The route of Lewis and Clark's expedition, up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific via the Columbia River, may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.

In 1789, it is purported that President George Washington, during his inaugural journey, was denied a room in Mendon by an innkeeper ’ s wife.

Although the purported reason for the journey was to conduct trade with Korea, the Koreans contend that the actual intention was to find treasure buried in the royal tombs near Pyongyang.

Animism is a belief held in many religions around the world, and is not, as some have purported, a type of religion in itself.

Yet a simpler alternative interpretation of the conflict between these two figures is that the Historia Brittonum is preserving traditions hostile to the purported descendants of Vortigern, who at this time were a ruling house in Powys.

Indeed, scientific consensus is that the breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.

The Beast of Bodmin, also known as The Beast of Bodmin Moor () is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.

He is purported to have said, " Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done.

Cow tipping or cow pushing is the purported activity of sneaking up on a sleeping, upright cow and pushing it over for one's entertainment.

Celery is often purported to be a " negative calorie food " based on the idea that the body will burn more calories during the digestion of the food than the body can extract from the food itself.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

Bruce Main-Smith writes, " It is unfortunate, indeed careless, that clairvoyance has come to be indicative of all / most forms of purported mediumship.

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

Some players perform with the sides of one, two, or three fingers, especially for walking basslines and slow tempo ballads, because this is purported to create a stronger and more solid tone.

" Although the purported citation of Euclid by Archimedes has been judged to be an interpolation by later editors of his works, it is still believed that Euclid wrote his works before those of Archimedes.

Advocates of Pauline authorship also point out that the differences between Colossians and the rest of the New Testament is not as great as it is purported to be.

The Czech President Václav Klaus rejected the term " euroscepticism ", with its purported negative undertones, saying ( at a meeting in April 2012 ) that the expressions for a eurosceptic and his opponent should be " a Euro-realist " and someone who is " Euro-naïve " ( respectively ).

* The Screwtape Letters, written by C. S. Lewis, is purported to be a series of missives from a demonic teacher at a college to his protégé.

; in most cases the purported rationale is lower current ( less heat ) and or matched ion mobilities, which leads to longer buffer life.

" Thus the purported author is James, brother of Jesus, whom the text claims to be a son of Joseph from a prior marriage.

By the 5th century, this authentic collection had been enlarged by spurious letters, and some of the original letters had been changed with interpolations, created to posthumously enlist Ignatius as an unwitting witness in theological disputes of that age, while the purported eye-witness account of his martyrdom is also thought to be a forgery from around the same time.

It is however likely that the carvings, like those on the Oseberg ship, might have had a ritual purpose, or that the purported effect was to frighten enemies and townspeople.

He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August / September 1917 that purported to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d ' état.

Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos ( where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia ( also known as Letoai in ancient Crete ) and at Lato, which bore her name .< ref > Noted by R. F.

" Another related definition accepted by many Pagans is that purported by the ceremonial magician Dion Fortune, who declared that " Magic is the art and science of changing consciousness according to the Will.

Sommer ( 2008 ) classified historical accounts related to vitamin A and / or manifestations of deficiency as follows: " Ancient " accounts ; 18th-to 19th-century clinical descriptions ( and their purported etiologic associations ); early 20th-century laboratory animal experiments, and clinical and epidiomologic observations that identified the existence of this unique nutrient and manifestations of its deficiency.

In June of the previous year, 1520, Pope Leo X issued the Papal bull Exsurge Domine (" Arise, O Lord "), outlining 41 purported errors found in Martin Luther's 95 theses and other writings related to or written by him.

The U. S. and OECD rules require that reliable adjustments must be made for all differences ( if any ) between related party items and purported comparables that could materially affect the condition being examined.

This would seem to suggest that the Hoatzin is at least more closely related to doves than to many of the other purported ' coronavian ' families that previously have been suggested.

A related idea known as " Feed the Beast ", refers to increasing taxes for the purported purpose of balancing the budget only to make the government spend those inflows.

* Atiyah Abd Al Rahman, a Libyan purported to be a member of al-Qaeda and related militant groups

Many other species ( including especially X. roseum ) are used as ornamental plants, and in popular horticultural literature are known as ‘ ape or elephant ear ( from the purported resemblance of the leaf to an elephant's ear ), although the latter name is sometimes also applied to members with similar appearance and uses in the closely related genera Caladium, Colocasia ( i. e., taro ), and Alocasia.

As a significant ancestral figure, whose purported descendants included many leading kings from the 7th to early 11th centuries, Diarmait appears in many genealogical collections and related materials.

* The second and related argument was that the 1937 Constitution purported to repeal the 1922 Constitution even though under the 1922 Constitution the Oireachtas did not have any legal authority to repeal it.

) This would appear to show that either Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic are not related, or that one or both developed their own number systems independently and did not inherit them from their purported common ancestor.

It sponsored countrywide tours of purported ex-priests and " escaped " nuns, who related horrific tales of mistreatment and abuse.

* The Woodward effect is a purported physics related propulsion phenomenon, also commonly referred to also as " the mach effect ".

And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

* Communion ( book ), a book by Whitley Strieber about his purported abductions by aliens

Some of his pamphlets were purported to be written by Scots, misleading even reputable historians into quoting them as evidence of Scottish opinion of the time.

This proposal purported to address the confusion that sometimes arises between the letter " O " and the numeral zero, by eliminating the letter from allowable variable names.

Rosenberg published Niflaos Maharal: Ha Golem Al Prague ( Wonders of the Maharal: The Golem of Prague ) ( Warsaw, 1909 ) which purported to be an eyewitness account by the Maharal's son-in-law, who had helped to create the Golem.

As the science of distillation advanced from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance period, juniper was one of many botanicals employed by virtue of its perfume, flavour, and purported medicinal properties.

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

It was a populist / producerist epithet, carrying an implicit accusation that the people it described were insulated from all negative consequences of their programs purported to benefit the poor, and that the costs and consequences of such programs would be borne in the main by working class or lower middle class people who were not so poor as to be beneficiaries themselves.

On 6 December 1933 the first purported photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published in the Daily Express, and shortly after the creature received official notice when the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it.

Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan ( actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly ) that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium, which controlled the organization and had a satanic agenda.

This prompted a scientific investigation of the relics in Padua, and by numerous lines of empirical evidence ( archeological analyses of the Tomb in Thebes and the Reliquary of Padua, anatomical analyses of the remains, Carbon-14 dating, comparison with the purported skull of the Evangelist located in Prague ) confirmed that these were the remains of an individual of Syrian descent who died between 72 and 416 A. D.

Some purported evidence comes from the Kurna temple graffiti in Egypt, as reported by Parker in 1909 and Murray in his " Board games other than chess.