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 Rose, he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water, got a hooked pole from the pool-equipment locker and started hauling him out.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to Ivinskaya, " He did not believe that we would ever publish the manuscript here and felt he had no right to withhold a masterpiece from the world -- this would be an even greater crime.

According to Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

According to founder Justin Lee, " We're just trying to get people together who experience attraction to the same sex, however they have handled that, and who love Jesus and say, OK, you are welcome here, and then let's pray together and figure out where God wants us to take it.

According to Manolo Sanlúcar E is here the tonic, F has the harmonic function of dominant while Am and G assume the functions of subdominant and mediant respectively.

According to Lovecraft there is a copy of the Necronomicon here, but the University of Buenos Aires never had a central library.

According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the child Christ.

According to design investigations, luminaires with full cutoff distributions ( as opposed to cutoff or semi cutoff, compared here ) have to be closer together to meet the same light level, uniformity and glare requirements specified by the IESNA.

According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, " Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape.

According to a new theory, Bishop Jordan, Bishop of Poland | Jordan was buried here, while Mieszko's grave location is probably the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Ostrów Tumski, Poznań | Ostrów Tumski palace | palatium complex.

According to a legend, the nymph Arethusa, hunted by Alpheus, took shelter here.

According to law professor H. Patrick Glenn of the Canadian McGill University, located in Montreal, Quebec, " oday it is said that the dhimmi are ' excluded from the specifically Muslim privileges, but on the other hand they are excluded from the specifically Muslim duties ' while ( and here there are clear parallels with western public and private law treatment of aliens – Fremdenrecht, la condition de estrangers ), ' or the rest, the Muslim and the dhimmi are equal in practically the whole of the law of property and of contracts and obligations '.

According to David Goodstein of Caltech, there are motivators for scientists to commit misconduct, which are briefly summarised here.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

According to Islamic texts, the prophet Ibrahim ( Abraham ) was thrown into the fire here.

According to police, Shakur knocked on the door of a room occupied by an out-of-town guest and asked " Is there a party going on here?

According to a near-contemporary, when beginning to plan a composition, he would lay out a large number of stock drawings of his on the floor, and begin to draw " rapidly ", borrowing figures from here and there.

According to Thomas Taylor, " the dramatic shows of the Lesser Mysteries occultly signified the miseries of the soul while in subjection to the body, so those of the Greater obscurely intimated, by mystic and splendid visions, the felicity of the soul both here and hereafter, when purified from the defilements of a material nature and constantly elevated to the realities of intellectual vision.

" According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ), Constantius was sent to Britain by the Senate after Asclepiodotus, here a British king, was overthrown by Coel of Colchester.

" According to Schlegel, " he Hopi no longer live as they are described here " and " he attitude of female superiority is fading ".

According to some sources, Aeneas ( shown here with the Penates in a 4th-century illustration ) was one of the novensiles