According to the memoir of Paul Jennings, a young slave in the White House, Madison's slaves in 1814 helped collect the valuables such as silver, Washington's portrait, and original drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

According to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park, which overlooks Wrightsville and the Susquehanna River, Wrightsville was George Washington's first choice as location of the capital of the United States.

According to one estimate more than 2, 500 German soldiers served at Yorktown with each of the British and French armies, and more than 3, 000 German-Americans were in Washington's army.

According to the rationale used to justify the state of Washington's adoption of the accreditation requirements, requiring accreditation of air ambulance services provides assurance that the service meets national public safety standards.

According to 18th century military doctrine, this was not enough men to take a well-prepared defensive position, but in addition to the element of surprise, Washington's plan exploited a fatal flaw in the fortifications.

According to Nicholas's entry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, he served in the American Revolutionary War as commander of George Washington's Life Guard until the unit disbanded in 1783.

According to one account, Rall was busy playing cards / chess the night before the attack at the home of Trenton merchant Abraham Hunt when he was handed a note from a local Loyalist who'd seen Washington's forces gathering.

According to his granddaughter, Jamie Lee Nudie ( a self-promoter in her own right who changed her last name to her grandfather's first name ), he would often pay for items with dollar bills sporting a sticker of his face covering George Washington's.

According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

According to Dick Cavett's New York Times blog, when the elderly Groucho visited an old friend in the hospital, he said to the elevator attendant, as if in a department store, " Men's tonsils, please.

According to Stones ' confidant and close friend of Parsons, Phil Kaufman, the twosome would sit around for hours, playing obscure country records and trading off on various songs with their guitars.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.

According to Plutarch, Antony threw her out of his house in Rome, because she slept with his friend, the tribune Publius Cornelius Dolabella.

According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to Roman tradition, Hannibal had been made to swear by his father never to be a friend of Rome, and he certainly did not take a conciliatory attitude when the Romans berated him for crossing the river Iberus ( Ebro ) which Carthage was bound by treaty not to cross.

According to long-time friend and colleague Marc Lalonde, the clerically influenced dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal ( the Estado Novo ), Francisco Franco in Spain ( the Spanish State ), and Marshal Philippe Pétain in Vichy France were seen as political role models by many youngsters educated at elite Jesuit schools in Quebec.

According to his friend, the theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More once seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career to become a monk.

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

According to Nicks, friend and former musical partner Tom Petty was responsible for convincing her to write music again when he rebuffed her request that he write a song with her.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

According to the New York Times, Berger had become his " friend and confessor " during the last weeks of his life.

According to his friend Vaughan Williams, Holst once told him two things about art " that ought to be recorded ":

According to Rushton's widow, his last words included a message to his long-time friend and comedy partner, Barry Cryer: " Tell Bazza he's too old to do pantomime.

According to its principal investigator, LAPD officer Greg Kading, Duane " Keefe D " Davis, a member of the " Crips " street gang, confessed to riding in the car involved in the Las Vegas drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur.

According to a former inmate who was housed at Deuel with Washington the Black Muslims and the BGF, aware of the spread of the Crips in Los Angeles, warned Washington that they weren't going to tolerate a formation of the Crips in the prison.

According to law enforcement and former gang members Washington started to distance himself from the Crips.

According to close friends, Washington wanted to return the Crips to one unified organization, stop fighting amongst the gang and then work towards a truce with the Bloods.

According to Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher, the Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and MS-13 are active in the area.

According to many sources, including reporter Gary Webb, Blandón sold drugs and weapons ( via Ronald Lister ) to the Crips in Los Angeles.

According to Factory's co-founder Tony Wilson, " All our bands are free to fuck off whenever they please.

" According to Dave Bowler and Bryan Dray's biography of The Cure, the school also expelled ex-Malice co-founder Marc Ceccagno along with Smith, whose new band Amulet had also played the December school show.

According to Arsuzi, a co-founder of the Ba ' th Party, the reforms would, " liberate 75 percent of the Syrian population and prepare them to be citizens qualified to participate in the building of the state ".

According to Romero, he is a co-founder of Gazillion.

According to several sources including Macworld UK, the company name " Be " had its origin in a conversation between Gassée and Be co-founder Steve Sakoman.

According to Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle " It solved one of the fundamental problems we had with making an RTS, which was that we wanted to have a central resource that everybody was fighting over.

According to co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson, " Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually.

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

According to co-founder and former director Serge July, Libé was an activist newspaper that, however, does not support any particular political party, acts as a counter-power, and generally has bad relations with both left-wing and right-wing administrations.

According to the festival's co-founder, John Pinder, the idea of holding an international comedy festival originated in the early 1980s.

According to Fotolog co-founder Scott Heiferman, recent upgrades have made the site much faster and as of November 16, 2005, Fotolog was generating 750 million pageviews a month.

According to the Online Journalism Review, " BloggerCon has lots of cooks, but the chief chef is technologist Dave Winer, co-founder of RSS and the patient zero of blogging.

Skinn claimed to Khoury that “ bout ten years after that Miracleman # 24 letters page ,” he and Yronwode had a “ conversation via e-mail about that outrageous stuff .” According to Skinn, Yronwode informed him that “ Dean Eclipse Comics co-founder, had filled her head with those stories ” and apologized to him.

According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards — featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages — sold between 1973 and 1995.

According to co-founder Peter Maurin, the following are the beliefs of the Catholic Worker:

According to the state audit, Straight co-founder Melvin Sembler, a prominent fundraiser for Republican politicians, and several Florida State Senators contacted the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in support of Straight.

According to Susan Wickersham, co-founder and CEO: " the most successful artists can afford to pay for their instruments – but if we gave them endorsement deals the cost of those instruments would have to be recovered from customers who are far less able to afford it ".

According to former executive producer and Westwood co-founder Brett W. Sperry: " Command & Conquer was the net result of the Dune II wish list.

According to Westwood co-founder Louis Castle: " War was in the news and the threat of terrorism was on everyone's mind.

According to Stephen Hill, co-founder of a radio show called Hearts of Space, the term is used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness.

According to a UFC interview, the nickname was given to him by UFC co-founder and promoter Art Davie.

According to C + C Music Factory founder Robert Clivillés he and ( co-founder ) David Cole had asked him in 1994 to work on new C + C Music Factory material but he refused.

According to SofaWare's co-founder Adi Ruppin, " The Company's vision is to take this enterprise-strength technology and make it as simple to use and as affordable as possible without detracting from its quality.

According to Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades, the story for the sequel has already been written ; in fact a whole trilogy is being planned.