According to another story which al-Tabari gives, Balaam was a renegade Israelite who knew the Most Sacred Name and, to gain the things of this world, went over to the Canaanites.

According to some Islamic sources, such as al-Tabari, Ibn Kathir and al-Tha ' labi, Cain migrated to Yemen.

According to Donner, the material in ibn Hisham and al-Tabari is " virtually the same ".

According to al-Tabari, Muawiya II was 13 years old when he died.

According to the medieval Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Yazid came to power on the death of Umar II on February 10, 720.

The loss of 8000 troops to the Tang empire can be compared to a troop strength of more than 500, 000 before the Anshi rebellion According to Bartold, for the history of the first three centuries of Islam, al-Tabari was the chief source ( survived in Ibn al Athir's compilation ), which was brought down to 915.

According to Arab historians such as al-Tabari, both sides in the battle used catapaults against the other.

According to the book, " The Wives of the Messenger of Allah " by Muhammad Swaleh Awadh, she died during the caliphate of Muawiya.

According to this source, Muawiya poisoned ‘ Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khalid to secure the transition of power to his son.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

According to Yevgeni Borisovich Pasternak, " Rumors that Pasternak was to receive the Nobel Prize started right after the World War II was over.

According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“ Power Play ,” W. B. Bonvillian, The American Interest, Volume II, p 39, November – December 2006 ), DARPA's key characteristics to be replicated to reproduce DARPA's success are:

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

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 John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.

" According to Allen "... it is reasonable to assume that John Paul I would not have insisted upon the negative judgment in Humanae Vitae as aggressively and publicly as John Paul II did, and probably would not have treated it as a quasi-infallible teaching.

According to Article II of the IAEA Statute, the objective of the IAEA is " to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world.

According to the Talmud, soon after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem a formal version of the Amidah was adopted at a rabbinical council in Yavne, under the leadership of Rabban Gamaliel II and his colleagues.

According to Polish medieval chronicles, she was sent to Hungary as a bride of the son of King Béla II.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

According to a family tree prepared in Jerusalem after World War II, Wittgenstein's paternal great-grandfather was Moses Meier, a Jewish land agent who lived with his wife, Brendel Simon, in Bad Laasphe in the Principality of Wittgenstein, Westphalia.

According to some chroniclers, Mieszko II expelled his two brothers from the country.

According to Phayer, " the face of Pope Pius that we see in these documents is not the same face we see in the eleven volumes the Vatican published of World War II documents, a collection which, though valuable, is nonetheless critically flawed because of its many omissions ".

According to historian Richard P. McBrien, the view of Anastasius II as a traitor is unjust.

" According to Bede, Pope Boniface also sent letters to King Edwin of Northumbria in 625 urging him to embrace the Christian faith, and to the Christian Princess Æthelburg of Kent, Edwin's spouse, exhorting her to use her best endeavours for the conversion of her consort ( Bede, H. E., II, vii, viii, x, xi ).

According to Article II, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution, the president may convene either or both houses of Congress.

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 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 HRW, those extrajudicial executions would qualify as forced disappearances if they had been carried out by agents of the government or on its behalf, but nevertheless remained " blatant violations of the FARC-EP's obligations under international humanitarian law and in particular key provisions of article 4 of Protocol II, which protects against violence to the life, physical, and mental well-being of persons, torture, and ill-treatment.

According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah assumed the throne when he was 25 () and reigned for 29 years ().

According to Livy, he reigned for 44 years, until murdered by his treacherous daughter Tullia and son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus.

According to, the Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great ( reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE ), permitted the return of the exiles to their homeland and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem ( Zion ).

According to this account, Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1034 – 1047 ) visited the court of Harthacnut in Denmark, received with all official honors.

According to, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years.

According to Isaac Newton, also a classical scholar, the nine kings reigned an average of 42 years each, which can be used as an estimator of the dates.

According to Isaac Newton, also a classical scholar, the ten kings reigned an average of 38 years each, which can be used as an estimator of the dates.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

According to one reconstruction, he was the son of Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II of Egypt, he reigned briefly with his father in 145 BC, and for a short time after that, and was murdered by his uncle, Ptolemy VIII Physcon, who succeeded him.

According to some theories, he was a historical emperor who reigned over Sri Lanka from 2554 BC to 2517 BC.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ecgfrith only reigned for 141 days.

According to the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, Ine reigned for 37 years, abdicating in 726.

According to John of Fordun ( 14th century ), Kenneth II of Scotland ( reigned 971-995 ) attempted to change the succession rules.

According to the Chronicle of Fredegar, Recared, King of the Wisigoths ( reigned 586 – 601 ) and first Catholic king of Spain, following his conversion to Catholicism in 587, ordered that all Arian books should be collected and burned ; and all the books of Arian theology were reduced to ashes, with the house in which they had been purposely collected.

According to Hindu legend, the divine king Rama of the Ramayana epic reigned in Ayodhya, the capital of Kosala.

According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Tervel would have reigned 695 – 715.

According to Manetho, Menes reigned for 62 years and was mauled to death by a hippopotamus.

According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Asparuh would have reigned 668 – 695.

According the Manetho and the Turin King List, he was succeeded by his son Merenre Nemtyemsaf II, who reigned for just over a year.

According to the legend of Pope Joan, a woman reigned as pope under the name of John earlier in the 9th century.

According to the Pali Buddhist text Milinda Pañha King Milinda is said to have reigned from the city around 100 BC.

According to tradition, In Ipole Omu, seven ( 7 ) rulers reigned before Olarooye in the following succession:

According to Geoffrey, he reigned at the same period as Saul in Judea and Eurysthenes in Sparta.