Unsubstantiated reports suggest Microsoft vendor Hitachi, Danger's storage area network ( SAN ) provider may have had a part in the temporary data loss.

Unsubstantiated accounts allege that Mengistu Haile Mariam's mother was the illegitimate daughter of Dejazmatch Kebede Tessema, a high ranking nobleman and Crown Councilor to Emperor Haile Selassie, and himself suspected of being the illegitimate son of Emperor Menelik II.

Unsubstantiated gossip said that Rachel was the daughter of Edwin Landseer.

Unsubstantiated rumors have circulated that the recessed filters were designed for recreational cocaine snorting, though marketing campaigns by Philip Morris stated that the filter was designed to prevent tar from making contact with the smoker's mouth, thus making them lower in tar content as well as enhancing flavor.

Unsubstantiated claims that there was a sudden and remarkable increase in the proportion of washers in the first population were exaggerations of a much slower, more mundane effect.

Unsubstantiated rumours surfaced in 2001 that Book 7 would be called Ghost Rider, and that one of the characters killed at the end of book 6 wasn't actually dead.

Unsubstantiated reports of cannibalism disproportionately relate cases of cannibalism among cultures that are already otherwise despised, feared, or are little known.

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Unsubstantiated rumors of suicide, murder, or a magical ritual gone wrong have attempted to explain Parsons ' death.

; Unsubstantiated " bit " claims: Cryptographic products are often accompanied with claims of using a high number of bits for encryption, apparently referring to the key length used.

Unsubstantiated rumors have been made that since the early 1990s the ownership of some Straight Records recordings has become unclear.

Unsubstantiated evidence of A. laidlawii contamination of tryptone soya broth existed for some years prior to proof of the organism's contaminating nutrient broth powders.

The many anecdotes of Boone's tenure as syndic suggest he sought to render fair judgments rather than to strictly observe the letter of the law.

King John probably hunted at Peckham and local anecdotes suggest that the right to an annual fair was granted to celebrate a particularly good day's sport.

He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.

Linda often tells humorous anecdotes about her family and childhood which suggest abuse or neglect ( such as how she apparently slept on a doormat as a baby, lived in a kennel as a child, and was left in a car-boot for the two weeks her aunt went on holiday ), but she always thinks of these as positive experiences.

Grayson was one of the first television comedians to suggest an openly gay persona and many of his catchphrases, gestures and anecdotes were certainly suggestive, although he never publicly discussed or made direct reference to his sexuality, and was never known to have a partner.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

It was sometimes so convincing that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with DOCTOR for several minutes until the machine's true lack of understanding became apparent.

Numerous anecdotes show that Davy was a precocious boy, possessing a remarkable memory and being singularly rapid in acquiring knowledge of books.

Nasreddin ( / ALA-LC: Naṣraddīn Juḥā, Turkish: Nasreddin Hoca,,, Nasreddīn Hodja Bosnian: Nasrudin Hodža ) was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages ( around 13th century ) and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

Both of these books are composed of individual short stories ( which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions ) set within a larger narrative story ( a frame story ), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers.

This section features letters both written by the editors and sent in by readers often with ridiculous names, usually in the form of obviously fictitious anecdotes ( one reader claimed that by defecating on the high seas, he was able to expel a single unbroken " monster " turd ; however, nobody wanted to grant him research funds for further attempts ) or various observations, such as the " children say the funniest things " type ( one issue featured numerous variations of a reader's young son making a reference to masturbation during bathtime, such as " playing with pork sword "; in this case, when the reader entered the bathroom, she discovered her son had indeed fashioned a sword out of pork sausages ).

There are many anecdotes concerning his love for mangoes .. Rabindranath Tagore was fond of mangoes and has written poems about its flowers-aamer monjori.

The court of Emperor Wen was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compilation of a large collection of short prose anecdotes, A New Account of Tales of the World ( Shishuo xinyu ).

It is of some value as a historical source, especially for prohibited literature, and full of anecdotes, for which it was sieved by the brothers Goncourt, who revived interest in this obscure figure, whom they presented as the anecdotier parfait, the reputation, as the " perfect recounter of anecdote " to the present time.

At the end of 1910 / early 1911 he was also a dog salesman ( a profession he was to attribute to his hero Švejk and from which some of the improbable anecdotes told by Švejk are drawn ).

The book contained many anecdotes and lessons on how to live, but Richardson did not care for the work and it was never expanded even though it went into six editions during his life.

All these amusing anecdotes might simply reflect the fact that he was the first poet to charge fees for his services — generosity is glimpsed in his payment for an inscription on a friend's epitaph, as recorded by Herodotus.

Leary claimed that the frequency of difficult trips was highly exaggerated by anecdotes and fabrications in the popular press, and was actually about 1 in 1, 000.

Chappell's first book was an account of the 1972 Ashes tour, Tigers Among the Lions, followed by a series of books of cricketing humour and anecdotes published in the early 1980s.

Gurdjieff's former students who have criticized him argue that, despite his seeming total lack of pretension to any kind of " guru holiness ," in many anecdotes his behavior displays the unsavory and impure character of a man who was a cynical manipulator of his followers.

His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was readily appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended.

Valerius Maximus was a Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes.

Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many of the anecdotes in the book, which was described by a judge as " filthy, nauseating, and revolting ", were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.

He was a singer with an immediately recognizable, rather affecting wobble: an oral historian as full of musical anecdotes as Jelly Roll Morton.

Hemingway's first book, In Our Time, was dedicated to Dorman-Smith and includes some anecdotes from " Chink's " memories of the Mons campaign.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

The additions made as the work grew did not affect the technical part alone ; happy quotations, new turns of phrase, songs, poems and anecdotes were introduced as if the leisurely author, who wrote it as a recreation, had kept it constantly in his mind and talked it over point by point with his numerous brethren.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

Throughout the documentary, several artists explain how they were introduced to the field of hip-hop and scratch while providing stories and anecdotes of their personal experiences.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

Mitchell frequently introduced live performances of " Carey " by recounting anecdotes about Raditz and their Cretan adventures.