The first resolution she introduced in the council a week after she was seated in 1953 called on the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission to permit the local American Legion to stage a baseball game in the Coliseum as a demonstration that the venue would be " a proper place to stage major league baseball.

Musician and comedian " Weird Al " Yankovic has invited members of the 501st Legion on stage during performances of his Star Wars-themed songs " Yoda " and " The Saga Begins ", recruiting members of local garrisons while on tour.

Moving back to the United States in 1927, Robertson adopted the stage name Mary Nolan and had a brief film career, starring in films such as The Foreign Legion, Shanghai Lady, and Docks of San Francisco.

* Legion ( IDW Publishing ), a comic book based on the 2010 film of the same name

* Legion Records, started in 1997 by Michael Brosnan under the name Goatboy Records then changed to Goatboy Farms Recordings

* Lajjun, Palestinian village whose name is derived from " Legion "

The design of the Legion of Merit ( change of name ) would be ready for issue immediately after legislation authorizing it was enacted into law.

This corps, which became known under the name of the Pulaski Cavalry Legion, was recruited mainly in Baltimore, where it was headquartered since April.

The film The Last Legion ( 2007 ), based in part on the novel of the same name ( 2002 ) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, features a highly fictionalized portrayal of Vortigern under the pseudo-authentic name Vortgyn.

" The City of the Legion " may be a reference to Caerleon, whose name translates as such, but it might also refer to Chester, the site of a large Roman base.

Its official name was the Horlick-Racine Legion.

The name " Septimania " may derive from part of the Roman name of the city of Béziers, Colonia Julia Septimanorum Beaterrae, which in turn alludes to the settlement of veterans of the Roman VII Legion in the city.

His monastic superiors rechristened him Vitalis ( after a member of the legendary Theban Legion of Christian martyrs ) because they found a difficulty in pronouncing his unusual baptismal name.

After that they took the new name, First Italic Legion.

The emblem of the legion was a capricorn ,< ref name =" Keppie ">, The Origins and Early History of the Second Augustan Legion, in, Legions and Veterans: Roman Army Papers 1971-2000, Stuttgart, 2000, p. < span class = plainlinks > 128 .</ ref > used along with the winged horse Pegasus, on the helmets the symbol used by I Adiutrix legionaries was a dolphin.

Legio quinta decima Primigenia ( Fifteenth Firstborn Legion )-a name of the goddess Fortuna ) was a legion of the Roman army.

In issue No. 259 ( Jan 1980 ), Superboy left the Legion and his name was dropped from the title altogether, which now became simply The Legion of Super-Heroes.

Though Superboy still periodically appeared in the series that once bore his name, the series remained a Legion title until its final issue, No. 354, in 1987.

The origin of the title / name Cyrenaica is not known-It may have been given to the Legion to signify its origin in Cyrene ( now Libya ), or to signify a major victory or for notable action in that province.

Originally founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on July 24, 1927, as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (" Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail "), and led by him until his assassination in 1938, adherents to the movement continued to be widely referred to as " legionnaires " ( sometimes " legionaries "; ) and led to the organization of the " Legion " or the " Legionary Movement " (" Mişcarea Legionară "), despite various changes of the ( intermittently banned ) organization's name.

In March 1930 Codreanu formed the " Iron Guard " (" Garda de Fier ") as a paramilitary political branch of the Legion ; this name eventually came to refer to the Legion itself.

Later, in June 1935, the Legion changed its official name to the " Totul pentru Ţară " party, literally " Everything for the Country ", but commonly translated as " Everything for the Fatherland " or occasionally " Everything for the Motherland ".

Named after a Saturday morning cartoon, the LOD had the reputation of attracting " the best of the best " — until one of the most talented members called Phiber Optik feuded with Legion of Doomer Erik Bloodaxe and got ' tossed out of the clubhouse '.

Chris Goggans, who used the name Erik Bloodaxe in honor of the Viking king Eric I of Norway, is a founding member of the Legion of Doom group, and a former editor of Phrack Magazine.

* Legion Wasa, a Swedish political party

In the trilogy it is used as the symbol of the Legion of Dynamic Discord, a Discordian group ; the golden apple makes a number of appearances, for example, on the cover, on a black flag, and as an emblem on a uniform.

Most characters resemble their previous counterparts in costume and powers, with the most notable exceptions including Chameleon Boy, now called simply Chameleon and depicted as an androgynous creature, Star Boy, who in this version of the Legion is black, Colossal Boy, who is now a giant who shrinks to human size, and Phantom Girl, who exists in two universes at once and has conversations with people in her own dimension while talking to Legionnaires at the same time.

The 2005 reboot of the Legion by Mark Waid recasts the character as black, making him the third black hero from Xanthu to join the Legion ( after the first and second Kid Quantum ).

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

Following the most recent Legion reboot, Mekt shows up as a leader of a group of " black ops " superheroes called the Wanderers.

b. The initial ribbon was all red ; however, two black stripes were added in December 1917 because of the similarity to a ribbon used by the French for the French Legion of Honor.

They wore black uniforms like the Black Legion of the Ustaše army, and fought in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In Mark Waid's rebooted Legion, Inferno is a member of a group called the Wanderers, a " black ops " group of adult heroes who oppose the Legion because they won't take orders.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA ), because of its strong affiliation to the all-white American Legion and VFW ( Veterans of Foreign Wars ), also became a formidable foe to many blacks in search of an education because it had the power to deny or grant the claims of black G. I. s.

In April 2012, Valley of Fear, a new project of Justin Broadrick, Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies released an album of noise rock and black metal experiments on Legion Blotan records.

The central character of My Name Is Legion is Peter d ' Abo, a black youth from ( the fictitious area of ) Crickleden in South London.

* The black metal band Marduk wrote a song entitled " Legion " using the line " My name is legion, for we are many in here "

Jim Shooter, who had been prevented from introducing black characters into the Legion in the 1960s, objected to the characterization of Tyroc: "... I always wanted to have a character who was African-American, and years later, when they did that, they did it in the worst way possible .... instead of just incidentally having a character who happens to be black ... they made a big fuss about it.

Their explanation for why there were no black people the Legion was that all the black people had gone to live on an island.

Former members of the Black Legion continued to wear the black uniform right up to the end of the war, probably as a sort of honorary mark of distinction.

The story is well enough known that the grave marker for Ben and Lew Snowden, set in 1976 by the black American Legion post, reads, " They taught ' Dixie ' to Dan Emmett ".

During a confrontation on one of the Brande space stations, Roderick tried to take the Legion and R. J. Brande down with him by setting the satellites to form a black hole.