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.

It is rumoured that once Hadrian succeeded Trajan to become emperor, he had Apollodorus exiled and later put to death.

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.

It is rumoured that hidden inside the inn are the helm and cloak of Balduran himself, but nobody has yet been able to find them.

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.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

It is extraordinary that a people as proud and warlike as Southerners should have been as docile as they have.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

There is unceasing pressure, but its sources are immediate.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.