The first story has been told in pedantic detail by the Financial Services Authority in its 450-page report on the failure of RBS. Today, the FSA released the first chapter of the second tale and painted an even more damning picture.
There accumulated the first of our tale, a deposit of what we now call conventional oil.
This is the first draft of a tale about a kingdom that was once the greatest in all the land.
Paolini was only eighteen when the first volume of his Eragon series, the tale of the dragon rider Eragon, was privately published, in 2001.
The first show, "A Tale of Two Rivers, " describes the taming of two mighty waterways, the Colorado and the Mississippi.
This is the first exhibition devoted to the entire cycle and the tale it tells.
The movie Roger Ebert calls "a first-rate thriller" tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to "exchange" murders, each killing the person the other wants dead.
The next year she received a romantic mainstay, jewelry, and they remain together today to happily tell the tale of their first gifting mix-up.
The interview was the All-American's first on camera since his tale of inspired play after the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend on the same day in September unraveled as a bizarre hoax in an expose by Deadspin.com on Jan. 16.
Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.
The Warner Bros. film is the first in a wave of upcoming fairy-tale themed movies slated to hit theaters in the next few years.
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The series, also from Eick and his Battlestar partner Ron Moore, is set 50 years earlier and tells the tale of how humanity first created the Cylons.
The first being that we can piece together a little tale about who is really to blame for the mess at Autonomy after the takeover.
At the same time, as Hugues walks relentlessly through the city, he comes to incarnate the Man of the Crowd, the archetype first introduced to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the same name.
In the first case, William Souder, an American journalist, chronicles the jarring tale that unfolded near his own backyard in Minnesota.
The rest of their story reads like the first half of any textbook startup fairy tale, with shared beds, ramen noodles, and much doubt abounding.
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Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.
First, the retelling of the classic fairy tale is an old-fashioned, hand-drawn 2-D movie.
So I don't think it was unusual for Bartok to pick a revisionist rendition of a dark and terror-filled fairy tale as the libretto for his first and only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Jurors said the film, which picked up the best first feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, "offers us a transcendent tale of hope and perseverance in a world that few Westerners ever have the chance to see".
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But it fixes a key flaw of the first film while telling a politically and socially relevant adventure tale that excites and amuses throughout.
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Mr. Grahame-Smith wasn't the first writer to put a bizarre spin on a classic tale (arguably, Shakespeare was a skilled practitioner of genre remixing).
And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.
Although the tale is almost certainly apocryphal (I figure the first sandwich was made the day after bread was invented), apparently the earl did lend his name to this gustatory delight.
Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
The Enchanted Canary, a fairy-tale opera by Noel Scott Stevens, first performed in Tampa, Fla.
In contrast, the principal characters in Lady Murasaki's "The Tale of Genji, " the Japanese epic often cited as the first novel, delight in music, which is an integral part of court life.
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The wins have moved the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association considerably closer to a goal that, when first set in 1997, seemed like a fairy tale: to produce the best Alpine team in the world.
Ghost tweeting is a form of ghost writing, an art that's been around since The Tale of Genji appeared in early 11th-century Japan (believed to be the first published novel and ghostwritten, in part, by a relative of the author).
"First Sight" begins with a soft keyboard riff just before Elliot sings a tale of the birth and death of love.
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