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...in several different Negro Leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. ...ate in his career he became even more famous as a seemingly ageless living legend who had at last managed to pitch his way into the Big Leagues.

...ch, and ''oriental'' as an adjective was used in about 1386 in Chaucer's ''Legend of Good Women''. <ref> ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology'' (1988) ISBN 0-5

...chers; other genres including the Saturday afternoon serial, and Arthurian legend

...philosophy]] and religious teaching in the late sixth century BCE. Because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than with the other [[pre-Socratic According to legend, the way Pythagoras discovered that musical notes could be translated into

| 'The Legend of Xanadu' by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich

...ate in his career he became even more famous as a seemingly ageless living legend who had at last managed to pitch his way into the Big Leagues. Although he

...have since turned out to be the tusk of the male [(narwhal)]. The unicorn legend, however, is very beautiful and is still popular today.

...me) has several, often fantastic, stories surrounding it. One comes from a legend that a domestic cat released in the wilds of [[Maine (U.S. state)|Maine]] i

* ÓhÓgáin, Dáithí. ''The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend, and Romance.'' Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2006. 531 pp.

...did so for ten years, until he died in 1935. Hachiko has become a national legend of loyalty and friendship. <ref>{{citation

...his room to be with the men who were staying. A major flaw in this heroic legend is the story didn’t surface till approximately forty years after the even

*Ramakrishnan R. Chennai Online, "Sri Sathya Sai Baba: A living Legend" *Sri Sathya Sai Baba - A Living Legend - An Embodiment Of Love For All Mankind, Letter from A.B. Vajpayee (the the

Popular legend has it that Ponce de León was searching for the [[Fountain of Youth]] when

* Legend of the Origin of the Book [[Tao Te Ching|Tao-Te-Ching]] on [[Laozi|Lao-Tsu

According to one Rhine legend, a dragon cult demanded the continual sacrifice of young maidens. One such

Mission Santa Barbara's name comes from the legend of Saint Barbara, a girl who was supposedly beheaded by her father for foll

...ssive barking, they will sound the alarm at noises in the night. In fact, legend has it that the ancient Romans would use dogs similar to Maltese as alarm d

...hai freedom. Another hero of Muay Thai is Nai Khanom Tom who, according to legend, after being imprisoned in the city of Ungwa by the Burmese won a fighting

In recent years a persistent [[Urban legend|urban legend]] has arisen, particularly on the [[Internet]], that the rules were modifie

...ed world fame with his short stories ''"[[Rip Van Winkle]]"'' and ''"[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]],"'', also wrote historical biographies of George Washing