According to the Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward book All the President's Men ( 1974 ), Liddy did this once at a dinner party.

According to all the members of the Club, Arbuthnot was the one who contributed the most in ideas, and he was the only source they could draw upon when satirizing the sciences, and his was the idea for the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, a pedantic man who, like Arbuthnot's earlier opponent, Dr. Woodward, would read three or four lines of Classical literature and deduce a universal ( and absurd ) truth from them.

According to Woodward, when Casey was asked if he knew about the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, " His head jerked up hard.

According to David Woodward, one such example was the terrestrial globe introduced to Beijing by the Persian astronomer, Jamal ad-Din, in 1267.

According to Woodward, he was not selected to play for the Welsh Schoolboys side because he was English, but he was good enough to play rugby union for a Welsh school.

According to a Washington Post article by Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward entitled Doing Well with Help from Family, Friends, ( August 11, 1988 ) when Bush was running against Lloyd Bentsen for senator in 1970, Kerr advised Bush on a proposed business deal involving a loan request from a man named Victor Flaherty, who needed money to buy Fidelity Printing Company.

According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited the rule in the summer of 2002 when warning President George W. Bush of the consequences of military action in Iraq:

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their best-selling book All the President's Men, Clawson bragged about having written the Canuck letter to a friend, Marilyn Berger, who happened to be a Washington Post reporter, whom he had known from his days with the newspaper.

According to Isikoff, as based on his sources, Armitage told Bob Woodward Plame's identity three weeks before talking to Novak, and Armitage himself was aggressively investigated by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, but was never charged because Fitzgerald found no evidence that Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

According to sociologists Marc Mormont and Christine Dasnoy, Greenpeace played a significant role in raising public awareness of global warming in the 1990s.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

According to tradition, Rumi was himself a notable musician who played the robāb, although his favorite instrument was the ney or reed flute.

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

According to Young, either due to personal or professional distractions, Coubertin played little role in planning, despite entreaties by Vikelas.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

According to Martin Gardner, some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as John ( according to some sources this was because they played the game using the mosaic of the bathroom floor ).

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

According to the findings of Dr. Christian Davenport of the University of Notre Dame, Professor William Moore of Florida State University, and David Armstrong of Oxford University during their torture research, evidence suggests that non-governmental organizations have played the most determinant factor for stopping torture once it gets started.

According to rumor, Waller played for three days.

According to the For You album notes, Prince produced, arranged, composed and played all 27 instruments on the recording.

According to Diane Bornstein, one way to reconcile the differences between the references to courts of love in the literature, and the lack of documentary evidence in real life, is that they were like literary salons or social gatherings, where people read poems, debated questions of love, and played word games of flirtation.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

According to Lewisohn, McCartney played drums on " Dear Prudence " because Starr had left the group while the song was being recorded.

According to her, Mostel is " overacting grotesquely " while co-star Wilder is " wonderful " playing his part " as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye.

According to Georgian historians, the Cimmerians played an influential role in the development of both the Colchian and Iberian cultures.

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

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to that book, Japheth and his two brothers formed the three major races:

According to Ellenblum's interpretation the inhabitants of the Kingdom ( Latin Christians living alongside native Greek and Syrian Christians, Shia and Sunni Arabs, Sufis, Bedouin, Turks, Druze, Jews, and Samaritans ) all had major differences between each other as well as with the crusaders.

According to the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages, four of the six major dialects of Occitan ( Provençal, Auvergnat, Limousin and Languedocien ) are considered " severely endangered ", while the remaining two ( Gascon and Vivaro-Alpine ) are considered " definitely endangered " (" severely endangered " essentially means that only elderly people still speak the language fluently, while " definitely endangered " means that adults speak the language but are not passing it on to their children ).

According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.

According to the record label this became one of the reasons that the Pixies never achieved major coverage on MTV.

According to his mother, in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist ’ s beginnings.

According to Plutarch, Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors ' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic era.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

According to the CIA World Factbook, private telephone companies " offer service in most major cities " via wireless technology, charging " the lowest international rates on the continent ",

According to Neotel, up-take of its services has exceeded expectations, and as a result Neotel are rapidly expanding services throughout major metropolitan areas in South Africa.

" According to his book " Cosmology and Human Destiny ", Mahmood argued that sunspots have influenced major human events, including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and World War II.

According to the constitution, the three major independent authorities holding the balance of power are executive, legislative, and judicial.

" According to critic George Morris, " it synthesizes every major Edwards theme: the disappearance of gallantry and honor, the tension between appearances and reality and the emotional, spiritual, moral, and psychological disorder " in such a world.

According to the publisher, the book will be the first major biography of Daley.

According to the Economist magazine, the military, are major powerbrokers along with " a select group " of unelected civilians.

According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which, of it is land and it contains no major bodies of water.

" According to Subhas Chandra Bose, a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Vivekananda " is the maker of modern India "; for Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda's influence increased his " love for his country a thousandfold.