Did a baseball team win the first U.S. pro soccer league title?
Los Angeles Times - Thu May 24, 1:58 pm ETBASEBALL/SOCCER URBAN LEGEND : The first American professional soccer league championship was won by a moonlighting baseball team.
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BASEBALL/SOCCER URBAN LEGEND : The first American professional soccer league championship was won by a moonlighting baseball team.
Outlook The £5 pint of beer, a horror fleetingly spotted whose existence could never be confirmed, can no longer be dismissed as an urban myth.
“Bystro, bystro!” yelled the Russian cossacks when they wanted a quick serving of food during the Russian occupation of Paris in 1815. At least that’s the urban legend behind the nowadays familiar restaurant term ’bistro’, which apparently means ‘quickly’ in Russian.
I grew up in New Jersey, often stereotyped as the land of big hair and long nails. I have been getting regular manicures and pedicures for as long as I can remember without ever worrying about the potential hazards of these little indulgences. That is, until a friend recently proved those urban legends true by contracting a nasty fungal infection after having her toes painted — and at a high-end ...
The City of Rochester is full of urban legends about buildings that are haunted. The Auditorium Theatre is no expection. Those who work there swear there are spirits.
In un college del New England, un serial killer ispira i suoi delitti ai racconti del folklore moderno, le cosiddette ‘leggende metropolitane’, studiate dal sinistro professor Wexler.
FRISCO, Texas, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Is it true or just an urban myth that 98% of all burglar alarms reported to the police are false? The claim has been around for decades, but the statistic is ...
The dirty little secret: If you have a decent-size gas or charcoal grill, you have a smoker. Now how can that be?
Myth: Soak chips for three hours. The time is immaterial, so is the water. Dry chips smoke almost as well in a covered grill. Wet ones extend the smoking time somewhat. Dry directly on charcoal increases the temperature.
An abandoned hospital in Los Angeles that is believed by many to be haunted will be transformed into a senior home. The Linda Vista Community Hospital – which is so creepy that it is often used in movies – has been the site of numerous ghost reportings over the years. Amcal Multi-Housing Inc. says the stories are just urban legends and will change the facility to senior housing in the near future.
You may recall the story of Joel Tenenbaum, the young man who chose to fight the RIAA when the group began to go after individual file sharers during the last decade. He has been caught in a legal hell for …