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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
9: Legend has it, the fire from the lighthouse could be use... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...was the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson ([[Thorvald Asvaldsson]]), and was therefore also called, [[patro...
12: ...invited his father on the voyage but according to legend Erik fell off his horse on his way to the ship an... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...e. He is the central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as the "[[Matter of Britain]]." There is...
5: The possible historicity of the King Arthur of legend has long been debated by scholars. One school of ...
9: ...o be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
15: ... historical persons may have influenced the later legends, like the [[Scots]] king [[Aedan mac Gabran]], w...
29: This may be related to legends where Arthur is depicted as the leader of the [[... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
63: A legend is that the crew grew so homesick and fearful tha...
154: ... individual; he also became a symbol, a figure of legend. The mythology of Columbus has cast him as an arc... - Steel (28384 bytes)
50: ...ate carbon content, that is, steel. According to legend, the sword of [[Liu Bang]], the first Han emperor...
152: - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
17: ...Boudicca's defeat is unknown. According to London legend it was at [[Kings Cross (London)|Kings Cross]] in...
35: Boudicca's fame took on legendary proportion in Victorian Britain, and [[Victori... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
1: ...s (coin)|solidus]] struck under Irene reports the legend <small>bASILISSH</small>, ''Basilissa''.]] - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
22: ...lly happened in the night the murder took place. Legend has it that Wu Zetian actually killed her own son... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
93: ... a King could succeed a Queen?". Finally, a third legend suggests that she remained silent until her death... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
153: ...links to individuals such as [[Hollywood]] screen legend [[Humphrey Bogart]] (who was her 7th cousin), and... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
9: As a child, legend has that Marie-Antoinette met the young child gen... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
23: ==Urban legend==
24: ...ternet]] through a seemingly unsquashable [[urban legend]]. An endlessly circulating email (mostly exchang... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
21: ...ous. ''[[Felix Holt, the Radical]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Jubal]]'' were overtly political novels, and p...
37: * ''[[The Legend of Jubal]]'' (1870) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...]s" (or ''lays''), the "Ysopet" fables, and the ''Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick.'' The first rec... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
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3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: М&#...
5: ...y rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convolut...
8: ...ow known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan...
10: ...'s family. Maria favoured Anastasia over Marina. Tsvetaeva's father was kind, but deeply wrapped up in... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
8: ...ll is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Surviving a childhood of [[abuse]] and [[neglect... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
16: ...the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also recorded the v... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...th [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In the early [[1960...
16: ...her post-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
21: ...ing, Mahalia, Sing," (based on the life of gospel legend [[Mahalia Jackson]]) mainly because of her phobia... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... Holiday's childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by herself in her autobiog...
20: She later worked with such legends as [[Lester Young]], [[Count Basie]], and [[Arti... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
17: ...d had a highly publicized relationship with music legend [[Eric Clapton]]. The debut single from this albu...
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