Popular history depicts Ludmila as a restrained and pious grandmother, but it is likely that the political demands of government called for more energy and worldliness than history records.

Popular legend holds that Louis said, " After me, the flood " (" Après moi, le déluge ").

Popular legend has it that the Mahones traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.

Popular legend interprets it as meaning " the watchful ", and supposes that Hereward acquired it when, with the help of his servant Martin Lightfoot, he foiled an assassination attempt during a hunting party by a group of knights jealous of his popularity.

Popular legend has it that one of its stone relief sculptures, an owl ( la chouette ) is a good-luck charm: visitors to the church touch the owl with their left hands to make a wish.

Popular legend states the founder of Ville Platte was Marcellin Garand, an adjutant major in the Army of the French Empire, during the time of Napoleon.

Popular legend has it that William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), builder of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ), and his cultured wife, Otelia Butler Mahone ( 1837 – 1911 ), traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.

Popular legend holds that the Ruppert loan forced Frazee to trade nearly every player of value to the Yankees for literally nothing in return, running the team into the ground.

Popular legend holds that when his body was pulled from the wreckage of his train near the twisted rail, his hands still clutched the whistle cord and brake.

Popular legend holds that Peggy Shippen fell in love with and pursued André, as she later did with Arnold.

Popular legend says that at the end of Patrick's 40-day fast, he threw a silver bell down the side of the hill, knocking the she-demon Corra from the sky and banishing all the snakes from Ireland.

Popular Japanese legend attributed the introduction of homosexuality to Japan to Shingon founder Kukai, although scholars now dismiss the veracity of this assertion.

Popular legend claims that Reyes earned US $ 80, 000 in a week ; this feat made him a folk hero back home.

Popular legend says a drunken survey party followed the wrong mountain ridge and mistakenly moved the boundary west into the Bitterroot Range.

Popular legend has it that the two characters are actually based on two real persons who worked either for Osman I — the founder of the Ottoman dynasty — or for his successor Orhan I, in the construction of a palace or possibly a mosque at Bursa in the early 14th century.

Popular legend states that Kassa's paternal relatives split up the entire paternal inheritance, leaving young Kassa and his mother with nothing and in very dire circumstances financially.

Popular legend has it that while one giant bird looks out over the city to protect its people, the other bird looks out to sea at the new sailors coming in to port.

Popular interpretation was that a great battle had taken place at the site, giving rise to the legend of the Battle of Barry.

Popular legend states that the rare coin given by King Rama IV of Siam to Anna Leonowens, as seen in the story of Anna and the King of Siam and the movie The King and I, was indeed the same 1804 silver dollar produced in 1834 as a gift to Siam.

Popular legend attributes to Jerome leadership of a protest in which papal bulls were first strung around the neck of a prostitute in a cart and then carried to the pillory in Prague to be publicly burned, but the leader was actually Wok of Waldstein.

Popular legend has it that Otelia and William Mahone traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations along the tangent between Suffolk and Petersburg from Ivanhoe a book she was reading written by Sir Walter Scott.

Popular legend has it that Otelia and William Mahone traveled along the newly completed railroad naming stations from Ivanhoe and other books she was reading written by Sir Walter Scott.

Popular legend holds that Houston Field House was previously an airplane or dirigible hangar for the United States armed forces during World War II.

Popular legend holds that WBCN was sent a promotional copy of The Beatles ' unreleased Get Back album and played it on the air before the release of the album was cancelled.

Popular legend says that she made her debut in New York City on the steps of city hall with an armful of turkeys for Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Popular Christian legends recalls Saint Monica to have wept every night for her son, Saint Augustine.

Popular head coach Adam Rita was dismissed in September as the team struggled to find its way, Matt Dunigan left for Winnipeg as his replacement, Rickey Foggie struggled as the starting QB.

Popular British R & B artists include Taio Cruz, Jay Sean, Tinie Tempah, M. I. A, Tinchy Stryder, Jessie J, Dizzee Rascal, Rita Ora, Joss Stone and N-Dubz.

Popular culture, such as Gary Larson's cartoon The Far Side, Brian Wilson's song " Mrs. O ' Leary's Cow ", the song " The Chicken or the Egg " from The Easter Bunny Is Comin ' To Town, and Rita Hayworth's song " Put the Blame on Mame " from the movie Gilda and even Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs have referred to the story with the expectation that the populace will understand the reference.

She won the 2004 Latin Grammy Awards for Best New Artist in the General Field, Best Song in Portuguese (“ A festa ”) and her debut album Maria Rita won the Best MPB ( Musica Popular Brasileira ) Album award for that year.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

( Popular images of this section have sometimes been mislabelled, implying that it was the entire mill or even the entire engine.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

In June 2012, the Cypriot government announced it would need € of foreign aid to support the Cyprus Popular Bank, and this was followed by Fitch down-grading Cypus's credit rating to junk status.

Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional € to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank ( Cyprus's 3 largest banks ) to the Greek financial crisis.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

The dictatorial regime operated as a one-party-state, which saw most of the powers concentrated between President Mobutu, who was simultaneously the head of the state-party ( Popular Movement of the Revolution ), and a series of essentially rubber-stamping institutions.

Popular films in the genre such as Little Caesar ( 1931 ), The Public Enemy ( 1931 ), and Scarface ( 1932 ) demonstrated that there was an audience for crime dramas with morally reprehensible protagonists.

The force was formalized as the Popular Militia ( Milices Populaires ) in the early 1960s, given distinctive uniforms, and linked to the developing civic service, which was engaged on national development tasks.

The militia was re-titled the National and Popular Militia in 1974 and its regular section scaled down, as the President announced that the country could not afford the large standing force that he believed was necessary to deter what he saw as the constant threat of invasion.

In 1984, the council was dissolved, and the National Popular Assembly ( ANP ) was reconstituted.

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

In 1936, the left united in the Popular Front and was elected to power.

FUTH also became affiliated with a number of leftist popular organizations in a group known as the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations ( Comité Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Populares — CCOP ) that was formed in 1984.

The Popular Party's head, Xhafer Ypi, formed a government in December 1921 with Fan S. Noli as foreign minister and Ahmed Bey Zogu as internal affairs minister, but Noli resigned soon after Zogu resorted to repression in an attempt to disarm the lowland Albanians despite the fact that bearing arms was a traditional custom.

The flag of the International Brigades was the Spanish Republican flag with the three-pointed star of the Popular Front ( Spain ) | Popular Front in the center