Reportedly, an icon of Our Lady of Kazan was used in processions around Leningrad fortifications during the Siege of Leningrad.

Reportedly, he began referring to himself as a god when meeting with politicians and he was referred to as Jupiter on occasion in public documents.

Reportedly, 40, 000 Goths were brought by Constantine to defend Constantinople in his later reign, and the Palace Guard was mostly composed of Germans, as the quality of the native Romans troops kept declining.

Reportedly, Siebold was not the easiest man to deal with ; he was in continuous conflict with his Dutch superiors, who felt he was arrogant.

Reportedly, the medium's first major African-American star George Washington Johnson was obliged to perform his " The Laughing Song " ( or the separate " Laughing Coon ") literally thousands of times in a studio during his recording career.

Reportedly, he was kicked off the set of The Liberace Show for not wearing a tie, and he refused to cue a car salesman during a live feed because of his attitude towards stagehands.

Reportedly, the warden was reluctant to allow the filmmakers to work at the prison until he was introduced to Peckinpah.

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

Reportedly, part of her charm came from the fact that her earliest appearances were episodes in which dialogue written for Keel was simply transferred to her.

Reportedly, he was a zealous and goal-setting student, upset by the slow pace of promotions, and compensating for his diminutive stature through toughness.

He had made his mark as a Disney child star, but after being fired, was hoping to revive his career with Mars Needs Women treating it as a serious project, to the extent of rewriting some of his dialogue. Reportedly, Buchanan allowed Kirk to create his own soliloquy for his scene in an astronomical observatory as he explains that his world is dying.

Reportedly, Leonard Nimoy was asked to wear it and refused, so it was passed on to Shatner ; when he also refused, Nimoy reluctantly agreed to wear it.

Reportedly, Thorpe's vocal was chosen as the final one after each member of the band tried to sing it without success.

Reportedly, Pop Warner was hesitant to allow Thorpe, his best track and field athlete, to compete in a physical game such as football.

Reportedly, this was because Nickelodeon's six-year contract to air the 1981 season expired in 1987, and since Nickelodeon was beginning to aim for a younger demographic and many of the 1981 episodes dealt with topics more relevant to adolescents ( such as smoking, drugs, sexual equality, and peer pressure ); the network opted not to renew the contract.

Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Owen Morrisey, who was involved in a $ 20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, corporate raider Carl Icahn, art collector Asher Edelman, agent Michael Ovitz, and Stone himself.

Reportedly, Lake was disliked by some of her co-stars ; McCrea refused to work with her again, turning down a lead role in I Married a Witch, and Fredric March, who got the part, didn't get along with her as well.

Reportedly a video for the track " Long Time Dyin '" was shot, but due to the non-existence of metal in the mainstream media at the time, it is unlikely that the video has ever aired on television.

Reportedly, the body of the boy emperor was found near today's Shekou in Shenzhen, though his actual grave has yet to be found.

Reportedly Jenkins was also killed after being seized and stabbed ; another Hospital patient killed was Trooper Hunter of the Natal Mounted Police.

Reportedly, John Huston asked cinematographer Oswald Morris that he wanted the color scheme of the film to look " as if Toulouse-Lautrec had directed it ".

Reportedly Trumbull asked, " Why not do it the way we did it on 2001?

Reportedly, Brian Cashman asked Ponson if he would be amenable to being placed in the pen before going ahead with the trade ( which also involved acquiring Bobby Abreu ).

Reportedly, Jon Bon Jovi asked Gary Moore-guitarist with late ' 60s Irish rock group Skid Row-to sell the rights to the name for $ 35, 000.

Reportedly, Gero tricked McGillion into agreeing to play the kiss by lying that David Hewlett was asked first and had already agreed.

Reportedly, Dick Cavett once asked Dai Vernon who could still fool him.

Reportedly, he tried to resign several times for health reasons but was asked to stay on by the disarmingly witty Pope John.

Reportedly, when budget estimates reached $ 14 million, the producers attempted to replace Hill with Arthur Hiller ; but abandoned the idea after hundreds of native Polynesians in the cast went on strike, declaring: " We can and will perform only for our friend, Monsieur Hill.

Reportedly when the engineers at Korg were presenting their new workstation to replace the Korg M1 they had used the working name Korg M10, but marketing saw the name upside down, and M10 was read as " 01W ".

Reportedly Chandler himself could not answer the question who killed the limousine driver in the story when the baffled screenwriters called him up for final reference.

Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

Reportedly, " although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists.

Reportedly, when the band was playing especially well he used to throw himself onto the floor and wave his legs in the air.

Reportedly, Zatuliveter had been identified by MI5 ( UK Security Service ) when surveillance linked her to another person with close links to the Russian embassy in London ; the latter was suspected of working for the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service.

Reportedly, the last time the two men talked was when Keating stormed into the Opposition Leader's office, cursed him out for not disciplining Tuckey, and walked out.

Reportedly, when Diamond came off stage he remarked to Dylan, " Follow that ," to which Dylan responded, " What do I have to do, go on stage and fall asleep?

Reportedly born to Haitian immigrants Oguís Vincent and María Marcelino, on March 6, 1937 in Mao, Valverde, Dominican Republic, Peña Gómez was adopted as an infant by a Dominican peasant family when his parents were forced to flee back to Haiti as the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo enacted the Parsley Massacre against Haitians that same year.

Reportedly, the Chasam Sofer instructed his son that when unable to refer to the Shulchan Aruch, he could reference the Chochmas Adam in making a halachic decision.

Reportedly, some audience members booed when the film was named the winner.

Reportedly the contract was offered to Phuket Air, after their competitor Air Atlanta Icelandic could not manage the contract to Saudia's satisfaction when it was given to them during 2006-2007.

Reportedly, Nyangabgwe was the nearest village to Francistown to have been visited by Europeans, when it was visited by Robert Moffat.

Reportedly, this attempt finally fell through when Bill Bixby died of cancer in 1993.

Reportedly, before he died, Muhammad made a gesture of enormous trust in Abubakr by asking him to lead the prayers in the mosque as Imam — a highly visible role virtually always undertaken, when possible, by Muhammad himself.

Reportedly, famed Italian horror director Lucio Fulci was furious when he learned that Bava directed this film, since he had understood that he was slated to direct it with the project's screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti.

Reportedly, the negotiations were so bitter that when a settlement was finally reached, Players Association representative Marvin Miller and the owners ' negotiator Ray Grebey refused to pose with each other for the traditional " peace ceremony " photograph.

Reportedly, Bloody Knife was standing next to Reno, who had motioned for Bloody Knife to approach him so he could ask Bloody Knife what the Indians would do when his command began to move away from their village.

Reportedly, character and concept creator Leiji Matsumoto owns an actual Revi C-12D gunsight that was used by the animators as visual reference when creating the one shown in the film.

Reportedly only one sergeant stood by the officers when they tried to reassemble their men.