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the Frescobaldi family of Florentine bankers (according to Bandello's implausibly fictionalized account, Francesco Frescobaldi graciously rescued him off...

referendum. Under this system, Mobutu was reelected in 1977 and 1984 by implausibly high margins, claiming a unanimous or near-unanimous "yes" vote. The...

conspiracy theories that proliferate on Facebook and elsewhere. He has been implausibly accused of attempting to depopulate the world, distributing harmful or...

Cast. Quasars – July 2008 Merrifield, Michael; Copland, Ed. "z~1.3 – An implausibly large structure [in the Universe]". Sixty Symbols. Brady Haran for the...

workers. Official results showed 98.2 per cent of voters favoured Diệm, an implausibly high result that was condemned as fraudulent. The total number of votes...

Day (1946), a largely fictional biography of Porter, with Cary Grant implausibly cast in the lead. The critics scoffed, but the film was a huge success...

him and his companions get new garments and food. He stayed with this implausibly old Brahmana for a month, and studied the Madhyamika sastra with him...

not occurred. Some defendants denied involvement in certain crimes or implausibly claimed ignorance of them, especially the Final Solution. A few defense...

the same intensity. ... today it is common to hear tax cutters claim, implausibly, that all tax cuts raise revenue. Current day advocates of supply-side...

through 4 number scale, an entry in The Straight Dope reported that "implausibly exact numbers" such as "bullhorn acacia ant at 1.8" were "wheedled out...

terms of appreciation, contemplation or reflection risk idealizing an implausibly unmotivated listener defined solely through musical objects, rather than...

Tillman's argument, and argue further that Blackman and Tillman's argument "implausibly splits linguistic hairs". Vlahoplus argues that in the context of Section...

conventional slow motion, as the physical camera would have to move implausibly fast; the concept implies that only a "virtual camera", often illustrated...

Protestant writers called the story into question: various writers noted the implausibly long gap between Joan's supposed lifetime and her first appearance in...

in the motion of sunspots could only be explained as the result of an implausibly complicated precession of the Sun's axis of rotation This did not apply...

or rotated for aesthetic impact. 3. The quality of the photographs is implausibly high. There are many poor quality photos taken by the Apollo astronauts...

juvenile editorial tone and covers that depicted beautiful women in implausibly revealing spacesuits. Later editors began to improve the fiction, and...

rule. Following the returns, many challenged the validity of such an implausibly lopsided result. One such critic was Victor Hugo, who had originally...

hands. Mobutu was reelected three times under this system, each time by implausibly high margins of 98 percent or more. A single list of MPR candidates was...

his dramatis personae are known historical figures, their speeches are implausibly circumstantial, and his characters, tropes and plot developments draw...