According to sociologist Harry Lefever and journalist John Leland, the game is almost exclusive to African Americans ; other ethnic groups often fail to understand how to play the game and can take remarks in the Dozens seriously.

According to author John Leland, the object of the game is to stupefy and daze one's opponents with swift and skillful speech.

According to Leland R. Beaumont, each instance of anger demands making a choice.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

According to Leland Chee, the keeper of The Holocron, an internal Star Wars continuity database at Lucasfilm ( which contains at least 28 individual entries relating to elements of the holiday special ), most elements from the holiday special are definitely considered canon ; however, there are specific rules as to what is what.

According to Leland M. Roth and his text Understanding Architecture Its Elements, History and Meaning neoclassicism is defined as a reproduction of Classical Greek and Roman building whether in the entirety of buildings or selected details which begun in the later 18th century.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 3. 14. 1 ), the prosecution could not prove the poisoning charge, but other charges of treason seemed likely to stick and Piso committed suicide.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to the Sejarah Melayu (" Malay Annals "), the Khmer prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara ( modern-day Beruas, Perak ) in the 700s.

According to the Annals of Ulster he was killed by his own people while the Annals of Tigernach say that the sons of his brother Máel Brigte were responsible.

* According to the Annals of Inisfallen, a royal meeting between Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, King of Cashel and Niall, King of the Southern Uí Neill and Tara at Cluain-Conaire-Tommain, results in Feidlimid becoming High-King of Ireland.

According to the traditional chronology based upon calculations by Liu Xin, the Shang ruled between 1766 BC and 1122 BC, but according to the chronology based upon the Bamboo Annals, they ruled between 1556 BC and 1046 BC.

According to the traditional chronology based upon calculations by Liu Xin, the Xia ruled between 2205 and 1766 BC ; according to the chronology based upon the Bamboo Annals, it ruled between 1989 and 1558 BC.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 14. 35 ), Boudica, queen of the Iceni and a number of other tribes in a formidable uprising against the occupying Roman forces, addressed her troops from a chariot in AD 61:

According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of Nantua, Burgundy because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 1, 51 ), an area 50 Roman miles wide was laid to waste with fire and sword: " No sex, no age found pity.

According to the Annals of Cuauhtitlan, after Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl died, he spent four days in Mictlan making darts before emerging as the morning star.

According to translations of the Annals of Lü Buwei the woman gave birth to the future emperor in the city of Handan in 259 BC, the first month of the 48th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin.

According to the Malay Annals, he was the last king of Singapura and a member of the royal family of Srivijaya.

According to the Annals of St Neots ( ed.

According to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, Amlaíb had been in Britain since 940, having left another son of Gofraid, Blácaire, as ruler of Dublin.

According to the Irish Annals of Tigernach, Magnus's goal was to seize power in England, whereas the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle appears to associate the Norwegian fleet with the return to power of Earl Ælfgār.

According to the Blue Annals, new king of the Western Tibetan kingdom of Guge by the name of Lha Lama Yeshe Yod, however, was a strict believer in Dharma and so sent his academic followers to learn and translate some of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

According to his estate, these included 12, 189 copies of the Orgone Energy Bulletin, 6, 261 copies of the International Journal of Sex Economy and Orgone Research, 2, 976 copies of Annals of the Orgone Institute, and copies of several of his books, including The Sexual Revolution, Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

According to other ancient Chinese texts like the Book of Documents, the Analects, and the Bamboo Annals, Jizi was a relative of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty, and one of the three wise men of Shang, along with Weizi ( 微子 ) and Bigan.

According to the Tlatelolco Annals, in 1365, the lord of Cuernavaca, Macuilxochitl, tried to conquer lands as far as the Valley of Mexico, but was met by the lord of Chalco, Tzalcualtitlan, with similar ambitions.

According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, for which researchers reviewed colon cancer screening data from 1966 to 2001, the most severe complications from colonoscopy are perforation ( that occurred in 0. 029 % to 0. 72 % of cases ), heavy bleeding ( occurring in 0. 2 % to 2. 67 % of colonoscopies ) and death ( occurring in 0. 003 % to 0. 03 % of colonoscopy patients ).

According to the Annals of the Four Masters Torbach died in 808 and Ferdomnach in 847.

According to an entry in the Annals of the Four Masters for AD 123, there were five principal highways () leading to Tara () in Early Medieval Ireland.

According to academic Corey Robin: " Hayek admired Pinochet's Chile so much that he decided to hold a meeting of his Mont Pelerin Society in Viña del Mar, the seaside resort where the coup against Allende was planned.

According to modern portfolio theory, rational investors will seek to hold portfolios that are mean / variance efficient ( that is, portfolios offer the highest level of return per unit of risk, and the lowest level of risk per unit of return ).

According to canon law, Albert was too young to hold such a position and since he would not give up the archiepiscopal see of Magdeburg ( in order to terminate the accumulation of archdioceses, which was also prohibited by canon law ), the Hohenzollerns had to dispense ever greater briberies at the Holy See.

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India, " Gulab Singh contrived to hold himself aloof till the battle of Sobraon ( 1846 ), when he appeared as a useful mediator and the trusted advisor of Sir Henry Lawrence.

According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the world record for the " Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert " as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.

According to the Internet Movie Database, the production team could not get hold of blank rounds for the M60 machine gun used in the movie, and therefore the gun was firing live ammunition.

" According to Rand, therefore, possessing free will, human beings must choose their values: one does not automatically hold one's own life as his ultimate value.

According to the view of some Sufi Muslims who incorporate both the outer and inner reality of Prophet Muhammad, hold the view that the deeper and true Sunnah are the noble characteristics and inner state of Prophet Muhammad.

According to Dispensationalists who hold the futurist view, the Tribulation is thought to occur before the Second Coming of Jesus and during the End Times.

According to the National Whistleblower Center, Coburn's hold on S. 274 has been done to further President Bush's agenda.

According to law and jurisprudence, legal cause must be demonstrated to hold a defendant liable for a crime or a tort ( i. e. a civil wrong such as negligence or trespass ).

According to the United States Census, of Lexington's population over the age of twenty-five, 22. 4 % hold a bachelor's degree, 11. 4 % hold a master's degree, and 3. 1 % hold a professional degree.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

According to Tacitus however, Suilius's accusations did not hold up under scrutiny.

According to another version of their struggle against the Olympians, alluded to so briefly that it must have been already familiar to the epic's hearers, they managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a bronze jar, a storage pithos, for thirteen months, a lunar year.

According to some economists, for example Hernando de Soto, this is a major barrier to development in those countries-entrepreneurs do not dare take risks and cannot get credit because they hold no collateral and may burden families for generations to come.

According to statistics from the 2001 census, the area has a very high proportion of young residents ( 28. 4 % 25 – 44 years old ) and a very high educational level ( 30. 7 % hold a first degree or better ).

According to the UK National Archives, there is no single register of modern entitlements to hold markets and fairs although historical charters up to 1516 are listed in the Gazetter of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales.

According to Richie Furay and a band spokesman, the band were supposed do a full tour in 2012, but this was put on hold, because of Young recording two new albums with Crazy Horse.

According to one of those subordinates, ' There was no incentive for Rendon to hold down costs.

According to writer Louise Gikow, the heat inside the suit is " unbearable, and it's extraordinarily difficult to hold Big Bird's head ".

According to these commentators, power groups that fail to review or revise their mindsets with sufficient regularity cannot hold power indefinitely, as a single mindset is unlikely to possess the flexibility and adaptability needed to address all future events.