According to a Tang dynasty book, The Notes of Feng, tug of war, under the name " hook pulling "( 牵钩 ), was used by the military commander of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period ( 8th century BCE to 5th century BCE ) to train warriors.

According to the Book of Wei, the Tiele people were the remaining of the Chidi ( 赤狄 ), the red Di people competing with the Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to flag designer Spring Davis, the blue represents the town and the University of North Carolina ( whose colors are Carolina blue and white ); the green represents " environmental awareness "; and the " townscape " in the inverted chevron represents " a sense of home, friends, and community.

According to his supporters in Sweden, he was the first to discover the lymphatic system and is documented as having shown his findings at the court of Queen Christina of Sweden in the Spring of 1652.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the census-designated place ( CDP ) of Spring Valley ( which may not exactly coincide with the town boundaries ) has a total area of, all of it land.

According to legend, the name Warriors Mark was derived from Indian Warriors of the Iroquois Federation ceremoniously marking trees in the forest midway between the current villages of Warriors Mark and Spring Mount and the Great Indian Warpath.

According to Springs in West Virginia, the town of Webster Springs had four total springs, they included: the Addison McLaughlin Well, located to the west of Court Square, Old Fork Lick Spring, located in the bed of the Elk River, Tracy Well, located on the lot of its owner, W. B.

According the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, two thirds of river users can be found on the stretch between Prairie du Sac and Spring Green.

According to the Eastern Han scholar Zheng Xuan, the latest material in the Shijing was the song " Tree-stump Grove " ( 株林 ) in the " Odes of Chen ", dated to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period ( c. 700 BC ).

According to the first plat filed, the original township of Oak Cliff extended as far north as First Street, later named Colorado Boulevard, just north of Lake Cliff, then known as Spring Lake, and as far south as a pavilion below Thirteenth Street.

According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Han and Jin ( 漢晉春秋 ) by Xi Zuochi ( 习鑿齒 ), Sima Zhao, the Duke of Jin and de facto ruler of Wei, one day invited Liu Shan and his followers to a feast, during which Sima Zhao arranged to have entertainers perform traditional Shu music and dance.

According to the Anime News Network, as of Spring 2007, Miki is the third most prolific seiyū behind Takehito Koyasu and Megumi Hayashibara with over 230 voice credits to his name.

According to Vianu, the resulting 1907, din primăvară până în toamnă (" 1907, From Spring to Autumn ") was, alongside earlier essays by Eminescu and Maiorescu, the most important works of social analysis to be written by that generation.

According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Wei ( 魏氏春秋 ) by Sun Sheng ( 孫盛 ), Kong Rong's two eight-year-old sons ( a nine-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter according to the Book of Later Han ) were playing a game of weiqi when their father was arrested.

According to tradition, the city was named after Xu, an ancient state led by tribal leader Xuyou during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty.

According to some historians, the English merchant Anthony de la Roché was the first to land on the island, in Spring 1675.

According to Dorin, Dunn saved her from drowning during filming of the episode, The Night of the Murderous Spring, plunging underwater to tear her free, when her costume became entangled in machinery used to sink a boat on the set.

According to the results of the Key Performance Indicator ( KPI ) survey released in the Spring of 2010, Niagara College had received a sixth consecutive number-one ranking in overall student satisfaction among all Ontario colleges.

According to one legend, Chief Powhatan, returning homeward from a battle near what is now Philadelphia, stopped at the Big Spring on Sligo Creek ( present-day Takoma Park, Maryland near Washington, DC ) to recuperate from his wounds in the medicinal waters there.

According to the Honey West website, Ian is providing " lead guitar / sax / keys / harmony vocals " to their current NYC live performances and to a second album due for release in late Spring 2012.

According to statements made in 1995 and later, the underground bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was a friend of her family, secretly ordained Javorová on December 28, 1970, during the early years of occupation of the country after the Prague Spring.

According to Sima Biao's Spring and Autumn Annals of the Nine Provinces ( 九州春秋 ), Hou once sent a man to graze a band of 15 horses outside the city, but the man drove the horse towards Xiaopei, intending to defect to Liu Bei.

According to a statement by developers in Spring 2007, the project was anticipated to break ground in late 2007 and be completed in 2011.

According to the Soviet TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring, Gorokhovets was a native town of Stierlitz, a fictional Soviet spy in Nazi Germany, played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's booming construction sector generated about 20 percent of Armenia's GDP during the first eight months of 2007.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to the census of 2007, Barcelonnette has a population of 2766 ( municipal population ) or 2939 ( total ) across a total of 16. 42 km².

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $ 57, 189, and the median income for a family was $ 93, 297.

According to iSupply, production in units of CRTs was not surpassed by LCDs production until 4Q 2007, owing largely to CRT production at factories in China.

According to Freedom House, in 2007 there were 123 electoral democracies ( up from 40 in 1972 ).

According to the final page of the 2007 Propædia, the staff are organised into ten departments:

According to a 2007 assessment, Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to documents found in the possession of a descendant of the Manfredi family, Nadia Manfredi, in 2007, Puccini was actually having an affair with Giulia Manfredi, Doria's cousin.

According to Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting ( 2007 ), exploiting ICMP ping responses from broadcast addresses at multiple hosts sharing an Internet address, and forging the ping packet's return address to match a target machine's address, a single malformed packet sent to the " smurf amplifier " will be echoed to the target machine.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( 2007 ), the job outlook for industrial – organizational psychologists is promising.

According to Ethnologue, there were approximately 471, 000 Kipsigis speakers in 2007, with the number increasing.

According to one source, as a young teenager he worked as a cobbler ( Prendergast 2000, 52 2007

According to the canal's website, it is the busiest artificial waterway in the world ; over 43, 000 vessels passed through in 2007, excluding small craft.

According to a study in August 2007 by GfK, 61 % of German households have a Payback card.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to a 2007 article in Commentary magazine, his " parents were moderately observant, but Friedman, after an intense burst of childhood piety, rejected religion altogether.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.