He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.

Author Michael Occleshaw made the claim in his 1995 book The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor that Tatiana might have been rescued and transported to England, where she married a British officer and lived under the name Larissa Tudor.

Conspiracies to cover up the facts of a number of prominent events have been alleged in the following cases:

He is said to have been an actor, and by his own confession he wrote plays, for he speaks of Catiline's Conspiracies as a " Pig of mine own Sowe.

Conspiracies have been alleged about South Korea's motivations for this policy.

American Conspiracies is a book Ventura wrote with Dick Russell, published by Skyhorse Publishing in 2010 which discusses conspiracy theories related to several notable events in United States history.

* 2008: Foreword to Conspiracies and the Cross by Timothy Paul Jones, Frontline Books ( ISBN 1-599-79205-2 )

His unpublished diaries hint, among other exploits, at a successful rescue attempt of one of the Czarist-Russian Grand Duchesses, possibly Tatiana ( see The Romanov Conspiracies by Michael Occleshaw ).

* Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I by Naguib Kanawati, 2003 Routledge ( UK ), pp. 171ff.

* The Little Book of Conspiracies: A Paranoiac's Pocket Guide, Joel Levy ( introduction by Kenn Thomas ), Thunder's Mouth, US, 2005, paperback, ISBN 1-56025-723-7

Conspiracies about his death abound, including that he committed suicide and even that he was thrown on to the tracks by police.

* Web of Conspiracies by Michael Rubin appearing on National Review Online

" He reiterated his point, " Conspiracies occur, it must be admitted.

Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, and led Harold Wilson in the 1960s to put in place rules to prevent phone tapping of members of parliament for example.

Episode Four of the television series Elizabeth R ( titled " Horrible Conspiracies ") is devoted to the Babington Plot, and the movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age deals substantially with the Plot as well.

Parsons ' relationship with Hubbard also appears in Feral House's Apocalypse Culture, Paradox's Big Book of Conspiracies, Alan Moore's Cobweb story in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions, and in the Jon Atack nonfiction book A Piece of Blue Sky.

" Minutes of the Commissioners for detecting and defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, Albany County Sessions, 1778 – 1781.

* Kevin D. Randle, Case MJ-12: The True Story Behind the Government's UFO Conspiracies, 2002, HarperTorch, ISBN 1-56924-741-2

Richard Belzer defines The Big Lie, in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe, this way: " If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap.

* Klement, Frank L. Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War ( 1984 )

* Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I, Routledge ( 2002 ), ISBN 0-415-27107-X.

In May 2011, Shermer published The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths.

Wallace has written for and presented television shows such as Danny Wallace's Hoax Files ( Sky One ), Conspiracies ( Sky One ), School's Out ( BBC1 ), and in 2006 he took over from Phillip Schofield as co-presenter of BBC1's Test the Nation.

* Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802.

Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups, p. 64.

The Romanov Conspiracies.

During the American Civil War he wrote two books: History of the Southern Rebellion and History of American Conspiracies.

: I do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to his Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost of my Power, against all traitorous Conspiracies, and Attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his Person.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

As a result of this, powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule.

Because of the delay, Young and Duke began their descent to the surface at an altitude higher than that of any previous mission, at.

Throughout his reign as Liberal leader, Menzies had enforced strict party discipline but, once he was gone, dissension began to surface.

When depictions of lesbians began to surface, they were often one-dimensional, simplified stereotypes.

Japan's Tokyo Meteorological Observatory, the forerunner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, began constructing surface weather maps in 1883.

It entered Martian orbit in November 1971 and began photographing the surface and analyzing the atmosphere with its infrared and ultraviolet instruments.

Reeling from their first taste of failure, personal problems began to surface for the trio.

As the hobby and study of stamps began to grow, stamp albums and stamp related literature began to surface, and by the early 1880s publishers like Stanley Gibbons made a business out of this advent.

It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 metres ( 426 ft ) below sea level, and reached the surface on 15 November 1963.

The development of general relativity began with the equivalence principle, under which the states of accelerated motion and being at rest in a gravitational field ( for example when standing on the surface of the Earth ) are physically identical.

Later they began placing the tokens in large, hollow, clay containers ( bulla ) which were sealed ; the quantity of tokens in each container came to be expressed by impressing, on the container's surface, one picture for each instance of the token inside.

Although magnets and magnetism were known much earlier, the study of the magnetic field began in 1269 when French scholar Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt mapped out the magnetic field on the surface of a spherical magnet using iron needles.

In April 1973, when revelations about Watergate began to surface, Agnew was the choice of 35 percent of Republican voters to be the next Republican nominee for President, while then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was second on the Gallup Poll.

Immediately after Washington's death, rumors about how Washington died began to surface.

Despite his initial popularity and personal charisma, problems began to surface in the implementation of the revolutionary ideals.

Jadwiga's death undermined Władysław's right to the throne ; and as a result old conflicts between the nobility of Lesser Poland, generally sympathetic to Władysław, and the gentry of Greater Poland began to surface.

In the 1920s, the ideas of modernism began to surface in urban planning.

The known volcanic history of the Long Valley Caldera area started several million years ago when magma began to collect several miles below the surface.

Accusations of corruption against Wafd politicians began to surface, however, breeding an atmosphere of rumor and suspicion that consequently brought the Free Officers to the forefront of Egyptian politics.

Early warning signs began to surface in 1996, when Eric Harris first created a private website on America Online.

Beginning in the 1970s, conservative Christian protests against sexual immorality began to surface, largely as a reaction to the " permissive sixties " and an emerging prominence of sexual liberties arising from Roe v Wade and the gay rights movement.

In 995, rumours began to surface in Norway about a king in Ireland of Norwegian blood.