Contrary to popular belief, they were not great technical innovators.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Reincarnation, called gilgul, became popular in folk belief, and is found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews.

A popular but unsubstantiated belief is that Dodgson chose the particular animal to represent himself because of his stammer, and thus would accidentally introduce himself as " Do-do-dodgson.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.

DNA with high GC-content is more stable than DNA with low GC-content, but, contrary to popular belief, the hydrogen bonds do not stabilize the DNA significantly, and stabilization is mainly due to stacking interactions.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

Contrary to popular belief, rats did not directly start the spread of the bubonic plague.

Contrary to popular belief, the airport is located completely on French soil.

Contrary to popular belief, the Louisiana code does not directly derive from the Napoleonic Code, as the latter was enacted in 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

In later periods, these epistemological theories came to hold significance in both philosophy and popular belief.

The first female on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary.

Contrary to popular belief, Crux is not opposite to Ursa Major.

Contrary to popular belief John Hugenholtz cannot be credited with the design of the Zandvoort track, although he was involved as the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club chairman ( the Dutch Auto Racing Club ) before becoming the first track director in 1949.

" However, despite popular belief, the name was not meant to insult the Kennedy family, but according to Biafra, " to bring attention to the end of the American Dream ".

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

Contrary to the popular belief that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, Chomsky goes so far as to argue that ' it's the essence of democracy.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".

" Arkadaşım Eşşek " (" My Friend Donkey "), quickly grew very popular among children ( the song is about rural nostalgia and was not initially intended as a children's song ).

A number of respected monthly publications, including the popular science magazine " Наука и жизнь " (" Science and Life "), featured special columns, dedicated to optimization techniques for calculator programmers and updates on undocumented features for hackers, which grew into a whole esoteric science with many branches, known as " yeggogology " (" еггогология ").

The popular religious tradition grew more prominent in the course of Egyptian history as the status of the pharaoh declined.

As munera grew larger and more popular, open spaces such as the Forum Romanum were adapted ( as the Forum Boarium had been ) as venues in Rome and elsewhere, with temporary, elevated seating for the patron and high status spectators ; they were popular but not truly public events:

Although oil drastically improved Libya's finances, popular resentment grew as wealth was increasingly concentrated in the hands of the elite.

It proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular.

He lived very quietly in lodgings in Oslo ( then Christiania ), surrounded by his books and shrinking from publicity, but his name grew into wide political favour as his ideas about the language of the peasants became more and more the watch-word of the popular party.

The residency began in 1996 with a lukewarm reception but grew into one of the most popular club nights in New York City by the end of its run in 2001.

The body became popular with Pennsylvania coal miners during the economic depression of the mid-1870s, then it grew rapidly.

The gap between rich and poor grew in the 1990s, resulting in popular dissatisfaction over the skewed distribution of the reconstruction's benefits and leading the government to shift its focus from rebuilding infrastructure to improving living conditions.

Tourism grew steadily throughout the twentieth century, and Lindisfarne is now a popular place with visitors.

As societies grew more complex and encompassed different groups, a hierarchy of gods developed and as power in the society became more centralised, the concept of a single, universal God became more popular and desirable.

Contradanza arrived in Cuba in the 18th century, where it became known as danza and grew very popular.

" And in the West, the manuscripts grew to be very popular amongst theologians in the Middle Ages -- Thomas Aquinas cites Pseudo-Dionysius over 1700 times.

However, as demand for certain records grew, popular artists still needed to re-record and re-re-record their songs.

Formal instruction was also very popular ; however, the number of people educated using a planned curriculum at home dropped as public education grew in popularity during the 1900s.

Scott's fame grew as his explorations and interpretations of Scottish history and society captured popular imagination.

But it grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video.

The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932.

However, viols fell out of use as concert halls grew larger and the louder and more penetrating tone of the violin family became more popular.

Blogs, portals, and wikis become common electronic dissemination methods for professionals, amateurs, and businesses to conduct knowledge management typified by success of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia which launched on January 15, 2001, grew rapidly and became the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet as well as the best known wiki in the world and the largest encyclopedia in the world.

Okashana 1 grew to become the most popular variety in Namibia, the only non-Sahelian country where pearl millet-locally known as mahangu-is the dominant food staple for consumers.

Throughout time, the Zanni grew to be a popular figure who were first seen in commedia as early as the fourteenth century.