Legends about the origins of the diamond differ from the more strictly historical accounts given above.

Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings ( 1981 ) to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies, and second, that one could learn much about urban and modern culture by studying such tales.

Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

Legends about the arrival of Christianity in Britain abounded during the Middle Ages.

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* Sid – Sid is often seen as Gerald's " lead-in " man ; when Gerald is about to tell another of the Urban Legends, Sid introduces him, usually mentioning how the story has been passed " from kid generation to kid generation ".

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Legends dating to 1852 from western Uckermark ascribe both human and fiery features to the kobold ; he wears a red jacket and cap and moves about the air as a fiery stripe.

He vacationed in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in 1859 published a book about the area entitled The White Hills ; their Legends, Landscapes, & Poetry.

The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establish that the Spacing Guild first start using Guild Navigators because the travel technique of spacefolding is not safe ; only about nine out of every ten heighliners make it to their final destination without Navigators.

Legends about her have been the subject of numerous books and films.

* Iubiri greco-romane ( Greco-Roman love ) — an article about Andrew Calimach's Lovers ' Legends in Cotidianul

Volker von Alzey ( right ) from Legends about Theodoric the Great

He is mentioned by Batman in " Legends of the Dark Mite " when he learns that Bat-Mite is from the Fifth Dimension and that he tells Bat-Mite that a friend in Metropolis ( Superman ) had warned him about 5th dimensional beings.

He has written and presented other radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's series Word Of Mouth ( winner of the 1996 European Radio, ONDAS prize ), and a series on Radio 2 about songwriters Rodgers and Hart, Legends of Light Music.

** Roman Legends about the Apostles Paul and Peter, translated by Ottilia von Düben, 1898.

In July 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band ’ s unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Ringo Starr, and Elton John, all reminiscing about the former band ’ s short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace.

Over the years she was seen in documentaries about Oscar Hammerstein II, George Abbott and in the film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

Edel Music is also well known for book publishing ( under the brand EARbooks ) with books about cities ( New York, Barcelona, Genoa or Rome ), history personalities ( Che Guevara ), Show Business Legends ( Marilyn Monroe ) and a series of music earbooks dedicated to top names like The Police, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Thin Lizzy, The Jam and Chris Rea.

Legends arose about his dying " curse " being the cause of misfortunes in the area ( later supplanted by local " mothman " stories ), though no contemporary historical source mentions any such utterance by Cornstalk.

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On July 23, on the 1, 000th episode of Raw, he was one of about ten WWE Legends who assisted Lita in her match against Slater.

* Interview with Steele about his career ( from Legends of Wrestling 2 )

Legends say that the Menehune built temples ( heiau ), fishponds, roads, canoes, and houses.

This has included the building of a new sports complex with an indoor swimming pool, two girls ' houses ( Melvill and Colvin ) and two boys ' houses ( Edmonstone and Bartle Frere ), a tennis centre run by Legends Tennis, a technology centre and a modern languages centre opened in March 2010.

The Barry Switzer Center, under the south end zone, was opened in 1999 and houses the football locker room, video rooms, football coaches offices, the football conditioning center, a state-of-the-art sports medicine facility, and the Legends Lobby, a large museum dedicated to the history of Oklahoma football.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

The Legends belong to the South Atlantic League, have one league title ( 2001 ) and four playoff appearances since 2001.

Since Grand Prix Legends was released, GPL has seen the contribution of no less than 537 active creators ( list here ) who have given some or most of their spare time to offer Tracks, cars, race programs, useful tools and dedicated software or whatsoever others add ons.

In the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Anderson it is revealed that the Sorceresses of Rossak, who possess destructive telekinetic powers existing only in females and have a breeding plan to create more powerful telepaths, had been the predecessors of the Bene Gesserit.

Legends abound of pirates using the island to hide their booty, and generations of children have gone digging for this treasure.

Also published as Warrior Queens: The Legends and Lives of Women Who have led Their Nations in War.

Shortly after, VH1 created a companion series, Legends ( originally sponsored by AT & T ), profiling artists who have made a more significant contribution to music history to qualify as " Legends " ( that is, those artists who have gone beyond the category of Behind the Music biographies ).

The Xtreme Legends expansion only have the new contents by its own, so players would require the original game disc and use the " Mixjoy " option to access all features.

Maxim magazine has placed Năstase at number 6 on its top ten " Living Sex Legends " list, as he is reputed to have slept with over 2500 women.

In recent years, several of Horenstein's concert performances have been reissued on the BBC Legends label, including his celebrated 1959 Royal Albert Hall performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and his 1972 Manchester performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

* Legends of Fionn mac Cumhaill also known by many other names including Finn MacCool, have it that he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet ; and that he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the Irish Sea — the clump became the Isle of Man and the pebble became Rockall, the void became Lough Neagh.

During the next two decades, due in part to the success of the Convention Center and the other attractions, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, M & T Bank Stadium, Power Plant Live !, and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History, have joined the area, creating a ten-block plus entertainment and cultural destination at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, further increasing tourist dollars flowing into the region.

Legends depicted the Chwezi as supernatural beings, but their material remains at the archaeological sites of Bigo and Mubende have shown that they were human and perhaps among the ancestors of the modern Hima or Tutsi pastoralists of Rwanda and Burundi.

To this day, the primary difference between the two cars is the Legends have fenders over the tires, whereas the Dwarfs have no fenders.

Legends Car drivers who have raced in NASCAR include Reed Sorenson, David Ragan, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, and Kurt Busch.

Historically, Legends racers from the UK have performed well at the world finals, winning Semi-pro ( Glenn Burtenshaw ), Pro ( John Jon Higgins ) and masters divisions ( Peter Morton ).

Legends have been racing in Finland since 1999 and Legends Trophy series have existed since 2000.