One of the most distinctive features of Northern Praying Mantis is the " praying mantis hook " ( 螳螂勾 ; pinyin: tángláng gōu ): a hook made of one to three fingers directing force in a whip-like manner.

One legend attributes the creation of Mantis fist to the Song Dynasty when Abbot Fu Ju ( 福居 ), a legendary persona of the historical Abbot Fu Yu ( 福裕 ) ( 1203 – 1275 ), supposedly invited Wang Lang ( 王朗 ) and seventeen other masters to come and improve the martial arts of Shaolin.

One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

One legend related of Sargon in Assyrian times says that

One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.

One well-known legend about El Cid describes how he acquired the stallion.

One Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas () presents Guanyin as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from the samsara or reincarnation.

One is the legend of Bodhidharma, the Indian master who brought the Ekayana school of India to China that subsequently became Chan Buddhism.

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate ; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish.

One Muslim legend narrates that Shem was one of the people that God made Jesus resurrect as a sign to the Children of Israel.

One possibly true urban legend is that Dillinger robbed 1, 000 coin bags of Peace Dollars in December 1933.

One legend tells that, prior to the arrival of Henry's commissioners, the monks covertly removed Cuthbert's body from the cathedral, reburying it in a secret location within the grounds of Crayke Abbey.

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

One legend has it that in the Heroic Age before the Trojan War, Theseus abandoned the princess Ariadne of Crete on this island after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth.

The Jedi Master comes to believe that the boy, who is exceptionally strong in the Force, may be the " Chosen One " of Jedi legend destined to bring balance to the Force.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

One legend states that the town derives its name from Luba, a young man credited with slaying a giant bear that had been terrifying the inhabitants.

One legend, as further elaborated through the Middle Ages, established Astyanax, renamed " Francus ", as the founder of Merovingian dynasty and forefather of Charlemagne.

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

One legend tells that, when Balor was slain by Lugh, Balor's eye was still open when he fell face first into the ground.

Older books about Alfred the Great include the legend, for example: Jacob Abbott's 1849 Alfred the Great says that " One of the greatest and most important of the measures which Alfred adopted for the intellectual improvement of his people was the founding of the great University of Oxford.

One legend holds that the place was originally named " Shore's Ditch ", after Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV, who is supposed to have died or been buried in a ditch in the area.

One example is the legend Sina and the Eel which is associated with the Mata o le Alelo pool on the island of Savai ' i.

* One legend tells that Tagaloa had two children, a son Moa and a daughter Lu.

One well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a stone bulldog that allegedly at one time guarded the mausoleum of florist John G. Heinl, the brother-in-law of Eugene V. Debs and the father of esteemed journalist Robert Debs Heinl, which is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

One of these, boxing legend Jack Dempsey, made continual use of these facilities until Mack's death in the mid-1930s.

One legend has it that Lake Magdalene was named after Mary Magdalene, friend and follower of Jesus, who once appeared to a settler family along the waters of the lake.

One of the most interesting aspects of the axiom of choice is the large number of places in mathematics that it shows up.

One popular cruise is from Caletilla Beach to Roqueta Island, which has places to snorkel, have lunch, a small zoo and a lighthouse.

One of the advantages of working with this worm is that the body plan is very stereotyped: the nervous system of the hermaphrodite morph contains exactly 302 neurons, always in the same places, making identical synaptic connections in every worm.

One scholar places the migration аs late as the 13th or 14th century.

One reason for coding is to enable communication in places where ordinary spoken or written language is difficult or impossible.

One of the more prominent places people see costumes is in theatre, film and on television.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

' I knew this to be a nightmare fantasy wholly without substance in the real world ... One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife.

One of the best places to see the city ( and the active volcano across the bay ) is from the Amuran Ferris wheel on top of Amu Plaza Kagoshima, the shopping centre attached to the main Kagoshima-Chūō Station.

One habit of thought regards management as equivalent to " business administration " and thus excludes management in places outside commerce, as for example in charities and in the public sector.

One estimate places the total number of television sets in use in the early 1990s at 250, 000 sets.

One tradition places him under the Emperor Gordianus III ( 238 – 244 ), others mentions him under Severus Alexander ( 222 – 235 ).

One of the places that saw many memorials and candlelight vigils was Pier A in Hoboken, New Jersey, where many people saw the events of September 11 ( Pier A had a good view of the World Trade Center.

One may choose to have one's name added to another list when moving and then be listed at both places.

In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.

One incentive is that state implementation of national programs places implementation in the hands of local officials who are closer to local circumstances.

One example of this is the seizure of drugs from different places.

One of its more popular curricula, Neighboring Faiths ( formerly Church Across the Street ), takes middle and high school participants to visit the places of worship of many faith traditions including a Hindu temple, a Reform or Orthodox synagogue, and a Catholic church.

* One prediction ( by Ray Kurzweil ) places the emergence of the technological singularity in 2045.

As Plotinus explains in both places and elsewhere V. 6. 3, it is impossible for the One to be Being or a self-aware Creator God.

* Nanded-Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, One of the five most sacred places in Sikhism.

One estimate places the number of deaths in Buchenwald at 56, 000.

One the most relevant places in the life of the city has certainly been The Antonianum.

One common variation of the Burton grip places the outside mallet between the middle and ring fingers, instead of between the index and middle.