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A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"
On the BBC television show Doctor Who, the tenth episode of the ninth series (titled "Sleep No More") involves a machine called Morpheus that can condense a full night's worth of sleep into mere minutes. People who refuse to use Morpheus are colloquially called "Rips", referencing Rip van Winkle.
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hebrew: סיפור על אהבה וחושך Sipur al ahava ve choshech) is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002. The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide.
Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
The tales of the Big Liars are taken from heroes of American folklore: The Tall Man with the Axe (Paul Bunyan), The Tall Man with the Big Maul (Joe Magarac), The Tall Man with the Harpoon (Old Stormalong), The Tall Man with the Pole , The Man with the Knife in His Boot (possibly Stagger Lee),
Tall Tale (also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill) is a 1995 American Western adventure fantasy film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, written by Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures and starring Scott Glenn, Oliver Platt, Nick Stahl, Stephen Lang, Roger Aaron Brown, Catherine O'Hara, and Patrick Swayze.
The Handmaid's Tale series cast Strahovski and Fiennes as members of the Waterford family. That was a big shift from the novel, which depicted the Waterfords as an older couple. Their age ...
Sarah, Plain and Tall is the first book in Patricia MacLachlan's five-book series. The books that follow are: [ 17 ] Skylark (1994) – In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall , while Jacob deals with the prairie that suffers from a drought, Sarah takes Anna and Caleb to her home in Maine to take refuge.