Samantha claims that Norma and Randall are lying monsters, but Norma claims that Samantha is a brilliant teller of tales herself.
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Though no straight teller of tales, she knows how to weave poetic magic—so expertly rendered by Ms Croft—in radiantly readable prose.
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Mr. Storm became well known in Canada and beyond as a finder and salvager of shipwrecks and a teller of tales about the treasures that still lie undiscovered at sea and on land.
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Histories 1.23–24. Herodotus clearly writes as both historian and teller of tales. Herodotus takes a fluid position between the artistic story-weaving of Homer and the rational data-accounting of later historians. John Herington has developed a helpful metaphor for describing Herodotus's dynamic position in the history of Western art and thought – Herodotus as centaur: Herodotus is neither a mere gatherer of data nor a simple teller of tales – he is both.
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He set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea.Daniel Stashower, (2000). Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Penguin Books, pp.58–59.
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Born and bred a mahout, Hussein's adventures often concern elephants. After working as a mahout, teller of tales, snake charmer, leopard handler and spy, he acquires a fortune and marries the woman of his dreams while still in his late teens.
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303, 389, 400-406 and 516; Martin Booth, The Doctor, the Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle, 1997, London: Hodder & Stoughton: p. 337; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: pp. 403-405.
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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle was the 1999 Agatha Award winner for best nonfiction,Past Agatha Awards Winners and Nominees. Retrieved 2014-11-03. the 2000 Edgar Award winner for best critical/biographical work,Edgar Award Winners and Nominees Database. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
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Graham was "gregarious, a lovely teller of tales". He married (and divorced) twice. His first wife was Judy Monahan, with whom he had a son, Seorais; his second wife was Carolyn Trayler, with whom he had two daughters, Skye and Georgia. Graham died of motor neurone disease on 29 August 2010.
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349-350; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: p. 431. The death of Jessica Challenger affected her husband profoundly. Professor Challenger undertook an investigation into psychic phenomena after Ted Malone and Enid Challenger’s reports on spiritualism appeared in the Daily Gazette in October 1926.
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A new hospital complex was completed at Mot'ootua. Scottish-born writer Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last four years of his life here, and is buried on Mt Vaea, overlooking both the city and the home he built, Vailima, now a museum in his honour. He made Samoa his home. A Samoan at heart, his Samoan name was Tusitala, meaning Teller of Tales.
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In one interview, he mentioned: "She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten." When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he included a grandmother character in The Witches, and later said that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute.
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Arthur, along with his writing partner David Kogan, was honoured twice by the Mystery Writers of America with an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama. First in 1950 for Murder by Experts, and then in 1953 for The Mysterious Traveler. Other radio credits include: Dark Destiny (1942), Adventure Into Fear (1945), The Sealed Book (1945), The Teller of Tales (1950) and Mystery Time (1952).
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"Sweet Life" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer- songwriter Paul Davis. It was the third single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his fourth-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #17 on the Billboard chart in late 1978. On the Cash Box chart, the song spent three weeks at #15. The song also reached #15 in Canada.
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286-287; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: pp. 274-276. Three years later the friends re-assembled in Challenger’s Sussex home to witness The Poison Belt incident of 27 to 28 August 1911. Challenger interpreted a shift in Fraunhofer’s light diffraction lines to predict that the Earth was passing through a deadly interstellar cloud of ether.
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18-19; cited in Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: p. 275. Challenger was also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all- trades. Although considered by Malone's editor, Mr McArdle, to be "just a homicidal megalomaniac with a turn for science", his ingenuity could be counted upon to solve any problem or get out of any unsavoury situation, and be sure to offend and insult several other people in the process.
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Mironescu made his literary debut in 1906, publishing the sketch La cumătrie in Viața Românească, of which he was a founding member and recurring contributor. His writings also appeared in Însemnări ieșene and Însemnări literare. His published volumes (Sandu Hurmuzel, 1916; Oameni și vremuri, 1920; Într-un "colț de rai", 1930; Catiheții de la Humulești, 1938) include several sketches marked by an authentic folk humor. This bears echoes of Mironescu's talent as a teller of tales, largely in oral fashion, as recalled by contemporaries.
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The other type of story vocabulary is theme, a set sequence of story actions that structure a tale. Just as the teller of tales proceeds line-by-line using formulas, so he proceeds from event-to-event using themes. One near-universal theme is repetition, as evidenced in Western folklore with the "rule of three": Three brothers set out, three attempts are made, three riddles are asked. A theme can be as simple as a specific set sequence describing the arming of a hero, starting with shirt and trousers and ending with headdress and weapons.
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John William Wall (6 November 1910 - 11 April 1989), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat. Wall's diplomatic career lasted more than thirty years, but his writing career as Sarban was brief and not prolific, ending during the early 1950s. Sarban is described in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy as "a subtle, literate teller of tales, conscious of the darker and less acceptable implications that underlie much popular literature". Wall cited the supernatural fiction of Arthur Machen and Walter de la Mare as influences on his work.
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Map of Maple-White Land The characters of Ed Malone and Lord John Roxton were modelled, respectively, on the journalist E. D. Morel and the diplomat Roger Casement, leaders of the Congo Free State reform campaign (the Congo Reform Association), which Doyle supported.Daniel Stashower. Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1999, pgs. 321-22 The setting for The Lost World is believed to have been inspired by reports of Doyle's good friend Percy Harrison Fawcett's expedition to Huanchaca Plateau in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia.
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Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (Henry Holt & Co. 1999), pages 185-186. The Kiplings lived here until 1896, when a dispute with a hot-tempered neighbor (his brother-in-law Beatty Balestier) led to court proceedings and an avalanche of unwelcome publicity. The Kiplings attempted to return in 1899, but illness on the sea crossing from England frustrated the plan. The property was owned for much of the 20th century by members of the Holbrook family, who in 1992 sold it to the Landmark Trust, a preservation organization that restores historic properties and makes them available to the public.
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"I Go Crazy" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer- songwriter Paul Davis. It was the first single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his second-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #7 on the Billboard chart in 1978. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart on 27 August 1977 and began slowly climbing, peaking in March and April 1978, before dropping off the chart the week after 27 May 1978. Overall, it spent 40 weeks (nine months and one week) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting what was then the record for the longest run on that chart, of consecutive weeks or not.
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By breathing oxygen from cylinders brought to the house earlier Challenger, his wife and friends avoided falling into catalepsy over the several hours the event lasted. It appeared as though all animal life on the planet had expired but within 28 hours all had recovered.The story is set three years after adventure to The Lost World but a date of Friday 27 August would place the story in either 1909, 1915, 1920 or 1926; A C Doyle, The Poison Belt, in The Complete Professor Challenger Stories, 1952, London: John Murray: pp. 217-219, 229, 293 and 297; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: pp. 277-278.
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In the 1999 biography of Conan Doyle, Teller of Tales, author Daniel Stashower suspects that Wilde would never have liked such a novel. But Conan Doyle claimed in his autobiography that what Wilde liked was the characterization of Judge George Jeffreys in the novel. Jeffreys, the notorious bully of the law courts of his day, was shown as a handsome, brilliant man with a flaw in his character - a fallen angel type, such as figured in some of Wilde's writing. > (...)It hath ever been the custom, since his [Jeffreys'] wickedness hath > come to be known to all men, to picture him as a man whose expression and > features were as monstrous and as hideous as was the mind behind them.
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Throughout his career, Dr. Bean was well known for his expertise in the field of nutrition, but even more so for his teaching and writing excellence. Long an admirer and follower of Sir William Osler's philosophies and techniques, Dr. Bean rarely turned down an invitation to speak or be a visiting professor. In his 1974 Archives of Internal Medicine festschrift, he was described as :"a true renaissance man: an articulate clinician, a scholar of the classics, a masterful teller of tales, and a prodigious writer of stories." Awarded Fellowship, American Medical Writers Association in 1958 (Fellowships presented to members of AMWA to recognize significant contributions to the goals and activities of AMWA and professional accomplishments that have been recognized by their peers.) Awarded Swanberg Distinguished Service Award, American Medical Writers Association in 1969.
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Preparations were ready by Tuesday 21 June 1921 and the drill breached the tissue, producing a loud scream and unleashing a geyser of a protective tar- like secretion, accompanied by global volcanic activity. It was the day When the World Screamed.An invitation for Tuesday 21 July places the story in 1921 or 1927; since Mrs Challenger is still alive in the story the earlier date is more plausible; A C Doyle, When the World Screamed, in The Complete Professor Challenger Stories, 1952, London: John Murray: pp. 547-550, 554, 559 and 570; Martin Booth, The Doctor, the Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle, 1997, London: Hodder & Stoughton: p. 350; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: p. 432.
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In a send-up of the "gong show" set in an Arabian palace (similar to the gong show in I Love to Singa), the short opens with a band Timbuk Two Plus 3 playing "Sweet Georgia Brown" trying to entertain the sultan, with the performance ending with the floor being dropped out from under them, sending the band into a crocodile pit below. Next, a musician scared by the fate of Timbuk Two performs "Hound Camel" (a send-up of "Hound Dog") before meeting the same fate as Timbuk Two. Following that, Bugs, intending to travel to Perth Amboy but having missed a left turn at Des Moines, ends up in front of other prospective performers and is ordered to entertain the sultan. Assigned the role of "Teller of Tales", Bugs proceeds to tell his tale of how he ended up in the palace.
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He also wrote poetry on a nearly daily basis for the last thirty years of his life. He was an inveterate reader, riveting speaker and gifted teller of tales, capable of conversing with college audiences in sessions that might last three hours. Paintings held in public collections include: New Bride, 1963 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Mound, 1961 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Saturn, 1976 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Elephant, 1977 Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, Earth, 1976 Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Wedding, 1962 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Pink Fire, 1971 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Untitled, 1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, along with many pictures of comparable quality in smaller collections — public and private — make for some, an effective case for Resnick as an exponent of the sublime. His remaining estate is held in trust by the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.
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In the story Summerlee is said to be aged 66 and according to The Land of Mist he died in Naples the year previous to the events therein described; see A C Doyle, The Lost World and The Land of Mist, in The Complete Professor Challenger Stories, 1952, London: John Murray: pp. 47-48, 61-62, 64-65, 74, 324 and 399-400; Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999, New York: Henry Holt and Company: p. 403. From Manaus the expedition continued up-river to reach an unnamed tributary, which they followed by canoe until by late August the explorers arrived in the Guiana Highlands and the great table-top mountain (tepui) that was The Lost World. The expedition camped at the foot of the basalt cliffs of the tepui, which they named Maple White Land in honour of the plateau’s discoverer some four years earlier.
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Oskar Huth (26 February 1918 – 21 August 1991) was many things: organ builder, graphic artist, a pianist with a rare gift for improvising in the style of the classical composers,"Es war nicht Schubert, was er spielte, aber es hörte sich genau so an wie Schubert. Und es kam tatsächlich vor, dass jemand, der sich gut auskannte mit der Klassischen Musik, plötzlich sagte: Oh, das Stück von Schubert kenne ich noch gar nicht." a word smith and compelling teller of tales, a drinker and a noted bohemian who never really seemed comfortable if he had a permanent residence and who walked everywhere in his home city, Berlin, because he was passionately suspicious of public transport. More than that, he became notable in Germany for resisting the inhumanity of the Nazi regime. During the war he got hold of a printing press which he installed in the cellar of a house vacated by a friend who had sought refuge from the bombing by moving to the Thuringian countryside after her husband was killed in the war.
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Poirot learns a few interesting facts: Judith's daughter Miranda was Joyce's closest friend, and the pair shared secrets between them; Joyce was known to be a teller of tales to gain attention; Elizabeth Whittaker, a mathematics teacher attending the party, witnessed Rowena become startled and drop a glass vase of water outside the door of the library, while the party-goers were playing snapdragon; Ferrier had previous convictions for forgery, and many suspected that he and Olga were working together to steal Mrs Llewellyn- Smythe's fortune; a one-time cleaner of Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe had been witness to her employer making the codicil; a beautiful garden built within an abandoned quarry for Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe, was designed by Michael Garfield, a man with narcissistic behaviour; the victim's brother, Leopold Reynolds, has become flush with money of late. Leopold is later found dead, having been drowned in a small brook. Rowena, unusually upset about the death, informs Poirot she had seen him in the library the night of the party, and believes he witnessed his sister's killer. Poirot soon has a theory, and advises the police to search the woods near the quarry.
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