According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

According to the memoirs of Juliet Thompson, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also compared Mary to Juliet, one of his most devoted followers, claiming that she even physically resembled her and that Mary Magdalene was Juliet Thompson's " correspondence in heaven.

According to cultural historian Bruce Thompson, Fritz Lang movie Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ( 1922 ) captures Berlin's postwar mood:

According to Thompson, Bilderberg itself is not an executive agency, but when Bilderberg participants reach a form of consensus about what is to be done they have at their disposal powerful transnational and national instruments for bringing about what it is they want to come to pass.

According to John J. Thompson, " lyrically, as the title suggests, the album reflects on the nature of the human condition.

According to American Christian music historian John J. Thompson:

According to an article by Ginger Thompson in the New York Times, " if Mr. Duvalier had been able to slip into the country and then quietly leave without incident … he may have been able to argue that Haiti was no longer interested in prosecuting him — and that the money should be his.

According to Randall Thompson, a health physics technician employed to monitor radioactive emissions at TMI after the accident, radiation releases were hundreds if not thousands of times higher.

According to a couple of old timers, brothers Euler B. Thompson ( 1909 – 2005 ) and Branan G. Thompson ( 1912 – 2006 ), Good Hope has a rich history dating back over 200 years with a couple of different versions of its origination.

" According to the band's Ten Imaginary Years biography, between January and December of 1976, the shifting line-up for Malice featured several " other blokes ", with founding guitarist Marc Ceccagno being replaced by Porl Thompson, an early drummer known only as " Graham " replaced by Lol Tolhurst, and " Graham's brother " replaced for one show only by vocalist Martin Creasy.

According to some sources, her birth name was Estelle Merle O ' Brien Thompson.

According to sociologist John Thompson, the debate of sensationalism used in the mass medium of broadcasting is based on a misunderstanding of its audience, especially the television audience.

According to Kevin Cook in his book Titanic Thompson ( 2010 ), the poker game was fixed by a gambler, Titanic Thompson ( real name Alvin Clarence Thomas ) and his associate, Nate Raymond.

According to Cook, Thompson later told some of his acquaintances that the killer had not been McManus, but his " bag-man ", Hyman Biller, who fled to Cuba shortly afterwards.

According to Rawlins, the " first affair dignified by the name of a battle " for any of Grant's forces occurred at Fredericktown, Missouri, where some of Grant's troops helped defeat Confederate forces under M. Jeff Thompson.

According to his spokesman Tracy Pitcox, also president of Heart of Texas Records, Thompson requested that no funeral be held.

According to Thompson, Lovering " messed up a couple of songs " during a number of live shows.

According to her biographer, Peter Kurth, Thompson was “ the undisputed queen of the overseas press corps, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau of any importance .”

According to company lore, the name " Newmont " is a portmanteau " New York " and " Montana ", reflecting where Thompson made his fortune and where he grew up.

According to Thompson, her grandmother Adriana Porter's family were the carriers of a secret tradition of folk witchcraft that had come down through Sarah Arnot Cook and Wealthy Trask ( Trash ) from the latter's seventeenth-century ancestors.

In 1895 Archer Thompson ascended The Devil ’ s Kitchen, climbing the ice with an unusual tool ; “ According to tradition Thor was armed with a hammer for his battle with the Frost Giants, and with such a weapon, we too, were luckily provided in the form of a hatchet, surreptitiously removed from Mrs Jones ’ coal cellar at Ogwen .”

According to Dave Thompson, " For many Americans, they were the first to actually bother with the backwoods, playing places which other Brit bands hadn't heard of, and returning to them again and again.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

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 the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

According to Hyginus, in total, Ajax killed 28 people at Troy.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to Glenn W. LaFantasie, Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University,