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999-9999

The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce.

Abba Kovner

Kovner's story is the basis for the song "Six Million Germans / Nakam", by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird.

Alex Dawson

Dawson was the last player to score a hat trick in an FA Cup semi-final, back in 1958 when Manchester United beat Fulham 5–3 in a replay at Highbury.

Amerzone

The places, concepts and some of the characters featured in Amerzone originate from Sokal's work in the 1980s with the comic Inspector Canardo, especially the fifth story in the series, L'Amerzone.

Atlas Shrugged: Part III

It is a sequel to the 2012 film Atlas Shrugged: Part II, continuing the story where its predecessor left off.

Ayke Agus

She combined her talents on both violin and piano on the album Ayke Agus Doubles which was created by using a Yamaha Disklavier piano to mechanically record her piano keystrokes for the accompaniment, which was then played back on the special instrument while she recorded the violin solo with it.

Bedford Blues

The kit is sponsored by three companies; The front of the team shirt by Autoglass, the sleeves by Wells Bombardier and the back by Lifesure insurance.

Belfagor arcidiavolo

Giovanni Francesco Straparola included his own version as the fourth story of the second night in his Le piacevoli notti (1557).

Big Two-Hearted River

In January 1925, while wintering in Schruns, Austria, waiting for a response from query letters written to friends and publishers in America, Hemingway submitted the story to be published in his friend Ernest Walsh's newly established literary magazine This Quarter.

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Celia Pearce

Her articles and book chapters include a section of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game.

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

Cousin Bette

A number of film versions of the story have been produced, including a 1971 BBC mini-series starring Margaret Tyzack and Dame Helen Mirren, and a 1998 feature film with Jessica Lange in the title role.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

Djakarta Artmosphere

Djakarta Artmosphere slowly attempts to bring back the foundations of the spirit of equality in diversity using Music and Photography media.

Douglas A. Blackmon

He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century.

Encyclopédie

Magee, Bryan, The Story of Philosophy, New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-7894-3511-X

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

Gwiaździsta eskadra

Gwiaździsta eskadra told the romantic story of love between a Polish girl and an American volunteer pilot in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille (better known as the Kościuszko Squadron) during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921.

Har Gilo

Archaeological excavations in 1998 revealed the remains of two buildings and a rock-cut winepress, both dating back to the Iron age III (586-539 BCE).

James Welldon

After school, he played as full-back in association football with the Old Etonians F.C. and took part in the first match (score 1-1 draw) of the 1876 FA Cup Final at Kennington Oval, which they ultimately lost after a replay to Wanderers when his place in team was taken by Edgar Lubbock.

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

In 2005 the BBC used a report published by the journal as the basis of a story claiming that the pseudoscientific practice of homeopathy was effective for some patients.

Juul Haalmeyer

Catherine O'Hara wanted bad dancers for the Bouncin' Back to You segment with Lola Heatherton.

Karel Reisz

In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude.

Laurie Zimmer

After playing the female lead opposite Darwin Joston and Austin Stoker in Assault on Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared (as Laura Fanning) in two 1977 French films: Jean Eustache's Une sale histoire ("A Dirty Story") and Charlotte Szlovak's Slow City, Moving Fast (also known by the French title D'un Jour a L'Autre).

Luftstreitkräfte

The duties of such aircraft were initially intended to be reconnaissance and artillery spotting in support of armies on the ground, just as balloons had been used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 and even as far back as the Napoleonic Wars.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Mary Lindell

The 1991 film One Against the Wind starred Judy Davis, and was based on the biography Story of Mary Lindell: Wartime Secret Agent by Barry Wynne.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

My Year of Meats

Parallel to Jane's story is the life of Akiko Ueno, a former manga artist who specialized in horror scenes and is reluctantly married to a man working for BEEF-EX.

Niels Petersen House

Architect James Creighton was commissioned by Petersen to design the new two-story home to be constructed at Petersen’s ranch south of town.

Nirakazhcha

Nirakazhcha tells the story of an Italian painter who visits Kerala to recreate the magnificent Raja Ravi Varma paintings.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Norah Lofts

The film 7 Women (1966) was directed by John Ford and based on the story Chinese Finale by Norah Lofts.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Pleasures of the Harbor

The best known track is "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", a sarcastic jab at the apathetic nature of people in certain situations, at its base the story of the Murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City (which numerous people witnessed, doing nothing to help), set to a Dixieland backing.

Rockwood Lodge

Most notably, the brick-hard limestone below the practice fields left the players so battered that Lambeau frequently had to move practices back to City Stadium.

Shahabuddin Nagari

In 2004 he wrote the story, dialogue, script and gave music direction for the feature film Ak Khondo Jomi produced by Impress Telefilm Limited.

Slope stability analysis

Back analysis serves for calculation of a reinforcement load with a given required factor of safety.

Star Ocean

There was an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story, which became a similarly incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX.

Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London

Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls from which the detective fell to his death in the story "The Final Problem".

Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film, a costume drama based on the French 12th century medieval romance (a true story) of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade.

Terry McGurrin

McGurrin recently wrapped up as the story editor for the new 2011 Cartoon Network/YTV show Scaredy Squirrel (which is based on the book series of the same name).

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

Tiyasha

This shows the journey of a man Sudipto (Saswata Chatterjee) defying the odds in maintaining a healthy and a happy family.The story revolves around Sudipto and Riya (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Tojo (Soham BasuRoychowdhury), their son.

Yagüez River

The first attempt to canalize the river was when Don Leonardo de Campos was mayor of Mayagüez in 1852, but the difficulties of the project did not allow it back then.

Zorro's Fighting Legion

The story takes a few liberties with Zorro's official timeline: it takes place in Mexico instead of Alta California; Zorro wears a masquerade mask, rather than the traditional bandana; the characters Don Alejandro Vega (Don Diego's father) and Bernardo are absent; and Zorro's horse, Tornado, was changed to white (much like Kaiketsu Zorro).


see also

Art of the Devil 3

A prequel to the 2005 film Long khong (Art of the Devil 2), Art of the Devil 3 fills in the back story of Miss Panor, portrayed by Napakpapha Nakprasitte, who turns to black magic to exact revenge upon her tormentors.

Daddy-O

In 1994 author James Ellroy wrote Hollywood Nocturnes, a collection of short stories, one of which was titled Dick Contino's Blues, a fictional take on the making of the film and surrounding back story starring Dick Contino.

Drakan

Not much is known about the history of the world before the Order of the Flame was established around 1000 years before Rynn was born, but the gist of the back story to Drakan: Order of the Flame below gives some idea.

Eli Bard

Eli Bard's back story was told, through a flashback, by Warpath to the rest of X-Force in X-Force #11 (2009).

Manta Force

The purpose of the comic-strips was to provide a back-story to Manta Force universe and help to promote the Bluebird toy range.

ProtoGalaxy

In the game's back-story, a species of powerful, unknown extraterrestrials enters the Milky Way with the intention of enslaving its inhabitants.

Rome Express

Like the post-war remake of this film, Sleeping Car to Trieste, details of the 'back story' of the film are few.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Other plots include meeting and helping the Lambeths, a wealthy couple whose marriage has deteriorated, as well as meeting with other passengers including Leyland Trask, a psychic from Boston; Reverend Edgar Troutt, a religious preacher from Sunapee, New Hampshire who is returning from an African mission in Nyasaland; and Max Seidelmann, an American freelance businessman from Philadelphia, who provides a back story and insight of varying value.

Today Is Your Day

Melinda Newman of HitFix presumed, considering Twain's back story, that Twain wrote "Today Is Your Day" as message for herself.