According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to a recent opinion poll, 39 % of Americans believe the US has a crony capitalist system.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to the recent single origin hypothesis, anatomically modern humans arose in East Africa approximately 200, 000 years ago.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

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 the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

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 recent research, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain the behaviour learned as a caterpillar.

According to this interpretation, Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages in an unfortunate manner, though more recent translations render them more literally.

According to a recent scientific survey, there are dozens of ancient olive trees throughout Israel and Palestine, 1, 600 – 2, 000 years old.

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

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to recent European research, rosemary interferes with the absorption of iron and should not be consumed by those with iron deficiency anemia.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to a 2002 episode of Frontline, Flores maintained that " he was innocent, she was innocent and that she was coerced by Reno and others into denouncing her husband.

According to the show's executive producer, Terry Lickona, this is the first and only time in the show's long history that an episode went unaired.

According to Yoshiyuki Tomino, the animation was not up to his usual standards, the episode becoming a " lost episode " of sorts, never being dubbed.

According to Clark, again posting on the TrekBBS, dissatisfaction over the finale episode is the driving factor behind the continuation novels / relaunch including a story arc that suggests that Trip's death in the finale was not as it seemed.

According to a computer bio screen, barely visible in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", and taken from the memory banks of the USS Defiant, Sato was born in Kyoto, Japan.

::: According to some authors, for instance José Mª Sbarbi, this proverb has its origin in an historical episode involving Sancho II of Castile.

According to recollections by publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved an episode where Soong May-ling seduced Willkie and took him to one of her hideaway apartments in Chungking.

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.

According to recollections by newspaper publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved a bizarre episode in which Soong May-ling, wife of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek allegedly seduced Willkie.

According to dialogue in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Daedalus ", the transporter was invented in the early 22nd century by Dr. Emory Erickson, who also became the first human to be successfully transported.

According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Homefront ", Starfleet Academy cadets receive transporter rations, and the Sisko family once used a transporter to move furniture into a new home.

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

According to Who's Who in The Archers 2008, episode 15, 360 was to be broadcast on 1 January 2008.

According to William Shatner in Star Trek Memories, the book about TOS he dictated to Chris Kreski, IDIC was only worked into the episode " Is There in Truth No Beauty?

According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andoria, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.

According to his former butler in an episode of E!

Hamilton has since appeared on the television shows Frasier ( season 4 episode " Odd Man Out " as Laura ) and According to Jim and has done more TV movies, including On the Line, Robots Rising, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples, Point Last Seen, and The Color of Courage.

According to the episode " Principal Charming ", his name was Ralph Melish, which is a reference to the Monty Python sketch " The Adventures of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers " from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

According to a DVD commentary for one episode, some number of viewers were offended by Moleman's appearance, and he was reused in order to annoy people of such a viewpoint.

According to executive producer Al Jean, the writers often used McClure as a " panic button " and added the character when they felt an episode needed more humor.

According to TruTV, the first episode drew 1. 6 million viewers, a record for a new series on the network.