According to Josep Puig, the Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars which almost touched one another and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 500 AH ( 1106 / 1107 AD ) as evidence.

According to Nevill ( citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy ), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, " There grows the stuff that won Waterloo ", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to " the manly character induced by games and sport " amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.

According to Hoffman ( p. 131, 1988 ) citing Brigadier ( ret.

According to Charlotte Rampling, Bogarde was approached in 1990 by Madonna to appear in her video for Justify My Love, citing The Night Porter as an inspiration.

According to Macrobius citing Nigidius Figulus and Cicero, Janus and Jana ( Diana ) are a pair of divinities, worshipped as Apollo or the sun and moon, whence Janus received sacrifices before all the others, because through him is apparent the way of access to the desired deity.

According to a 1980 Time Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, allegedly Soviet non-Slavs, including Jews, Armenians, and Asians were generally barred from senior ranks and from joining elite or strategic positions in the Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Soviet Navy because of doubts regarding the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to one opinion, the apprehension that the offender might leave the Jewish fold on account of the severity of the excommunication did not prevent the court from adding rigor to its punishments so as to maintain its dignity and authority ( Shulkhan Arukh, Yoreh De ' ah, 334, 1, Rama's gloss, citing Sefer Agudah ).

According to the VENONA files, on September 13, 1944, the KGB New York station sent a message to Moscow that Vladimir Pravdin, a NKVD ( the predecessor of the KGB ) officer working under cover as a correspondent for the Soviet news agency TASS, had been trying to contact a person by codename " BLIN " ( the Russian word for pancake ) in Washington, but that " BLIN " had been refusing to meet, citing a busy schedule.

According to a 1980 TIME Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, Soviet non-Slavs were generally barred from joining the Strategic Rocket Forces because of suspicions of loyalty of ethnic minorities to the Kremlin.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, citing the Elias Sports Bureau, the last player to score three goals unassisted was Maurice " Rocket " Richard ( who scored four ) against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on March 14, 1948.

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

According to a 1980 Time article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to Caldicott, citing a 30 March 1979 study by the Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering, radiation contaminants that fell on the Pennsylvania grass found their way into the milk of the local dairy cows.

According to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Non-proliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, citing a Pakistani news article, Pakistan is developing its own equivalent to the Davy Crockett launcher with miniaturized warhead that may be similar to the W54.

According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, "( 70 %) stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a ' steady income ' or ' getting off the street.

According to one of Cohen's biographers, Ira Nadel, " reaction to the album was largely negative ," citing negative reviews from Rolling Stone magazine ( which titled its review " Leonard Cohen's Doo-Wop Nightmare ") and The Toronto Star.

According to the Haitian press, on March 25, 2009, Jean-Jacques Pierre announced his retirement from the national side citing false accusations against him.

* 720, 000 According to www. jafi. org citing " Irving Howe and Carl Gershman ( eds.

According to Howard Bryant of the Washington Post, citing NFL. com, " Lloyd suffered through the worst season for a starting receiver in the Super Bowl era ... No starting No. 2 wide receiver in the NFL started more games ( 12 ) while producing less ( 23 catches, 365 yards ).

According to the BBC and ITV, both listed on DEC's website as part of DEC's " Rapid Response Network ", most other charitable organisations approached declined the offer of free space citing reputational concerns over association with the title.

According to Heenan, Pillman apologized to him for the incident backstage, citing he did not know of Heenan's history of neck problems beforehand, and more specifically that Heenan had been labeled " no-touch " by management because of his injuries.

According to the New York Times ( March 10, 1992, citing figures from the Lebanese police ), 3, 781 were killed in the fighting.

According to himself he denied an offer from the club, citing it was too short of a contract to be interesting.

According to PK Dey, a human-rights lawyer from Delhi, Dorje Shugden worshippers are suffering harassment from the Dalai Lama's followers and his government, citing door-to-door searches and wanted posters as examples.

According to local legend, it was in 1915 that a circus train stopped in Hutto Texas at the depot to take on passengers, pick up and deliver mail and possibly take on water and fuel for the steam locomotive.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, a post office with the spelling " Tualitin " was established November 5, 1869, and the spelling changed to " Tualatin " in 1915.

According to the Annuario Pontificio, the official yearbook of the Holy See, Monaco has maintained a diplomatic representative to the Holy See with the rank of minister plenipotentiary since 1915.

According to Dr. John Tennison, " although some Boogie Woogie bass figures were present in prior sheet music, the thing that made ' The Fives ' so special was the greater amount and variety of Boogie Woogie bass figures that were present in the music as compared to Boogie Woogie bass figures that had been present in previously published sheet music, such as the 1915 " Weary Blues " by Artie Matthews.

According to one source, " The enabling legislation for the NACA slipped through almost unnoticed as a rider attached to the Naval Appropriation Bill, on 3 March 1915.

According to the London agreement from 1915. it was planned that Italy should get Dalmatia.

According to its official figures, it held, between December 27, 1915 and July 5, 1917:

According to this secret pact, signed in London on 26 April 1915 by the Kingdom of Italy and Triple Entente, in case of victory at the end of World War I, Italy was to obtain several territorial gains including Northern Dalmatia and notably Zadar ( Zara ), Šibenik ( Sebenico ), and most of the Dalmatian islands ( except Krk and Rab ).

According to H. W. Schneider, the new Milan fascio was formed of roughly the same people who had been members of the older fascio in 1915, but with a new name and a new objective.

According to Hartzell, in 1915 he met a couple of con artists who promised to turn his mother's $ 6000 into $ 6 million by giving him a share of the held fortune of Sir Francis Drake.

A telegram in August 1915 from Edward Gordon Craig inviting him to Florence to discuss a possible staging of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Passion According to Saint Matthew was greeted with enthusiasm.

According to internal memos, American Telephone & Telegraph discussed developing a wireless phone in 1915, but were afraid that deployment of the technology could undermine its monopoly on wired service in the U. S.

According to his Attestation Paper, Good enlisted on 29 June 1915, in Sussex, NB.

He wrote three books about it: A Color Notation ( 1905 ), Atlas of the Munsell Color System ( 1915 ) and one published posthumously, A Grammar of Color: Arrangements of Strathmore Papers in a Variety of Printed Color Combinations According to The Munsell Color System ( 1921 ).

According to the the Act of Ley Nº 3. 544, on 19 July 1909 it held the status of " Villa " ( town ), which was elevated to " Ciudad " ( city ) on 29 September 1915 by the Act of Ley 5. 335.

* According to the National Weather Service, the maximum flood stage of the Big River at Byrnesville occurred on August 21, 1915, and was, with a flow of roughly per second.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

According to Romans 9 – 11, supporters claim, Jewish election as the chosen people ceased with their national rejection of Jesus as Messiah.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

According to her diaries, Volume One, 1931 – 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of sixteen years and later began working as an artist's model.

According to her diaries, Vol. 1, 1931 – 1934, Nin shared a bohemian lifestyle with Henry Miller during her time in Paris.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to Maimonides ( III 22 – 23 ), each of Job's friends represents famous, distinct schools of thought concerning God and divine providence.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.

According to Brønsted – Lowry acid-base theory, acids are substances that donate a positive hydrogen ion to another substance in a chemical reaction ; by extension, a base is the substance which receives that hydrogen ion.

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, around 125, 000 ethnic Serbs who fled the 1991 – 1995 conflict are registered as having returned to Croatia, of whom around 55, 000 remain permanently.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.