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A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.
A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.
In a well-known but probably apocryphal tale, Archimedes was given the task of determining whether King Hiero's goldsmith was embezzling gold during the manufacture of a golden wreath dedicated to the gods and replacing it with another, cheaper alloy.
The apocryphal account that he composed his works in a cave on Salamis island was a late tradition and it probably symbolizes the isolation of an intellectual who was rather ahead of his time.
The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or the Protoevangelium of James, is an apocryphal Gospel probably written about AD 145, which expands backward in time the infancy stories contained the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and presents a narrative concerning the birth and upbringing of Mary herself.
Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada.
Given the earlier meanings above, this story is probably apocryphal.
The fact remains that probably all the stories about his death are apocryphal, since none of Valdivia's party survived the battle, and the only witnesses that could be found were Indians that were captured in subsequent battles.
Ramiro was reputed to have been adopted by his father's wife Mayor after he was the only of his father's children to come to her aid when needed, although there is no surviving record of these events and the story is probably apocryphal.
One such example is mentioned by Josephus and the deuterocanonical book of 3 Maccabees in connection with the Egyptian Jews, though the story is probably apocryphal.
An 1874 engraving showing the probably apocryphal account of Newton's lab fire.
Most believed that he had flown as a fighter pilot in China, although stories that he was a combat ace are probably apocryphal.
Bragg ," which caused him to redouble his efforts and save the day ; the stories are probably apocryphal.
An 1874 engraving showing a probably apocryphal account of Newton's lab fire.
" The quote is probably apocryphal.
This story is generally regarded as apocryphal, and the accepted opinion is that they probably date from the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536.
This is probably apocryphal, as the material was originally described in a paper by Mark and Hohenstein in Brooklyn, NY.
The 14th-century English author John de Mandeville wrote an account of journeys in the East, but this was probably based on second-hand information and contains much apocryphal information.
" These remarks may be apocryphal, although of all BBC directors-general since 1960, Trethowan is probably the one most likely to have held such views.
Stories tell of Cornstalk's participation in the French and Indian War, though these are probably apocryphal.
Of all other works of the author, the Zaad al-Musafirin ( or Travelling Provisions of Pilgrims ) and the Wajh-i-Din ( or The Face of Religion ) are theoretical descriptions of his religious and philosophical principles ; the rest of them can be dismissed as being probably just as apocryphal as Nasir's famous autobiography ( found in several Persian tadhkiras or biographies of poets ), a mere forgery of the most extravagant description, which is mainly responsible for the confusion in names and dates in older accounts of our author.
Beeckman had met the young Descartes in November 1618 in Breda, where Beeckman then lived and Descartes was then garrisoned as a soldier, though the story that they met debating a public mathematical contest on a marketplace is probably apocryphal.
One report has a Nubian army sacking Cairo in the eighth century to defend the Christians, but this is probably apocryphal.
It seems unlikely that a grape that so likes warm weather would have done well so far north, and no current Rhine grape resembles PX, so the story is probably apocryphal.

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This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:
If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow
The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.
T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".
1 Esdras, probably from the late 2nd / early 1st centuries BCE, preserves a Greek text of Ezra and a part of Nehemiah distinctly different from that of Ezra-Nehemiah-in particular it eliminates Nehemiah from the story and gives some of his deeds to Ezra, as well as telling events in a different order.
The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.
The story was first amplified by the Greek tragedians, who probably drew their inspiration from local legends, which glorified the services rendered by Athens to the rulers of Peloponnesus.
* The Distance of the Moon, the first and probably the best known story.
As the events of the story move rapidly, the date of the incident is probably the same year as the first of the fasti.
The oldest preserved parts of the text are not thought to be appreciably older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the story probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.
The story of Talos, the Cretan man of brass, who heated himself red-hot and clasped strangers in his embrace as soon as they landed on the island, is probably of similar origin.
The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.
Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.
They were reborn a second time as Helgi Haddingjaskati and the valkyrie Kára, but unfortunately their story, Káruljóð, only survives in a probably modified form in the Hrómundar saga Gripssonar.
Sanders argues that a plot to foster belief in the Resurrection would probably have resulted in a more consistent story, and that some of those who were involved in the events gave their lives for their belief.
A German bookseller and Freemason, living in Paris, working under the assumed name of C. Lenning, embellished the story further in a manuscript titled " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry " probably written between 1822 and 1828 at Leipzig.
Bergamino, with a story of Primasso ( probably Hugh Primas ) and the Abbot of Cluny, finely censures a sudden excess of avarice in Messer Can Grande della Scala.
This story is probably just a vehicle for Boccaccio's ability to coin word play, just as tale VI, 10 did.
Petrarch later retold the story in Latin, which is probably the biggest factor that contributed to its huge popularity in subsequent centuries.
A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

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