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and depopulated in the decades and centuries following the battle. A garbled account of the fall of the city later led to the story of the legendary king...

and the green children alien beings. The second is that it is a "garbled account" of a real event, although it is impossible to be certain whether the...

and unicorns. Others were based on real encounters, originating in garbled accounts of travellers' tales, such as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, which...

kerosene and quicklime (calcium oxide). This description may be a garbled account of an acid-base extraction procedure. Its popularity has soared in...

War and Peace. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1868 novel The Idiot, in a garbled account of the loss of 400 roubles in part 3 chapter 9, Lukyan Timofeich Lebedev...

connection to Looz, are sometimes therefore thought to represent a garbled account of the same person. Nonn, Ulrich (1983), Pagus und Comitatus Tanner...

placed north of Japan by Maarten Gerritszoon Vries now believed to be a garbled account of Iturup, one of the Kurils in the North Pacific Staten Island, a...

beneath our feet or even extraterrestrial. Others consider it to be a garbled account of a historical event, perhaps connected with the persecution of Flemish...

meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: partly garbled account, partly of doubtful notability. Please help improve this section if...

itself. The 9th-century Historia Britonum attributed to Nennius gives a garbled account, in which Caesar invades three times, landing at the Thames Estuary...

as "poor" in details, and "unquestionably the most inaccurate and garbled account ever published about the aborigines. Many of his tribal names were...

Ladislas Farago's 1971 best-seller The Game of the Foxes presented a garbled account of Ultra's origins: "Commander Denniston went clandestinely to a secluded...

and country. Women that have crossed give their husbands' names. "A garbled account", observed Loyn "possibly an echo of a report by a Frankish ambassador...

The account of the contemporary Baghdadi official and historian al-Tabari knows nothing of the Isma'ili leadership at Salamiya, and provides a garbled account...

contemporaneous references to an assassination plot have been published. A garbled account of an assassination attempt appeared over two years later in a provincial...

Æthelnoth because Æthelnoth had bestowed chrism on the king. This may be a garbled account of Æthelnoth's participation in Cnut's confirmation as a Christian...

provoked a storm of criticism in Britain, one officer describing it as "a garbled account which, for ought I know, might have been collected by people on shore...

the surrounding area for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Vries's garbled account of the islands during an era when longitude was difficult to calculate...

calls him "homo mendacissimus," and suggests that Sozomen gives a garbled account of the election of Athanasius, "ex officina Sabini." Historia Literaria...

track are taken from the book of the same name by Sean O'Callaghan, a garbled account of the thousands of Irish people transported to the Caribbean during...