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A number of year-riddles use man-made objects as their controlling metaphor. For example, a modern Greek riddle invokes a cask made with twelve staves, and a Parsi riddle the contents of a chest. But most often these riddles draw on architecture, [43] as in the following mid-twentieth-century example from central Myanmar: Ein-daw-thar-lan: set ...
Hildegarde Withers is a fictional character, an amateur crime-solver, who has appeared in several novels, short stories and films. She was created by American mystery author Stuart Palmer (1905–1968).
Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning.
Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with laughing at these bad-but-good Christmas riddles. Because whether it's the holiday season or any other day of the year, a funny dad joke is like Santa Claus ...
The related story of Turandot in One Thousand and One Nights, which was the inspiration for several modern plays, involves a riddle-contest: [8] the suitors need to answer all three questions to gain the Princess's hand, or else they are beheaded; [9] In Puccini's opera, Turandot grimly warns Calaf "the riddles are three, but Death is one".
Riddle Story of Devil (Japanese: 悪魔のリドル, Hepburn: Akuma no Ridoru, lit. Devil's Riddle ) is a Japanese manga series written by Yun Kōga and illustrated by Sunao Minakata. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten 's Newtype magazine between the September 2012 and November 2016 issues and is licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment .
In 1984, Günther Stoll, [3] [4] an unemployed food engineer from Anzhausen, Westphalia (then West Germany), was suffering from a moderate case of paranoia.Prior to his death, he occasionally spoke to his wife of "those [ones]," (German: denen) unknown people who supposedly intended to harm him.
"Soushou Innocence" (創傷イノセンス, lit. Wound Innocence) is Japanese voice actress and singer Maaya Uchida's debut single, released on April 23, 2014. [1] The titular song from the single was used as the opening theme for the anime Riddle Story of Devil.