According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to his own desire his remains were carried to Toledo, where Henry of Castile had them to be entombed with almost royal honours.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

According to the Rabbinic literature, Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar ( Sotah 10b ).

According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of King David, hence the title nasi, meaning prince.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

* According to the Annals of Inisfallen, a royal meeting between Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, King of Cashel and Niall, King of the Southern Uí Neill and Tara at Cluain-Conaire-Tommain, results in Feidlimid becoming High-King of Ireland.

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

According to an English record, the Scots penetrated four miles into England with royal banner displayed, and destroyed 3 or 4 little towers ( or Bastle houses ).

According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounters with the crowds, a Boer War veteran asked Elizabeth, " Are you Scots or are you English?

According to Nyrop, up until the 20th century, " it seldom or never takes place between men, with the exception, however, of royal personages ," although he notes that in former times the " friendly kiss was very common with us between man and man as well as between persons of opposite sexes.

According to a study published in 2000, the style of the artifacts of the royal tomb date 317 BCE., a generation after Philip II's assassinations.

According to Peter Ackroyd, Zerubbabel was “‘ a royal representative of God ’”.

According to Horowitz, the quality of the writing indicates that this was a royal inscription, apparently a letter from the a king of Jerusalem to the pharaoh in Egypt.

According to John of Marmoutier, Geoffrey was returning from a royal council when he was stricken with fever.

According to romantic folk etymology, Charing derives from French chère reine ( dear queen ), but the name was certainly used in the contemporary royal accounting records for the costs of constructing the cross.

* According to Belgarath, the name of the Rivan prince who survived the assassination of the royal family was Geran, whereas in Castle of Wizardry, Polgara says that the name was Gared.

According to Ronald Suny: This western Georgian state was federated to Kartli-Iberia, and its kings ruled through skeptukhi ( royal governors ) who received a staff from the king.

According to Angkor scholar George Coedès, Theravada Buddhism's denial of the ultimate reality of the individual served to sap the vitality of the royal personality cult which had provided the inspiration for the grand monuments of Angkor.

According to George Coedès, the weakening of Angkor's royal government by ongoing war and the erosion of the cult of the devaraja undermined the government's ability to engage in important public works, such as the construction and maintenance of the waterways essential for irrigation of the rice fields upon which Angkor's large population depended for its sustenance.

According to Manetho, the first royal palace was founded by Hor-Aha, the successor of Narmer, the founder of the 1st dynasty.

According to chronicler William of Newburgh royal castles formed the " bones of the kingdom ".

According to these chroniclers, the decision to make William the heir had been decided at the same lenten royal council in 1051 that had declared Robert archbishop.

According to legend, when Vortigern fled into Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders, he chose this lofty hillfort as the site for his royal retreat.

* According to Thierry Wanegffelen, the member of the royal family with the most responsibility in this affair is Henry, Duke of Anjou, the king's ambitious younger brother.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

According to the hymn, Demeter's daughter Persephone ( also referred to as Kore, " maiden ") was gathering flowers with friends, when she was seized by Hades, the god of death and the underworld.

According to a hymn of Callimachus, they were Hephaestus ' helpers at the forge.

According to his reading of the painting, the scene was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokondyles:

According to MacIntyre, Bishop's account was that he based the song on an earlier hymn he had written for, or in mockery of, a pious brother-in-law, taking from this earlier song the " glory hallelujah " chorus, the phrase " to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ", and the tune.

According to MacIntyre, this hymn became popular at religious meetings in Maine.

According to church tradition, newly ordained priests are given new names, and Soghomon was renamed Komitas ( named after the seventh-century Armenian catholicos who was also a hymn writer ).

According to the Guinness Book of World Records it is the lowest recorded note ever produced by the human voice, first accomplished by Sumner in a 1966 recording of the hymn " Blessed Assurance.

Annie Lane was author of To Thee, O Country ( national hymn ) and of the books Brown's Retreat, Kitwyk ( published by John Lane in 1903 ), The Champagne Standard, Talk of the Town and According to Maria.

According to Carl Czerny, the second movement of the quartet occurred to Beethoven as he contemplated the starry sky and thought of the music of the spheres ( Thayer, Life of Beethoven ); it has a hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much later devotion, the " Heiliger Dankgesang " hymn to the Divine in the Quartet Op.

According to legend, Francis dictated the hymn Cantico del Sole in the eighteenth year of his penance, almost rapt in ecstasy ; doubts remain about its authenticity.

According to legend Augustus Montague Toplady was inspired to write the hymn Rock of Ages while sheltering under a rock in the combe, although recent scholars have disputed this claim.

Annie Eichberg Lane was author of To Thee, O Country ( national hymn ) and of the books Brown's Retreat, Kitwyk, The Champagne Standard, Talk of the Town and According to Maria.

According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

According to it, cyberspace is composed of 5 layers based on information discoveries: language, writing, printing, Internet, etc.

According to consensus among cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a new, not yet characterized, type of subatomic particle.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to the historian Philinus, this army was composed of 50, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 60 elephants.

According to Polybius, this army was partly composed of Ligurians, Celts and Iberians.

According to scholar Ronald Cameron, it was originally composed some time between the middle of the 1st century and early in the 2nd century, and it was probably written shortly before the Gospel of John.

According to this tale, it was composed in order to persuade the Council of Trent that a draconian ban on the polyphonic treatment of text in sacred music ( as opposed, that is, to a more directly intelligible homophonic treatment ) was unnecessary.

According to Ward the universe is composed of " psychic monads " of different levels, interacting for mutual self-betterment.

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to this definition noble gas atoms are considered molecules despite the fact that they are composed of a single non-bonded atom.

According to at least one Chinese culinary writer, Szechuan cuisine is composed of seven basic flavours: sour, pungent, hot, sweet, bitter, aromatic, and salty.

According to the Epistle itself, it was composed by the Apostle Peter, an eyewitness to Jesus ' ministry.

According to the prevailing Standard Model of physics, all matter is composed of three generations of leptons and quarks, both of which are fermions.

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

Mikis Theodorakis composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and Canto Olympico.

According to Tacitus, as Lucan bled to death, "( he ) recalled some poetry he had composed in which he had told the story of a wounded soldier dying a similar kind of death, and he recited the very lines.

According to the 1702 data, the population of the town was composed of 215 Orthodox and 13 Catholic houses, while according to the 1753 data, the population of the town numbered 3, 843 people, of which 3, 110 were ethnic Serbs.

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

According to recent research, La rhétorique des dieux may consist of works not composed by Denis Gaultier, or original works by him changed by unknown scribes.

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.