" In 1931, Ernest W. Brown asserted, using a mathematical formula, that the observed irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could not be due to the gravitational effect of a more distant planet, and thus that Lowell's supposed prediction was " purely accidental.

On 7 March 1944 Messing is said to have predicted Hitler's death date, but there exists no primary account of this supposed prediction.

Knowing features Nicolas Cage as a teacher who discovers a set of numbers that are actually the dates, death tolls and locations of disaster events both in the past and the future, while 2012, based on the supposed doomsday prediction by the Mayans, sees various disasters bring the world to an end.

'" In response to this prediction, " JFK laughed and replied, ' Well, George, you're supposed to be one of the smartest guys in town, but you're crazier than hell.

His consultation was kept quiet by mutual agreement with the Garland Police Department until after the successful conclusion of the apocalyptic prediction whereby God was supposed to come and pick them up in a " flying saucer ".

He rejected the idea of " music of the spheres " as ridiculous: movement of astronomical bodies, he supposed, is incapable of generating sound.

Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.

Earlier, other critics such as the astronomer Peter Pesch and his collaborator Roland Pesch and Ian Ridpath had attributed the supposed " advanced " astronomical knowledge of the Dogon to a mixture of over-interpretation by commentators and cultural contamination.

The Avatar eventually learns of an astronomical alignment of importance that is supposed to happen very soon, and about the three evil Generators that the Guardian has created, which have been causing most of the problems of the land.

He supposed the cause might be the centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation ("") or the astronomical precession.

By the 18th century the word theosophy was often used in conjunction with panosophy, i. e., a knowledge of divine things that is acquired by deciphering the supposed hieroglyphics of the concrete universe.

Throughout Books II and III he returns again and again to the theme of there being no abhorrence of a vacuum and that all the phenomena explained by this supposed principle are in fact attributable to the pressure of the atmosphere in conjunction with various incorporeal potencies which he held to be acting.

Berry had learned of its availability during a visit to his home area in conjunction with a search of the relatively nearby Asheville, North Carolina area, then renowned for its supposed curative properties with regard to respiratory disease.

" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City, treated their King with a collation under a tent, placed in St. George's Fields ; and five or six hundred citizens cloathed in coats of black velvet, and ( not improperly ) wearing chains about their necks, by an order of the Common Council, attended on the triumph of that day ;... and those who had been so often defeated in the field, and had contributed nothing either of bravery or policy to this change, in ordering the souldiery to ride with swords drawn through the city of London to White Hall, the Duke of York and Monk leading the way ; and intimating ( as was supposed ) a resolution to maintain that by force which had been obtained by fraud.

In III. III he denounces Desdemona's supposed sin as being " black as mine own face.

While seeming absurd at first glance, considering that grass is neither white nor black, it is supposed to be effective against the zebra's main predator, the lion, which is color blind.

Local myth describes how in years gone by, due to its supposed illegal nature, Blue Vinny would be left on the doorstep of those who ordered it on the black market.

Soon they'll witness the hanging of Earl Williams, a white man and ( supposed ) Communist revolutionary convicted of killing a black policeman.

* Clarent, a supposed legendary sword given to Josh Newman in the book The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel it is described as a black sword and supposedly gives the wielder the ability to absorb the memories of the one being slain by it.

Winters continues: " The leader of the desperadoes, a huge black, welcomed the supposed Federal troops.

His supposed racial identity seems to be a secret that he abhors as well as cherishes ; he often willingly tells people that he is black, as he seems to enjoy their astonished, pitying, or hate-filled reactions.

Although the " Soul Meeting " single made it to # 34 on Billboard's soul singles chart in July 1968, Burke alleges " the record was stopped and banned ... we were going against the grain of what black entertainers are supposed to do.

It was supposed to photograph the moon in colour and black and white from 8000 km and 2600 km ranges, then return to earth, landing at Tyuratam only 16 km from the launch pad.

Despite the parallels between Bosko and the blackface performers, Ising in later years would deny that the character was ever supposed to be a black caricature, and rather claim he was supposed to be " an inkspot kind of thing.

Their supposed underworld relatives, the malicious and vagrant Lemures, might be placated with midnight offerings of black beans and spring water.

Although all women were supposed to emulate this ideal of femininity, black, working class, and immigrant women did not fit the definition of " true women " because of social prejudice.

Since then, a lull of inactivity that would last three years would come about, and since then Ancient have parted ways with Metal Blade Records due to the completion of their recording contract and the label's " supposed " loss of interest in the black metal genre.

Saint Piran is supposed to have adopted these two colours from seeing the molten tin spilling out of the black ore in his fire.

It was a cast of stereotypes, featuring a blacked-up Spike Milligan as Kevin O ' Grady ( who was supposed to be half Irish, half Pakistani ), Eric Sykes as a liberal, Kenny Lynch as a black man who was prejudiced against Asians, and Norman Rossington and Geoffrey Hughes as racist Liverpudlians.

The latter three were the most representative members of the last of the twentieth century's supposed literary “ generations .” The “ Generación X ,” as critics dubbed them, brought black humor to a certain kind of post-political social realism focused principally on sex, drugs, rock-n-roll and the mental illness that accompanies it.

The riots were sparked by rumours that a young black girl had been raped by a group of youths, although no evidence was found to suggest the crime took place, and the supposed victim was never found.

Steve Levy then comes to get his mail, and proceeds to tell LT that the mail isn't his ( LT wears a black visor, which in this case is supposed to be detrimental to his vision ).

The latter role was made evident during the episode hosted by Oprah Winfrey in spring of 1986 where in the cold opening, Vance played Lorne Michaels ' personal slave ( who was actually supposed to be the character Celie from the movie The Color Purple ) who convinces Michaels to force Oprah into performing stereotypically black roles by beating her, only to have Oprah choke Lorne in a headlock while opening the show with " Live from New York, it's Saturday Night !".

Pirate bootlegs of Tecmo Cup Football Game could be found on the black market a couple of years from its supposed date release.

The first photos shown in the sequence are of a rich white family in the Gilded Age and black sharecroppers after Reconstruction, a nod to the supposed ancestors of the white and black families that Generations showed in the modern age.

Women other than the bride are not supposed to wear white or black to a wedding, as white is reserved for the bride, and black for funerals.

In the coordinate system of a distant stationary observer, Hawking radiation tends to be described as a quantum-mechanical particle-pair production effect ( involving " virtual " particles ), but for stationary observers hovering nearer to the hole, the effect is supposed to look like a purely conventional radiation effect involving " real " particles.

An advanced and powerful alien robot gone horribly awry, it was supposed to be dumped into a black hole by a cloaked ship flown by Florxin and Tolbit.

After reading a section from " The Dark Book " that is supposed to close the Gate, the boys find the hole has closed and assume their efforts were successful.

* Eldrad's home was originally supposed to be the black hole of Omega 4. 6.

It is supposed by some that gravitation causes downward-oriented concentration gradient of the dissolved ions in the hole caused by the corrosion, as the concentrated solution is denser.

He supposed a cylindrical vessel full of water to be perforated in its bottom with a small hole by which the water escaped, and the vessel to be supplied with water in such a manner that it always remained full at the same height.

They all fall into the hole where the hatch door was supposed to be, and Kate suddenly hears moaning coming from underneath the steel, which leads her to believe Juliet may still be alive.