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 its design as a quintessential American town, Celebration does not have any road named Main Street.

Contrary to the thought that much of the local economy is now dominated by tourism, Ooty is still a supply base and market town for the surrounding area which is still largely dependent on agriculture, notably the cultivation of " English Vegetables " and " English Fruits " grown locally.

Contrary to their normal " hit and run " tactics, they occupied the town and claimed it for the prince by raising the Prince of Orange's flag above the city.

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 popular belief, Armour was never home to a meat packing plant ; the town was so named because Mr. Armour was also the chairman of the railroad that went through Armour and donated a bell to the local congregational church.

Contrary to popular belief, the town is not named after or related to the Justin Boot Company.

Contrary to popular belief, Harman and Graham were two entirely separate towns until Harman changed its name to Bluefield, and then annexed the town of Graham.

Contrary to this theory, Franz Pfeiffer assumed that the singer was born in the Wipptal in South Tyrol, where, not far from the small town of Sterzing on the Eisack, a wood — called the Vorder-and Hintervogelweide — exists.

Contrary to popular belief, the town is not named after the river ; rather, the river is named after the town.

Contrary to popular belief, the name of the town " Sweetwater " was not taken from The Wind, Victor Sjöström's silent epic.

Contrary to how most people now pronounce the name, that is to say phonetically, the ' z ' was an abbreviated character for a ' tch ' sound, as in the name of the town.

Contrary to local myth, Alice Liddell did not meet Carroll in the town, and was not told the Alice stories in the town.

Contrary to the agreed terms of surrender, the occupying troops killed a large number of the defenders and destroyed most of the town walls.

Contrary to Granny Weatherwax, and indeed the stereotype of witches in general, Nanny Ogg does not live in an isolated, crumbly rural cottage but in an expansive and well-looked after town house in the capital of Lancre ( with her eldest and youngest sons living to either side ), called Tir Nani Ogg (" Nanny Ogg's place ," and a pun on the Tír na nÓg, the Gaelic name for the Land of the Ever-Young ).

Contrary to this the town has also won awards for the " Best Kept Large Town " and the most " Clean, sustainable and beautiful community " in Scotland in the Beautiful Scotland competition and was the winner in the " large town " category in the 2011 Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom competition achieving a Gold award in the UK finals.

Contrary to what is often stated, she was not executed by the Nazis ; instead, on June 10, 1944, Winsloe and a woman companion were shot and killed by four Frenchmen in a forest near the country town of Cluny.

Contrary to popular belief that Tossa has traditionally been a fishing town, in medieval times and until the arrival of tourism, the local economy was mostly based on agricultural production, principally Grape vine and cork.

Contrary to the people of this small town believe, the first settlers in the area came from Bacon, Cagraray Island or Casiguran which are geographically situated near Manito.