And according to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

At any rate, the uprising was strictly confined to Saturninus ' province, and quickly detected once the rumour spread across the neighbouring provinces.

Whether the rumour of Oxford's death was related to the illness mentioned in his letters earlier in the year is unknown.

It was from the Sergenesons that Gardner claimed to have discovered a family rumour that his grandfather, Joseph, had been a practicing witch, after being converted to the practice by his mistress.

At a press conference held later the same day, Hermann Göring was asked by foreign correspondents to respond to a hot rumour that General von Schleicher had been murdered in his home.

This comical ceremony was inspired by the rumour that Geelong's premiership players of 1937 had buried a magpie in the middle of the ground after their premiership win over Collingwood that year.

Condoms and other items were regularly sent in the post to the senator by conservative critics and a false rumour was spread that the chain of pharmacies Hayes, Conyngham Robinson was owned by her family ( and so therefore that her promotion of contraception was an attempt to benefit members of her family ).

In a Q & A, he dismissed as a journalist's invention the rumour that it might have been taken from the Roman playwright Terence and his wife's surname ( his wife was Lori Zwicklbauer ; she later took her husband's surname ).

This rumour was just one of many that swirled around the two's long-standing friendship.

These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as The Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman ; the persistent rumour that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando ; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress's hair.

" Gretzky, who weighed far less than the NHL average, adroitly applied this technique as a professional player, avoiding checks with such skill that a rumour circulated that there was an unwritten rule not to hit him.

However, although it had been confirmed on the Blockheads ' official site that Jankel was writing with Williams, the rumour that Chambers was no longer working with him was not official.

The revolt was sparked by the rumour that freedom had been granted to slaves in England, but that the planters were withholding knowledge of it.

A rumour emerged following these comments suggesting that Hird was part of an unofficial agreement with the Essendon board to replace Matthew Knights for the 2011 AFL Season.

Simon spread a rumour that Warwick had actually escaped from the Tower and was under his guardianship.

When Willian Jansen suggested that legends that disappear quickly were " short-term legends " and the persistent ones be termed " long-term legends ", the distinction between legend and rumour was effectively obliterated, Tangherlini concluded.

The rumour that at the time they met Ludwig had asked her in public if her bosom was real, to which her response was to tear off enough of her garments to prove it is entirely unfounded, and the story only first appeared many decades after Montez's death.

A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London ( although not confirmed ) by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table.

A persistent rumour that Dunnigan had purchased S & T from Wagner for one dollar, and that furthermore the dollar was not paid until much later was confirmed by Wagner during an interview printed in S & T issue # 83 ( The Kaiser's Battle ).

The rumour that they were dating was confirmed by their managements, and the couple even had a photoshoot for a Japanese Music and Film Magazine together.

The rumour of the show ending later revealed to be true as during the finale on 15 November 2009, McManus confirmed that the show would be ending with the 2009 finale.

A rumour was publicised that visiting yachts were turned away into a storm ; Gardai investigations found these accusations to have no foundation, as confirmed by the harbour master.

When Lord Denning made his 1963 investigation into the security aspects of the Profumo Affair and the rumoured affair between the Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, and the Duchess of Argyll, he confirmed to Macmillan that a rumour that Ernest Marples was in the habit of using prostitutes appeared to be true.

He was a favorite of Philip IV, who is reported to have collaborated with him ; this rumour is not confirmed, but there is ample proof of Coellos collaboration with Calderón, Rojas Zorrilla, Solis and Velez de Guevara, the most distinguished dramatists of the age.

The most persistent rumour seemed to indicate there was a legal copyright wrangle over the series ' theme music, but again this was never confirmed or verified.

This gave rise to the first rumour of a New Zealand " library ban " on Blyton's books, a recurrent press canard.

Lady Catherine de Bourgh later bursts in on Longbourn ; intending to thwart local rumour, she warns Elizabeth against marrying Mr Darcy.

On 26 June, the newspaper Libération – associated with Foucault for much of his life – announced his death, also highlighting the rumour that it had been brought on by AIDS.

Legend is often considered in connection with rumour, also believable and concentrating on a single episode.

Immediately on the announcement of the dauphin's death a rumour arose that he had escaped.

A persistent rumour on the Web holds that Durin IV was the king who led the Dwarves from Khazad-dûm to fight against Sauron with the Last Alliance at the end of the Second Age.

Historians have speculated, on the basis of these contemporary records, that the rumour that the princes had been murdered was deliberately created to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of Henry Tudor and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other likely suspects.

Whether this was based on just a rumour put about by people who resented Nash's success or if there is substance behind is not known.

A television programme hosted by celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey was broadcast on WOR in New York on 30 November in which Bailey cross-examined LaBour and other " witnesses " about the rumour, but he left it to the viewer to determine conclusions.

In 2010, a mockumentary entitled Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison ?, featuring fabricated found footage audio tapes of a voice claiming to be Harrison explaining that the rumour was true, was released on video.

Critics questioned why he chose to comment on a rumour that few outside media and political circles had heard.

Don Hill, an expert on the subject, who wrote detailed liner notes on the " Goodnight Ladies and Gents, the creole music of Lionel Belasco " CD, claims that " According to rumour ", he taught her a bit more than simply how to play the piano .... she was shipped back to England in disgrace, and Belasco was forced to flee to New York.

Another possible example was a rumour that there had been a German attempt to land on British shores at Shingle Street, but it had been repulsed with large German casualties.

The following year, taking advantage of a rumour that Conradin was dead, he was crowned king of Sicily at Palermo on August 10.

A play of his, La Taverne des étudiants, was produced at the Odéon on 1 April 1854, but met with a stormy reception, owing to a rumour that the débutant had been instructed and commissioned by the government to insult the students.

However, in April 1916 when Nathan showed him a letter from the army commander in the south of Ireland telling of an expected landing of arms on the southwest coast and a rising planned for Easter, they were both ' doubtful whether there was any foundation for the rumour '.

It is likely enough that the rumour is in the main true, but we are not possessed of any satisfactory evidence on the subject.

A rumor or rumour ( spelling differs between American and British English ) is often viewed as " an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern " ( 33 ) However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor.

Third-hand experience, based on indirect and possibly unreliable rumour or hearsay, can ( even given reliable accounts ) potentially stray perilously close to blind honouring of authority.

Herodotus recounts that, on the afternoon of the Battle of Plataea, a rumour of their victory at that battle reached the Allies ' navy, at that time off the coast of Mount Mycale in Ionia.

* Radio Arvyla ( idiom meaning a rumour that is eventually not true ) — Talk show with a satirical look on current events, based in Thessaloniki and hosted by Antonis Kanakis, Giannis Servetas, Stathis Panagiotopoulos and Christos Kiousis.