According to a study of molecular and skeletal evidence by Jon Fjeldså and colleagues, the Cinnamon Ibon of the Philippines, previously considered to be a white-eye, is a sister taxon to the sparrows as defined by the HBW, best classified as a subfamily of the Passeridae.

According to A. Asbjorn Jon ' the choice of name Polidori's Lord Ruthven is presumably linked to Lady Caroline Lamb's earlier novel Glenarvon, where it was used for a rather ill disguised Byronesque character '

According to Jon Foreman, the name " Switchfoot " is a surfing term.

According to various publications ( such as the biography England's Dreaming by Jon Savage ) and films ( namely The Filth and the Fury ) Vicious was asked to join the group after Glen Matlock's departure in February 1977 due to his being present at every gig.

According to co-composer Jon Anderson, the title track is inspired by Hermann Hesse's book Siddhartha.

According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home ( 1978 ), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968.

According to Jon Schaffer, DiGiorgio was required and agreed to go on tour, but left due to " prior commitments.

According to Jon Schaffer, Iced Earth expects to begin writing new material for an eleventh studio album in the fall of 2012.

According to writer Jon Vitti, Brooks contributed more to the episode " Lisa's Substitute " than to any other in the show's history.

According to Jon Kimche the Haganah had a highly placed informer and were able intercept nine of eleven convoys into Haifa.

According to biographer Jon Stebbins, Marks's guitar chemistry with Carl Wilson changed the sound of the band.

According to Jon Ronson his family had " chauffeurs and servants and palaces in Syria, Turkey and Beirut.

According to Jon Kukla Robert Beverley's History and Present State of Virginia ( London, 1705 ) reproduced extensive

According to Jon Schaffer, because many of Iced Earth's fans felt that The Dark Saga lacked in speed and heaviness, the band tried to have a more diverse collection of songs on Something Wicked This Way Comes.

According to Jon Abbink, three different versions are to be distinguished among the traditions which were recorded from the priests of the community.

According to Jon, this did have an effect on him forming a band, so that he could " prove these people wrong ".

According to Octane Magazine, the Ferrari 250 GTO bearing chassis number 5095GT was sold by British Real Estate Agent Jon Hunt to an unknown buyer.

According to Jon Parkin, he was " the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England ".

According to Jon Parkin,

According to University of Hawaii professor, Jon Okamura, the plate lunch likely grew out of the Japanese bento because they " were take away kinds of eating and certainly the plate lunch continues that tradition ".

According to Jon Kalb, early maps show caravan routes passing within 10 or 15 kilometers of Hadar but not through it.

According to an interview on The Howard Stern Show, director Jon Favreau considered casting him as the titular character in Iron Man as the studio was initially hesitant to work with Robert Downey, Jr., who had been considered for his role in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

According to America's Game, coach Jon Gruden had 3 receivers stacked tight in a trips formation, and he got Jurevicius on a one-on-one " option " route against the middle linebacker of the Eagles.

" According to Jon de Mello, founder of Hawaiian record label Mountain Apple Company, other nominees ' " jaws dropped on the ground " at the ceremony in reaction to their works being overlooked.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

According to his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

According to his biography, Venter was ready to leave Celera, and was fired due to conflict with the main investor, Tony White, that had existed since day one of the project.

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

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 Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

According to Fisher in the 2005 biography Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, the amount of morphine consumed by Parsons would be lethal to three regular users and thus he had likely overestimated his tolerance considering his experience with opiates.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

According to Sobran and other researchers, the themes and personal circumstances expounded by the author of the Sonnets are remarkably similar to Oxford's biography.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

According to Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, authors of a biography of John Bardeen, Shockley had proposed that Bell Labs ' first patent for a transistor should be based on the field-effect and that he be named as the inventor.

According to his authorized biography, " his only sustaining relief from his unsatisfied sex drive was his even stronger desire to die.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

According to the band's biography, the drug was prescribed to him as a teenager during his parents ' divorce but he was never withdrawn from the drug and became dependent on it.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

According to the publisher, the book will be the first major biography of Daley.

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

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 Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to the John Swenson biography of Haley, the musician was quoted as saying that he and Pompilli had an agreement that if one died, the other would retire.