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  2. Luck (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story concerns a decorated English military hero, Lord Arthur Scoresby, a total idiot who triumphs in life through good luck. At the time of the Crimean War Scoresby is a captain . Despite his complete incompetence, everyone misinterprets his performance, taking his blunders for military genius, and his reputation is enhanced with every ...

  3. Grace (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The word "grace" is used in each part, but not in the religious sense until the last sentence of the story, and it has been argued that Joyce initially suppresses the doctrine only to have it equated with a business practice by a priest in a church, to ridicule the belief that divine grace is available there. [4]

  4. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.

  5. The Lucky One (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story also back tracks to Logan witnessing Keith taking the pictures and Logan taking the camera, destroying the disk, and slashing the tires of Keith's cruiser. The story then goes back further into Logan's life as he reflects on his walking all the way from Colorado and even further back as to why he decided to join the Marines.

  6. Opinion - The amazing story behind the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’

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    The story behind the hymn is as amazing as the hymn itself. Newton was a sailor, but his “character issues” got him transferred to a slave ship, where he became a ruthless slave trader.

  7. The Bones of Grace - Wikipedia

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    The story revolves around Zubaida Haque, an adopted daughter of a native Bengali family who finds herself lost between two worlds. She feels torn by everything which she has to choose. She feels a different kind of loyalty toward her motherland Bangladesh and America , where she completed her studies.

  8. The Problem of Thor Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The story was adapted for the Sherlock Holmes 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing, [11] but the episode is now lost. [12] The story was also dramatised in 1991 in Granada TV's series Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett with Daniel Massey as Neil Gibson, Celia Gregory as Maria Gibson, and Catherine Russell as Grace Dunbar. [13]

  9. ‘Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story’ Director Luck Razanajaona ...

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    Without shying away from depictions of violence and corruption, “Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story” rarely raises its voice above a whisper, settling on a placid tone anchored by an unmoving camera.