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Gesta Romanorum (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ s t ə r oʊ m ə ˈ n ɔːr əm /; "Deeds of the Romans") is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that was probably compiled about the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th.
The Two Caskets is a Scandinavian fairy tale included by Benjamin Thorpe in his Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions. Andrew Lang included it in The Orange Fairy Book. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 480, the kind and the unkind girls.
Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorges; Guangxi. Hongshui River cliffs of Donglan County, with hanging coffins built by the Buyang people [4] Yunnan. Hanging tombs of the Bo people at Doushaguan (豆沙关僰人悬棺) [5] Cliffs southeast of Bainitang (白泥塘), Qiubei County, Wenshan Prefecture (Ku people, descendants of the Bo of Sichuan)
Dismantled coffin of Khety c. 1919–1800 BCE with Coffin Text spells painted on the inside panels. Coffin text 1130 is a speech by the sun god Ra, who says: . Hail in peace!
Bassanio reasons through his choices and decides to choose the casket of lead because it is a humble choice. When he opens the casket, he finds the portrait of Portia inside and realizes he has chosen correctly. Portia also gives Bassanio a ring that she says if he loses it, their love will be doomed.
aside three hours and write your answers to the questions in Part Three. Whatever your choice, enjoy the journey! THE TURNING POINT The idea started on New Year’s Day in 1980, when my boyfriend (now my husband), Tim, and I woke up in our flat in London. We’d been working in the U.K. for less than a year and living together only a couple of
The Fed cut its benchmark rate three times last year, kicking off with a jumbo 0.5 percentage point reduction in September. That was followed by two consecutive 0.25 percentage point cuts: ...
The Hollow Man (The Three Coffins in the USA) is a 1935 locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his recurring investigator Gideon Fell. It contains in chapter 17 the often-reprinted "locked room lecture" in which Dr Fell speaks directly to the reader, setting out the various ways in which murder can be ...