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legend and Vocal
id: Vocal value: red legend: Vocals
id: Vocalbass value: pink legend: Vocal & Bass
id: Vocalkeys value: orange legend: Vocal & Keys
The Gaither Vocal Band is named after gospel legend and leader, Bill Gaither.

legend and Memnon
Cassandra warns Memnon that his methods will never bring about peace, but Memnon refuses to listen, instead reminding Cassandra of an ancient prophecy which foretells that an individual will become the immortal Scorpion King of legend when the moon enters the House of Scorpio.

legend and ",
According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".
The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.
Another legend states that in a competition of battle to become King Sancho's " Campeador ", or champion, a knight on horseback wished to challenge El Cid.
A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.
Along similar lines was the legend " Frodo Lives ", referring to the protagonist of The Lord of the Rings.
A connection with Smyrna seems to be alluded to in a legend that his original name was Melesigenes (" born of Meles ", a river which flowed by that city ), with his mother the nymph Kretheis.
Beside the developed legend of the mandylion or Image of Edessa, was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose very name signifies " true icon " or " true image ", the fear of a " false image " remaining strong.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that he was " a legend and a symbol in his own time ", and that he " challenged the dark skies of intolerance and frustration.
Chrétien was thus " instrumental both in the elaboration of the Arthurian legend and in the establishment of the ideal form for the diffusion of that legend ", and much of what came after him in terms of the portrayal of Arthur and his world built upon the foundations he had laid.
This lack of a defined membership has led some historians to criticise a Lunar Society " legend ", leading people to " confuse it and its efforts with the general growth of intellectual and economic activities in the provinces of eighteenth century Britain ".
The short story, " The Enchanted Buffalo ", claims to be a legend of a tribe of bison, and states that a key element made it into legends of Native American tribes.
According to legend, his last words as he was being crushed were " More weight ", and he was thought to be dead as the weight was applied.
The inscription on Gerbert's tomb reads in part Iste locus Silvestris membra sepulti venturo Domino conferet ad sonitum (" This place, at the advent of the Lord, will yield to the sound the last trumpet the buried members of Sylvester II ", mis-read as " will make a sound ") has given rise to the curious legend that his bones will rattle in that tomb just before the death of a Pope.
Wertico's playing has been compared to that of an Impressionist painter ; he has also been described as " an inspired madman ", " a restless innovator ", " a true legend of jazz drums ", " a master of drumming insanity " and " a genius of the sticks ".
Ideal for this state was the HRR ; the legend arose that Germany were " un-defeated when unified ", especially after the Franco-Prussian War (, lit.
Informally, he may have been known as " Dickon ", according to a sixteenth-century legend of a note, warning of treachery, that was sent to the Duke of Norfolk on the eve of Bosworth: " Jack of Norffolke be not to bolde ,/ For Dyckon thy maister is bought and solde ".
Later, when he had honed his skills, he became a " road gambler ", a traveling hustler who became an underground legend by winning at all manner of propositions.
The album also spawned the 12 " single " Downtown Train / Tango Till They're Sore / Jockey Full of Bourbon ", with Jean Baptiste Mondino filming a promotional music video for " Downtown Train " ( which would later become a hit for Rod Stewart ), featuring a cameo from boxing legend Jake LaMotta.
The " Bunny Man Bridge ", an example of legend tripping.
A male voyeur is commonly labeled " Peeping Tom ", a term which originates from the Lady Godiva legend.
In German, the equivalent is Krieg ; the equivalent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian words for " war " is guerra, derived from the Germanic werra (“ fight ”, “ tumult ”).< ref > Diccionario de la Lengua Española, 21 < sup > a </ sup > edición ( 1992 ) p. 1071 </ ref > Etymologic legend has it that the Romanic peoples adopted a foreign, Germanic word for " war ", to avoid using the Latin bellum, because, when sounded, it tended to merge with the sound of the word bello (" beautiful ")
In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the " Hero of Scotland ", and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810.

legend and luck
The legend has been " cleaned up " by tourist guides who claim the spitting is for good luck, but it is really the same as it was, a good old-fashioned disrespect for authority.
This performance, legend has it, so impressed Count Baracca ’ s mother, the Countess Paolina, that she donated her son ’ s symbol to him, saying to use the horse, on cars and it will bring you him good luck.
A legend developed suggesting that possession of a baby's caul would give its bearer good luck and protect that person from death by drowning.
Local legend says that if you can see the surface of the lake, you will have bad luck.
According to legend, each leaf represents something: the first is for faith, the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck ( the three-leaf shamrock had been used by St. Patrick as a metaphor for the Christian Trinity ).
Academy legend has it that a cadet who spins the spurs of the statue at midnight while wearing full parade dress gray over white uniform under arms will have good luck on his or her final exam.
According to legend, it is bad luck for freshmen ( or, in some versions, any undergraduate student ) to walk under " The Arch ", as the Athens landmark is popularly known.
According to legend, rubbing his big toe brings good luck.
The legend had it that good luck would follow those who rubbed the boar's nose.
At the top of the first flight of stairs in the front is a wooden stand with a bust of Benjamin Franklin that is known for having paint rubbed off its nose due to students touching it ( college legend says doing so before class will bring good luck ).
Sometimes the Elements can even combine their emotions with Aquarion's energies to make new powers, like when Lihua turned her fear of her bad luck into unlucky-like energy to defeat the legend monster or when Pierre turned his determination to save his family into fire-like strength to defeat Kumba and Nikumba.
Jones's highest Test score was 87, achieved during the time that helped make this score a legend in Australian cricket superstition connected with bad luck.

legend and hearing
According to legend, he died of grief upon hearing news of the defeat of the Crusaders in July 1187 at the Battle of Hattin.
According to his legend, after hearing a sermon on the virtue of chastity, they reportedly decided to live chaste lives
After hearing the legend of the Black Shuck, a ghostly black dog, he is thought to have been inspired to write the classic novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
As the legend has it, upon seeing the Hussite banners and hearing their battle hymn " Ktož jsú boží bojovníci " (" Ye Who are Warriors of God "), the invading Papal forces immediately took to flight.
A legend has arisen claiming that a group of Native American warriors approached a Moravian settlement during the French and Indian War, but left after hearing a trombone choir because they believed it to be the voice of their Great Spirit.
It was also thought that a cockatrice would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow, and according to legend, having a cockatrice look itself in a mirror is one of the few sure-fire ways to kill it.
A legend has arisen claiming that a group of Native American warriors approachied a Moravian settlement during the French and Indian War, but left after hearing a trombone choir because they believed it to be the voice of their Great Spirit.
Joe Dick gets the band back together ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk rock legend Bucky Haight, and personal mentor, is shot.
In Arthurian legend he is a knight who tied his wife to a tree after hearing she had exchanged rings with Perceval.
Born in Greenville, North Carolina, Barrett spent five years in prison for a 1993 armed robbery and on his release moved to New York City, where he met Black Rob and Busta Rhymes, and, according to legend, was signed by the A & R director of Jive Records after hearing him rapping in a club bathroom.
Be it history or legend, the story is that the Spaniards asked the Indians for the name of the land they had just discovered and on hearing the predictable replies to the effect of " I don't understand what you said ", " those are our houses " gave the land names based on what they had heard: Yucatán, meaning " I don't understand you " for the whole " province " ( or island, as they thought ), and Catoche, meaning " our houses ", for the settlement and the cape where they had debarked.
During an appearance on the Smothers Brothers television show in 1967, Keith Moon over-loaded his Premier bass drum with explosive charges, which were detonated during the finale of " My Generation ", which according to legend resulted in permanent hearing damage for bandmate Pete Townshend and caused Bette Davis to faint.
While Accursius was employed in this work, legend has it that, hearing of a similar one proposed and begun by Odofred, another lawyer of Bologna, he feigned indisposition, interrupted his public lectures, and shut himself up, till with the utmost expedition he had accomplished his design.
A legend is spread throughout the city that there is an opera-singing whale, but as it is seemingly disproven, it is assumed that the whale has swallowed an opera singer who is the one the sailors are actually hearing sing.
Attractions include Ned Kelly themed displays at the old court house and Ned Kelly Weekend on Friday 6 to Sunday 8 August 2010, which is Australia ’ s most significant annual celebration of the Kelly legend it commemorates the anniversary of the outlaw ’ s committal hearing held in the historic Beechworth Courthouse from 6 to 11 August 1880.
The legend of Saint Alena, a young convert to Christianity murdered by her father ’ s troops for hearing mass at the church of Dionysius, also allegedly takes place in the 7th century.
According to the legend, upon hearing that their city had won the Battle of Worringen in 1288, the children of Düsseldorf started performing flips in celebration.

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