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According to Hislop, Semiramis was an exceedingly beautiful woman, who gave birth to a son named Tammuz, was instrumental as the queen, and wife of Nimrod the founder of Babylon, and its religion, complete with a pseudo-Virgin Birth.
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According to Hislop, Semiramis invents polytheism in an effort to corrupt her subjects ' original faith in the God of Genesis.
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According to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal.
According to the legend, Semiramis had heard about the fame of the handsome Armenian king Ara, and she lusted after his image.
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According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
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According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.
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According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..
According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.
According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.
According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.
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According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.
According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.
According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.
According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
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 the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).
According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.
According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.
According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.
According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.
According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.
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According to bassist / singer Randy Jackson, jazz fusion is an exceedingly difficult genre to play ; " I [...] picked jazz fusion because I was trying to become the ultimate technical musician-able to play anything.
According to Darold Treffert, the leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome, almost all savants have special, prodigious memory, which he describes as " very deep, but exceedingly narrow ".
According to the defense, the attack on Catherine was seen by his attackers as a last resort measure against a violent and exceedingly aggressive man who used his fighting skills ( and notably his famed roundhouse kick to the head ) to terrorize his neighbourhood and who seemed immune to prosecution despite the numerous assault charges brought against him.
According to Mark this is a secret trial at night, a rarity, and the high priest's house must have been exceedingly large to house the entire ruling body.
According to the contemporary chronicler Pierre de l ' Estoile, they made themselves " exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish and haughty demeanour, as by their effeminate and immodest dress, but above all by the immense gifts the king made to them.
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According to Kant, beauty is objective and universal ; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.
According to this account, Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.
According to the first one, the Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a beautiful nereid.
According to his biography his mother declared, when she was expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build beautiful buildings.
According to John Tzetzes and Servius ' commentary on the Aeneid, Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous Amphitrite turned her into a monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe.
According to Ovid, the fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she was repulsed by his fishy tail and fled onto the land where he could not follow.
According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, daughter of Asopus and river nymph Metope, and abducted her.
According to a much used description, the Champs-Élysées is la plus belle avenue du monde (" the most beautiful avenue in the world ").
According to Erofeev, Molotov said of her: " She's not only beautiful and intelligent, the only woman minister in Soviet Union ; she's also a real Bolshevik, a real soviet person.
According to Lillian Gish's autobiography, theaters were decorated with flowers, moon lanterns and beautiful Chinese brocaded draperies for the premiere.
According to Finnish lore, the human body is most beautiful thirty minutes after a sauna.
According to the brief epitome by the so-called Apollodorus, Eurytus had a beautiful young daughter named Iole who was eligible for marriage.
According to the later idea of Medusa as a beautiful maiden, whose hair had been changed into snakes by Athena, the head was represented in works of art with a wonderfully handsome face, wrapped in the calm repose of death.
According to one story, Laomedon's son, Ganymedes, was kidnapped by Zeus, who had fallen in love with the beautiful boy.
According to Plutarch's Life of Romulus, the keeper of the Temple of Hercules challenged the hero to a game of dice with Hercules to receive a night with a beautiful woman and a fine spread and the god to provide the temple keeper with a valuable gift if the keeper was successful.
According to the traditional narrative, Catherine was the beautiful daughter of the pagan King Costus and Queen Sabinella, who governed Alexandria.
According to Táin Bó Cúailnge ( the Cattle Raid of Cooley ), his wife is the beautiful goddess, Fand (" Pearl of Beauty " or " A Tear "-later remembered as a " Fairy Queen ", though earlier mentions point to her also being a sea deity ).
According to local legend, one evening, after a particularly beautiful recital, the residents heard a gunshot.
According to The History Of Bergen County written in 1900 by James M. Van Valen, the name Waldwick comes from a Saxon language word meaning " beautiful grove ".
According to ESPN. com's Ron Flatter: " He was the pioneer of boxing's bigger-than-life entourages, including a secretary, barber, masseur, voice coach, a coterie of trainers, beautiful women, a dwarf mascot and lifelong manager George Gainford.
According to the Nippon Kyudo Federation the supreme goal of kyudo is the state of shin-zen-bi, roughly " truth-goodness-beauty ", which can be approximated as: when archers shoot correctly ( i. e. truthfully ) with virtuous spirit and attitude toward all persons and all things which relate to kyudo ( i. e. with goodness ), beautiful shooting is realized naturally.
According to the Mahabharat and the Puranas, Draupadi was regarded as the most beautiful and virtuous of all women at the time.
According to a legend after a successful hunting party, Grand Duke Gediminas discovered a beautiful lake-surrounded place not far from Kernavė, then capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and decided to build a castle in the location.
According to Vita S. Bathildis Balthild was beautiful, intelligent, modest, and attentive to the needs of others.
According to legend, Tioman Island is the resting place of a beautiful dragon princess.
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