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- Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
12: ...riority to ordinary weaknesses—traits which legend has embalmed. - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
6: ...teaching in the late [[6th century BC]]. Because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than wi...
9: ...phies of many Greek wise men, and are likely more legend than fact. - Spider (29039 bytes)
217: ...[urban legend]]s (painful bites according to most legends) - Old wives' tale (4347 bytes)
1: ...d wives' tale''' is a wisdom much like an [[urban legend]], supposedly passed down by old wives to a young...
48: [[Category:Urban legends]] - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
20: ... of Shanhai Pass and allow the Manchus to cross. Legend has it that they took three days for the Manchu a...
62: ...m the [[moon]]. This persisted, assuming [[urban legend]] status - sometimes even entering school [[textb...
90: .../www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm Snopes urban legend site] Great Wall's lack of visibility from space - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
22: The ''[[Golden Legend]]'' of [[Jacobus de Voragine]] reached such popul... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...ng Icarus to fall into the sea, killing him. The legend was designed to be a cautionary tale about attemp...
13: ...early attempts to fly, covering the full range of legend to fact. See [[List of early flying machines]] f... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
103: ... A continuous gag is the various depiction of the legend that he discovered the law of gravity due to an a... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
19: ...is death until the [[1st century BC]] is obscure. Legend has it that Aristotle's personal library, includi...
40: ...icureans]], who were known as slanderers. If such legends were circulated widely by patristic writers such...
54: ...eath was due to hemlock poisoning, as well as the legend that he threw himself into the sea "because he co... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
62: ... placed in the stars as [[constellation]]s. This legend explains why the constellation Scorpio rises just... - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
18: ...ptic]] properties, a commonly perpetuated [[urban legend]]. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2015: * In legend, an English woman reigned as [[Pope Joan|Pope Joa... - Pope Callixtus I (2210 bytes)
5: ...llistus is close by, containing a well into which legend says his body was thrown, and this is probably th...
7: ...222]], perhaps during a popular uprising, but the legend that he was thrown down a well has no historical ... - Pope Silvester I (1917 bytes)
3: ...ards the middle of the next century. Silvester's legendary relationship to Constantine was important in t... - Pope Silverius (2289 bytes)
15: ...verius (San Silverio). According to Ponza Islands legend, fishermen were in a small boat in a storm off Pa... - Pope John VIII (1518 bytes)
5: ...name of John VIII earlier in the 9th century; the legend says that she was erased from the historical reco... - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
24: ==Gerbert in legend==
25: ...d [[astrology]] in [[Seville]]. This gave rise to legends that portray him as a sorcerer in league with th...
29: ...he managed to ascend to the papal throne (another legend tells that he won the papacy playing dice with th...
30: According to the legend, Meridiana (or the bronze head) told Gerbert that...
32: ...will make a sound") has given rise to the curious legend that his bones will rattle in that tomb just befo... - Chinese dragon (7565 bytes)
9: ==Legend of the Yellow Emperor==
15: ==Legend of the carp==
17: ...ieved to be the location of the Dragon Gate. This legend is an allegory of the drive and efforts needed to...
21: ...her they would have no toes to continue. Japanese legend has an opposing story, namely that dragons origin...
42: ...he existing dynasty and founds a new one; another legend might tell of the prince in hiding from his enemi... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
54: Popular legend claims that unpublished works by Shakespeare may ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
32: Legend says that the first printed copy of ''De revoluti...
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