According to the Gulf Daily News in 2009 Al Khalifa was the President of the Bahrain Football Association, and was Bahrain's candidate to sit on FIFA's governing body.

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

According to observations of structures larger than solar systems, as well as Big Bang cosmology interpreted under the Friedmann equations and the FLRW metric, dark matter accounts for 23 % of the mass-energy content of the observable universe.

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According to current scientific theory, the cosmos began 13. 7 billion years ago short scale in the Big Bang.

She got her start in supporting roles in The World According to Garp ( 1982 ), The Big Chill ( 1983 ), and The Natural ( 1984 ), which all earned her nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has been nominated for six Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, and Albert Nobbs and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp ( her first film ).

According to general relativity, the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity.

According to the strip, scores of locals were done in yearly by the toxic fumes of the concentrated " skonk oil ", which was brewed and barreled daily by " Big Barnsmell " ( known as the lonely " inside man " at the Skonk Works ), by grinding dead skunks and worn shoes into a smoldering still, for some mysterious, never specified purpose.

According to The Lord of the Rings, they have lost the genealogical details of how they are related to the Big People.

According to Garraty's father, he is " a society-supported sociopath ", and he bears a strong physical resemblance to depictions of Big Brother from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

According to the Big Mac index, the yen was 12 % undervalued against the dollar, whereas it was 13 % overvalued according to the tall latte index.

There have been two official video releases, a VHS only video titled Big Screen Television ( also referred to as The World According to Bart ) and a DVD titled A Diversion.

According to the Big 12 Conference's website, the alternate names " Big Twelve " and " Big XII " are incorrect.

According to an anonymous source, the Big East Conference will be paid $ 20 million, of which $ 11 million will be paid by West Virginia and $ 9 million by the Big 12 Conference.

According to the Internet Accuracy Project, disk jockey-singer J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson was the first to coin the phrase " music video ", in 1959.

According to local tradition, one of the chimneys of the " Big Chimneys " house and tavern was inscribed " 1699 "; based on this claim, 1699 is often taken to be the first European settlement in the immediate vicinity.

According to the National Weather Service, the warmest month at Big Bear is July, when the average high is 80. 7 ° F ( 27. 1 ° C ) and the average low is 47. 1 ° F ( 8. 4 ° C ).

According to an 1849 description of what were then called the Big Meadows, " This marsh for three miles is certainly the liveliest place that one could witness in a lifetime.

According to old German literature, dragoons were invented by Count Ernst von Mansfeld, one of the greatest German military commanders, in the early 1620s.

According to a very common legend, Count Andrássy had a long lasting romance with Queen Elisabeth ( Sissy ), wife of Emperor and King Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, and fathered their only son, Archduke Rudolf.

* 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

According to the Count, sprezzatura is amongst one of the most important, if not the most important, rhetorical device the courtier needs.

According to the mediæval chronicler Berthold of Reichenau, the nobleman Burkhard I, Count of Zollern ( de Zolorin ) was born before 1025 and died in 1061.

According to the Count of Hezecques, " few beauties were cruel to him.

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 Luc Sante, " The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

According to Judy Garland in an interview, although she first sang " You Made Me Love You " for Clark Gable, she was disappointed because she really had wanted to sing it for her idol Donat, to whom she wrote a fan letter after seeing The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1934 ).

According to legend, the first European ever to be cured from malaria fever was the countess of Chinchón, the wife of the Spanish Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón-the Viceroy of Peru.

According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers ( known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation ), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or 6 September in the Julian calendar (− 3113 astronomical ).

According to the plan of the German general Karl Ludwig von Phull, the Russian troops under the command of Count Michael Barclay de Tolly had to face the Grande Armée at Vilnius region, the remaining troops under general Pyotr Bagration would launch an attack to the French's southern flank and rear.

According to legend, Baldwin Iron Arm, Count of Flanders, kidnapped Judith, the daughter of Charles the Bold in 862 in Senlis and brought her to a fortress that used to be where the present Rumbeke Castle stands.

According to Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥakam writing around 860, Ṭāriq, commander of the Arab-Berber garrison of Tangiers, crossed the straits of Gibraltar with ships from a certain Count Julian ( Arabic Ilyan ), lord of Ceuta and " Alchadra " ( Algeciras ), and landed near Cartagena, which he took and made his headquarters.

* 3114 BC — According to the most widely accepted correlations between the Western calendar and the calendar systems of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the mythical starting point of the current Mesoamerican Long Count calendar cycle occurs in this year.

According to David Hunter, the Count contributed some of the songs to L ' incostanza delusa, an opera performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London on all but one of the Saturdays from the 9th of February to the 20th of April 1745.

According to BBC News, during an interview with the More or Less team's Tim Harford, the Count said his favorite number is 34, 969.

According to his theme song, " The Song of the Count ": " When I'm alone, I count myself.

According to Witness Lee, the Lord's recovery can be traced back to many including Martin Luther and the reformers, Madame Guyon, Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian Brethren, John Nelson Darby, the Plymouth Brethren, Watchman Nee, and himself.

According to Iraq Body Count, thousands of civilians have been killed by aerial bombardment in the Iraq War, the majority during the invasion.

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 character Obi-Wan Kenobi, these powers increase as the Clone Wars extend into a search for General Grievous, who replaces Count Dooku as Separatist leader.

According to legend, Bertoldo is the son of Azzo II, a real person who was Count of Este ( Orlando Furioso III: 29-30 ).

According to Ardo, Benedict's biographer, the saint was the son of a Visigoth, Aigulf, Count of Maguelonne ( Magalonensis comes ) in 752.