Therefore, according to Koester, it is likely that Justin applied the name " memoirs of the apostles " analogously to indicate the trustworthy recollections of the apostles found in the written record of the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and possibly also an apocryphal gospel.

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

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.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

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.

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 plot of the first serial, “ The Wrong End of Time ”, was inspired by a – possibly apocryphal – story of a German Expeditionary Force supposed to have landed in Britain in 1940, during World War II.

He may have been dropped for attending too few classes, been suspended for " conduct code violations ," or " for breaking a window ," or according to a more concrete but possibly apocryphal account, because he threw " a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson ," the future president of the United States.

Though purported to be one of the dialogues of Greek philosopher Plato, the Sisyphus is generally believed to be apocryphal, possibly written by one of his pupils.

In a re-creation of a famous ( and possibly apocryphal ) story, Gehrig visits a crippled boy named Billy ( Gene Collins ) in a hospital.

One account, possibly apocryphal, claims that he installed an ally as a senior civil servant despite the man being illiterate.

" One possibly apocryphal story relates that he first attained the name after arriving at a tailor shop to pick up a suit he had ordered.

The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing " which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language ", defined as the " comic epic-poem in prose ": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer ’ s lost ( and possibly apocryphal ) comic poem Margites.

The storied ( and possibly apocryphal ) sports-section headline the next day said, " X-ray of Dean's head reveals nothing.

Sir John's date of birth is unknown, although dubious and possibly apocryphal sources place it variously at 1360 or 1378.

A story, possibly apocryphal, goes that Charles Townshend visited Somers during his last illness, with Somers saying to Townshend on his death bed:

According to a possibly apocryphal story, in the mayhem that followed the premiere performance a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad.

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

It should be noted that this story was tied to a scheduled reargument in which Vinson's vote could be crucial ( in Brown vs. Board of Education, where ostensibly Vinson was not disposed to overrule Plessy vs. Ferguson ), and in any event, some believe the story to be " possibly apocryphal.

A broadly accepted, but possibly apocryphal, story has Davy Crockett delivering a speech called " Not Yours To Give ", in which he urged the United States Congress to reject an appropriation for a Naval widow on the grounds that Congress had no Constitutional authority to give charity.

One such Fool's Mate is widely reported to have occurred in a possibly apocryphal 1959 game between Masefield and Trinka which lasted just three moves: 1. e4 g5 2.

Between 1498 ( the date of the first printed edition ) and 1936 ( the date of Joseph Dommers Vehling's translation and bibliography of Apicius ), there were 14 editions of the Latin text ( plus one possibly apocryphal edition ).

Much of the historical interest of the RCA, besides its association with the Electronic Music Center, comes from a number of amusing ( and possibly apocryphal ) stories told regarding the synthesizer.

The well-organized and rather left-leaning Democratic Party organization of that district was widely known both to friend and foe alike as " the soviet of Green Lake ", possibly an allusion to James Farley's legendary ( though possibly apocryphal ) 1930s remark about " the 47 States of the Union and the Soviet of Washington ".

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

" Although Sadie Sachs was possibly a fictional composite of several women Sanger had known, this story marks the time when Sanger began to devote her life to help desperate women before they were driven to pursue dangerous and illegal abortions.

The original story of Sweeney Todd was quite possibly based on an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Dioneo tells the final ( and possibly most retold ) story of the Decameron.

* Something fake used in a cover-up, untrue explanation for a situation or untrue reason for an action, to hide what is really going on or is the real motive, possibly including real actions and objects related to the story to make it plausible

What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār ( from, meaning " king " or " sovereign ") and his wife Scheherazade ( from, possibly meaning " of noble lineage ") and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.

Colloquially, a " fairy tale " or " fairy story " can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale ; it's used especially of any story that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true.

Scarlatti was already an eminent harpsichordist: there is a story of a trial of skill with George Frideric Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome where he was judged possibly superior to Handel on that instrument, although inferior on the organ.

In a playful story by the aunt, the norms might allow many audience interruptions and collaboration, or possibly those interruptions might be limited to participation by older females.

The game was met with generally positive reviews, noting its strong story, but faulting its shaky dialogue, possibly due to the English translation.

Heinlein asked for an autographed copy of the script, but otherwise did not object, noting that both stories owed something to the Butler story " and possibly to Noah ".

In Stephen Vincent Benét's 1937 story " By the Waters of Babylon " ( originally titled " The Place of the Gods "), a young man explores the ruins of a city in the northeastern United States, possibly New York, generations after a war in which future weapons caused " The Great Burning ".

| Unreliable narrator || Plot device || The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in his narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.

A later folk story has it that a giant Norse axeman ( possibly armed with a Dane Axe ) blocked the narrow crossing, and single-handedly held up the entire Saxon army.