According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

According to Ethan, " the movie was conceived as pivoting around that relationship between the Dude and Walter ", which sprang from the scenes between Barton Fink and Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink.

According to television commentator Charlie Brooker, this type of reality television was enabled by the advent of computer-based non-linear editing systems for video ( such as those produced by Avid Technology ) in 1989.

According to American journalist Charlie Cranston John K. Cooley, the BSO represented a " total break with the old operational and organizational methods of the fedayeen.

According to Charlie Wilson's reference, Israel proliferated the sensitive and advance weapon technology to Pakistan, while reverse engineered the Soviet weapons after Israel had confiscated from PLO during the Lebanon war, and channeled these weapons to Mujahedin.

According to Charlie Daniels, " Carl Perkins ' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins ' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed.

According to Garrett, McCarty was buried the day after he was killed in Fort Sumner's old military cemetery, between his fallen companions Tom O ' Folliard and Charlie Bowdre.

According to Stroud, on January 18, 1909, while he was away at work, an acquaintance of theirs, barman F. K. " Charlie " Von Dahmer, had allegedly failed to pay O ' Brien for her services.

According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.

According to writer Charlie Watson, " Confirming that all the trees had been felled at the same time suggested strongly that the building of the circle was a single event.

According to her account, she joined John Guise's regiment, the 6th Regiment of Foot, in the army of the Duke of Cumberland against Bonnie Prince Charlie, and deserted when her sergeant gave her 500 lashes.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Charlie Munger once said " it is a foregone decision " that Li Lu would be going to be a member of Berkshire's top investors team after Warren Buffett retires.

According to an interview with the Game Director, Charlie Cleveland ( Flayra ), the sequel will continue where the original left off and will feature environments that are dark and denser.

According to American music critic Stanley Crouch, Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker.

According to the animated television special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, Franklin's family name is Armstrong, making his full name Franklin Armstrong.

According to Wyatt Earp's biographer, Stuart Lake, Wyatt Earp and four other well-known western lawmen-Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett and Neal Brown-each received a Colt Single Action Army revolver as a gift from Ned Buntline.

According to the 1972 book Mustache Gang, authored by Ron Bergman, on the last day of the season Kennedy walked into Charlie Finley's office, expecting an extension.

According to Krumholtz, Charlie wants to understand how the world works.

According to Lauren Aaronson of Popular Science, Charlie ’ s expertise seems a little bit incredible.

In 1979, Musselwhite recorded The Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite in London for Kicking Mule Records, intended to go with an instructional book ; the album itself became so popular that it has been released on CD.

According to Wilson's website, www. unclecharliewilson. com, he is also known as " Uncle Charlie ".

According to Charlie Brown, it is impossible to tell a kite-eating tree from non-kite-eating trees by sight until it catches a kite in its branches, which it slowly devours.

According to her friend, author Steven Gaines, Stein reportedly inspired two movie characters: the real estate agent ( played by Sylvia Miles ) who sells a high-rise apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and a predatory record executive in the 1998 movie 54.

According to CiteSeer, Ian Clarke's " Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System " was the most cited computer science paper of 2000.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane " made an enormous impact on Australian social life ".

According to psychologist Ian Deary, Gould's claim that there is no relation between brain size and IQ is outdated.

According to viol historian Ian Woodfield, there is little evidence that the vihuela de arco was introduced to Italy before the 1490s.

According to Ian Howard, Harthacnut agreed to help Svein recover Norway, and planned an invasion in 1036.

According to Ian Ousby, " although its members denied being a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts ".

According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's " membership list ... reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich ", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer.

According to Ian S. Wood he had little parental supervision, and did not attend school regularly.

According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 ( which is also Ian Fleming's birthday ) to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia, Poland ( then Germany ).

According to the 20 December 2003 broadcast of the Ricky Gervais Show, Gervais later had a band called the Sacred Hearts, which Ian Camfield described as Gervais's " Bon Jovi phase ".

According to Ian Hancock, director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, there also existed a trend to downplay the actual figures.

According to Australian rock historian, Ian McFarlane, they had developed their " own distinctive sound as defined by Kuepper's frenetic, whirlwind guitar style and Bailey's arrogant snarl ".

According to Ian Kershaw, writing in 1998, the consensus of nearly all historians is that Van der Lubbe did, in fact, set the Reichstag fire.

According to Ian Bent ( Bent, 1987 ), analysis is " an approach and method can be traced back to the 1750s ... it existed as a scholarly tool, albeit an auxiliary one, from the Middle Ages onwards.

According to Ian Harries, coracle fisherman, coracles are so light and portable that they can easily be carried on the fisherman's shoulders when proceeding to and from his work.

According to Ian Rankin, John Rebus was born in 1947 and grew up in a pre-fabricated house in Craigmead Terrace, Cardenden, Fife, the son of a stage hypnotist.

According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, SPK were " at the forefront of the local post-punk, electronic / experimental movement of the late 1970s ... music progressed from discordant, industrial-strength metal noise to sophisticated and restrained dance-rock with strange attributes ".

According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane the acronym SPK is variously given as " SoliPsiK, SepPuKu, Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation and Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv ".

According to The Man Who Was M: The Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters, ISBN 0-631-13392-5, The Link was allegedly resurrected in 1940 by Ian Fleming, then working in the Department of Naval Intelligence, in order to successfully lure Rudolf Hess ( deputy party leader and third in leadership of Germany, after Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring ) to Britain in May 1941.

" According to the liner notes, " Cuckoo " was one of the first tunes Ian Anderson learned to play on the flute.

According to Andrew Pixley's notes to the CD Danger Man Original Soundtrack, Ian Fleming was involved with Ralph Smart to bring James Bond to television.

According to the explication of Danuta Shanzer and Ian Wood of Avitus ' notoriously difficult Latin, the bishop writes, " In the past, with ineffable tender-heartedness, you mourned the deaths of your brothers.

According to Bond scholar Henry Chancellor, " the speed and comfort of it impressed Ian, and he shamelessly appropriated this car " for Leiter to drive in the novel.

* A story about a writer creating a story ( e. g. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O ' Brien, Stephen King's Misery and Secret Window, Secret Garden, Ian McEwan's Atonement, The Counterfeiters by André Gide, John Irving's The World According to Garp, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Oracle Night by Paul Auster, More Bears!

According to the critic Ian Hamilton however, Tate and his co-agrarians had been more than ready at the time to overlook the anti-Semitism and pro-Hitlerism of the American Review in order to promote their ' spiritual ' defence of the Deep South's traditions.