Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

One rumor is that Page was asked to leave after eating a fish tail with a neighbor.

A persistent rumor is that debossed ( imprinted with stamped in letters ) dog tags were issued from World War II till the end of the Vietnam War and that currently the U. S. military is issuing embossed ( imprinted with raised letters ) dog tags.

This term is used pejoratively by its reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted, and it also describes idle chat, a rumor of personal, or trivial nature.

In both versions, Lex Luthor leaves Smallville " under a cloud of rumor and suspicion ", when his father is mysteriously killed.

* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.

The interview also addresses a rumor stating that Maxis is named after " six AM " in reverse, typically the time of day that a Sim's alarm clock wakes him / her up.

He is infamously known as the Emperor who " fiddled while Rome burned " ( although this is now considered an inaccurate rumor ) and as an early persecutor of Christians.

It has been proposed that Mitsuhide may have heard a rumor that Nobunaga would transfer Mitsuhide's fief to the page, Mori Ranmaru, with whom Nobunaga is alleged to have been in a ritualized homosexual relationship, a form of patronage, known as shudō.

* May 30 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people.

A rumor that has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca.

The historian Malchus maintains that in 480 Glycerius was a member of the conspiracy that led to Emperor Nepos ' death and thus sought the favour of Odoacer ; however, the news of Glycerius ' appointment to the prestigious rank of Bishop of Milan, which would support the theory of the collaboration between Glycerius and Odoacer, is usually considered a rumor.

After his death, four fake Peters ( five if Šćepan Mali of Montenegro is included ) came forth, supported by revolts among the people who believed in a rumor that Peter had not died, but had secretly been imprisoned by Catherine.

At that time, anti-Persian sentiment was high among many mainland Greeks, and the rumor that Xerxes had destroyed the city was a popular one, though it is equally likely the fire was started by accident as the Athenians were frantically fleeing the scene in pandemonium, or that it was an act of " scorched earth " warfare to deprive Xerxes's army of the spoils of the city.

The rumor is circulated that Mike's alter-ego Adam Selene was among those killed ; thus removing the need for him to appear in the flesh.

There is a rumor that Steve Jobs was initially opposed to including any sort of networking on the Mac, and that the RS-422 port and its associated software support was developed largely in secret.

The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the USA, because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as politically incorrect and racist toward black people, and is thus subject to much rumor.

However, this is merely a rumor, as Harlow died in June 1937, several months before MGM had even purchased the rights to Oz.

He was born shortly after Livia divorced Tiberius Nero and married Augustus ( 17 January, 38 BC ), giving rise to rumours that Augustus was the real father, although this is widely discredited by modern historians as Augustus had not yet met Livia when Drusus would have been conceived ( During his reign, Claudius revived this rumor to give the impression that Augustus was his paternal grandfather in addition to being his maternal great-uncle ).

Although other witnesses in Perm later reported that they saw Anastasia, her mother Alexandra Fyodorovna and sisters in Perm after the murder, that story is now widely discredited as nothing more than a rumor.

Traditionally low vaccination rates in northern Nigeria dropped further in the early 2000s when radical preachers promoted a rumor that polio vaccines were a Western plot to sterilize Muslims and infect them with HIV.

On July 6, in Vicksburg, an angry mob decided to expel all professional gamblers from the town, based on a rumor that the gamblers were part of this plot.

The rumor seemed unlikely to be true for several reasons: the two young men came from different states and had never met before being brought to the MacLab ; if they were both conspiring with Randi, then the plot had gone on for 21 months.

There was even rumor of a plot that Liu Jin had intended to murder the emperor and place his own grandnephew on the throne.

Hearing a rumor about a possible attack on Enryakuji, one of the Shishi-no-tani conspirators informs Kiyomori of the plot.

A rumor at the time was that Frank Sr. arranged this in an attempt to gain publicity for his son's fledgling singing career — a rumor believed to have inspired the plot for the Hawaii Five-O episode " Tiger by the Tail " — but was proven to be false.

It was frequently repeated that the Wexner's colliding planes tended to make its users disoriented to the point of physical nausea ; in 1997 researcher Michael Pollan tracked the source of this rumor back to Eisenman himself.

The printing of the notes became the subject of a rumor in Greece that the currency of the new neighbouring state did in fact depict Greek symbols — a highly controversial point, given the dispute with the Republic of Macedonia over its name and flag.

By that point in time, both the Germans and the Austrians had began suspecting that Kogălniceanu was in fact a favorite and agent of influence of the Russians, and, reportedly, he even encouraged the rumor to spread.

In the novel Making Money, it is shown that Wuffles has, at some recent point, died ; reinforcing Vetinari's affection for the dog is the rumor that every week he makes a short ( and via a different path ) walk to Wuffles ' small grave in the palace grounds, every time leaving a dog biscuit, though this may be entirely untrue, or may simply be done to add a layer of apparent human weakness to those seeking one.

According to rumor, Jane Wyman had a running feud with Robert Foxworth, to the point where they measured each other's dressing room trailers just to make sure they were equal in size.

The prank went widely believed for months, to a point where rival magazine Nintendo Power had to create a blurb to try to explain the origin of the rumor.

A rumor persisted that Atari shipped 500 unsold units to Japan with instructions to dump the units into the ocean at the halfway point.

It became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor and networking in the poetry community.

French and German social science research on rumor locates the modern scholarly definition of it to the pioneering work of the German William Stern in 1902.

His first novel, Trainspotting, was published in 1993, and rumor has it that Welsh wrote it in the breaks while writing his thesis at Heriot-Watt University's Library, second floor.

In fact, a persistent yet unsubstantiated rumor states that Adolf Hitler was so impressed with the novel that he made it required reading for his top field commanders and general staff, in the hopes that it would allow prominent German officers to be able to understand how their British counterparts thought.

This rumor is referred to as fact by Forester in a foreword to a later edition of the novel.

However, the novel can be argued to dignify Elizabeth ’ s character by playing down the sensationalism of the many newspaper accounts of her death, which Cathy N. Davidson has argued were “ the stuff of good rumor, of gossip, of sentimental novels.

While there is no documentation for the persistent rumor, based upon Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, that sawdust was used as a filler in sausage, cellulose derived from sawdust was and is used for sausage casings.

The screenplay by Ted Griffin derives from a real-life rumor about the family in the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb.