Popular interest and belief in the animal has varied since it was brought to the world's attention in 1933.

( Popular belief that he wears a glass eye is untrue.

Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.

Popular belief holds that Duck Soup was a box office failure, but this is not true.

Popular belief -- dating back to a 1966 Masters & Johnson study -- states that pre-ejaculate may contain sperm that can cause pregnancy, which is a common basis of argument against the use of coitus interruptus ( withdrawal ) as a contraceptive method.

Popular belief is that he was an engineer.

Popular belief is that Kathakali is emerged from " Krishnanattam ", the dance drama on the life and activities of Lord Krishna created by Sri Manavedan Raja, the Zamorin of Calicut ( 1585-1658 AD ).

Popular belief, however, held that such differences in preferences might be diminished by the advent of radio, which required neither the special skill nor the exertion of reading ( Lazarsfeld, 1940 ).

Popular belief held that this plant grew where semen ejaculated by hanged men ( during the last convulsive spasms before death ) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying degrees.

Popular belief is that their entrances point towards certain heavenly bodies.

Popular imperial unity was the central thread of the Scottish Unionist Party's belief system.

Popular belief attributes the colors to those of the sky, clouds and the sun ; some anthems to the flag like " Aurora " or " Salute to the flag " state so as well.

Popular belief claims that the buckskin-clad man on the left is Daniel Boone, who was largely responsible for the exploration of Kentucky, and the man in the suit on the right is Henry Clay, Kentucky's most famous statesman.

Popular belief has it that the Irish Princess, Sheila NaGeira was captured from a Dutch warship by Easton and, while a prisoner, fell in love with one of Easton ’ s lieutenants, Gilbert Pike.

Charles Mackay's book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published in 1841, attests to the practice of and belief in witch doctors in England at the time.

Popular belief suggests he was replaced by David Marks, but in fact the two guitarists worked more or less concurrently with the evolving Beach Boys and the confusion arises from Jardine's temporary abandonment of the band.

Popular ballad " Monastirea Argeșului " illustrates the aesthetic myth in folkloric literature and is based on belief that nothing durable and unique by goodliness can not be built without the creator's self-sacrifice, making this creation a philosophical poem.

Popular belief assigned the interior of hills to fairies ' dwelling places and local tradition has handed down accounts of the exploits of the fairy folk, especially among the Finner sand-hills and in the Wardtown district of Ballyshannon.

Popular belief has it that the area was once farmland and was named for the lilies that reportedly grew in the fields.

Popular religion include a variety of unorthodox practices, such as veneration of saints, recourse to charms and amulets, and belief in the influence of evil spirits.

Popular belief generally regarded this battle as a minor one, fought absurdly by the Mexican leadership.

Popular belief holds that shophouses were initially occupied by single families, with their private living areas in one space and the more public family business in another.

Popular belief is that Faith did have an affair with the rapper, and it was later stated by some accounts that she was seen sitting on Tupac's lap prior to the release of the " Hit ' Em Up " song.

Popular Shia belief ascribes cosmological importance to the family in various texts, wherein it is said that God would not have created Jannah ( heaven ) and earth, paradise, Adam and Eve, or anything else were it not for them.

Popular tradition says the town was first known as Bird, after Rev.

Matthew Engel, in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press ( Gollancz, 1996 ), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was " a very fine paper indeed ".

Popular superstition says that a man who marries a Kumari is doomed to die within six months by coughing up blood.

Popular legend says that at the end of Patrick's 40-day fast, he threw a silver bell down the side of the hill, knocking the she-demon Corra from the sky and banishing all the snakes from Ireland.

Popular legend says a drunken survey party followed the wrong mountain ridge and mistakenly moved the boundary west into the Bitterroot Range.

Popular Nevada mythology says Crown Point Trestle was considered to be such a feat of engineering that it is featured on the Nevada State Seal.

Popular legend says that she made her debut in New York City on the steps of city hall with an armful of turkeys for Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Popular legend says that there was so much rubble that bodies were simply left behind, and re-buried in the masonry under London Bridge Station.

Popular discontent led to a catchy phrase: " Al pueblo de España no le manden esa araña " ( Don't send the people of Spain that spider ).

* Popular fallacies in the attribution of phrase origins

Popular slang words include sick (" good "), bare (" very ", " a lot of "), alie (" indeed ", or to encourage agreement ), skeen (" I concur "), seen, long (" boring ", " repetitive "), wallad, peak (" very good "), sket ( short for the Afro-Caribbean phrase Skettle, meaning a loose woman ), wagwarn (" what is happening ", " hello "), wavey, badman (" thug "), jezzy (" loose woman " ( from Jezebel )), ting (" thing ", or, when pluralised, to refer to the current situation ), bossman ( patriarchal figure ), safe (" trustworthy ", " good ", or to show agreement ), spliff (" marijuana " or to refer to an individual marijuana cigarette ), peng, leng (" weapon ", " attractive girl "), piff (" above average ", derived from a strain of marijuana ), nang ( something desirable ), dutty (" dirty "), Happz (" happy "), allow it (" leave it be ").

Popular Radicals were quick to go further than Paine, with Newcastle schoolmaster Thomas Spence demanding land nationalisation to redistribute wealth in a penny periodical he called Pig's Meat in a reference to Edmund Burke's phrase " the swinish multitude ".

The clenched fist gesture is sometimes mistakenly thought to have originated in the Spanish Civil War, where the Popular Front salute was at one time the standard salute of Republican forces.

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

With the advent of audio recording and Mass media, the 20th century witnessed the outcrop of Popular Music, as well as in Classical Music, both the revival of ancient forms, as a mixture of various forms, from ancient to contemporary.

Popular chef-authors throughout history include people such as Julia Child, James Beard, Nigella Lawson, Edouard de Pomiane, Jeff Smith, Emeril Lagasse, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, Katsuyo Kobayashi, and possibly even Apicius, the semi-pseudonymous author of the Roman cookbook De re coquinaria, who shared a name with at least one other famous food figure of the ancient world.

Popular among the Northern Dong and is commemorated by an ancient tree.

Popular legends state that the fort belonged to Yayati, a king of the ancient Chandravanshi race.

Popular legends include the stone being the remains of an ancient stone circle that is alleged to have stood on Ludgate Hill and even the stone from which King Arthur withdrew the legendary " Sword in the Stone ".

Popular themes include ancient civilizations like the Egyptians or Incas.

In 1879, Popular Science Monthly published an article by Thompson in which he argued that the ancient Mayan monuments, which he had never seen except in books, were proof of the lost continent of Atlantis -- an opinion which his later researches would change.

A review by Brian Clegg for Popular Science described his views on Murderous Maths: Desperate Measures, " It's the usual clever mix of light historical context-mostly ancient from Israelites and Archimedes to the Romans-and real insights into fascinating aspects of something that sits nicely between maths and practical science.

Popular books relating the deeds of ancient heroes had long-standing and widespread currency throughout the East ; these too revived heroic poetry, though imparted with a deep romantic tinge.