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 Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

According to Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

According to biographer John Newsinger,

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier, and saved until needed.

According to Landis biographer J. G.

According to Moon biographer Tony Fletcher's, Moon's toilet pyrotechnics began in 1965 when he purchased 500 cherry bombs.

According to his biographer, the Chevalier became a great admirer of Lucrezia's, considering her a " pearl among women ".

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

According to his early biographer Willibald, Boniface started to chop the oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by miracle, blew the ancient oak over.

According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, " Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo ".

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

According to biographer McFeely, this discontent may have been responsible for Grant's ill-considered issuance of General Orders No. 11 on December 17, 1862.

According to another Grant biographer, Jean E. Smith, it was " one of the most blatant examples of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in American history.

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

According to Neil Parsons's online " Brief History of Botswana ":

According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to demographers Bill Strauss and Neil Howe, there are approximately 88. 5 million Gen Xers in the U. S. today.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

According to Neil Strauss in the New York Times, "... many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert.

According to FBI officials, they once recorded a meeting between Gambino, Aniello " Mr. Neil " Dellacroce and Joseph Biondo, where Biondo is just to have said: " Frog legs ," and Gambino simply nodded.

According to Neil Strauss, " Though he weighs in at over 350 pounds, Mr. Burke carried his bulk as majestically as he used his voice.

According to Cotton Incorporated, " Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 # 1 hit ' Forever in Blue Jeans ': 81 % of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue.

According to The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman, the Christian Church of the Middle Ages considered the age of accountability, when a person could be tried and even executed as an adult, to be age 7.

According to Peter Lewis, " I think Neil knew, even then, that was the end.

According to Neil Postman, Media ecology is concerned with understanding how technologies and techniques of communication control the form, quantity, speed, distribution, and direction of information ; and how, in turn, such informational configurations or biases affect people's perceptions, values, and attitudes.

According to drummer, Neil Peart, they more-or-less felt pressured to perform because of Toronto being their hometown, although they are not the type to do one-off concert performances.

According to one of the CPU designers at ETA, Neil told a story that his son actually came up with the name-apparently a linotype machine has characters arranged in the order of frequency used in the English language ( etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz )-and the first 3 letters were used.

According to DrownedinSound. com, Trail of Dead sources released a statement that Neil Busch's departure was for " severe health problems.

According to Neil Simon, Sellers demanded that his wife, Britt Ekland, be cast as Gina, the Fox's sister.

According to Neil Michelsen's " The American Ephemeris ," on 24 August 1987 there was an exceptional alignment of planets in the solar system.

According to Hambley, O ’ Neil, & Kline ( 2007 ), " virtual teams require new ways of working across boundaries through systems, processes, technology, and people, which requires effective leadership ... despite the widespread increase in virtual teamwork, there has been relatively little focus on the role of virtual team leaders.

According to Adam West, Neil Hamilton, who played Commissioner Gordon on the show, did not like Repp's fake Irish accent, and their on-screen partnership was decidedly friendlier than in real life.

According to the book, " 50 Hikes In The Lower Hudson Valley ", by Stella Green and H. Neil Zimmerman, the mountain is labeled as ' South Mountain ' on the Long Path trail map, an example of which can be found on page 110 of the book.

According to vocalist Vince Neil, the early stages of the band's reunion were " kinda ' strained.

According to Neil Gaiman's blog, Fielding was scheduled to appear in the film Stardust, but had to drop out due to ill health .< ref >

According to Bill O ' Neil, consultant for the New York-based National Coalition for Haïtian Rights, though the CIA and the Pentagon encouraged FRAPH early on, " within a few weeks or a few months, support was largely jettisoned.

According to Neil Netanel the increase in orphan works is the result of two factors: ( 1 ) that copyright terms have been lengthened, and ( 2 ) that copyright is automatically conferred without registration or renewal.

According to songwriter Neil Finn, the Crowded House song " People Are Like Suns ", from Time on Earth ( 2007 ), begins with lyrics inspired by the beginning of Saturday, stating "... when I wrote it, I was reading Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, which begins with a man on his balcony watching his plane go down, so the first lines borrow something from that image.