According to Newton's law of gravity, and independently verified by experiments such as that of Eötvös and its successors ( see Eötvös experiment ), there is a universality of free fall ( also known as the weak equivalence principle, or the universal equality of inertial and passive-gravitational mass ): the trajectory of a test body in free fall depends only on its position and initial speed, but not on any of its material properties.

According to the earliest Russian chronicle, a Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler ( knyaz ) of Novgorod in about 860, before his successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev, which had been previously dominated by the Khazars.

* According to some legendary accounts in the chronicles, the successors of Ne were the gopālavaṃśi or " Cowherd family ", whose names often end in-gupta and are said to have ruled for some 491 years.

According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.

According to Rawcliffe, Abrams and his successors had " founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years ".

According to Barks and his successors, Magica lives on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, next to Naples, Italy.

According to Apollodorus, after the death of Temenus the army declared Deiphontes and Hyrnetho his rightful successors.

According to Article 57 the Crown of Spain is inherited by the successors of King Juan Carlos I de Borbón through male preference primogeniture Article 57 is also significant in that it omits entirely the Franconist era designation of Juan Carlos as Franco's successor.

According to a scholar, the opposition was led mainly by the Bunnags, a merchant-aristocrat family of Persian origins, successors of Ayutthaya's minister of Ports and Finance, or Phra Klang Coupled with the tax revenues that these activities provided — helped restore the kingdom's devastated economy.

According to this source, Qiáochénrú was one of the successors of the king Tiānzhú Zhāntán 天竺旃檀 (“ Candana from India ”), a ruler of Funan who in the year 357 AD sent tamed elephants as tribute to the Emperor Mu of Jin ( r. 344 – 361 ; personal name: Sīmǎ Dān 司馬聃 ): “ He was originally a Brahmin from India.

According to this doctrine, modern bishops, therefore, must be viewed as part of an unbroken line of leadership in succession from the original apostles: though they do not have the authority and powers granted uniquely to the apostles, they are the apostles ' successors in governing the Church.

According to this " pacta ", the coronation was preceded by an agreement between Coloman and the representatives of the greatest Croatian families, under which he and his successors would govern Croatia as a separate kingdom.

According to the majority of Shī ' a, namely the Twelvers ( Ithnā ' ashariyya ), the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muḥammad.

According to Soami Bagh and Dayal Bagh successors, Tulsi Sahib was a contemporary guru of the same teachings, but being a natural born Satguru, Shiv Dayal Singh himself had no guru.

According to João Camillo Torres the idea behind the Moderating Power was " that a monarch, by virtue of dynastic continuity, took no part in factions, classes, had no regional links, did not owe his power to economic groups, did not have to fulfill electoral promises, did not need to think of his own future — the future of his family was guaranteed by the preservation of peace and national greatness — he was not subject to the temptation of taking advantage of a brief passage through the government to grant benefits and advantages for himself only at the cost of the nation ´ s welfare and leaving the onus to his successors " as he knows that his " successor will be his own son, knowing that history, many times, charges grandchildren with the crimes of their grandparents ".

" According to Moses Hadas, in the introduction to his translation of the Aethiopica, " in construction and a hundred details Sidney patiently follows Heliodorus, and the Arcadia was the principle model for Sidney's successors.

The most prominent of the successors of his lineage was Guifeng Zongmi According to Tsung-mi, Shen-hui's approach was officially sanctioned in 796, when " an imperial commission determined that the Southern line of Ch ' an represented the orthodox transmission and established Shen-hui as the seventh patriarch, placing an inscription to that effect in the shen-lung temple ".

According to a contemporary account by Francis Pretty, a member of Drake's party, Drake left behind " a plate of brasse " as " a monument of our being there " that claimed " her maiesties, and successors right and title to that kingdome.

According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Audran was one of the best of the successors of Jacques Offenbach.

According to Mustali belief, the line of Imams ( descendents of Ali ibn Abi Talib and hereditary successors to Muhammad in his role of legitimate leader of the community of Muslim believers ) is as follows:

According to " The Parliamentary Oath " even if the entire country were to vote in a general election for a party whose manifesto pledge was to remove the monarchy, it would be impossible by reason of the present oath, and current acts of parliament, for such elected MPs to take their seats in the House of Commons, or be raised to the House of Lords, without taking this Oath of Allegiance to the ruling monarch, and to her heirs, and successors.

According to Dyzenhaus, the only two natural successors to Rabie were both considered unfit for the job-one for being too " weak "; the other too " liberal ".

According to the official citation, the breast cord of honor given them and their successors was made red, the artillery's color, to show that they were expert artillerymen as Infantrymen.

According to the majority of Shi ' a, namely the Ithna Ashariya or Twelvers, the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muhammad.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively ( consistent with SI ), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte,

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to William Scoresby ( 1820: p. 154 ), referring to the mistaken belief that the Dutch had discovered the island in 1611, Hull whalers discovered the island " about the same time " and named it " Trinity Island ".

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

According to Geoffrey Ashe, Gildas may have been referring to Aurelius ' first victories as occurring near the time of his birth, which Ashe suggests was around 473, while Mons Badonicus may have occurred much later.

According to Bal Gangadhar Tilak referring to RV 1. 161. 13 the twelve days, when the Ribhus rested at the house of Agohya, took place " at the end of the year ".

According to William Bright, the name " Toppenish " comes from the Sahaptin word / txápniš /, referring to a landslide, from / txá -/, " accidentally ", /- pni -/, " to launch, to take forth and out ", and /- ša /, " continuative present tense ".

According to Norman Levine, when Marx called for the abolition of private property, he was not referring to privately owned personal property such as clothing and furniture that was not used to produce the " social wealth ," but to productive property.

According to psychologist David Marks in experiments conducted in the 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute, the notes given to the judges contained clues as to which order they were carried out, such as referring to yesterday's two targets, or they had the date of the session written at the top of the page.

According to Bede, Eadbald was punished for his faithlessness by " frequent fits of insanity ", and possession by an " evil spirit " ( perhaps referring to epileptic fits ), but was eventually persuaded to give up his wife and adopt Christianity.

According to Al-Bukhari, Prophet Mohammad ’ s teachings, the Prophet said: “ People are partners in three: Water, Herbs and Fire ” ( referring to basic energy resources ).

According to Fedel Handhal, a researcher in the history and culture of the UAE, the word Dubai may have come from the word Daba ( a derivative of Yadub, which means to creep ); referring to the slow flow of Dubai Creek inland.

) According to legal scholar Claire Sheridan, referring to the legal, social and political status of Mexican Americans in the early 20th century: " Anglos rarely distinguished between Mexicans and Mexican Americans and painted a picture of " Mexicans " as an economic and cultural threat to America.

According to another interpretation ys may mean “ high ” as well as “ low ”, referring to the rapidly changing water level in the river Isar.

According to Tony Iommi, Dio quit because he was asked to support Ozzy's final shows at Costa Mesa, referring to Ozzy as a " clown " Dio would not record or perform with the band again until 2006.

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast ( possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia ), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

According to Ronald M. Kreitner, executive director of West Side Renaissance Inc., the " Convention Center will help contribute to the success of the theatres and the retail ," referring to the development of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center / Hippodrome Theatre, as well as new retail ventures in the area.

According to Ibn Shaddad, two days later the first line of defences was captured by the besiegers ; he was probably referring to a walled suburb outside the castle's entrance.

According to Shi ' a scholar Muhammad Husain Javari Sabinal, Shi ' ism would not have spread at all if not for taqiyya, referring to instances where Shi ' a have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.

According to the left-inclined reading, what Jesus is referring to is the overturning of the economic provisioning of the tribes of Israel in the Law of Moses.

" According to Paul, " She received huge applause when she asked how former United States President Jimmy Carter could omit the years 1939-1947 from a chronology in his book "; referring to his recently-published and controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, she said: " When a former president of the United States writes a book on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and writes a chronology at the beginning of the book in order to help them understand the emergence of the situation and in that chronology lists nothing of importance between 1939 and 1947, that is soft-core denial.

According to sme sources the area was settled by Walloon settlers, who brought viticulture to the area ; the name of the village possibly comes from the French word taille ( meaning " cutting ", referring that the tres of forests on the hills had to be cut so that vine can grow there ).

According to John Koch and several other historians, the Latin name " Venedotia " from whence the Welsh name " Gwynedd " comes is derived from the Irish word " Feni ", referring at one time to a specific group on the island and later broadening to become a general reference to the Irish people as a whole, the free, nonslave people in particular.