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Legend has it that it was once possible to see the Sagrada Familia through this window, which was being built simultaneously.
Legend also has it that the young Alfred spent time in Ireland seeking healing.
Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.
Legend has it that in 802 CE, Jayavarman II, king of the Khmers, first came to the Kuhlen hills, the future site of Angkor Wat.
Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.
Legend has it that Childe was in a party hunting on the moor when they were caught in some changeable weather.
Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.
Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.
Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.
Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915.
Legend ( and Verdi's own " An Autobiographical Sketch " of 1879 ) has it that it was the words of the famous Va pensiero chorus of the Hebrew slaves that inspired him to write music again.
Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I.
Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood.
Legend has it that the idea came to him " like a ray of light ".
Legend has it that at the age of six while in bed with smallpox he was given a watch to amuse himself, spending hours listening to it and studying its moving parts.
Legend has it that the diamond originally belonged to the Pandavas.
Legend has it that he had the Koh-i-Noor positioned near a window so that Shah Jahan could see the Taj only by looking at its reflection in the stone.
Legend in the Lawrence family has it that during the voyage, John Lawrence left the jewel in his waistcoat pocket when it was sent to be laundered, and it was returned promptly by the steward who found it.
Legend has it that Shancai ( also called Sudhana in Sanskrit ) was a disabled boy from India who was very interested in studying the dharma.
Legend has it that on his arrival in Rome in a chariot, an eagle took his cap, flew away and then returned it back upon his head.
Legend has it that Achilles was born here and Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, died here.
The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.
Legend has it that these eight schools were founded by eight monks taught by a legendary martial artist resident on the sacred Mount Kurama.
Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.

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Legend has it that Miyamoto Musashi carved a bokken that resembled a suburitō out of a boat oar as he traveled to his famous duel with Sasaki Kojiro, whom he supposedly killed.
Legend has it that the Naga of the Nagalinga was carved out of a single stone by sculptors while they waited for their mother to prepare lunch.

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* 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 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.
Legend claims that Aelle ordered Ragnar thrown into a pit filled with poisonous snakes.
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.
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.
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.

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