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Â The Three Musketeers - RecipeFacts

D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
Remembering a story that Athos had once told him, d'Artagnan suddenly realizes with horror thet Milady was not at all an English noble lady, as he thought, but in fact she was Athos' wife, whom everyone thought dead.
Meanwhile, in an inn near La Rochelle, Athos, Porthos and Aramis accidentally eavesdrop on a conversation between the Cardinal and Milady: Richelieu was ordering the Countess to go to England and kill the Duke of Buckingham.

http://www.recipeland.com/encyclopaedia/index.php/The_Three_Musketeers (1576 words)

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Â SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Category:Literary characters

Fictional characters appearing in various works of literature

http://www.singaporemoms.com/parenting/Category:Literary_characters (19 words)

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Â pug: Definition and Much More From Answers.com

Pugs were originally bred in China to be royal companions and royal "bed warmers".
According to the book The Intelligence of Dogs, they are only fair in their ability to learn new commands and to obey commands the first time; however, there is much debate about how to accurately measure dog intelligence.
Its short, smooth, glossy coat is either silver or apricot fawn in color with black mask and ears.

http://www.answers.com/topic/pug (906 words)

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Â List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters - Wikpedia

Luther Sloan is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by William Sadler.
Eddington's character was first seen in episode "The Search", during which he was placed in charge of a Romulan cloaking device, on loan for the war against the Dominion.
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Zek was the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance throughout most of the 24th century.

http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Morn (2395 words)

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Â HermesOdetoMemory.page

She simply assures that it is not personal and that Athos Roussos is a fictional character.
Michaels plunges her characters into an intertwining world of nature, science and history.
Jakob was saved by geologist Athos Roussos, who smuggled the boy under his coat, back to his homeland in Greece on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, where he hid him for four years.

http://www.geocities.com/annemichaels/HermesOdetoMemory.html (1130 words)

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Â »»Books: Atlas««

Everything about it: the setting, the characters, the language, the love and the tragedy are executed to perfection.
The author's excellent research would have made this book worthwhile for just those two items; however, the plot and the characters are what made this such a treat to read.
Other textbooks on Ged in Spanish published by Barron's and MacGrow Hill are mere translations from Ged English textbooks which were written and conceived for the Angloamerican student without any consideration to the Hispanics.

http://www.e-book-store.com/Reference/Atlas/ (1130 words)

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Â List of fictional cats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schrödinger's cat, hapless victim and lucky survivor of a thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics (although Schrödinger himself is historical, the cat is the protagonist in a thought experiment and thus fictional).
Cats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media.
Black Pete, Disney cartoon character, originally the nemesis of Mickey Mouse then

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_cats (1130 words)

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Â The Sugar Quill > Books That Changed Your Life

But her characters are fallible and flawed, that's why I love them soo much.
There was a character in the book who was about my age who was trying to get published, and I thought that was so cool so I started writing my first novel.
But the entire time I was reading the book I kept thinking, "This is not what Astrid would do! Why is the author forcing her to do that?" I felt like Fitch wrote a book that she hoped would be shocking and provocative, but instead it's trite and over-the-top.

http://www.sugarquill.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t6359-50.html (7648 words)

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Â Roger

Roger Mellie Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") is a Roget's Thesaurus.
Roger de Flor Roger de Flor, a military adventurer of the 13th and 14th century, was the second son of a German falcone...
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1627.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/roger.html (7648 words)

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Â awizardofearthsea

There is Ged, the main character, who is determined, strong willed, and smart.
The contrast between good and evil characters makes the events more interesting, adding jealousy and greed.
The setting and characters are very well developed and detailed, making the book much more interesting.

http://www.ptc.dcs.edu/opnet/langarts/bkreview/wizardearthsea/page1.htm (7648 words)

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Â Dialogs

Each character knows the reputation and function of other characters at the start of every dialogue, as well as any presumed past relationship among characters.
This part of the site describes conventions used in dialogues, and each of the dramatis personae within a virtual troupe of characters.
Characters are all vaguely aware the memory slate gets wiped clean between pages, giving an extra degree of freedom in speaking.

http://www.treedragon.com/ged/di/di.htm (7648 words)

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Â math lessons - Comte de Rochefort

The Comte de Rochefort was a secondary, but important, character in Alexandre Dumas, pÃ¨re's d'Artagnan Romances.
The fictional Memoirs of Monsieur Le Comte de Rochefort was written in 1678, although Dumas did not take much from the story aside from the name.
He aids Athos in freeing the Duke of Beaufort and reappears in the end at the riot against Mazarin's return.

http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Comte_de_Rochefort (332 words)

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Â The Ninth Gate Opens

For the experts, the latter would be a give-way to its fictional character as the Hermeticum could not be further removed from demon worship.
Whereas the latter characters will immediately be deemed fictional, more research is required to find out whether the book itself of the Delomelanicon is an invention of the author – or fact.
Reverte has carefully constructed his book, so that almost all of the principal and peripheral characters are counterparts of characters in Dumas&; The Three Musketeers.

http://www.philipcoppens.com/ninthgate.html (2428 words)

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Â Teaching Pamphlet #7 - Teare Article

Because the character and reputation of the Duke of Marlborough are a touchstone throughout the course, we also begin with Addison's 1705 poem "The Campaign," discussed alongside Sir Godfrey Kneller's heroic portrait of Marlborough on horseback.
The works I have chosen tell a convincing story of the rise of the novel, focused on the importance of "character" in the genre and on its engagement in the sphere of public experience.
A secondary focus is the characters' perceptions of the public spaces of Bath, London, and Edinburgh, which can be fruitfully compared to Hogarth's city images.

http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/teare.html (3582 words)

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Â Chapter 13: Earthsea Revisited

Ged looks at Therru "as if he did not see her hideous scars, as if he scarcely saw her at all: a child who had lost a goat, who needed to find a goat.
Ged does not attempt an answer, and the perfection of those circles of order, the straightness of the order should give Le Guin's readers pause.
Tenar and Ged discuss Therru and how she is big enough now that she obeys Tenar "only because she wants to," which Ged thinks (in another good anarchist thought) "the only justification for obedience." Tenar is concerned by the "wildness" in Therru, and concerned that Ivy fears Therru.

http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/sfra/Coyote/earthsea.htm (3582 words)

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Â THE SORCERERS SHOWN: Comparing Similar Character Genres in Literature and Film

By pitting same-genre characters against each other in fictionalized competitions, students learn more about the traits of the various character types.
In assessing the merits of this character, students should compare him or her to other characters in the genre and explain why this character is superior.
Explain that students will be working in their groups to develop and perform skits representing a competition among four of the characters from their selected genre.

http://home.t-online.de/home/frank.gemkow/sorcerl.htm (3582 words)

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Â Mystery Crime Reviews

But because her characters are real and likable, and you can't wait to find out what happens to them.
The title character is Burke's most interesting leading lady since Flood walked out of his life after the first novel.
Her on-and-off romance with James Lacey worked because Lacey was, in his way, an interesting character.

http://www.e-book-store.com/Mystery_Crime/Mystery_Crime_19.html (8586 words)

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Â Flight to Canada

Reed, however, has no sympathy for his historical setting or characters—Camelot is "the Wasp's Jerusalem" and Swille represents all that is Eurocentric and Negrophobic.
Reed draws heavily upon literary and historical narratives and characters—both black and white—for intertextual play, thus effectively rewriting Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison as well as Plato, Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot (Hutcheon 134).
Reed's work, both fictional and non-fictional, indicates how one- sided and exclusionary many standards of cultural authority in America are and, as Klinkowitz further notes, how an entire culture is systematically excluded by "an educational and media organization pledge to a set of ideals blind to 'nativistic' literature" (24).

http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/annex/comm/english/mah8420/FlightToCanada.htm (8586 words)

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Â Bones of the World, Edited by Bruce Holland Rogers

The main character, Pug, is a man of vision and impact.
Bricker identifies his character) finds himself in a struggle for survival among a strange variety of beings, not all of who are friendly.
This engrossing story succeeds on the strength of its characters and the straightforwardness of its plot.

http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?ID=1 (3201 words)

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Â Fantasist's Scroll: Fiction Archives

This is from a series of "men's fiction" (no, that's not a euphemism for pornography!) called SuperBolan, which is named after the main character, Mack Bolan.
Everyone is a giant characature of actual characters.
This book is an all-around, kick-ass writing book.

http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/archives/cat_fiction.html (3201 words)

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Â Kids@Random Catalog River Thunder by Will Hobbs

Ask students to select one of the characters from the novels and write 3-5 diary entries which might have been made by this character.
I think it's the relationships that develop among the characters, and how each of these kids handle the challenges of the Grand Canyon, that make both of these stories so fascinating for readers.
Characters may be developed by an author in several ways: through speech patterns, through actions, by the way characters think and feel about each other.

http://randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-440-22681-3&view=tg (2887 words)

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Â List of heroic fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emmett Brown, character of the hugely popular 1980s trilogy
television series character who fights the forces of evil using his scientific and engineering knowledge to his advantage.
His is one of the few examples of a character name used for both heroic and evil scientists, as the TV comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 reused it for the mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heroic_fictional_scientists (2887 words)

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Â Bloomswake - A journey through Joyce's Dublin during the week of 16 June, 2004

Why is it important to retrace a fictional character's walk through a city a hundred years after its occurrence in the imagination of one man? There is Joyce's much quoted intention to provide a blueprint for the recreation of Dublin were it to be subject to a catastrophic destruction.
This is the central chapter where several characters simultaneously make their way through the streets of Dublin.
The fictional events of the opening episode at the Martello Tower are said to be based on a real life incident that resulted in the falling out between Joyce and Gogarty and Joyce's subsequent departure from the tower.

http://home.comcast.net/~rvenkatesh/Bloomsday/Bloomswake.html (10429 words)

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Â Information about children's books

A favourite fictional character of mine called Old Timothy, features in The Cay by Thoedore Taylor (1969); the story is set during the Second World War on the Dutch island of Curacao, off Venezuela.
However I know I will enjoy renewing my acquaintance with the characters in my chosen books.
The first title, A Wizard of Earthsea, was published in 1968; the central character, Ged or Sparrowhawk, is destined to become a great mage, but he has much to learn.

http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/magazine/issue3/desert.html (10429 words)

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Â BookBest: Children's Books - Authors & Illustrators, A-Z - ( L )

The characters are human-like in nature which gives the book charm.
Each story is about animal characters, which makes the stories very enchanting.
In the story where a pig dreams of candies all night, the image on the opposite page displays a subtley shaded porcine character flying next to a gorgeous moon, a mÃ©lange of greens and yellows.

http://children.bookbest.com/node/authors-and-illustrators-a-z/-l-/353449_3.html (10429 words)

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Â The Washington Monthly

This sturdy tale typically pitches a political naif's fateful interest in the machinery of reform against the backdrop of irredeemably fallen, endlessly seductive relations of power in the nation's capital.
You know, why bother with American Political Fiction, the kind of stuff that's going on these days wouldn't even make it to the publisher it's so bizarre and sickening.
Ross Thomas' political novels are marvelous and don't fit that fable at all.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007499.php (7801 words)

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Â Character Spotlight

Various fictional reporter characters have also played a role- Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, April O'Neil from Ninja Turtles (whose annoying partner became Nikki's anchorman :), Maya of Just Shoot Me, and Mary Tyler Moore's character from her old show.
No hints of her true identity or the importance her character would acquire later were given out.
Nikki's not a Mary Sue or a self-insertion character by any means (Rachel, Seth, and Zack are the ones I think of more when the question of who's such a character in my ficverse arises), but she does represent a part of all of us, I think.

http://avmists.gargoyles-fans.org/mar00_spot2.html (7801 words)

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Â Historical_Archive.html

Although the story is about this fictional character, Eric, and his young wife, Emma, it closely parallels the author's actual experiences.
The characters, facts, and actions are true, and the dialogue is the author's best guess as to what may have been said.
Characters and dialogue are excellent, as is the setting.

http://www.heartlandreviews.com/Historical_Archive.html (7801 words)

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Â Chapter 337 of The Adventurers

+ + The player characters contained in these writings are copy- + + right 1995 by Thomas Miller.
Otto is turning out to be a good >> character and Belaniphor seems to be at a point of great >> danger with his sword getting restless and Orcus and Co. >> maybe getting ready to try and work through Belanipohor.
>> >> Sometimes I see Belphanior as a tragic character and I >> think it would fit his personality to fall for someone >> only later to send them away after some incident were he >> realizes that he is too dangerous a person to be around.

http://www.peldor.com/chapters/story337.html (7801 words)

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Â French Language Films: Media Resources Center UCB

This tale of a dancer rejected by her lover and forced to endure other indignities in order to support her child is told in expressionistic style, with camera angles and architectural design defining the emotional states of the characters even more than the plot.
In this fantastically-twisted fairy tale chock-full of curious characters and special effects, a gutsy little girl and a sentimental strongman join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from a madman's master plan.
Balthazar, a donkey, is the main character, and the film traces his birth, life and death and the various tasks he is set: drawing a carriage, a child's plaything, circus attraction, turning a grindstone, and finally a drug smuggler's transport.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Frenchfilm.html (7801 words)