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Contrary to popular belief John Hugenholtz cannot be credited with the design of the Zandvoort track, although he was involved as the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club chairman ( the Dutch Auto Racing Club ) before becoming the first track director in 1949.
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Contrary to popular opinion, `` a la mode '' doesn't mean `` with ice cream '' -- it just means, in the latest style.
Contrary to popular belief, they were not great technical innovators.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.
Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter.
Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.
Contrary to popular belief, rats did not directly start the spread of the bubonic plague.
Contrary to popular belief, the airport is located completely on French soil.
Contrary to popular belief, the Louisiana code does not directly derive from the Napoleonic Code, as the latter was enacted in 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase.
Contrary to popular belief, Crux is not opposite to Ursa Major.
Contrary to popular simplifications ( present also in some academic texts ), not all CISCs are microcoded or have " complex " instructions.
Contrary to the popular belief that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, Chomsky goes so far as to argue that ' it's the essence of democracy.
Contrary to popular belief, " Dr ." is not part of the name but just an academic title like " Mag.
Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.
Contrary to popular belief conservation groups are not against expansion in general, instead they are concerned with efficiency with resources and land development.
Contrary to a popular misconception that software is either free or commercial, they are unrelated traits, since free software can be commercial and proprietary software can be non-commercial.
Contrary to the common mainstream academic and popular use of the term, Communist states have sometimes been referred to as " fascist ", typically as an epithet.
Contrary to popular belief, the company did not go bankrupt.
Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.
( Contrary to popular misuse, the word " colt " refers to a young male horse only ; " filly " is a young female.
Contrary to a popular misconception — that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep — contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.
Contrary to popular belief, Marx does not base his LTV on what he dismisses as " ascribing a supernatural creative power to labor ", arguing in the Critique of the Gotha Program that:
Contrary to popular belief in American and British circles, the Luftwaffe was not " the hand maiden of the German Army ".
Contrary to popular opinion, libertarian socialism has not traditionally been a utopian movement, tending to avoid dense theoretical analysis or prediction of what a future society would or should look like.
Contrary to popular belief, the loa are not deities in and of themselves ; they are intermediaries for a distant Bondye.
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Contrary to Apple's belief these would be low-volume, by the end of 1987, 130, 000 such systems were in use.
Contrary to common belief, inbreeding does not in itself alter allele frequencies, but rather increases the relative proportion of homozygotes to heterozygotes.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody would have been vapourised by the burst-the detonation occurred at over 500 m altitude and the fireball did not reach the ground.
Contrary to popular belief, freeborn girls were as likely to receive formal education as boys, especially during the Roman Empire — unlike the lack of education, or purely manual / technical skills, proper to a slave.
Contrary to popular belief, the maquiladora program was in place far before NAFTA, in some sense dating all the way back to 1965.
Contrary to this belief among the anti-evolution movement proponents, evolution of life forms beyond the species level (" macroevolution ", i. e. speciation in a specific case ) has indeed been observed multiple times under both controlled laboratory conditions and in nature.
Contrary to popular belief, even the larger species, such as the reticulated python, P. reticulatus, do not crush their prey to death ; in fact, prey is not even noticeably deformed before it is swallowed.
Contrary to popular belief, the college did not grow out of student revolts and experimentation, but out of a desire to provide a " more flexible, individualized approach to a rigorous liberal arts education ".
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While she beats almost all the men in the foot race, she ties Young John, who is then awarded her hand in marriage by the King ( Contrary to the original story in which he cheated in the race by winning a goddess ' favor ).
Contrary to his gadget-expert character in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology, a trait that also plagued his successor, John Cleese.
* Contrary to the popular belief that Bruce Wayne ( the real name of the superhero character Batman ) was named after John Wayne, comic book writer Bill Finger named Batman's alter ego after Robert the Bruce and Anthony Wayne.
* Contrary to Den's statement in the film ( voiced by John Candy ), Den did not, in fact, have a problem " running around with dork hanging out " as he often did in the graphic novels.
Contrary to the wishes of Wenceslaus, John confirmed the archbishop's candidate for Abbot of Kladruby, and was drowned on the emperor's orders on March 20, 1393.
Contrary to Lundberg's observations, historians and biographers such as Jean Strouse, Ron Chernow, David Nasaw, and T. J. Stiles have written in the Nevins vein, chronicling the lives and careers of such figures as J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Contrary to popular belief, John Cooper stated that " Hero " was not the album's lead single.
Contrary to some inaccurate histories and attributions, John Pierpont was not the author of the Christmas song “ Jingle Bells ”; its author was his son, James Lord Pierpont ( 1822-1893 ), who ( ironically ) served in the First Georgia Cavalry and wrote patriotic hymns for the Confederacy.
Contrary to popular belief that the construction of the Alaska Highway commenced in Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson was the original mile 0 on the Alaska Highway because of the existence of a previously constructed road from Fort Saint John to Fort Nelson.
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