According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to tradition at Texas Tech University, a stone fragment on display since 1939 outside the old Electrical Engineering Building is a missing piece of the Blarney Stone.

According to Sir William Crookes the original, uncut diamond was itself " a fragment, probably less than half, of a distorted octahedral crystal ; the other portions still await discovery by some fortunate miner.

According to the sheet music, it was " written around a Fort Niagara fragment " by Robert Lloyd, " Army song leader.

According to The Catholic Encyclopaedia, lines of the Muratorian fragment are preserved in " some other manuscripts ", including codices of Paul's Epistles at the abbey of Monte Cassino.

According to the TV series Mayday, because a fragment of Burke's fingertip was recovered with the gun, it indicated that he was alive and holding the gun until impact.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not come to be.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not have a beginning.

According to a fragment of parchment Alex and Thomas find among Dominic's books, the dagger is to be plunged into the Sin Eater while reciting a text in Aramaic.

According to Strabo he increased the number of strings in the lyre from four to seven ; others take the fragment of Terpander on which Strabo bases his statement to mean that he developed the citharoedic nomos ( sung to the accompaniment of the cithara or lyre ) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four.

According to Harris, Anthon wrote Harris a letter of authenticity declaring the fragment to contain true Egyptian characters.

According to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, these systems cannot contain the theory of Peano arithmetic, and in fact, not even the weak fragment of Robinson arithmetic ; nonetheless, they can contain strong theorems ; for instance there are self-verifying systems capable of proving the consistency of Peano arithmetic.

According to a fragment of Aristotle, the first author of Socratic dialogue was Alexamenus of Teos, but we do not know anything else about him, whether Socrates appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his antagonistic judgement about him.

According to the partial translation he made, the new fragment spoke of a queen and great riches.

According to Ellison, it was partially inspired by a fragment of conversation that he mis-heard at a party at the home of actor Walter Koenig: " How is Jeff?

According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi ( presumably no relation ), who submitted the entry ' sadagraha ', which Gandhi then modified to ' satyagraha '.

According to the Chilean Constitution of the time, if no presidential candidate obtained a majority of the popular vote, Congress would choose one of the two candidates with the highest number of votes as the winner.

According to France Galop, since 1994 the male bloodline of every Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe winner goes back to Nearco, his son Nasrullah, and his grandson Northern Dancer.

According to a Monday, March 15, 2012 online Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article by Eric Schwartzel ,: " Shell Oil Co. announced it will build a massive petrochemical " cracker " plant in Potter, Beaver County, making Pennsylvania the winner in a tri-state competition for the billion-dollar operation.

According to legend, following a five day battle for rights to the hunting grounds in the Wind River Range, Chief Washakie of the Shoshone and Chief Big Robber of the Crow agreed to a duel, with the winner gaining the rights to the Wind River hunting grounds.

According to boxing historian Monte Cox, Young ought to have been declared winner based on " clean punching, defense and ring generalship " Some claimed that Young's performance should have earned him a rematch.

According to France Galop, from 1985 through to 2010 every Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe winner can trace a blood-line back to Nearco, his son Nasrullah, and his grandson Northern Dancer.

According to the newspaper, the architect in charge will be chosen from among a shortlist of Spanish architects Santiago Calatrava and Pritzker Prize-winner Rafael Moneo, and Chinese-American Ieoh Ming Pei, also a Pritzker winner.

According to the rules the winner is decided by the race order as of two laps before the race stopped, i. e. lap 53.

According to research published at railgamefans. com, computer analysis of thousands of games shows the Pennsylvania Railroad to be the railroad most frequently owned by the winner and thus players rush to purchase it at the beginning.

According to an interview with the winner, he never saw Hall again following the show, and there had been no sexual intimacy between Hall and any of the contestants.

According to Pausanias it was introduced by Heracles as a prize for the winner of the running race to honour Zeus.

According to UTV's website, the original logo was designed as part of a competition, and the winner among over 450 entrants was Mr Roy Irwin of Ballycarry.

According to Anderson and Hershey, a winner and triumphant after the acquisition of Thessaloniki and most of Macedonia up to and including the port of Kavala, Greece still had outstanding issues.

According to Callahan, cheating breeds upon a dynamic between a winner class, an upper-class so influential they effectively are exempt from most rules and standards, and an anxious class, often compelled to cheat during a period of downward social mobility, downsizing, and within a cultural climate that values money and power above personal integrity.

According to the article, the winner earned the unofficial title " Most Feared Man in the Casino Business ".

According to initial reports, a newspaper journalist gained access to the horse box belonging to Hedgehunter, a former winner of the Grand National, and posed for a photograph.

According to the tabloid report, which did not cite any sources, the alleged reason for the dismissal was comments Hudson made on the show about the winner Leona Lewis not having the ' it ' factor needed to connect with an audience.

According to L. Stiller there was no real winner.

According to the " Green Book ", the winner in the struggle for power is always an instrument of government-an individual, party, class ; and the loser is always the people, and thus, true democracy.

According to him, they intentionally gave him one point less than the eventual winner at the Madras Nationals, and this ruled him out of the Olympics.

* According to Plutarch, the ostracism was considered valid if the total number of votes cast was at least 6, 000.

According to Anninsky, " more daring critics drew a parallel with Gogol ... whose final years sort of pre-dated the future drama of Pisemsky: breaking away from the ' progressive Russia ', the ' betrayal ' and the ostracism that followed.