Sentences with phrase «from fabled cities»

When civilization arrived in this northern edge of the Mesopotamian plain, the story goes, it was bestowed by the Sumerians from fabled cities like Ur, Uruk, Eridu.

Not exact matches

The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

Lake City is less than 50 miles from many of Michigan's fabled streams, some of which are hailed as the best fishing spots in the Midwest.

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This beautifully made fable from Kyrgyzstan tackles big themes in its story about the encounter between poor villagers and rich big - city businessmen trying to change their way of life.

Titled after the local slang for the city's fabled 42nd Street, The Deuce explores the rough - and - tumble world of the sex trade from the moment when both a liberalizing cultural revolution in American sexuality and new legal definitions of obscenity created a billion - dollar industry that is now an elemental component of the American cultural landscape.

Lazlo Strange is the eponymous dreamer in Taylor's brilliantly epic fantasy, which takes him from the quotidian library where he works to the fabled lost city of Weep, which has fascinated him since he was a boy.

The Quest for Z brings young readers the story of Percy Fawcett's early 20th - century explorations in the Amazon, where he hoped to find the fabled, ancient city of «Z.» Readers know from 2015's Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower that Greg Pizzoli writes about complicated people with honesty and never condescends to young readers.

Situated at the edge of the scenic 1,200 - acre Swaner Nature Preserve, the Newpark Resort is minutes from the fabled ski resorts of Park City.

Enjoy the true portrait of old Dubai with its splendid architecture from years gone by, intermingled with the towering new designs depicting the glitz and glamour of this fabled city.

Access Berber villages, the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara from this palatial retreat outside the fabled Red City, Marrakech

Not to be confused with Peter Molyneux's also excellent swords and sorcery game, Bill Willingham's Fables follows the adventures of a clandestine community of fairytale characters, driven from their various homelands by «The Adversary,» who have now taken up residence in a magically concealed corner of New York City.

Another game from Telltale based upon a comic book (Fables by Bill Willingham — published by Vertigo DC) though this time it is centered around an urban fantasy world where creatures from fairy tales live in a section of New York City.

Combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the series and (for the first time) a fully open - world Gotham city (no more walls to keep you from entering the other districts), the fabled vehicle offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the city streets and soar across the skyline.

Located on Elysian Fields Avenue, one of the many fanciful names that demarcate this fabled city of dreams on the Mississippi, the celebration included a traditional New Orleans «second - line parade» — a laughing, twirling crowd drawn by a brass band from the park through neighbourhood streets and back — with lunch afterwards for all spectators, a gesture of southern hospitality that was also traditional.