There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

* Castleden, Rodney, King Arthur: The Truth behind the legend, London, New-York, G. Routhledge, 2000.

* Nov. 2009 NY Times story about the book behind the " alligators in sewers " legend

The message behind Gautier's version of the infamous legend is the fundamental pessimism about the human identity, and perhaps the entire Romantic age.

There is some value behind this legend as wetter and cooler weather often allows the fruit to become infected by various molds such as Botryotinia which give the fruit an unpleasant look and may be toxic.

Perhaps behind the legend lies the offering by a Scythian king of his daughter as a wife for Alexander, as the latter himself wrote in a letter to Antipater.

According to legend, by day six of filming it was already five days behind schedule.

In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".

Marcus Claudius Marcellus died in battle in 208 BC, leaving behind a legacy of military conquests and a reinvigorated Roman legend of the spolia opima.

A popular legend concerning Ecgfrith's death at Nechtansmere has his queen, Eormenburg, touring the church at Carlisle with Cuthbert during the campaign, as she could not bear to stay behind at the royal quarters and sit patiently awaiting news of the battle's outcome.

The obverse shows a left-facing bust of the queen, with a rose behind her and the legend -- Elizabeth, by the grace of God a rose without a thorn — while the reverse shows the royal arms with the date above the arms and a mint mark at the beginning of the legend reading -- City of London, the Tower Mint.

The obverse shows a left-facing crowned bust of the queen with a rose behind her, surrounded by the legend, while the reverse shows shield over a long cross, dated 1561, surrounded by the legend.

They feature a left-facing crowned bust of the king with plumes in front of his face and the numeral III behind him, with the legend ( or a combination of M ( A ) B F ( R ) ET H ( I )( B ) depending on the engraver ), with the reverse showing the royal arms on a large oval shield with plumes above the shield, and the legend – I reign under the auspices of Christ.

Milled coins were produced at the York mint between 1638 and 1649, which look similar to the Aberystwyth product but without the plumes – the obverse features a left-facing crowned bust of the king with the numeral III behind him, with the legend, with the reverse showing the royal arms on a shield over a cross, with over the shield and the legend.

A further type produced at Oxford had on the obverse the king's bust with the denomination behind him, and the letter " R " ( for Rawlins, the maker of the die ) below the king's shoulder and the legend and the Aberystwyth reverse.

It features a left-facing crowned bust of the king with the numeral III behind him, with the legend, with the reverse showing the royal arms on a shield with the date 1644 above the shield, and the legend.

There is the undated issue which looks very like the earlier hammered coinage, with a crowned left-facing bust of the king with the denomination indicated by III behind his head, and the inscription, with the reverse showing a shield encircling the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and France with the legend.

The extremely rare Shrewsbury-produced coin shows, on the obverse, a plume behind the kings ' head surrounded by the legend -- Charles by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.

They depict the crowned bust of the king on the obverse, looking left, with the value " XX " appearing behind the king's head, and the legend -- Charles by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.

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.

The Lynn R. Lowrey Arboretum, consisting of more than 4000 trees and shrubs ( giving birth to the legend that Rice has a tree for every student ), is spread throughout the campus.

A number of fictionalized depictions propagated the Grace Darling legend, such as Grace Darling, or the Maid of the Isles by Jerrold Vernon ( 1839 ), which gave birth to the legend of “ the girl with windswept hair ”.

Births are also recorded in such shrines, and the Greek legend of conception and birth in the tomb – as in the story of Danae-is based on the ancient belief that the dead know the future.

A Greek legend is that the river was created by the birth pangs of Leto, whose temple, at the Letoon, is on the west bank of the river a few kilometers south of Xanthos.

In Ancient Rome, the legend of the twin brothers who founded the city ( Romulus and Remus ) made the birth of twin boys a blessing, while twin girls were seen as an unlucky burden, since both would have to be provided with an expensive dowry at about the same time.

According to Aztec legend, she was once magically impregnated by a ball of feathers that fell on her while she was sweeping a temple, and subsequently gave birth to the gods Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl.

In most Tamil versions of the story, the legend ends with the birth of the god, and with his passage around the region.

Valkenburg is no longer a fortified city but retained its importance nevertheless. The rulers lineage has long been lost in the sands of time, but a long term legend of the Valkenburg residents is that each male of royal blood has a birth mark on his chest.

Collier was the guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on a bear hunt in Sharkey County and was instrumental in the birth of the teddy bear legend .< ref > Buchannan, Minor Ferris.

According to Hann's family legend, passed from Betty to Val's mother and then on to Val herself, Mitford had checked into the hospital after her return to England where she had given birth to Hitler's child, who was subsequently given up for adoption.

Following Rin Tin Tin's death in August 1932 in Los Angeles ( in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, according to Hollywood legend ), his owner arranged to have the dog returned to his country of birth for burial in the Cimetière des Chiens, the renowned pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.

Since Elonzo Williams was a Mason, and his wife was a member of Order of the Eastern Star the child was named after Hiram I of Tyre ( one of the three founders of the Masons, according to Masonic legend ), but his name was misspelled as " Hiriam " on his birth certificate.

The legend of a mother wolf nursing a child at La Louvière is reminiscent of the mythical birth of Rome.

This legend is found preserved in the writings of Aelian: " This god has as priests the sons of Boreas ( North Wind ) and Chione ( Snow ), three in number, brothers by birth, and six cubits in height 3 metres.

As far as its history is concerned, Lobos is overly known for being the place of birth of three times President Juan Domingo Perón born in 1895, and it is also the place where the gaucho's legend Juan Moreira found his death in 1874 after struggling with the law.

Before Egill died he allegedly concealed his silver treasure near Mosfellsbær, giving birth to the legend of silfur Egils (" Egill's Silver ").

The Seder ' Olam Zuta connects with the birth of his son Mar Zutra the legend that is elsewhere told in connection with Bostanai's birth.

According to legend, his mother breaks every bone and limb in his body after his birth and bathes him in Chinese Rubbing Alcohol ( 鐵打酒 dit da jow ) to make him practically invulnerable.

According to legend, when Leto was about to give birth to Apollo and Artemis, she fled writhing in pain to Delos.

It contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther Pendragon, Vortigern, and Aurelius Ambrosius.