After these were shown on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Popoff's popularity and viewing audiences declined sharply.

Popoff's shows also featured audience members who were brought on stage in wheelchairs and then rose dramatically to walk without support.

These were some of Popoff's most incredible " healings ", but what believing audience members and television viewers did not know was that wheelchairs were used by Popoff to seat people who were already able to walk.

At the time of his popularity, skeptic groups across the United States printed and handed out pamphlets explaining how Popoff's feats could be done.

In the " Behind the Eats " special, Brown said that complaints by Popoff's neighbors ( not adjacent neighbors but at the end of the block ) prompted the move.

Martin Popoff's book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time ranked the song at number two.

Other historians urge caution regarding claims of Islamic firearms use in the 1204-1324 period as late medieval Arabic texts used the same word for gunpowder, naft, that they used for an earlier incendiary naptha.

In the 19th century, various theories were proposed regarding the origin of religion, supplanting the earlier claims of Christianity of urreligion.

There is no real evidence to support claims that the religion originates earlier than the mid-20th century.

There are claims of earlier discoveries: some historians believe an Irish monk, Brendan, who was known as a good sailor, was close to Jan Mayen in the early sixth century.

The hoax story is disputed by Henry Bauer, who claims this debunking is evidence of bias, and asks why the perpetrators did not reveal their plot earlier to embarrass the newspaper.

In The Divine King in England ( 1954 ) she expanded on her earlier claims there was a secret conspiracy of pagans amongst the English nobility, the same English nobility who provided the leading members of the Church.

Since 2001, the government has asserted the privilege in more cases and at earlier stages of the litigation, thus in some instances causing dismissal of the suits before reaching the merits of the claims, as in the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan.

Malaysian Malay claims to be closer to the classical Malay of earlier centuries even though modern Malaysian has been heavily influenced, in lexicon as well as in syntax, by English.

Narayana claims that many tribal languages which are now designated as Kannada dialects could be nearer to the earlier form of the language with lesser influence from other languages.

Marin followed the route that Céloron had mapped out four years earlier, but where Céloron had limited the record of French claims to the burial of lead plates, Marin constructed and garrisoned forts.

In February 1698, Codrington was told to regard the earlier 1694 orders as final, and the British entertained no further claims to the islands.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

* Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico, which it had threatened war over, as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line, transferred its crushing public debt to the federal government, and retained the control over El Paso that it had established earlier in 1850, with the Texas Panhandle ( which earlier compromise proposals had detached from Texas ) thrown in at the last moment.

The Chronicle claims that when Egbert invaded Kent in 825, the men of the southeast turned to him " because earlier they were wrongly forced away from his relatives ".

Similar Soviet media reports heralding Lysenko's further discoveries in agriculture continued from 1927 until 1964 ; reports of amazing ( and seemingly impossible ) successes, each one replaced with new success claims as earlier ones failed.

Bragg's subordinates had long been dissatisfied with his leadership and abrasive personality ; the arrival of Longstreet ( the senior lieutenant general in the Army ) and his officers, added credibility to the earlier claims, and was a catalyst toward action.

Controversies surrounding Robertson include his earlier work as a faith healer, his claim that some Protestant denominations harbor the spirit of the Antichrist, and his claims of having the power to deflect hurricanes through prayer ; he has also denounced Hinduism as " demonic " and Islam as " Satanic.

In France, Adrian discovers that the earlier emigrants have divided into factions, amongst them a fanatical religious sect led by a false messiah who claims that his followers will be saved from disease.

An earlier biographer claims that Chiang Kai-shek put Zhou in charge of " an advanced training center for the CCP members and commissars withdrawn from the army.

The group includes Russell Casse ( Randy Quaid ), an alcoholic crop-duster who claims to have been abducted by aliens years earlier.

Gerald had pleaded not only his own cause, but that of St David's as an Metropolitan archbishopric ( and thus of the same status as Canterbury ) reviving the earlier claims of Rhygyfarch and Bernard, Bishop of St David's.

" A few days later, Prince released a statement denying the fansites ' claims, stating " The action taken earlier this week was not to shut down fansites, or control comment in any way.

* The usurped high priest of Judea, Jason, does not abandon his claims to being the high priest which he has lost to Menelaus two years earlier.

He used the standard German spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 ( Steinberg 1995, 463 ), whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg " in deference to American practice " ( Foss 1951, 401 ), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier ( Ross 2007, 45 ).

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

Oersted's own earlier experiments were unimpressive, possibly because he had, like other experimenters, laid the conducting wire across the compass needle instead of parallel with it.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

These polar extremes in time diffusion were indicated in some of the comments by unwed mothers reported in earlier chapters.

When he reached the dip in the woods, he saw that already the earlier ruts were barely discernible.

Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.

The fact that secrets of the Dreadnought, and thereby of the American undersea fleet, were involved in the spy case had been hinted at earlier.

This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..

Miss Xydis' earlier selections were Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses, in which each variation was nicely set off from the others ; ;

Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and all contributed to a vigorous performance.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting ( i. e., alphabetization ) of lists and added features for devices other than teleprinters.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

Sources: Parts of an earlier version of this article were originally taken from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188.

Unlike earlier adaptations that were set during the time in which the novels were written, however, these TV movies were set in the contemporary era.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The archaeology, however, shows that they were largely Romanized, lived in Roman-style houses and used Roman artifacts, the Alemannic women having adopted the Roman fashion of the tunic even earlier than the men.

In the earlier part of his reign Ahmed I showed decision and vigor, which were belied by his subsequent conduct.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.