The legend of the roc could also have originated from sightings of such a giant subfossil eagle related to the African Crowned Eagle, which has been described in the genus Stephanoaetus from Madagascar, being large enough to carry off large primates ; today, lemurs still retain a fear of aerial predators such as these.

Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States.

As the years passed, and he had outlived all the men in his family by several years, he frequently used a line popularized by football legend Bobby Layne, a Dallas neighbor and friend of Mantle's who also died in part due to alcohol abuse: " If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself.

Dula's legend was popularized in 1958 by the top-selling Kingston Trio song " Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley.

Many of these have originated in recent times, and several popular New Age and conspiracy theory books have popularized the legend of the Spear.

Sami music: The Sami, an indigenous people found in central and northern Scandinavia, northern Finland and northwestern Russia, have a tradition of folk songs called joiks, which have been popularized by the likes of Mari Boine, who remains a legend in the field.

It is probably best known from urban legend studies, where it was popularized by Jan Harold Brunvand.

A legend, popularized in fiction, is that Qianlong was the son of Chen Yuanlong of Haining.

This legend was popularized by prof. F. Piekosinski research in a matter of Polish clans history of.

He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

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.

In the late 1880s, the county Sheriff was Old West gunfighter legend Commodore Perry Owens.

Hereward's base was in the Isle of Ely, and according to legend he roamed The Fens, covering North Cambridgeshire, Southern Lincolnshire and West Norfolk, leading popular opposition to William the Conqueror.

The seal of West Looe was An armed man holding a bow in his right hand and an arrow in his left, with the legend " Por-tu-an other wys Westlo ".

Though it is generally accepted that the first shot of the Civil War occurred when the Union ship Star of the West was fired upon from state troops at Morris Island on January 9, 1861, an old legend claims that a local resident named William Mauldin fired upon the Union ship from Fort Moultrie a few hours earlier, making his the first shot of the War.

Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, R & B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham ( manager for ZZ Top ), Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film " Places in the Heart " in his hometown.

Temple Newsam House from Morris's Country Seats ( 1880 ). Temple Newsam ( historically Temple Newsham, in legend Templestowe ) () is a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

By legend, Smith is claimed to have carried this journal on all of his travels throughout the American West.

He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final game of the 1954 FIFA World Cup ( West Germany 3 – Hungary 2 ).

* Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn's Chinese opera " Monkey: Journey to the West " is based on the legend of the Monkey King.

According to Cornish legend, the couple were responsible for its construction by carrying granite from the West Penwith Moors to the current location of the Mount.

The Hyatt West Hollywood ( now known as the Andaz West Hollywood ) became a hotel of legend.

" Furthermore, it is unknown how much of the novel was actually created, and how much was simply compiled and edited, since much of the legend behind Journey to the West already existed in folk tales.

In February 2002, he appeared on the animated series The Simpsons ( episode DABF07, " The Lastest Gun in the West ") as the voice of aging Hollywood cowboy legend Buck McCoy.

Additionally, a Cheyenne legend exists about gold and silver being taken from the West and buried in mountains in the East, dating from roughly 1820.

In some forms of the legend Journey to the West, Ao Guang is shown to have believed that the cudgel was worth nothing until Sun Wukong commanded it to shrink and grow.

An urban legend surrounding RU-21 is that KGB operatives sought a chemical compound that would allow them to drink heavily with suspected Western intelligence agents, in the Soviet Union or the West, and not get drunk.

The obverse side of the seal bears the legend " State of West Virginia " together with the state motto, Montani Semper Liberi (" mountaineers are always free ").

While exact circumstances of Kou Si's inspiration remain legend, upon his release he developed his new style of fighting and dubbed it ' Da Sheng Men ' ( Great Sage Style ) in honor of the Monkey King Sun Wukong in the Buddhist tale Journey to the West.

A fifth statue of the Laker legend Jerry West dribbling was unveiled on February 17, 2011.

According to legend, the black and red colours of the SA Brewing Company came about after the West Adelaide Football Club ( who's colours are black and red ) defeated Port Adelaide in the 1909 South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) Australian rules football Grand Final.

The legend states that, had West Adelaide not won the match, the brewery's colours would have become the black and white of Port Adelaide.

* According to Christian legend, Martha travels to Avignon.

At first, Prester John was imagined to reside in India ; tales of the Nestorian Christians ' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend.

Though its immediate genesis is unclear, the legend of Prester John drew strongly from earlier accounts of the Orient and of Westerners ' travels there.

About a year into her travels with Xena, her scrolls about Xena's exploits begin to gain popularity, apparently helping, according to Ares, turn Xena into a legend.

His travels took him to Western Europe, North Africa, and — according to legend — to Lithuania, where he met the Vilna Gaon.

The Qu ' Appelle River and Valley derive their name from a Cree legend of a spirit that travels up and down it.

* John travels to Mozambique to lift a curse from the Socceroos at the behest of football legend Johnny Warren

According to legend, macaroni was brought to Italy by Marco Polo, returning to Venice from China in 1292.

There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China which originated with the Macaroni Journal, published by an association of food industries with the goal of promoting the use of pasta in the United States.

So went the tale of the " Old Man in the Mountain ", assembled by Marco Polo and accepted by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, an 18th century Austrian orientalist writer responsible for much of the spread of this legend.

Marco Polo had discussed Ethiopia as a magnificent Christian land and Orthodox Christians had a legend that the nation would one day rise up and invade Arabia, but they did not place Prester John there.

So went the tale of the “ Old Man in the Mountain ”, assembled by Marco Polo and accepted by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall ( 1774 – 1856 ), a prominent orientalist writer responsible for much of the spread of this legend.

On 12 December 2010, history repeated himself in the game against Bologna after he assisted Boateng to give Milan an early lead once again and scoring later that match to make it 3 – 0, leading him to 13 goals with 8 assists in 21 matches in all competitions, after which he has been compared to Milan legend Marco van Basten by both the media and van Basten himself.

He is famous for his trilogies with fellow Mexican legend three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera and Filipino octuple champion Manny Pacquiao.

According to an old Arabian legend as retold by Marco Polo, one of these islands was populated exclusively by men and the other was populated exclusively by women, and the two would only meet for conjugal relations once a year.

In 2004 Rullo established a new record ( previously held by Italian cycling legend Marco Pantani ) at the Crono Scalata Monte Grappa, covering the 26. 5 kilometre, 1567 metre ascent in a time of 1 hour 2. 34 minutes.