According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

According to Alexander Technique instructor Michael J. Gelb, people tend to study the Alexander Technique either to rid themselves of pain, to increase their performance abilities, or for reasons of personal development and transformation.

According to the 12th-century bishop of Athens, Michael Choniates, by his time the island had become a base for pirates.

According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

According to historian Michael A. Riff, a common feature of these movements was opposition not only to secularism, but also to both capitalism and socialism.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

According to historian Michael Hopkinson, the guerrilla warfare " was often courageous and effective ".

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.

" According to Michael Palin's published diary, Palin changed his response in order to throw Cleese off.

According to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Turner's land has a higher gross domestic product than Belize.

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

According to Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literature at the Hebrew Union College, there are ten themes in the New Testament that are the greatest sources of anxiety for Jews concerning Christian antisemitism.

According to one account, the Gekko character was a " straight lift " from the real world junk-bond dealer Michael Milkin, who later pled guilty to felony charges for violating securities laws.

According to Michael Barton, a prominent ichthyologist and professor at Centre College, " the earliest ichthyologists were hunters and gatherers who had learned how to obtain the most useful fish, where to obtain them in abundance, and at what times they might be the most available ".

According to Michael Levey, " Raphael gives his a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties ".

According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become " an American institution ".

According to Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross, Gross stated the term " supermodel " was first used by Dessner.

According to J. Michael Jaffe, author of Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls, " the Internet was originally established to expedite communication between governmental scientists and defense experts, and was not at all intended to be the popular ' interpersonal mass medium ' it has become ", yet new and revolutionary devices enabling the mass public to communicate online are constantly being developed and released.

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

According to Mark Michael Smith of the Economic History Society: " although intrusive and oppressive, paternalism, the way masters employed it, and the methods slaves used to manipulate it, rendered slaveholders ' attempts to institute capitalistic work regimens on their plantation ineffective and so allowed slaves to carve out a degree of autonomy.

According to George Marcus and Michael Fischer,

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 Michael Durant's book In the Company of Heroes, the Somalis counted 25 of their militia dead after the firefight.

According to Michael Caine, he met Elton John and was discussing musical tastes, when Caine claimed that he had been creating chillout mix tapes as an amateur for years.

According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be " the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists ".

According to official history, Vickery discovered lead while digging for water.

According to Vickery, the Democratic Party disbanded in 1957 after its leaders — who had been beaten by soldiers — requested the privilege of joining the Sangkum.

According to Vickery, the original name of the mineral was " kenotime ", but due to a misprint, the " k " became an " x ", and the change stuck.

According to Michael Vickery, 750, 000 people in Cambodia in a population of about 8 million died due to disease, overwork, and political repression.

According to Fox News, this is a ' 25 percent ' rise, with more than ' 2. 9 million ' total veterans now disabled.

According to Haaest, the author spent the majority of World War II in occupied Denmark and his knowledge of warfare comes second-hand from Danish Waffen-SS veterans whom he met after the end of the war.

According to one estimate, " neurologically disabled veterans in the postwar years accounted for about 25 percent of the patients in general hospitals and 10 percent of those in psychiatric hospitals.

According to the federal government's Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) in 2004, more than 1, 138 rights and protections are conferred to U. S. citizens upon marriage by the federal government ; areas affected include Social Security benefits, veterans ' benefits, health insurance, Medicaid, hospital visitation, estate taxes, retirement savings, pensions, family leave, and immigration law.

According to the Disabled American Veterans, Senator Grassley has the third-worst voting record in the entire US Congress ( both House and Senate combined ) on veterans issues, earning a 40 rating.

According to the FBI, its members are mostly Bay of Pigs veterans trained in demolition, intelligence, and commando techniques.

* According to the Institution of Housing in 2005, the U. S. Government has focused 42 % more on foreign countries rather than homeless Americans, including homeless veterans.

According to Fox's family, he spent his life wondering why he survived numerous dates with death and was in the process of telling his story and those of other veterans in a book titled Why Not Me ?, which the family hopes to finish.

According to Orioles. com, on March 20, 2009, the Orioles released Quiroz, " allowing the two Minor League veterans ( the other was Scott Chiasson ) to try and hook on with another club before the end of spring.

According to Vanguard of Nazism by Robert G. L. Waite, some of the psychological and social aspects of the Stormtrooper experience found their way into the Weimar republic paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps, which were largely made up of WWI veterans.

According to his campaign website, his “ top priorities are accessibility to constituents, education, healthcare, supporting veterans, serving seniors, providing for small businesses, enhancing homeland security, ensuring border security, advancing trade and taking any other action that supports hard-working families and individuals .”

According to Diana Muir Appelbaum, veterans of the MFO from Fiji, a nation that created its military for the purpose of serving in international peacekeeping missions, have been responsible for four coups d ’ état ( 1987, 1999-2000, 2006, and 2009 ) and for over two decades of military government.

According to the AP, she has been " the Senate's most forceful and authoritative voice for veterans ' issues " for her work on property tax exemptions for disabled veterans, and her support of Virginia's Wounded Warriors Program.

According to some veterans, it appeared that low flying Soviet bombers were attempting to hit every individual German soldier jumping between craters, from time to time getting buried under the soil by the explosions of Soviet shells.

According to many memoirs of the veterans of the battle, Kozietulski led his men for a charge with the official cry Vive l ' Empereur.

According to a 1985 Montreal Gazette article, rookies were paid "$ 150 a week plus $ 35 for a victory " and veterans were paid " as much as $ 300 a week ".

According to Butler's account, it was on this occasion that MacGuire asked Butler to run a new veterans ' organization and lead a coup attempt against the President.