Native Hawaiian scholar Charles Kenn, a Living Treasure of Hawai ' i recognized in the Hawaiian community as a kahuna and expert in Hawaiian history and traditions, was friendly with Max Freedom Long but said, “ While this Huna study is an interesting study, … it is not, and never was Hawaiian .”

Other sceptics in the 1980s argued the photo was that of an otter or a diving bird, but after Christian Spurling's confession most agree it was what Spurling claimed – a toy submarine with a sculpted head attached.

Thus absolute, universal power was vested under early Islam in the original Caliphate ( before it became the political toy of worldly powers ' behind the throne ' and was even politically discarded by essentially secular princes ), and later again claimed by Mahdis.

One of the witnesses claimed to have seen a strange man walking into the Sears toy department where Adam was abducted.

The cast members claimed they had not received revenues from show-related items, including comic books, t-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.

Hasbro toy designer Aaron Archer claimed at BotCon 2004 that the Transformers: Universe Depthcharge toy's color scheme was meant to resemble Slave-1.

The cast members claimed they had not received revenues from show-related items, including comic books, t-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.

The Japanese Beast Wars II toy catalogue claims that he had battled and lost to Galvatron ( the villain of that series ) in the past, while the 2006 BotCon comics claimed he was previously a commander in the Predacon army who had developed many of the Predacons ' tactics.

Kurtz has also claimed that Lucas changed the emphasis from storytelling to one that prioritized toy merchandising.

The cast members claimed they had not received revenues from show-related items, including comic books, t-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.

When Miller was asked by the Mattel toy company to design a Barbie doll, she claimed to have never owned a Barbie herself because her mother insisted that she and her sister play with French dolls.

The short-lived success of Entertech was due to law enforcement officers who claimed to have mistaken toy guns to be actual firearms, killing children toting toy guns.

Lines Bros Ltd, at its peak, was claimed to be the largest toy maker in the world.

( 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.

" He claimed that " it actually was coined to describe the guitars-heavy, downtuned, bleak, harsh riffing guitars ' grind ', so that's what the genre was described as, by the musicians who were its innovators proponents.

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.

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.

Ashdown claimed the Prince said: " I really can't think why we can't have Catholics on the throne ".

In 2007, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said that photos the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claimed showed a juvenile Bigfoot were most likely of a bear with mange.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

The organisers, " Insight ", claimed that there were 30, 000 marchers ; Lord Widgery, in his now discredited tribunal, said that there were only 3, 000 to 5, 000.

Although he said English Canada had a negligible conservative influence, subsequent writers claimed that loyalists opposed to the American Revolution brought a Tory ideology into Canada.

Police said the recording was " inaudible ", but Hutcheson claimed the recording was audible.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

While he often claimed an inability to read music, he was quite the conductor and was said to have perfect pitch.

Plato wept while offering her gratitude, as well to a later caller who claimed to be a recovering addict, and told her that he believed everything she said.

Dolenz claimed that he knew something bad was about to happen and said " Can't believe it ..

Allen, who later claimed that he said it to Captain Delaplace, said, " In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!

He never explained its meaning, leading to many different interpretations being presented, although it has been claimed that shortly before his death he said it stands for Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan ( English: All the world is subject to Austria.

He admitted that what they said was " more truthful than the lying propaganda found in most of the press " but added that he could not " associate himself with an essentially Conservative body " that claimed to " defend democracy in Europe " but had " nothing to say about British imperialism.

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

" Diogenes relates that as a boy Heraclitus had said he " knew nothing " but later claimed to " know everything.

The locals also claimed that " the same spring is said to turn wood into iron ", but Defoe put this down to the presence of " copperas " in the water.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility and said the target was Khan.

At Lourdes a 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed that a beautiful woman appeared to her and said, " I am the Immaculate Conception ".

Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake ; he attended high school at the Baltimore City College.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

India has claimed the diamond and have said that the Kohinoor was taken away illegally and it should be given back to India.

" Another July 1816 anonymous review, in the Augustan Review, claimed that the poem's descriptions " have much of the Oriental richness and harmony " but also said, in response to the preface, " There seems to be no great harm in dreaming while one sleeps ; but an author really should not thus dream while he is awake, and writing too.

The participants drew slips of paper to determine their roles, but unknown to the subject, both slips said " teacher ", and the actor claimed to have the slip that read " learner ", thus guaranteeing that the participant would always be the " teacher ".