According to Barks ' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child.

According to Barks, his attention was mostly drawn to the cowboys that frequented the market with their revolvers, strange nicknames for each other and sense of humor.

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to Barks, he intended to create her as another recurring antagonist for Scrooge, in addition to The Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold.

According to a later interview by Barks, the company originally expected him to illustrate stories based on the scripts of others.

According to Carl Barks, Donald's parents are Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck.

According to Newton's law of gravity, and independently verified by experiments such as that of Eötvös and its successors ( see Eötvös experiment ), there is a universality of free fall ( also known as the weak equivalence principle, or the universal equality of inertial and passive-gravitational mass ): the trajectory of a test body in free fall depends only on its position and initial speed, but not on any of its material properties.

According to the earliest Russian chronicle, a Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler ( knyaz ) of Novgorod in about 860, before his successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev, which had been previously dominated by the Khazars.

* According to some legendary accounts in the chronicles, the successors of Ne were the gopālavaṃśi or " Cowherd family ", whose names often end in-gupta and are said to have ruled for some 491 years.

According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.

According to Rawcliffe, Abrams and his successors had " founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years ".

According to Apollodorus, after the death of Temenus the army declared Deiphontes and Hyrnetho his rightful successors.

According to Article 57 the Crown of Spain is inherited by the successors of King Juan Carlos I de Borbón through male preference primogeniture Article 57 is also significant in that it omits entirely the Franconist era designation of Juan Carlos as Franco's successor.

According to a scholar, the opposition was led mainly by the Bunnags, a merchant-aristocrat family of Persian origins, successors of Ayutthaya's minister of Ports and Finance, or Phra Klang Coupled with the tax revenues that these activities provided — helped restore the kingdom's devastated economy.

According to this source, Qiáochénrú was one of the successors of the king Tiānzhú Zhāntán 天竺旃檀 (“ Candana from India ”), a ruler of Funan who in the year 357 AD sent tamed elephants as tribute to the Emperor Mu of Jin ( r. 344 – 361 ; personal name: Sīmǎ Dān 司馬聃 ): “ He was originally a Brahmin from India.

According to this doctrine, modern bishops, therefore, must be viewed as part of an unbroken line of leadership in succession from the original apostles: though they do not have the authority and powers granted uniquely to the apostles, they are the apostles ' successors in governing the Church.

According to this " pacta ", the coronation was preceded by an agreement between Coloman and the representatives of the greatest Croatian families, under which he and his successors would govern Croatia as a separate kingdom.

According to the majority of Shī ' a, namely the Twelvers ( Ithnā ' ashariyya ), the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muḥammad.

According to Soami Bagh and Dayal Bagh successors, Tulsi Sahib was a contemporary guru of the same teachings, but being a natural born Satguru, Shiv Dayal Singh himself had no guru.

According to João Camillo Torres the idea behind the Moderating Power was " that a monarch, by virtue of dynastic continuity, took no part in factions, classes, had no regional links, did not owe his power to economic groups, did not have to fulfill electoral promises, did not need to think of his own future — the future of his family was guaranteed by the preservation of peace and national greatness — he was not subject to the temptation of taking advantage of a brief passage through the government to grant benefits and advantages for himself only at the cost of the nation ´ s welfare and leaving the onus to his successors " as he knows that his " successor will be his own son, knowing that history, many times, charges grandchildren with the crimes of their grandparents ".

" According to Moses Hadas, in the introduction to his translation of the Aethiopica, " in construction and a hundred details Sidney patiently follows Heliodorus, and the Arcadia was the principle model for Sidney's successors.

The most prominent of the successors of his lineage was Guifeng Zongmi According to Tsung-mi, Shen-hui's approach was officially sanctioned in 796, when " an imperial commission determined that the Southern line of Ch ' an represented the orthodox transmission and established Shen-hui as the seventh patriarch, placing an inscription to that effect in the shen-lung temple ".

According to a contemporary account by Francis Pretty, a member of Drake's party, Drake left behind " a plate of brasse " as " a monument of our being there " that claimed " her maiesties, and successors right and title to that kingdome.

According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Audran was one of the best of the successors of Jacques Offenbach.

According to Mustali belief, the line of Imams ( descendents of Ali ibn Abi Talib and hereditary successors to Muhammad in his role of legitimate leader of the community of Muslim believers ) is as follows:

According to " The Parliamentary Oath " even if the entire country were to vote in a general election for a party whose manifesto pledge was to remove the monarchy, it would be impossible by reason of the present oath, and current acts of parliament, for such elected MPs to take their seats in the House of Commons, or be raised to the House of Lords, without taking this Oath of Allegiance to the ruling monarch, and to her heirs, and successors.

According to Dyzenhaus, the only two natural successors to Rabie were both considered unfit for the job-one for being too " weak "; the other too " liberal ".

According to the official citation, the breast cord of honor given them and their successors was made red, the artillery's color, to show that they were expert artillerymen as Infantrymen.

According to the majority of Shi ' a, namely the Ithna Ashariya or Twelvers, the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muhammad.

According to TBRC his successors referring to the estate of the Zimkhang Gongma were Sonam Yeshe Wangpo ( 1556 – 92 ), Sonam Gelek Palzang ( 1594 – 1615 ) and Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen ( 1619 – 1656 )-closely connected to the famous story of Dorje Shugden.

" This is followed by works of only a dozen or so pages, all giving similar " Seals " and incantations ( often with identical titles, such as " the Breastplate of Moses ") These include " Extract From The True Clavicula Of Solomon And Of The Girdle Of Aaron " ( a version of the Key of Solomon grimoire ), the " Biblia Arcana Magica Alexander, According To The Tradition Of The Sixth And Seventh Books Of Moses, Besides Magical Laws ", and the " Citation of the Seven Great Princes in The Tradition Of The Sixth And Seventh Books Of Moses " which contains similar seals and incantations with more or less Biblical connotations.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to Aurelius Victor and Zonaras, on hearing the news of Gallienus ' death, the Senate at Rome ordered the execution of his family ( including his brother Valerianus and son Marinianus ) and their supporters, just before receiving a message from Claudius to spare their lives and deify his predecessor.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

According to another, " A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives or an undiscovered island.

According to the classic Jewish texts, Jacob, as the third and last patriarch, lives a life that parallels the descent of his offspring, the Jewish people, into the darkness of exile.

According to religious Judaism, any non-Jew who lives according to the Seven Laws of Noah is regarded as a righteous gentile, and is assured of a place in the world to come, the final reward of the righteous.

According to Cooley, the reply was that " money means nothing to us ; our lives mean nothing to us.

According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....

According to the commission staff: " Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the U. S. Capitol or the White House from destruction.

According to a 2008 Gallup poll, 99 % of Sri Lankans considered religion an important aspect of their daily lives.

According to some sources, especially old colonial sources, Thuggee believe they have a positive role, saving humans ' lives.

According to Conway W. Henderson, " One source claims 14, 500 wars have taken place between 3500 BC and the late 20th century, costing 3. 5 billion lives, leaving only 300 years of peace ( Beer 1981: 20 ).

According to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short ", a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the ' social ', or society.

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the " seizers ," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake.

According to the commercially published Good Schools Guide, the school " has arguably the finest tradition of scholarship of any school in the country ", is " uniquely civilised ", and provides an " academically, comradely and architecturally privileged boyhood most Wykehamists treasure throughout their lives.

According to Altena, a thousand years ago, a group of people who had survived a bloody war that cost numerous lives, formed a group called Les Soldats to protect the weak and take revenge on the world.

According to Steller, " The animal never comes out on shore, but always lives in the water.

According to his legend, after hearing a sermon on the virtue of chastity, they reportedly decided to live chaste lives

According to Sánchez ' account Juan Diego and his wife had lived in celibacy for their entire lives ; this would be extraordinary since he lived the first 47 years of his life according to pre-Columbian indigenous customs that only prescribed celibacy for the highest priesthood.

According to historian Shaye Cohen, by the time three generations had passed after the destruction of the Second Temple, most Jews concluded that the Temple would not be rebuilt during their lives, nor in the foreseeable future.

According to Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

According to a 1992 survey by SOFRES, 4. 7 million French people ages 12 – 44 have smoked cannabis at least once in their lives.

According to these scriptures, Amitābha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakāra.