According to one of the historical chronicles ( the Gunji Yoshu ), nine sets of five beats would summon an ally to battle, while nine sets of three beats, sped up three or four times is the call to advance and pursue an enemy.

Much more detailed speculation based on these scant historical details has been interpolated by many of Galois ' biographers ( most notably by Eric Temple Bell in Men of Mathematics ), such as the frequently repeated speculation that the entire incident was stage-managed by the police and royalist factions to eliminate a political enemy.

Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

The FARC-EP says it will continue its armed struggle because it perceives the current Colombian government as an enemy because of historical politically motivated violence against its members and supporters including members of the Patriotic Union, a FARC-EP-created political party.

In the shipwreck field alone individual shipwrecks can be of significant historical importance either because of the magnitude of loss of life ( such as the Titanic ), or circumstances of loss ( Housatonic was the first vessel in history sunk by an enemy submarine ).

" Isaiah 27: 1 uses the first of these phrases to describe Leviathan ( although in this case the name " Leviathan " apparently refers to an unnamed historical / political enemy of Israel rather than the original serpent-monster ).

A commonly occurring historical perspective concerning the interdiction effort tends to support the campaigns ( regardless of their failure to halt or slow infiltration ) due to the enemy materiel and manpower that it tied down in Laos and Cambodia.

At the time, most European countries tried to ensure similar guarantees, and because of the Tunisian crisis Italy found no other big potential ally than her historical enemy, Austria – Hungary, against which Italy had fought three wars in the 34 years before the first treaty signing.

His image as a one-eyed warrior was later popularized by Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which he was said to have yanked the arrow fired by enemy general Cao Xing out of his eye and devoured his own eyeball to instill fear in his enemies.

He later also said that canceling the ceremony was a " strong slap in the face " to " the Zionist enemy " and that he would " not allow any Jew to pray in the temple, and would not allow any Israeli to pray in the temple .” A private dedication ceremony closed to media was held instead for approximately 150 European Jews with historical ties to Egypt in attendance.

Ostensibly, the base of comparison are the general historical conditions of captivity for American prisoner who qualify automatically for the POW Medal through captivity by enemy or opposing armed forces.

In the Richard Sharpe series of historical novels, set during the Napoleonic Wars, Fouché is mentioned as an early mentor of Sharpe's bitter enemy Pierre Ducos, a French spymaster.

Russell also expresses doubt over the historical existence of Jesus and questions the morality of religion: " I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The motte and bailey castle was certainly militarily highly effective: the design enabled defenders to deal with enemy cavalry and were very hard to assault, although as historian André Debord suggests, the historical and archaeological record of the actual military operation of motte and bailey castles remains relatively limited.

Subtitled " Personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor ( George Sherban ) Emissary ( Grade 9 ) 87th of the Period of the Last Days ", Shikasta is the history of the planet Shikasta ( Earth ) under the influence of three galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius, and their mutual enemy, Puttiora.

He and his wife thus spearhead a conspiracy to save the empire despite its rulers, sets out to build an alliance with Byzantium's historical enemy, Persia with whom they are currently effectively at war, the African Kingdom of Axum — a naval and trading power of the day which is so far away little is known of it or its capabilities, and various Indian forces and individuals that remain in opposition to Malwa — which may or may not be out there, but which are suggested by the visions presented by the mysterious crystal — whatever agenda it might have.

In 1976 Colonel John Boyd presented " Patterns of Conflict ", a study outlining a number of historical matchups in which the victor was able to disrupt the " observation-orientation-decision-action time cycle or loop " of their enemy.

The Rhineland Jews looked to historical precedents since Biblical times to justify their actions: the honourable suicide of Saul, the Maccabees revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the suicide pact at Masada, and the Bar Kochba revolt were seen as justifiable deaths in the face of a stronger enemy.

As with the earlier Sudden Strike original campaigns, the briefings do not explain the historical setting of the campaign, thus only issuing standardized orders to the player to e. g. dispel enemy attacks or to simply take over a designated airfield in the east and so on.

Several well-known historical figures served time as galley slaves after being captured by the enemy, including the Ottoman corsair and admiral Turgut Reis and the Maltese Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, on one occasion when Yue Jin was losing to the enemy general Ling Tong in a duel, Cao Xiu fired an arrow which hit Ling's steed.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.

Some scholars have described Isaac as " a legendary figure " while others view him " as a figure representing tribal history, though as a historical individual " or " as a seminomadic leader.

Bede ascribed to these legendary figures a historical role in the 5th-century Anglo-Saxon conquest of eastern Britain.

Pliny the Elder's Natural History ( 36. 90 ) lists the legendary Smilis, reputed to be a contemporary of Daedalus, together with the historical mid-sixth-century BC architects and sculptors Rhoikos and Theodoros as two of the makers of the Lemnian labyrinth, which Andrew Stewart regards as " evidently a misunderstanding of the Samian temple's location en limnais the marsh '.

To distinguish the masculine " Malinche " from the feminine, the prefix " La " gives the name by which the historical and legendary figure is best known: La Malinche.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

Since the historical Midas of the 8th century BC and Gyges are believed to have been contemporaries, it seems most likely that Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the earlier, legendary King Midas.

The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures.

However, no historical evidence exists for the rule of these legendary dynasties.

Thomas L. Thompson ( The Bible in History ), however, interprets the Mesha stele as suggesting that Omri is an eponym, or legendary founder of the kingdom rather than an historical person.

All this is probably legendary, the reference to the restoration of ecclesiastical activity by Marcellus alone having an historical basis.

In this case, there was a historical incident of legendary proportion.

Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are strongly disputed by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist.

Although many human societies were literate in this period, some of the individuals mentioned below may be considered legendary rather than fully historical.

* 201 BC – Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist, who has written historical plays ( fabulae praetextae ) that are based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events ( b. c. 264 BC )

Although many human societies were literate at this time, some of the individuals mentioned below must be considered legendary rather than historical.

Although many human societies were literate in this period, most individual persons mentioned in this article ought to be considered legendary rather than historical.

Although many human societies were literate in this period, some individual persons mentioned in this article ought to be considered legendary rather than historical.

Written from a hagiographical point of view and prone to exaggeration and some legendary details, it is not the best historical source for his life, but is widely reproduced and considered to contain elements of some value.

Numerous stories depict Jinns, Ghouls, Apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally ; common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and his alleged court poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set.

Spiegel also regards Kamboja / Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) and Kuru / Kyros ( Cyrus ) as the names of two pre-historic / legendary heroes of the Indo-Iranians ( i. e. prior to their split into Indo-Aryans and Iranians ) which were later revived naturally in the royal family of the Achaemenes and further opines that the myths about Cyrus were largely due to the confusion between the historical and the legendary heroes of the prehistoric period

Later that same year, Psyche's history repeated itself when Gero Herrde from Synthetic Symphony / SPV requested that Psyche re-release their first two albums allowing for the chance to remaster the material, add historical early recordings, and update the design for the legendary " Insomnia Theatre " and " Unveiling The Secret " albums.