According to Henri Leridon, PhD, an epidemiologist with the French Institute of Health and Medical Research,

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

According to David Robinson, this also had an effect on the quality of the film.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to David G. Myers ( Psychology, 8th ed.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to midrashim, Adam gave up 70 years of his life for the life of David.

According to David Vine, " Today, at any given time, 3, 000 to 5, 000 U. S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island.

According to David Biello and John Pavlus in Scientific American, Singer is best known for his denial of the health risks of passive smoking.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to David Stern, all Rabbinic hermeneutics rest on two basic axioms:

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

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Olympics, while playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Cuba in 1958, Weissmuller's golf cart was suddenly captured by rebel soldiers.

According to an adult film news web page, in 2003 Michaels was issued a cease and desist order by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) on the use of his name due to the similarity it had to WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels.

According to the same adult film web page, Sean's name was already registered as a trademark, while Shawn Michaels had not registered his moniker.

According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live after Martin introduced Handey to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels.

According to Triple H, WWF management wanted to keep The Kliq, of which he and Michaels were members, apart, so they were hesitant to pair the duo together at first.

According to the book Live From New York, this was unrehearsed, and condemned by Michaels and the SNL crew, who refused to light the applause sign after O ' Connor's performance ; likewise, guest host Tim Robbins, who was raised Catholic, did not thank O ' Connor during the closing.

According to Jannetty it was Curt Hennig who brought him back to the WWF, who was on good terms with Vince McMahon and convinced him that the bad performance at the Royal Rumble was indeed Shawn Michaels ´ fault.

According to Al Michaels during the Thursday Night Football broadcast against the Green Bay Packers on September 8, 2011, Kasay was at a " back-to-school " event when he received a phone call from the Saints wishing to sign him.

According to the Heartbreak and Triumph DVD, Michaels was unhappy there.

They competed against the Twin Towers, Akeem and the Big Boss Man, at WrestleMania V. According to Michaels in his autobiography, he was nursing a severe hangover in the hours before this match.

According to Michaels's book, Jannetty had claimed that World Championship Wrestling were willing to give them a very high guaranteed contract but when Michaels inquired about it turned out to be an exaggeration.

According to former United States Assistant Attorney General Walter E. Dellinger III the Supreme Court and the Attorneys General have long interpreted the Take Care Clause as standing for the proposition that the President has no inherent constitutional authority to suspend the enforcement of the laws, particularly of statutes.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Rusk was not Kennedy's first choice, but rather the " lowest common denominator ", as Kennedy's first choice, J. William Fulbright, proved too controversial.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Fulbright was Kennedy's first choice as Secretary of State, but it was felt he was too controversial.

According to the Navy's Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General for Administrative Law, the Marines held in Tehran were " entitled to award of the medal if the Secretary determines that circumstances under which they were held captive were ' comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.

According to Julian, other positions include: Assistant Preacher at Lincoln's Inn ; Select Preacher in Oxford ; Professor of Pastoral Theology and King's College, London ; Dean of Queen's Oxford ; Professor of Exegesis of the New Testament in King's College London ; Examiner in the Theological schools at Oxford ;

According to his official biography, Lowman was a career intelligence officer for the National Security Agency ( NSA ), retiring as Special Assistant to the Director.

* According to author Edward J. Renehan, Jr., no less than five members of the extended Roosevelt clan served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who served from 1921 through 1924 under Harding and Coolidge, Theodore Douglas Robinson ( the son of Corinne Roosevelt ) who served from 1924 through 1929 under Coolidge, and finally Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, a descendant of Robert Fulton's old friend " Steamboat Nicholas " Roosevelt, who served from 1933 through 1936 under FDR.

According to Assistant Medical Director Dr. J. Frank W. Stewart, the highest number of deaths in a single year at Waverly Hills was 152.

According to the National Surgical Assistant Association ( NSAA ), the average annual salary for the non-physician surgical first assistant in 2005 ranged from $ 50, 000 ( entry level ) to $ 150, 000 annually for full-time practitioners, with top wages reaching $ 200, 000 yearly.

According to the testimony Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Carl W. Ford before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, it is very probable that China has an advanced chemical warfare program, including research and development, production, and weaponization capabilities.

According to the Moynihan Commission, " It would ... appear from the VENONA messages that Duncan Chaplin Lee, Special Assistant to OSS Director William J. Donovan, was a Soviet agent.

According to testimony by CDI employees, including Ossias, and Assistant Chief Counsel Robert Hagedorn, the commissioner and his top aides abused their positions for personal gain and acted against consumers ’ interests for many years.

According to a book published in 2009 co-authored by former NSW Police Assistant Commissioner, Clive Small:

According to Assistant Professor Xinping Zhu of Northeastern University, the tattoo is made up of four Chinese characters (; " 鹰 ", hawk ; " 击 ", strike or attack ; " 长 ", long ; " 空 ", space or sky ) from a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1925, and the Lebanese Phalangist symbol.

According to the Assistant U. S. attorney who prosecuted the case, " This was an important case in the battle against terrorism.

* Harry Dexter White – According to confessed spies and FBI informants Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, Harry Dexter White was accused of being a Soviet agent of influence working in the US as an Assistant Secretary of Treasury.

According to the testimony before the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Defense on October 3, 2001 given by J. T. Caruso — the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, " translations of the letter indicate an alarming willingness to die on the part of the hijackers.