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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.
The second legend ( more popular in western India ) relates to the Vamana avatar of the big three Vishnu, the incarnation he assumed to kill the demon king Bali.
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 on
A second twitched his shirtsleeve, and he felt a brief burn on his upper arm.
Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.
His burst held for a second on the engine section of the plane.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.
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.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
The second involves something deeper, but its characteristic form focuses on a shift in policy for the community, not in the truth on which the community rests.
Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.
Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.
We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.
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 framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.
The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.
the next a headless horror on a horse that bolted through the redcoat ranks, and during the next second or two, we all of us fired into the suddenly disorganized column of soldiers.
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.
A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
At the Westminster KC Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, New York on the second day, the Finals of the Junior Class brought out the most competitive competition in the history of this Class.

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