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Telling the bees. Telling the bees is a Western European tradition in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees ...
Even at the funeral, they write, the family felt "engulfed by mysteries". As the ceremony drew to a close, a highly decorated military officer in U.S. Army dress reportedly arrived in a limousine. Accompanied by another man in plain clothes, the military man approached the coffin just before it was lowered into the ground, laid a medal on the ...
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Russian: Соломон Наумович Рабинович; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author ...
Zach and Annie take off on a biking trail, determined to complete it before sun down. But when Zach has an accident and sprains his ankle, he and Annie tell each other stories of determination such as the myth of Proteus and Menelaus and the true story of courageous Jinkyswoitmaya. A. Proteus and Menelaus. B. Jinkyswoitmaya
978-0143180661. Dear Life is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart . The book was to have been promoted in part by a reading at Toronto 's International Festival of Authors, although the appearance was cancelled due to health concerns. [1]
Tobermory (short story) " Tobermory " is a humorous short story by Hector Hugh Munro written under his pen-name, Saki. It was originally published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909, first collected, in a revised form, in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and has frequently been reprinted in anthologies. The plot concerns Tobermory, a cat who ...
The Fair at Sorochyntsi (short story) " The Fair at Sorochyntsi " is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands).