Nero is accused of being the arsonist by popular rumour.

A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London ( although not confirmed ) by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table.

The rumour that even Marlborough had died became one of the most popular French folk songs, Marlbrough s ' en va-t-en guerre.

This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted.

A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table.

The contemporary historian Suetonius speculated on the possible involvement of Domitian in his brother's death, attributing his final words to a popular rumour of the time, which held that Titus had carried on an affair with Domitia Longina.

The best evidence provided was in Brigadier-General John Charteris ' memoirs At G. H. Q., published in 1931, which said the story of the Angels of Mons was a popular rumour amongst the troops in September 1914, this was the earliest any account said the rumour was in circulation.

Despite popular rumour, often mentioned in jest, he has not had a relationship with the television celebrity Carol Vorderman.

It is a popular rumour that the bridge was bought in the belief that it was London's more recognizable Tower Bridge, but this was ardently denied by McCulloch himself and by Ivan Luckin, who sold the bridge.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.

he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

Uncle John Vinnicum Morse was the immediate popular suspect.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

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

Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

There are several newspapers in mass circulation in Thailand with Thai Rath being the most popular.

Legendary versions of Maximus ' career in which he marries the Welsh princess Elen may have been in popular circulation in Welsh speaking areas from an early point.

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.

A popular definition includes that circulation must be 1, 000 or less, although in practice the significant majority are produced in editions of less than 100, and profit is not the primary intent of publication.

Print remains the most popular zine format, usually photo-copied with a small circulation.

Single cards or posters of vellum, leather or paper were in wider circulation with short stories or legends on them about the lives of saints, chivalry knights or other mythological figures, even criminal, social or miraculous occurrences ; popular events much freely used by story tellers and itinerant actors to support their plays.

While Chen was the chief secretary of the newspaper, its circulation increased from only a thousand copies to more than three times that figure in less than half a year, becoming one of the most popular vernacular Chinese newspapers in print at that time.

There he brought out in rapid succession numerous religious works meant for the use of the lesser clergy at popular prices that insured a wide circulation.

The magazine is the second most popular German language computer magazine with a sold circulation of about 315, 000 (; printed circulation: 419, 000 ).

The Yiddish edition has recently enjoyed a modest increase in circulation as courses in the language have become more popular among university students ; circulation has leveled out at about 5, 500.

Unfortunately the coins were underweight for their value, resulting in them being unacceptable to merchants, and the coins were withdrawn after only a few months in circulation, in August 1344, to be melted down to produce the more popular gold Noble ( 9g gold valued at 6 / 8 ( i. e. 80d )).

Unfortunately, the gold used to strike the coins was overvalued, resulting in the coins being unacceptable to the public, and the coins were withdrawn after only a few months in circulation in August 1344 to be melted down to produce the more popular Noble.

Unfortunately the gold used to strike the coins was overvalued, resulting in the coins being unacceptable to the public, and the coins were withdrawn after only a few months in circulation, in August 1344, to be melted down to produce the more popular gold Noble.

Although these photographs caused controversy at the time, they are partly credited with the increased circulation that established the Sun as one of the most popular newspapers in the United Kingdom by the mid-1970s.

( In the 1920s, circulation figures for the most successful pulps topped one million ; even in the depths of the Great Depression, popular pulps like Doc Savage or The Shadow enjoyed circulations of 300, 000 per issue, monthly or even semi-monthly.

The 10 rupee piece was discontinued and withdrawn from circulation due to lack of demand in competing with the more popular notes.

The Colloquium was one of the major and most popular manuscripts in clandestine circulation in the early modern period, with more than 100 copies catalogued.

This mix of radicalism and xenophobia was popular in the frontier districts of late 19th century Australia, and The Bulletin soon became known as " the bushman's bible ," with a circulation reaching 80, 000 by 1900.

Out () is a popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly publication in the United States.

Dollar coins have found little popular acceptance in circulation in the United States since the early 20th century, despite several attempts since 1971 to increase usage of dollar coins.

Hence, a recent and popular name for the thermohaline circulation, emphasizing the vertical nature and pole-to-pole character of this kind of ocean circulation, is the meridional overturning circulation.