According to Schaffer, a friend of his, who died in a motorcycle accident prior to Schaffer moving to Florida was responsible for the name.

According to Jon Schaffer, DiGiorgio was required and agreed to go on tour, but left due to " prior commitments.

According to Jon Schaffer, Iced Earth expects to begin writing new material for an eleventh studio album in the fall of 2012.

According to Jon Schaffer, because many of Iced Earth's fans felt that The Dark Saga lacked in speed and heaviness, the band tried to have a more diverse collection of songs on Something Wicked This Way Comes.

According to Schaffer, the shift in musical style was due to a much more positive feeling going into the writing, as opposed to the band's previous album Burnt Offerings, which had much more negative feeling going into it.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

According to this tradition, the Christ within is regarded as the true Saviour who needs to be born within each individual in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in the Earth's etheric plane, that is, toward the " new heavens and a new earth ": the New Galilee.

According to the standard reference text on nuclear weapons effects published by the U. S. Department of Defense, " The peak electric field ( and its amplitude ) at the Earth's surface from a high-altitude burst will depend upon the explosion yield, the height of the burst, the location of the observer, and the orientation with respect to the geomagnetic field.

According to Yoruba and Vodou belief systems, Shango hurls bolts of lightning at the people chosen to be his followers, leaving behind imprints of stone axe blades on the Earth's crust.

According to Gauss, who first described it, it is the " mathematical figure of the Earth ", a smooth but highly irregular surface that corresponds not to the actual surface of the Earth's crust, but to a surface which can only be known through extensive gravitational measurements and calculations.

According to this definition, deep space starts at a distance of 2, 000, 000 km from the Earth's surface.

According to a major study, Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places, carried out by Conservation International, 46 % of the world's land mass is wilderness.

According to the theory of plate tectonics, which has been extensively confirmed over the past 40 years, the Earth's crust consists of lighter " sial " rocks ( continental crust rich in aluminium silicates ) that float on heavier " sima " rocks ( oceanic crust richer in magnesium silicates ).

According to this argument of upper limits, RHIC would still modify the chance for the Earth's survival by an infinitesimal amount.

According to the WBCSD definition, eco-efficiency is achieved through the delivery of " competitively priced goods and services that satisfy human needs and bring quality of life while progressively reducing environmental impacts of goods and resource intensity throughout the entire life-cycle to a level at least in line with the Earth's estimated carrying capacity.

According to Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, the Combine are draining the Earth's oceans, minerals and resources, to be used on other Combine worlds.

" According to data provided by the Main Center for Space Reconnaissance, which is part of Russia's Space Forces, fragments of the Meteor 1-1 satellite entered the Earth's atmosphere at 02: 17 a. m. Moscow time on Tuesday ( 22: 17 GMT Monday 26 March 2012 )," according to Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexey Zolotukhin.

According to the first variant no relative motion exists between Earth and aether ; according to the second one, relative motion exists and thus the speed of light should depend on the speed of this motion (" aether wind "), which should be measurable by instruments at rest on Earth's surface.

According to Jordan, this account prompted him to keep a secret identity as a security precaution and to carefully navigate around Earth's radiation belts.

According to NASA, potential uses of the Ares IV would have included sending the Orion spacecraft on early " shakeout " missions into lunar orbit only, as well as testing high-speed " skip reentries " in which the capsule would skip in the Earth's atmosphere before landing, rather than making a relatively direct descent.

According to the Snowball Earth hypothesis, there may have been a number of periods when the Earth's oceans froze over completely.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to a forum post in December 2010, Sixense Entertainment is working on musical control with the Sixense TrueMotion motion controller.

According to the road manager of Quacky Duck, Parsons was, despite being frequently drunk, a kind soul who provided business and musical guidance to the younger band.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

" According to Marc Bauch, " The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are romantic musical plays.

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

According to Nicks, friend and former musical partner Tom Petty was responsible for convincing her to write music again when he rebuffed her request that he write a song with her.

According to the documentary For the Record, he stated that he was unhappy with his musical ideas not being taken seriously by lead singer Barlow and Nigel Martin-Smith, because his desire to explore hip hop and rap conflicted with the band's usual ballads.

According to Herodotus ' account of the Lydian empire under the Mermnads, Arion attended a musical competition in Sicily, which he won.

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

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 some reports, Kiss Me Kate, a 1953 filmic adaptation of the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate was inspired by the backstage antics of Lunt and Fontanne, who continually fought both on and off stage, but who always reconciled, both on and off stage.

According to Herodotus, Periander also held the musical contest that was won by the poet Arion.

According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, Jubal was named by the Bible as the inventor of musical instruments ( Gen. 4: 21 ).

According to J. C. von Mannlich, who shared rooms with Gluck in Paris, it was as a Bohemian schoolboy that Gluck received his first musical training, both as a singer in the church choir and by learning.

According to Neil Strauss in the New York Times, "... many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert.

According to the review by Marc Greilsamer, " All of the trademark Tatum elements are here: the grand melodic flourishes, the harmonic magic tricks, the flirtations with various tempos and musical styles.

According to the Chorus of knights, his lewdness is ingenious, his beard is foul with secretions licked up in brothels and he is as vile as Oenichus and Polymnestus ( colleagues in smut if not in the arts ), yet his musical brother Arignotus is a good man and a friend of the author ( 1276 – 89 ).

According to the press release, " The new collection is titled The Best So Far … because D ' Angelo is far from finished, currently writing and recording his highly anticipated next musical chapter.

According to Charles B. Fowler, the automata were a " robot band " which performed " more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection.

According to Playbill. com, a musical based on Betty Boop is " in the works ", with music by David Foster and book by Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson.

According to musical instrument scholar Grant O ' Brien, the inverted wrestplank is " still to be found in pianos dating from a period 150 years after death.

According to music writer Peter Shapiro, the term itself refers to a musical style that obtains its influence from older R & B styles, and bohemian musicians seeking a soul revival, while setting themselves apart from the more contemporary sounds of their mainstream R & B counterparts.