Medieval alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan's Book of Stones According to the Opinion of Balīnās contains an exposition and analysis of views expressed in Arabic occult works attributed to Apollonius.

According to the Jelling Stones, Gorm " won all of Denmark ", but it is speculated he only ruled Jutland from his seat in Jelling.

Later hits included " Peace Will Come ( According To Plan )" and a cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Ruby Tuesday ".

According to the Rolling Stones ' website " Accounts regarding the value of his musical input to The Stones recordings vary, from negligible to absolute zero ".

According to Keith Hoerig: " It's a rock record with horns, in the vein of Chicago and the Rolling Stones, who have horns all over their records.

According to Ian McLagan, who played keyboards with the Stones on the 1981 Tattoo You tour, Allen was so bewildered by playing with the Stones for over 80, 000 people in attendance " he completely choked up ".

According to Tony Sanchez in Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, Jagger considered proposing to Hunt but didn't because he didn't think he loved Hunt enough to spend the rest of his life with her, while Hunt, for her part, didn't think they could compatibly cohabit.

According to Bill Wyman's book, Rolling with the Stones, the Stones also performed " Confessing the Blues ", " Route 66 " and an alternative take of " Sympathy for the Devil " with Brian Jones on guitar.

* According to journalist Richard Simpson, Lennon wrote the song in response to Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones boasting about his pop-star girlfriend (" bird " in British Isles slang ) Marianne Faithfull.

According to Clinton Heylin, author of Bootleg: The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording Industry, the five most bootlegged artists are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

According to Seiken Densetsu 3s in-game lore, the Mana Goddess created the game's world by forging the powerful Sword of Mana and defeating eight benevodons ( God-Beasts in the fan-translation ) with it, sealing them within eight Mana Stones, before turning herself into the Mana Tree and falling asleep.

According to the commentary for the film, the Circus recording is owned as part of the package of Rolling Stones songs, and it was prohibitively expensive to include on the soundtrack album ( which is, similarly, missing the Stones ' song I Am Waiting, used in the film ).

According to Bill Wyman in his book ' Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ' N ' Roll Band ,' John Lennon said of The Rolling Stones No. 2: " The album's great, but I don't like five-minute numbers.

According to Rolling Stones Timothy White, " Against the Wind is about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time ".

According to various accounts, either the Rolling Stones ' manager / producer Andrew Loog Oldham or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon.

According to the Talmud, the Hall of Hewn Stones is the traditional meeting place of the Great Sanhedrin when it functioned as a court with full sovereign powers including the power to impose criminal penalties.

According to the editor of a volume of his writings on Spain, Cockburn formed a personal relationship with Mikhail Koltsov, " then the foreign editor of Pravda and, in Cockburn's view, ' the confidant and mouthpiece and direct agent of Stalin in Spain '.

According to Montefiore, Stalin's close friend and confidant Lazar Kaganovich later joked, " Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

According to her friend and confidant Julia Brew, Normand asked near the end, " Julia, do you think they'll ever find out who killed Bill Taylor?

According to Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, a " leading Iranian newspaper editor and confidant of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami " interviewed by Newsweek magazine, the arrest and stiff sentence were an attempt to distract attention from two bills to increase the power of president and curb the hard-liner conservatives ' supervisory power which reformist President Khatami had introduced into Parliament.

According to Haggard, in November 1984, when he was an associate pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his confidant and mentor Danny Ost, a missionary to Mexico City, had a vision of Haggard founding his church in Colorado Springs.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is 36. 7 light years ( 11. 3 parsecs ) from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3, 200 were executed or " disappeared ", and at least 29, 000 imprisoned and tortured.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.

According to a March 2004 BBC profile, politics within the country are dominated by tensions between Obiang's son, Teodorin, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces.

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman " the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

According to his own account, Agnagna claimed to have seen a Mokèlé-mbèmbé at close distance for about 20 minutes.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio — engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers — production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".

According to Kapila, " The government has a close knowledge of what's going on-and can influence the Arab militia.

According to a study by Menna Jones, " gene flow appears extensive up to ", meaning a high assignment rate to source or close neighbour populations " in agreement with movement data.

According to the Virgin Islands ' Department of Labor, close to 50, 000 people make the local workforce and are associated with various small and large businesses.

According to Procopius, they maintained close links with their kinsmen in Thule ( Scandinavia ).

According to ATRAC engineers, ATRAC algorithms were developed in close cooperation with LSI development engineers within Sony in order to deliver on a tangible product that could encode at high speeds and with minimal power consumption.

According to these early recorded stories, gods and kings, like the 7th century BC scholar-king Assurbanipal, paid close attention to dreams.

According to Zhou's own account, he was very close to his adoptive mother and acquired his lasting interest in Chinese literature and opera from her.

According to the Star Trek: New Frontier book series ( which, like all novels, are not considered canon ), the Great Awakening caused many wars and conflicts to occur amongst various Vulcan tribes ; those who supported Surak's cause would become separated from friends and even close family members who did not.