According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

According to City-Data. com, Twin Falls's crime rate dramatically decreased between the years of 2003 through 2009.

According to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in an article that originally appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine, the guitars were run through " Black-Face " Twin Reverbs with both guitarists using external Fender " tank " reverb units and Gibson " Maestro " Fuzz-tones as distortion devices.

According to Twin Galaxies, the record high score on BurgerTime is 11, 512, 500 points, set by Bryan L. Wagner in 2008.

According to Twin Galaxies, he improved it further to 11, 512, 500 points on September 19, 2008 at the Challenge Arcade in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

According to the College Board, as of July 2012 there are 34, 812 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

According to Twin Galaxies, Davide Bagenski, of Syracuse, New York, USA, scored a world record 418, 200 points on June 28, 1986 during the 1986 Video Game Masters Tournament.

According to an interview with Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of Metal Gear Solid for the remake, The Twin Snakes.

According to Twin Galaxies, Jack Gale, of North Miami Beach, Florida, USA, scored a world record 259, 800 points on Karate Champ, on June 28, 1987, during the 1987 Video Game Masters Tournament.

According to Twin Cities crime reporter Paul Maccabee, Kid Cann's rivalry with Minneapolis's Irish Mob ended after he and Irish Mob boss Tommy Banks divided their territories with a handshake.

According to the department, up 12, 000 vehicles a day used the highway outside of the Twin Cities, and up to 55, 000 vehicles traveled the highway daily in the metro area in 2010.

According to David Lynch on the 2007 Gold Edition DVD release of Twin Peaks, Lynch was upstairs in the Laura Palmer house, near Silva as he worked, and suddenly realized that Silva might have a place in the show.

According to the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, " high-score " attempts enjoyed as much press coverage as any other video-game-related topic reported in the media during the 1982 – 1985 period.

They competed against the Twin Towers, Akeem and the Big Boss Man, at WrestleMania V. According to Michaels in his autobiography, he was nursing a severe hangover in the hours before this match.

According to Reuters, " ix insurers sought repayment from the city for expenses arising from the collapse of a 47-story office building near the Twin Towers "; Hellerstein ruled New York had immunity.

According to Twin Galaxies, Scott Karasek, of Racine, Wisconsin, USA, scored a world record 3, 208, 870 points on the Stern ROM set on June 22, 1982.

" According to Ethan Brown from The New York Post said the song is " warm, even radiant, and by the end, as the waves of sound nearly overtake Minogue, the effect is something like — to borrow a phrase from Aphex Twin — an “ analog bubble bath .”"

According to the Marxist historian, Walter Rodney, imperialism meant capitalist expansion.

According to a January 4, 1977, L. A. Times article entitled HOMEGROWN PUNK by Robert Hilburn, Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at the Gazzarri club in the summer of 1976, so he took Gene Simmons of Kiss to see Van Halen.

According to KROQ-FM disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, Love would often " hang out " at a Denny's on Sunset Blvd.

According to British admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, the winds carried their heavy cannons aloft.

According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of Bismarcks armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from King George V and two on the port side from Rodney.

According to Delaware delegate Caesar Rodney, the drafting of this statement was made difficult by the desire to balance the colonists ' rights with the royal prerogative and the acknowledged powers of Parliament.

According to sociologist, Rodney Stark, few Americans believe coming from a wealthy family or having political connections is necessary to get ahead.

According to Rodney Stark, in 1992, only twenty-seven percent of Americans strongly agreed that income disparities in their country were too large.

According to Rodney Cockburn ( in his Nomenclature of South Australia ) the name Leigh Creek for the railway station and post office " was officially abandoned in 1916 on the advice of the Nomenclature Committee, who acted upon the suggestion of Lachlan McTaggart of Wooltana Station " The Committee pointed out that it was most undesirable to have a town of one designation and a railway station and post office of another.

According to the Atlanta Radio Blog by Rodney Ho, Kim Peterson left Atlanta for good in late June 2007.

According to Rodney, this was because any money they received for their work was ploughed back into the record company.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to Day, Rapp had auditioned two hundred vocalists when she got the job.

According to the Kojiki, this emperor is said to have ruled from the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month of 456 ( Heishin ) until his death on the Seventh Day of the Eight Month of 479 ( Kibi ).

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Memorial or Remembrance ( יום הזכרון, Yom HaZikaron ), and the day of judgment ( יום הדין, Yom HaDin ).

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U. S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.

According to Walter, the " capper " was being booed on " Brantford Day " at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in February 1975.

According to Christian tradition, Pentecost is always seven weeks after Easter Sunday ; that is to say, 50 days after Easter ( inclusive of Easter Day ).

According to Latter Day Saints, in 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr. received a revelation to restore the practice of temple worship, in a " house of the Lord ".

According to Sam Yagan of OkCupid, " the period between New Year's Day and Valentine's Day is busiest six weeks of the year ".

According to adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, these animals are thought to have existed in North and / or South America.

According to Twelver belief, the Hidden Imam is alive in the world, but in concealment from his enemies, and that he would only emerge shortly before the Day of Judgement.

The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to around the 13th century, including the Noon and Midnight Manual and the Mnemonic Rhyme to Aid in the Selection of Acu-points According to the Diurnal Cycle, the Day of the Month and the Season of the Year.

According to director Danny Boyle, it was the opening hospital sequence of The Day of the Triffids that inspired Alex Garland to write the screenplay for 28 Days Later.

According to the Book of Mormon, that scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement was originally written in reformed Egyptian characters on plates of " ore " by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as 2600 BC until as late as AD 421.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the month of February 2011 had finished as Disney Channel ’ s most-watched February sweeps period in Total Day ratings in the network's history ever, earning an average of 1. 7 million viewers among Total Viewers, along with 590, 000 viewers with a 2. 1 rating share among Kids 6 – 11 and 459, 000 viewers with a 1. 9 rating share among Tweens 6 – 9 ; 9 – 15 ; among the first two demos, the channel posted its 14th consecutive month of year-to-year gains in both demos.

According to Day ( 1982 ), the concept of Dharma " became so useful for framing religious, moral and social regulations, that interest in it and discussion of its applications to social and moral order eclipsed all discussions of metaphysical and theological ideas.