According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

According to author William Stevenson in A Man called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson ( no relation ), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.

According to Clyde Travis of the Chicago Sun-Times, Howard's verbal commitment made up for the inability of Steve Fisher, Michigan's head coach, to recruit Eric Montross the prior year, even though Montross ' father and grandfather had played for Michigan.

According to Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Seabiscuit, Howard's early Buick dealership in San Francisco was given a boost by the hand of fate ; on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of the few individuals who had operational vehicles in the city, and was thus able to help the rescue effort significantly.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to his autobiography, the incident occurred " some years ago ".

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to Keith Emerson's autobiography, two of Lemmy's Hitlerjugend knives were given to Emerson by Lemmy during his time as a roadie for The Nice.

According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi ( presumably no relation ), who submitted the entry ' sadagraha ', which Gandhi then modified to ' satyagraha '.

According to Levon Helm's autobiography, in the later stages of his illness, Manuel was consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier per day.

According to Tom Watson, Jr., in his autobiography: One day my dad went into a roadside saloon to celebrate a sale and had too much to drink.

According to Willie " The Lion " Smith's autobiography, the term " gutbucket " comes from " Negro families " who all owned their own pail, or bucket, and will get it filled with the makings for chitterlings.

According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.

According to Gibbons ' autobiography Rock + Roll Gearhead, he settled on " ZZ Top " because B. B.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

According to his autobiography Bessemer was working with an ordinary reverbatory furnace but during a test, some pieces of pig iron were jostled off the side of the ladle, and were left above the ladle in the furnace's heat.

According to Keaton's autobiography, Natalie turned him out of their bedroom and hired detectives to follow him.

According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich.

According to her autobiography, during this time she hid in friends ’ homes and moved from place to place at night.

According to his autobiography, he and Errol Flynn were firm friends and had decided to rent Rosalind Russell's house at 601 North Linden Drive as a bachelor pad.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to the first one, the Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a beautiful nereid.

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 Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.

According to one variation, Zeus had given Paris permission to set any conditions he wanted, and he requested to see the goddesses naked.

According to Spink, President Roosevelt wanted " a tough judge and a man sympathetic with his viewpoint in that important court "; Lowden and Landis were, like Roosevelt, on the progressive left of the Republican Party.

According to Soviet advisors ( in 1987 ), a bitter debate within the party had broken out between those who advocated the islamisation of the party and those who wanted to defend the gains of the Saur Revolution.

According to Greek historian Herodotus, Darius wanted to know more about Asia.

According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).

According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

According to Memi: It is a song against racism, so I wanted to sing it with a North African who was born in France [...] Because of that and because of his talent, I chose K-Mel.

According to Carnap's " Logicist Foundations of Mathematics ", Russell wanted a theory that could plausibly be said to derive all of mathematics from purely logical axioms.

According to Ralph of Coggeshall Henry the Young King was the instigator of rebellion against Henry II ; he wanted to reign independently over at least part of the territory his father had promised him, and to break away from his dependence on Henry II, who controlled the purse strings.

According to Islamic history, the Israelites, after the time of the prophet Moses, wanted a king to rule over their country.

According to Romero, they wanted to capitalize on the film industry's " thirst for the bizarre ".

According to Seppo Zetterberg, Allan Tiitta and Pekka Hyvärinen, Kekkonen wanted to force Koivisto to resign to decrease his chances of succeeding him as President.

According to Gretzky, Pocklington needed money as his other business ventures were not doing well ( a similar reason to the cause of Babe Ruth being sold to the New York Yankees ), and had gone " sour " on Gretzky and wanted to move him.

According to a Bushmen story ; when the Creator assigned each animal their place in nature, the hippos wanted to live in the water, but were refused out of fear that they might eat all the fish.

According to Luc Besson, this is the version he wanted to release, but for the fact that the extra scenes tested poorly with Los Angeles preview audiences.

According to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti ( often called the Paleoveneti ) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy ( 12th century BC ), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.

According to his biography, he achieved everything he wanted and after staying overnight in Pamplona, on his way back his army was attacked in Roncesvaux in 812, but didn't suffer defeat thanks to the precautions he had taken.

According to the magistrates who indicted Licio Gelli, P2's headmaster, and Giuseppe Calò for Calvi's murder, Gelli would have ordered his death to punish him for embezzlement of his and the mafia's money, while the mafia wanted to stop him from revealing the way Calvi helped it in money laundering.

According to this story, once, a rich man had a ingot of gold, which he wanted to use to buy food.

According to him, in the government's ensuing conflict with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, who wanted him to compete, he didn't get sent to either event.