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Contrary to popular belief, Matthew Lavelle of West Scranton, Pennsylvania, has no claim to the town's property.
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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 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.
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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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Contrary to what is sometimes alleged, no eyewitness source refers to Crusaders killing Eastern Christians in Jerusalem, and early Eastern Christian sources ( Matthew of Edessa, Anna Comnena, Michael the Syrian, etc.
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Contrary to popular beliefs, in West African vodun, spells are not cast upon someone.
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Contrary to what the press has sometimes asserted, The West End Horror has nothing to do with ( though it arguably bears subtle references to ) Jack the Ripper or his crimes.
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Contrary to expectations, Hazel had not lost much intensity: winds of were measured in parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania.
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Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.
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Contrary to early hopes that seabed mining would generate extensive revenues for both the exploiting countries and the Authority, no technology has yet been developed for gathering deep-sea minerals at costs that can compete with land-based mines.
Contrary to tweening, every frame of a keyframed computer animation is directly modified or manipulated by the creator, such that no tweening has actually occurred.
Contrary to what has been reported in other places, Lee envisioned the horns and strings from the beginning, and they were not added as an afterthought.
Contrary to the Western perception of possession, a Loa has no need to remain in the horse ( possessed ritualist ).
Contrary to the claims of some antievolution proponents, evolution of life forms beyond the species level (" macroevolution ", i. e. speciation ) has indeed been observed and documented by scientists on numerous occasions.
Contrary to Malthus ' predictions and in line with his thoughts on moral restraint, natural population growth in most developed countries has diminished to close to zero, without being held in check by famine or lack of resources, as people in developed nations have shown a tendency to have fewer children.
Contrary to this one or any one opinion of any individual surgeon it has been shown that while there is a learning curve for a hand surgeon who begins to use an endoscopic technique to release the transverse carpal ligament no significant safety issues or morbididty associated with the endoscopic method exist.
Contrary to Weller's account, former Washington yell leader Tolly Allen has also claimed credit for the first wave.
Contrary to popular belief Trinity House is not ( and never has been ) part of HM Coastguard although it does work closely with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Contrary to that, the summertime has lower temperatures than most places in the state, making the county a popular place to escape the heat.
Contrary to that, the summertime has lower temperatures than most places in the state, making the town a popular place to escape the heat.
Contrary to some news reports that some band members were injured, lead singer Geoff Tate has said in several interviews that he was misquoted and none of the band members suffered any injuries.
Contrary to popular opinion, the word has no connection to the word gutter.
Contrary to the tradition of most American dormitories, Danish dormitories in general, and the old dormitories in particular, only offer single rooms for rent, meaning no student has to share their room with others.
Contrary to popular belief, the title has nothing to do with the infamous New Jersey theme park, Action Park, which closed in 1996 due to numerous fatalities.
Contrary to its official goals, the US has suppressed research on drug usage, although the CIA researched regardless during MKULTRA.
Contrary to popular belief, the common law has been codified in many jurisdictions in many areas ; examples include the Law of General Obligations of New York State, the English law relating to marine insurance in the Marine Insurance Act 1906, which was originally judge-made common law, and the California Civil Code.
Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing the City of Solna's coat of arms.
( Contrary to what has been said by some imprecise sources, jazz, African Americans, and New Orleans bands had all been recorded earlier, but Nordskog captured the first instance of those three elements in one place at the same time.
Contrary to his pompous name, Cust has not tasted real success.
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