According to The New York Times: " Gay wrote the work more as an anti-opera than an opera, one of its attractions to its 18th-century London public being its lampooning of the Italian opera style and the English public's fascination with it.

According to a legend in the 18th-century, a tengu took the form of a yamabushi and faithfully served the abbot of a Zen monastery until the man guessed his attendant's true form.

According to 18th-century Swedish Master of Philosophy Magnus Boræn, Sune was also Duke of Östergötland ( at a time when the use of such a title is not known in Sweden ).

According to Petersen, the domed prayer hall is consistent with an 18th-century construction date.

According to an 18th-century Latin inscription pasted to the inside cover of the manuscript, the St Cuthbert Gospel was given by 3rd Earl of Lichfield ( 1718 – 1772 ) to the Jesuit priest Thomas Phillips S. J.

According to the view of many English-language prescriptionists and of influential 18th-century grammarian Robert Lowth, than is exclusively a conjunction and therefore takes either nominative ( or subjective ) or oblique ( or objective ) pronouns depending on context, rather than exclusively oblique pronouns as prepositions do.

According to Augustin Calmet, an 18th-century Bible scholar, Stanisław asked the King for three days to produce his witness, Piotr.

According to Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th-century Flemish.

According to the Friends of Caganer group ( Amics del Caganer ), it is believed to have entered the nativity scene by the late 17th-or early 18th-century, during the Baroque period.

According to Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th-century Flemish.

According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen on July 27, 2005, Toronto resident Rick Broadhead saw an ad on Google stating " Hans Island is Greenland.

According to legend, Petosegay was the child of a descendant of French nobleman and fur trader, Antoine Carre and an Ottawa princess.

According to local legend, the Ottawa, along with their allies the Potawatomi, attacked a band of Illini along the Illinois River.

According to the Globe, there is a movement to form a new four-team league of Toronto, Ottawa and the two Montreal teams.

According to a native legend, a group of Illinois Confederation ( Illini ) pursued by the Ottawa and Potawatomi fled to the butte in the late 18th century.

According to local legend, the Ottawa, along with their allies the Potawatomi, attacked a band of Illini along the Illinois River.

According to The Ottawa Citizen story, Kilrea subsequently took and passed a polygraph test on his conversations with O ' Brien.

According to the 2001 census, 164, 510 Jews lived in Toronto, 105, 765 in Montreal, 17, 270 in Vancouver, 12, 760 in Winnipeg, 11, 325 in Ottawa, 6, 530 in Calgary, 3, 980 in Edmonton, and 3, 855 in Hamilton.

According to the Ottawa Citizen Bloess, along with councilor Jan Harder, are sometimes called the councils " official opposition.

According to the Ottawa Sun ( April 1, 2008 ): " The most frugal on the list is always Knoxdale-Merivale Coun.

According to Pringle and Padolsky, there are at least ten distinct varieties of English in the Ottawa valley ( 326 ).

According to the plan, the line was to be extended east from its current northern terminus to run through LeBreton Flats and downtown Ottawa as far as the University of Ottawa, and south-west from its Greenboro terminus to the growing Riverside South community and Barrhaven.

According to mayor Bob Chiarelli, " He helped put Ottawa on the map.

According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

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 Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to tradition, Paul ordained Titus bishop of Gortyn in Crete.

According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

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

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to tradition, a Praetorian named Gratus found him hiding behind a curtain and suddenly declared him princeps.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.