According to the Records of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon Xiang Yu appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong.

According to legend, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Shun and Yu in China, in 2281 BC castration was passed into law as a punishment, which remained so until the reign of Gaozu ( 589 – 600 AD ).

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, these human body units caused inconsistency, and Yu the Great, another legendary figure, unified the length measurements.

According to Martin Woesler trends were ' cult literature ' with Guo Jingming ( 郭敬明 ), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river, vagabond literature with Xu Zechen ( 徐则臣 ), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick, Liu Zhenyun ( 刘震云 ), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets, underground literature Mian Mian ( 棉棉 ), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex, ' longing for something ' literature, divided in historicizing literature with Yu Dan 于丹, 《 论语 》 心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian ( 易中天 ) and in Tibetan literature with Alai, literature of the mega cities, women's literature with Bi Shumin ( 毕淑敏 ), 女儿拳 Women ’ s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist, master narratives by narrators like Mo Yan 莫言 with 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing me out.

According to Pei Songzhi's annotations in Records of Three Kingdoms, after the fall of Shu, Pang Hui ( son of Pang De ) massacred the Guan clan to avenge his father, who was put to death by Guan Yu.

According to Buddhist legends, in 592, Guan Yu manifested himself one night before Ch ' an Master Zhiyi, the founder of the Tiantai school of Buddhism, along with a retinue of spiritual beings.

According to a commentary to the Shiji, Du Yu ( first half of the 3rd century ) stated that the tomb of Jizi was located in Meng Prefecture of the State of Liang ( modern-day Henan ).

According to the academic Yu.

According to a gamasutra interview, Yu Suzuki plans to officially leave Sega in September 2011 to concentrate on his own development studio YS NET.

According to his book, " I Am Jackie Chan ", one of the reasons Chan excelled was because he had been " adopted " by Yu, at the request of his parents.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, Qin Shi Huang worshiped Chiyou as the God of War, and Liu Bang worshiped at Chi You's shrine before his decisive battle against Xiang Yu.

According to the game's designer, Yu Suzuki, the stages of OutRun are mostly based on European scenery ; he had toured Europe in order to gain insight on how to design the game's levels and capture as much realism as possible.

According to several ancient Chinese records, Yu was the 8 < sup > th </ sup > great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor: Yu's father Gun was the 5 < sup > th </ sup > great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu ; Zhuanxu's father Changyi was the second son of the Yellow Emperor.

According to the Book of History, Yu divided the Chinese " world " into nine zhou or provinces.

According to the Bamboo Annals, Yu killed one of the northern leaders, Fangfeng ( 防風 ) to reinforce his hold on the throne.

According to the Bamboo Annals, Yu ruled the Xia Dynasty for 45 years ; and, according to Yue Jueshu ( 越絕書 ), he died from an illness.

According to legend, the guan dao was invented by the famous general Guan Yu during the early 3rd century AD, hence the name.

Klaas Ruitenbeek states that the version of the Timberwork Manual quoted by Shen is most likely Shen's summarization of Yu's work or a corrupted passage of the original by Yu Hao, as Shen writes: " According to some, the work was written by Yu Hao.

According to Sima Qian, its rulers claimed to be descended from Yu the Great.

According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus Lady Yu was placed first in annual ranking of the most influential women in Ukraine in 2006 – 2010 ( five years ).

According to Su Rongsheng, Su Yu was an extremely strict father.

According to the Record of Shu ( 蜀記 ) by Wang Yin ( 王隱 ), after Shu Han was conquered by Cao Wei in 263, Pang massacred the descendants of Guan Yu to avenge his father.

According the Chinese legend, Yu the Great used an iron ox to prevent flooding.

According to the Weilüe, another group of Dingling escaped to the western steppe in Kazakhstan.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

According to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to Clement, there is no way of empirically testing the existence of God the Father, because the Logos has revelatory, not analysable meaning, although Christ was an object of the senses.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

According to official figures, although the territory was at the time inhabited by 58, 240 Somali and 48, 270 Afar, only 14, 689 Somali were allowed to register to vote versus 22, 004 Afar.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

According to some historians, the film was made to convey a " deliberate reaffirmation of American values ", although ones which seemed uncertain with respect to the future.

According to the Free Software Foundation, " freeware " is a loosely defined category and it has no clear accepted definition, although FSF says it must be distinguished from free software ( libre ).

According to Newsinger, although Orwell " was always critical of the 1945 – 51 Labour government's moderation, his support for it began to pull him to the right politically.

According to, the Śulba Sūtras contain " the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the Old Babylonians.

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

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 the Language Portal of Canada, " this fairly new tradition has gained in popularity in France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Brazil ", although this information has not been confirmed with authoritative sources from these countries.

According to the constitution, executive power is exercised by the government while legislative power is vested in the ministerial cabinet, the Senate and the National Assembly, although in reality these two latter bodies have very little power or legislative role.

According to contemporary research, males are dominant throughout Melanesia ( although some believe that female witches have special powers ).

According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water systems at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Nineveh in the 7th century BC, although mainstream scholarship holds it to be a Greek invention of later times.

According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers ' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no collusion to fix the game.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Miltiades was African, although McBrien states he was probably Roman.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia and other sources, Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made pontiff, although some sources claim 11 or 12.

According to Thucydides, although the Spartans took no action at this time, they " secretly felt aggrieved ".

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar ( pithos ), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as " Pandora's box " ( see below ), releasing all the evils of mankind — although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.

According to official Pente instructions, there are three formations that are customary ( although not mandatory ) for a player to inform his opponent of, once created: