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Stories

Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. Stories. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See Store, v. t.] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]

Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.

Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.

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stories

n. (story English)

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Stories (band)

Stories was an early 1970s rock and pop music band based in New York. The band consisted of keyboardist Michael Brown, bassist/ vocalist Ian Lloyd, guitarist Steve Love, and drummer Bryan Madey, and had a Number 1 hit with a cover of Hot Chocolate's " Brother Louie."

Stories (Randy Stonehill album)

Stories is the title of a compilation CD by Randy Stonehill, released in 1993 on Myrrh Records.

All of the tracks were released on previous albums by Stonehill (some of which remain unavailable on CD to this day), except "I Thirst For You," "Charlie the Weatherman," and the Acoustic Version of "Hope of Glory." These new tracks were recorded at The Green Room, with the Lost Dogs and Terry Scott Taylor producing.

"This record is dedicated with love to the memory of John Mark Heard, who always told the true story."

Stories (Gloria Gaynor album)

Stories is the eighth album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1980. Failing to produce any hit singles, Stories didn't fare as well as its predecessors and peaked at #178 on The Billboard 200.

This album has yet to be reissued on CD.

Stories (Boney M. song)

"Stories" is a 1990 single by German band Boney M. It peaked at #26 in Switzerland and #94 in the UK. The single was based on an instrumental 1989 underground favourite by Izit, which itself was a re-work of a 1972 recording by Belgian group Chakachas. With added lyrics by Peter Bischof-Fallenstein, "Stories" was released as a response to the withdrawn " Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker", released illegally under the group name by original members Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams and new singer Madeleine Davis. "Stories" launched a short-lived 'official' Boney M. line-up consisting of original lead singer Liz Mitchell and Reggie Tsiboe (who had replaced Farrell 1982-86) and two new girls, Sharon Steven and Patty Onoyewenjo. Never appearing on any studio album by the group, Stories was added as a bonus track on the remastered 2007 edition of the group's 1977 album Love for Sale. An unreleased 3:54 mix was used in the video clip for the track.

Stories (Mayumi Iizuka album)

Stories (released on July 23, 2008) is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka's 12th album.

Stories (Therapy? song)

"Stories" is a song by Therapy? and a single released on 22 May 1995 on A&M Records. The song is featured on the Infernal Love album. The single reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 15 in the Irish Singles Chart.

The single was released on CD, Orange 7" Vinyl and Cassette.

Stories (Addison Road album)

Stories is the second album from Christian rock band Addison Road. It was released on June 22, 2010 under INO Records. A music video for "This Little Light of Mine" was released by Addison Road on GodTube.com (formerly tangle.com). The album received positive reception and commercial successes.

Stories (EP)

Stories is Chris Brokaw's third solo EP.

Stories (Avicii album)

Stories is the second studio album by Swedish DJ Avicii. It was released on October 2, 2015, through PRMD and Island. The album was produced by Avicii with additional production done by Salem Al Fakir, Alex Ebert, Carl Falk, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Martin Garrix, Dhani Lennevald, Ash Pournouri, Albin Nedler, and Vincent Pontare on several of the tracks. Stories was released to mixed to positive reviews from music critics.

Four singles were released from the album: " Waiting for Love", " Pure Grinding", " For a Better Day", and " Broken Arrows". In addition, two promotional singles were released: "Ten More Days", and "Gonna Love Ya". As of the first week of November, Stories has sold one million copies worldwide. Additionally, Stories was the fourth most-streamed album of the year worldwide on Spotify.

Stories (The Bunny the Bear album)

Stories is the fourth studio album by post-hardcore band The Bunny the Bear, released through Victory Records on April 16, 2013. The album peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.

The album was announced in February 2013, and spawned two singles, "Another Day" and "In Like Flynn" prior its release in April 2013. "In Like Flynn" was released with an accompanying music video, which won music video of the year on Victory Records in 2013.

An additional single from the album, "Sadie," was released the following August, with a music video.

The album marks the first release with studio musicians Doug White (guitar) and Matt McGinley (drums). White, the owner of Watchmen Recording Studios in Lockport, New York had produced the band's previous two albums.

"It's Not Always Cold in Buffalo" was originally recorded in early 2012 by Tybor's side project "A Liar Wrote This Symphony," featuring singing by Chris Hutka. The version heard on Stories features altered instrumentation and re-recorded vocals. On May 25, 2015, another re-recorded version of "It's Not Always Cold in Buffalo" was released with an accompanying music video, featuring the vocals of Haley Roback, the band's new clean vocalist. This version was featured on the band's sixth album A Liar Wrote This.

Usage examples of "stories".

Mort Weisinger, for a series of stories under his own name, built around the characters of Penton and Blake, two fugitives from Earth.

One peculiarity of modern science fiction is that the same stories possess appeal for the teenage student and the literary intellectual.

The Skylark stories had been carried as far as Smith planned, and he now proceeded on what he thought would be a new series.

This remains one of the finest love stories science fiction has yet produced.

As a result, for the more than a quarter-century since he ceased writing, older readers have been haunted by half-remembered echoes in the plot structure of hundreds of stories and in the lines of scores of writers.

Up to 1965, of over 1,300 stories, one-third would be sold to the big-time slicks and a dozen would become pictures.

An old friend of Leinster, he approached him for stories under the Leinster name.

August 10, 1935, issue was intended to be the time travel story to end all time travel stories, pointing out that time machines might remain permanently fixed, indestructibly present in the same spot for the entire duration of their journey into time, to be viewed by generation after generation of humans.

Since 1926, not a year has passed that has not seen as many as a score of Hamilton stories appear in the science-fiction and fantasy magazines.

Hamilton, asked to do the stories, wrote all but three of the 21 novels and novelettes in the series to a hard-and-fast formula.

Of his first 21 stories, published between 1928 and 1932, 13 gained a cover.

Campbell a series of stories on the engineering problems of making asteroids habitable.

How they go about it makes for one of the grimmest horror stories as well as one of the landmarks in modern science fiction.

He had not given up science fiction, and stories continued to trickle out.

Several of the stories they received were rejects which the author had been unable to sell.