Esteemed Irish sportsman and Gaelic Games legend Michael Ronan Conan Murphy ( better known by the moniker Mickey ------ Ro Co ) has been a loyal supporter and advocate of the great one, and it is believed his passionate election night speech played a crucial role in the ultimate success of Bermuda Allan's campaign and marginal victory.

Due to the dominance in the northeast, the CWC was referred to by AWA legend Nick Bockwinkel as the " Northeast Triangle ", with its territory being defined by Pittsburgh, Washington, D. C., and Maine as points of the triangle.

New book explores ghost town Glastenbury, Vermont, Advocate Weekly ( May 14, 2008 ), available at, accessed 2009-09-03 (" The town is well-known outside Vermont ; it is part of a growing legend of unexplained occurrences and disappearances in what has become known as " the Bennington Triangle.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

There is a legend ( Hawthorne records it in his `` English Notebooks ''.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

The mule is honored at Benson, N.C. ( Sept. 22, 23 ) and at Boron, Calif. ( Sept. 24 thru Oct. 1 ), while the legend of the Maid of the Mist is celebrated at Niagara Falls through the 24th.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the later 2nd-century

There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

While a popular legend persists about a reward of US $ 40, 000 for Tubman's capture, this is a manufactured figure.

According to legend, the cannonballs were manufactured in St. Petersburg, and were intended to be a humorous addition and a symbol of the friendly rivalry between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The compelling appeal of a typical urban legend is its elements of mystery, horror, fear or humor.

This repetition of given name and surname throughout the generations may at least partially account for the legend of his longevity, especially as it is believed that many of his children pursued careers as priests in mystery religions.

Over a decade later, the Money Pit mystery was the subject of an episode of the television series In Search of ..., which first aired January 18, 1979, bringing the legend of Oak Island to a wider audience.

* A history of Herring Lake: with an introductory legend, The bride of mystery

While Arthedain recovered something of her power, Cardolan did not and the region of the Barrow-downs entered hobbit legend as a place of mystery and danger.

Few written sources ( not even Burney's ) showed the ornamentation, and it was this that created the legend of the work's mystery.

Whether viewed as an evil heretic or a heroic savior, he has become an enigmatic legend shrouded in mystery, with neither his supporters nor his detractors knowing or understanding the full truth of his life and actions.

According to legend, there was also a thirteenth tribe who settled on a " lost " colony, a planet called Earth, whose location remained a mystery to the populations of the other twelve.

His birth was a long-awaited legend, full of mystery and promise, among the outlaw Juska tribes along the western shore.

His popularity peaked when his book Sing Sing Nights was used to " suggest " two different low-budget mystery / adventure films, Sing Sing Nights ( Monogram Pictures, 1933 ) and The Mysterious Mr. Wong ( Monogram, 1935 ), the latter of which starred screen legend Bela Lugosi.

Skulls and human remains have been reported on the island, but the accuracy of these reports can be called into question as there is an abundance of mystery and legend surrounding the details of the island.

He became a legend after his death, although his actual life is clouded in mystery.

The blue catfish is the largest species of catfish in the United States, and is surrounded by mystery, legend, and myth.

The legend claims that the mystery had never been satisfactorily solved as to who the carpenter was or where he got his lumber, and that there were no reports of anyone seeing lumber delivered or even seeing the man come and go while the construction was being done.

Cook found a January 5, 1895, death notice in The New Mexican which named Rochas as the builder of " the handsome staircase in the Loretto chapel ", which would mean that the mystery and legend of the staircase probably did not form until the early twentieth century ( as opposed to it being a mystery from the day of its completion in 1877 ).

Lavender Castle is a place of mystery and legend, fabled throughout the universe, a floating city of light, a place of peace, harmony and all the things that have ever been dreamt of.

Where the four young men who billed themselves as HPW Squared Productions ended up remains a complete mystery, shrouded in urban legend.