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family and legend
The second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family in the 3rd century BC.
Lo eventually convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff to make his wishes come true.
In China, according to legend, family names started with Emperor Fu Xi in 2852 BC < ref name = Seng2008 >
Typically, the hero slowly gains knowledge of his past through legend, prophecy, lost-and-found-again family members, or encounters with " mentor " characters who know more about him than he does.
Village legend tells of the notorious Colonel John " Blackbeard " Mohune who is buried in the family crypt under the church.
According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.
According to Angevin legend, there was even infernal blood in the family.
This family legend is unverifiable.
Born in Catania, Sicily, Bellini was a child prodigy from a highly musical family and legend has it he could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti at eighteen months.
The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.
* The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the innundation by riding a white horse.
To this day the family's shield bears a white horse rising from the waves .. Based on the above, in Cornish author Craig Weatherhill's The Lyonesse Stone trilogy ( The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms, The Tinners ' Way ), the Trevelyan family, drawn into the worlds of ancient Cornish legend, are direct descendants of the Lyonesse flood survivor.
According to legend, Rosalia was born of a Norman noble family that claimed descent from Charlemagne.
The last ruler of the family was the countess Matilda of Canossa ( d. 1115 ), who, according to legend, ordered the construction of the precious Rotonda di San Lorenzo ( 1082 ).
* While legend suggests that Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt was killed by a snake bite, many historians actually believe that she committed suicide by swallowing a lethal drug cocktail made of opium, Aconitum, and hemlock, a highly poisonous plant from the parsley family.
As the years passed, and he had outlived all the men in his family by several years, he frequently used a line popularized by football legend Bobby Layne, a Dallas neighbor and friend of Mantle's who also died in part due to alcohol abuse: " If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself.
The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family.
An alternative version of the legend is that to every generation of the family a vampire child is born and is walled up in that room.
" In Greece " Burkert concludes, " the special function of the Adonis legend is as an opportunity for the unbridled expression of emotion in the strictly circumscribed life of women, in contrast to the rigid order of polis and family with the official women's festivals in honour of Demeter.
The family was centred in the Hebrides, and claimed descent from a 13th century Irish bard who, according to legend, was exiled to Scotland.
The local legend suggests that the Cailleach and her family were given shelter in the glen by the locals and while they stayed there the glen was always fertile and prosperous.
According to legend, the Volsung family descended from Odin, and were therefore part god.
Another well known God is Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa he is the god of WAR he is so powerful that where ever or who ever he passes there will be chaos and War will begin, It is said that the god of war is the one who started world war 2 and lead the Germans to Samoa to destroy the village that is said to have imprisoned the god, The god of war has died, but when a god or goddess dies it is reincarnated into another soul and we think that it would be Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa because his family was realated to the god of war, but who knows if the legend is true.
In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".
Prominent Italian Americans that came from the neighborhood include Baseball legend Joe Dimaggio who grew up in the neighborhood and briefly returned to live there with his wife Marilyn Monroe during the 1950s, as well as former San Francisco mayor and politician Joseph Alioto as well as others from the prominent Alioto family.

family and claims
Unger ( 1990 ) advocates a family consisting of Tungusic, Korean, and Japonic but not Turkic or Mongolic, and Doerfer ( 1988 ) rejects all the genetic claims over these major groups.
* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.
There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.
Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.
However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.
As it is a new member of the Agile family, there is not enough data to prove its usability, however it claims to be an answer to what it sees as XP's imperfections.
Fra Marino also claims to have been alerted to the existence of the Gospel of Barnabas, from an allusion in a work by Irenaeus against Paul ; in a book which had been presented to him by a lady of the Colonna family ( Marino, outside Rome, is the location of the Palazzo Colonna ).
The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.
To a clean-shaven man who had an official manner, Marlow gave the paper entitled ' Suppression of Savage Customs ' - " with the postscriptum torn off "-To another, who claims to be Kurtz's cousin, Marlow gave family letters and memoranda of no importance.
In the 16th century, the family separated into the senior Habsburg Spain and the junior Habsburg Monarchy branches, who settled their mutual claims in the Oñate treaty.
The family possession of the principality of Kuyavia belonged to Sigismund, who was the heir with the strongest hereditary claims.
Other letters began appearing in the Courier, often anonymously, with claims of land or water sightings, either on the writer's part or on the parts of family, acquaintances or stories they remembered being told.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo claims Malinalli's family faked her death by telling the townspeople that a recently deceased child of a slave was Malinalli.
Van der Berghe states the sense of family attachments among related people as creating durable, intense, emotional, and cooperative attachments, that he claims are utilized within ethnic groups.
Gibbon points out a number of similarities between Siôn Cent and Glyndŵr ( including physical appearance, age, education, character ) and claims that Owain spent his last years living with Alys passing himself off as an aging Franciscan friar and family tutor.
An Austrian princely family, the Rosenberg changed its name to Ursini-Rosenberg ( and subsequently to Orsini-Rosenberg ) in 1683, while creating spurious claims of kinship to the Orsini, which were regarded at the time as more prestigious.
After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.
These views, and his chronic intervention in " temporal " affairs, led to many bitter quarrels with the Emperor Albert I of Habsburg, the powerful Colonna family of Rome, King Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri, who wrote his essay De Monarchia to dispute Boniface's claims of papal supremacy.
Liechtenstein claims restitution for 1, 600 km² ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in Slovakia confiscated from its ' princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Slovak Republic.
Plutarch claims that his remains were returned to Athens and placed in Cimon's family vault.
One day an old family servant, Thorhall the Hunter ( who has not become Christian ), goes missing and is found mumbling to himself ; shortly afterwards, a beached whale is found which Thorhall claims has been provided in answer to his praise of the pagan gods.
This was one of several occasions on which the kingship of Wessex is said to have passed to a remote branch of the royal family with an unbroken male line of descent from Cerdic ; these claims may be genuine, or may reflect the spurious assertion of descent from Cerdic to legitimise a new dynasty.
The Bruce family captured strongholds in Galloway, and fighting in the name of the Maid of Norway ( Margaret ), suppressed the rebellion with many important families like the Stewards supporting them. In 1289 the Guardians maintained the peace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and John Balliol.
However, Widukind does not even mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or " Deeds of the Saxons ", which, considering Widukind was at least partly writing to promote Otto I and his family, is damning to Adam of Bremen's claims.
Both, he claims, see governance through metaphors of the family.

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