In an attempt to demonstrate the perils of over-reliance on authority, the Mikkelsons assembled a series of fabricated urban folklore tales that they term " The Repository of Lost Legends.

Where appropriate, pages are generally marked " undetermined " or " unverifiable " if the Mikkelsons feel there is not enough evidence to either support or disprove a given claim.

The Mikkelsons founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society and were credited as the owners of the site until 2005.

The Mikkelsons created the Snopes site in 1995, and later worked on the site full-time.

The Mikkelsons say many of the urban legends are mistakenly attributed because of common problems associated with e-mail signatures.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

The Outdoor Education Project took cognizance of the fact, so often overlooked, that athletic activities stressed in most school programs have little or no relationship to the physical and mental needs and interests of later life.

In recent years, historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton and Eric Foner have stressed Lincoln's redefinition of republican values.

Steven Zaloga states: “ Whilst Western accounts of the September campaign have stressed the shock value of the panzers and Stuka attacks, they have tended to underestimate the punishing effect of German artillery on Polish units.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

He also stressed that attention should be given to local, urban and folkloric sources regarding such creatures, arguing that while often layered in unlikely and fantastic elements, folktales can have small grains of truth and important information regarding undiscovered organisms.

Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reason — to do so.

* He / Tim will be a good manager ( in this case the word will can be stressed, and this is likely the intention in speech and informal writing, where'll would have been used if no stress had been intended )

Recent study of the determinants of aggregate economic growth have stressed the importance of fundamental economic institutions and the role of cognitive skills.

However, this also meant that Albanian industrial development, which was stressed heavily by Hoxha, would have to be significantly reduced.

Matthew's own Christian community may have called themselves Nazoreans, a sect mentioned by Jerome and others: like Matthew, they maintained a " high Christology " ( i. e., they stressed Jesus ' divine nature over his human-ness ), and did not demand that Gentile Christians observe all the Law.

Major wars have stressed the need for qualified medical treatment and hygiene.

Ignatius is known to have taught the deity of Christ: He stressed the value of the Eucharist, calling it a " medicine of immortality " ( Ignatius to the Ephesians 20: 2 ).

The stressed sounds, " Xan ", " du ", " Ku ", " Khan ", contain assonance in their use of the sounds a-u-u-a, have two rhyming syllables with " Xan " and " Khan ", and employ alliteration with the name " Kubla Khan " and the reuse of " d " sounds in " Xanadu " and " did ".

Moldova's relations with its western neighbour, Romania, have been stressed since 1994.

Hinduism cannot be said to be purely polytheistic, as all great Hindu religious leaders have repeatedly stressed that while God's forms are many and the ways to communicate with him are many, God is one.

In the quoted section, the stressed syllables have been underlined.

Subsequent mannerists stressed intellectual conceits and artistic virtuosity, features that have led later critics to accuse them of working in an unnatural and affected " manner " ( maniera ).

Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato ; he was reported to have slapped Davis ' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato.

Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock.

Other scholars have by contrast stressed the subversive aspects of the legend, and see in the medieval Robin Hood ballads a plebeian literature hostile to the feudal order.

Especially in Germany, these celebrations had a distinctly political note to them and often stressed Boniface as a kind of founder of Europe, such as when Konrad Adenauer, the ( Catholic ) German chancellor, addressed a crowd of 60, 000 in Fulda, celebrating the feast day of the saint in a European context: " Das, was wir in Europa gemeinsam haben, gemeinsamen Ursprungs " (" What we have in common in Europe comes from the same source ").

Children with a normal dysfluency usually have brief repetitions of certain sounds, syllables or short words ; however, the stuttering usually comes and goes and is most noticeable when a child is excited, stressed or overly tired.

Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.

The introduction of the United States Pharmacopoeia reference standard in 1952 and the redefinition and equating of the USP and international units of thyroid-stimulating activity have made it possible to compare results published by different investigators since that time.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

This observation too may have reference to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

Therefore " eisode " would have become inappropriate, whereas " anode " meaning ' East electrode ' would have remained correct with respect to the unchanged direction of the actual phenomenon underlying the current, then unknown but, he thought, unambiguously defined by the magnetic reference.

The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals ( pashu-ahimsa ), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda ( KapS 31. 11 ), which may have been written in about the 8th century BCE.

Blake's lyrics have also been set to music by other composers without reference to Parry's melody.

Although it could serve as a textbook, it appears to have been mainly intended as a reference work.

When Bragi's wife Iðunn attempts to calm Bragi, Loki accuses her of embracing her brother's slayer, a reference to matters that have not survived.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was " not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation ".

While rooted in rather different theories, these two traditions have been characterised by a constant reference to experimental research to test hypotheses, both at clinical and basic level.

Although the CD claims to have 22 tracks, the last one, " www. bishopslips. com ," is a reference to the " Bishopslips " sketch.

In some cases, one might like to have a direct definition of the cotangent space without reference to the tangent space.

Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.

Nevertheless, caches have proven themselves in many areas of computing because access patterns in typical computer applications have locality of reference.

Therefore " exode " would have become inappropriate, whereas " cathode " meaning ' West electrode ' would have remained correct with respect to the unchanged direction of the actual phenomenon underlying the current, then unknown but, he thought, unambiguously defined by the magnetic reference.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.