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 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.

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.

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 ".

Contrary to popular belief, the so-called " Star Chamber Act " of King Henry VII's second Parliament ( 1487 ) did not actually empower the Star Chamber, but rather created a separate tribunal distinct from the King's general Council.

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 its intended purpose of strengthening the position of the King against the revolutionaries, the Brunswick Manifesto had the opposite effect of greatly undermining Louis's already highly tenuous position in Paris.

Contrary to common legend, the bagel was not created in the shape of a stirrup to commemorate the victory of Poland's King Jan III Sobieski over the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

Contrary to popular belief, the turtle ship was not actually invented by Admiral Yi ; rather, he improved upon an older design that had been suggested during the reign of King Taejong.

Contrary to Tony Banks ' assertion in the accompanying booklet to the Genesis Archive, the tape did not run out ; the live version of " it " exists on the King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast of the Shrine concert.

Some of the best known nursery rhymes from Britain include ; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Roses are red, Jack and Jill, Cock a doodle doo, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, The Grand Old Duke of York, London Bridge Is Falling Down, Hey Diddle Diddle, Three Blind Mice, Little Miss Muffet, Pat-a-cake, Pop Goes the Weasel, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Peter Piper, Hickory Dickory Dock, Rock-a-bye Baby, One for Sorrow, This Old Man, Simple Simon, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Bo Peep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Old King Cole and Humpty Dumpty.

Contrary to most other governments of the Nazi-invaded countries, King Christian X of Denmark and his government ordered the army and navy to stop fighting, and chose to remain in their country also under the occupation, which is believed to have contributed to the Nazi years being more lenient in Denmark than in other countries under Hitler's control.

Contrary to information sometimes published, King was living in Boulder at the time and did not actually write the novel at the hotel.