According to The Discworld Almanak, pig-boring is a humane form of slaughter in which the animal is talked to death.

* According to The Discworld Companion, it lasted exactly as long as it took for Sam Vimes to find out about it ( though in The Fifth Elephant it lasted only until Carrot Ironfoundersson found out about it, rather before Vimes did.

According to The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, another Hex-like machine has been invented by the smaller magical university of Braseneck College.

According to The Discworld Companion, it does not have an economy.

According to the wizards of Unseen University, Chelys galactica, and thusly Great A ' tuin, are composed largely of the fictional element chelonium, the properties of which are apparently known to them ( they do tests to look for it in Roundworld ( the Discworld analogue of Earth ) in The Science of Discworld ), but not to readers.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

According to Joyce Whalley in The International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, an illustrated book differs from a book with illustrations, in that " a good illustrated book is one where the pictures enhance or add depth to the text.

According to an interview with Gaiman in The Sandman Companion, the Corinthian takes his name from the mode of behavior ; specifically, " a Corinthian " was another term for a rake: a devil-may-care, ne ' er-do-well.

According to The Twilight Zone Companion this was one of the hardest episodes technically to put on film.

According to the Oxford Companion to Philosophy ( 1995 ), the term originated in Morris Raphael Cohen and Ernest Nagel's book Logic and Scientific Method ( 1934 ).

According to his notes in the LATOFSMD Companion, he enjoys telling this story because it captures Scrooge at his physical and mental peak.

According to the Companion, in various periods of history people from the real world withdrew to Daventry, which explains how historical and mythical elements exist there.

According to the King's Quest Companion, she later disappeared from Kolyma soon after her brother kidnapped Alexander from Daventry.

According to the King's Quest Companion he withdrew from the other world along with his castle.

According to the King's Quest Companion he apparently has a wife, and it confirms that Graham had encountered the same Dwarf again when he traveled to Kolyma.

According to the King's Quest Companion, Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, a dark tome feared throughout Daventry.

According to the " Readers ' Companion to U. S. Women's History ",

According to The New Ayn Rand Companion, Equality 7-2521 experiments with electricity to become a literal and figurative bringer of light, similar to Prometheus.

According to Pierre Larousse ( quoted in the Oxford Companion to Food ), the unfortunate Duke of Mirepoix was " an incompetent and mediocre individual.

According to The Oxford Companion to Food, okra-based gumbos are becoming less popular, as changing tastes have made the okra texture less palatable.

According to The Reader's Companion to American History, the poem was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students.

According to The Oxford Companion of Food and Drink, " the name presumably comes from the Thousand Islands between the United States and Canada in the St. Lawrence River.

According to Michael Farr's Tintin: The Complete Companion, it is also the best-selling book in the Tintin series.

According to the book, Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way and The Monopoly Companion, Mr. Monopoly has a second nephew named Randy, although the Monopoly Companion mistakenly refers to Sandy as a boy.

According to the Oxford Names Companion, the name could possibly mean ‘ tree-trunk ( used as a footbridge ) of a man called Hydeca ’.

According to The Goon Show Companion, Bluebottle was originally known as Ernie Splutmuscle.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to SonyBMG, there are no plans to release The Sicilian Defence.

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

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 the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

According to Theravada commentaries, there are five requisite factors that must all be fulfilled for an act to be both an act of killing and to be karmically negative.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to the 2009 CIA World Factbook, there are a total of 43 airports in Belgium, 27 of which have paved runways.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this understanding, the self can not be reduced to a bundle because there is nothing that answers to the concept of a self.

According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there.

According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to these scholars, there was something they variously call " earliest Buddhism ", " original Buddhism " or " pre-canonical Buddhism ".

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

According to Okrent ( 2009, p. 190 ), there was a final period of conflict, as Bliss would make continuous criticisms to McNaughton often followed by apologies.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.