According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

According to Goldberg's autobiographical account in 1938, when the family traveled back to Kaunas in 1919, a Lithuanian border patrol stopped them and accused her father of being a " Bolshevik spy ".

According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".

According to his autobiographical sketch of his childhood, Hutchinson turned a modest gift of " five quintals of fish " from his father into between £ 400 and £ 500 by the time he was 21.

According to Bock's autobiographical The Bock Saga, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between sea-captain Knut Victor Boxström ( 1860 – 1942 ), who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his daughter Rhea, 42.

" According to James Park Sloan, by the time the book was going into publication, Kosiński refrained from making further claims of the book being autobiographical – in a letter to de Santillana and in a subsequent author's note to the book itself.

According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she stayed in Vienna through her high school years, staying in friends ' homes, but spent two months living on the streets.

According to his autobiographical memoir, Boutwell was raised on his family's farm and attended public school until the age of seventeen.

According to her autobiographical collection of works, This Is On Me ( 1940 ), Katharine Brush was born Katharine Ingham in Middletown, Connecticut.

According to Marsh's autobiographical sketch, published in 1864:

According to Jencks, gardens are also autobiographical because they reveal the happiest moments, the tragedies, and the truths of the owner and family.

According to Maréchal ( 2010 ), the early criticism of autobiographical methods in anthropology was about “ their validity on grounds of being unrepresentative and lacking objectivity ” ( p. 45 ).

According to Robert W. Simpson, from the second edition of his book on Nielsen, this work may be partially autobiographical ; the composer had just experienced a tremendous success with his Fifth symphony, but had also suffered a series of heart attacks.

According to, biographical details regarding Wallace-Johnson's activities during this time period are hard to discern, as Wallace-Johnson contradicted himself in his autobiographical notes and his personal reminisces.

According to autobiographical details in A Natural History of English Insects, Albin taught watercolour painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge.

According to a brief, unpublished autobiographical account, while still a child she moved to Oxford County, Upper Canada, where eventually she worked as a district school teacher for a few years.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.

According to the concept of vitalism, organic matter was endowed with a " vital force " and distinguished from inorganic materials.

According to Padmanabh Jaini, his emphasis on reaping the fruits only of one ’ s own karma was not restricted to the Jainas ; both Hindus and Buddhist writers have produced doctrinal materials stressing the same point.

According to church materials, his travels were funded by his " wealthy grandfather ".

According to Kurzweil's argument, since growth in so many fields of science and technology depends upon computing power, these improvements translate into exponentially more frequent advances in non-computer sciences like nanotechnology, biotechnology, and materials science.

According to the authors, the " next industrial revolution " depends on the espousal of four central strategies: " the conservation of resources through more effective manufacturing processes, the reuse of materials as found in natural systems, a change in values from quantity to quality, and investing in natural capital, or restoring and sustaining natural resources ".

According to the authors, the " next industrial revolution " depends on the espousal of four central strategies: " the conservation of resources through more effective manufacturing processes, the reuse of materials as found in natural systems, a change in values from quantity to quality, and investing in natural capital, or restoring and sustaining natural resources.

According to Vaishnava belief Vishnu creates the basic universal shell and provides all the raw materials and also places the living entities within the material world, fulfilling their own independent will.

According to the Soviet Criminal Code, agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of weakening Soviet authority, or circulating materials or literature that defamed the Soviet State and social system were punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2 – 5 years ; for a second offense, punishable for a term of 3 – 10 years.

According the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Sussex County soils are derived from parent materials that are largely till and glaciofluvial deposits, alluvium, and organic matter deposits.

According to the Mining Gazette of July 25, 1886, “ The materials used with the exception of the facing brick are the product of the Upper Peninsula ”( p. 3 ).

According to Richard Rhodes the plans for the atomic bomb, hundreds of tons of nuclear weapons materials, strategic intelligence reports, and the plans for much of the most advanced aviation, electronic, and heavy industrial technology was transferred through Gore Field and East Base in sealed diplomatic containers.

According to the United States National Association of Rocketry ( NAR ) Safety Code, model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight materials.

According to the Newsprint Producers Association, a North American trade group affiliated with the Pulp & Paper Products Council, the average North American newsprint mill in 2005 spent 31 % of its mill-level budget in fiber and pulp, 24 % on energy, 22 % on labor and 19 % on various other materials, with the balance including other raw materials and miscellaneous costs.

According to materials published by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency, the Blue Nile has a total length of, of which are inside Ethiopia.

According to Graham Allison, director of Harvard University ’ s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the objectives of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul are to continue to, “ assess the progress made since the Washington Summit and propose additional cooperation measures to ( 1 ) Combat the threat of nuclear terrorism, ( 2 ) protect nuclear materials and related facilities, and ( 3 ) prevent illicit trafficking in nuclear materials.

According to the Court's decision, the materials in question primarily ... consist of pictures and drawings very explicitly depicting men and women in groups of two or more engaging in a variety of sexual activities, with genitals often prominently displayed.

Avowedly propagandistic materials from the United States might convince few, but the same viewpoints presented by the seemingly independent voices would be more persuasive .” According to the Kennedy memorandum, the USIA utilized various forms of media, including " personal contact, radio broadcasting, libraries, book publication and distribution, press motion pictures, television, exhibits, English-language instruction, and others .” Through these different forms, the United States government was able to distribute and disguise the propaganda more easily and engage a greater concentration of people.

According to Marcel van Berlo ( who helped build the plant ), the processed waste contained higher percentages of source materials than any mine in the world.

According to the university administration, the most remarkable recent research achievements have been in the fields of molecular and cell biology, gene technology, immunology, pharmacology, laser medicine, materials science, laser spectroscopy, biochemistry, environmental technology, computational linguistics, psychology, and semiotics.

According to the properties of the material, failure will occur as yield for materials with ductile behavior ( most metals, some soils and plastics ) or as rupture for brittle behavior ( geomaterials, cast iron, glass, etc.

According to the University, the building sets a " new global standard for green buildings " by incorporating local building materials and being completely energy self-sufficient, even during its construction.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

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

According to the Suda, he also had an eromenos, Palaephatus of Abydus.

According to Forbes magazine Armenia had the second worst economy in the world in 2011.

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 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 ).

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to The Annotated Alice, Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels.

According to Suetonius, Agrippina had a strict upbringing and education.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

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 some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

According to Nicephorus Gregoras, Andronikos also had an illegitimate daughter, Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond.