According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

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 Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to his account, some three thousand villagers had traveled to Manzanillo to greet the Spanish with loaves, fishes and other foodstuffs and were " without provocation, butchered ".

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to this account, Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

According to Chalmers, a naturalistic account of property dualism requires a new fundamental category of properties described by new laws of supervenience ; the challenge being analogous to that of understanding electricity based on the mechanistic and Newtonian models of materialism prior to Maxwell's equations.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

According to another prisoner's account, Allen wandered off after learning of his son's death.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

According to this account, Emperor Senka died in 539 at the age of 73 ; and succession passed to the third son of Emperor Keitai.

According to its account Suizei was the younger son of Jimmu's chief wife, Isukeyorihime.

According to Kitabatake Chikafusa's 14th century account, Mototsune resolved the problem of succession by simply going to visit Tokiyatsu-shinnō, where the kampaku addressed the prince as a sovereign and assigned imperial guards.

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 South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to the 2011 census of India, 68. 84 % of Indians ( around 833. 1 million people ) live in 640, 867 different villages.

According to the 2007 Census of Fiji, the number of Fijians increased from 393, 575 to 475, 739, while the number of Indians decreased from 338, 818 to 313, 798.

According to government statistics, the latest estimated population of Indigenous Fijians is counted at 511, 838, while there are 290, 129 Indians and 56, 071 Others ( January 2012 ).

According to George Tinker, himself an Osage / Cherokee and professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver Colorado Serra's legacy included forced labor of converted Indians in order to support the missions, and creating an environment equivalent to a concentration camp.

According to Black Hawk, the " whites were in the habit of saying one thing to the Indians and putting another thing down on paper.

According to estimates, whites make up approximately one-quarter of the population, Indians make up roughly a quarter, and people of Chinese ancestry form roughly 3 %.

According to legend, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas saved John Smith from being executed by the Indians.

According to anthropological studies, Native American culture in the locality dates back 12, 000 years, though the last Shawnee Indians were forced to vacate the area before the end of the eighteenth century.

According to historical legends, the San Luis Rey Mission flocks were robbed by a small band of Indians in the late 18th century.

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

According to historian Jeremy Belknap, the area was called Wecohamet by native Abenaki Indians.

According to local legend, the area was referred to by Shawnee Indians as " the place of the devil wind " or " the land of the crazy winds " ( depending upon the translation ).

According to William H. Shank, the Indians of Pennsylvania warned white settlers that great floods occurred on the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers every 14 years.

According to the Poy Sippi Public Library website, the Pine River was called " Poygan Sippi " by Potawatomie Indians, because it flowed into Lake Poygan.

According to Chua, examples of what she calls ethnic market-dominant minorities include overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia ; whites in Latin America ; Jews in Russia ; Croats in the former Yugoslavia ; and Ibos, Kikuyus, Tutsis, Indians and Lebanese, among others, in Africa.

According to George R. Stewart, the French received the name from their Indian guides, who called the Indians living near Green Bay by a derogatory word meaning " Stinkers ", thus the bay was the " Bay of the Stinkers " ( Stewart 1967: 88 ).

According to historian Edwin R. Sweeney, the miners "... killed four Indians, wounded others, and captured thirteen women and children.

According to Francoeur, the Brazilian Bororo Indians eschew missionary, finding it insulting for either partner to be above the other during sex.

According to Communist revisionist historians ( source needed ), color prejudice was introduced due to Aryans from Central Asia invading India in ancient times and subjugating the " dark " indigenous Indians.

According to legend, his death at the hands of Taíno Indians ignited the Taíno rebellion of 1511.

According to the story, Salcedo died in 1511, during a trip to Puerto Rico, when Taíno Indians, under the command of Agüeybaná II ( brother of the great Taino Cacique Agüeybaná ) and the Cacique of Añasco, Urayoán, drowned him in the Rio Grande de Añasco.

According to historian Richard White, " such an act, roughly equivalent to a European ambassador's urinating on a proposed treaty, had shocked and offended the gathered Indians.