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  2. Chekhov's gun - Wikipedia

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    Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot.

  3. Kleos - Wikipedia

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    Kleos is invariably transferred from father to son; the son is responsible for carrying on and building upon the "glory" of the father. This is a reason for Penelope putting off her suitors for so long, and one justification for Medea 's murder of her own children was to cut short Jason 's kleos.

  4. Glory (honor) - Wikipedia

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    Glory is high renown, praise, and honor obtained by notable achievements, and based in extensive common consent. [1] In Greek culture, fame and glory were highly considered, as is explained in The Symposium , one of Plato 's dialogs.

  5. The Guns of Navarone (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel. Foreman also produced the film. Foreman also produced the film.

  6. Glory (religion) - Wikipedia

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    Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the Abrahamic religions.. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate ...

  7. Hand of Glory - Wikipedia

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    A hand of glory holding a candle, from the 18th century grimoire Petit Albert. According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor who died on the gallows, lighted, and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory, which comes from the same man as the fat in the candle, would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented.

  8. Glory (Vladimir Nabokov novel) - Wikipedia

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    James Wood writes, 'His novel Glory, for instance, is an absolutely ravishing Bildungsroman, but it must be one of the most idea-free novels of its genre in literature. Nabokov writes, of his hero Martin, that "to listen to Moon's rich speech was like chewing thick elastic Turkish Delight powdered with confectioner's sugar."

  9. Glory (1989 film) - Wikipedia

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    Glory is a 1989 American epic historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest ...