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 the editors of Dragon magazine, Pool of Radiance was based on Ruins of Adventure, and not vice versa.

According to the 2003 non-canon Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III, Harriman remains in command of the Enterprise-B for nearly twenty years, and develops a reputation as an excellent and capable officer.

According to the editors of Dragon magazine, Pool of Radiance was based on Ruins of Adventure, and not vice versa.

According to Gildas, Ambrosius organised the survivors into an armed force and achieved the first military victory over the Saxon invaders.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to Patricia Knight, this was only achieved in part.

According to WBZ-TV, the team joined three NBA teams which achieved 500 consecutive home sellouts.

According to the record label this became one of the reasons that the Pixies never achieved major coverage on MTV.

" () According to the current Roman Catholic Pope, Benedict XVI, " Peace is achieved by consciences that are open to the truth and to love "

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the current record for the greatest distance achieved in hurling an object from a sling is:, using a long sling and a dart.

André-Marie Ampère achieved the same results three years later by another method ( in his -- On the Determination of Proportions in which Bodies Combine According to the Number and the Respective Disposition of the Molecules by Which Their Integral Particles Are Made ), but the same indifference was shown to his theory as well.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

According to his biography, he achieved everything he wanted and after staying overnight in Pamplona, on his way back his army was attacked in Roncesvaux in 812, but didn't suffer defeat thanks to the precautions he had taken.

According to Hubbard, his research was achieved at the cost of a broken back, knee and arm.

According to archaeologist Jonathan N. Tubb, " Ammonites, Moabites, Israelites and Phoenicians undoubtedly achieved their own cultural identities, and yet ethnically they were all Canaanites " " the same people who settled in farming villages in the region in the 8th millennium BC.

According to his memoirs written after the war, the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although a major breakthrough might no longer be achieved, the French army could still be defeated if it suffered a sufficient number of casualties.

* Star Trek: The Next Generation (" The High Ground ", 1990 ): According to Data, the reunification of Ireland in 2024 is achieved through British reconquest.

According to her article Empowering Women, Shiva suggests that a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved through reinstating a system of farming in India that is more centered on engaging women.

According to West and Fowler ( 1999 ) " if this is done consistently across systems then compatibility of data can be achieved.

According to an interview with host Jeff Probst, this change achieved a " happy medium " of the previous idol / immunity mechanisms.

According to the Suda, he heaped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated Theophrastus as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus himself had coveted having achieved great distinction as a pupil of Aristotle.

According to some tales, Isis achieved the queenship of heaven by poisoning Ra with a serpent and refusing to heal him until he told her his secret name.

According to the 2010 census, the village achieved the second highest growth rate in Cuyahoga County: 53 % as the population increased from 117 to 179, although the last house was built in 1968 and there are only 37 residential addresses.

According to Talmon, totalitarian democracy sees freedom as something achieved only in the long term, and only through collective effort ; the political goal of ultimate order and ultimate harmony brings ultimate freedom.

According to the critic W J Turner the LSO's problem was not that its playing had deteriorated, but that it had failed to keep up with the considerable improvements in playing achieved over the past two decades by the best European and American orchestras.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin ( 1892 ), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March.

According to Festinger, we engage in a process he termed " dissonance reduction ", which he said could be achieved in one of three ways: lowering the importance of one of the discordant factors, adding consonant elements, or changing one of the dissonant factors.