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1976 Tangshan earthquake

The 2011 Malaysian television series Tribulations of Life wrote it into the plot for one of its episodes, to reinforce the setting of it during the 70's, and used it as a storyline where villagers showed their charitable side.

6984 Lewiscarroll

Lewiscarroll was featured in the plot of Jasper Fforde's The Woman Who Died a Lot, though it was actually a mistake, as he had intended to use 6042 Cheshirecat originally.

Adel Abdel Bari

He was sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt in 1995 for his part in the 1995 plot to blow up the Khan el-Khalili market, along with Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar and Ahmad Salama Mabruk.

Amy Jenkins

Although it was the second biggest debut novel of the year, selling over 250,000 copies in the UK and Commonwealth, critics noted that a central plot device in Jenkins' work possessed a striking similarity to the premise of Noël Coward's play Private Lives.

Angel John

Plot of the film has got great resemblance to the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty (2003).

Arthur Upfield

The plot is based on the 1880 disappearance of the geologist Lamont Young near Mystery Bay, New South Wales.

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

It was billed as a sequel to the 1985 cult classic film Barbarian Queen, which also starred Clarkson, although the plot and characters bear no relation to the earlier film.

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam

The plot is inspired from Harold Ramis directed classic black comedy Analyze This (1999) with Robert De Niro playing a mafia don who due to frequent bouts of anxiety attacks gets treated by a famous psychiatrist enacted by the great comedy actor Billy Crystal.

Birth of the Blues

The plot loosely follows the origins and breakthrough success of the Original Dixieland Jass Band in New Orleans.

Breathing Room

Kathy Justice of Indy Week called it "low on camp and high on suspense", with a plot that resembles the 2006 French cult film 13 Tzameti.

Cain v. Universal Pictures

The studio began production in 1939, then found that they needed to adapt the plot to include a scene with the two stars, Irene Dunne and James Boyer.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

Her baby perished also, and mother and son were later interred together at the Hoyt family plot in Charlestown, New Hampshire.

Cue mark

Another film, a 2005 episode of Masters of Horror, is titled "Cigarette Burns", directed by John Carpenter; its plot revolves around film collection and distribution, with the lead character hallucinating cue marks, which he deemed was a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Dennis Slamon

His life and research was the template for the plot of the film Living Proof (2008), starring Harry Connick, Jr..

Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge

While Cooper and his team are forced to perform the tasks, they discover that they - as is Mrs. Goodman - are mere pawns for a more dastardly plot: the Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate the President of the United States!

Fatal Attraction

Much of the film's plot was spoofed in the 1993 comedy Fatal Instinct.

Félix Mayol

Shortly after World War I, he purchased a plot of land in Toulon and donated it to the local sports club, RC Toulonnais, for the building of a stadium.

Fred Kaplan

In late 2012, Kaplan published The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, a nonfiction work which examines how General David Petraeus attempted to implement new thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq regarding the traditional clear and hold counter-insurgency strategy, and the shortcomings of this strategy, its intellectual underpinnings, and the individuals who defined it.

Geoffrey D. Stephenson

, the party of Air Commodore Stephenson, accompanied by 30 RAF and USAF officers, flew to Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, for interment at the Royal Air Force plot there.

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Susan Wittig Albert uses the golden-cheeked warbler as a plot device in her 1992 novel Thyme of Death.

GRES Unidos de Vila Isabel

The Venezuelan morningReportreported on its cover more than 500 people traveled to Rio de Janeiro, with all expenses paid by PDVSA to cheer the parade of Vila Isabel.Em 2007, with plot talking about theMetamorphoses, of Cid Carvalho, which debuted solo career, ending in 6th position.

Hunt Saboteurs Association

A group of hunt saboteurs both appear and are a critical part of the plot in the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger.

Ita David Ikpeme

In December 1985 he was named as a suspect in a coup plot against the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Ivy Dickens

NY Mag and The Baltimore Sun referred to the Charlie/Ivy plot as "ridiculous".

Khosrow and Shirin

Orhan Pamuk's novel, My Name is Red (1998), has a plot line between two characters, Shekure and Black, which echoes the Khosrow and Shirin story, which is also retold in the book.

Mactan-Cebu International Airport

Authorities later found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb on the airliner to test the bomb for his Project Bojinka plot.

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Murder in the Central Committee

The director's idea was to use the plot as a chronicle of the transition, the period during which Spain moved from Francisco Franco's dictatorship, after his death, until the first free election that put the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in power.

Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute became, along with Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor, one of the figures most associated with the rise of this new trend in writing, which sought to radically transform traditional narrative models of character and plot.

Nevada Day

In 2006, Nevada Day, and the Nevada town of Pahrump, were central to the plot in "Nevada Day", a two-part episode of the Aaron Sorkin television drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Nevada Smith

The plot resembles that of the 1960 origin issues of the comic book series The Rawhide Kid, drawn by Jack Kirby.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Otto Kiep

After his arrest in 1944, he was sentenced at the Volksgerichtshof by Roland Freisler to death, and one month after the plot's failure, on 23 August 1944, Otto Kiep was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

Paul von Hase

In the trial against him and a number of other members of the plot at the Volksgerichtshof on 8 August 1944, he was sentenced to death and hanged later the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

Petyr Baelish

While he is initially perceived as a minor but somewhat powerful figure in the first three books of the series, by A Feast for Crows it is revealed that several major plot points have hinged on Baelish's intrigues and machinations, including the framing of Tyrion Lannister for the attempt on Bran Stark's life and the deaths of Jon Arryn and King Joffrey.

Pope Paul II

In the Papal States, however, in 1465 he eliminated the regime of the counts of Anguillara, a house that had played a consistent anti-papal role since the plot of Stefano Porcari and the unruly insurrection of Tiburzio di Maso in 1460.

Second Name

The plot involves a sect called the Abrahamites, who (according to the movie) sacrifice their first borns following an alternative interpretation of God's Will in the near-sacrifice of Isaac.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

The movie claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story.

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Steve Englehart

When the plot did not arrive, I called him, and he denied he'd ever made any commitment to delivery by Friday — as far as he was concerned, artist Support Your Local Gunfighter

The film shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff! but is not a sequel.

The Bloody Mary Show

The plot follows Bloody Mary played by Hollie Taylor, who is based on the American legendary ghost 'Bloody Mary' who when summoned by saying her name three times, appears in the mirror to reveal the future, although in the show the Bloody Mary character is less interested in archetypal ghostly haunting and more interested in helping people.

The Far Side of the World

The novel provided part of the title and some of the plot-structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

Sir Marmaduke who has plans to woo and win Lady Sue disguised as the exiled French Prince of Orléans, resents this faithful espionage and lays a plot to lure young Lambert to a gaming-house in London.

The One Percent Doctrine

Richard Clarke told ABC News he is wary of the report about the New York City subway plot.

The Penultimate Truth

Dick also drew upon two other of his short stories for the plot of the novel: "The Mold of Yancy" and "The Unreconstructed M".

Vidocq Society

The Society was chronicled in a 2002 episode of The New Detectives entitled "Collective Justice", and was also a plot point in the finale of the 2007–08 season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

Vulcan!

The plot of the book was developed from an undeveloped script outline that Sky had submitted for Star Trek: The Original Series that was positively received by Gene Roddenberry but went unused because of the cancellation of the series.

William of Gellone

This line of reasoning was later incorporated into the plot of the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code.


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