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Trinummus is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.It is called Trinummus "The Three Coins" because in the play an imposter (sycophantes) is paid three coins to dress up as a messenger from Syria.
Straw Millionaire by Kiichi Okamoto in Kunio Yanagita's Nihon Mukashibanashi-Shu. The legend of the Straw Millionaire (わらしべ長者, Warashibe Chōja), also known as Daietsu or the Daikokumai, is a Japanese Buddhist folk tale about a poor man who becomes wealthy through a series of successive trades, starting with a single piece of straw. [1]
Jan Harold Brunvand (born March 23, 1933) is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. [ 3 ] Brunvand is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend , a form of modern folklore or story telling.
See how Monopoly has evolved through the years: The second is a penguin -- which joins other Monopoly animals like the Scottie dog and the cat. And last but not least is the new rubber ducky token.
The Chimera House (also known as the "13 floor money back house") is an urban legend which consists of the usual young teens going out for a night on the town, only to stumble across a large, worn down multiple storey building where they are offered to go through a haunted attraction that consists of "real" horrors inside.
Zlatan Ibrahimović is calling it quits. The Swedish soccer icon announced his retirement Sunday in an emotional postgame speech in front of a San Siro Stadium home crowd at the conclusion of AC ...
The trio were able to read 2,000 letters from the scroll after training machine-learning algorithms on the scans. After creating a 3D scan of the text using a CT scan, the scroll was then ...
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file. Image title Judas before the Sanhedrin returning the pieces of silver; he throws the money to the ground