Partly his reasons were sound scholarly ones — the Masoretic text claims an unbroken history of careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of Christ ; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple to Christ, who was the fulfilment of the Temple .< ref > James Barr, Biblical Chronology: Legend Or Science?

Legend claims she briefly escaped her guards and ran through The Haunted Gallery to beg Henry for her life but she was recaptured.

Legend claims that Peter murdered her: one version of the story says she was poisoned, another that she was shot with a crossbow.

Legend claims, that on her deathbed she predicted that her line would succeed to the Swedish throne, as long as her head was held high.

Legend claims that he overpowered maras and heretics by engaging them in intellectual arguments and also by performing miracles.

Legend claims that he sat facing a wall in meditation for a period of nine years without moving, which caused his legs to fall off from atrophy.

Legend claims it was built in a single night in 869 or 870 as a defence against Viking invaders.

Legend claims that, during a rehearsal of the first movement, one musician was reported as asking another if he had managed to hear a tune yet.

Honda claims to have created the first navigation system starting in 1983, and culminating with general availability in the 1990 Acura Legend.

Legend has it that the first tiles were made at Mission San Luis Obispo, but Father Maynard Geiger ( the Franciscan historian and biographer of Junípero Serra ) claims that Mission San Antonio de Padua was actually the first to use them.

Legend claims that the art is over 800 years old, passed down from generation to generation.

By the time of " The Legend of Korra ", Lin Beifong ( Toph's metalbender daughter ) claims that she is the strongest healer in the world.

Legend says that about two thousand years ago, Emperor Suinin ordered his daughter, Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto, to set out and find a suitable permanent location from which to hold ceremonies for Amaterasu Omikami, the Sun Goddess.

Legend has it that the Empress Dowager then either ordered that the Emperor's favorite, the Pearl Concubine, be thrown down a well in the Forbidden City or tricked her into drowning herself.

Legend has it that as the season drew to a close, owner Charles Comiskey ordered manager Kid Gleason to bench Cicotte, denying him a chance at a 30-win season and the bonus money.

The first three chronologically ordered books ( Lord Brocktree, Martin the Warrior, and Mossflower ) take place before the construction of Redwall Abbey, while the fourth, The Legend of Luke, takes place during the construction of the abbey.

The pope's indecision did not last long, however, for, the following year ( 1291 ), Pope Nicholas, with the support of the Archbishop of Genoa, Jacob de Voragine ( the author of the Golden Legend ), ordered that Munio be removed from his office.

Legend has it that Kanikey, Manas ' widow, ordered this inscription in an effort to confuse her husband's enemies and prevent a defiling of his grave.

Legend has it that at her maternal grandfather's suggestion Amba sought refuge with Parasurama who ordered Bhishma to marry Amba.

" Prince Vladimir, the protagonist of the story, as well as King Vladislav, who ordered Vladimir's execution, were historical persons, yet " The Legend of Prince Vladimir " contains non-historical material.

There was an early legend associated with St. Remigius known as the Legend of the Baptism of Moribund Pagan, according to which a dying pagan asked for baptism at the hands of St. Remigius, but when it was found that there was no Oil of the Catechumens or sacred Chrism available for the proper administration of the baptismal ceremony, St. Remigius ordered two empty vials be placed on an altar and as he prayed before them the two vials miraculously filled respectively with the necessary Oil of the Catechumens and Chrism.

Legend contends that during the reign of Khan Krum of Bulgaria, all vineyards were ordered destroyed.

Legend, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki ( Chronicles of Japan ) which is an ancient history of Japan compiled in 720, states that the haniwa was ordered at the time of an empress ' death by the emperor who regretted the custom of servants and maids of the deceased following their master in death, and ordered that clay figures be molded and placed around the kofun, burial mound instead of the sacrifice of living beings.

* A retelling of Ragnar Lodbrok's story from Teutonic Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie.

The " Legend of the Octopus " is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.

< center > The Chapel Royal at the time of James VII. Legend relates that in 1127, while King David I was hunting in the forests to the east of Edinburgh during the Feast of the Cross, he was thrown from his horse after it had been startled by a hart.

Local folklore is provided for by the Legend of Evesham surrounding the life of Eof, an 8th century swineherd credited with the founding of the town, and St Egwin the Bishop of Worcester who founded the abbey and who whose feet had been fettered and the key thrown in the River Avon.

Legend has it that the castle is haunted by the ghost of Lily Lumley, Ralph's wife, who was thrown down a well in the castle grounds by two priests for rejecting the Catholic faith.

Legend states that a Native American man who loved a woman from a rival tribe was thrown from the lookout when his love was discovered.

* 1999: The Legend of Ivanhoe, a Columbia TriStar International Television production dubbed into English starring John Haverson as Ivanhoe and Rita Shaver as Rowena.

Legend has it that carved into the wall above the shelves was an inscription that read: The place of the cure of the soul.

Legend credits him with meeting Indra, the lord of heaven, who ventured into the Valley in human guise.

The Legend of Zelda was principally inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's explorations as a young boy in the hillsides surrounding his childhood home in Sonobe, Japan where he ventured into forests with secluded lakes, caves, and rural villages.

The Legend of Zelda was adapted into television animation by DiC and distributed by Viacom Enterprises.

In 2009, Legend Films coproduced a colorized 3-D version of the film with PassmoreLab, a company that converts 2-D film into 3-D format.

Legend has magnified the victory into the rout of 200, 000 Muslims under five kings ; but so far was the battle from being decisive that in 1140 the Moors were able to seize the fortress of Leiria, built by Afonso in 1135 as an outpost for the defence of Coimbra, his capital.

Its insights into what it is to be human go far beyond genre, and is all the more surprising because, having read his short stories-which range from competent but simplistic, to having classic Twilight Zone twists ( he was a major contributor to the original TV series ) there is nothing within those short stories that suggests the supreme majesty of the existential masterpiece I Am Legend was aborning.

The gameplay is similar to the original Legend of Zelda for the NES: the world is viewed from a top-down camera angle, it is divided up into many different squares that can fit on the screen, and the main character can move up, down, left, and right across the screen.

From the moment a legend is retold as fiction its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with " Gothic " overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.

Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the Robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain.

In 1969, American folk singer Jamie Brockett reworked the Leadbelly song into a satirical talking blues called " The Legend of the U. S. S.

* Circa 1948, Stan Jones transposed the Wild Hunt into a country song " Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend " which tells the story to a group of cowboys who chase the devil's herd of cattle through the night skies, tormented by madness and thirst.

The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.

He is held by many as the game's greatest identity acknowledged by being the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a Legend.

They would again cite Super Mario 64, along with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, as two games that " blazed trails " into the 3D era.

Legend has it, as he rode into town, he had horrible hemorrhoids and he found comfort in the sweet waters, leading to the eventual name of Sugarcreek.

The Legend was the result of Project XX, a joint venture Honda entered into with the UK's Austin Rover Group.

The Golden Legend was translated into Catalan in the 13th century ( BNP esp 44 ) and a first dated version was published in Barcelona in 1494.

Legend has it that they tied him to a millstone and threw him into a river, but he freed himself from the weight, escaped and continued to preach his faith.

Legend has it that around AD 1500 the Virgin Mary performed a miracle here, freezing into place a shepherd boy who tried to take home the small statue, thus foiling the theft.

Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award ( in 1994 ) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ( in 1995 ), and was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist.