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 a group of astronomers at the University of Toronto and elsewhere, the observations of this supernova are best explained by assuming that it arose from a white dwarf which grew to twice the mass of the Sun before exploding.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

According to Sun Yat-sen's plans, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) was to rebuild China in three steps: military rule, political tutelage, and constitutional rule.

According to the Talmud, however, the point of Qoheleth is to state that all is futile under the Sun.

According to their distance from the Sun and their orbit parameters, TNOs are classified in two large groups:

According to Strabo ( 1. 1. 9 ), Seleucus was the first to state that the tides are due to the attraction of the Moon, and that the height of the tides depends on the Moon's position relative to the Sun.

According to Benford, this lens would diffuse the light from the Sun and reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0. 5 % to 1 %.

According to later tradition, Sun Quan was born on Sunzhou (" Sun Island ", later Wangzhou-" King's Island "), an islet at the intersection of the Fuchun River and one of its tributaries.

According to a theory by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Zdeněk Sekanina, the latest impactor to actually make contact with the Sun was the " supercomet " Howard-Koomen-Michels on August 30, 1979.

According to International Astronomical Union boundaries, the Sun now is in Taurus at the June solstice.

According to sidereal astrology, which divides the zodiac into 12 equal parts, the Sun is in Gemini at that time.

According to Virpiranta, the reason why this retriggered an onslaught was that Irish did not approve when their prince was kidnapped for the Sun cult.

According to Lee Yun-ping, chairman of the Chinese historical society, Sun needed a certificate to enter the United States at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have otherwise blocked him.

According to a New York Sun obituary of Old Ranger, " the whole of Penobscot County knew the bear, and he defied the entire population ".

According to The Baltimore Sun, Isabel destroyed 210 houses in Bowleys Quarters and caused major damage to 632 others.

According to local lore, he erected a sign over the entrance of the tavern depicting the rays of the sun at dawn and the words " The Rising Sun ".

According to Sitchin, Nibiru ( called " the twelfth planet " because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians ' gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon ) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis.

According to Hippolytus of Rome in the third century CE, Anaximander claimed that living creatures were first formed in the " wet " when acted on by the Sun, and that they were different then than they are now.

According to the Second Prophecy of Mandos, included in The Shaping of Middle-earth and similar versions in later volumes of the History of Middle-earth series, Morgoth ( the source and personification of evil in Tolkien's Middle-earth universe ) will discover how to break the Door of Night, and will destroy the Sun and the Moon.

According to Cliff White, " Recording again in the south, Memphis and Music Shoals, he did a superb job on several well known perennials, including " That Lucky Old Sun ", " What Am I Living For ", and " Please Send Me Someone to Love.

" According to a psychological approach to astrology the Sun, representing the Ego, engulfs the energies of the planet in Cazimi and is said to imbue it with the intensely positive and life-giving energy and power of the Sun.

According to George Yeo, the Foreign Minister of Singapore, in those days the Blue Sky with a White Sun flag was sewn in the Sun Yat Sen Villa or Wan Qing Yuan in Singapore by Teo Eng Hock and his wife.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

According to The New York Times suspects are subjected to severe physical and psychological pressure.

According to playwright Alan Franks, writing later in The Times, " he was indeed ' deranged '.

According to an article in the New York Times, however, his actual height was.

According to Dick Cavett's New York Times blog, when the elderly Groucho visited an old friend in the hospital, he said to the elevator attendant, as if in a department store, " Men's tonsils, please.

According to a 1938 Times magazine article, this was one of the first times that commercial use of hydroponics was used on such a large scale to feed people.

According to the Financial Times, " big hedge funds have some of the most sophisticated and exacting risk management practices anywhere in asset management.

According to the New York Times

According to the < i > New York Times </ i > and his memoirs, he was relying on cards provided by the school, which Quayle claims included the misspelling.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to The New York Times, his role in Giuliani's group " brought some high-wattage celebrity to a campaign that was in distress.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

According to a New York Times article from Feb. 1, 1893, Smith allegedly: " picked up little Myrtle Vance ... near her father's residence, and ... carried her through the central portion of the city ... En route through the city he was asked by several persons what he was doing with the child.

According to the New York Times of June 16, 2009, Sosa had also tested positive for steroids at some point during the season.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

According to Partridge and the Morrises, the archetypical shaggy dog story involves an advertisement placed in The Times announcing a search for a shaggy dog.

According to Dispensationalists who hold the futurist view, the Tribulation is thought to occur before the Second Coming of Jesus and during the End Times.

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor ( a non-fictional location in Scotland ).

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle was built in 400 AD, as portrayed in the unpublished first draft sketches.

According to the Los Angeles Times article, " The agency also asked the dozens of families that contacted officials to look for signs of disturbances -- shifted or cracked gravestones or anything else that appeared different from previous visits -- and didn ’ t receive a single call back, he said ".

According to a news report by The Epoch Times in 2004, 37. 5 % of toilet paper tested from Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces showed high levels of bacteria commonly found in human waste.

According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times ( sampling over 5, 000 of its 5, 765 members ), the Academy is 94 % white, 77 % male, 14 % under the age of 50, and has a median age of 62.

According to a New York Times article, “ More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond ”, in the past 20 years, the divorce rate has increased over 50 % amongst the baby boomers.

" According to the New York Times, Garfield had been in debt at the time, having taken out a mortgage on his property.