In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.

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.

After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set atop his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops.

Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.

Kyeser was infatuated with the Alexander romance | legend of Alexander the Great: here Alexander holds a rocket, the first depiction of one

Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.

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

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

Local legend holds that " anyone who sees one dies or is killed ".

One legend holds that the place was originally named " Shore's Ditch ", after Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV, who is supposed to have died or been buried in a ditch in the area.

Local legend holds that Pocahontas was named the county seat through an act of trickery.

One legend holds that the city is named after Mishawaka, daughter of Shawnee Chief Elkhart.

It is generally accepted that the town, formally incorporated on January 27, 1838, was named after Albany, New York, but a local legend holds that, during the vote to determine the location of the county seat, patrons of Dowell's tavern shouted " All for Benny!

A longstanding legend holds that Elmsford is the birthplace of the term " cocktail ".

Well before the Europeans came though, The Catawba Indians used the area as hunting grounds, and legend holds that in the area is an old Indian burial mound, which is yet to be discovered.

McKean local legend holds that a beast haunts Sterretania Road ( Pennsylvania Rt.

Local legend holds that the railroad once considered placing its machine shop functions in Mifflin, which would undoubtedly have led to the establishment of Mifflin as an important Pennsylvania industrial center.

A local legend holds that the ghost of Andrew Jackson occasionally appears in the vicinity of a cabin in a town park.

Local legend holds that Bonnie and Clyde either robbed the Ponder State Bank or attempted to rob it, only to discover it had gone broke the week before.

Local legend holds that the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a young Indian woman by the name of Susie, who was tragically lynched around the year 1890 at Thorp, by persons unknown in the area.

Local legend holds that Shawnee chief Blue Jacket was in fact a young white hunter named Marmaduke Van Swearingen who was kidnapped in the area.

In ancient China, a legend about a poor but good man holds he was brought many cups of gold and wealth by this flower.

The legend holds that the creature's skin is ill-fitting, and covered with warts and other blemishes, and so it hides from plain sight and spends much of its time weeping.

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.

The new owners decided to remove both Parkinson and Charlton legend Mark Kinsella after a poor run of results, intending to replace them with an as yet unknown team.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Polian in turn hired Jim Mora to become the next head coach of the team and would go on to draft Tennessee Volunteer quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, with the first overall pick in the 1998 draft.

In 1952, while still in reform school, Brown met future R & B legend Bobby Byrd, who was there playing baseball against the reform school team.

The season was not without controversy, though, as goalkeeper Tony Meola, an American soccer goalkeeping legend that had been on the USA national team roster for three World Cups, went down with injury and backup Bo Oshoniyi would fill as a replacement.

It was partly down to the legend of the witch that prompted TV's Most Haunted team to visit Wookey Hole Caves and Mill to explore the location in depth, searching for evidence of paranormal activity.

Pérec trained in Los Angeles, California with the HSI track team and is listed as a legend on the team's page.

On June 30, 1982, the team was renamed the New Jersey Devils, after the legend of the Jersey Devil, an ominous cryptozoological creature supposed to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South Jersey.

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Just as Bradman's legend grew, rather than diminished, over the years, so too has the reputation of the 1948 team.

In 1997, he signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees, his favorite team because of a lifelong interest in baseball legend Babe Ruth.

The book, Hollywood Babylon, spread the contemporary legend that Bow's friendship with members of the 1927 University of Southern California football team included group sex with the entire team.

According to one legend, Sunderlage was a member of a survey team that divided Cook County into townships around 1833, or, according to another legend, he worked on a survey team on the Joliet canal.

The first scene of the movie sets up the danger of the " Sumatran Rat-Monkey ", a hybrid creature that, " according to legend ", resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague rats: Stewart ( Bill Ralston ), an explorer returning from the depths of the island with his guide and team, is carrying a rat-monkey in a cage and is stopped by fierce warrior natives that demand the return of the monkey.

* Fort Wayne TinCaps, a Class A minor league baseball team whose nickname is derived from the legend of Johnny Appleseed's headgear

Landry received an outpouring of public support after his firing as the city of Dallas and fans everywhere forgot about the team ’ s decline during the 1980s and instead remembered the memories of the legend in the fedora who built the Cowboys from nothing to champions.

His legend in German football was sparked by the heroic achievement of the German team in the final of the 1954 World Cup.

While White's defense team did argue successfully for a ruling of diminished capacity, resulting in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder, an urban legend that the defense had blamed White's actions on the ingestion of sugar and junk food ( the so-called " Twinkie defense ") sprang up out of inaccurate media coverage.

Anna offers the team insight on the creature which is something of a local legend.

The team was the sister team of the Detroit Pistons and during the 2009 season was coached by Pistons legend Rick Mahorn.