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Contrary to popular myth, the Pennsic wars were not caused by Cariadoc challenging himself to a war and losing.
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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 the popular myth, the libretto was approved by the Emperor, Joseph II, before any music was written by Mozart.
Contrary to the myth antiaircraft fire claimed more kills than fighters.
" ( Contrary to myth, Gorton did not exercise a casting vote, as such a vote was not possible under party rules.
Contrary to the popular urban legend myth, the Nazis did not discriminate against " Aryans " who did not have blonde hair or light-eyes, or had only one of these features.
Contrary to popular myth Whiskey Row was not destroyed by a fire in 1888.
Contrary to myth, the council chamber set was not redressed as a pool in the movie Superman as Beneath was filmed in the United States and Superman was filmed entirely in the United Kingdom ( with the exception of some location shooting in Canada and New York City and some background plates of desert land ).
Contrary to myth, they were not factory equipped with cold-air induction, as the Thunderbolt would be.
Contrary to prevailing myth, Parsons never spoke about a society, where there was no conflict or some kind of " perfect " equilibrium.
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 myth that the Central Pacific's Chinese laborers were specifically excluded from the festivities, A. J.
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Contrary to the popular myth, card counters do not need unusual mental abilities in order to count cards, because they are not tracking and memorizing specific cards.
Contrary to popular myth, this will not cause the machine gun to " runaway " at cyclic rate of fire ( as compared to a Slamfire ) because each chambered round has to first be brought up to temperature.
Contrary to urban myth, the lake is not filled with treated greywater from the hotel.
Contrary to popular myth, the Cook perennial " One Leg Too Few ", a classic sketch about a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, which had been written by Cook years before and used in Beyond the Fringe, never appeared in Not Only ...
Contrary to popular myth, there were some partial successes because of the rebellions:
Contrary to local myth, he did not live at the ' Water House ' on the River Darent, but in a run-down farm cottage that has since been demolished.
Contrary to popular myth, most beaver dams do not pose barriers to trout and salmon migration, although they may be restricted seasonally during periods of low stream flows.
Contrary to popular myth, Robbins was not responsible for their foundation, with most of the applications for reclassification already accepted by the University Grants Committee in the later 1950s / early 1960s.
Contrary to popular myth, they don't eat princesses as they tend to smell of cheap perfume and give indigestion.
Contrary to popular myth, Coma was preceded by the lesser known The Year of the Intern ( also published by Signet Book ) in 1973.
Contrary to popular myth, Swanley was never a major flower growing or orchard area ( at least not more so than any other part of North Kent ) however its location became attractive for London doctors seeking a cure for sick Londoners, escaping the smog of London.
Contrary to a popular myth, a person who is a knight or of noble birth does not have the right to confer titles of nobility, knighthood or orders of chivalry upon others.
Contrary to popular myth, though the Nokia 7110 does feature a spring-loaded cover concealing the keypad, this is not the model featured in the first Matrix movie, which is the Nokia 8110 ( made 3 years prior ), which was adapted with a spring mechanism to feature in the 1999 film.
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