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 Jon Krampner's biography Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley, Forbes and Attenborough had initially encountered difficulty in casting the role of Myra.

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 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 ".

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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 Kukla, Fran and Ollie director Louis Gomavitz, Burr Tillstrom was approached to create puppets for the film, but turned it down.

According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9 / 11 Commission, Omari entered the United States through a Dubai flight on June 29, 2001, with Salem al-Hazmi, landing in New York.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to Robert W. Gutman, Mozart's K. 222 Offertory in D minor, " Misericordias Domini ," written in 1775, contains a melody that foreshadows " Ode to Joy ".

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to Robert Vincent Daniels the Central Committee was rather an assembly of representatives than an assembly of individuals.

According to Robert K. G. Temple, the study of endocrinology began in China.

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 Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

According to the current Greenpeace web page, the founders were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Robert Hunter.

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by North African pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

* " The Hound of Heaven " is the title of the fifth chapter in Robert L. Short's 1965 book The Gospel According to Peanuts where he describes Snoopy as a " little Christ " carrying out " Christ's ambivalent work of humbling the exalted and exalting the humble.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

According to other captives interviewed by Robert Young Pelton for CNN, Lindh was fully aware of the planned uprising, yet remained silent and did not cooperate with the Americans.

According to Robert Walser, " Led Zeppelin's sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant's wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page's heavily distorted crunch ".

According to skeptic Robert T. Carroll, " Reports of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé have been circulating for the past two hundred years, yet no one has photographed the creature or produced any physical evidence of its existence.

According to Robert Kiely, " no figure in the Christian Pantheon except Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist has inspired, provoked, or confounded the imagination of painters more than the Magdalene.

According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

According to Barbour and Fordoun, in the late summer of 1305 in a secret agreement sworn, signed and sealed, John Comyn agreed to forfeit his claim to the Scottish throne in favour of Robert Bruce upon receipt of the Bruce lands in Scotland should an uprising occur led by Bruce.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

According to Robert J. Sawyer, " Science fiction and mystery have a great deal in common.

According to Robert Henry Nelson, " The medieval Roman Catholic Church operated a far-reaching and comprehensive welfare system for the poor ..."

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

According to Adorno's translator Robert Hullot-Kentor, the central motive of Adorno's work thus consists in determining " how life could be more than the struggle for self-preservation.