The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

" An alternative account says that the Germans who boarded Nicosian were killed by the freighter's engine room staff ; this report apparently came from the officer in command of the muleteers.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community, several alternative theories have been proposed to try to explain the anomalies for which dark matter is intended to account.

An alternative account of probability emphasizes the role of prediction – predicting future observations on the basis of past observations, not on unobservable parameters.

Stich doesn't defend any alternative theory of knowledge or justification, but instead argues that all accounts of normative epistemic terms are culturally biased and instead only a pragmatic account can be given.

Salmon attempted to provide an alternative account for some of the problems with Hempel and Oppenheim's model by developing his statistical relevance model.

A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous ( due to clusters of galaxies ) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all, however this conclusion is disputed.

An alternative account of John's death, ascribed by later Christian writers to the early second century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, claims that he was slain by the Jews.

In an alternative account, Apollonius identifies the buried sickle as a scythe belonging to Demeter, yet the name Drepane probably originated in the sickle-shape of the island.

These provide an alternative account of historical development and emphasize the self-destructive contradictions and law of motion of specific modes of production.

An alternative is the linear discriminant analysis, which does take this into account.

Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as ' naturalistic ' including the ' functional generalization ' view of John Pollock, the evolutionary / etiological account provided by Ruth Millikan, and a dispositional view held by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter.

An alternative account says that the Roman general Pompey believed he could make himself immune to poison by ingesting small amounts of various poisons, and he took this treatment with a grain of salt to help him swallow the poison.

eBay announced that starting in March 2008, eBay had added to this requirement that all sellers with fewer than 100 feedbacks must offer PayPal and no merchant account may be used as an alternative.

There is an alternative account of Uther Pendragon's background in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

GDP does not take into account other aspects such as leisure time, environmental quality, freedom, or social justice ; alternative measures of economic well-being have been proposed ( more ).

A new model, efficiency sensing, which takes into account both problematics, population density and spatial confinement, has been proposed as an alternative.

* For an alternative account of the trial, see Anne Somerset's Unnatural Murder ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997 ).

( An alternative account is given in a Maya chronicle from the Colonial era, claiming that Mayapan was contemporary with Chichen and Uxmal and in alliance with those cities, but archeological evidence shows this version to be less likely.

However, as prior continuity established the existence of alternative Dalek installations and colonies outside their homeworld, Skaro's own survival is unnecessary to account for post-nova remnants.

However, this theory has been questioned based on results showing that in brain slices of immature mice incubated in artificial cerebrospinal fluid ( ACSF ) ( modified in a way that takes into account the normal composition of the neuronal milieu in sucklings by adding an energy substrate alternative to glucose, beta-hydroxybutyrate ) GABA action shifts from excitatory to inhibitory mode.

The A + L show at PS1 offered an alternative account of the antecedents and legacy of ' classic ' Conceptual Art and reinforced a transatlantic rather than nationalistic version of events 1968-72.

On the plane the most common alternative is polar coordinates, where every point is represented by its radius r from the origin and its angle θ.

An alternative origin is the Hanlin teahouse in Tainan, Taiwan, owned by Tu Tsong-he.

This film offers an alternative origin for the Immortals, who are depicted as aliens exiled to Earth from Zeist.

CMF units were sometimes scorned by AIF soldiers as " chocolate soldiers " or " chockos ", because " they would melt under the pressure " of military operations ; or in an alternative version of the story of the origin of this term, as a result of the 1930s ' uniforms of Militia soldiers, these soldiers were considered by AIF volunteers and some civilians as soldiers only for show like the soldiers in garish 19th century dress uniforms shown on tins of chocolates that were commonly sold in Australia in the 1930s, hence the name " chocolate-tin soldiers " for Militia members.

Historically, therefore, an alternative means of distinguishing between the two types of radiation has been by their origin: X-rays are emitted by electrons outside the nucleus, while gamma rays are emitted by the nucleus.

An alternative origin comes from the Enterprise episode " Observer Effect ," where it is revealed that the Organians also adhere to a form of the Prime Directive.

The family is thought to have an Old World origin ( but see Moyle ( 2005 ) for an alternative theory ), notwithstanding the current richness of the family, which is more diverse in the Neotropical New World.

There has also been a tendency to use the World Wide Web as an alternative outlet for artists and there is a strong Art-focused internet community on groups that has found origin in Egypt.

Regardless of the legal requirements for labelling, extensive education efforts by the Champagne region, and the use of alternative names by non-Champagne quality sparkling wine producers, some consumers and wine sellers continue to regard champagne as a generic term for white sparkling wines, regardless of origin.

The most commonly used alternative name of the plant family, " chile ", is of Central American origin.

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

An alternative origin could be the Russian word "" ( smola ), which means resin, tar, or pitch.

Numerous alternative theories attempt to explain the term's origin:

The bean-like seed pod is the origin of the alternative vernacular names Indian bean tree and cigar tree for Catalpa bignonioides and Catalpa speciosa, respectively.

The alternative exonym Albanians may ultimately be etymologically related, but is of less clear origin ( see Albania ( toponym )).

While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of " Mahomet ", alternative etymologies have also been proposed:

The term non-standard is applied to any cosmological theory that does not conform to the scientific consensus, but is not used in describing alternative models where no consensus has been reached, and is also used to describe theories that accept a " big bang " occurred but differ as to the detailed physics of the origin and evolution of the universe.

An alternative scenario would be African origin for the entire " sturnoid " ( as per Zuccon et al.

An alternative theory, and the one usually given for the origin in German sources, is that in Germany and surrounding countries the pig is a symbol of good luck or good fortune ( see Pigs in folklore ), hence keeping money in a piggy bank will bring good fortune.

An alternative origin for the name " Ozark " involves the French term aux arcs.

To this end he maintained that the radial coordinate that appeared in his solution was not physical, and instead an alternative radial coordinate ρ, related to the one in his solution by r = ( ρ < sup > 3 </ sup >+ r < sub > s </ sub >< sup > 3 </ sup >)< sup > 1 / 3 </ sup >, which puts the event horizon at the origin of the coordinate system.

There are also alternative researches suggesting other origin as it is already explained in the article.

This includes Olmec alternative origin speculations.

Quickly, the gate openers discovered that the epoch and origin of the Thistledown within Earth's solar system defined where the gates opened to-almost without exception ( and these exceptions included as a consequence of the infinities addressed through superspace geometries as defined by Patricia Vasquez ) were alternative versions of Earth within other Universes.