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 Cooney, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Gibbon called her to say " if you still want me, I'm yours.

According to Edward Gibbon, Valentinian III was a poor emperor:

According to historian Edward Gibbon, Majorian " presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species ".< BR >< BR >

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According to Edward Gibbon, Tiberius II was a good emperor:

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing on the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ), the choice was sensible, as:

According to the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon, there was greater tolerance from about 160 CE.

According to Gibbon, the fall was-in the final analysis-inevitable.

According to Edward Gibbon, the temple of Castor served as a secret meeting place for the Roman Senate.

According to Locke, a general idea is created by abstracting, drawing away, or removing the uncommon characteristic or characteristics from several particular ideas.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels.

According to the township web page, Moscow was first called " Little Kalamazoo ," and that the name Moscow was chosen by drawing the name out of a hat.

According to Osho, the Gurdjieff system is incomplete, drawing from Dervish sources inimical to Kundalini.

According to Diogenes Laertius, he forged plays under the name of Thespis, and according to the same author, this time drawing from a different source, Dionysius the Deserter composed plays and forged them under the name of Sophocles.

The device, a set of hollow tubes, suspended over a small cylinder, connected by a cable, conducted a ' drawing ' operation for about an hour and ten minutes ...< p >" According to a reliable source in Ellsworth the following climactic changes took place in that city on the night of July 6 and the early morning of July 7: ' Rain began to fall shortly after ten o ' clock Monday evening, first as a drizzle and then by midnight as a gentle, steady rain.

According to modern scholars drawing primarily on Chinese literary sources, a foreigner named " Huntian " Hùntián established the Kingdom of Funan around the 1st century C. E.

According to information presented on this programme, there are walk-in conventions, one of them drawing approximately 500 people.

According to Jim Bambra, " While primarily drawing on Japan for inspiration, also contains elements of medieval China and Korea.

According to this technique, a " facial angle " was formed by drawing two lines: one horizontally from the nostril to the ear ; and the other perpendicularly from the advancing part of the upper jawbone to the most prominent part of the forehead.

According to his wife, he was working at his drawing table at the time of his death.

According to Professor Noël Carroll, the new genre emphasized sudden shifts between humorous and horrific scenes ; drawing laughs with plot elements that have been traditionally used to scare.

" According to the painter's own definition: " I was drawing with the thirst of one who is being chased around, desperate to quench it and find his refuge.

According to James Hasting's Encyclopædia of religion and ethics ( 1914 ) the presentation in the Gospel of the Hebrews is lifelike, Jewish, and primitive, sometimes bordering on the grotesque and drawing near to the apocalyptic texts.

According to Blondie scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936.

According to Pahls, " For years, had few friends and no sex life ; he was forced to spend many hours at school or on the job, and when he came home he ' escaped ' by drawing home-made comics.

According to commentary on the Star Trek Generations DVD, one of the real world reasons for the Enterprise-D's destruction stems from a concept drawing of a saucer section landing, produced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.

According to a drawing published by H. T. Webster in 1916, he had a boyhood ambition to be a railway conductor.

According to Björneborn and Ingwersen ( 2004 ), the definition of webometrics is " the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches.

According to architect James Gandon's autobiography, Thomas and his brother Paul ran a drawing academy in Nottingham before they came up to London in 1741, in order to take up employment in the military drawing department at the Tower of London ( a post procured for them by John Plumptre, MP for Nottingham ).