According to Dickinson, before running to his post, Crockett paused briefly in the chapel to say a prayer.

According to Dickinson, the band was called Speed because of the way in which they played, rather than a reference to drug-taking.

" According to Harris, Dickinson would only perform when the press was there, whereas at other concerts he would only mumble his way through songs.

According to the DVD commentary, leading lady Angie Dickinson received the news during filming that her friend ( and rumored romantic partner ) President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed.

According to Kirk Douglas ' autobiography The Ragman's Son, Reagan regretted doing the movie, particularly because of a scene in which he slaps Dickinson.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

According to accounts in the Zuo Zhuan and Shiji, Confucius departed his homeland in 497 BC after his support to the failed attempt of dismantling the fortified city walls of the powerful Ji, Meng, and Shu families.

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 the archival caption, these men are planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of 8 November 1939 in Munich.

According to this view, when the female portion of Adam separated to form Eve, disharmony followed, but one could attempt to regain harmony through celibacy.

According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Mehmet Ali Ağca had worked with Abdullah Çatlı in the 1979 assassination, who " then reportedly helped organize Ağca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Çatlı was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt ".

According to Mehnert, the Soviets attempt to control academic historiography ( the writing of history by academic historians ) to promote ideological and ethno-racial imperialism by Russians.

( According to Dawson, the Vikings were shocked that the Chiefs would attempt a 48-yard field goal.

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".

According to stories that may have legendary elements, an attempt was made to seize William at Valognes, but he escaped under cover of darkness, seeking refuge with King Henry.

According to the later Arabic sources, Kaleb retaliated by sending a force of 3, 000 men under a relative, but the troops defected and killed their leader, and a second attempt at reigning in the rebellious Abraha also failed.

According to a contemporary account by theologian, Sheikh Yusuf Al Bahrani, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Persians and their Bedouin allies to take back Bahrain from the Kharijite Omanis, much of the country was burnt to the ground.

According to McNamara, the arms race was in part an attempt to make sure that no nation gained first strike capability.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

According to this narrative, any well-intentioned attempt to fundamentally change the status quo is naively utopian and will result in more oppressive conditions.

According to critics, the two-week timeline and quasi-democratic composition of the convention is evidence of an attempt by John Howard to frustrate the republican cause.

According to Pierce, " The historical reality of the battle has been reworked and reinterpreted in a conscious attempt to give purpose and meaning to an event that came to symbolize Canada's coming of age as a nation.

According to Eduard Perroy, Pope Urban VI actually sanctioned the marriage between Richard and Anne, in an attempt to create an alliance on his behalf, in particular so that he might be stronger against the French, and their preferred pope, Clement.

According to the Israeli government, the Israeli's trust in the accords was undermined by the fact that after the signing, the attacks against Israel intensified, which some explained as an attempt by certain Palestinian organizations to thwart the peace process.

According to Rosa, Blackheart Beagle semi-retired in 1947, following a failed attempt at robbing Scrooge's money bin.

According to Chris Taylor, lead designer of Supreme Commander, he said, " first attempt at visualizing RTSs in a fresh and interesting new way was my realizing that although we call this genre ' Real-Time Strategy ,' it should have been called ' Real-Time Tactics ' with a dash of strategy thrown in.

According to Enthoven and Smith, the basic ideas of PPBS were: " the attempt to put defense program issues into a broader context and to search for explicit measures of national need and adequacy "; " consideration of military needs and costs together "; " explicit consideration of alternatives at the top decision level "; " the active use of an analytical staff at the top policymaking levels "; " a plan combining both forces and costs which projected into the future the foreseeable implications of current decisions "; and " open and explicit analysis, that is, each analysis should be made available to all interested parties, so that they can examine the calculations, data, and assumptions and retrace the steps leading to the conclusions.

According to records from the time, Galti headed the first Norse attempt to colonize Greenland, which ended in disaster.

According to Lynn Townsend White, Jr., the Andalusian inventor, Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810-887 ), made the earliest attempt at creating " some sort of metronome.

According to a 19th century legend, he would often go to London to pay unofficial visits to St Paul's, to check on the progress of " my greatest work ".

According to Hebrew folklore, Noah sends a white raven to check conditions while on the ark.

According to local folklore, the priory is haunted by the ghost of a monk in a black habit who returns to the ruins annually to check that its buried treasure has not been disturbed.

According to an eye witness, an employee of the Norwegian High Command with a security clearance, Stoltenberg went over to check on the other car twice, and the eye witness thought he fastened a note to the windscreen of the damaged car.

According to E. 118, the number is up to 19 digits long, including a single check digit calculated using the Luhn algorithm.

According to Sarah Brady, had a background check been conducted on Hinckley, it could have detected some, or all, of this important criminal and mental health history.

According to the Boston Evening Transcript of October 4, 1904, Dugan had deposited a forged check for $ 955 in the Peoples Bank of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and convinced the bank manager to let him withdraw $ 500.

According to McNab's account, the group evicted all occupants from the taxi and drove until they reached a check point, where Lane shot and killed one soldier, while the others in the group killed two more.

According to Time magazine, before the first IAF conference in Carrara could begin, firemen were called to check the venue for bombs.

According to the movement's chairman, then Colonel ( NS ) David Wong, the Speak Good English Movement aims to build a sense of pride that Singaporeans can speak good English, as opposed to Singlish, as well as to check the trend where Singaporeans use Singlish as a way of identifying themselves.

According to her, Ungar believed that if you had a bank account and wrote a check, the check would be honored ; not understanding that you need to take cash to the bank and deposit it to have the funds available to write a check first.

According to the letter, courts, in violation of procedural rules, do not analyze expert report, its coherence and consistency in all its parts, do not check experts ’ findings for their accuracy, completeness, and objectivity.

According to Deming, during his lectures in Japan in the early 1950s, the Japanese participants shortened the steps to the now traditional plan, do, check, act.

According to the FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in endemic areas, but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination.

According to HBC Heritage Services, eBay is a good place to check current market values.

According to local tradition, the initial purpose of the gun was to allow ships in port to check the accuracy of their marine chronometers ( a precision instrument used aboard ships to help calculate longitude ).

According to the one page that remained at Stratfor's web site, the " Site is currently undergoing maintenance Please check back soon ".

According to the Internal Revenue Service, 77 % of tax returns filed in 2004 received a refund check, with the average refund check being $ 2, 100.

According to Mylon, writing the song took about twenty minutes and produced an initial royalty check of approximately $ 90, 000.

According to a former controller at TigerDirect, improperly unpaid rebates were intentional: "... the concept was that if the customer complains you send them out the check to make them happy.