According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

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 his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

According to his biography, Venter was ready to leave Celera, and was fired due to conflict with the main investor, Tony White, that had existed since day one of the project.

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 his biography his mother declared, when she was expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build beautiful buildings.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

According to Fisher in the 2005 biography Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, the amount of morphine consumed by Parsons would be lethal to three regular users and thus he had likely overestimated his tolerance considering his experience with opiates.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

According to Sobran and other researchers, the themes and personal circumstances expounded by the author of the Sonnets are remarkably similar to Oxford's biography.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

According to Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, authors of a biography of John Bardeen, Shockley had proposed that Bell Labs ' first patent for a transistor should be based on the field-effect and that he be named as the inventor.

According to his authorized biography, " his only sustaining relief from his unsatisfied sex drive was his even stronger desire to die.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

According to the band's biography, the drug was prescribed to him as a teenager during his parents ' divorce but he was never withdrawn from the drug and became dependent on it.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

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

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

According to his biography, he achieved everything he wanted and after staying overnight in Pamplona, on his way back his army was attacked in Roncesvaux in 812, but didn't suffer defeat thanks to the precautions he had taken.

According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to the John Swenson biography of Haley, the musician was quoted as saying that he and Pompilli had an agreement that if one died, the other would retire.

According to America's Girl, " Handley thought the Australian crawl, in which swimmers did three kicks and then turned on their side to take a breath and do a scissors kick, could be improved ... The finished product-and its eight-beat variation, which Ederle would use-became the American crawl, and Handley was its proud father.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

" According to America's Best Franchises, there are many benefits to choosing to become a home-based franchisee, " but having a home based business doesn't offer any guarantees as you will encounter many challenges you'll have to learn to overcome.

According to historian John Cooper, Wilson's tenure set Princeton on the path to become one of America's great universities.

According to folklorist Margot Ford McMillen the name of the town caused some difficult times for residents following America's entry into World War I.

According to a 2010 Forbes magazine / Yahoo. com survey, Montgomeryville ranks 5th in America's top 10 affordable suburbs.

According to a 2007 story in Forbes magazine's list of " America's Wildest Weather Cities " and the Weather Variety Index, Springfield is the city with the most varied weather in the United States.

According to U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges index, " In guidebooks and surveys by U. S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and others, SU consistently ranks in the top 10 percent of public and private institutions nationwide.

According to the journal DesignIntelligence, which annually publishes " America's Best Architecture and Design Schools ," the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas was named the best in the Midwest and ranked 6th among all undergraduate architecture programs in the U. S in 2007.

According to the magazine, America's Hottest Colleges " have one attribute in common: they're creating buzz among students, school officials and longtime observers of the admissions process ... each reflects a place that is preparing students well for a complex world.

According to the Princeton Review, Fisk University is one of America's 373 Best Colleges & Universities.

According to him, the Puritans established America's democratic social state of equality.

According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the Clinton Administration delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.

According to Forbes magazine, Redwood Shores is placed on top of " America's Top Selling Luxury Neighborhoods in 2009 ".

According to the U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges listings, the University of Connecticut was ranked 21st among public universities in the United States.

According to Martin Peretz, owner of TNR, " Support for Israel is deep down an expression of America's best view of itself.

According to The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities ( 2001 ), it is considered one of the thirty " Public Ivy League " schools.

According to The Washington Post in its February 23, 1997 edition: Art Bell was at the time America's highest-rated late-night radio talk show host, broadcast on 328 stations.

According to Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933 – 34, this most likely happened when Wanatka was playing cards with Dillinger, Nelson, and Hamilton.

According to U. S. News & World Report's 2012 America's Best Colleges report, Cal Poly is ranked 1st in the Western United States for regional public schools whose highest degree is a Master's for the 20th straight year.

According to Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency ( New York: Henry Holt, 2004 ), application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

The Straight Dope writes " According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877.

According to Forbes 2009 rankings of America's top 600 colleges, Western Kentucky University is ranked No. 434, making it the second highest ranked public college in the state of Kentucky.