According to Gay's daughter Jeanne, Gay was someone who never " spared the rod, he was very, very strict " in reference to the saying " spare the rod, spoil the child ".

According to the American Historical Association's Award Citation, Gay's range of " scholarly achievements is truly remarkable ".

These include An Essay on the Education of the Blind printed 1786 in the first raised letters for blind people ; The Gospel According to St. Mark printed 1834 in raised Roman letters ; John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress printed 1860 in Lucas Type ; John Gay's Fables printed 1869 in Boston line letter ; the 145-volume 1959 World Book Encyclopedia printed in braille, and Helen Keller's Bible.

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).

According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.

According to the memoirs of Chen Jieru, Chiang's second wife, she contracted gonorrhea from Chiang soon after their marriage.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to Aristophanes, the alleged co-author was a celebrated actor, Cephisophon, who also shared the tragedian's house and his wife, while Socrates taught an entire school of quibblers like Euripides:

According to its account Suizei was the younger son of Jimmu's chief wife, Isukeyorihime.

According to these same legends, his wife was suddenly possessed by some unknown gods.

According to contemporary accounts, Frederick had difficulties developing emotional closeness to other persons, including his children and wife Eleanor.

According to Zohar, Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time as Adam.

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to another account, Goebbels shot his wife and then took his own life by shooting himself.

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.

According to his account, he acted as a negotiator with the defenders during the Siege of Jerusalem in 70, in which his parents and first wife died.

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

According to a family tree prepared in Jerusalem after World War II, Wittgenstein's paternal great-grandfather was Moses Meier, a Jewish land agent who lived with his wife, Brendel Simon, in Bad Laasphe in the Principality of Wittgenstein, Westphalia.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to his wife Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anti-Communist John Birch Society and report his findings back to the FBI.

According to Gilbert Burnet, however, Mary convinced her husband that she did not care for political power, and told him " she would be no more but his wife, and that she would do all that lay in her power to make him King for life ".

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

According to John P. Smol of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and Marianne S. V. Douglas of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, warming conditions and evaporation have caused low water levels and changes in the chemistry of ponds and wetlands in the area.

According to Ralph Klein, former mayor of Calgary and premier of Alberta, the Stampede symbolizes the province's spirit.

According to the professor in sociology Stephen A. Kent at the University of Alberta and Kranenborg ( 1974 ), one of the reasons why in 1970s young people including hippies turned to gurus was because they found that drugs had opened for them the existence of the transcendental or because they wanted to get high without drugs.

According to Don Page, physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada, the longest finite time that has so far been explicitly calculated by any physicist is

According to Jones, Greenfield's attempts to rescue southern Alberta from agricultural calamity were probably doomed to failure.

According to the California-based Jacobs Consultancy, the European Union used inaccurate and incomplete data in assigning a high greenhouse gas rating to gasoline importing from Alberta ’ s oilsands.

According to Alberta in 1984, the couple hadn't shared the same bed in nearly ten years, with Gay and Alberta sleeping in separate bedrooms.

According to police in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the high fees charged by escort agencies may make escorting less lucrative than street prostitution, especially as agencies often also deduct the license fees directly from the earnings.

According to an article that appeared in the Alberta Report in 1996 " According to the Times, for every $ 1. 00 that went to undersigned charities from some Ellison-owned thrift stores, $ 2. 55 went to the Ellison associates ".

According to historians, Big Bear was born in 1825 as the son of Black Powder, an Ojibwa chief, and an Ojibwa mother in the Jackfish Lake region of Saskatchewan, a few miles north of present-day North Battleford, Saskatchewan and not far from Alberta.

According to the official archives of Elections Alberta, in the 1989 Senate election, the Stan Waters campaign received $ 147, 822 in campaign donations, $ 19, 000 transferred from the Reform Party of Alberta, and $ 23, 558. 96 was from fundraising functions, for a total of $ 190, 380. 96 in campaign period revenue.

According to the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement's ( BBM ) 2009 ratings, CTV News at Six regained its position as the most-watched six o ' clock newscast in Northern and Central Alberta to Global Edmonton's News Hour, CBC, Citytv combined.