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 Twin Galaxies, Rodney Day of Canberra, Australia has held the world record Pengo score of 1, 110, 370 points since August 13, 1983.

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 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 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 this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

According to the psychical researcher D. Scott Rogo " Unfortunately it is extremely hard for anyone to design a foolproof experiment to prove any one theory of psi.

According to Huntford, Scott " disappears from naval records " for eight months, from mid-August 1889 until 26 March 1890.

According to an interview with Adam Scott the show was not picked up.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

According to triathlon historian and author Scott Tinley ( and others ), the origin of triathlon is attributed to a race during the 1920s – 1930s that was called variously " Les trois sports ", " La Course des Débrouillards ", and " La course des Touche à Tout ".

According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves ( born March 21, 1986 ), at the premiere of Pale Rider.

According to some, the Six Cailloux name was appropriated to this region by Stephen Meek, another Hudson's Bay Company trapper who was known for his " discovery " of Scott Valley, in regard to a crossing on the Klamath River near Hornbrook.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Scott County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to Scott Smith, former Mayor of Sturgis, in 2005 around 20, 000 visitors attended that year's rally.

According to Scott Thomas, the author of the study, the income per capita, short commuting times, low taxes, and substantial percentage of adults with a graduate degree contributed to the ranking.

According to the hotel archivist Susan Scott, as Harris was being taken from the hotel on a stretcher, shortly before his death, he warned the diners, " It was the food!

Recent examples include The Passion According to St. Matthew ( 1997 ), by Mark Alburger, and The Passion According to the Four Evangelists, by Scott King.

According to the blue plaque at the entrance to the lane, Scott Lane could be named after the Scottish raiders in 1318, or perhaps after the 18th century drovers who used Wetherby as a watering place.

According to William J. Mann's book, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910 – 1969, photographer Jerome Zerbe spent " three gay months " in the movie colony taking many photographs of Grant and Scott, " attesting to their involvement in the gay scene.

According to Walter Scott the song is based on a real incident that took place in the seventeenth century, although some modern scholars are sceptical about this story as one of the origins of the song.

According to Sir Walter Scott: ' Possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed by the natives of Orkney and Zetland Islands, to the people called Drows, who may, in most other respects, be identified with the Caledonian fairies.

According to Production Designer Elliot Scott, the biggest challenge he faced was building the forest Sarah and her party pass through on their way to Jareth's Castle.

According to son Scott his mother never forgot about her childhood hometown, using the mental image of a Jamesport cemetery in preparation for her Oscar-nominated role in Our Town.

According to Scott Clark, author of a study of Japanese bathing culture, the word is a portmanteau combining " skin " with the last syllable of " friendship ".

According to Scott Denman, director of Safe Energy Communication Council, Frontline refused to interview any scientists who held views contrary to the pro-nuclear position taken by the documentary.