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...s Brutus]] increased the number of Senators to three hundred (according to legend), they were also called ''Conscripti'' ("Conscripted Men"), because Brutus

...are told of the earlier Irish High King [[Lugaid Laigde]], in [[Arthurian legend]] – one of the most famous versions appears in both [[Geoffrey Chauce

...death, President [[Ronald Reagan]] said, "Joe Louis was more than a sports legend -- his career was an indictment of racial bigotry and a source of pride and

Legend has it that the founding expedition was confronted by a large group of nati

...culture.<ref>Venita Datta, "'L'appel Au Soldat': Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque." ''French Historical Studies'' 2005

...oon' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/05/27/314614737/mcmurtry-takes-aim-at-a-legend-in-last-kind-words-saloon |work=NPR |date=May 27, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> ...ngeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/little-big-legend-on-larry-mcmurtrys-custer/ |date=February 3, 2013}}</ref>

* ''Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura'' (2009), Caroline Seebohm, University of Nebraska Press, Lon

...and portrays a world of disillusion and collapse. The title refers to the legend of the [[Holy Grail]] in which the [[Fisher King]] is wounded and his lands

He was a colorful character and a legend in special operations, often prefacing his stories with ""Now, this one is

...the culture did allow for, and approved voluntary suicide. Popular (movie) legend had long glorified the wounded hero who sacrificed himself to save his squa

* Hazareesingh, Sudhir. "Memory and Political Imagination: the Legend of Napoleon Revisited." ''French History,'' 2004 18(4): 463-483. Issn: 0269

...e set about getting seriously into debt.<ref>MacCarthy, F. Byron: Life and legend. John Murray. 2002. chs 1-6</ref> While at Cambridge he produced his first

*The Legend of the Castle – Gertrude and Chorus

* Davis, Allen F. ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams'' (Oxford U. Press, 1973), 339pp, solid scholarship but tend

...himself states that he performed textual penance in the form of his [[The Legend of Good Women]]. ...oller for London (1374 to 1386). His ''[[Parlement of Foules]]'', ''[[The Legend of Good Women]]'' and ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]'' all date from this time.

The scientific achievements of the Library of Alexandria are the stuff of legend. Among the lasting achievements of the Library are Euclid's geometry, along

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...ech bites, it should be removed and the wound cleaned. There is an [[urban legend]] that if the biting parts of the leech are left in the wound, healing is i

{{Image|HIC2.jpg|right|450px|Figure 1. Legend: P: Polymer matrix, S: Solute molecule, L: ligand attached to polymer matri

...E. H. Harriman'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-life-and-legend-of-eh-harriman-by-maury-klein.jsp online edition]

[[Special:Allpages/Legend of the Shadow Warriors|Legend of the Shadow Warriors]] - [[Special:Allpages/Liberalism|Liberalism]]

...f [[Canada]]. The earliest of the explorations were based on a mixture of legend, conjecture, and wishful thinking, but later expeditions built on what was ...for gold common to all European explorations of the Americas. The Spanish legend of the ''Estrecho de Anián'' (Strait of Anián) dated back to the late [[M

...f [[Canada]]. The earliest of the explorations were based on a mixture of legend, conjecture, and wishful thinking, but later expeditions built on what was ...for gold common to all European explorations of the Americas. The Spanish legend of the ''Estrecho de Anián'' (Strait of Anián) dated back to the late [[M

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

...e tiger's skin, but beware. If too much time is spent on the tiger's skin, legend says the user will become a tiger. *If whiskers are kept as a charm, legend says one will be protected against bullets and have increased [[courage]].

...zabeth I: Ruler and legend'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-RULER-LEGEND-Clark-Hulse/dp/0252071611/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207921017&sr=8-1

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...icle is threatening to become equally outsized, although not, I hope, as a legend says about the size of Jim's stomach when either Xrayed or examined after h ...bsinthe]] - updates last month, but doesn't it make one forget? (No. Urban legend, except that 50-percent-plus alcohol does do its mite)

Legend has it that Raspe was once a guest of the Baron, who inspired him to pen th

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...- 511) converted to Christianity in the early fifth century, according to legend in the heat of battle. By AD 700, most of the Low Countries below the Rhine

...tives and, for [[hardback]]s, the preparation of brasses for the [[spine]] legend and [[imprint]] are now all computerized. Prepress [[computerization]] evol

...Karaite commentators, particularly [[Yefet ben Ali]], to the degree that a legend exists among some Karaites that Ibn Ezra was ben Ali's student.

* Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ''The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama''. Cambridge University Press, 1997, the standard scholarl

* Davis, Allen F. ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams'' (1973), 339pp, solid scholarship but tends toward debunkin

...ald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, ''Amelia: A Life of the Aviation Legend'', Potomac Books (1999), ISBN 157488199X. p. 99.</ref> She was the first wo

'''Cary Grant''' (18 January 1904 - 29 November 1986) was a Hollywood screen legend who appeared in 72 films from the 1930s to the 1960s. He excelled as the de

...th]], but it also, at no cost to Drake, brought power to his water mills. Legend has it that when it was opened, Drake rode down the leat on a white horse,

* Davis, Allen F. ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams'' (1973), 339pp, solid scholarship but tends toward debunkin

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...o late. Some efforts were not mere failures, but the stuff of engineering legend.

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===Legend and literature in the West=== Legend and literature surrounded the Crusades with an aura of romance and grandeur

...gery.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoinski |first1=Michael |title='Lonesome Dove' Legend Larry McMurtry on Fiction, Money, Womanizing, and Old Age |url=http://grant

.... But we could sure do with an article on the Australian 'Little Lucifers' legend [[Frank Thring]]. --[[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]] 16:36, 2 July 2008 (CD

One of the most famous moments in Molière's life is the last, which became legend: he died on stage, while performing ''Le Malade Imaginaire''. Strictly spe

...regular Army, the only major difference the red shoulder flash bearing the legend "Home Guard".

...[[Gaels]] of [[Dál Riata]] settled the region of [[Argyll]]. According to legend, the [[Scottish Saltire]] flag was adopted by King [[Óengus II]] of Fortri

...Barry, the Incident at Monk's Bakery and the Making of an Irish Republican Legend." ''History'' 2002 87(287): 372-387. Issn: 0018-2648 Fulltext: in [[Ebsco]]

According to legend, on 14 September, 1128, King David I was attacked by a stag while out hunti

...y (ancient city)]] (See: ''The Flood from Heaven: Deciphering the Atlantis legend''; Sidgwick & Jackson, 1992, ISBN 0688113508). He both agrees and disagrees

.... Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993]</ref> (the "Dick Whittington" of legend) acquired substantial wealth and political influence, and the city of Londo

...he secrecy) was the fact that Army Air Corps aeronautical genius, hero and legend, [[James Doolittle|Jimmy Doolittle]], now a general in the newly created U.

...klore 58(3/4):231-252.</ref> The dance tells three stories, including the legend of Huari quoted below, the appearance of the Virgin of the Mineshaft to the

...he often purported birth in [[Velletri|Velitrae]] is an ancient Roman folk legend (see below).</ref> as '''Gaius Octavius'''; † August 19, AD 14 in [[Nola]

...th the insignia of [[Simorgya]], the [[Atlantis]] of [[Nehwon]]. This is a legend known to Fafhrd, although the Mouser is unfamiliar.

...who have familial, emotional, or business ties with him" in verifying his legend".

...has also appeared here. It is one of the very few English venues that soul legend Otis Redding performed at. It still holds dances a few time each year.

...://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3730777.stm | title = Rock legend's pilgrimage to castle | accessdate = 14 July 2013 | work = BBC News | publ

|title= Fueled by Mayan legend, movies and books speculate on what will happen Dec. 21, 2012

...inscription in a stone slab titled "The Avawiffovee Potion", known through legend as the only way to get rid of two things - athletes foot and the Evil Wizar

...mphonic impressions (Falla: ''Nights in the Gardens of Spain''), symphonic legend (Sibelius: ''The Swan of Tuonela''), symphonic meditations (Messiaen: ''L'A

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...ed that this secret may have been the idea of printing with movable type. Legend has it that the idea came to him "like a ray of light"<ref name=universe>{{

...0s era, though it was actually a document of a time ten years earlier. The legend of how ''On the Road'' was written was as influential as the book itself: h

According to mythological legend, [[Romulus]] and Remus, twin infant sons of the war god, Mars, survived nea ...= 1894|location=London|pages =152 |url =|doi|id =}}</ref> There is even a legend in Eskimo folklore, "The Unwanted Child", where a mother throws her child i

...from the growing scholarly consensus that the Torah consisted of myth and legend, used this scholarly climate to invalidate both Judaism and the Old Testame

...of Bilbo's wife and whether he would let his son go into danger. In Greek legend, it was a hero's nephew that gained the item of power, and so the hobbit Fr ...mythical "Golden Age" — was influenced not only by [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]], but also by Tolkien's contemporary anxieties about the growing encroachm

...ertheless makes a strong case refuting Charles Crocker as Reno's namer (as legend had it). Flaherty shows persuasively that Stanford was good friends with U.

..., one supposedly from the ''Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend,'' and the other, shorter one, from ''The Keener's Manual'': "I am you and

...ng the missions due to differences in soil types from one site to another. Legend has it that the first tiles were made at [[Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolos

...the "works" section. There are various earlier anonymous works about "the legend of El Cid," though not (that I know of) any especially notable single text.

...n the 19th and early 20th centuries. A number of popular retellings of his legend, including [[Lady Augusta Gregory]]'s ''Cuchulain of Muirthemne'' (1902) an

...ne the Hunter]], which shares many similarities with the traditional Welsh legend of [[Gwyn ap Nudd]]. ...tes, Angles, Norse to the Norman Conquest have all influenced the myth and legend of England. Some tales, such as that of The Lambton Wyrm show a distinct No

...in 22 chapters (fargard) a kind of dualistic account of the creation, the legend of Yima and the golden age , and in the bulk of the remaining chapters the

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According to popular legend, unlikely to be true, Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida while searchin

...ures unique among the Alta California missions in this regard.</ref> Local legend has it that the tower could be seen for ten miles (16 km) or more, and that ...to the warmer climes of the American Southwest in springtime. According to legend the birds, who have visited the San Juan Capistrano area every Summer for c

* Smith, Richard Norton. ''The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955.'' (1997). 597 pp.

...e battling between two brothers, [[Romulus]] and [[Remus]]. According to [[legend]], Romulus killed Remus around 753 BC, invited others to join him in his ne

1823 is the traditional date of the [[William Webb Ellis]] legend. He was the Rugby School pupil of whom it is said:

...Alabama Regiment. Indeed, it was tactically critical; it has also become a legend in American military history; Chamberlain was to become a key character in

...re serious dramas, like Sanpei Shirato's ''The Legend of Kamui''<ref>''The Legend of Kamui'', by Sanpei Shirato. San Francisco: Viz. See also http://www.anim ...the forefront, as in ''Urotsukidoji'' by Toshio Maeda<ref>''Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend,'' by Toshio Maeda. NY: CPM Manga, 1998. See also http://

...e last few years, and has been used in many other games, including ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]''.

...by the opportunity to combat fascism.<ref>Robert Stradling, ''History and Legend: Writing the International Brigades'' (2003). </ref>

...ed to a plethora of writings about him that have the character of [[Legend|legend]]: ...andise. Abdera &mdash; home of the geometer and atomist, Democritus, whom legend has it Hippocrates visited because of accusations of mental dysfunction and

...or/article_display.aspx?articleID=226 The Great Eagle: great Yiddish actor-legend, Jacob Adler]", 2001, ''The Jewish Post of New York'' (online; precise orig

...nic presentations of Yes masterpieces and was produced by progressive rock legend [[Alan Parsons]]. After the release of this album, [[Bill Bruford]] chose n

...&B and particularly the music of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. Legend has them bumping into each other on the platform at Dartford railway statio

...hold without burning the hands -- an improvised [[roach clip]]. An [[urban legend]] claims this was the origin of the band's name, but according to band memb

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...f Beasley in its extensive index. <ref>''Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura'', by Caroline Seebohm, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

...ence which established Young's leadership is the source of an oft-repeated legend. Multiple journal and eyewitness accounts from those who followed Young sta

...lk-the-legend-of-fuller-pilch/ |title=Cricket in 19th century Norfolk: the legend of Fuller Pilch |publisher=Norfolk Record Office |date=30 June 2016}}</ref>

...}</ref> In an interview with [[Barbara Walters]], she dismissed an [[urban legend]], the claim that she is [[Intersexuality|intersexual]] and responded to a

DESRON 23 was commanded by CAPT Arleigh Burke, to be a legend among destroyermen and to rise to the highest rank. He planned a search fro

...about 2100 BCE to 1600 BCE, though some experts consider this period more legend than history. However, archaeological evidence at Erlitou has shown that at

...dice and falsehood" (this is contested<ref>[http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/legend.html Wilberforce and Huxley: A Legendary Encounter]</ref>). The story sprea ...een propagated by some Christian groups, to the extent of becoming [[urban legend]]s, though the claims were refuted by Darwin's children and have been dismi

...r discovered that it was no longer possible to separate the facts from the legend.”<ref>Schulman, Arnold (1971). Baba. Viking Press. pp. 122–124. ISBN 0- ...ations as ''"baseless and malicious"''.<ref>Sri Sathya Sai Baba - A Living Legend - An Embodiment Of Love For All Mankind, Letter from A.B. Vajpayee (the the

There appears to be a mixture of reality and legend in how the modern Taliban first gained local popularity. Many of the groups

...-tribute-to-cricket-legend/10150261178173145/ Council's Tribute To Cricket Legend]. Tameside Council.</ref>

Legend has it that a schoolboy called William Webb Ellis invented rugby football w

According to a legend, [[Parasurama]], an [[avatar]] of [[Mahavishnu]], threw his battle axe into

At the very least, this legend provides a historical starting point for the PLA's development of anti-BW d

* Denis Smith, ''Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker'' (1995).

...Romney Marsh]] and [[Spring Heeled Jack]], who first emerged as an [[urban legend]]. Likewise, [[John Carter of Mars]] and [[Tarzan]] were heroes with unusua

...Wieniawski and Paganini. Other genres include the romance, ballade, elegy, legend; also national dances such as the polonaise and mazurka.

...pofforth who took 14 wickets in the match, Australia won by 7 runs and the legend of [[The Ashes]] was born immediately afterwards. Grace scored only 4 and 3

...100,000 feet of altitude, and ended up 40 miles (64 km) south of Edwards (legend has it that he flew as far as the [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]]). After

...st detailed biography [http://www.amazon.com/Stonewall-Jackson-Man-Soldier-Legend/dp/0028650646/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197699405&sr=8-3 excerpt and

...elatively easy. Although there are no contemporary accounts to verify the legend, [[Plymouth Rock]] is often hailed as the point where the colonists first s

...- 511) converted to Christianity in the early fifth century, according to legend in the heat of battle. By AD 700, most of the Low Countries below the Rhine

...[[Gaels]] of [[Dál Riata]] settled the region of [[Argyll]]. According to legend, the [[Scottish Saltire]] flag was adopted by King [[Óengus II]] of Fortri

...list approach to nations he considered "uncivilized." Even so, history and legend have been kind to him. His friend, historian [[Henry Adams]], proclaimed, "

...olding and [[centering]] for the arches was constructed entirely in brick. Legend says that the emperor offered these scaffolding bricks to anyone who would

...mpany names until his death in 1934.<ref> Ralph E. Lambrecht, "A Wisconsin Legend: Ole Evinrude and His Outboard Motor." ''Wisconsin Magazine of History'' 20