Leaving Cathy with them, Myra had gone out to the Coast for a supposedly brief visit ; ;

From there Alaric escaped with difficulty, and not without some suspicion of connivance by Stilicho, who supposedly had again received orders to depart.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

In ancient times, the supposedly dangerous amphisbaena had many uses in the art of folk medicine and other such remedies.

Snorri especially quotes passages from Bragi's Ragnarsdrápa, a poem supposedly composed in honor of the famous legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrók (' Hairy-breeches ') describing the images on a decorated shield which Ragnar had given to Bragi.

Teach's crew had apparently informed Bostock that they had destroyed several other vessels, and that they intended to sail to Hispaniola and lie in wait for an expected Spanish armada, supposedly laden with money to pay the garrisons.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

The Cybermen had replaced much of their bodies with mechanical prostheses and were now supposedly emotionless creatures driven only by logic.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

The rear wall of the stoa contains nearly a thousand inscriptions ; supposedly any slave manumitted in Athens was obliged to record a short biography here, explaining why he had deserved his freedom.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

He had met her in 1166 and began the liaison in 1173, supposedly contemplating divorce from Eleanor.

* 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

The German Abbot and occultist Trithemius ( 1462 – 1516 ) supposedly had in his possession a Book of Simon the Magician, based upon the New Testament figure of Simon Magus.

Magus had been a contemporary of Jesus Christ's, and like the Biblical Jesus had supposedly performed miracles, but had been demonised by the Medieval Church as a devil-worshipper and evil individual.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

In the first half of 1942, he learned that his mother had died, ostensibly from leukemia, although everyone at the same hospital had supposedly died of the same disease.

The long cycle supposedly affects all sectors of an economy, and concerns mainly output rather than prices ( although Kondratieff had made observations focusing more on prices, inflation and interest rates ).

It was believed that something new was required to combat Bradman, but it was believed more likely that Bradman could be dismissed by leg-spin as Walter Robins and Ian Peebles had supposedly caused him problems ; two leg-spinners were included in the English touring party of 1932 – 33.

In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, who arrive supposedly on his birthday and who appear to have come looking for him, turn Stanley's apparently innocuous birthday party organized by Meg into a nightmare.

As he applied the applicator extending from the machine -- which consisted of seven differently colored neon tubes superimposed on a rectangular base -- to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer's body, Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

A supposedly unintended consequence of the code, however, caused it to be more damaging: a computer could be infected multiple times and each additional process would slow the machine down, eventually to the point of being unusable.

According to contemporary reports, however, Gusmão did make several less ambitious experiments with this machine, and was supposedly able to fly one 1 km over Lisbon, landing in Terreiro do Paço.

In episode 93 of the USA popular science show Mythbusters, they attempted to fool the polygraph by using pain to try to increase the readings when answering truthfully ( so the machine will supposedly interpret the truthful and non-truthful answers as the same.

As work on the album began, Abbey Road Studios possessed, but had yet to install, an 8-track machine that had supposedly been sitting in a storage room for months.

Polybius ( 13. 6 ) in an account that either demonstrates the extent of Nabis's tyranny or Polybius's bias, tells how wealthy landowners were often summoned into his presence and forced to pay him large sums of money-those who refused were tortured, supposedly through use of a machine that resembled an Iron Maiden, known as the Apega of Nabis, made after his own wife Queen Apega.

" Parvati " also travelled across Europe and Sri Lanka, married a Québécois, bore him a son Harpo (" Hal ", later revealed to be living on the streets ), worked as a furniture mover, and worked at an espresso bar in Seattle ( where operating the steamed milk machine supposedly caused her to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, for which she claimed disability benefits ) before finally moving back to New Jersey.

Havok attempts to stop him, but the machine explodes, supposedly killing both men.

A supposedly finished machine of this was shown at the California Extreme 2001 show.

There are supposedly only ten in existence and Wolfwood's punisher is the tenth one in creation .. His Punisher has two machine guns in front and a rocket launcher in the back.

He built the structure in Landers, California ( near Joshua Tree ) as a " rejuvenation machine " supposedly following instructions provided by

Despite the reputation of many New Wave bands as being on the cutting edge of technology, the album was created on a very low budget ; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox tape recorder, a borrowed Roland drum machine belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED Synclavier, belonging to producer Mike Thorne.

The coincidental similarity between morse and the Latin word morsus ' a bite ' supposedly contributed to the walrus's reputation as a " terrible monster ".

He gained this latter reputation ( and the nickname " Jackrabbit ") for his graceful movements during bank heists, such as leaping over the counter ( a movement he supposedly copied from the movies ) and many narrow getaways from police.

He was attracted to the knowledge of the navigators, cosmographers and explorers, acquiring a scientific reputation, and supposedly meeting with Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan and other celebrities then at the court of King John II of Portugal.

The less-than-100 %- coverage coupled with a " highbrow " reputation resulted in low ratings which in turn earned it the nickname " the secret channel " to the regret of the director general who had been pushing the line " my channel " ( in the sense of programmes appealing to individuals, not the whole family as DR1 supposedly ).

Caro ultimately paints a portrait of Moses as an unelected bureaucrat who, through his reputation for getting large construction projects done, amassed so much power over the years that the many elected officials whom he was supposedly responsive to instead became dependent on him.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

Abd al-Rahman died in his adopted city of Córdoba, and was supposedly buried under the site of the Mezquita.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

The Roman fleet was supposedly incinerated, though eventually the city was taken and Archimedes was slain.

" It was supposedly developed by the Tyrell Corporation to prevent news about replicants malfunctioning.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Its administrative center was supposedly located outside of the settlement itself, on the nearby island of Adelsö.

Although the German General Staff was also abolished by the treaty, it nevertheless continued to exist as the Truppenamt or " Troop Office ", supposedly only an administrative body.

The term was first used in astrology, of asterisms that supposedly exerted influence, attested in Ammianus ( 4th century ).

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

Thus the conception of Claudius as the weak fool, controlled by those he supposedly ruled, was preserved for the ages.

Charles was now appointing the kings whom he supposedly served, rois fainéants who were mere puppets in his hands ; by the end of his reign they were so useless that he didn't even bother appointing one.

One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.