- An
anecdote is "a
story with a point", such as to
communicate an
abstract idea
about a person, place, or
thing through the
concrete details of a short...
- "
Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "
Anecdote for Fathers,
Shewing how the
practice of
Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by
William Wordsworth first published...
-
Anecdote of the Jar I
placed a jar in Tennessee, And
round it was, upon a hill. It made the
slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness...
-
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th
president of the
United States, was born on
November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's
Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to...
- The
fifth season of the One
Piece anime series was
directed by Kōnosuke Uda and
produced by Toei Animation. Like the rest of the series, it
follows the...
-
mascot in the facilities. "KURÉ LUQUE" (Chancho Luqueño) due to an old
anecdotic fact: the pigs were
transported to Asunción in
certain train carriages...
-
Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. '
anecdotes') are
short fictional stories or
dialogs with a
punch line,
which commonly appear...
- to the
credit of his heroes." The cherry-tree
anecdote illustrates this point.
Another dubious anecdote found in Weems's
biography is that of Washington's...
- "Earthy
Anecdote" is the
first poem in
Wallace Stevens'
first book of
poetry Harmonium (1923). The p****age of a
group of "bucks" is
impeded by a "firecat"...
-
modern biographies, the
accounts in the "Biographies" give
profiles using anecdotes to
depict morals and character, with "unforgettably
lively impressions...
