It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

The Dodo achieved widespread recognition from its role in the story of Alice in Wonderland, and it has since become a fixture in popular culture, often as a symbol of extinction and obsolescence.

However, consistent archaeological evidence has told another story, and the accepted view is undergoing re-evaluation, though some features are agreed: more opulent but fewer urban houses, an end to new public building and some abandonment of existing ones, with the exception of defensive structures, and the widespread formation of " black earth " deposits indicating increased horticulture within urban precincts.

One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.

There is no widespread agreement as to which written work should be recognized as the earliest example of a time travel story, since a number of early works feature elements ambiguously suggestive of time travel.

Regarding the argument of implausibility of Muslims fabricating the story, Shahab Ahmed in the Encyclopedia of the Qur ' an states that " the widespread acceptance of the incident by early Muslims suggests, however, that they did not view the incident as inauspicious and that they would presumably not have, on this basis at least, been adverse to inventing it.

The story of Baucis and Philemon does not appear elsewhere in Greek mythology nor in any cult, but the notion of hospitality's sacred nature was widespread in the ancient world.

It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

Early in 2003, after much campaigning, residents finally won their settlement two new road signs, and widespread recognition, as their story made the national news.

Cynthia Ozick, whose short story collections have received widespread critical acclaim, and Michael Cunningham, whose novels have been released to widespread acclaim, are two writers who have been given increased critical attention after the turn of the century.

By the 6th century, her story was widespread, so that she appears in the Sacramentary of Pope Gregory I.

The story received widespread media attention, and his picture was published in newspapers across the country with a plea for anyone with information to contact the NAACP.

According to the story, the French were in the habit of cutting off the arrow-shooting fingers of captured English and Welsh longbowmen, and the gesture was a sign of defiance on the part of the bowmen, showing the enemy that they still had their fingers, or, as a widespread pun puts it, that they could still " pluck yew ".

The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.

The folklore of the " Devil's violin ," classically exemplified by a similar story told of Niccolò Paganini, is widespread ; it is a subset of the " Deal with the Devil.

Confronted by allegations in a 13 May 1996, Business Week cover story, of widespread sexual harassment and other abuses, Astra USA Inc. suspended three top executives and launched an internal probe.

According to Aviel Roshwald, despite the " widespread " belief that these famous last words are apocryphal, " the irony is that the authenticity of the official story about Trumpeldor's final utterance is actually well-attested and not disputed by historians.

Bruce Bethke ( born 1955 ) is an American author, best known for his 1983 short story " Cyberpunk " which led to the widespread use of the term, and his novel, Headcrash.

Finally, Serpico contributed to an April 25, 1970, New York Times front-page story on widespread corruption in the NYPD.

In 1934, a year after the appearance of the earliest printed version of the story, a German writer, Father Bers, tried to trace the origin of the story and declared that, though the story was widespread, nowhere could he find a trace of proof.

Nickerson's story gained widespread prominence after his friend Wyoming historian Grace Raymond Hebard ( 1861 – 1936 ) published the account in a 1920 pamphlet entitled " How Woman Suffrage Came to Wyoming ( 1869 )".

Average consumer is becoming more sophisticated regarding product and advertising claims, partly because of widespread criticism of such assertions.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Despite its widespread acclaim, it was not nominated for an Oscar, which created a small scandal regarding the nomination practices of the Academy.

Also, resulting greenhouse gas emissions, chiefly carbon dioxide, from the widespread use of engines in the modern industrialized world is contributing to the global greenhouse effect – a primary concern regarding global warming.

* Leak to the news media regarding Richard Jewell that led to the widespread and incorrect presumption of his guilt in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

This false claim would soon become the most widespread of the 9 / 11 conspiracy claims regarding Jews or Israel.

As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialist interpretation of the American Dream.

There was some controversy regarding the NIRS / 2 system from its inception when problems with the new system attracted widespread media coverage.

A key figure in the widespread criticism of governmental opacity regarding 9 / 11, he was quoted as saying in November 2003: " I ... cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access.

Throughout his career in lock manufacturing, Yale acquired numerous patents for his inventions and received widespread acclaim from clients regarding his products.

" In the 1960s and 70s when Ehrlich made his most alarming warnings, there was a widespread belief among experts that population growth presented an extremely serious threat to the future of human civilization, although differences existed regarding the severity of the situation, and how to approach it.

The corruption scandal first gained widespread media attention in the autumn of 2003, with Systembolaget issuing its first press release regarding the preliminary investigations on 7 November 2003.

Skepticism regarding her goddess-centered Old Europe thesis is widespread within the academic community.

There are widespread doubts regarding the extent to which newborn infants are capable of forming memories, the effects of any such memories on their personality, and the possibility of recovering them from an unconscious mind, which itself is the subject of argument in the field.

* Afghan hijackers case 2006, in May 2006, a politically controversial decision regarding the treatment of 9 Afghan men who hijacked a plane to flee from the Taliban, caused widespread condemnation by many tabloid newspapers ( most notably The Sun ), the broadsheets and the leaders of both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.

McKinsey ’ s initial decision not to disclose any information regarding its methodology, the questionnaire used and the target group that was polled, caused widespread criticism.

In the UK, L ' Oréal has faced widespread condemnation from OFCOM regarding truth in their advertising and marketing campaigns concerning the product performance of one of their mascara brands.

Environmental concerns have led to the cessation of channelization on a widespread basis ; the federal government's " no net loss " policy regarding wetlands means that further channelization must be offset by creating new wetlands, called " mitigation lands ", elsewhere.

Whilst most examples predate 1800 the term itself only seems to have become widespread at the end of the 19th century, presumably due to contemporary publicity regarding the cathedral's imp.

The song also evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city.

The company spurred widespread debate regarding the ethics and morality of pet cloning especially in light of the fact that animals are euthanized by their owners every day.

Only one human jawbone was identified during the exploration of Gamla, raising questions regarding the absence of human remains despite the widespread evidence of a battle.

The abruptness of this dramatic change has caused widespread debate among baseball historians, and there is no consensus among them regarding the cause of this transformation.

And there is also widespread concern regarding the extent of the pharmaceutical marketing direct to doctors and other healthcare professionals, for example through visits by sales people, funding of journals, training courses or conferences, incentives for prescribing, and the routine provision of " information " written by the pharmaceutical company.