According to the backstory presented during Half-Life 2, the Combine appear on Earth after the death of the Nihilanth, the boss character at the end of Half-Life.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

According to the 2011 India census, Ajmer district has a population of 2, 584, 913, which was made up of 1, 325, 911 males and 1, 259, 002 females.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 2 007 000 in 2010, compared to only 413 000 in 1950.

According to estimates of the Word Religion Database 2005 the share of Muslims is 1. 2 %.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 8 383 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 456 000 in 1950.

According to the Babylonian Chronicles, published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, it was established that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 738 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 630 000 in 1950.

" According to Dhanis ' medical officer, Captain Hinde, their town of Ngandu had " at least 2, 000 polished human skulls " as a " solid white pavement in front " of its gates, with human skulls crowning every post of the stockade.

According to the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, he has 2 million known and registered descendants, and there are an estimated 3 million in all.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

According to Suetonius, in the first year of Caligula's reign he squandered 2, 700, 000, 000 sesterces that Tiberius had amassed.

According to Nielsen ( 2008 ) a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: ( 1 ) it has been prepared for one or more functions ; ( 2 ) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions ; and ( 3 ) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.

According to another study, when measured in a particular solution, the DNA chain measured 22 to 26 ångströms wide ( 2. 2 to 2. 6 nanometres ), and one nucleotide unit measured 3. 3 Å ( 0. 33 nm ) long.

According to World Forum on Democracy, electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 58. 2 percent of the world's population.

According to HBO's documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ( 1996 ) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations ( 2000 ), no blood was found at the crime scene, indicating that the location where the bodies were found was not necessarily the location in which the murders actually happened.

According to the CIA, the Kunama constitute around 2 % of Eritrea's population.

According to the Legal Project's website, it acts in four ways to counteract Islamist threats to free speech, " Fundraising for an Escrow account to supplement the court costs and litigation fees for victims of Islamist lawfare ( all funds raised go directly to lawfare victims ); Arranging for pro bono and reduced rate counsel for victims of Islamist lawfare ; Maintaining an international network of attorneys dedicated to working pro bono in the defense of free speech ; and, Raising awareness about the issue.

) According to Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima by Parker Bishop Albee, Jr. and Keller Cushing Freeman, when the word reached Iwo Jima, Sousley was on a dangerous part of the island, and his company commander, Captain Dave Severance, decided it was safer to leave him where he was than attempt an extrication under the conditions.

According to the American Bar Association, a lawyer that is a certified specialist has been recognized by an independent professional certifying organization as having an enhanced level of skill and expertise, as well as substantial involvement in an established legal specialty.

According to the Epistle of Sherira Gaon, after the tremendous upheaval caused by the destruction of the Temple and the Bar Kochba revolt, the Oral Torah was in danger of being forgotten.

According to Jewish law, when Jewish boys become 13, they become accountable for their actions and become a Bar Mitzvah ( plural: B ' nai Mitzvah ).

According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh " borrowed " Barrymore's body before burial, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar.

According to the American Bar Association, marital fault is a " factor " in awarding alimony in 25 states and the District of Columbia.

According to Jewish tradition, adulthood is reached at age 13 ( the age of the Bar Mitzvah ), for Jewish boys, for example, are expected to demonstrate preparation for adulthood by learning the Torah and other Jewish practices.

According to Rambam ( Introduction to Mishna Torah ), the baraitot were compiled by Rabbi Hoshaya and Bar Kappara, although no compilation was passed down to us like the Tosefta was.

According to the American Bar Association outline on Online Transaction Management, the primary points of US Federal and State statutes enacted regarding digital signatures has been to " prevent conflicting and overly burdensome local regulation and to establish that electronic writings satisfy the traditional requirements associated with paper documents.

According to Bar Hebraeus, many Christians had their property confiscated, and Dionysius was angered both at the injustice of Muslim policy and at his own inability to protect the Christians.

According to Clinton Heylin, the original handwritten manuscript to " Song for Woody " bears the following inscription at the bottom of the sheet: " Written by Bob Dylan in Mills Bar on Bleecker Street in New York City on the 14th day of February, for Woody Guthrie.

According to the 2011 ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools published by the American Bar Association and Law School Admissions Council, the law school reported a total enrollment of 948 students.

According to Eusebius Symmachus also wrote commentaries, then still extant, apparently written to counter the canonical Greek Gospel of Matthew, his Hypomnemata ; it may be related to the De distinctione præceptorum, mentioned in the catalogue of the Nestorian metropolitan Abdiso Bar Berika ( d. 1318 ).

According to Bishop Gregory's late 12th century additions to this document, this Archbishopric covered much of the western Balkans including the bishoprics of Bar, Budva, Kotor, Ulcinj, Svač, Skadar, Drivast, Pulat, Travunia, Zahumlje.

According to a midrash, in addition to Bar Kochba the Romans tortured and executed ten leading members of the Sanhedrin ( the " Ten Martyrs ").

According to Peruvian researcher Guillermo Toro-Lira, among the notable individuals who attented Morris ' Bar were Elmer Faucett ( founder of the Faucett Perú airline ), José Lindley ( founder of the Corporación José R. Lindley S. A. and Inca Kola ), Alfred L. Kroeber ( notable cultural anthropologist ), and Richard Halliburton ( a notable adventurer and cultural ambassador to Peru ).

According to Bar Sauma, James II was victorious, and his forces killed 12, 000 men.

According to the Code's Preface, it was derived from the ABA's Canons of Professional Ethics ( 1908 ), which in turn were borrowed from the Canons of the Alabama State Bar ( 1887 ), which in turn were inspired by several sources such as ethics resolutions in an 1830s legal textbook.

According to the ABA Section on Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar, Section 301-6 ( a )( 1 )( b ) states that graduating law students within the last five calendar years must pass a state bar examination at a minimum of 75 % in at least three of the five calendar years.

* According to Fargo D ' Aviero, " they mainly played in Café Einstein, Zero Bar, Stud Free Pub ...".

According to the book Last Orders at the Liars Bar: the Official Story of the Beautiful South, " How Long's A Tear Take To Dry?