McConnell had done a series of experiments in which he taught a behavior to flatworms, ground them up, and fed them to other flatworms, which supposedly exhibited the same behavior.

In his work on the history of religion, Eliade is most highly regarded for his writings on Alchemy, Shamanism, Yoga and what he called the eternal return — the implicit belief, supposedly present in religious thought in general, that religious behavior is not only an imitation of, but also a participation in, sacred events, and thus restores the mythical time of origins.

* Salamanders perform a nose tapping behavior to supposedly activate their VNO.

The idea behind mentoring programs is that an adult is paired with a child, who supposedly learns from the behavior of the adult and is positively reinforced for good behavior ( Jones-Brown, 1997 ).

It was defined as a special form of the illness which supposedly affected only the person's social behavior, with no influence on other traits: " most frequently, ideas about a ' struggle for truth and justice ' are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure ", according to Moscow Serbsky Institute professors.

" Besides the mocking supposedly stereotypical Irish-Catholic behavior, there was a Riverdance formation, and a Potato Famine joke, drawing criticism for its " tasteless " portrayal of Catholics.

We can view the second-stage problem simply as an optimization problem which describes our supposedly optimal behavior when the uncertain data is revealed, or we can consider its solution as a recourse action where the term compensates for a possible inconsistency of the system and is the cost of this recourse action.

Some investigators learned that he was supposedly reprimanded for inappropriate behavior with female guests at the Hotel Pennsylvania, a New York City hotel often used by EgyptAir crews.

At the school, this type of behavior was supposedly not uncommon and, combined with the heavily religious curriculum, it produced many boys that harbored mystic Christian beliefs.

The Doppelganger becomes devoted to Shriek ; when Carnage attacks her for rebellious behavior, it springs to her defense, but Carnage guts it and kicks it to the street several stories below, supposedly killing it.

The song tells the story of Mrs. Johnson, a widowed mother of a teenage girl, who becomes outraged when one afternoon her daughter brings home a note from her school's PTA decrying Mrs. Johnson's supposedly scandalous behavior by small-town standards, which, according to the PTA, is setting a bad example for her daughter.

Based on the supposedly gaudy look of showboats, the term " showboat " also came to mean someone who wants his or her ostentatious behavior to be seen at all costs.

Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends.

From there Alaric escaped with difficulty, and not without some suspicion of connivance by Stilicho, who supposedly had again received orders to depart.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

A well-known legend attached to the site concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.

Charles was now appointing the kings whom he supposedly served, rois fainéants who were mere puppets in his hands ; by the end of his reign they were so useless that he didn't even bother appointing one.

Soon figures populated his scenes as well, supposedly in response to a portrait painter who challenged him to take up the genre.

In the late 19th century the term " shagger " was supposedly a nickname for vaudeville performers, who were known to dance the flea hop.

Known for excommunicating noblemen who protected the Cathars, Castelnau excommunicated Raymond as an abettor of heresy following an allegedly fierce argument during which Raymond supposedly threatened Castelnau with violence.

The " Heshang Gong Version " is named after the legendary Heshang Gong ( " Riverside Sage ") who supposedly lived during the reign ( 202-157 BC ) of Emperor Wen of Han.

The alleged plot revolved around right-wing former military figures who were supposedly building private armies to counter the perceived threat from trade unions and the Soviet Union.

* Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was supposedly the autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spent 28 years on a remote island.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

Of those who did, Cukor preferred Paulette Goddard, but her supposedly illicit relationship with Charlie Chaplin ( they were, in fact, secretly married ) concerned Selznick.

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

The Third Order was that of the " Secret Chiefs ", who were said to be highly skilled ; they supposedly directed the activities of the lower two orders by spirit communication with the Chiefs of the Second Order.

The idea behind the plan was for Israel to ship weapons through an intermediary ( identified as Manucher Ghorbanifar ) to the Islamic republic as a way of aiding a supposedly moderate, politically influential faction within the regime of Ayatollah Khomeni who were believed to be seeking a rapprochement with the United States ; after the transaction, the U. S. would reimburse Israel with the same weapons, while receiving monetary benefits.

In an aside, he cited the single mother title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this " poverty of values ", saying, " It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ' lifestyle choice.

It was supposedly inhabited by people who would destroy any ship that was wrecked off of its coast.

This jamahiriya, as he called it, was supposedly a form of direct democracy in which power was balanced between a General People's Congress, consisting of 2, 700 representatives of Basic People's Congresses, and an executive General People's Committee, headed by a General Secretary, who reported to the Prime Minister and the President.

It was Siegfried I, Count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc.

277 mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale ).

The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates of Arcadia, who had betrayed the Messenian hero Aristomenes at the battle of the Great Trench .< ref > Paul Anthony Cartledge " Aristomenes ( 1 )" The Oxford Classical Dictionary.

She is a vampiric Prince in Mexico according to setting information given for the popular role-playing game Vampire: the Requiem, as well as having an entire bloodline of vampires named after her and supposedly descended from her.

Emilia narrates this tale, one part of which ( the motif of using extra fine bow strings ) supposedly is based on a real event, according to a chronicle by Giovanni Villani.

After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil.

* King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, was according to legend a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who supposedly made the first celestial globe.

Elizabeth was aware of the political ramifications of the story of Richard II: according to a well-known but dubious anecdote, in August 1601 she was reviewing historical documents relating to the reign of Richard II when she supposedly remarked to her archivist William Lambarde, " I am Richard II, know ye not that?

The car chase scene in which Thornhill is drunkenly careening along the edge of cliffs high above the ocean, supposedly on Long Island, was actually shot on the California coast, and in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, according to DVD audio commentary.

Christian theologists present Bona Dea-or rather, Fauna, whom they clearly take her to be-as one of the innumerable Roman gods who supposedly show the immorality and absurdity at the heart of traditional Roman religion ; according to them, no prophetess, merely " foolish Fenta ", daughter and wife to her incestuous father, and " good " ( bona ) only at drinking too much wine.

Previously, curves had been described as " geometrical " or " mechanical " according to how they were, or supposedly could be, generated.

His enormous treatise is considered " delightful " by critics ; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of " black bile ," according to the humor theory fashionable at the time.

In doing so, the supposedly autonomous thinker is made captive to a kind of idol of his own making, which bends his understanding to conform to its dictates, according to Dooyeweerd.

Sarit felt that democracy had failed in Thailand and intended to rule according to " Thai ideologies ", not imported Western political theories, choosing as his model the supposedly benevolent despots of his country's past.

Francis Petrarch became a friend of Simone's while in Avignon, and two of Petrarch's sonnets ( Canzoniere 96 and 130 ) make reference to a portrait of Laura de Noves that Simone supposedly painted for the poet ( according to Vasari ).

The first five series were produced at a steady pace of one roughly every eighteen months until Helen Mirren left the role, supposedly to avoid typecasting ( according to a PBS interview ).

He is supposedly 8 inches tall, according to the Super Smash Bros. games.

Ironically, both Glazunov and Rachmaninoff, whose first symphony Glazunov supposedly had conducted so poorly at its premiere ( according to the composer ), were considered " old-fashioned " in their later years.

In demonology Corson is one of the four principal kings that have power on the seventy-two demons supposedly constrained by King Solomon ( according to the Lesser Key of Solomon ), and is not to be conjured except on great occasions.

In demonology Ziminiar or Zymymar is one of the four principal kings that have power on the seventy-two demons supposedly constrained by King Solomon ( according to the Lesser Key of Solomon ), and is not to be conjured except on great occasions.

The missile was aimed to deliberately reduce the amount of debris as much as possible, and according to US state sources, they had supposedly decayed by early 2008.

* July 23, 2003-Kazemi's body is buried in her hometown of Shiraz in Iran, supposedly according to the wishes of her mother ( Ezzat Kazemi ) and relatives in Iran, but contrary to the wishes of her son ( Stephan Hachemi, who resides in Montreal ), and Canadian officials.

He also exhibited an antipathy towards his father, whose murder, according to Carlos ' confessor, he supposedly contemplated at one time.

It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BCE, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BCE before the rest of the forum.

The child was supposedly in the care of two women who, according to the note, were innocent.