* Corvus: A Life With Birds, a non-fiction tale about keeping corvids as pets.

In June of 2012, Alex Schattner founded a blog featuring “ Modern American Folktales .” With this blog, Mr. Schattner is creating a new anthology of stories that use traditional folk and fairy tale devices to convey moral messages for our time.

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

In the early years of the 20th century, the Queen of Norway sent gifts to London's crippled children signed " With Tiny Tim's Love "; Sir Squire Bancroft raised £ 20, 000 for the poor by reading the tale aloud publicly ; and Captain Corbett-Smith read the tale to the troops in the trenches of World War I.

Themes may be no more than handy prefabricated parts for constructing a tale, or they may represent universal truths – ritual-based, religious truths, as James Frazer saw in The Golden Bough, or archetypal, psychological truths, as Joseph Campbell describes in The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

* Emily Dickinson's poem " Apparently With No Surprise " depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower " beheaded " by a late frost as the sun " measure off another day for an approving God ".

With Rheinsberg – ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte (" Rheinsberg – a Picture Book for Lovers ") in 1912, Tucholsky published a tale in which he adopted a fresh and playful tone ( which was unusual for that time ) and which made him known to a wider audience for the first time.

With his transformation into Galvatron, Megatron departed from the Japanese G1 continuity ( which took a different direction after the end of series 3, opting to replace the events of The Rebirth with those of Headmasters ), until five years later, in the manga-exclusive storyline, Battlestars: The Return of Convoy, which, although not animated itself ( told instead through one chapter of manga and color magazine spreads ), continues the tale of the cartoon Universe.

" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.

With the help of the Syrian priest Dom Denis Chavis, he translated some Arabian legends into French for the fairy tale anthology Le Cabinet des fées ( 1788-1790 ).

With the ending of the tale, Sinbad the sailor makes Sinbad the porter a gift of a hundred gold pieces, and bids him return the next day to hear more about his adventures.

A prophesy given to an infant born with the caul is the basis of the Grimm fairy tale The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs.

With this early tale of traveling actors, Imamura was able to indulge in some of the controversial and eccentric themes that were to mark his career as a filmmaker.

Television: With The Second Coming, a tale of Christ's return to earth in modern-day Manchester, Russell T Davies proves himself to be a worthy heir to Dennis Potter.

With fifty Spacer worlds led by Aurora, this tale seems to bridge the gap between the early robot stories and The Caves of Steel.

From an early Russian folk tale, with elements from Grimm's The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs and The Griffin.

With Watson providing an introduction, the story-within-a-story is a classic example of a frame tale.

With Daniel Balavoine and ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad, he recorded Abbacadabra, a musical tale for children.

With this " eldritch tale " we have in fact arrived at a modern democratic state.

" With its tale of an invasion by an invisible enemy indistinguishable from ourselves, Kneale's story tapped into contemporary fears about the ' red ' ( i. e. communist ) threat, although in a less direct way than the American science fiction films of the 1950s, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

: With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

With the aid of matching federal funds available under Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 as amended, the planning division began a one year program July 1, 1960 to complete the inventory phase of the state planning program.

With the machinery went a complete design for the hull.

With the assistance of Corinth and Athens, it escaped complete domination at Philip's hands, but was nevertheless forced to accept a Macedonian garrison.

With these vows, one makes the promise to work for the complete enlightenment of all sentient beings by practicing the six perfections.

With a difficult interface for a user to navigate, implementation can be fragmented or not entirely complete.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

With the exception of a short period of eclipse, he enjoyed the complete confidence both of Constantine and Constantius II and was the tutor of the later Emperor Julian the Apostate ; and it was he who baptized Constantine the Great on May 22, 337.

With the antagonism between anti-interventionist Marxists and pro-interventionist Fascists complete by the end of the war, the two sides became irreconcilable.

* 1861 – With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.

With Judge Roy Hofheinz now the sole owner of the franchise and the new venue complete, the Colt. 45s moved into their new domed stadium, the Astrodome in 1965.

With the state now fully sanctioning serfdom, runaway peasants became state fugitives, and the power of the landlords over the peasants " attached " to their land had become almost complete.

With Yukawa's papers, the modern model of the atom was complete.

With this move, the United Nations deemed decolonization of the territory complete and removed it from the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

With the exception of occasional specials, daytime soap operas are notable by their absence from DVD release schedules ( an exception being the 1960s-70s supernatural soap opera, Dark Shadows, which did receive an almost complete release on both VHS and DVD ).

With these acquisitions, Vickers could now produce a complete selection of products, from ships and marine fittings to armour plate and a whole suite of ordnance.

With this approach, there is no central store of the wiki's content ; instead, every user keeps a complete copy of the wiki locally, and the software handles merging and propagating of changes when they are made.

With this last piece of the puzzle, the classical theory of electrodynamics was essentially complete.

With shy guffaws, muttered asides, dispassionate staring, foot-shuffling silences and complete mind-numbing gaps, punctuated by the odd piece of incisive home-spun philosophy from Brown, who occasionally hinted at a well-read mind.

With the refusal of Henry the Lion to bring help to Italy, the campaign was a complete failure.

* February ; With the taking of Noto, the Normans complete the 30 year long conquest of Sicily from the Islamic rulers.

With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d ' Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.

In recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound.

With its first combat test complete, the Army's leaders began to draw on SAMS to assist in additional ways.

With the larger sample set and complete genome scan, the study found somewhat reduced linkage for Xq28 than reported by Hamer et al.

With his break with Jackson complete, in 1832, Calhoun ran for the Senate rather than continue as Vice President.