According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

According to Jeff Evans, On the Buses is a " cheerfully vulgar comedy " in which " leering and innuendo dominate.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

According to British historian of Germany Richard J. Evans:

According to Craig A. Evans " The Cynic hypothesis will in time assuredly be consigned to the dustbin of ill-conceived hypotheses, but it will be useful nonetheless to appeal to it as our point of departure.

According to the evidence introduced by Richard J. Evans at the libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt in 2000, Irving based his estimates of the dead of Dresden on the word of one individual who provided no supporting documentation, used forged documents, and described one witness who was a urologist as Dresden's Deputy Chief Medical Officer.

According to Mike Evans in his book Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul ( 2007 ), the singer developed his hit " What'd I Say " as part of an after-show jam in Brownsville in December 1958.

According to Benjamin's biographer, Eli Evans, no evidence for this assertion has been found by historians.

According to Novak and Evans, the documents showed that Letelier was in constant contact with the leadership of the Unidad Popular exiled in East Berlin and supported by the East German Government.

According to Novak, Evans and Anderson, documents in the briefcase showed that Letelier had maintained contact with Salvador Allende's daughter, Beatriz Allende, wife of Cuban DGI station chief Luis Fernandez Ona.

According to Novak and Evans, Letelier was able to receive funding of $ 5, 000 a month from the Cuban government and under the supervision of Beatriz Allende, he used his contacts within the Institute for Policy Studies ( IPS ) and western human rights groups to organize a campaign within the United Nations as well as the US Congress to isolate the new Chilean government.

According to Reuben Fine, the Evans poses a challenge for Black since the usual defenses ( play ... d6 and / or give back the gambit pawn ) are more difficult to pull off than with other gambits ( Interestingly, Fine was beaten by this gambit in a friendly game against Bobby Fischer, in just 17 moves: Fischer-Fine 1963 1-0.

According to Harold Evans, " here was no invitation to the White House for Sipple, not even a commendation.

* According to the song " In the Year 2525 " by Zager and Evans, by this time in human history, man will be blind and fed through tubes.

* According to the song " In the Year 2525 " by Zager and Evans, by the year 5555, machines will have taken over all physical tasks, eventually rendering man's arms and legs useless.

According to the lodging house deputy Tim Donovan and the watchman John Evans, at about 1: 45 a. m. on the morning of her death, Chapman found herself without money for her lodging and went out to earn some on the street.

According to some accounts, many of Cobb's Detroit Tigers teammates " rooted " for Evans.

According to Doug Smith's As Many Liars ( a literary overview of the scandal ), Evans was able to confirm this information through a discussion with Allan Aitken, a PC organizer in the region ( who had previously been among Evans's personal friends ).

According to Richard J. Evans, Weizsäcker shared the opinion of Ulrich von Hassell that the Final Solution was a " devilish campaign ".

According to South Carolina Marine Resources Department spokesperson Johnny Evans the tracks neither matched, nor could be mistaken for, the footprints of any recorded animal.

According to political scientist Alexander Evans, approximately 95 % of the total population of 160, 000 – 170, 000 of Kashmiri Brahmins, also called Kashmiri Pandits, ( approximately 150, 000 to 160, 000 ) left the Kashmir Valley in 1990 due to the fear of Armed rebellion which was capitalised by Indian state to push them out of the state.

According to historian Robert M. Utley, Robert Martin was a member of the Jesse Evans gang of outlaws in New Mexico during the mid-to-late 1870s.

According to the Han Shu 21a, 973, for the moment of unification the Middle kingdoms had 6 different calendars: those of the mythological progenitors Yellow Emperor ( 黄帝曆 ) and Zhuanxu ( 顓頊曆 ); of the dynasties Xia ( 夏曆 ), Yin ( 殷曆 ), and Zhou ( 周曆 ), and of the Zhou Dynasty state of Lu ( 鲁曆 ).

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

According to the FamilyTreeDNA Rurikid Dynasty DNA Project, Rurik appears to have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup N1c1, based on testing of his modern male line descendants.

According to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Daoxuan, Shaolin Monastery was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the central peak of Mount Song, one of the Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.

According to Matthew Polly, a travel writer and martial artist, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong granted the Shaolin Temple extra land and special " imperial dispensation " to eat meat, and drink, which would make Shaolin the only temple in China that did not prohibit alcohol, although this practice has ceased today.

According to Song Dynasty sources, it originated around the 10th century.

* According to Wang Yangming ( 1472 – 1529 ), the Ming Dynasty philosopher and governor of Jiangxi, China, he intends to use fo – lang – ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chenhao in this year.

According to tradition, Haile Selassie was the 225th in an unbroken line of Ethiopian monarchs of the Solomonic Dynasty.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon Xiang Yu appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong.

According to ancient Chinese texts, before the Xia Dynasty was established, battles were frequent between the Xia tribe and Chi You's tribe.

According to this document, the Byzantine emperor's ancestors were not mere peasants as everyone believed but descendants of the Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia.

According to Yuanshi, the official history of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols militarily subdued the Guwei ( 骨嵬, Gǔwéi ), and by 1308, all inhabitants of Sakhalin had surrendered to the Mongols.

According to Wei Yuan's work Military history of the Qing Dynasty (), the Later Jin sent 400 troops to Sakhalin in 1616, after a newfound interest because of northern Japanese contacts with the area, but later withdrew as it was considered there was no threat from the island.

* According to legend, the Hồng Bàng Dynasty comes to an end.

According to the structure, calligraphy and content of the inscriptions on tomb bricks and to the tomb finds, the tomb is commonly believed to have been built during the Eastern Han Dynasty ( AD 25-220 ) although the Southern Dynasties period was also suggested.

According to historians, it was incorporated into Chinese law during the Zhou Dynasty.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, the practice was started by Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, who had 66 people buried with him in 678 BC.

According to the Bei Shi ( Dynastic History of Northern Dynasties ) and the Sui Shu ( Chronicles of the Sui Dynasty ), both Chinese records, this area belong originally to the territory one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes ().

According to Manetho, his worship was instituted by Kaiechos of the Second Dynasty.

According to the noble system since the Zhou Dynasty, the immediate family members of the Emperor were given the titles of Kings ( or Princes ), Dukes, Earls, etc., with or without actual control over a region of land.

According to Joseph R. Strayer, the concept of feudalism can also be applied to the societies of ancient Persia, ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt ( Sixth to Twelfth dynasty ), Muslim India, China ( Zhou Dynasty, and end of Han Dynasty ) and Japan during the Shogunate.

According to some reports, Zhu is a 18th generation descendent of Zhu Bian ( 朱楩 ), titled Prince of Min ( 岷王 ), the 18th son of Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the Korean historical document Samguk Sagi ( 삼국사기, 三國史記 ), Goguryeo sent a diplomatic representative to the Han Dynasty in 32 AD, and the Emperor Guangwu of Han granted the official rank of Goguryeo.

According to the Book of Song, of the Liu Song Dynasty,