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Seminary House is rumoured to be haunted, therefore, every Halloween, its residents transform the entire building into a Haunted House.
Nebuchadnezzar successfully fought the Pharaohs Psammetichus II and Apries throughout his reign, and during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis in 568 BC it is rumoured that he may have briefly invaded Egypt itself.
By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.
Diego Garcia is rumoured to have been one of the locations of the CIA's black sites.
Elin's older sister, Jessica, who comes with her, dares her to kiss Agnes, who is rumoured to be a lesbian.
Much of this tradition remains secret ( or undetermined ) — but it is rumoured that the new king must be single, and is usually a minor.
* Wafa el-Mullah al-Howeish is rumoured to have married Saddam as his fourth wife in 2002.
The film is rumoured to have originally been 4 hours long and shown in the Soviet Union.
It is often rumoured that the distance between the lines is that of the length of two swords although no documentary evidence exists to support this and, in fact, weapons have never been allowed in the Palace of Westminster at any time.
The reason she chose that city, then the centre of German literary life, as her new residence — a city where she had no relatives or close acquaintances — is rumoured to have been the desire of meeting Goethe.
It is often rumoured that EPOC stands for " Electronic Piece Of Cheese " however Colly Myers, who was Symbian's CEO from founding until 2002, said in an interview that it stood for ' epoch ' and nothing more.
McEwen is reported to have despised McMahon personally, and it is very possible that he disliked McMahon because of his rumoured homosexuality, which has been the subject of persistent rumours in Australia.
It is rumoured that Matthews and Roberts first met in Cardiff when she was busking.
It is rumoured that the Led Zeppelin song " Royal Orleans ", from their album Presence, is about an experience Jones once had on tour in the United States.
She was later rumoured to have been Edward the Elder's concubine, but Barbara Yorke and Sarah Foot argue that the rumours were a product of the dispute over the succession in 924, and that there is no reason to doubt that she was Edward's legitimate wife.
The " Lola Montes Polka " composed by Albert Denning was later rumoured to have been inspired by this event, but as the song was published in 1855 and the incident with Seekamp occurred months later in February 1856, this is scarcely probable.
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It was rumoured that Sir Walter Raleigh landed the first shipment of tobacco there, although this is a myth, as Raleigh was not, contrary to popular belief, the first to bring tobacco to England.
However, it is known that the god Ashur was still worshipped in Assyria as late as the 4th Century AD and it is rumoured that Ashurism was still practiced by tiny minorities in northern Assyria ( around Harran ) until the 17th Century AD.

is and once
`` That tub is going to explode all at once ''.
Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.
But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.
Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;
When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.
We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.
See, Communese is easy -- once you get onto it.
But once the strike trend hits hoosegows, there is no telling how far it may go.
It seems that open season upon veterans' hospitalization is once more upon us.
The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.
I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.
He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.
Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

is and Hadrian
One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus ( see Hadrian ).
Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.
* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.
Augustus, Hadrian and the rich grammarian Herodes Atticus contributed greatly to its embellishment ; the aqueduct still preserved is due to the latter.
that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.
It is very possible that this later story was a later attempt to defame his character, as Hadrian, though popular among a great many across the Empire, was not universally admired, either in his lifetime or afterwards.
Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).
Hadrian is considered by many historians to have been wise and just: Schiller called him " the Empire's first servant ", and British historian Edward Gibbon admired his " vast and active genius ", as well as his " equity and moderation ".
John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae ; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
His place of birth is unknown ; nor is it recorded where his father, Shimon ben Gamliel II, sought refuge with his family during the persecutions under Hadrian.
Nothing is known of him or of the date at which he lived ; the times of Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, the beginning of the 3rd century, and the age of Diocletian and Constantine have all been suggested.
Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable.
According to the Liberian Catalogue of popes, he ruled the Church during the reign of Hadrian " a consulatu Negro et Aproniani usque Vero III et Ambibulo ", that is, from 117 to 126.
Regarding the dates of Sixtus I, according to the Liberian Catalogue of popes, he ruled the Church during the reign of Hadrian " a consulatu Negro et Aproniani usque Vero III et Ambibulo ", that is, from 117 to 126.
Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor Hadrian, when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the customary greeting " If you and your children are well, all is well.
In the aftermath of the war, Hadrian consolidated the older political units of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria into the new province of Syria Palaestina, which is commonly interpreted as an attempt to complete the disassociation with Judaea
* The Pantheon is constructed in ( Rome ) as it stands today by Hadrian.

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