But the drafters of the first Imperial House Law decided not to allow women to ascend the throne in order to preserve the single line that, according to legend, is descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami.
Fast forward a few thousand years and according to the ancient Greek legend, Jason took the mythological Golden Fleece from King Aietes in Colchis, which is now part of Georgia.
Leeks became the national emblem, according to legend, after St David advised the Britons on the eve of a successful battle against the Saxons to wear leeks in their caps to easily distinguish friend from foe.
According to stock market legend, the company's odd name is a reference to the inventor Q in the James Bond films.
The computer was hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who, according to legend, financed the device's construction by selling his HP-65 calculator (co-founder Steve Jobs also sold his VW campervan).
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According to legend, the chimera prowled the land of Lycia, now in Turkey, terrorizing inhabitants.
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According to legend, the Furies were female spirits of justice and vengeance who particularly had it out for those who had murdered family members, driving them mad as punishment.
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According to popular legend, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who, while gambling, told his butler to put some meat between two slices of bread so he could eat without interrupting the game and getting grease on the cards.
Sianis went to Wrigley Field to support the Cubs as they battled the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, according to his tavern's website, which dedicates a page to the legend of the Billy Goat curse.
Although scholars and historians continue to debate its origins, according to legend it was first displayed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, although this is widely regarded as mythology.
Japan's original fiction, according to legend, involved the sun goddess, Amaterasu, retreating into a cave and plunging the world into darkness.
In November last year archaeologists located a grotto deep beneath Augustus's imperial palace that may have been the shrine where ancient Romans worshipped Romulus, the founder of the city according to legend.
According to an ancient Greek legend, the first saw was made by a boy named Perdix, who was nephew of the famous inventor Daedalus.
According to legend, Samson was of the Dan tribe of Israelites, born near where the Israelite, Philistine and Canaanite borders met.
According to legend, Guinevere, daughter of the Welsh giant Gorgyrfan Gawr, became betrothed to Arthur on hill's grassy slopes.
Henry's second wife Ann Boleyn was watching a game of Real Tennis in Whitehall when she was arrested, and according to the official Web site of Hampton Court, legend has it he was playing when told she had been executed.
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According to legend, Protestant reformer Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a Christmas tree.
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According to legend, St Piran was flung into the sea in the 6th Century by the kings of Ireland who were jealous of his healing powers.
According to local legend, he was rewarded for his munificence by the miraculous appearance at his funeral of St.
According to legend, travelling performers of "bugaku, " the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the reconstruction of Dainichido, the shrine pavilion.
Mr. Campbell is the "Sidney Crosby of table hockey, " a reference to the young Pittsburgh Penguins star, according to longtime player and table hockey legend Sid Kloosterman.
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According to 19th-century Sarkese legend, travellers who are seriously out of luck may see the Tchico.
He started out as a rancher, asbestos miner, and prospector in the Pilbara, a vast sweltering wilderness in northwest Australia. (It is pronounced as two syllables: Pilbra.) In November, 1952, according to legend, he was flying in a flimsy little Auster aircraft with his wife, Hope, over the Hamersley Range, an extra-remote fastness in the Pilbara.
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