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Contrary to the popular histories, the origins of the name " Bowland " have nothing to do with archery (“ the land of the bow ”) or with mediaeval cattle farms or vaccaries ( Old Norse, buu -, farmstead ).
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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 what some histories of photography portray, pictorialism did not come about as the result of a linear evolution of artistic sensibilities ; rather, it was formed through " an intricate, divergent, often passionately conflicting barrage of strategies.
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.
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Contrary to misguided notions that this name is due to deprivation or crime rates ; the area was called ' Dodge City ' because of the excess amounts of sand present whilst building work commenced ; in recent years however the nickname ' Dodge City ' has come to be applied to the whole of Netherton by those ignorant of its origins.
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Contrary to Crum's expectation, the patron ( sometimes identified as Cornelius Vanderbilt ) loved the new chips and they soon became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name " Saratoga Chips ".
Contrary to the name, however, eastern half of Silesian Voivodeship is not historical Silesia, but Lesser Poland.
Contrary to popular belief, " oetel " in the name " Oeteldonk " is not a referral to a frog but is a facetious reference to the's-Hertogenbosch Bishop Adrianus Godschalk who came from the village of Den Dungen, and he often fulminated against the ' pagan ' Carnaval festivities.
* 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 popular belief, the name Saqqara is not derived from the ancient Egyptian funerary god Sokar, but from the Beni Saqqar who are a local Berber tribe.
Contrary to its name, it is not part of Fort Lauderdale.
Contrary to popular belief, Centerville owes its name not to its geographical position within the state of Georgia, but its position between Byron and Wellston ( now Warner Robins ).
Contrary to popular legend, the city is not named after a mythological Chief Munsee, rather it was named after Munsee Town, the white settlers ' name for the Indian village on the site, " munsee " meaning a member of the Delaware tribe.
Contrary to this lore, the name Andover pre-dates the train wreck which is evidenced by train schedules listing Andover Station prior to the wreck.
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 some sources, no railway personnel by the name of Covington were employed on this project.
Contrary to an often repeated rumor that the band name originated from a Ouija Board, the name was inspired by the band's attendance of a Slade concert, where Petersson commented that the band used " every cheap trick in the book " as part of their act.
The New Zealand Rockwren is specialised for the alpine environment, in areas of low scrub and scree from 900 m up to 2, 400 m. Contrary to its other common name ( the South Island Wren ) fossil evidence shows it was more widespread in the past and lived on North Island.
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Contrary to its common name, the ground calls of the Whistling Swan are not a whistle and neither notably different from that of Bewick's Swan.
Contrary to his pompous name, Cust has not tasted real success.
Contrary to its name it was not intended to include the island of Formosa ( Taiwan )
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 what some say is " inconsistency ", the background is referencing the brand name of Camel as opposed to the type of tobacco blend in the pack ( Turkish, mixed with Virginia ).
Contrary to the name, the terminus of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge that connects Honshu to Awaji Island ( and thereby to Shikoku ) is not in Akashi but in Tarumi-ku, Kōbe.
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