Ship of Fools is also the title of a 2002 science fiction novel by Richard Paul Russo where the Ship of Fools is, not surprisingly, a space ship on which no one knows the destination.

However, placebos can also have a surprisingly positive effect on a patient who knows that the given treatment is without any active drug, as compared with a control group who knowingly did not get a placebo.

He defeats and befriends Mongo ( Alex Karras ), an immensely strong, slow-thinking ( but surprisingly philosophical ) henchman sent by Taggart and Lyle to kill Bart, and then beats German seductress-for-hire Lili von Shtupp ( Madeline Kahn ) at her own game.

1940 was at the very end of the era of the light tank, and the German behemoths of the later war years were still in the future: many tanks were surprisingly vulnerable.

The word " meerschaum " means " sea foam " in German, alluding to its natural white color and its surprisingly low weight.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

His corrections are often hasty and false, but a surprisingly large proportion of them have since received confirmation from manuscripts And, though his merits as a Grecian lie mainly in his conjectures, his realism is felt in this sphere also ; his German translations especially show more freedom and practical insight, more feeling for actual life, than is common with the scholars of that age.

However, the modifications to the original plan, a French counterattack on the outskirts of Paris ( the Battle of the Marne ) and surprisingly speedy Russian offensives ended the German offensive and resulted in years of trench warfare.

He led Coe in the 800m and appeared to be on his way to gold, before being surprisingly caught by the East German Olaf Beyer.

The 2011 / 12 season proved to be relatively good by managing to qualify 2 0f the 8 ranking events, the shanghai masters losing to Ronnie o Sullivan 1-5 and the German masters, surprisingly thrashing Stephen hendry 5-1 in the qualifiers but then lost to graeme dott in the first round. At the end of the season he finished ranked NO 63 just inside the top 64.

Not surprisingly, German nationalism gained many sympathizers among German inhabitants of Bruntál, which was reflected in an attempt for uprising in September 1938.

Japan was surprisingly late to introduce the sub-machine gun to its armed forces — a few models of the SIG Bergman 1920 ( a licensed version of the German MP 18 ) were purchased from Switzerland in the 1920s.

They fought surprisingly well trying to hinder the superior German forces by an extensive network of hastily established street barricades.

The elderly Fokker biplanes proved themselves to be surprisingly effective at low level bombing of German positions.

The German retaliated by sending some German troops who could speak Polish to the Poles ' formation in order to surprisingly kill the Polish troops.

Not surprisingly the French and Italian manufacturers want a blanket target whereas the German manufacturers feel a blanket target would destroy their industries.

Not surprisingly, it is impractical for generalized correctness, which probably cannot even be defined, much less proven.

In 308, probably April, Maximian tried to depose his son in an assembly of soldiers in Rome ; surprisingly to him, the present troops remained faithful to his son, and he had to flee to Constantine.

", or occasionally, " I've had a lot of ha-RASSments lately " ( perhaps surprisingly, most people now use this pronunciation, but this is probably more because of American influence ).

Thus buyers of an amazingly affordable car ( surprisingly low initial price ) will probably never complain that the transmission was not field-serviceable as long as they themselves never had to pay for transmission service in the lifespan of their ownership.

The most prominent and best-known name, at least initially, was probably 1970 gubernatorial nominee John Jay Hooker ; somewhat surprisingly to most observers, the winner of the primary was Jim Sasser, who had managed Gore's 1970 reelection campaign.

Schafer's motivation to recreate Uncle Don included widespread popular rumors, some surprisingly misremembered testimony, and a contemporary, though probably false story in Variety about one of Uncle Don's many imitators.

All of their experimentation works surprisingly well and the result is probably the strongest SOS outing to date.

The barely inhabited Forest of Skund is also home to a surprisingly large number of gods, probably due to its high level of residual magic.

The basin of the Arnaud River, though intensely glaciated for almost the whole of the Quaternary-ice sheets are known to have been thicker over the basin at the Last Glacial Maximum than they are over Antarctica today-is the site of a major meteorite impact about a million years ago that has been surprisingly well preserved, probably because the exposed surface rocks are exceedingly old and the meteorite might have been deposited in such a way as to ensure preservation during the long glaciations.

The British scholar Richard Bauckham reaches the similar conclusion that the beloved disciple, who also authored the gospel attributed to John, was probably a literally sophisticated member of the ( surprisingly extensive ) high priestly family clan.

A highly mobile people such as the Paleoindians, probably had a surprisingly high reproductive rate.

Sulaiman surprisingly involved in probably the most significant attempt at administrative rationalization in the 1950s: the creation of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency ( SAMA ).

This corresponds to a speed of around 0. 05 c. There is surprisingly small variation around this energy, due to the heavy dependence of the half-life of this process on the energy produced ( see equations in the Geiger – Nuttall law ).

Not surprisingly, due to the population size of the peasantry, these are some of the most common Chinese surnames.

In 1975 Turner surprisingly resigned from cabinet, reportedly due to personality conflicts with Trudeau.

He was surprisingly left out of the 1990 FIFA World Cup squad by manager Bobby Robson, and missed Euro 92 due to injury.

The strait was surprisingly elusive for early European explorers, presumably due to this persistent summer fog.

Although designed with no consideration for the anti-tank role, the SU-152 proved to have surprisingly good anti-tank capabilities due to the ML-20S's extremely heavy HE projectiles.

Thus the colors produced vary with viewing angle, however they are actually surprisingly uniform, perhaps due to the tetrahedral ( diamond-like ) structural arrangement of the scales or diffraction from overlying cell layers.

Knowles's election was surprisingly close, but he also benefitted from the split conservative vote due to a strong third-party gubernatorial bid by the sitting lieutenant governor.

Just as Urdu developed in Lucknow, Dakhini developed in Deccan plateau quite surprisingly not from Urdu but parallel to it, due to the mixing of various Indian based languages, Arabic and Persian based languages.

On 25 July 2007, with 6 weeks remaining until the finals, Essendon was on the brink of making the finals yet again when surprisingly it was announced by the Club that Sheedy's contract, due to expire at the end of the season, would not be renewed.

The team, surprisingly, looked off the pace as Massa qualified fourth and his race was even less successful, spinning off at the first corner of the first lap, on lap 26 he collided with David Coulthard and eventually retired due to engine failure.

Paweraa played a leading part in the vizierial commission set up to investigate, and, not surprisingly, it proved impossible for Paweraa to be officially charged with any crime due to the circumstantiality of the evidence.

" Spivak said that Bellaire High School had " strong, consistent leadership and a diverse student population " but that it received a lower rating due to a " surprisingly high dropout rate.

The film received a 64 % ' Fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on a total of 116 compiled reviews, with the consensus being " Despite the formulaic, fluffy storyline, this movie is surprisingly fun to watch, mostly due to its high energy and how it humorously spoofs cheerleading instead of taking itself too seriously.

Not surprisingly, due to his wayward and flirtatious nature, he was reduced to poverty where he lived to be an old and forgotten man well into his late 70s, making a living as a Chinese opera stand-in and living in the cramped quarters of the opera set itself.

This controversy is due to a biogeographic paradox: despite the rarity and ephemeral nature of whale falls, Osedax has a broad biogeographic range and is surprisingly diverse.

Possibly due to this, the road is often surprisingly smooth to travel on.

Enzai has also become famous outside Japan, mostly due to its unusually dark and twisted atmosphere, deep and compelling plot, and surprisingly graphic scenes, as already mentioned.

However, areas between the streaks suffered surprisingly little damage, mainly ornamental due to debris from the homes nearby.

TMWRNJ was the subject of many complaints on Points of View, largely due to the surprisingly adult content for a programme shown at Sunday lunchtime.

Marshside has surprisingly few pubs ( compared with neighbouring Churchtown ), possibly in part due to the strong tradition of Methodism in the former village.

A year later Modena was surprisingly relegated to C2, after losing a play-out with Massese ; but Modena was rescued by the FIGC due to another team's penalty and remained C1.

For such a small river, the Erewash has a surprisingly high literary profile, due almost entirely to D. H. Lawrence, who mentions it several times, and centres a number of works in the Erewash valley.

He surprisingly ceded the position of Surrey's chief bowler to the emergent William Lockwood who took full advantage of Oval pitches being extremely fiery and untrue due to reconditioning of the square, but it still seemed as though Lohmann had many years of county and Test cricket ahead of him.