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Scheherazade is the main character and narrator of the Middle Eastern collection of stories called One Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights, told in the frame narrative style which is a story within a story). Her story starts when the current monarch, Shahryar, discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him. He decrees that he will wed a new wife every day and then behead her the next morning before she can dishonor him. Eventually, no more young women of noble blood could be found and so a vizier to the king offers his own daughter, Scheherazade. She was said to be polite and pleasant, wise and witty, and she collected thousands of stories from poets, and studied philosophy and science and history. She knew all of the tales by heart and she used this to her advantage.

It was planned that on her first night with the monarch, she would ask to say goodbye to her sister, Dunyazad, who then would ask for a story. Scheherazade recounted the first tale all night until the sun was rising, but she had purposefully stopped halfway through. The king asked her to continue as he was invested in her story but she said there was no time for it was morning and she was to be beheaded. Instead, he spared her life so that she could continue the story the next night. So Scheherazade finished the tale on the second night and then started a new, more thrilling adventure. The same thing happened. She stopped before the story was complete when dawn came and again Shahryar spared her life. She continued to tell 1,000 stories over 1,001 nights and then she told the king that she had no more tales to tell. However, after listening to Scheherazade's stories night after night, Shahryar had fallen in love with her and made her his queen.

Popular characters featured in the collection of tales in One Thousand and One Nights include: Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Sinbad the Sailor.

She stood still, posing carefully. "Hurry up! Come on, these books are giving me the hives, take the pics so I can send them to my parents!"
The phone flashed and she quickly grabbed it and rushed out of the library with her roommate.
"Why did you want pics of you in the place you hate the most to send?" Her friend asked.
"Duh...make them think I'm actually studying out here! Come on, lets ditch and get ice cream over in Barton Town now!"
They rush off, 2 delinquents from a private school, hoping they don't get caught.

Mani - born so fair his father named him for the moon, angering the gods who took Mani and set him to the task of driving the moon's horses across the sky. His sister Sol earned the same fate, driving the horses of her namesake the sun. They'll travel across the sky until Ragnarok comes, each destined to be eaten by a wolf.

Keeping hearts and bodies warm over the holidays can be a daunting task. Luckily, Taylor Joy is on the job. The head elf at the North Pole's sewing studio, Taylor spends the year hand-crafting some plushy new friends and knitting homespun hats, mittens, and blankets for nice children all over the world. There's nothing like a homemade gift to warm the spirit!