Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Clare Birchall at the University of Kent describes conspiracy theory as a form of popular knowledge.

In a context where a conspiracy theory has become popular within a social group, communal reinforcement may equally play a part.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

Justinian's rule was not universally popular ; early in his reign he almost lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the Emperor's life by dissatisfied businessmen was discovered as late as 562.

Men in Black ( MIB ), in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

The X-Files tapped into popular conspiracy fears and generational angst to find great commercial success throughout the decade.

The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision ; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

A popular " conspiracy theory " explaining the supermodel's disappearance is that designers and fashion editors grew weary of the " I won't get out of bed for less than $ 10, 000 a day " attitude and made sure no small group of models would ever again have the power of the Big Six.

Therefore there is a popular conspiracy theory that he was assassinated by either the Soviet KGB or the American CIA.

The Church of the SubGenius is a " parody religion " organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture.

A popular but unproven theory is that the murder was an act of conspiracy made by his sister Ulrika Eleonora's husband, Fredrik, who was crowned Fredrik I. It is believed that the murder was committed by an officer Fredrik ’ s aide-de-camp, André Sicre, who confessed before he died in a fever. to the murder during a state of delirium brought about by a fever and later recanted the statement.

A popular thread of conspiracy theory originating with Holy Blood, Holy Grail has it that the Templars used a fleet of 18 ships which had brought Jacques de Molay from Cyprus to La Rochelle to escape arrest in France.

In the middle of the conspiracy was Verina, who fomented a popular revolt against the Emperor.

However in 1980, Kim was arrested and sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy in the wake of another coup by Chun Doo-hwan and a popular uprising in Gwangju, his political stronghold.

The abrupt and unexpected nature of his death led to some speculation that foul play might have been involved, the most popular conspiracy theory involving a supposed KGB plot to ensure that Wilson ( alleged by the supporters of these theories to be a KGB agent himself ) became prime minister.

Operations restarted only very slowly, in an atmosphere poisoned by plotting and political conspiracy, undertaken in the name of popular justice.

Many of these have originated in recent times, and several popular New Age and conspiracy theory books have popularized the legend of the Spear.

A number of bestselling modern novels, the most popular of which was The Da Vinci Code, have incorporated elements of Bible conspiracy theories to flesh out their storylines, rather than to push these theories as actual suggestions.

The execution of the popular Hastings was controversial among contemporaries and has been interpreted differently by historians and other authors: while the traditional account, harking back to authors of the Tudor period including William Shakespeare, considered the conspiracy charge invented and merely a ploy to remove Hastings, who was too formidable an obstacle to Richard's royal ambitions, others have been more open to the possibility of such a conspiracy and that Richard merely reacted to secure his position.

Šešelj promoted popular notions of an " international conspiracy against the Serbs ," the foremost of which involved Germany, the Vatican, the CIA, Italy, Turkey, as well as the centrist Serbian political parties.

• In popular culture, there is a British punk rock band that takes its name from the Cato Street conspiracy.

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.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Using the once popular vortex theory of gravity, the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks in the 1880s.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Most quantitative calculations in modern quantum chemistry use either valence bond or molecular orbital theory as a starting point, although a third approach, Density Functional Theory, has become increasingly popular in recent years.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

This theory became popular during the Zhou dynasty.

Convergence theory is a broad term which includes a viewpoint popular among non-Marxist Chinese intellectuals of the mid 20th century.

With the expansion of the mass media and mass / popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the blending of social and cultural criticism and literary criticism, the methods of both kinds of critical theory sometimes intertwined in the analysis of phenomena of popular culture, as in the emerging field of cultural studies, in which concepts deriving from Marxian theory, post-structuralism, semiology, psychoanalysis and feminist theory would be found in the same interpretive work.

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.

A popular though as yet unsubstantiated theory holds that a small party of Cathar Perfects escaped from the fortress before the massacre at prat dels cremats.

Haug's concept was subsequently disseminated as a Parsi interpretation, thus corroborating Haug's theory and the idea became so popular that it is now almost universally accepted as doctrine.

The decoherence approaches to interpreting quantum theory have been further explored and developed, becoming quite popular.

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

It supplanted an earlier popular theory involving Francis Bacon.

The dissection and tracking of common formulaic tropes-as well as their subversions and new permutations-has become reasonably popular in not only academic circles ( the Final Girl theory being one such example, as well as to some extent Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces ), but also amongst more casual amateur circles, with websites such as TV Tropes Wiki.

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

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

" Walker's collection was enormously popular, selling about 600, 000 copies all over the U. S. when the total population was just over 20 million.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Ann Druyan ( born June 13, 1949 ) is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science.

" 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 ).

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

* CHOI-FM: The CRTC announced it would not renew the licence of the popular CHOI-FM radio station in Quebec City, after having previously sanctioned the station for failing to uphold its promise of performance and then, during the years following, receiving about 50 complaints about offensive behaviour by radio jockeys which similarly contravened CRTC rules on broadcast hate speech.

The way croquet is depicted in paintings and books says much about popular perceptions of the game, though little about the reality of modern play.

A C64 plus a 1541 cost about $ 900, while an Apple II with no disk drive cost $ 1395: the 1541 became widely popular and the demand caught Commodore by surprise, struggling to produce the drive in adequate quantities.

In about 1366, Catherine experienced what she described in her letters as a " Mystical Marriage " with Jesus, later a popular subject in art as the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine.

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

Nevertheless arguments about the location of the " real Camelot " have occurred since the 15th century and continue to rage today in popular works and for tourism purposes.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Ampelographers find clues about which grape varieties were popular at the time in the writings of Italian writer Cosimo Villifranchi who noted that Canaiolo was widely planted variety in the area along with Sangiovese, Mammolo and Marzemino.

Digital published extensive data about the modules in free catalogs that became very popular.

However, they are very popular with end users ( particularly MP3 ), as a megabyte can store about a minute's worth of music at adequate quality.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

The most popular enciyclopedia of Carolingian Age was the De universo or De rerum naturis by Rabanus Maurus, written about 830, which was based on Etymologiae.

Egypt's gains from annual growth rates benefited the rich and failed to trickle down and reduce the poverty which increased to about 50 % in 2011 leading to socioeconomic political instability and popular revolution on 25 January 2011.

Although the Internet became popular worldwide around 1994 with the adoption of Mosaic web browser, it took about five years to introduce security protocols ( i. e. SSL encryption enabled on Netscape 1. 0 Browser in late 1994 ) and DSL allowing continual connection to the Internet.