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 the conjectural reconstructions of Noel Swerdlow and G. J. Toomer, this was derived from his assumption of a " least perceptible " solar parallax of 7 arc minutes.

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

According to Hermann Weyl, the assumption that space is made of finite and discrete units is subject to a further problem, given by the " tile argument " or " distance function problem ".

According to Mackenzie's theory, the Persians ( or Proto-Persians ) occupied the province of Fars in the southwest ( proceeding from the assumption that the Achaemenids spoke Persian ), the Baluchis ( Proto-Baluchis ) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds ( Proto-Kurds ), in the wording of G. Windfuhr ( 1975: 459 ), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to a story reported by Simplicius, Plato posed a question for Greek astronomers: " By the assumption of what uniform and orderly motions can the apparent motions of the planets be accounted for?

* According to Roman Catholic tradition the Blessed Virgin Mary was crowned as Queen of Heaven after her assumption into heaven.

According to an article published in The Economist, the work of Cavalli-Sforza " challenges the assumption that there are significant genetic differences between human races, and indeed, the idea that ' race ' has any useful biological meaning at all ".

According to his theory, the Persians ( or Proto-Persians ) occupied the province of Fars in the southwest ( proceeding from the assumption that the Achaemenids spoke Persian ), the Baluchis ( Proto-Baluchis ) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds ( Proto-Kurds ), in the wording of G. Windfuhr ( 1975: 459 ), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan.

According to the theory of cosmic inflation and its founder, Alan Guth, if it is assumed that inflation began about 10 < sup >− 37 </ sup > seconds after the Big Bang, then with the plausible assumption that the size of the universe at this time was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's size is at least 10 < sup > 23 </ sup > times larger than the size of the observable universe.

According to sampling theory, this assumption is reasonable when the sampling fraction is small.

According to E. J. Erickson this assumption possibly resulted from their analysis of the objectives of the Balkan Pact – but it had deadly consequences for the Ottoman Army in Thrace, which would have to defend the area against the bulk of the Bulgarian army against impossible odds.

According to Eliezer Schweid, the rejection of life in the Diaspora is a central assumption in all currents of Zionism.

According to Donald Rayfield, the assumption that the Georgian script has pre-Christian origin, is rather unfounded and was not confirmed by archaeological findings.

According to Ivan Katchanovski, " the lower bound of these estimates is more reliable than higher estimates which are based on an assumption that the Polish population in the region was several times less likely to perish as a result of Nazi genocidal policies compared to other regions of Poland and compared to the Ukrainian population of Volhynia.

According to Peter H. Rossi, a prominent sociologist whose work involved evaluation of social programs, " the program rests on the assumption that households with restricted incomes may skimp on food purchases and live on diets that are inadequate in quantity and quality, or, alternatively skimp on other necessities to maintain an adequate diet ".

According to the UN, the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories.

According to this assumption, they considered the opportunity of having access to a supervising manager would be sufficient to satisfy the need for control in standard situations.

According to Walter Kaufmann, although the triad is often thought to form part of an analysis of historical and philosophical progress called the Hegelian dialectic, the assumption is erroneous.

4 ) According to the assumption of locality, it cannot have been the action carried out in A which created this element of reality for photon 2.

According to its authors, this 2011 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States " casts considerable doubt on the general assumption that risk to ionizing radiation is proportional to dose ".

According to scholars headed by Prof. Roma Bose, he lived in the 13th Century, on the assumption that Śrī Nimbārkācārya was the author of the work Madhvamukhamardana.

According to an even later assumption by Hristo Gandev, the period began in the beginning of the 17th century.

According to the assumption made above, he must have reached his seventieth year at that time.