( The Hawaiian alphabet is sometimes claimed to be as small, but it actually consists of 18 letters, including the ʻokina and five long vowels.

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

" Most samples of early work claimed to be crochet turn out to actually be samples of nålebinding.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

It is believed that Fermat did not actually have the proof he claimed to have.

It also claimed that the Dalek / Movellan war ( and indeed most of Dalek history before the destruction of " Skaro ") was actually faked for Davros's benefit ; the Daleks had discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their conquest of Earth, but, unable to change history, had developed an elaborate plot to bring the recorded events about while ensuring Skaro's survival.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

Skeptics have claimed that he did so by hypnosis, which, in one study, actually has proven to relieve symptoms because it lowers stress levels and therefore diminishes the symptomatology of haemophilia.

The tensions between the Houses of Plantagenet and Capet climaxed during the so-called Hundred Years ' War ( actually several distinct wars over the period 1337 to 1453 ) when the Plantagenets claimed the throne of France from the Valois.

The report claimed that Kosiński's books had actually been ghost-written by " assistant editors ", finding stylistic differences among Kosiński's novels.

He also claimed that plastic wood did not exist in 1934 ( when actually it was a popular DIY and modelling material in the early 1930s ).

The opposite has also been claimed, most notably by Karl Popper, who held that such problems do exist, that they are solvable, and that he had actually found definite solutions to some of them.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

The latter is used to detect whether a message has been altered since it was completed ( the message integrity property ), and the former to determine whether it was actually sent by the person / entity claimed to be the sender ( a digital signature ).

However, it has been claimed that potato chips may actually contain less sodium / salt than the equivalent weight in corn flakes.

" Erasmus claimed him as a father / teacher figure and may have actually met him through his own schoolmaster Alexander Hegius ( most probably one of Agricola's students ) at Hegius's school in Deventer.

His friends and family have claimed this does a disservice to a man who was actually more complex than generally credited.

Some claimed that the rhyme was actually about a " great dearth " ( limos ), and was only remembered as " death " ( loimos ) due to the current plague.

" Kenn Viselman claimed the toy actually said " Again, again!

Herodotus claimed Nile crocodiles had a symbiotic relationship with certain birds, such as the Egyptian plover, which enter the crocodile's mouth and pick leeches feeding on the crocodile's blood ; with no evidence of this interaction actually occurring in any crocodile species, it is most likely mythical or allegorical fiction.

The investigation found that the " missing plutonium " was a result of miscalculation by LANL's statisticians and did not actually exist ; but, the investigation did lead to heavy criticism of the laboratory by the DOE for security flaws and weaknesses that the DOE claimed to have found.

It is unclear how much armament was actually produced there ; Schindler and some of the workers claimed in the immediate post-war years that there had been no production that would have been useful to the German war effort, and even that some or all of the output had been deliberately faulty product.

It concluded that two allegations were founded — that Taleyarkhan had claimed independent confirmation of his work when in reality the apparent confirmations were done by Taleyarkhan's former students and was not as " independent " as Taleyarkhan implied, and that Taleyarkhan had included an additional colleague's name on one of his papers who had not actually been involved in the research (" the sole apparent motivation for the addition of Mr. Butt was a desire to overcome a reviewer's criticism ," the report concluded ).

The merger was contentious with investors launching lawsuits over whether the transaction was the ' merger of equals ' that senior management claimed or actually amounted to a Daimler-Benz takeover of Chrysler.

He claimed that the release of the preliminary findings was ' prejudicial to his position ' ''.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

This he claimed was the favorite refrain of the English.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

Spokesmen for the nation's tradition-minded sculptors promptly claimed that Udall was exiling the statue because of his own hostility to this art form.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

Agrarianism claimed agriculture was the source of all wealth and called for the wide distribution of land as the foundation of democracy and freedom.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

In later life Ampère claimed that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew ; but, a polymath, his reading embraced history, travels, poetry, philosophy, and the natural sciences.

Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to " pull her through " to recovery.

Caracalla, it was claimed, tried to counter this influence by invoking his ancestral spirits.

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.