A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

" The story is apocryphal and they are believed to have scored at least one two among the singles.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

An apocryphal story says that Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus and spoke to them as a separate character.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.

Since he has never confirmed this, the story is usually considered apocryphal.

" This anecdote is briefly discussed in G. Waldo Dunnington's Gauss, Titan of Science where it is suggested that it is an apocryphal story.

A " probably apocryphal " story relates that as Beatty walked into Churchill's office at the Admiralty, Churchill looked him over and said, " You seem very young to be an Admiral.

A ( perhaps apocryphal ) story is sometimes told of Beatty's retirement, that he canvassed in uniform in support of Conservative candidates in dockyard constituencies, presumably in the 1929 or 1931 General Elections.

The famous story in which Galileo is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is apocryphal, but he did find that the path of a projectile is a parabola, and he is credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton's laws of motion ( such as discovering the property of inertia ).

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

The Slavonic chronicles add apocryphal details to the account of her baptism, such as the story how she charmed and " outwitted " Constantine and how she spurned his matrimonial proposals.

Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada.

The most famous example of a claim is the apocryphal story that artist Frederic Remington telegrammed Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba and " There will be no war.

Given the earlier meanings above, this story is probably apocryphal.

According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.

The story is widely believed to be apocryphal, but the influence of the recording was nonetheless enormous.

An apocryphal story claims that King Louis XVI ( an amateur locksmith ) recommended that a triangular blade with a beveled edge be used instead of a crescent blade, but it was Schmidt who suggested placing a straight blade at a 45 degree angle.

4th c .), a famed dialectician of the Gupta Empire, contextualizes the prestige of dialectic and cut-throat debate in classical India and makes references to the possibly apocryphal story of the banishment of Moheyan post-debate with Kamalaśīla ( fl.

The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that " Hamp ", a drummer at the time, was playing at the NBC Radio studios, where he discovered a vibraharp that was kept on hand to play the musical motif identifying the NBC network, the " NBC Chimes ".

The story ( which may be apocryphal ) goes that, in the 1980s, during a meeting with a young Hollywood executive, Zinnemann was surprised to find the executive didn't know who he was, despite having won four Academy Awards, and directing many of Hollywood's biggest films.

A story, possibly apocryphal, goes that Charles Townshend visited Somers during his last illness, with Somers saying to Townshend on his death bed:

One apocryphal story about the HCF instruction goes back to the late 1960s, when computers used magnetic core memory.

Kline is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations ( Planet of Peril ( 1929 ) and two sequels ) of Burroughs's Martian novels, though set on Venus ; Burroughs, the story goes, then retaliated by writing his own Venus novels, whereupon Kline responded with an even more direct intrusion on Burroughs's territory by boldly setting two novels on Mars.

Despite there being no evidence that this practice goes back more than a few decades, apocryphal tales and oral tradition among some within the University of Cambridge would attribute its origin to the time of the reign of Henry VIII.

The apocryphal tale goes that after defeating the Carthaginians at the Battle of Mylae, the rostra were cut off several vessels, and taken back to Rome, where they were used in the Senate for the same purposes as a modern lectern.

A possibly apocryphal but typical story has her meeting the American film actress Jean Harlow and correcting Harlow's mispronunciation of her first name — " No, no ; the't ' is silent, as in ' Harlow '.

One interesting, perhaps apocryphal Parsi legend relates the course of the initial meeting between Jadi Rana and the newly landed emigrants: When the Zoroastrians requested asylum, Jadi Rana motioned to a vessel of milk filled to the very brim to signify that his kingdom was already full and could not accept refugees.

That Chaplin was unprepared to remain abroad, or that the revocation of his right to re-enter the United States was a surprise to him, may be apocryphal: An anecdote in some contradiction is recorded during a broad interview with Richard Avedon, celebrated New York portraitist.

Primary sources about Mary Magdalene can be divided into canonical texts that are collected into the Christian New Testament and apocryphal texts that were left out from the Bible, being judged as heretical during the development of the New Testament canon.

According to an apocryphal combination of New World and Eurasian elements, Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth when he traveled to what is now Florida in 1513.

The Gospel of Peter (), or Gospel according to Peter, is one of the non-Canonical gospels which were rejected by the Church Fathers and the Catholic Church's synods of Carthage and Rome, which established the New Testament canon, as apocryphal.

More than 130 more distant sources have been identified for the tales related of the saints in the Golden Legend, few of which have a nucleus in the New Testament itself ; these hagiographic sources include apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Nicodemus, and the histories of Gregory of Tours and John Cassian.

A popular apocryphal story which surfaced in French Communist circles claimed that women from clothing and textile factories had staged a protest on 8 March 1857 in New York City.

Luke Timothy Johnson, a frequent critic of the methodologies of the Jesus Seminar, says in his book The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation that his research affirms a view of Matthew 28: 19 as apocryphal.

The reporter of this system is clearly acquainted with the New Testament, since he adopts a phrase from the Epistle to the Corinthians ; he knows that Jesus habitually spoke of himself as Son of Man ; and in denying that Jesus performed miracles before his baptism, he adopts the history as told in the Gospels in opposition to that told in apocryphal Gospels of the Infancy.

This is apocryphal, as the fruit was called a " jack " in English before William Jack was born: for instance, in Dampier's 1699 book, A New Voyage Round the World.

The witticism, attributed to various modernist architects, that had he to choose any place in New Haven to live he would select the Harkness Tower, for then he " would not have to look at it ," is apparently apocryphal, derivative of a similar story told of Alexandre Dumas and the Eiffel Tower.

A persistent story, but apocryphal according to some sources, is that Junius Brutus Booth was acclaimed for performing Orestes in the French language in New Orleans.

One widely reported guest appearance — Hunter S. Thompson's, in " New Year's Pete " — has been described as " apocryphal " by show creator Will McRobb, who has said the Hunter Thompson listed in the credits is instead a similarly named extra.

The names, numbers, and order of the books in the Douay – Rheims Bible follow those of the Vulgate except that the three apocryphal books are placed after the Old Testament in the Douay – Rheims Bible ; in the Clementine Vulgate they come after the New Testament.

The most notable are the St John Fragment, believed to be the oldest extant New Testament text, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, the earliest fragment of the text of the canonical Gospel of John ; the earliest fragment of the Septuagint, Papyrus Rylands 458 ; and Papyrus Rylands 463, a manuscript fragment of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary.

In addition, the word gaiden has been used in English titles as well such as Ninja Gaiden ( literally " Ninja's Tale ", the American title for the Japanese series Ninja Ryūkenden ) and Resident Evil Gaiden ( a European-developed spin-off of the Japanese Resident Evil franchise ), Super Robot Taisen Alpha Gaiden, which tells a future that would happen without the heroes fighting at the time of need as well as Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden ( an apocryphal epic detailing the canon account of Charles Barkley, who revives the condemned culture of b-ball to save Neo New York and his son Hoopz from the machinations of the traitor Michael Jordan ).

A website using the name Mile High Club regards the " Club's " " founder " as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry along with " socialite Mrs. Waldo Polk " citing their possibly apocryphal flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near New York in November 1916.

The feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Infancy Narrative of James.

They include not only both Testaments of the Bible ( although heavier use is made of the Old Testament than the New ), but he detects evidence of Rabbinical sources, influence from apocryphal works ( especially the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees, and such Syriac works as the Book of the Cave of Treasures, and its derivatives the Book of Adam and Eve and the Book of the Bee.

Marcus thus describes it as " a pastiche of legends ... blended local and regional oral traditions and style and substance derived from the Old and New Testaments, various apocryphal texts, Jewish and Islamic commentaries, and Patristic writings ".

Despite apocryphal tales of her nursing him back to health, she was away in New England while Frank was recuperating.

Seraphiel ( Hebrew < span style =" font-family: SBL Hebrew, Ezra SIL SR, Ezra SIL, Cardo, Chrysanthi Unicode, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Arial Unicode MS, Narkisim, Times New Roman ">< big > ש ׂ רפיאל </ big ></ span >) is the name of an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.

It may be considered part of the New Testament apocryphal tradition.

He wrote on dogmatics, the philosophy of religion, and New Testament criticism, particularly the apocryphal acts of various apostles in his Apocrypha, Acts and Legends of the Apostles.