2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.

* Mini, a character from the comic book NEW-GEN who traveled back in time and inspired the legend of the monster itself.

Doubtless there is a considerable historical element in the legend, perhaps in the Phoenician origin of Europa ; it is possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, were once culturally bound to the kings of Knossos, as Minoan objects appear at Mycenaean sites.

Lese legend says the okapi decorates itself with these stripes, adding to the okapi's great camouflage.

Although the legend itself is not likely to be a historical fact, Aizu is rather close to southern Tōhoku, where the north end of keyhole kofun culture as of late 4th century is located.

Today Glastonbury Abbey presents itself as " traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world ," which according to the legend was built at Joseph's behest to house the Holy Grail, 65 or so years after the death of Jesus.

The legend as a whole encapsulates Rome's ideas of itself, its origins and moral values.

The legend is probably a back-formation or folk etymology used to explain the Salian Franks ' origin as a sea coast dwelling people and was based on the name itself.

Being the subject of a legend as old as the colony itself, the Charter Oak of Hartford, Connecticut is one of the most famous white oaks in America.

The story itself tells of events where the Taliesin of legend is placed in difficult or impossible situations but invariably overcomes all obstacles, usually through feats of magic.

It is now acknowledged that this is an interpolation of Camden's, though the legend itself first surfaced in the 14th century.

The community, according to the legend, really wanted to call itself " Bath " after the famous spa in England.

Capdeville sees this epithet as related exclusively to the characters of the legend and the rite itself: he invokes the analysis by Dumézil as his authority.

The presence of Juno would be related to the date ( Kalends ), her protection of the iuvenes, soldiers, or the legend itself.

So does the legend of their foundation itself: the peace-loving king Numa instituted the Salii of Mars Gradivus, foreseeing the future wars of the Romans while the warmonger king Tullus, in a battle during a longstanding war with the Sabines, swore to found a second group of Salii should he obtain victory.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

Although the legend itself is not likely to be a historical fact, Aizu is rather close to southern Tōhoku, where the north end of keyhole kofun culture as of late 4th century is located.

History itself, which was traditionally the sovereign's science, the legend of his glorious feats, became the discourse of the people, a political stake.

However, this was only an urban legend, as the only activities that the Mongols had even engaged in were some minor raids through Palestine, which may or may not have even passed through Jerusalem itself.

As Yi's brilliance as a strategist revealed itself throughout the war, his legend grew.

There have been several films that have had the title The Man in the Iron Mask, or that have been based on the final section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which was itself based on the 18th century legend of The Man in the Iron Mask.

This legend amuses the area's inhabitants, who state that the border is not located on the Couesnon river itself but on the mainland at in the west, at the foot of the solid mass of Saint-Brelade.

After the legend the emergence of the name is brought in connection with a man named Mladen, who established itself after the battle on the Kosovo in 1389 with his two brothers in this desert area.

The legend came true for Smith's daughter, who married in the Chinese Room itself.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

There is a legend ( Hawthorne records it in his `` English Notebooks ''.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

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.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the later 2nd-century

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.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.