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 Pratt on Twitter, they feature an uncredited guitar performance by David Gilmour.

According to him, Gilmour came up with some of the melodic lines, while the pair of them along with Wright worked on the middle section with the choir.

According to Mason, Gilmour, having had little songwriting experience at that point, was ordered to remain in Abbey Road until he had composed a song suitable for inclusion on the album.

According to David Gilmour, " the inhabitants were furious that Abdullah I of Jordan had simply handed them over to Israel but were relieved that they were to be reunited with their land.

According to Roger Staubach, the Cowboys ' game plan was to neutralize the Dolphins ' key offensive and defensive players — Paul Warfield and Nick Buoniconti.

According to Hogan, this would result in behavior that members of his family would never exhibit in real life, as when his son, Nick tossed water balloons at neighbors from a window, or when his wife would wake up early to apply makeup and do her hair before camera crews arrived to film shots of the couple sleeping.

According to the book A History of Murphy's Law by author Nick T. Spark, differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who first coined the saying Murphy's law.

According to Nick Tredennick, a microprocessor designer and expert witness to the Boone / Hyatt patent case:

According to Nick Reding, the village has a total area of, all of it land.

According to Nick Kent ( soon to play a prominent part in the paper's revival ):

According to Nick Webb, the writer of Adams's official biography, he claimed that, " Douglas's view of the Krikkitmen would be similar to his view of people who resolutely decline to learn what science can tell us about the universe we inhabit.

According to Rosemary Wells on the Nick Jr. website, " Max & Ruby celebrates the relationship between Ruby and her younger brother, Max, and the universal nature of sibling relationships.

According to A & R Nick Raphael in an interview with HitQuarters, there was no initial clamour to sign the band, " There couldn ’ t have been less of a buzz, and only two record labels showed any interest in them.

* According to Nick Hancock, a guest on one of the first episodes ( whose identity he did not reveal ) failed to grasp the humorous nature of the show and nominated " man's inhumanity to man ".

" According to American Film ( 1986 ), " Nick Adams, who was ... gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor in Pillow Talk.

According to Filipino writer and historian Nick Joaquin however, the main objective of the Americans was not to pursue Aguinaldo but to keep him away from linking up with the elite Tinio Brigade, which was under the command of Manuel Tinio.

According to an interview by Katherine Herrup of the New York Sun with Nick Gillespie ( current editor-in-chief of Reason TV ), Carey initially proposed the idea for Reason TV after reading Reason magazine for years.

" According to Bach, Nick is not legally allowed to enter Canada.

According to drummer Nick Mason, a suggestion for the title of the box set was The Big Bong Theory.

According to Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd almost got banned from the Boston Garden after their 1977 performances because the band, unknown to the venue's owners, used pyrotechnics during their performance ( the exploding pig for " Pigs ( Three Different Ones )" and firework displays on " Sheep " and " Money ").

According to Berg's father, Nick Berg had a chance encounter with an acquaintance of Moussaoui on a bus in Norman, Oklahoma.

According to Market Watch, Nick at Nite is the top cable network with Adults 18-49.

According to Ellerbee: " I was honored when I was named the host of Nick News.

According to McNab on his 2011 book signing tour, either Jason Statham or Tom Hardy will play the lead role of Nick Stone.

According to Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine, this episode " pretty much sums up how most libertarians approach politics.

According to Nick Tosches, Ace actually shot himself with a. 32 pistol, not a. 22, and it happened only a little more than an hour after he had bought a brand new 1955 Oldsmobile.

According to National Artist Nick Joaquin “ he is presumed to be of native birth ,” with mixed Tagalog and Kapampangan descent.

According to Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, " The concept Borges described in ' The Garden of Forking Paths '— in several layers of the story, but most directly in the combination book and maze of Ts ' ui Pên — is that of a novel that can be read in multiple ways, a hypertext novel.