A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

" The story is apocryphal and they are believed to have scored at least one two among the singles.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

An apocryphal story says that Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus and spoke to them as a separate character.

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.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

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.

Since he has never confirmed this, the story is usually considered apocryphal.

" This anecdote is briefly discussed in G. Waldo Dunnington's Gauss, Titan of Science where it is suggested that it is an apocryphal story.

A " probably apocryphal " story relates that as Beatty walked into Churchill's office at the Admiralty, Churchill looked him over and said, " You seem very young to be an Admiral.

A ( perhaps apocryphal ) story is sometimes told of Beatty's retirement, that he canvassed in uniform in support of Conservative candidates in dockyard constituencies, presumably in the 1929 or 1931 General Elections.

The famous story in which Galileo is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is apocryphal, but he did find that the path of a projectile is a parabola, and he is credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton's laws of motion ( such as discovering the property of inertia ).

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

The Slavonic chronicles add apocryphal details to the account of her baptism, such as the story how she charmed and " outwitted " Constantine and how she spurned his matrimonial proposals.

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.

The most famous example of a claim is the apocryphal story that artist Frederic Remington telegrammed Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba and " There will be no war.

Given the earlier meanings above, this story is probably apocryphal.

According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.

The story is widely believed to be apocryphal, but the influence of the recording was nonetheless enormous.

An apocryphal story claims that King Louis XVI ( an amateur locksmith ) recommended that a triangular blade with a beveled edge be used instead of a crescent blade, but it was Schmidt who suggested placing a straight blade at a 45 degree angle.

4th c .), a famed dialectician of the Gupta Empire, contextualizes the prestige of dialectic and cut-throat debate in classical India and makes references to the possibly apocryphal story of the banishment of Moheyan post-debate with Kamalaśīla ( fl.

The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that " Hamp ", a drummer at the time, was playing at the NBC Radio studios, where he discovered a vibraharp that was kept on hand to play the musical motif identifying the NBC network, the " NBC Chimes ".

An apocryphal story holds that the name was chosen by the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan and claimed to having been " dragooned " into accepting it.

An apocryphal legend holds that the inspiration for " The Cask of Amontillado " came from a story Poe had heard at Castle Island ( South Boston ), Massachusetts, when he was a private there in 1827.

While research on apocryphal texts continues, the general scholarly opinion holds that they have little to offer to the study of the historicity of Jesus given that they are often of uncertain origin, and almost always later documents of lower value.

Many purported crash blossoms are actually apocryphal or recycled.

Several apocryphal accounts of transplants exist well prior to the scientific understanding and advancements that would be necessary for them to have actually occurred.

It is not known for certain if this actually happened or if it is apocryphal legend.

It is somewhat apocryphal in that there was never actually a riot ; rather, the phrase was coined by Ranger Captain William " Bill " McDonald, who was sent to Dallas in 1896 to prevent the illegal heavyweight prize fight between Pete Maher and Bob Fitzsimmons that had been organized by Dan Stuart, and patronized by the eccentric " Hanging Judge " Roy Bean.

According to Aviel Roshwald, despite the " widespread " belief that these famous last words are apocryphal, " the irony is that the authenticity of the official story about Trumpeldor's final utterance is actually well-attested and not disputed by historians.

When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS ; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that " krans " meant " funeral wreath " in Swedish ( though it simply means " wreath "; this part of the story may be apocryphal ).

It is by these means that the apocryphal books XIV and XV of the Elements were sometimes included in the collection.

Numerous apocryphal stories from his life have circulated among the group ; some accounts have claimed that he gambled only as a means to reach others with his teachings.

Many early apocryphal and Gnostic texts indicate that anointing was part of the baptismal process, and in fact that the baptism with water ( Johns baptism ) is incomplete.

In the apocryphal Gospel, Jesus has already been born and so Joseph's truculence is unrelated to any dismay over Mary's pregnancy, but has to do with an inability to reach the fruits of the palm and a concern over the family's lack of water.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

The 5th century Decretum Gelasianum includes a Gospel of Barnabas amongst works condemned as apocryphal ; but no certain text or quotation from this work has been identified.

The Belgic Confession, used in Reformed churches, devotes a section ( Article 6 ) to " The difference between the canonical and apocryphal books " and asserts that " All which the Church may read and take instruction from, so far as they agree with the canonical books ; but they are far from having such power and efficacy as that we may from their testimony confirm any point of faith or of the Christian religion ; much less to detract from the authority of the other sacred books.

" He mentions Joseph Schacht as one scholar who argues this, claiming that Schacht " found no evidence of legal traditions before 722 ," from which Schacht concluded that " the Sunna of the Prophet is not the words and deeds of the Prophet, but apocryphal material " dating from later.

Many modern scholars believe that parts of the Amidah came from the Hebrew apocryphal work Ben Sira.

Primary sources about Mary Magdalene can be divided into canonical texts that are collected into the Christian New Testament and apocryphal texts that were left out from the Bible, being judged as heretical during the development of the New Testament canon.

These apocryphal sources are usually dated from the end of the 1st to the early 4th century, all possibly written well after Mary's death.

Others ' irritation from the love and affection presented by Jesus to Mary Magdalene is claimed in the apocryphal Gospel of Philip.

A common and certainly apocryphal folk etymology is that the term originated from the historical poker games in the colonial west of America, where if a player bet everything he possessed, he would place the nuts of his wagon wheels on the table to ensure that, should he lose, he would be unable to flee and would have to make good on the bet.

On the statement about a decree requiring women to cover their heads, J. P. Kirsch comments in the Catholic Encyclopedia: " Without doubt this decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of the Liber Pontificalis from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians ( 11: 5 ) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of the Apostle in Rome.

According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter ( Vercelli Acts XXXV ), Peter is fleeing from likely crucifixion in Rome at the hands of the government, and along the road outside the city he meets a risen Jesus.

Many modern scholars believe that parts of the Amidah came from the Hebrew apocryphal work Ben Sira.

The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles.

In his famous ( though possibly apocryphal ) experiment dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, and later with careful measurements of balls rolling down inclines, Galileo showed that gravitation accelerates all objects at the same rate.

This new literature in Czech consisted largely of epic poetry of two types: the legend and the knightly epic, both based on apocryphal tales from the Bible, as well as hagiographic legends of earlier periods.

According to apocryphal acta dating to the 4th century at earliest, Clement was banished from Rome to the Chersonesus during the reign of the Emperor Trajan and was set to work in a stone quarry.

Contemporary sources from 1912 are lacking, suggesting that the story was apocryphal, however.