According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

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 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

According to Mara Leveritt, investigative journalist and author of Devil's Knot, " Police records were a mess.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.

The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.

According to Raymond E. Brown, it is not impossible that Luke was the author.

According to some, the author is unknown.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

According to Webster's, the daisy wheel is so named because of its resemblance to the daisy flower.

" According to Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary, a standard reference on place names around the world, the name " Ruhr " refers to the river.

According to Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the term classical, from classicus, entered modern English in 1599, some 50 years after its re-introduction on the continent.

According to Webster's Third, " some ISV words ( like haploid ) have been created by taking a word with a rather general and simple meaning from one of the languages of antiquity, usually Latin and Greek, and conferring upon it a very specific and complicated meaning for the purposes of modern scientific discourse.

According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, the root noun of impasto is pasta, whose primary meaning in Italian is paste.

According to Webster's New International Dictionary, 1993, a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a " Connecticuter ", although many prefer " Connecticutian " or the slightly shorter " Connecticite "; Despite Webster's ( West Hartford ) Connecticut roots, none of these are commonly used or even recognized by residents, who prefer the nickname " Nutmegger ", which is not a demonym, and more often no nickname or demonyn, simply stating, " I'm from Connecticut ".

According to Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, the distinction in meaning between shall and will as markers of a simple future arose from the practice of English schools in the fourteenth century and their Latin exercises.

According to Merriam Webster's dictionary, however, spindrift derives from a local Scottish pronunciation of speen ( not spoon ), meaning " to drive before a strong wind.

" According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, in liberal democracies the political Right opposes socialism and social democracy.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, proud comes from late Old English prut, probably from Old French prud " brave, valiant " ( 11th century ) ( which became preux in French ), from Late Latin term prodis " useful ", which is compared with the Latin prodesse " be of use ".

According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ( second edition, 1980 ), she made her operatic debut in Florence in 1890.

According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, he would eventually take part in every La Scala season until the end of 1887 and appear there again in 1901 as a guest artist.

According to Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary, the lesser doxology is of Syrian origin.

According to the Concise Atlas of the World, Second Edition ( 2008 ), most of the Ciscaucasian region lies on the European side of the " commonly accepted division " that separates Europe from Asia.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ( 1977 ) this term includes groups such as Jewish Christians, Quartodecimans, Ethiopian Christians, descendants of English Puritanism such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church and others, who claim the necessity of obedience to the Mosaic Laws which are found in the first five books of the Christian Old Testament.

According to Bruce Arnold, writing in Irish Art a Concise History:

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the word is from the Old French word estincele, meaning “ sparkle ”.

According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: