"It was fantastic to discover this talent amongst us, " added the British multihull legend, who in April was a member of the fastest crew to race around the world.

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Contrary to legend, what Thoreau can teach us is that the hunt for ideas is a contact sport.

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Full of metal and built like battleships, they had a feel and performance that were the stuff of legend, especially compared with what most of us type on today.

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While the rest of us were in glorious food comas late Thursday night, the golf legend was speeding out of his Florida driveway and into a fire hydrant.

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The US government has lost its geopolitical epicenter, yet American brands keep the legend alive.

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It is true that the America of 1913 was not nearly the cultural backwater the Armory's "timeworn legend, " as Ms. Stavitsky puts it, has led us to believe.

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Davy Crockett was a legend in his own time: a pioneer of the American West and US congressman who established the political book tour.

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Queen guitarist Brian May called him a "legend" and thanked him for "spreading the guitar and your enthusiasm to all of us".

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Legend has it that when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Thatcher was in the US and she told the president not to "go wobbly" in his response to this aggression.

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