According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

According to the Silver Institute, silver's recent gains have greatly stemmed from a rise in investor interest and an increase in fabrication demand.

According to the 16th to 18th century writings of Silver, Swetnam and Wylde, the quarterstaff is held with the back hand at the butt end of the staff and the other hand about a foot to a foot and a half ( 30 to 45 cm ) above it.

According to local legend, every Christmas he bought all his miners a goose for their families, and every Fourth of July, he paid off every bar between Silver Plume and current day Bakerville, so his miners could enjoy their holiday without spending their family's money.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show " follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles ' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists – of any kind.

According to police reports, a woman in Neshoba County, MS, filed a report stating that on 23 September 2007, Rockett sexually assaulted her in his room at the Silver Star Hotel & Casino located on a Choctaw Indian reservation.

According to the story, at some point in or around June 1947 ( Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948 ), two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

* According to J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, Captain Hook was the only man whom Silver ever feared.

According to Silver ( quoted by Herb Wong in the liner notes for The Best of Horace Silver ) the classic Fields film was playing on television while Silver was inspired to compose the tune.

According to James L. Haley, " About two weeks after the escape there was a report of a family massacred near Silver City ; one girl was taken alive and hanged from a meat hook jammed under the base of her skull.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend Henley.

According to Hawkins ' History of the Silver Coins of England, groats were also known as " Joeys ",

According to Ron Cabral's biography on Country Joe and the Fish, Seven was the subject of and inspiration behind the song Silver and Gold.

According to an anecdote by Serpent Isle project leader Bill Armintrout, Origin Systems has lost the source code to both " Serpent Isle " and its add-on " The Silver Seed ", and Electronic Arts is not planning on any kinds of rewrites for modern systems.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river begins at the dam of Silver Lake in the city of Dover ; Silver Lake is fed by Fork Branch, Penrose Branch, and Maidstone Branch.

According to Neubauer, the origin of the Silver Arrows phrase was due to the cars being overweight at their first race.

According to the 1599 treatise Paradoxes of Defence by the English gentleman George Silver, the glaive is used in the same general manner as the quarterstaff, half pike, bill, halberd, voulge, or partisan.

According to Hawkins ' History of the Silver Coinage of England, a groat was known as a " Joey ", " so called from Joseph Hume, M. P., who strongly recommended the coinage for the sake of paying short cab-fares, etc.

According to the 2000 census, Silver Creek had a population of 1, 326 people.

According to the obituary printed by The New York Times, his brother, Mitchell Silver, noted that " He told me that he did vote for Barack Obama in the end.

According to Samguk Sagi, in 637, Kim Yu-sin, a Korean general of Silla rallied his troops to defeat rebels by lofting a kite with a straw man which looked like a burning ball flying to the sky.

According to Snowden, " When he finally offered to pay us, we went up and had a ball.

According to his sister he was fired soon after for shooting them with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents ' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play.

According to Hoyle " the single 0, the double 0, and eagle are never bars ; but when the ball falls into either of them, the banker sweeps every thing upon the table, except what may happen to be bet on either one of them, when he pays twenty-seven for one, which is the amount paid for all sums bet upon any single figure.

According to NRA rules, the ball is deemed a ' good ' ball if it passes within reach on the striking side between the batter's knees and the top of the head.

According to Aztec legend, she was once magically impregnated by a ball of feathers that fell on her while she was sweeping a temple, and subsequently gave birth to the gods Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl.

According to Galen, there also existed a teacher specifically devoted to instruction in ball games.

According to Wisden, Trueman " bowled at very fast pace and frequently made the ball fly ".

According to Owens, he was only fined because he used the ball as a prop.

According to a writer for the New York Daily News, " NBC's replay showed the ball clearly hit one and only one man Oakland DB Jack Tatum.

Then v ( p ) is the displacement vector of this projected point relative to p. According to the hairy ball theorem, there is a p such that v ( p )

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the club is often credited with inventing the " Boston Game ", which both allowed players to kick a round ball along the ground, and to pick it up and run with it.

According to Atherton's autobiography, the red mark where the ball struck was clearly visible, which he duly circled and autographed.

According to Gandil, " Instead, I played semipro ball twice a week for the Elks Club in Bakersfield, Calif.

According to legend, on a road trip that the A's made to New York, a Yankee hitter lofted a long fly ball to left field which, in the cavernous left field of Yankee Stadium, became a routine out.

According to the R & A rule book, for a tee to be legal, " It must not be longer than 4 inches ( 101. 6 mm ) and it must not be designed or manufactured in such a way that it could indicate the line of play or influence the movement of the ball.

According to his biographer, Frank Deford, because of his early family losses Tilden spent all of his adult life attempting to create a father-son relationship with a long succession of ball boys and youthful tennis protégés, of whom Vinnie Richards was the most noted.

According to practitioners, this gives them a better grip on the ball and allows for tighter spin and greater movement.

According to biographer Albert Beveridge, " He joined with gusto in outdoor sports — foot-races, jumping and hopping contests, town ball, wrestling.

According to the Book of Mormon and other Latter Day Saint movement sources, the Liahona () is a brass ball that operated as a type of compass with two spindles.

According to the laws of the game, if a player puts the ball into their own goal directly from a restart of play ( e. g. free kicks, corner kicks, goal kicks etc.

According to Wisden in his debut series, Holding " had shown himself to be Roberts ' natural opening partner and indeed was timed to be faster than Thomson, Lillee and Roberts ", and considered that when West Indies captain Clive Lloyd chose to give Julien the new ball rather than Holding it was a mistake that cost the West Indies the match.

According to McGill hockey club member W. L. Murray, by 1881 it was normally played with a square puck, made by slicing a rubber ball.

According to Morgan, the song is based upon an actual experience of Lane's at a restaurant in Boston, although the reality involved a half-portion of macaroni, rather than a fish ball.