* 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

Many of the claims regarding the efficacy of alternative medicines are controversial.

Excluding a few controversial claims, scientists agree that all non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at the K – T boundary.

However, claims from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial Mao: the Unknown Story allege that Mao knew about the famine from the beginning but didn't care, and eventually Mao had to be stopped by a meeting of 7, 000 top Communist Party members.

As of, a total of confirmed exoplanets are listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the late 1980s.

Flynn is transparent about his belief in racial equality in his work, but he advocates for open scientific debate about controversial social science claims.

He claims the controversial " I am the Truth " of the Persian mystic Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj and uses the Ṣūfī terminology of wine.

The medicinal benefits of specific herbs are often anecdotal or controversial, and in some countries ( including the United States ) makers of herbal teas are not allowed to make unsubstantiated claims about the medicinal effects of their products.

Uyghur activists identify with the Tarim mummies, but research into the genetics of ancient Tarim mummies and their links with modern Uyghurs remain controversial, both to Chinese government officials concerned with ethnic separatism, and to Uyghur activists concerned that research could affect their claims of being indigenous to the region.

The claims by Henrik Svensmark that CRF also strongly affects short term climate changes is even more controversial and has been challenged by many.

Recent work by scholars such as Ekki Lu, Sakai Toru, and Lí Khîn-hoāⁿ ( also known as Tavokan Khîn-hoāⁿ or Chin-An Li ), based on former research by scholars such as Ông Io ̍ k-tek, has gone so far as to associate part of the basic vocabulary of the colloquial Taiwanese with the Austronesian and Tai language families ; however, such claims are controversial.

The anthropologist Juan Villarías-Robles, who works with the Spanish National Research Council, said " Richard Freund was a newcomer to our project and appeared to be involved in his own very controversial issue concerning King Solomon's search for ivory and gold in Tartessos, the well documented settlement in the Doñana area established in the first millennium BC " and described his claims as ' fanciful '.

Similar claims have been made that precession was known in Ancient Egypt prior to the time of Hipparchus, but these remain controversial.

New Zealander Richard Pearse may have made a powered flight in a monoplane that included small ailerons as early as 1902, but his claims are controversial ( and sometimes inconsistent ), and, even by his own reports, his aircraft were not well controlled.

* Other Losses ( controversial 1989 book by James Bacque which claims that U. S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War )

The newsgroup alt. religion. scientology ( often abbreviated a. r. s or ARS ) is a Usenet newsgroup started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs of Scientology, as well as the Church of Scientology, which claims exclusive intellectual property rights thereto and is viewed by many as a dangerous cult.

One of Greenberg's more controversial claims was that kitsch was equivalent to academic art: " All kitsch is academic, and conversely, all that is academic is kitsch.

Both of these claims are controversial as the term's common definition as used by gamers ( to describe a video game match in which players kill each other over and over, respawning after each time they die ) predates both titles by over a decade.

Among the other controversial statements were claims that he strengthened his pitching arm as a youth by throwing rocks at homeless people and that his minor league team, the Kinston Blue Jays, had segregated stands in 1983 despite ample evidence to the contrary.

His victory is controversial and comes amid claims that many have been prevented from voting and there has been a campaign of intimidation.

* British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.

In Southend there are controversial plans to build new tower blocks for social housing, a supporter claims this will be cheaper than paying to house poor people with private landlords while opponents fear the creation of Ghettos.

In 1998 Mérode backed up claims that certain athletes were using the controversial abortion doping procedure for performance enhancing benefits, however he did not provide any proof.

In 1898, Münsterberg wrote a controversial article entitled " The Danger from Experimental Psychology " in which he claims the impossible transfer of experimental results into successful teaching practices.

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

In a controversial move, X-Men editor Bob Harras sided with Lee ( and Uncanny X-Men artist Whilce Portacio ) over Claremont in a dispute over plotting.

Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, in his somewhat controversial song " Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 ", repeats the line " Everybody must get stoned.

The site, renamed the " Bob Crane The Official Web Site ", is now far more sedate and does not include any controversial material.

At the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965, Bob Dylan was backed by members of Butterfield's band ( Bloomfield, Arnold, and Lay, but not Butterfield himself ) when he went electric, a move considered controversial at the time by much of the folk music establishment.

Some Reform Party supporters were frustrated by the party's decision to expand its political base into Quebec as they continued to believe that the party should represent English Canada and others from the right-wing and populist faction of the party were angry that Manning punished MPs Bob Ringma and David Chatters During the campaign the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favoritism towards Quebec.

Though the topic remains open and controversial, some recent scholarship, including by Lewis " Bob " Sorley, supports Colby's arguments.

Robert " Bob " Lazar ( born January 26, 1959 ) is a controversial individual who claims qualifications as a scientist and engineer and is known for his alleged work with extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.

OMNI was launched by Kathy Keeton, long-time companion and later wife of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, who described the magazine in its first issue as " an original if not controversial mixture of science fact, fiction, fantasy and the paranormal ".

Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians.

* A modern Parish Hall, which attracted attention in 2003 by staging the controversial pantomime Snow White and the Seven Asylum Seekers, written by Bob Harrod.

In 1979, Wexler produced Bob Dylan's controversial first " born again " album, Slow Train Coming at Muscle Shoals ; a single from that album, " Gotta Serve Somebody ," won a Grammy award in 1980.

in February 2012, club director and lifelong fan Nigel Biddelcombe completed a takeover of the club from George Rolls, who's controversial reign at the Bob Lucas Stadium ended with him moving to another club in deep financial turmoil, in Kettering Town.

From 1984 to 1996 WABC broadcast the popular Bob Grant, a controversial, early " right-wing " talk radio host.

Robert George " Bob " Schimmel ( January 16, 1950 – September 3, 2010 ) was an American stand-up comedian whose material was often X-rated and controversial.

On December 2, 1896 Sharkey fought a controversial battle with future heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons.

rightA Season on the Brink is a 1986 book by John Feinstein which detailed the 1985-86 season of Indiana University's men's basketball team, led by the controversial coach Bob Knight.

He was denied a touchdown catch in the first quarter, due to a controversial offensive pass interference penalty called by back judge Bob Waggoner.

1958 saw the beginning of Jin Records with artists such as Clint West, Tommy McLain & the Boogie Kings, Lil Bob & The Lollipops, Warren Storm, Skip Stewart, Rockin ' Sidney, Rod Bernard, Johnny Allan and others making significant contributions to what was the, then, controversial Swamp Pop music.

However, the work is so controversial that opponents of the church, including Jerald and Sandra Tanner and Bob Passantino, say that it grossly misrepresents Mormonism, dilutes his message, and offends Mormons without attracting them to evangelical Christianity.

Alfonso is not the only person in his family to have a career in the Professional Wrestling industry, his step brother, former Olympian Bob Roop also spent many years as a wrestler fighting all over the world under a variety of names and gimmicks while his cousin David Sierra has also enjoyed a long career in the ring including a stint in WCW as Fidel Sierra where he is remembered for a controversial feud with Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, KBE ( also known as Bob Boothby, 12 February 1900 – 16 July 1986 ) was a controversial British Conservative politician.