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The legend at the bottom says " Jean-Jacques, aime ton pays " (" love your country "), and shows Rousseau's father gesturing towards the window.
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Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.
The mule is honored at Benson, N.C. ( Sept. 22, 23 ) and at Boron, Calif. ( Sept. 24 thru Oct. 1 ), while the legend of the Maid of the Mist is celebrated at Niagara Falls through the 24th.
According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.
Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.
According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.
According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.
A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).
Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.
Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.
The legend relates that Childe left a note of some sort saying that whoever found and buried his body would inherit his lands at Plymstock.
His building activity at Babylon was what turned it into the immense and beautiful city of legend.
Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.
Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly, to pick laurel ( also known as bay tree ) which he considered to be a sacred plant.
In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel picked in the Temple.
According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.
The legend holds that he thought the exercise proposed to him by the examiner to be of no interest, and, in exasperation, threw the rag used to clean the blackboard at the examiner's head.
According to a Jewish legend, one of the Essenes, named Menachem, had passed at least some of his mystical knowledge to the Talmudic mystic Nehunya ben HaKanah, to whom the Kabbalistic tradition attributes Sefer HaBahir and, by some opinions, Sefer HaKanah, Sefer HaPeliah and Sefer HaTemunah.
Æthelred was not personally suspected of participation, but as the murder was committed at Corfe Castle by the attendants of Ælfthryth, it made it more difficult for the new king to rally the nation against the military raids by Danes, especially as the legend of St Edward the Martyr grew.
According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.
Others, angry at their sudden, apparently inexplicable defeat, joined up in an effort to put down Communist uprisings or exact some form of revenge ( see stab-in-the-back legend ).
The Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the " Bonnie Prince Charlie " of legend, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.
According to legend, the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, located at the south-west of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, Spain, protected the chalice of the Last Supper from the Islamic invaders of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Cells with colored borders ( note the three bottom cells in the color legend at right ) denote the half-life of the most stable nuclear isomer state.
Some have hypothesized that the legend of the Golden Fleece was based on a practice of the Black Sea tribes ; they would place a lamb's fleece at the bottom of a stream to entrap gold dust being washed down from upstream.
The flies and the bishop on the bottom left is in reference to a Catalan folk legend ( from Girona ) about St. Narciso's crypt.
According to legend, the sacred jewels and the sacred sword ( two of the three sacred treasures ) sunk to the bottom of the sea, and although the sacred jewels were recovered, the sword was lost.
Although the creators were sure that no one could believe a tale so ridiculous — and had added a link at the bottom of the page to another page explaining the hoax, and a message with the ratings reading " Note: Any relationship between these ratings and reality is purely coincidental " — eventually the legend was featured as true in an urban legends board game and television show.
The legend tells of a house-sized leech that could command the waters and use them to sweep hapless people to the bottom of the river and consume them.
Another legend says that the key was thrown into the depths of small lake on the same mountain and yet another that one day a fisherman will hook the golden key from the bottom of the ocean thus restoring the city to the surface.
There is no current tin mining undertaken in Cornwall, however a popular legend says that wherever you may go in the world, if you see a hole in the ground, you'll find a Cornishman at the bottom of it.
According to the legend, Marmennil has the appearance of a small human with long fingers, and lives at the bottom of the sea.
The world symbol remained the same, however the legend at the bottom was altered to a BBC logo with an italic ' World Service ' beneath.
According to legend, the reason behind Shiva imparting a teaching at the bottom of the ocean was in order to avoid being overheard by others.
The “ ribbon ” across the bottom of the crest carries the legend “ Industry, Intelligence, and Integrity ”.
A local legend tells of the ghosts of a horse and rider who drowned in a deep pool, known colloquially as the Black Hole, at the bottom of the falls.
The captions for the 1969 to 1974 look used the legend of the ident in their captions located at the bottom of the screen.
There is one legend that a great bell lay at the bottom of the moat surrounding the church and manor, and that it would never be seen until six yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up.
The existing standard TTC-stop sign had a red square or stripe at the top and bottom ; now, for all stops with 24-hour service, this was changed to red and blue, with the legend " 24 hr " added.
Starting with the bottom medallion on the left wing, it pictures the highy medieval version of the legend of Constantine having a dream the night before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, where he dreams an angel appears, points to the Cross, and tells him he will conquer under that sign.
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The legend associated with Chiron says that he was accidentally poisoned with an arrow shot by Hercules, and was subsequently placed in the heavens.
The legend says that the pirates requested food and cattle from the inhabitants of the island.
Richard Steigmann-Gall says that the stab-in-the-back legend traces back to a sermon preached on February 3, 1918, by Protestant Court Chaplain Bruno Doehring, six months before the war had even ended.
The bar where legend says Poe was last seen drinking before his death still stands in Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland.
Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).
There is an old Russian legend that says the Samoyeds, an ancient Siberian tribe, traveled to an underground cavern city to live inside the earth.
A variant of the legend says that Miaoshan allowed herself to die at the hand of the executioner.
Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the alleged theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students.
Musashi killed his opponent with a bokken that legend says he had carved from an oar used on the boat that carried him to the island.
Lese legend says the okapi decorates itself with these stripes, adding to the okapi's great camouflage.
A legend says that François Blanc supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette.
The legend on the reverse says: Judaea Capta coinage | IVDEA CAPTA, " Iudaea ( Roman province ) | Judaea conquered ".
The Encyclopædia Britannica says this about the legend:
There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.
Chief among these is a series of fortification walls on the north slope of Palatine Hill that can be dated to the middle of the 8th century BC, when legend says that Romulus plowed a furrow ( sulcus ) around the Palatine Hill in order to mark the boundary of his new city.
Welsh legend provides a mythic story that says he did exactly that.
The legend says that his sister was asked for, and a marriage alliance sought with the local Berber leader.
An old Icelandic legend says that two night-prowling giants, a man and a woman, were traversing the fjord near Drangey Island with their cow when they were surprised by the bright rays of daybreak.
An ancient legend says that Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt.
The legend also says that as a child, Jesus had visited Glastonbury along with Joseph.
People believed that this was " the famous egg that legend says Leda brought forth ".
Bob Hoffman sent over tons of equipment for this contest too – and didn ’ t take it back, legend says it ’ s all still being used in the West Midlands.
* When Costello is next to Dracula's coffin at the beginning of the film, the information card says " Frankenstein's monster " until the camera moves and it changes to " Dracula's legend.
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