How To Use Apocrypha In A Sentence
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The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
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I have no idea whether or not the above story is true or apocryphal, but I'd like to believe it anyway.
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That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's
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The New Testament writers never quote from any of the apocryphal books.
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
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`I mean, I've heard a story, though I wasn't sure how apocryphal it was.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Wright was, in a sense, adding apocryphal books to his own hermetic scripture with each poem.
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There being little or no biblical evidence for any of these claims, the programme focused on apocryphal writings - including a Gospel of Mary Magdalene which turned up in 1945.
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From the album "Armchair Apocrypha" (2007) When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation, oh Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination Tore all the spines out from all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks real Yeah it shoots through steel with rays of dark matter Rays of dark matter Just the thought of all this red and black Thought of tongues that tasted bad Fill you with the nausea-ausea-ausea-alation Do you wonder where the self resides Is it in the head or between your sides And who would be the one who will decide it's two locations The noose is loosed around our necks made of DNA And everyday it's growing tighter, no matter what you do or say But you can shoot right through with rays of dark matter Right before they kick out, they kick out the ladder Rays of dark matter When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination
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The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bible includes additional Jewish writings called the Apocrypha.
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha.
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He never quoted from the apocryphal books on a single occasion.
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What follows is a description of each lesson: I have not embellished or exaggerated anything, or imported any apocryphal incidents.
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In much the same way that the - no doubt - apocryphal tale of the mum writing her son a note excusing him from gym the following week because ‘he will have flu’ always raises a titter.
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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These apocryphal or deuterocanonical books were written by and about Jews in the time before Christianity was established as a separate religion, but they were not included in the Jewish canon.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah
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Lilith herself appears only in Jewish apocrypha texts-- she is in neither the Torah or the Bible.
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And so perhaps are some of those books which are called Apocrypha, if left out of the Canon, not for inconformity of doctrine with the rest, but only because they are not found in the Hebrew.
Leviathan
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Testament Scriptures -- one which was at once erroneous and singular among the Fathers of the Church -- applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Protestants traditionally rejected the Apocrypha precisely because these books were fabricated and contained inauthentic material, despite the fact that these books might have been useful for evangelism.
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All you have are the non-canonical scriptures, the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, both of which are universally rejected by the non-Catholic Evangelical church as fakes and poor imitations of real scripture.
Chris Hitchens meets the Christians | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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The bagel has a rich history, though its origin is somewhat apocryphal.
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The story is apocryphal, but is a good indication of the extreme measures countries take to protect the secret that they can read an enemy's secrets.
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According to an apocryphal legend, when the Titanic took its passengers to their watery graves, the P&J offered up the headline ‘Northeast man drowned at sea’.
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Therefore Roman Catholic Bibles contain additional books of the OT Apocrypha (also known as deuterocanonical?
Purpleocity.net
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Santerre's "Susanna" depicts the woman whose story is told in Daniel 13, which is part of the Deuterocanon or Apocrypha.
A Woman Cloaked in Literature and Legend
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[8] Which were these twenty-two sacred books of the Old Testament, see the Supplement to the Essay of the Old Testament, p. 25-29, viz. those we call canonical, all excepting the Canticles; but still with this further exception, that the book of apocryphal Esdras be taken into that number instead of our canonical Ezra, which seems to be no more than a later epitome of the other; which two books of Canticles and Ezra it no way appears that our Josephus ever saw.
Against Apion
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Those who have never worked in a restaurant believe that such stories are apocryphal.
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The material in it on Jesus accords with various sources in the Christian popular apocryphal literature, but propounds a distinctive line about Jesus' significance.
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Could his death have been the consequence of a greedy search for treasure, or is this yet another apocryphal story?
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A very obscure one, though - and again referred to only cryptically, even in the more apocryphal works of the time.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
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If this story were told by a Republican, Lexington would dismiss it as apocryphal.
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I have not checked the Louisville newspapers, but this story reeks of apocryphalness.
ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS
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Beyond Belief is about the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, written in the second century and much amended later, which Pagels prefers to the canonical Gospels, and especially to the Gospel of John.
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Yes, the Apocrypha are called the deuterocanonical books by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, as they are only found in the “second canon” of the Greek Bible, which was accepted later.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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Some are even considered heretical, much like apocryphal books of the Bible.
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What a mean and ungentlemanly act, to say the very least, is that of Mr. Seward in raking up a more or less apocryphal list of
Echoes of the Week
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The historian Eusebius attests the widespread doubts in his time; he classes them as antilegomena, or disputed writings, and, like Athanasius, places them in a class intermediate between the books received by all and the apocrypha.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Apocrypha is a Greek word, signifying "secret" or "hidden," but in the sixteenth century it came to be applied to a list of books contained in the Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament, but not in the Palestinian, or Hebrew
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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The biblical canon originally understood wisdom as being in existence prior to the creation of the world, and the later writers of the apocryphal texts expanded wisdom to include the word and the law.
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The story that a turkey which looks up during a rainstorm will drown is likely apocryphal, but certainly they seem stupid enough to not look down when they feel their lungs filling up.
Talking Turkey
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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Even highly exalted men, like the authors of apocryphal books, Daniel, for instance, and Enoch, committed, to aid their cause, and without the shadow of a scruple, acts which we should call frauds.
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Many of the apocryphal gospels of the second and subsequent centuries are written in ‘worse’ Greek than Mark - that is, worse by the Attic standard.
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In the past, Roman Catholics often used the term “apocrypha” for the pseudepigrapha.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Early Greek manuscripts of the Bible present a series of 14 canticles or ‘odes’ including the Gloria in excelsis and the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh.
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As I have noted elsewhere, as a literature specialist, I find a distinct difference in quality between the canonical and apocryphal books.
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Well his mother tells that now famous story about the Bible resting open on a stand in the middle of Bob Dylan's study, as an indispensable source for his music; is that apocryphal?
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Rose refers to the apocryphal book, Wisdom of Solomon, as ‘scripture’.
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The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English (Oxford, 1913).
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.
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When people talk about The Apocrypha that's published in a modern Bible, they're talking about that Jewish literature that survived in Greek mainly.
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Perhaps someday this apocryphal tale will become what it should be: an illustration of how easily even ‘experts’ can sometimes fall victim to the very same dangers they warn us about.
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Aptly titled ( "Apocrypha" is Greek for "those having been hidden away"), this expansion will open up wormholes that will connect previously unexplored regions of the universe to the stars of New Eden.
Gaming Nexus
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The portrayal of Esther in an act of archetypal feminine weakness, taken up by most Baroque artists, is based on the apocryphal text (Esther 15: 7 – 11), accepted as a deuterocanonical one at the Council of Trent (1545 – 1547).
Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
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It may be an apocryphal story, but I was once told that cool-looking out-of-work actors and students were employed by publishers to read particular books on the London underground.
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Many other apocryphal Jewish and Christian works were in circulation too, not just the famous Gnostic Gospels.
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart
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.. this introduction contains the pseudo-introduction the original the variants of the original the pseudo-original as well as the variants of the pseudo-original the apocrypha and the incorporation of all these texts in an original arpocryphum with apocopated whiskers as well as fifty calcinated medals and fifty suns of fifty years because the ..
Quo Murphy
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In both the biblical book of Proverbs and the apocryphal book of Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is personified and is said to participate in God's creative activity.
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Some printers put books called Apocrypha between the Testaments, some don't.
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Tiberius is only founded on the pretended apocryphal fasti of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The apocryphal story of Robert Bruce watching the spider spin its web seven times, which restored his faith to battle the English once again, became a staple of inspirational lecturers.
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It's too detailed to go into here, but one gobbet of fascinating info Peyotitlan served up was the apocryphal etymology of "gringo": "The US army wore green uniforms and when the locals saw them, simply said 'Green, go!' telling them to go away.
Readers' reviews: Maverick entertainers, film plots that technology would have ruined, and more
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The name of Longinus first appeared in a collection of early Christian texts known as the Apocrypha, where he was described as a centurion who had served his legion faithfully before poor eyesight ended his battlefield career.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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For example, what is the position of the apocryphal writings?
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The story of Borrow's being "horsed" on Dr Martineau's back is apocryphal.
The Life of George Borrow
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.
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Other stories that sound apocryphal are unfortunately true.
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? a.e. stallings | triolet on a line apocryphally attributed to martin luther
A.e. stallings | triolet on a line apocryphally attributed to martin luther « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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In these Apocryphal accounts, they appear as the molesters, assailants, and destroyers of men.
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None of this of course is in the New Testament, although once again some elements of these stories can be found in what we call the apocryphal New Testament, later Christian writings.
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Unlike similar collections in the past, here the Rabbinic approaches are cited without any inclusion of aggadic traditions from the apocryphal or Christian literatures.
Midrash and Aggadah: Introduction and Sources.
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What many may find to be the most helpful section of each chapter is where the author discusses the ‘Influence’ of each apocryphal book upon the authors of the New Testament.
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Early Protestant Bibles and some more recent ones included the extra books and some others in a separate section under the title Apocrypha, sometimes with notes explaining their inferior status.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Then, the day he decided to pull out -- that was probably apocryphal, but when his money was just about gone -- suddenly he struck lucky.
HIGH STAND
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Although the story is likely apocryphal, it is said that Galileo dropped balls of various weights from the top of the campanile to prove his new view of gravity.
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Wikipedia has a good page on the Shakespeare Apocrypha, “a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons”. (thx, jeffrey & nick) posted by Deron Bauman in art, history, international, language, literature, science | * | comment
Six more for the folio? | clusterflock
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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When people talk about The Apocrypha that's published in a modern Bible, they're talking about that Jewish literature that survived in Greek mainly.
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Urban legends are apocryphal or wildly inaccurate stories that are passed on from person to person until they reach a point where they are accepted as truth.
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The apocryphal gospels uniformly insisted that Joseph was an old widower who was not Mary's husband, but her ‘guardian.’
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And finally, in the last extant part of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary, Mary is defended by the disciple Levi, presumably the son of Alphaeus.
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Hence arose a considerable apocryphal Pilate literature, of which the Gospel of Gamaliel really forms a part, and like this latter apocryphon, it is characterized by exaggerating Pilate's weak defence of Jesus into strong sympathy and practical belief in His divinity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Protestant writers often call the deuterocanonical Books of the Old Testament the Apocrypha.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The story is probably apocryphal, since botanical evidence suggests that the coffee plant originated in the highlands of central Ethiopia.
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3D Realms officially re-announced Duke Nuke'em Forever at Penny Arcade Expo 2010, and actually let gamers play the apocryphal game for the first time.
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A typical rebuttal is to suggest that information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are unconnected, citing the apocryphal story that Shannon picked the term entropy because “nobody understands what it means”.
Vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb
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The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bible includes additional Jewish writings called the Apocrypha.
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The history of Valentine's Day and its patron saint, is shrouded in mystery and apocrypha , and we do love mystery and apocrypha here.
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Many baseball reporters claim the story is apocryphal, but others insist on its verity.
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While some eponyms may be simply disputed, others lean towards the apocryphal, like the idea that the Bloody Mary cocktail was named for England's ‘Bloody Mary,’ Queen Mary I of England.
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While this may be true in regards to later traditions (i.e. the apocrypha, pseudepigrapha) it misappropriates the reality of the literary style of the Gospel of Mark (at the very least) as well as others.
Mistaken Memories
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It's a good story but I dare say it's apocryphal.
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The bagel has a rich history, though its origin is somewhat apocryphal.
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The world was stinking with urban myths and Internet-spawned apocrypha.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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Admittedly, people have made too much of the apocryphal remark attributed to Adm Chester Nimitz that no surprises occurred in the Second World War in the Pacific except the kamikazes.
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
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A notable strength of the opening chapter is the author's summary of ecclesiastical uses (including canonical status) of the Apocrypha.
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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Just as, in the sapiential books of Hebrew Scripture and the Apocrypha, God's wisdom makes it possible to understand the world as a coherent whole, so the conviction of covenant fidelity makes it possible to understand the history of Israel as a whole, as one story.
A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge
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All stories attributing the ending of slavery to Lincoln should be regarded as apocryphal, a mere creation of pro-Lincoln civil rights forces.
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Although New Testament apocrypha go into these details, some quite extensively.
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_Bernard Palissy in Jupiter_, is apocryphal, and that it was not a spirit inhabitant of Jupiter who guided Victorien Sardou's hand.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
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It is difficult to find a Father who does not quote the Apocrypha and treat it as Scripture.
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It reminded me of the apocryphal tale of the Rolls Royce mechanics that appear halfway up a Swiss mountain to fix a faulty gearbox then refuse to charge the owner for the repairs because a Rolls Royce never breaks down.
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This story is surely apocryphal, but it does sound like an announcement with a story behind it!
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This quotation is attributed to Bill Gates, but Mr. Shapiro suspects that it is apocryphal, and is seeking the person who either said it or first attributed it to Mr. Gates.
Did Bill Gates Really Say That? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Apocryphally, I once heard a story about a woman who had an extremely expensive silk dress, printed with Chinese characters.
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There was famously, possibly apocryphally, a public school classics master who took early retirement to go and become a Masai wife.
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Naturally, Catholics refuse to admit such a denomination, and we employ "deuterocanonical" to designate this literature, which non-Catholics conventionally and improperly know as the "Apocrypha".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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These include biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, and legal writings.
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More convincing than this thorough inspection of apocryphal statements and chronological details are the passages in which Bann teaches us how to see early photographic reproductions of art.
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Wikipedia has a good page on the Shakespeare Apocrypha, “a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons”. (thx, jeffrey & nick) posted by Deron Bauman in art, history, international, language, literature, science | * | comment
Six more for the folio? | clusterflock
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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But we perceive that the obviously mutilated prophecy of Merlin the Magician and the apocryphal chronogram of the Venerable Bede had come under her notice.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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Whether this story is apocryphal or not, it accurately reflects the band's philosophy and perhaps predicts the directions their music would take.
