Founded in the 14th century by the the possibly mythical chief of the Wolof Ndiadiane Ndiaye, who was a Serer of Waalo ( Ndiaye is originally a Serer surname

The earliest names of Tallinn include Kolyvan () known from East Slavic chronicles, the name possibly deriving from the Estonian mythical hero Kalev.

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.

According to a different tradition, a Cyparissus, possibly not the same figure, was the son of Orchomenus, the brother of Minyas, and the mythical founder of Kyparissos in Phocis, which later was called Anticyra.

Bebryce is possibly the same as Bryce, a daughter of Danaus, a mythical King of Libya and Arabia ( Apollodorus ).

It has been theorised that Menes was possibly a mythical king, similar to Romulus and Remus of Rome.

According to a shared legend amongst various Tai tribes, a possibly mythical king, Khun Borom Rachathiriat ( ຂ ຸ ນບ ໍ ຣ ົ ມຣາຊາທ ິ ຣາດ, ข ุ นบรมราชาธ ิ ราช, ) of Mueang Thaen ( ເມ ື ອງແຖນ, เม ื องแถน, ) ( modern-day Điện Biên Phủ ) begot several sons that settled and ruled other mueang, or city-states, across South-East Asia and southern China.

Ogre could possibly derive from the two mythical giants Gog and Magog ( or from the Greek river god Oiagros, father of Orpheus ).

* French composer Claude Debussy frequented the island and possibly drew inspiration from not only the legend of the mythical city of Ys, but also Mont-Saint-Michel's cathedral for his piano prelude La Cathedrale Engloutie.

Traditional accounts among the Wolof agree that the founder of the state and later empire was the possibly mythical Ndiadiane Ndiaye ( also spelled Njaajaan Njaay ).

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria.

Siruzkoh, a ( possibly mythical ) city destroyed in 1222 by Genghis Khan, is thought to be the former capital of Afghanistan.

Maia finds the mythical " Jellicoe Former " an advanced manufacturing facility ( possibly based on molecular manufacturing ) that can produce any device.

A mythical beast, " Old Buck "— possibly related to Belsnikel or Krampus who are Companions of Saint Nicholas in Central European Christmas festivities — is said to appear at the celebration.

The name Captain Swing has long been associated with civil unrest, being the pseudonym of the ( possibly mythical ) leader of the Swing Riots.

The mast seems to have broken, and the oars could not save them, as a mythical creature, * Vil ( possibly the sea-god Aegir, or simply divine will ,) casts a wave upon the boat.

Fragmentary evidence suggests the expedition in 1473 was a joint venture between the kings of Portugal and Denmark, and that Corte-Real has accompanied the German sailors, Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst, as well as ( the possibly mythical ) John Scolvus.

Phillips ascribed the source of the workers ' shovels to the possibly mythical Gandy Shovel Company of Chicago.

The inspiration of mixing the mythical Firebird with the unrelated Russian tale of Kaschei the deathless possibly came from a popular child's verse by Yakov Polonsky, " A Winter's Journey " ( Zimniy put, 1844 ), which includes the lines:

* Position 14, Lalli – A mythical and possibly non-historical figure who, according to a medieval legend, killed the Swedish Bishop Henry in Finland in 1156.

The Old Ones are a mythical and mysterious race or possibly a group of distinct species in the table-top wargame Warhammer 40, 000.

* The Floridablanca, the ship of the possibly mythical pirate Gasparilla, or José Gaspar, also named for the Count of Floridablanca

Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.

The typical early EDMS adopter deployed a small-scale imaging and workflow system, possibly to just a single department, in order to improve a paper-intensive process and migrate towards the mythical paperless office.

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream possibly depicts an afterglow during this period.

Neither of the main ancient sources for this period, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus, mention the Bastarnae in their accounts of the 4th century, possibly implying the loss of their separate identity, presumably subsumed into the neighbouring Sarmatians or Goths.

Three general possibilities are that a person, possibly named Zephaniah, prophesied the words of the book of Zephaniah ; the general message of a Josianic prophet is conveyed through the book of Zephaniah ; or the name could have been employed, either during the monarchic or post-monarchic period, as a ‘ speaking voice ’, possibly for rhetorical purposes.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

The animal fossil record from this period is sparse, possibly because animals had yet to evolve hard shells, which make for easier fossilization.

The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute ,, or else flowte, flo ( y ) te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt, or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit.

The period featured considerable formal innovation, including possibly the introduction of the Sicilian octave to Florence, where it influenced Petrarch.

The population by this period were exclusively of our own species of the genus homo, homo sapiens sapiens, and the evidence would suggest that their societies were increasingly complex and they were manipulating their environment and their prey in new ways, possibly selective burning of the then omnipresent woodland to create clearings where the herds would gather to make them easier to hunt.

Neanderthal man was present in Europe from about 200, 000 BC, but died out about 30 years ago, possibly out-competed by the modern humans during a period of cold weather.

About fifteen sightings occurred during the period ( seven of which were considered compelling enough to mention in the scientific article ), possibly all of the same bird.

Kipper season refers ( particularly among fairground workers, market workers, taxi drivers and the like ) to any lean period in trade, particularly the first three or four months of the year ; possibly a reference to the above usage, or to the need to live frugally during such a period, by ( for instance ) living on kippers.

Lundy has evidence of visitation or occupation from the Neolithic period onward, with Mesolithic flintwork, Bronze Age burial mounds, four inscribed gravestones from the early medieval period, and an early medieval monastery ( possibly dedicated to St Elen or St Helen ).

# Hadean: dominated by heavy bombardment from about 4. 51, ( possibly including a Cool Early Earth period ) to the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment period.

It is not known whether pterosaurs practiced any form of parental care, but their ability to fly as soon as they emerged from the egg and the numerous flaplings found in environments far from nests and alongside adults has led most researchers, including Christopher Bennett and David Unwin, to conclude that the young were dependent on their parents for a relatively short period of time, during a period of rapid growth while the wings grew long enough to fly, and then left the nest to fend for themselves, possibly within days of hatching.

Place-name evidence from Dunragit ( possibly " Fort of Rheged ") suggests that, at least during one period of its history, Rheged extended into Dumfries and Galloway.

Additionally, the OS has yet another facility for converting an application from being long-term fixed to being fixed for an indefinite period, possibly for days, months or even years ( however, this facility implicitly requires that the application firstly be swapped-out, possibly from preferred-memory, or a mixture of preferred-and non-preferred memory, and secondly be swapped-in to non-preferred memory where it resides for the duration, however long that might be ; this facility utilizes a documented Supervisor Call instruction ).

Werewolf folklore is rare in England, possibly because wolves had been eradicated by authorities in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.