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Fable: The Journey

A new gameplay trailer was unveiled at E3 2012 which led to Fable: The Journey being a nominated for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2012, under the category 'Best Motion Simulation Game'.


1988 Atlanta Journal 500

Bill Elliott would earn his only NASCAR Winston Cup championship here despite not finishing in the top ten; turning the race into the Cup Series' version of the classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare.

A Wealth of Fable

A Wealth of Fable by Harry Warner, Jr., is a Hugo Award-winning history of science fiction fandom of the 1950s, an essential reference work in the field.

Alexander Theroux

He published the fable, Master Snickup’s Cloak, which was illustrated by Brian Froud in 1979.

Alf Evers

They eventually settled in Litchfield, Connecticut, where they wrote and illustrated 50 children's books together, most telling fables in a simple prose style that earned comparisons to Aesop, and raised three children Jane, Barbara and Christopher Evers.

Beastly Tales

Seth's sense of humour is exemplified by his retelling of the well-known fable of The Hare and The Tortoise (p.43).

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (ISBN 978-0304350964), edited by Adrian Room, was first published in 2000.

Cakes and Ale

Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are the emblems of the good life in the tagline to the fable attributed to Aesop, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear".

Cap'n O. G. Readmore

Also, he appeared in animated form in a few Weekend Specials, including Cap’n O. G. Readmore Meets Chicken Little and Cap’n O. G. Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; in these features, he was the president of an all-feline book club, the Friday Night Book Club, who often found himself physically pulled into the story he’s reading.

Carousel Theatre

Carousel also mounted an original production of Pierre Berton's fable The Secret World of Og, adapted under commission by Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Kerr.

Chanticleer and the Fox

In the following century Marie de France tells a fable very similar to the Renart version in Old French verse.

F. K. Waechter

They are typified by Anti-Struwwwelpeter ("Anti-Strawpeter," a parody of Heinrich Hoffman's popular German children's book, Struwwelpeter), Die Schoepfung (Waechter's re-telling of Biblical creation), and Der Kronenklauer ("The Crown Snatchers," an anti-authoritarian fable).

Folklore of Indonesia

Hindu epic of Ramayana and Mahabharata have their own separate episodes that often formed a separate story with Indonesian twists and interpretations that often differ from Indian version.The Buddhist Jataka tales also has made its way into Indonesian fable animal folklores.

Gardens of Versailles

The sculptors Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Etienne Le Hongre, Pierre Le Gros, and the brothers Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy worked on these thirty-nine fountains each of which was accompanied by a plaque on which the fable was printed, with verse written by Isaac de Benserade; from these plaques, Louis XIV’s son learned to read.

Georgia Republican Party

"The moral of the fable is that although a fool may disguise his appearance, his words will reveal his true nature. To Nast, the New York Herald is not a roaring lion to be feared, but a braying ass to be ridiculed. The reference in the citation to “Shakespeare or Bacon” is a jibe at Bennett’s contention that Shakespeare’s works were actually written by Sir Francis Bacon."

Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey

Martin, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Aegolius acadicus, rescued and bought to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree the same night Primrose came.

Hwang Sun-mi

Hwang Sun-mi (born 1963) is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which has also been made into a successful animated film in South Korea, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.

Jan Broberg Felt

Some of her film credits include: Slaughter of the Innocents (HBO), Poof Point (Disney), Message in a Cell Phone (Disney), The Secret Keeper (Columbia TriStar), Bug Off, The ButterCream Gang, (Feature Films for Families), Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets (Columbia TriStar), Mobsters and Mormons, and The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey.

John Bushnell

One of these stories involves his attempt to prove that the Trojan Horse was not a fable but a practical possibility.

John DeChancie

The Castle Perilous series revolves around Castle Perilous (the name is drawn from the Siege Perilous of Arthurian fable), whose lord is Incarnadine, a sorcerer.

Katase-Enoshima Station

The building is designed to evoke the image of Ryūgū-jō, or Dragon Palace, the underwater dwelling in the Urashima Taro fable.

Ki castle

The castle's name literally means "castle of a demon" (ki is another reading for the character for oni); according to a traditional fable, a demon named Onra or Ura once ruled Kibi Province from the castle.

Lena Zavaroni and Music

Berni Flint then sings "add song title here", Berni Flint & Lena then have a short chat which leads into them performing the song "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", this leads in to a song & dance section which tells a fable about "The Land Of Points" with The Ace Eight, Lena, Wayne Sleep & "Paul Aylett & Arrow.

Marco Polo – The Journey

It is one of the Renaissance's more eclectic works, covering not only the instrumental istanpittas of the Italian Trecento and earlier Franciscan laudas, but also Byzantine chant, girl songs from Cyprus preserved in the Manuscript 1203 kept in Iviron monastery, Persian and Arabic dances, traditional Music of Mongolia and Ancient Chinese ceremonial music.

Michael Colgrass

Winds of Nagual (1985): A Musical Fable on the Writings of Carlos Castaneda (1985) 25'

Mighty Baby

As well as gigging regularly, the band also played many sessions for others, including Robin Scott (Woman From the Warm Grass), Andy Roberts, Keith Christmas (Stimulus and Fable Of The Wings), Shelagh McDonald, Sandy Denny, Gary Farr (Take Something with You, Strange Fruit).

Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages

Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages (ISBN 0-446-51490-X / 978-0-446-51490-3) is a children's book written by Dean Koontz, illustrated by Phil Parks, and published by Warner Books in September 1988.

Otto van Veen

Another example familiar to us today as the story of The Tortoise and the Hare (originally a fable by Aesop), is titled "Perseverance winneth: The hare and the tortes layd a wager of their speed ..." shows us a cupid and tortoise outpacing the hare and exemplifying the idea that the love which is steady and constant will ultimately win the race.

Perrin Dandin

Perrin Dandin is a fictional character in the Third Book of Rabelais, who seats himself judge-wise on the first stump that offers, and passes offhand a sentence in any matter of litigation; a character who figures similarly in a comedy of Racine's, and in a fable of La Fontaine's.

Schloss Britz

This fable was transferred into a German version Die Milchfrau (The Milkmaid) by the author Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim in the 18th century.

Sex 'n' Money

The animated music video based on the fable of Cupid and Psyche (Directed by DEADBUG A.K.A. Christopher Heary) shows Cupid ( seen in the CD cover) arriving next to a limousine to a party at "Club Perfecto".

Story City, Iowa

Bill Willingham's 2012 graphic novel Fable: Werewolves of the Heartland is set entirely in Story City, Iowa.

Tales of Count Lucanor

Tale 23, What happened to a good Man and his Son, leading a beast to market is the familiar fable The miller, his son and the donkey.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The story dates from Classical times but, since it was recorded only in Greek and not translated into Latin until the 15th century, it only began to gain currency after it appeared in Heinrich Steinhowel's collection of the fables and so spread through the rest of Europe.

The Cloggies

The team’s swansong was as dancing shepherds in the British premiere of the medieval French fable Aucassin and Nicolette, translated by Alex Kerr and produced by Pennock in the college grounds on 27 June 1971.

The Cock and the Jewel

Literary translations of the fable, using the Latin Romulus as their source, include those by Marie de France, John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, and translators tended to retain its first-place position.

The Frogs and the Sun

Contemporary politics, however, were soon to give the fable an alternative reading, supporting the sovereign powers against the upstart, commercially successful Dutch Republic.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

There is another variant on the story, recorded by Syntipas (Perry Index 58) and appearing in Roger L'Estrange's 1692 telling as "A Woman and a Fat Hen" (Fable 87): A good Woman had a Hen that laid her every day an Egg. Now she fansy’d to her self, that upon a larger Allowance of Corn, this Hen might be brought in time to lay twice a day. She try’d the Experiment; but the Hen grew fat upon’t, and gave quite over laying.

The Gourd and the Palm-tree

However, not only is the poem very obviously derived from Meissner's German fable, but its original (and unacknowledged) Scottish author, Charles Mackay, nowhere credits it with an Eastern origin in the collection in which it first appeared.

The first recorder of the fable, Boniohannes de Messana, was from the Sicilian Crusader port now called Messina, so there is the possibility that it might originally have come from the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Lion and the Fox

In 2011 the fable was set for narrator, horn and piano by American composer Anthony Plog.

The Little Match Seller

The Little Match Seller is a 1902 British short silent drama film, directed by James Williamson, retelling the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable of the sad life and tragic death of a little match seller.

The Prince's Dream

The Prince’s Dream is a fable written by Jean Ingelow as part of The Wonderbox Tales collection.

The Scorpion and the Toad

The title references the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog, where a frog carries a scorpion across the river, only to be stung before they reach the other side drowning them both.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Ida Gotkovsky, the third fable in her Hommage à Jean de La Fontaine for choir and orchestra, commissioned for the tercentenary of La Fontaine's death (1995)

The Wolf Among Us

Clues on the head lead them to identify her as a fable from the Allerleirauh story; her name was Faith and she had been married to Prince Lawrence.

The Wolf and the Crane

A political lesson can also be drawn from some mediaeval sculptures of the fable, most notably on the Great Fountain in Perugia executed in 1278 by Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni.

Who Could Win a Rabbit

The video features Avey Tare and Panda Bear as a rabbit and turtle respectively, racing each other in the same vein as Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, while Geologist and Deakin are spectators of the race.

Why I Am a Separatist

For Chaput, the Quebec autonomist was depicted in the 17th century by Jean de La Fontaine in the fable The Wolf and the Lamb.


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