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second and legend
The second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family in the 3rd century BC.
The second legend attached to Ephrem is that he was a monk.
The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.
:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."
The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.
A common legend states that in the second year of the Hsüan-ho, in the Sung dynasty 1120 AD, a certain official memorialized the throne, praying that the ya p ' ai ( ivory cards ) be fixed as a pack of 32, comprising 127 pips it should be 227, but Chinese printers are careless, in order to accord with the expanse of the stars and constellations.
The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.
The legend also claims that Æthelberht was killed at Sutton St. Michael and buried four miles ( 6 km ) to the south at Hereford, where his cult flourished, becoming at one time second only to Canterbury as a pilgrimage destination.
Graceland, the former home of music legend Elvis Presley, is one of the most visited houses in the United States ( second only to the White House ), attracting over 600, 000 domestic and international visitors a year.
The Royal Arch Degree under the Irish Constitution contains a legend concerning the first Temple, not the second.
If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2 < sup > 64 </ sup >− 1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615 turns to finish, much longer than the predicted lifespan of the sun.
Another legend is that the second tower is being left unfinished until the " Excellent Builder " will come to direct its completion.
For open wheel racing, 1967's revolutionary STP-Paxton Turbocar fielded by racing and entrepreneurial legend Andy Granatelli and driven by Parnelli Jones nearly won the Indianapolis 500 ; the Pratt & Whitney ST6B-62 powered turbine car was almost a lap ahead of the second place car when a gearbox bearing failed just three laps from the finish line.
The second fargard recounts the legend of Yima.
1541, contains a legend in front of the " isla de Orliens " that says: " Here many French died of hunger "; possibly alluding to Cartier's second settlement in 1535-1536.
In the mid-1970s, Larry Graham worked with Betty Davis, the second ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis.
It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.
White was the Dallas Cowboys ' first pick and the second player selected in the 1975 National Football League Draft, and was moved to middle linebacker, where he was a backup to Cowboy legend Lee Roy Jordan, playing mostly on special teams his first two seasons, including his rookie season when Dallas lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl X. Jordan retired following the 1976 season, and his slot was filled by Bob Breunig, who held the position the next nine seasons.
* Billy Martin-Baseball legend, second baseman and Yankees manager ; operated and lived on a farm in Port Crane after retiring from the New York Yankees.
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.
Two months later, in January 1595, Barnfield published his second volume, Cynthia, with certain Sonnets, and the legend of Cassandra, and this time signed the preface, which was dedicated, in terms which imply close personal relations, to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.
Jimmy Wallington became the show's announcer for most of its life with Allen as the feature ( he succeeded George Burns and Gracie Allen sidekick Harry Von Zell ), though for a brief spell during its second season the announcer was budding radio personality and future television legend Arthur Godfrey.
He then re-married, and his second wife, according to Kentish tradition recorded in the legend of Saint Mildrith, was a woman named Ymme of Frankish royal blood, though recently it has been suggested that she may have instead been the daughter of Erchinoald, mayor of the palace in Neustria, the western part of Francia.
Olimpia, who were winners of the 1979 Copa Libertadores, were blossoming in their second golden era with players such as Ever Hugo Almeida, Gabriel González, Adriano Samaniego, and star Raul Vicente Amarilla, all coached by legend Luis Cubilla.

second and more
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
Nothing testifies more clearly to that cleavage than the peculiar editorial page appearing in a July issue of Life Magazine, the issue which also carried the second announcement of the candidacy.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
The second choice, full testing, has become even more risky just because the current Soviet tests have already dangerously contaminated the atmosphere.
The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
In the second, more shops, laboratories, and staff will be required.
If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.
In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.
Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.
This will be more or less our general method for the second problem.
It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.
During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.
The simple passage of an additional eleven months' time makes the second 3% boost more acceptable.
But in the second subtype, which I take to be the one more frequently applied, only the operating expenses and not the `` cost of capital '' or `` fair return '' are apportioned directly among the various classes of service.
It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.
In the second place, a large number of writers, making a more direct claim than Frost to being `` folk writers '' of one sort or another, clearly make no distinctions between genuine and bogus material.
A second point requires more extended comment.
A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.
I no longer knew how deep I was, somewhere under 230 feet, getting drunker, happier and more contented by the second.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
The first function is assumed, if the expression in the argument contains more characters or, than characters, and the second function is assumed in the opposite case.
If one also removes the second postulate (" a line can be extended indefinitely ") then elliptic geometry arises, where there is no parallel through a point outside a line, and in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees.
In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.
At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

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