Several years later, rumor tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles.

Another rumor has it being short for King Body, a pseudonym he very briefly used on computer forums as an undergraduate at RPI in the late 1980s.

It has been proposed that Mitsuhide may have heard a rumor that Nobunaga would transfer Mitsuhide's fief to the page, Mori Ranmaru, with whom Nobunaga is alleged to have been in a ritualized homosexual relationship, a form of patronage, known as shudō.

Much outside speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group.

One such example since the 1970s has been the recurring rumor that the Procter and Gamble Company was associated with Satan worshippers because of details within its nineteenth-century trademark.

There are no large wild animals in Zanzibar, and forest areas such as Jozani are inhabited by monkeys, bush-pigs, small antelopes, civets, and, rumor has it, the elusive leopard.

A rumor that has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca.

A rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt.

Some of his friends suggested that Ravel frequented the bordellos of Paris, but no factual evidence has ever been found to substantiate this rumor.

His first novel, Trainspotting, was published in 1993, and rumor has it that Welsh wrote it in the breaks while writing his thesis at Heriot-Watt University's Library, second floor.

The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the USA, because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as politically incorrect and racist toward black people, and is thus subject to much rumor.

After a date with Chris, Sarah is upset to find that he has spread the false rumor that they have had sex, and now treats her disrespectfully.

A gossip columnist cannot defend themselves from a libel claim by arguing that they merely repeated, but did not originate the defamating rumor or claim ; instead, the columnist has to prove that the allegedly defaming statement was truthful, or that it was based on a reasonably reliable source.

While the buyer ’ s identity remains anonymous, rumor has it he hails from Russia ( the land of record-breaking billionaire home buyers ) but insiders say it's a combination of a past and present resident in the coal and oil industry.

According to Sullivan's co-producer Marlo Lewis, the rumor had it that " Elvis has been hanging a small soft-drink bottle from his groin underneath his pants, and when he wiggles his leg it looks as though his pecker reaches down to his knee!

Goldman has consistently denied the persistent rumor that he wrote Good Will Hunting or acted as a script doctor.

A memorial has been erected at the site of an old oak tree and there is a rumor that Amelia was buried just down the hill from where their house once stood, just down the road from Kennefick Veterinary clinic ( which now borders the Enterprise Products gas storage facility ).

He has heard the popular rumor that brings the number of troops it to 80, 000 soldiers.

This process has been described as ‘ routing by rumor ’ because routers are relying on the information they receive from other routers and cannot determine if the information is actually valid and true.

National Geographic Magazine journalist Thomas J. Abercrombie visited the site and found the large meteorite: " rumor has become a reality ; the biggest iron meteorite ever found in Arabia lay at our feet ... shaped roughly like a saucer, it measured about four feet in diameter and two feet thick at center.

This rumor has expanded over the years to include the pending marriage of the pair.

The source of this rumor is undetermined, although Snopes has attributed it to poor recollection of various media reports covering odd or strange urban legends.

This rumor has also morphed into " I would rather be here than in Philadelphia ".

As rumor has it, Dan Patch is buried somewhere on the Taj Mahal property in an unmarked grave.

A persistent rumor has attributed the existence of a thirteenth hand to the sculptor's wish to symbolize either all the other Marines who made the flag raising possible, or the hand of God.

Despite his continued appearances on the U. S. concert circuit, the rumor persisted for years, with some observers expressing skepticism that the Blind Tom who appeared in concert after 1889 was the " real Blind Tom.

Nobody ever took the offer, although the rumor persisted.

A rumor persisted that Atari shipped 500 unsold units to Japan with instructions to dump the units into the ocean at the halfway point.

The rumor persisted even after his death and was the subject of several newspaper articles.

Iaukea denied the allegations, but the rumor persisted.

* The rumor has persisted that the insurance company was involved in arranging Peters ' testimony in order to avoid paying off the policy.

The most common rumor was that Luigi was a secret character in the game, fueled by illegible symbols in the castle courtyard that resembled the text " L is real 2401 ".

The US State Department considered it " a wild rumor, fueled by Jewish anxieties ", while the British Foreign Office refused to forward the telegram for the time being and called for the allegations to be investigated first.

This rumor was fueled by the fact that her exit was very open-ended.

This, along with several other eccentricities, fueled the rumor that he was insane himself.

They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.

Butler's investigation was tainted by the rumor that Butler paid Wendell $ 100, 000 to testify during the investigation, in order to expose the Astor House acquittal committee.

However this rumor was quickly debunked by Hanks.

This term is used pejoratively by its reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted, and it also describes idle chat, a rumor of personal, or trivial nature.

A rumor spread afterwards that Harris had designed Doom levels that looked like the halls of the high school, populated with representations of Harris's classmates and teachers, and that Harris practiced for his role in the shootings by playing these levels over and over.

In his 2004 study of the Lavender Scare, the historian David K. Johnson attacked the speculations about Hoover's homosexuality as relying on " the kind of tactics Hoover and the security program he oversaw perfected – guilt by association, rumor, and unverified gossip ”.

After being inundated by movie fans, Cagney sent out a rumor that he had hired a gunman for security.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

Al-Maqrizi added to the rumor by claiming Muhammad's tomb was going to be relocated to Crusader territory so Muslims would make pilgrimages there.

A rumor circulated that more blacks were coming by train from Muskogee to help with an invasion of Tulsa.

Harding's great-great grandfather Amos claimed that a thief, who had been caught in the act by the family, started the rumor as an attempted extortion.

Encouraged by verbal attacks by Chavez and other officials, editors " began routinely winking at copy containing unfounded speculation, rumor, and unchecked facts.

The nature of his disease led to the rumor of his having been poisoned by his enemies ; however, a formal inquest proved this to be unfounded.

After his death, four fake Peters ( five if Šćepan Mali of Montenegro is included ) came forth, supported by revolts among the people who believed in a rumor that Peter had not died, but had secretly been imprisoned by Catherine.

At that time, anti-Persian sentiment was high among many mainland Greeks, and the rumor that Xerxes had destroyed the city was a popular one, though it is equally likely the fire was started by accident as the Athenians were frantically fleeing the scene in pandemonium, or that it was an act of " scorched earth " warfare to deprive Xerxes's army of the spoils of the city.

Some ships of his refugee fleet were sent south, mostly to Florida, but the rumor that their black passengers were resold into slavery appears to be based on propaganda stories circulated by the anti-British forces at the time.

The rumor that his birth name was " Matuschanskayasky " was given additional credence by the release of the 1974 film Earthquake in which Matthau had agreed to provide a cameo performance without compensation on the condition that he not be credited under his real name.

He was born shortly after Livia divorced Tiberius Nero and married Augustus ( 17 January, 38 BC ), giving rise to rumours that Augustus was the real father, although this is widely discredited by modern historians as Augustus had not yet met Livia when Drusus would have been conceived ( During his reign, Claudius revived this rumor to give the impression that Augustus was his paternal grandfather in addition to being his maternal great-uncle ).

Given one last chance by the bullying, intimidating Hunsecker, he schemes to plant a false rumor in a rival column that Dallas is a dope-smoking Communist, then encourages Hunsecker to rescue Dallas's reputation, certain that the headstrong boyfriend will reject Hunsecker's favor and end up looking bad to Susan.