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 Cary Darling, a television critic, this attitude is different from serious Westerns and " may hew more to the truth than one might think ".

According to Carl Darling Buck ( Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin ), the – eus suffix is typically used to form an agent noun, in this case from the aorist stem, pers -.

According to Michael Darling, female manga artists who draw lolicon material include Chiho Aoshima ( The red-eyed tribe billboard ), Aya Takano ( Universe Dream wall painting ).

According to Darling, male artists include Henmaru Machino ( untitled, aka Green Caterpillar's Girl ), Hitoshi Tomizawa ( Alien 9, Milk Closet ), and Bome ( sculptures ).

According to Bob Colacello, Darling adopted this name sometime in 1963 / 1964 after she started going to gay bars in Manhattan and making visits to a doctor on Fifth Avenue for hormone injections.

According to the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health trichotillomania is considered a rare disease which, according to their statistics, means that less than 200, 000 people in the United States are affected by this disorder.

According to National Organization for Rare Disorders ( NORD ): when phocomelia is transmitted its familial genetic form it is seen as an autosomal recessive trait and the mutation is linked to chromosome 8

According to Edward Webbe's Rare and Wonderfull Things, published in 1590, Oxford travelled as far as Sicily on his proto-Grand Tour.

According to Ste Pickford, who was part of the team at Rare throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, they just " wanted to make as many games as they could in their ' window of opportunity '".

According to Henson: " Kinect will be the main focus for Rare going forwards as it's a very rich canvas.

According to GameCritics, " It took Rare a whole console generation to do it ..." and that " the wait wasn't really worth it ".

According to Rare member Brendan Gunn, Betteridge found out how to develop cheap backgrounds that took up little space.

According to liner notes about the song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin ( in " Rare Masters " and " Elton John's Christmas Party "), the track and its B-side, both produced by Gus Dudgeon, were recorded during a quickie session at Morgan Studios in London, owned by drummer Barry Morgan, who had played on several of Elton's early albums.

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

According to the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is 36. 7 light years ( 11. 3 parsecs ) from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms.

According to Hipparcos, Alioth is 81 light years ( 25 parsecs ) from Earth.

According to the Bible, the Millennial age of peace all but closes the history of planet Earth.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth.

According to astronomer Letizia Stanghellini, " It ’ s possible that buckyballs from outer space provided seeds for life on Earth .”

According to this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited.

) According to this account, he then concluded that Earth should have been visited long ago and many times over.

According to Mohani Mohamed, the Arabian astronomer Alhazen ( 965 – 1037 ) made the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax, and he thus " determined that because the Milky Way had no parallax, it was very remote from the Earth and did not belong to the atmosphere.

According to Meher Baba the Avatar appears on Earth every 700 – 1400 years and is ' brought down ' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of the time to aid in the process of moving creation in its never-ending journey toward Godhood.

According to a separate estimate by the United Nations, Earth ’ s population exceeded 7 billion in October 2011, a milestone that offers unprecedented challenges and opportunities to all of humanity, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower " with its top in the heavens ... lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth ".

According to Aristotle's physical interpretation of the model, celestial spheres eternally rotate with uniform motion around a stationary Earth.

According to Nesvorny and Jenniskens, when the dust grains are as small as about 150 micrometres in size, they will hit the Earth at an average speed of 14. 5 km / s, many as slowly as 12 km / s.

According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people.

According to Benford, this lens would diffuse the light from the Sun and reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0. 5 % to 1 %.

According to Newton's 3rd Law, the Earth itself experiences a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to that which it exerts on a falling object.

According to the paper by Gary Holian in Oerth Journal, Oerth's circumference is about 42, 024 km, and its radius measures 6, 714 km, about 1 % more than that of Earth.

According to Ovid, Vesta is indeed the Earth itself, the sacred sphere ( orbs ) that makes life possible as we know it: " Vesta is the Earth itself, both have the perennial fire, the Earth and the sacred Fire show their see.

* According to Coulomb's Law, two point charges of + 1 C, placed one meter apart, would experience a repulsive force of 9 N, a force roughly equal to the weight of 920, 000 metric tons of mass on the surface of the Earth.

According to research on the subject that based on new simulations at the ETH Zürich by physicist Andreas Reufer and his colleagues, Theia collided directly with Earth instead of barely swiping it.

According to Greek mythology, Antichthon was placed between Earth and the center of the universe, the throne of Zeus, to stop man from looking at the gods directly.