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Black Gold (also known as Day of the Falcon and Or noir) is a 2011 epic historical war film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia (also known as The Great Thirst and The Arab). It was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, [4] produced by Tarak Ben Ammar and co-produced by Doha Film Institute.
Story of King Sindibad and His Falcon ((5)) Tale of the Husband and the Parrot ((5)) Tale of the Prince and the Ogress (5-7) Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince (7-8) The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad (9–19) The First Kalandar's Tale (11-12) The Second Kalandar's Tale (12–14) Tale of the Envier and the Envied ((14))
Mateo Falcone is a respected landlord and marksman who lives in a rugged part of Corsica frequented by fugitives. One day, he leaves his 10-year-old son Fortunato in charge of the house while inspecting a sheep flock.
The Falcon Pipiristi (Russian: Сокол Пипиристи, romanized: Sokol Pipiristi) is a folktale from the Komi people, first published in 1938 in the Russian language. In it, the heroine asks her father to bring an item that belongs to a falcon named Falcon Pipiristi, which she uses to summon him to her bedroom, but her sisters place ...
A subplot of the tale deals with Canace and her ring. Eagerly rising the next morning, she goes on a walk and discovers a grieving falcon. The falcon tells Canace that she has been abandoned by her false lover, a tercelet (male hawk), who left her for a kite. (In medieval falconry, kites were birds of low status.) Canace heals the bird and ...
Afterward, for fear of her kinsmen, he flings himself out of her window and finds shelter in the house of a poor man. The next day the poor man leads him in the guise of a wild man into the piazza, where, being recognized, he is apprehended by his fellow friars and imprisoned. Pampinea tells the second tale of the day, which is a very ancient tale.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming ...
As the story opens, the Jackal plans to continue working as an assassin until he has enough money to retire. The money paid him for assassinating two German engineers, thus delaying the development of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Al Zarifa rocket, had been enough to keep him in luxury for several years, but the offer of US$500,000 (about 5 million in 2024 dollars) from the OAS to kill de Gaulle gives ...