) The story is considered an urban legend.

Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend and a variety of explanatory narratives which are constructed with methodological flaws or biases.

This story was later confirmed to be an urban legend by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

If a story is found to be untrue, it is disqualified, but particularly amusing ones are placed in the urban legend section of the archives.

Contemporary narratives common in the Western world include the urban legend.

An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

Candyman, for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain.

Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.

* Kosher tax, an urban legend and antisemitic conspiracy theory

A widely disseminated urban legend tells of a radio conversation between a U. S. or British naval vessel and what is believed to be another ship on a collision course.

Further, modern mythopoeia such as fantasy novels, manga, and urban legend, with many competing artificial mythoi acknowledged as fiction, supports the idea of myth as ongoing social practice.

An urban legend claims Dolophine was named for Adolf Hitler.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

* Paul Is Dead, a 1960s urban legend that Paul McCartney was dead

These ersatz tales — which included the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers — are widely circulated as urban legend.

The existence of for-profit snuff films is generally considered an urban legend.

The original story of Sweeney Todd was quite possibly based on an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings.

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

It was something of a success, and the story spread by word of mouth and took on the quality of an urban legend.

An urban legend claims that the doomed tank might have been overfilled in late 1918 so that the owners could produce as much rum as possible before Prohibition came into effect.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Despite this, the identification of the tarot cards with the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

Putnam also says that television and urban sprawl have had a significant role in making America far less ' connected '.

An 1860 diary says Chinese Camp was the metropolis for the mining district, with many urban comforts.

In Poland, Kilroy is replaced with " Józef Tkaczuk ", an elementary school janitor ( as an urban legend says ), " Robert Motherwell " or " M. Pulina ".

It is instead, says Lembcke, a kind of urban myth that reflects our lingering national confusion over the war.

There's still no consensus if the language ( s ) is ( are ) a dialect or a creole, although the name given by linguists uses the term " dialect "; there is even no consensus on how many varieties it has ( studies point out to at least two variations, an urban one and a rural one, although other sources says there are even six varieties — Riverense Portuñol being one of these varieties ).

An urban legend says the ball contains a razor, lighter, and flare.

To arrive to an adequate conception of ' urbanism as a mode of life ' Wirth says it is necessary to stop ' identify urbanism with the physical entity of the city ', go ' beyond an arbitrary boundary line ' and consider how ' technological developments in transportation and communication have enormously extended the urban mode of living beyond the confines of the city itself.

A popular urban myth says that the name was originally meant to be " Monkey Kong ", but was misspelled or misinterpreted due to a blurred fax or bad telephone connection.

Heston, in a DVD commentary track for the film, mentions that a third urban legend says he wore a wristwatch during the chariot race.

Luigi Bobbio's proposal would also ban sunbathing, the wearing of clogs, playing soccer in public places, and blasphemy, in what the mayor says is an attempt to " restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil co-existence ".

An urban legend says that Lawrence Goldberg was a Dodger fan who sought to torture a friend who was a Giants fan by capturing and replaying Russ Hodges ' heartbreak from a Giants ' loss.

* Rose, in a running gag tries time and again to trick the queen to utter the famous phrase " We are not amused ", and makes a triumphant gesture when she finally succeeds ( History says Queen Victoria actually never said this, but urban legend does ).

Its city walls were much imitated ( for example, see Caernarfon Castle ) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire.

While Beaux stuck to her portraits of the elite, American art was advancing into urban and social subject matter, led by artists such as Robert Henri who espoused a totally different aesthetic, " Work with great speed .. Have your energies alert, up and active.

The clash of Henri and William Merritt Chase ( representing Beaux and the traditional art establishment ) resulted in 1907 in the independent exhibition by the urban realists known as " The Eight " or the Ashcan School.

The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas.

Marc Ecko, an urban clothing designer, has been an advocate of graffiti as an art form during this period, stating that " Graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history and has been a driving inspiration throughout my career.

Graffiti artist John Fekner, called " caption writer to the urban environment, adman for the opposition " by writer Lucy Lippard, was involved in direct art interventions within New York City's decaying urban environment in the mid-seventies through the eighties.

Art supporters endorse his work distributed in urban areas as pieces of art and some councils, such as Bristol and Islington, have officially protected them, while other officials have deemed his work to be vandalism and have removed it.

While training in Lebanon, each Commando is instructed in the art of urban and guerrilla warfare.

Such graffiti / street artists as Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Mint & Serf, Futura 2000, Os Gemeos, and Faile among others have successfully transcended their street art aesthetic beyond the walls of urban landscape and onto walls of private and corporate clients.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

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Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History, stated that historical attempts to combat urban sprawl have failed, and that the high population density of Los Angeles, currently the most dense urban area in the United States, " lies at the root of many of the woes experienced by L. A.

These procedures are the current state of the art for radioactive contamination cleanup, but some experts say that a complete cleanup of external surfaces in an urban area to current decontamination limits may not be technically feasible.

" Lane explained that in contrast to the busied, bohemian urban lives of the New York abstract expressionists, the rural desert environment Van Vliet was influenced by is a distinctly naturalistic one, making him a distinguished figure in contemporary art, whose work will survive in canon.

They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design.

He was our first major painter to accept completely the realities of contemporary urban America, and from them to create powerful, profound art ... In portraiture alone Eakins was the strongest American painter since Copley, with equal substance and power, and added penetration, depth, and subtlety.

Since the 1990s, developments in the downtown core include the University of Washington, Tacoma ; Tacoma Link, the first modern electric light rail service in the state ; the state's highest density of art and history museums ; and a restored urban waterfront, the Thea Foss Waterway.

“ I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table ” he said.

This budding genre of art is continuing to grow and evolve in a somewhat rapid manner through internet social sub-culture on one hand, and large scale urban installations on the other hand.