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The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).
The song is a sorrowful rendition of the novel's story (" It's gone all quiet on the Western Front / Male Angels sigh / ghosts in a flooded trench / As Germany dies ").
In fact, Shestov used the story of Job as a central signifier for his core philosophy ( the vast critique of the history of Western philosophy, which he saw broadly as a monumental battle between Reason and Faith, Athens and Jerusalem, secular and religious outlook ):
Many games, including card games, are fabricated by science fiction authors and screenwriters to distance a culture depicted in the story from present-day Western culture.
The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.
In Western culture, a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD about a story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, refers to lucid dreaming.
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.
Murrow's nightly reports from the rooftops during the dark days of the London Blitz galvanized American listeners: even before Pearl Harbor, the conflict became " the story of the survival of Western civilization, the most heroic of all possible wars and stories.
The phrases used in the story, and the various morals that can be drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture.
The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, was a major innovation in Hollywood: it was the first major Western to use the new technology of sound and the first talkie to be filmed outdoors.
A recently used cover story is that the perpetrator of the scam wishes the victim to work as a " mystery shopper ", evaluating the service provided by MoneyGram or Western Union locations within major retailers such as Wal-Mart.
The Canning Stock Route has a strong connection to the story of Aboriginal art in the Western Desert.
In 1931 a comedy film East Lynne on the Western Front was made in which British soldiers fighting in the First World War stage a burlesqued version of the story.
The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.
Most book stores, outside of a few Western states, only carry a small number of Western novels and short story collections.
Pickens lent his voice to the 1975 studio recording of Bobby Bridger's collection of Western ballads A Ballad of the West, in which he narrated part 1, " Seekers of the Fleece ", the story of Jim Bridger and the mountain man fur trade era.
Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story " Royal Feast " in issue No. 84 ( June 1978 ), and " Endless Cloud " in No. 85 ( July 1978 ).
** The actor ; the true story of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953 – 1959 by Alan Stang, Western Islands ( 1968 )
According to Luc Sante, " The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
For example, the story of how the birds got their colours is different in New South Wales and in Western Australia.
According to the historian Daniel J. Boorstin, " the early Western conception of creativity was the Biblical story of creation given in the Genesis.
* Thoughts and photos from Brian Stewart, the first Western journalist to cover the story
In the Roman Catholic Church ( and some Anglo-Catholic and Western Rite Orthodox churches ), the Passion story is depicted in the Stations of the Cross ( via crucis, also translated more literally as " Way of the Cross ").
The title of the story is a take-off on Riders of the Purple Sage, a Western by the American author Zane Grey.

Western and tellers
Western story tellers and Hollywood film makers made as much money in Tombstone as anyone, thanks to the arrival of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in 1879.

Western and film
Category: Western ( genre ) film directors
The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.
Because the film specifically targeted Western audiences rather than the domestic audiences who were already used to Wuxia films, English subtitles were needed.
The film examines traditional African art such as sculptures and masks, and its decline with coming of Western colonialism.
The anime draws heavily on Western sources, such as pulp detective stories, film noir, and American Westerns.
Famed Western writer Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the film also owes its origins to Brand's serial " Twelve Peers ", published in a pulp-magazine.
As fetish culture is increasingly becoming more prevalent in Western media, depictions of dominatrices in film and television have become more common.
Category: Western ( genre ) film actors
In other countries of the Western world the film exhibition situation was similar.
Anderson (" Broncho Billy "), directing his own Western dramas for Essanay, but in 1911 Tom Mix brought the kind of costumes and stunt action used in live Wild West shows to Selig film productions, and became the biggest cowboy star for the next two decades.
In 1926, American film association the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected Wray as one of the " WAMPAS Baby Stars ", a group of women who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.
Category: Western ( genre ) film directors
Cues from these scores were used to almost completely replace the original Japanese score by Akira Ifukube and give the film a more Western sound.
Barnum Award for Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity: The Terror of Tiny Town, a Western film with an all-dwarf cast.
Category: Western ( genre ) film directors
Cagney worked with MGM on the Western film Tribute to a Bad Man, a role that had originally been written for Spencer Tracy.
The sequel to Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, which Universal had filmed in 1930, the novel and film follow the lives of several young German men who have returned from the trenches of World War I and their struggles to re-integrate into society.
Category: Western ( genre ) film actors
's visit to China, the first-ever visit by Western pop artists, which resulted in Anderson's film Foreign Skies: Wham!
Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film " The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II ".
Clarence Leroy " Lee " Van Cleef, Jr. ( January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989 ) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.
His first film was the classic Western High Noon, in which he played a villain.

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