Candyman, for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain.

These ersatz tales — which included the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers — are widely circulated as urban legend.

The urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.

Another legend credits the cake's being invented in the court of the Sforzas, but with the following story:

Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend the game of rugby was invented

It is not clear whether Lucas invented this legend or was inspired by it.

An urban legend claims this was the origin of the band's name, but according to band member Jorma Kaukonen, the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson.

According to legend, the relic was given to the cathedral by Charlemagne who received it as a gift from Emperor Constantine VI during a crusade to Jerusalem, however this legend was pure fiction ( Charlemagne never went to the Holy Land ) – probably invented in the 11th century to authenticate some relics at the Abbey of St Denis.

According to legend, the flag was already invented by Duke Leopold V of Austria as a consequence of his fighting during the Siege of Acre.

According to legend, it was on such an instrument that the kazoo, invented in the 19th century by an African American named Alabama Vest in Macon, Georgia, United States, is based.

According to legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various sort of substandard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price.

It is not known when the game of Liubo originated, although according to legend it was invented by Wu Cao ( 烏曹, called Wu Zhou 烏胄 in the early 2nd century CE Shuowen Jiezi dictionary ), a minister to King Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, who according to traditional chronology reigned 1728 BCE – 1675 BCE.

According to Chinese legend, the saw was invented by Lu Ban.

Another legend says that liquor was invented by Du Kang.

* According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Robert Satloff, in a speech carried during Ashura on April 9, 2000, Hasan Nasrallah said that: " The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities.

The legend that the c. clock was invented by a clever Black Forest mechanic in 1730 ( Franz Anton Ketterer ) keeps being told over and over again.

Edward Hasted, the local historian of Kent, dismissed the story of the Biddenden Maids as a folk myth, claiming that the image on the cake had originally represented two poor women and that the story of the conjoined twins was " a vulgar tradition " invented to account for it, while influential historian Robert Chambers accepted that the legend could potentially be true but believed it unlikely.

According to legend, Stetson invented the hat while on a hunting trip while showing his companions how he could make cloth out of fur without tanning.

Belus or Belos is a small river in north-western Israel, where according to legend, mentioned by Isidore of Seville in his Etymologiae glass-making was invented.

Green sauce was supposedly Goethe's favourite condiment ; a legend that his mother invented it is likely apocryphal.

A comment by Ellsworth about the increased workload at the patent office, taken out of context and embellished, was apparently the source of an urban legend that a patent office official ( Charles H. Duell in some versions ) claimed that everything which could be invented had already been invented .< ref >

According to legend, the guan dao was invented by the famous general Guan Yu during the early 3rd century AD, hence the name.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

* They preferred quite short, metrically simple stanzas or ' strophes ' which they re-used in many poems-hence the ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, named after the two poets who perfected them or possibly invented them.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

Sir Henry Bessemer had invented the furnace which allowed the high carbon content of pig iron to be burnt away in a controlled and rapid way.

Donnelly attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlanteans invented gunpowder and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented written language.

It is variously interpreted as either the language used by God to address Adam ( the divine language ), or the language invented by Adam with which he named all things ( including Eve ), as in.

Otto Rohm invented acrylic resin, which quickly transformed into acrylic paint.

A general formula by which some of these numbers could be derived was invented circa 850 by Thābit ibn Qurra ( 826-901 ).

The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime.

Broughton also invented and encouraged the use of " mufflers ", a form of padded gloves, which were used in training and exhibitions.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

Bliss-characters can now be used in a creative way to create many new arbitrary concepts, by surrounding the invented words with special Bliss indicators ( similar to punctuation ), something which was not possible in the ISO-IR / 169 encoding.

Two versions of Blackwood are common: " standard " Blackwood, developed by Easley, and " Roman key card " or " RKC " Blackwood, named for the Italian team which invented it.

Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.

Evidence of the bias toward portraying Mehmed as an intelligent military leader is reflected in the statement: " The sultan ordered the setting up of his secret weapon which he had invented himself.

Numerous opinions and interpretations of Confucianism ( of which many are actually opposed by Confucianism ) were invented.

One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai () which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer.

Chu Bong-Foo invented a common input method in 1976 with his Cangjie input method, which assigns different " roots " to each key on a standard computer keyboard.

The Qur ' an ( 57: 27 ) states, " But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them but only to please Allah therewith, but that they did not observe it with the right observance.