On Sunday, a statue of the unusual visitor who became a local legend will be unveiled in Clonakilty.
Local legend holds that the dolphins shapeshift into handsome men at night to lure beautiful women from the villages.
According to local legend, he was rewarded for his munificence by the miraculous appearance at his funeral of St.
His Europhilia probably has limited appeal in a place whose residents, according to local legend, once hanged a shipwrecked monkey as a Napoleonic spy.
Local legend has it that Rhumsiki was settled by animist peoples from the northern deserts who fled the advance of Islam in the 18th century.
Ansil Saunders, an 80-year-old world-renown fisherman, boat builder and local legend.
Local legend has it that Odysseus loitered here for seven years before he decided he really ought to be getting back to his family on Ithaca.
As a result, the Department of Taxation treated Jeter as a resident, coming down hard on the local legend before the two sides reached an undisclosed settlement in 2007.
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On Sunday afternoons at Plaza Dorrego in the San Telmo Antiques flea market, a local legend and resident, El Indio, does a demonstration of tango accompanied by a bit of history (in Spanish).
Local legend has it that Mary Queen of Scots spent a night there while a prisoner at Sheffield Castle, and in the perimeter wall there is a monument to a young man killed by a stag in the late 1400s.
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Rugby prop Leighton Batiste makes the top five, with local football legend Len Duquemin and runner Lee Merrien also making the list.
Arsenal, called after Woolwich Arsenal, has long been a top club, albeit one that is rooted in gritty inner London, where the legend of local-boy-made-good still resonates.
Yet apart from age (the Homestead opened in 1766), a Southern sensibility, sprawling grounds (3, 000 acres here), and a claim on the legacy of the late golf legend and local boy Sam Snead, the pair don't share many similarities.
They named the company after the then-capital of Malawi, where legend holds that local tribe members were blessed with superior hearing.
Having joined his local club as a teenager, Moore became a legend for a side he represented between 1958 and 1974, winning the FA Cup in 1964 and then the Cup Winners' Cup (a competition eligible for those European sides that had won their domestic cup) a year later.
Western legend was still fresh in the minds of the local people.
Its tightly controlled local media is largely free of the tabloids that hound celebrities in places like the U.S. Local press reports have referred to Mr. Saverin as a "Facebook legend, " "nice and humble" and "generous" when spending on his friends in nightclubs.
Yet when, in 1988, Sapieha revisited his childhood home, now in Belarus, he discovered that no identifiable trace of their rambling mansion had survived, but the legend of the English lady who every week arranged flowers at the local church thrives among a population largely ignorant of formal history.
Rounding out the new research into Cinco de Mayo is Hayes-Bautista's family legend that recounts how his great-great-grandfather Bartolo Bautista was part of local militia supporting the Mexican army in the Battle of Puebla.
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