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4 unusual facts about Ox-Tales


Hari Kunzru

In 2009, he donated the short story "Kaltes klares Wasser" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Michel Faber

:*Walking After Midnight (2009) collected in Ox-Tales: Water

In 2009, he donated the short story Walking After Midnight to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Victoria Hislop

In 2009, she donated the short story Aflame in Athens to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors.


15 equal temperament

The American musician Wendy Carlos used 15-ET as one of two scales in the track Afterlife from the album Tales of Heaven and Hell.

Aarøsund

Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous writer of fairy tales, noted his stays in Aarøsund in his travel diaries.

Aithihyamala

It includes popular tales such as about the twelve children of Vararuchi and Parayi (a woman of Paraiyar caste), Kayamkulam Kochunni, Kadamattathu Kathanar among many others.

Anthony Charles Harris

The Papyrus Harris 500, a literary papyrus containing two tales and poetry

Beb Vuyk

(Translated to English in: Two Tales of the East Indies, 'The Last House in the World' by Beb Vuyk and translated by André Lefevere.

Bert Geer Phillips

During his childhood he was influenced by tales of the exploits of American frontiersman Kit Carson and other tales of Western adventure involving American Indians, such as those in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Bevis of Hampton

Such writers as Derzhavin and Pushkin praised Bovas literary value; the latter used some elements of the Povest' in his fairy tales and attempted to write a fantasy poem based on the romance.

Christmas Tales

Christmas Tales is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, it released on the November 23, 2012 in Norway.

Cinderella's Eyes

The concept of the album derived from fairy tales, focusing mostly upon Cinderella after titling the album Cinderella's Eyes.

Corvetto

Other tales of this type include The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa, Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful, King Fortunatus's Golden Wig, and The Mermaid and the Boy.

Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline

Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline (ISBN 1-59670-022-X) is a late 2006 book written by Don Nehlen, former head coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers, and Shelly Poe, the Sports Information Director at West Virginia University.

Elegiac comedy

Denying their true comedic nature, Edmond Faral called them Latin fabliaux, after the later Old French fabliaux, and Ian Thompson labelled them Latin comic tales.

Enzo Pietropaoli

In 1998 the CD "The Tales Of Doctor 3" and in 1999 the CD “Shades Of Chet”, recorded as a project of trumpeters Enrico Rava and Paolo Fresu with drummer Roberto Gatto and renowned pianist Stefano Bollani, received the "Arrigo Polillo Prize" as the "Best Italian Record Of The Year".

Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya

Annada Mangal (1816)- Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal exhibited the Tales of Biddyah and Sunder, and to which was added the Memoirs of Rajah Pratapaditya.

Geoffrey Girard

His previous books include Tales of the Jersey Devil (2005), thirteen original tales based on the legendary Jersey Devil monster, Tales of the Atlantic Pirates (2006), Tales of the Eastern Indians (2007) and an adaptation of The Iliad (2007).

Glimmerglass

Otsego Lake, called "Glimmerglass" in the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper

Grandfather Stories

The tales are nuggets of social history: among them, New Year customs in Rochester's elite "ruffleshirt" Third Ward, early professional baseball in Rochester, the corrupt matches that killed off professional rowing, and the invention of the detachable shirt collar in Troy, New York.

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Hugh Lupton

Lupton tells a wide variety of stories, including Epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also collections of shorter stories such as "I become part of it (tales from the pre-world)" and folktales such as "The Three Snake Leaves (tales from the Grimm Forest)".

Jack Zipes

He has translated the complete 1857 edition of fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Jacques Le Goff

In his 1984 book The Birth of Purgatory, he argued that the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, dates to the 12th century, the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland.

John Kendrick Bangs

Thurlow's Christmas Story (1894)
In 2009, The Library of America selected this story for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.

Josef Petersen

As the only Danish writer he thrice won Olympic silver medals of art for his prose-lyric tales with Antique Greek athletic motives Euryale (1924), Argonauterne (Eng. The Argonauts) (1932) and Den Olympiske Mester (eng. The Olympic Champion) (1948).

Jørgen Moe

To Norwegians, the names Asbjørnsen and Moe have become synonymous with traditional folk tales, the way the name Brothers Grimm is associated with German tales.

Kapohauola

Samuel Kamakau mentioned her in his book Tales and Traditions of the People of Old.

Linda Medley

Intending to do her own take on some of Grimm's fairy tales, Medley found herself most interested in the unexplained pasts — and their often unresolved fates — of the tales' background characters.

Ménerbes

Ménerbes became known in the English-speaking world since 1990 through the books of British author Peter Mayle, tales of a British expatriate who settled in the village of Ménerbes.

Michael Colyar

On March 29, 2010, Colyar appeared on The Mo'Nique Show demonstrating a new twist on his routine, incorporating inspirational tales into his comedy.

Moranak Meada

The film based on Khmer old folk tales which similar to Thai legend Bla Boo Thong and European fairy tale Cinderella.

Novella

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).

Ormond Robbins

Selected tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps, Sheldon Jaffery, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987, ISBN 87972-391-2, ISBN 87972-392-0.

Pied-piping

it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute.

Pontlevoy

Each year his company issued a new series of brightly colored cards commemorating notable men (including Benjamin Franklin) with flowers and illustrations of fairy tales.

Reckless Series

The series, based on 19th Century Europe, features many elements of fairy tales, notably the tales of the German Brothers Grimm.

Richard Head

Its tales of drastic adventures were based on the model of Spanish rogue stories (such as Lazarillo de Tormes 1554), which were fashionable due to the contemporary publication of Scarron's Roman Comique (or Comical Romance, so the English title which established the genre), and savoury with the events Head could claim to have based on his personal experience.

Rob Inglis

His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.

Robert Arthur, Jr.

Between 1930 and 1940, his stories were published in Amazing Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Black Mask, Collier's, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Double Detective, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Mystery, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, Startling Stories, Street & Smith Mystery Reader, Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Unknown Worlds and Wonder Stories.

Ronny Coutteure

He was the proprietor of the "pub-theatre" La ferme des hirondelles (Swallow Farm) in Fretin in northern France and he wrote and directed an opera, Les Contes d'un buveur de bière (Tales of a beer drinker) as well as teaching "biérologie" ("beer-ology").

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Snake Tales

Snake Tales (also known as simply Snake, after the main character) is a comic strip written by Australian cartoonist Allan Salisbury (aka Sols).

Steven Rinella

As a child, Rinella was an avid reader of historical narrative and tall tales about the American wilderness, especially the exploits of his hero, Daniel Boone.

TAL effector

TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors (often referred to as TALEs but not to be confused with the three amino acid loop extension family of proteins) are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect various plant species.

Tales of Suspense

Son of Origins of Marvel Comics includes Iron Man stories from Tales of Suspense #39 and 97, 249 pages, October 1975, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0671221669

The Best of ZZ Top

The Best of ZZ Top (subtitled 10 Legendary Texas Tales) is a greatest hits album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1977.

The Pretty Little Calf

More commonly, European tales feature the children being abandoned: The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Three Little Birds, The Wicked Sisters, Ancilotto, King of Provino and Princess Belle-Etoile

The marital transformation also figures in European tales, such as Hans My Hedgehog, The Pig King, and The Donkey.

The Scarlet Claw

The film is not credited as an adaptation of any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, but it bears a significant resemblance to The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Victor Plarr

A generally uncongenial figure, he was befriended in 1909 by Ezra Pound, who enjoyed Plarr's tales of the "decadent nineties".

Ward Moore

Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.

Winter-Telling Stories

Winter-Telling Stories is a collection of Kiowa tales written by Alice Marriott and illustrated by Roland Whitehorse.


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