According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

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 some sources, in the time of Edward III, by the law of the land had been substituted by due process of law, which in those times was a trial by twelve peers.

According to Edward G. Browne, the three most prominent mystical Persian poets Rumi, Sana ' i and Attar were all Sunni Muslims and their poetry abounds with praise for the first two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattāb.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

According to the 2011 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 140, 204 residents.

According to The British Army Website, the insignia was designed by Major Edward Seago in May, 1942.

According to Barbour, Comyn betrayed his agreement with Bruce to King Edward I, and when Bruce arranged a meeting for 10 February 1306 with Comyn in the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery in Dumfries and accused him of treachery, they came to blows.

According to Edward Sapir:

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

According to accounts left by the monk Gervase of Canterbury and eyewitness Edward Grim, they placed their weapons under a tree outside the cathedral and hid their mail armour under cloaks before entering to challenge Becket.

According to Scandinavian tradition, Edward fought alongside Edmund ; as Edward was at most thirteen years old at the time, the story is disputed.

According to the Norman chronicler, William of Jumièges, Robert I, Duke of Normandy attempted an invasion of England to place Edward on the throne in about 1034, but it was blown off course to Jersey.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Edward was sworn in as king alongside Harthacnut, but a diploma issued by Harthacnut in 1042 describes him as the king's brother.

According to his account, shortly before the Battle of Hastings, Harold sent William an envoy who admitted that Edward had promised the throne to William but argued that this was overridden by his deathbed promise to Harold.

According to the Encomium ( see above ), Edward the Confessor already served as co-ruler of England since 1041.

According to historian Jean Edward Smith, Grant and Garfield had a " guarded relationship ", since Grant put Thomas in charge of the Army of the Cumberland, rather than Garfield, after Rosecrans was dismissed.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

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According to John of Worcester, Cnut sent them to the king of Sweden to be murdered, but the king instead sent them to Hungary, where Edmund died but Edward prospered.

According to legend, Isabella and Mortimer famously plotted to murder Edward in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order ( in ) which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ".

According to legend ( recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written several years afterwards though from first-hand accounts ), he did not wait for an answer but dashed out Wenlock's brains with a battleaxe before seeking sanctuary in the Abbey.

According to the Ken Burns ' documentary series, Baseball, one of Mathewson's last words were to his wife: Now Jane, I want you to go outside and have yourself a good cry.

According to co-creator Allan Burns, Minnesota was selected for the show's location after " one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings.

According to his biographer, Burns insisted, " I will defend my title against all comers, none barred.

" According to a regional historian of note, Lillian Burns, the daughter of the early land developer, Owen Burns, the correct pronunciation of the name of the island by its early settlers was, an-na ma-rye-a, since it was named for the strong winds occurring in the area, using the German term for the wind, Maria.

According to Carter Golembe, the Banking Act of 1933 was the “ only important piece of legislation during the New Deal ’ s famous ‘ one hundred days ’ which was neither requested nor supported by the new administration .” In their books on banking events in 1933, Susan Eastabrook Kennedy and Helen Burns concluded that, although the 1933 Banking Act was not part of the New Deal, Roosevelt ultimately preferred it to no banking reform bill even thought it did not provide the more “ far reaching ” reforms ( Kennedy ) or “ fuller solution ” ( Burns ) he sought.

According to Helen Burns “ Roosevelt met with severe criticism from the liberals and the progressives for not nationalizing the bank during the period of crisis .” She states “ there seems little doubt that he could have done this ” but she also concludes Roosevelt “ did not believe in a government-owned and-operated bank ” and was ultimately pragmatic or even conservative in his approach to banking legislation.

According to The Believer, " to make the dialogue fit the chimps ’ lip action, Burns and Marmer went to ridiculous lengths.

According to writer Diane Tracy, Burns was " destined for the part ".

According to the band, Panther Burns is " a Southern Gothic, psychedelic country band influenced by Memphis music styles ".

According to Danny Burns: " Often attack is the only effective form of defence and, as a movement, we should not be ashamed or defensive about these actions, we should be proud of those who did fight back.

According to the UK Government review, the Burns Inquiry, hare coursing also takes place in Pakistan, Portugal and Spain.

According to a review of this study conducted for the Burns Inquiry, " Of the 53 hares killed, 43 had neck injuries, 18 of which were inflicted by the handler ( as evidenced from a clean break and no teeth marks ).

According to Burns, " He and Fridmann gave me a lot of help in understanding the studio process, how it all works, how to take a musical idea and shine it up into a song.

According to the Ken Burns documentary Unforgivable Blackness, Jeanette lost twice, won one fight on a foul after two rounds, had two draws, and five " No Decisions " in his fights against Johnson.

According to legend, Burns wrote the poem after finding a nest full of mice during the winter.

* According to the Ken Burns series Baseball, it is the number of stitches on a baseball.

Following on from this, he wrote and presented a three-part film on Burns for the BBC, The World According to Robert Burns, first on 5 January 2009.

According to George Burns, Ronnie had been the most sickly baby up for adoption from the agency, and Gracie chose him because she particularly felt he needed their help.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Joan Carroll Cruz, his body is incorrupt.

According to the Chronique de la Pucelle, at this meeting with Baudricourt, Joan disclosed that the Dauphin's arms had suffered a great reversal near Orleans that day, and if she were not sent to him soon, there would be others.

According to the much later Chronicles of Savoy, Amadeus married Joan, daughter of " Girard, Count of Burgundy ", who scholars have surmised to have been Count Gerold II of Geneva.

According to the 1989 book Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine, Davis was going through incredible personal torments at this time, which was reflected in her treatment of co-stars on this film, and several others at the time, culminating in a vicious personal attack: apparently, while Davis was away from her dressing room, the eyewash she always used after filming the day's scenes, had been poisoned, causing Davis to scream out in pain.

According to the last will of Frederick III, he named his illegitimate son, William of Aragon, Count of Malta as heir presumptive in this case of the extinction of his daughter's line and although William died in c. 1380, he had a daughter, Joan of Aragon, wife of a Sicilain noble man, Pietro di Gioeni, but she must not have contested the claim of her aunt's husband since Martin continued to rule until his death.

According to the National Book Foundation: " From Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson to Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, The New York Review of Books has consistently employed the liveliest minds in America to think about, write about, and debate books and the issues they raise.

According to George Bernard Shaw in his 1923 play Saint Joan, Cauchon's body was later dug up and thrown into a sewer ; in fact it was Jean d ' Estivet, one of the promoters of the trial, who was found dead in a sewer.

According to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, in her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal, and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life.

According to Richard and Joan Ostling, Hofmann was by this time a " closet apostate " motivated not only by greed but also by " the desire to embarrass the church by undermining church history.

According to the legend of Pope Joan, a woman reigned as pope under the name of John earlier in the 9th century.

According to Patrick Madrid, author of Pope Fiction, a book about the legend of Pope Joan, Pope John VIII himself may have been the origin of the legend.

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

According to the website Allmusic, on In Rape Fantasy And Terror Sex We Trust " Joan of Arc ... once more surpassed themselves as artists ".

According to legend, Joan of Arc prayed before a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus, standing on this stone.

According to Joan Coromines

According to his niece, Joan Radabaugh, Cromwell was a very heavy smoker.

According to Bob Thomas, in his biography of Joan Crawford, Cromwell was a regular at the Saturday Night dinner parties of his former co-star Franchot Tone and then-wife Crawford.

According to her Channel 4 biography, she was celebrity health reporter for the Joan Rivers show, and when she first moved to the United States she co-presented a syndicated radio show called Healthline Across America.

According to a memo by Crow, medical examiner Joan Wood could not be counted on to confidently testify:

According to the ethnographer, Joan Amades, it was a " customary figure in pessebres nativity scenes in the 19th century, because people believed that this deposit fertilized the ground of the pessebre, which became fertile and ensured the pessebre for the following year, and with it, the health of body and peace of mind required to make the pessebre, with the joy and happiness brought by Christmas near the hearth.

According to the story, recounted in several places ( for example, in Sackville-West ), Joan gave out the information that " the Dauphin's arms had that day suffered a great reverse near Orléans ".

According to the Santa Claus: The Movie novelization written by science fiction / fantasy novelist Joan D. Vinge, the elves keep watch over all that happens in the world that borders their own magical realm.

According to Lisa Voigt, the tale of Serrano is loosely based on the historical case of " Maestre Joan ", who stranded on cay of what is now named Serrana Bank in 1528, and was rescued eight years later.