The popular claim is that in Brazil poor whites are considered black and wealthy blacks are considered white.

Most companies had their software on the books for 0 dollars, unable to claim it as an asset ( this is similar to financing of popular music in those days ).

The most popular of these soups is gaejang-guk ( also called bosintang ), a spicy stew which is believed by consumers to balance the body's heat during the summer months ; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.

The claim to produce poetry after dreaming of it became popular after Kubla Khan was published.

For instance, a claim that was first propagated in the 19th century and is still very common in popular culture is the supposition that all people in the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat.

Men in Black ( MIB ), in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

" She was the first woman to successfully claim the throne of England, despite competing claims and determined opposition, and enjoyed popular support and sympathy during the earliest parts of her reign, especially from the Roman Catholic population.

Some critics of Stalin's policy, such as the popular writer Viktor Suvorov, claim that Stalin's primary motive for signing the Soviet – German non-aggression treaty was his calculation that such a pact could result in a conflict between the capitalist countries of Western Europe.

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

Similarly, Nostradamus's notorious ' 1999 ' prophecy at X. 72 ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ) describes no event that commentators have succeeding in identifying either before or since, other than by dint of twisting the words to fit whichever of the many contradictory happenings they are keen to claim as ' hits '.

In 2007, researchers Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti, drew popular attention to the claim, repeatedly made by historians over the centuries, that Innocent XI had secretly funded the resistance of the Protestant hero William of Orange to the French King, and even financed his overthrow of James II of England.

In particular, contrary to the popular claim that quantum mechanics and general relativity are fundamentally incompatible, one can demonstrate that the structure of general relativity essentially follows inevitably from the quantum mechanics of interacting theoretical spin-2 massless particles

They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies ( such as those of late classical Greece and late Roman mythology ) rarely break from this rule, although closer examination of the earlier myths of those cultures reveal a very different distribution than the contemporary popular belief.

For instance, the claim that people of the Middle Ages widely believed that the Earth was flat was first propagated in the same period that originated the conflict thesis and is still very common in popular culture.

Many popular, nonacademic sources claim that spirituals and other songs, such as " Steal Away " or " Follow the Drinking Gourd ", contained coded information and helped individuals navigate the railroad, but these sources offer very little evidence to support their claims.

This a rare intrusion of a clearly contemporary figure into an Orientalist scene ; mostly they claim the picturesqueness of the historical painting so popular at the time, without the trouble of researching authentic costumes and settings.

The first popular " arcade games " were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those that claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.

The most popular claim is that the waffle-style ice cream cone was invented and first sold during the fair.

For years laserprinters have been the popular choice, however line matrix printers have improved technological aspects and now claim to hold significant benefits over laser printers in terms of energy savings, cost per page, reliability in industrial environments and media flexibility ( multipart forms, oversize media, peel off labels, cloth, or card stock ).

This was part of its shift away from its former claim of being the " social, popular and national right " to its claim of being " neither right nor left – French!

The other source for the claim that Khayyam believed in heliocentrism are Edward Fitzgerald's popular but anachronistic renderings of Khayyam's poetry, in which the first lines are mistranslated with a heliocentric image of the Sun flinging " the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight ".

The debate caught the imagination of the popular press when Professor Smyth's book was published, fuelled by the former University of Kent historian's claim that the Cambridge ASNAC department knew Asser's life was a fake, but that they were happy to keep the myth going in order to avoid discrediting previous eminent historians from their university such as Frank Stenton and Dorothy Whitelock.

Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

Each person votes for one of a pair of pictures to receive a popular prize.

He is the only person that has that peculiar something called ' audience appeal ' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk.

The term is synonymous with wealth ( commonly denoted as a person with fame and fortune ), implied with great popular appeal, prominence in a particular field, and is easily recognized by the general public.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

" Buckley says, " Just one person took glam rock to new rarefied heights and invented character-playing in pop, marrying theatre and popular music in one seamless, powerful whole.

In 1928, Charles Lindbergh was the world's most famous person and Wings was one of the most popular films of the year.

As its use in jousting became obsolete, coats of arms remained popular for visually identifying a person in other ways – impressed in sealing wax on documents, carved on family tombs, and flown as a banner on country homes.

* The List: What's In and Out assigns social or cultural meaning to " out "— person, idea, or activity that is not popular or not recommended

Match Writing EFeds are one of the more popular options and features you roleplaying pieces of matches together with another person to create a competition of creativity and grammar.

In the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican movement, the title of Saint refers to a person who has been elevated by popular opinion as a pious and holy person.

Critics charge that such taxes blindly tax those who make legitimate and illegitimate usages of the products ; for instance, a person or corporation using CD-R's for data archival should not have to subsidize the producers of popular music.

This recognition directly contributed to the popular image of Toyotomi Hideyoshi being a monkey styled person, both in appearance and mode of behaviour.

By degrees, popular imagination mistook this word for the name of a person and attached thereto several legends which vary according to the country.

Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.

She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs due to her strong opposition to Prussian policies and her abstinence from executing a single person during her reign.

Hitler remarked privately in later years that his choice of Rosenberg, whom he regarded as weak and lazy, was strategic ; Hitler did not want the temporary leader of the Nazis to become overly popular or hungry for power, because a person with either of those two qualities might not want to cede the party leadership after Hitler's release.

An autocracy is a system of government in which a supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control ( except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d ' état or mass insurrection ).

" popular in the 1930s and 1940s was inspired by Menuhin's guest appearance on a radio show, where Jerry Colonna turned " Yehoodi " into a widely recognized slang term for a mysteriously absent person.

John Goldwater, inspired by the popular Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney, wanted to create a comic about a normal person to whom readers could relate.

She was known to have been a very kind person and popular with the people of England, for example she was well known for her tireless attempts to ' intercede ' on behalf of the people, procuring pardons for people in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, and numerous other pardons for wrongdoers.

In Italy, the character is so familiar in popular culture that his name has been occasionnally used as a metaphor for " unlikeable and / or dishonest wealthy person ", " go-getter ", or " rival millionaire " ( i. e., a millionaire who is the rival of another millionaire, in this instance, Bill Koch, rival of Raul " Uncle Scrooge " Gardini ).