Edmond Hoyle, of " According to Hoyle " fame, wrote an early popular and definitive textbook, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.

According to Hua-yu Li, writing in Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 in 1953, Mao, misled by glowing reports in History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolshevik ): Short Course, authorized by Stalin of social and economic progress in the Soviet Union, abandoned the liberal economic programs of " New Democracy " and instituted the " general line for socialist transition ", a program to build socialism based on Soviet models.

According to the interpolated group of stanzas known as the Short Völuspá in Hyndluljóð, Þjazi is further described as " the giant who loved to shoot ".

According to the Guardian, Short accepted £ 1, 580 in donations worth of flights, hotel accommodation, food and travel expenses from al-Manar television in Lebanon in 2008.

According to a narrative of Landulphus Senior, the eleventh-century chronicler of Milan, Charlemagne attempted to abolish the Ambrosian Rite, as he or his father, Pepin the Short, had abolished the Gallican Rite in France, in favour of a Gallicanized Roman Rite.

" The Annunciation According to Mikey Piñero ( Cupcake and Paco )" ( 1984 ) pictures a scene from Short Eyes.

According to Kasparov and Short, FIDE president Florencio Campomanes broke these rules by simply announcing the venue of winning bid as being Manchester.

According to Gilliam, the film's rhythm, length, and style of cinematography made it a poor fit as a scene in the larger movie, so it became " Our Short Feature Presentation ", to be shown ahead of the " Main Feature ".

According to Bill Bryson's " A Short History of Nearly Everything ," he was an early proponent of both Arthur Holmes ' and Alfred Wegener ' Continental drift theory and the impact theory of lunar creation.

According to the legend, the coat of arms was granted to certain knight named Syrokomla of Abdank coat of arms after he won a duel with a pagan Prussian warrior in 1331 during the reign of Ladislaus the Short.

According to Paulin Paris, the family of Bordeaux represents the early dukes of Aquitaine, the last of whom, Waifar ( 745-768 ) was dispossessed and slain by Pippin the Short, king of the Franks ; but the trouvères had in mind no doubt the wars which marked the end of the Carolingian dynasty.

According to the Latin dictionaries, such as Lewis & Short, the term first appears in the late republican author, Marcus Tullius Cicero, with reference to the dagger used by Marcus Brutus to stab Julius Caesar.

According to some film historians, although he loudly ( and indelicately ) declared that there was nothing funny about a skunk who spoke French, he proudly accepted the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1949-for For Scent-imental Reasons, a Pepé Le Pew cartoon.

According to their dynamic and morphological characteristics, exposed sandy beaches can be classified into several morphodynamic types ( Short & Wright 1983, Short 1996 ).

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to Greek mythology, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with it in his hand.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

According to Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industries deputy head, Khan Jan Alokozai, about 500 shipping containers of trade goods enter Afghanistan via Pakistan on a daily basis.

According to Orthodox teaching the position of “ First Among Equals ” gives no additional power or authority to the bishop that holds it, but rather that this person sits as organizational head of a council of equals ( like a president ).

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

According to news reports, Mr Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to the Hughston Health Alert, " Lacerations to the head, scalp, and face are the most frequent types of injury hockey.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to the LTTE's then head of police, the force was to be assigned to tasks such as rehabilitation, construction, forest conservation and agriculture, but would also be used to battle the Sri Lankan military if the need arose.

According to Carla Ricci, “ The place she Magdalene occupied in the list cannot be considered fortuitous ,” because over and over Mary Magdalene ’ s name is placed at the head of specifically named women, indicating her importance.

According to Anthony King, "" The props in Blair's theatre of celebrity included ... his guitar, his casual clothes ... footballs bounced skilfully off the top of his head ... and carefully choreographed speeches-cum-performances at Labour Party conferences.

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

According to the Constitution of Russia, the country is a federation and semi-presidential republic, wherein the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government.

According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament's approval.

According to another tradition, Richard consulted a seer in the city of Leicester before the battle who foretold that " where your spur should strike on the ride into battle, your head shall be broken on the return.

According to tradition, Douglas was carrying the heart in a silver casket when he died at the head of the Scottish contingent at the Battle of Teba.

( According to chess rules, once a player has released a piece, he cannot make a different move.

According to The Chess Variant Pages &# x200A ;: Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its ' drop rule '; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.

According to his uncle, Ernest Morphy, no one formally taught Morphy how to play chess ; rather, Morphy learned on his own as a young child simply from watching others play.

According to Bushinsky, one of the innovations of Junior over other chess programs is the way it counts moves.

According to chess historian Edward Winter, in German, the term " zugzwang ": had been in regular use in the nineteenth century.

According to Bradley Ewart, it is believed that the Turk sat at its cabinet, and Napoleon sat at a separate chess table.

According to Crowley's memoirs, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Mathers was in the habit of ostensibly playing chess matches against various pagan gods.

According to chess historian Edward Winter, the first known use was in 1933.

According to Richard Hamilton, Duchamp regarded the local fishermen as strong chess players.

According to former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, " Makruk Thai is more strategic than international chess.

According to James Beard's American Cookery ( 1972 ) chess pie was brought from England originally, and was found in New England as well as Virginia.

According to Bill Wall, in 947 in a history of chess in India and Persia, the Arabic historian Ali al-Masudi described six different variants of chess, including astrological chess, circular chess and cylinder chess.

According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in a neighborhood bar.

According to one account, Rall was busy playing cards / chess the night before the attack at the home of Trenton merchant Abraham Hunt when he was handed a note from a local Loyalist who'd seen Washington's forces gathering.

According to Chessbase a high priority to fix, as was detailed in an email to Dr. David Kirkby part of which is shown on one of the chess newsgroups.