According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

According to David Robinson, this also had an effect on the quality of the film.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to David G. Myers ( Psychology, 8th ed.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to midrashim, Adam gave up 70 years of his life for the life of David.

According to David Vine, " Today, at any given time, 3, 000 to 5, 000 U. S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island.

According to David Biello and John Pavlus in Scientific American, Singer is best known for his denial of the health risks of passive smoking.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to David Stern, all Rabbinic hermeneutics rest on two basic axioms:

According to epidemiologist David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health in the Clinton Administration, the tobacco industry invented the " sound science " movement in the 1980s as part of their campaign against the regulation of second-hand smoke.

According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of King David, hence the title nasi, meaning prince.

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Olympics, while playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Cuba in 1958, Weissmuller's golf cart was suddenly captured by rebel soldiers.

According to Jacob Adler, Wilson Barrett was the most famous actor on the London stage of the 1880s.

" According to Grove's successor at Intel, Craig Barrett, " It's give and take, and anyone in the company can yell at him.

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing in The Miami Herald: " The pictures were taken in July, said International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Bernard Barrett, under an agreement with prison camp staff that lets Red Cross delegates photograph detainees and send photos to family members.

According to Francis Barrett, Astaroth is the prince of accusers and inquisitors.

According to an article published in CBC News Online, some people allege that Michael Walker helped set up the Institute after he received financial backing from forestry giant MacMillan Bloedel, largely to counter British Columbia's NDP government then led by premier Dave Barrett.

According to the National Journal Barrett is among the most conservative members of the U. S. House of Representatives.

According to the Double-Tongued Dictionary, written by American lexicographer Grant Barrett, the term " anchor baby " means " a child born of an immigrant in the United States, said to be a device by which a family can find legal foothold in the US, since those children are automatically allowed to choose United States citizenship.

According to Barrett, the most common accusation made against groups referred to as cults is sexual abuse ( see some allegations made by former members ).

According to Barrett, the “ true diviners ,” also known as the “ diviners of God ,” are the most respected of the ngimurok because they receive revelations directly from Akuj, normally through dreams.

According to Jon Barrett of The Advocate, he is generally accepted to be one of a group of passengers who fought with the hijackers aboard the flight, which eventually led to the hijackers crashing the plane into a vacant field in Pennsylvania instead of targets in Washington, D. C .. At the time of his death, there were around eight gay-inclusive rugby clubs worldwide, and he was helping to create others.

According to the records of the Order, the manuscripts were passed from Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, a Masonic scholar, to Rev.

According to Jean-Pierre Bayard, two Rosicrucian-inspired Masonic rites emerged towards the end of 18th century,

According to the predominant view by historians, Smith used and adapted material from the Masonic rituals in creating the endowment ceremony.

According to tradition, the first Masonic Lodge in France was founded in 1688 by a Royal Irish Regiment that followed the deposed King James II of England into exile.

According to Waite the main star is l ' Etoile Flamboyante of the Masonic tradition.

According to Masonic historian Arturo de Hoyos, the word Jahbulon was first used in the 18th century in early French versions of the Royal Arch degree.

According to data provided by TFI to researcher Bill Bainbridge, from 1974 until 1987, members had sexual contact with 223, 989 people while practicing Flirty Fishing.

According to Weber's theses, social research cannot be fully inductive or descriptive, because understanding some phenomenon implies that the researcher must go beyond mere description and interpret it ; interpretation requires classification according to abstract " ideal ( pure ) types ".

According to the psychical researcher D. Scott Rogo " Unfortunately it is extremely hard for anyone to design a foolproof experiment to prove any one theory of psi.

According to them, two of the patents granted to WARF are invalid because they cover a technique published in 1993 for which a patent had already been granted to an Australian researcher.

According to researcher Siddharth Kara, the profits generated worldwide by all forms of slavery in 2007 were $ 91. 2 billion.

According to prominent ECT researcher Harold Sackeim, " despite over fifty years of clinical use and ongoing controversy ", until 2007 there had " never been a large-scale, prospective study of the cognitive effects of ECT.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

According to Cormac Herley, a researcher for Microsoft, " By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible, the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select.

According to the lead researcher " In theory, should work against all viruses.

According to researcher May Oueida's thesis on the speech, he adopted a theme of successfully bridging the different sounds of Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Arabic, and rose to a classical Arabic without losing or boring his audience.

According to the Russian researcher A.

According to a study by a researcher at the Wharton Business School, the number of American companies deregistering from public stock exchanges nearly tripled during the year after Sarbanes – Oxley became law, while the New York Stock Exchange had only 10 new foreign listings in all of 2004.

According to Fred Guweddeko, a researcher at Makerere University, Idi Amin was the son of Andreas Nyabire ( 1889 – 1976 ).

According to Sousa researcher Paul Bierley, Sousa ’ s marches were known for simplicity and understatement, with rousing counterpoint and overall energy.

According to the findings of British researcher Tudor Parfitt, the location of Senna was more than likely in Yemen, specifically, in the village of Sanāw within the easternmost portion of the Wadi Hadhramaut.

According to Stieg Larsson, a researcher of white supremacist organizations, the group was instead styled on the then already defunct US White supremacist group The Order, led by Robert Matthews.

According to researcher Sari Kawana, he was one of the writers involved in writing " mad scientist murders ," a subgenre within the larger stream of Japanese detective fiction during the 1920s and 1930s.

According to David A. Klarner, a leading researcher and contributor to the study of polyominoes, it is possible to cut a rectangle into an odd number of congruent, non-rectangular polyominoes.

According to Fedel Handhal, a researcher in the history and culture of the UAE, the word Dubai may have come from the word Daba ( a derivative of Yadub, which means to creep ); referring to the slow flow of Dubai Creek inland.

According to the independent socionics researcher Rostislav Persion:

According to Pahlavi researcher Aban Tahmasebi, most of the Iranian cities faced a new health life, and they could finally begin to feel their life was similar to life in western countries.

According to Bell ( 2002 ), the benefits of narrative inquiry include the following: narrative provides the researcher with an understanding of an experience ; narrative gives the researcher access to stories or themes that the story teller may not even be conscious of ; narrative highlights changing perspectives and understanding of people and events as a function of time in the evaluation of an experience.

According to raptor researcher Dr Stephen Debus, this species did not suffer from eggshell thinning during the period of DDT use in Australia, though he believes it is possible that secondary poisoning may occur from rodenticides used during mouse plagues or from pesticides used during locust plagues.