According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to this view, it is not considered to be read as a prophecy of western political history or of an eschatological future.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search and rescue operation.

According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

According to Mintz, conspiracism denotes " belief in the primacy of conspiracies in the unfolding of history ":" Conspiracism serves the needs of diverse political and social groups in America and elsewhere.

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

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to National Football League history, it legalized the forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage on February 25, 1933.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

According to Marxist theorists, history develops in accordance with the following observations:

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

According to Jaspers, this is the era of history when " the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently ... And these are the foundations upon which humanity still subsists today ".

According to Kuhn, each new paradigm re-writes the history of its science to present by selection and distortions the former paradigm as its forerunner.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

According to Charles Rostaing, this act of formal ' foundation ,' according certain privileges to the town, was a means of regenerating the destroyed town of Barcilona.

According to the Book of Ruth, the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi.

" According to Dhanis ' medical officer, Captain Hinde, their town of Ngandu had " at least 2, 000 polished human skulls " as a " solid white pavement in front " of its gates, with human skulls crowning every post of the stockade.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 1. 79 %) is water.

According to Dedham's Charter, the " administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the town, with the government thereof, shall be vested in a legislative branch, to consist of a representative town meeting.

According to Josephus, the Essenes had settled " not in one city " but " in large numbers in every town ".

According to oral tradition, they fought against the Abyssinians and uprooted Christian communities in Galgala, a town that used to have churches and temples.

According to the 2010 census, the town has a total area of, all land.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 2. 52 % of the town.

" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 36. 53 %) is water.

According to Japan Statistical Yearbook 2011, Japan has approximately 1, 203, 600 km of roads made up of 1, 012, 000 km of city, town and village roads, 129, 000 km of prefectural roads, 55, 000 km of general national highways and 7, 600 km of national expressways.

According to Brown ( 1971 ), the increased professionalization of tax collection did much to destroy the traditional structures of provincial life, as it weakened the autonomy of the town councils in the Greek towns.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 0. 43 % of the town.

According to tradition, Pietro Angelerio was born to parents Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in a town called Sant ' Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia ( Sicily ).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

According to Athenaeus, Sappho often praised Larichus for pouring wine in the town hall of Mytilene, an office held by boys of the best families.

According to the vitae Boniface felled the Donar Oak, Latinized by Willibald as " Jupiter's oak ," near the present-day town of Fritzlar in northern Hesse.