According to saxophonist Otto Hardwick, Ellington's band members had to shanghai Miley into joining them for his first performance, at the Hollywood on Broadway in 1923, At the time, Ellington's Washingtonians were formally led by Elmer Snowden, but Ellington, who factually had already been running the formation, also took over its official leadership a few months later.

According to ONE Magazine, the official organ of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, such tactics were used successfully in Cuba in the 1940s by Tom and Mabel Willey ; in the 1950s in North India Carlisle and Marie Hanna ; and in the 1960s in Ivory Coast by LaVerne Miley.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to the Zohar ( Volume 1, page 8b ) Habakkuk is the boy born to the Shunamite woman through Elisha's blessing:

According to Daum, after this first successful delivery, " Kennedy, who fiddles a bit with his suit jacket, is grinning like a boy who has just pulled off a coup.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

According to one source, Tycho's parents had promised to hand over a boy child to Jørgen and his wife, who were childless, but had not honoured this promise.

According to Martin, " Wayne was so good that you could have a boy of your own who was a tremendous hockey player, and he'd get overlooked because of what the Gretzky kid was doing.

According to the documentary Take That: For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group.

According to a contemporary chronicler, when Catherine de ' Medici was born, her parents, were " as pleased as if it had been a boy ".

According to his brother Faramir, even as a boy Boromir chafed under the notion that the Stewards were not kings, though they ruled in all but name.

According to legend the 12-year-old boy rallied the crew of the ship with the cry " Won't you avenge my father's death?

According to one origin myth, a boy went into the forest to collect honey, was stung by bees, and fell from a tree.

According to one story, Laomedon's son, Ganymedes, was kidnapped by Zeus, who had fallen in love with the beautiful boy.

According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis.

According to Harris, the tower was haunted by an eight-year-old boy who had been buried in the tower.

According to John Aubrey, Fuller was " a boy of pregnant wit.

According to the dream her unborn boy was destined to become a great Christian leader and spread the word of the Lord to a specific group of people.

According to Malory, King Pelles has already received magical foreknowledge that Lancelot will give his daughter a child and that this little boy will grow to become the greatest knight in the world, the knight chosen by God to achieve the Holy Grail.

According to one, Samael came to her and said: " Your old husband seized the boy and sacrificed him.

According to the legend, King Alfonso the Wise wrote the original rendition of the story in 1250, saying " We have heard it said that some very cruel Jews, in memory of the Passion of Our Lord on Good Friday, kidnapped a Christian boy and crucified him.

According to family lore, Macdonald noticed the young future Premier and told him that he was a fine boy who would make a good politician someday.

According to his own statement ( prologue to book III ), he was born on the Pierian Mountain in Macedonia, but he seems to have been brought to Italy at an early age, since he mentions reading a verse of Ennius as a boy in school.

According to Annette Pankratz, in her 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, by Robert Cross, " Steven Berkoff is one of the major minor contemporary dramatists in Britain and – due to his self-fashioning as a bad boy of British theatre and the ensuing attention of the media – a phenomenon in his own right.

According to Hagen himself and his secondary school classmates, Hagen was a relatively shy boy in his younger years.

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 the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over imperial policy towards Christians while wintering at Nicomedia in 302.

According to Jordanes's Getica, the Goths entered Oium, part of Scythia, under their 5th king, Filimer, where they subdued the Spali ( Sarmatians ), conquered the Kingdom of the Bosporus and captured several cities on the Euxinean coast, including Olbia and Tyras.

According to Papashvily one man who entered the tunnel never returned to the surface.

According to Josephus, when Roman troops entered the fortress, they discovered that its 960 inhabitants had set all the buildings but the food storerooms ablaze and committed a mass suicide.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, after Jesus's resurrection, many of the dead saints came out of their tombs and entered Jerusalem, where they appeared to many.

According to tradition, the Saxons ( and other tribes ) first entered Britain en masse as part of a deal to protect the Britons from the incursions of the Picts, Gaels, and others.

According to the FBI and the 9 / 11 Commission report, Hazmi first entered the United States on June 29, 2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker Satam al-Suqami much earlier.

According to former President Richard M. Nixon's article, published in Foreign Affairs in 1967, Thailand had entered a period of rapid growth in 1958 with an averaged growth rate of 7 percent a year since then.

According to his father's desire that his youngest son should choose a < em > gentleman's </ em > vocation, William, after his graduation from high school, entered the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn as a clerk, where he spent long hours adding numbers.

According to the BBC, Yemeni media say the embassy closures come after " six trucks full of weapons and explosives entered the capital, and the security forces lost track of the vehicles.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it ; when Hemera returned, Nyx left:

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

According to an article posted on his official website, Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album If on a Winter's Night ..., released on October 2009.

According to some family stories, some Union cavalry scouts or bummers entered the county.

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 the Chinese Book of Han, the various tribes of Japan ( constituting the nation of Wa ) had already entered into tributary relationships with China by the first century.

According to these theories, sea water would have entered the ship's hold, reacting with the cargo to release toxic gases, which then caused the crew to succumb to asphyxia and / or poisoning.

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.

According to the report, a 15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine what problems would occur if the United States entered a state of lasting peace.

According to The Wall Street Journal, he hand-wrote the code while serving nights in the Alameda County Jail, then entered the code later into a computer.

According to Alumni Dublinenses from 1935, most students entered Trinity College, Dublin as ' Pensioners '; in other words, they paid a fixed sum annually.