller one of which was " liquidated " by October.

Two types of diffraction are distinguished, depending upon the separation between the source and the screen: Fraunhofer diffraction or far-field diffraction at large separations and Fresnel diffraction or near-field diffraction at close separations.

Image: Tu-95 wingspan. jpg | Two large bulged nacelles can be seen behind the engines of this Tupolev Tu-95

Two days after Knox arrived in Edinburgh, he proceeded to Dundee where a large number of Protestant sympathisers had gathered.

Two permanently inhabited islands, Arranmore and Tory Island, lie off the coast, along with a large number of islands with only transient inhabitants.

Two large blotches of dark dusky-grey hairs on the side of the shoulders are each emphasized posteriorly by a dark stripe, which passes on to the fore leg and breaks up into irregular spots.

Two weeks later, Anne travelled to Oxford, where she met Prince George in triumph, escorted by a large company.

Two barrel and four barrel configurations are commonly used to accommodate the higher air flow rate with large engine displacement.

Two officers led the funeral parade, carrying a large portrait of him followed by numerous red floral wreaths.

* Industrial councils: Two single-level municipalities which govern large and complex industrial areas outside cities.

Two families joined forces to play a large role in the grain and oilseed business, initially in Argentina and then worldwide.

Two län ( counties ) in Sweden are officially called ' regions ': Skåne and Västra Götaland, and there is currently a controversial proposal to divide the rest of Sweden into large regions, replacing the current counties.