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unusual facts about The Stranger



Billy Joel Band

This was the basic lineup for some of Joel's classic albums of the 1970s and 1980s including Turnstiles, The Stranger, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, and Songs in the Attic.

Cross Damon

In many ways, Cross Damon resembles Meursault, the hero of Albert Camus novel The Stranger.

Enumclaw horse sex case

Charles Mudede of The Stranger said "It was an almost comically easy law to pass."

Philosophy and literature

The existentialists include among their numbers important French authors who used fiction to convey their philosophical views; these include Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea and play No Exit, and Albert Camus's The Stranger.

The Airing of Grievances

"No Future Part Two: The Days After No Future" ends with a reading from The Stranger by Albert Camus, as translated by Stuart Gilbert.

Travis Jeppesen

Jeppesen's critical writings on art, film, and literature have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, New York Press, Bookforum, The Stranger, and Zoo Magazine.


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A Happy Death

The main character in A Happy Death is named "Patrice Mersault", similar to The Strangers main character "Meursault"; both are French Algerian clerks who kill a man in cold blood.

Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Lescar is popular in the area and the crowd in the tavern starts to get uneasy at the treatment of the good Doctor especially when it is revealed that the stranger is none other than Citizen Péret, a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Al Green Explores Your Mind

"Take Me To The River" has been covered by several other performers including Talking Heads (on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food), Ron Fleeger & The Stranger, Al's label mate Syl Johnson, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox, Toni Childs, Max on the Rox, Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, Delbert McClinton, Maná, The Commitments, Foghat, Gov't Mule, Phish and Eva Cassidy.

Balla Balla River

The river rises on the southern side of Yirrakulanna Hills and flows in a north-easterly direction crossing the North West Coastal Highway near the Stranger mine at Whim Creek then finally discharging into Balla Balla harbour, near Depuch Island in the Indian Ocean.

Beth Porter

For BBC Television, she produced The Husband, The Wife and The Stranger, starring Adam Faith and Derrick O'Connor, and for Channel 4 Television, Unusual Ground Floor Conversion, a short film directed by Mark Herman, Little Voice.

Get Johnny Week

The stranger follows Phil into the toilets and starts singing "I'm Too Sexy".

John Rowe Townsend

In Britain, The Intruder was made into a children's TV series starring Milton Johns as the stranger.

Killing an Arab

Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus".

Naked Came the Stranger

Naked Came the Stranger later became the basis for an X-rated film in 1975 directed by Radley Metzger and starring Darby Lloyd Rains.

Nilavinte nattil

In the climax, the couple, with the help of their friend, who is a cop, get the baby back and kills the stranger.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Rictor Norton views classical Jewish texts as stressing the cruelty and lack of hospitality of the inhabitants of Sodom to the "stranger".

The Devil in the Belfry

There are many famous illustrations for this short tale, including one is by the Italian engraver Alberto Martini, which is very accurate in describing the final moment, and another by the Belgian artist James Ensor, which illustrates the moment when the stranger arrives in town.

The Jeweler's Shop

However, the stranger reminds her of the Parable of the Ten Virgins and tells her to keep her lamp burning for the bridegroom.

The Poldark Novels

In 1996 an adaptation of "The Stranger From the Sea" in a controversial production by HTV, using a completely new cast featuring John Bowe as Ross Poldark and Mel Martin as Demelza.

The Stranger Beside Me

The Stranger Beside Me is a 1980 autobiographical and biographical true crime book written by Ann Rule about serial killer Ted Bundy, whom she knew personally before and after his arrest for a series of murders.

In 2003, The Stranger Beside Me was adapted into a made-for-TV film, starring Billy Campbell as Bundy and Barbara Hershey as Rule.

The Stranger from Within

"The Stranger from Within" is the second single by Ayreon, released on 1996, from their album Actual Fantasy.

The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation – The Hidden Epidemic

The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation – The Hidden Epidemic, written by Marlene Steinberg and Maxine Schnall is a book which goes through case files of individuals with dissociative identity disorder, who have suffered traumatizing happenings and how they have employed dissociation as a defense mechanism to detach themselves from the emotional stimuli which the victims endured.

Versus de pelegrino

or Verses about the Stranger is a medieval Latin drama composed by an anonymous playwright of Vic c.

Z-machine

One of the stranger ports is also one of the simplest: an instant messenger bot is wrapped around a version of Frotz with the bare minimum of IO functionality creating a bot with which one can play most Z-machine games using an instant messenger client.