- 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...
- 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...
-
modern biographies, the
accounts in the "Biographies" give
profiles using anecdotes to
depict morals and character, with "unforgettably
lively impressions...
- 2025. www.peterchipping.co.uk,
Peter Chipping. "Another
Green World -
Anecdotes". www.anothergreenworld.co.uk.
Archived from the
original on 13 October...
-
Anecdotes of
Destiny is a
collection of
stories by
Danish author Karen Blixen written under the
pseudonym Isak Dinesen. It was the last work published...
- 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...
-
Anekdote zur
Senkung der
Arbeitsmoral ("
Anecdote on
Lowering the work ethic") is a
short story by
Heinrich Böll
about an
encounter between an enterprising...
