According to the historian of technology Lynn White, these conical and pyramidal designs, much more elaborate than early artistic jumps with rigid parasols in Asia, mark the origin of " the parachute as we know it ".

According to contemporary reports, John travelled from Spalding in Lincolnshire to Bishop's Lynn, in Norfolk, was taken ill and decided to return.

According to medieval historian Lynn Thorndike, people in Medieval Europe probably bathed more than people did in the 19th century.

According to Betty Lynn, the actress who played Thelma Lou, Griffith chose the name Mayberry from the community of Mayberry, Virginia.

According to set designer Robin Wagner, as interviewed for the book Set Design, by author Lynn Pecktal, the original Bennett version was to be a " multimedia " show, with an elaborate tilting floor, banks of television monitors, and other technological touches.

According to journalist Lynn Coady, the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) attempted to wiretap the House of Anansi Press's offices.

According to writers Lynn Kear and John Rossman, Preston also worked as a cabaret performer in her early youth.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

According to Townsend, the recording process took " about a week ".

According to Townsend, the band functioned as his " outlet to freak out ", and his two main projects, the more melodic The Devin Townsend Band and the aggressive Strapping Young Lad were " supposed to be the positive and the negative ".

According to Townsend:

According to Townsend, business ecology is the study of the reciprocal relationship between business and organisms and their environments.

According to the website belonging to the Upper Valley Land Trust, the ski hill and a trail are both the property of Mr. Ira Townsend.

According to the Washington Lieutenant Governor's files, it is a sister city with Port Townsend, WA, US, which is located on the Puget Sound on the eastern coast of the Olympic Peninsula.

According to the meeting minutes, Pasternak was denounced as an internal White emigre and a Fascist fifth columnist.

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 White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.

According to the commission staff: " Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the U. S. Capitol or the White House from destruction.

The track " Two Sunspots " had been recorded during the Black And White sessions in 1978, but was shelved until 1980 when it was rediscovered and placed on The Gospel According To The Meninblack.

According to Yes drummer Alan White, Toledo was especially memorable for a sweltering-hot 1977 show the group did at Toledo Sports Arena.

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to further testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9 / 11 attacks seem larger than they were.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

According to Latvian Gambit experts Kon Grivainis and John Elburg, Black wins more often than White in this line.

According to news reports at the time, Nixon answered questions about the 18-1 / 2 minute tape gap, altering White House tape transcripts turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, using the Internal Revenue Service to harass political enemies, and a $ 100, 000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes.

According to White, most of the never-chosen dossiers were photographs of actors of other TV series, such as George Takei, various series staffers and their wives, including Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Geller

According to Canadian historian Michael H. Kater, Orff claimed at the end of the war to his Allied interrogators that he was a founding member of the White Rose and was released.

According to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the Germanic root is probably related to the modern English " stark ", in reference to the stiff or rigid posture of a European species, the White Stork.

According to an interview in Blood & Honour magazine, he got in touch with neo-Nazi organisation Zorn 88 ’ s ( later called Norges Nasjonalsocialistiske Bevegelse ) magazine Gjallarhorn in 1992 and joined White Aryan Resistance before he murdered Øystein Aarseth.

According to his report, Preston dispatched a non-commissioned officer and six privates of the 29th Regiment of Foot, with fixed bayonets, to relieve White.

According to Neapope's erroneous report, Wabokieshiek (" White Cloud "), a shaman known to Americans as the " Winnebago Prophet ", had claimed that other tribes were ready to support Black Hawk.

According to the Welsh Triads, Brân's head was buried in London where the White Tower now stands.

According to the Census of 2010, the racial makeup of the county was 89. 22 % White, 4. 64 % Black or African American, 0. 17 % Native American, 2. 56 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 1. 30 % from other races, and 2. 06 % from two or more races.

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

According to John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).

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 Tom Jr .: This anecdote never made it into IBM lore, which is too bad, because it would have helped explain Father to the tens of thousands of people who had to follow his rules.

According to historian Alfred W. Crosby Jr. in his The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, this outbreak is the first widely documented epidemic in the New World.

According to the recently published journals of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis voted for Anderson, as did Schlesinger himself.

According to Cooney, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Gibbon called her to say " if you still want me, I'm yours.

According to Latter Day Saints, in 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr. received a revelation to restore the practice of temple worship, in a " house of the Lord ".

According to Stanley's account, he asked James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1841 – 1918 ), who had succeeded to the paper's management after his father's retirement in 1867, how much he could spend.

According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.

According to a 1986 Variety interview with Frank Capra, Jr., his father had wanted to shoot the film in color, but because the only suitable stock footage he intended to incorporate into the film, such as scenes from a documentary about the Himalayas, was in black and white, he was forced to change his plans.

According to the Powers Report ( the report of the investigative committee chaired by William Powers, Jr ) Kopper did little actual work, aside from time spent manipulating the books.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Rusk was not Kennedy's first choice, but rather the " lowest common denominator ", as Kennedy's first choice, J. William Fulbright, proved too controversial.

According to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., Adam-ondi-Ahman, situated in the central part of the county, was where Adam and Eve relocated after being banished from the Garden of Eden.

According to page 7 of the book Coraopolis, by Gia Tatone, Coraopolis Historical Society ( 2007 ), " The newspaper Frank Braden, Jr. uncovered was simply called the News and was published in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 1897.

According to Daniel Langford Jr. several stores were built including a bank, a drugstore, cotton gins, grist mills, blacksmith shops, and several other stores were built.

According to a New York Times article, Giles was credited with resolving a long standing rift among the descendants of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

According to The History of Ontario County New York, some of the earliest pioneers included " Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Platt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Israel Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells and Mr. Sweet, all of whom were from Massachusetts, while William Wyckoff who was another pioneer, was from Pennsylvania.

According to An Illustrated History of Yadkin County 1950-1980, by William E. Rutledge Jr. it was first known as Martinsborough and incorporated in 1811.

According to the testimony of Colombo crime family contract killer Gregory S. Scarpa Jr., the cinematic version may have come closer to the truth than the official FBI story out of Washington, D. C. His story has been supported in several news accounts by unnamed FBI agents purported to have worked on the MIBURN case, as well as Scarpa's own FD-209 reports, which were released and made public after his death.

According to early settler Colonel Victor M. Locke, Jr., a hunter was encamped at the spring at present-day Antlers early one autumn and killed a “ magnificent buck .” He nailed its antlers on a tree close to the spring as a challenge to other hunters, who followed suit.

According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, in which Ma made an appearance, a relative had hidden the Ma family genealogy in his home in China to save it from destruction during the Cultural Revolution.

According to Ray Robinson Jr., when Sugar Ray's mother died, Sugar Ray could not attend his mother's funeral because Millie was drugging and controlling him.