According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

According to some sources, genealogy is one of the most popular topics on the Internet.

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

According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.

According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.

According to Voll, it was Muhammad Hayyat who taught Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab to reject the popular veneration of saints and their tombs.

According to the Christian Business Association, the New International Version has become the most popular selling English translation of the Bible, having sold more than 215 million copies worldwide.

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to John Storm Roberts, R & B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music.

According to Bruce E. Wright, “ the Governing Junta of National Reconstruction agreed, under Sandinista leadership, that these principles had guided it in putting into practice a form of government that was characterized by those principles .” It is generally accepted that these following principles have evolved the “ ideology of Sandinismo .” Three of these ( excluding popular participation, which was presumably contained in Article 2 of the Constitution of Nicaragua ) were to ultimately be guaranteed by Article 5 of the Constitution of Nicaragua.

According to Time magazine, on 21 November 2003, Franks said that in the event of another terrorist attack, American constitutional liberties might be discarded by popular demand in favor of a military state.

According to Jay Bybee, those in favor of popular elections for senators felt that there were primarily two issues caused by the original provisions: legislative corruption and electoral deadlocks.

Edmond Hoyle, of " According to Hoyle " fame, wrote an early popular and definitive textbook, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.

* According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reaches North America in what is present-day Alabama.

According to popular legend Bolesław I notched his sword ( Szczerbiec ) hitting the Golden Gate of Kiev.

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

According to the editors of these popular science magazines, the publications were designed to serve as “ organs of science ,” in essence, a means of connecting the public to the scientific world.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

According to Morrow, in spite of the CTW Model's effectiveness in creating a popular show, commercial television " made only a limited effort to emulate CTW's methods ", and did not use a curriculum or evaluate what children learned from them.

According to fashion writer Guy Trebay of The New York Times, in 2007, the " android " look is popular, a vacant stare and thin body serving, according to some fashion industry conventions, to set off the couture.

According to inscriptions, there was a temple of Jupiter, a temple of Apollo Augustus and an altar to the goddess of horses Epona, who was popular in the Roman military and of Celtic origin.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Manuel Pedro Ferreira, a scholar on the Cantigas, the music found in the Cantigas cannot be classified as Arabic, but instead must be classified as " Moorish-Andalusian ".

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to the Qur ' an, Iblis ( the Arabic name used ) disobeyed an order from Allah to bow to Adam and as a result was forced out of heaven and given respite until the day of judgment from further punishment.

According to a French etymology, the Italian tarocco derived from Arabic طرح ṭarḥ, ' rejection ; subtraction, deduction, discount '.

According to the later Arabic sources, Kaleb retaliated by sending a force of 3, 000 men under a relative, but the troops defected and killed their leader, and a second attempt at reigning in the rebellious Abraha also failed.

According to Robert Irwin, " Even today, with the exception of certain writers and academics, the Nights is regarded with disdain in the Arabic world.

According to researcher May Oueida's thesis on the speech, he adopted a theme of successfully bridging the different sounds of Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Arabic, and rose to a classical Arabic without losing or boring his audience.

According to Islam, God, known in Arabic as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe.

According to them, the Arabic word tʕaraba “ song ” ( from the trilateral root Tʕ-R-B “ provoke emotion, excitement, agitation ; make music, entertain by singing ”) could partly be the etymon of the verb trobar.

According to G. E. von Grunebaum, there were several elements which developed in Arabic literature.

According to an argument outlined by Maria Rosa Menocal in The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, in 11th-century Spain, a group of wandering poets appeared who would go from court to court, and sometimes travel to Christian courts in southern France, a situation closely mirroring what would happen in southern France about a century later.

Medieval alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan's Book of Stones According to the Opinion of Balīnās contains an exposition and analysis of views expressed in Arabic occult works attributed to Apollonius.

According to an early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls ( part of Clementine literature ), Harran was one of the cities built by Nimrod, when Peleg was 50 years old.

According to a Harvard graduate student from Iraq who helped translate some of the radio broadcasts into Arabic, the program was poorly run.

According to Ibn-Khaldun's comprehensive history of the Malian kings, Mansa Musa's grandfather was Abu-Bakr ( the Arabic equivalent to Bakari or Bogari, original name unknown-not the sahabiyy Abu Bakr ), a brother of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Malian Empire as recorded through oral histories.

According to all sources, the earliest being Paul the Deacon, Ṭāriq left from Ceuta ( Septem ) and landed at the Rock of Calpe, the later Gibraltar, which Arabic sources derive from Jebel Tariq, " Rock of Ṭāriq ".

According to Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥakam writing around 860, Ṭāriq, commander of the Arab-Berber garrison of Tangiers, crossed the straits of Gibraltar with ships from a certain Count Julian ( Arabic Ilyan ), lord of Ceuta and " Alchadra " ( Algeciras ), and landed near Cartagena, which he took and made his headquarters.

According to the Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, it was used by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī in the 11th century and described by Al-Khazini in the 12th century.

According to a radio communication transcript, the pilot's conversation with the air controller had been in English, but his last words were this Arabic phrase as the plane crashed on September 26, 1997, killing all 235 people aboard in Indonesia's deadliest crash.

:* According to the second theory, the usage alludes to the Arabic root word “ shei ” which stands for the unknown.

According to author and historian John Kennedy O ' Connor in his book The Eurovision Song Contest-The Official History, when Israel became the clear winners during the voting, most of the Arabic stations ended their transmission of the contest.

According to one Arabic Hermetic text, Idris ( or Hermes Trismegistus ) witnessed the angel Jibril in a dream.

According to President Gandhi, a trained anthropologist and historian, Azania was selected as the name for the new administration because of its historical importance, as " Azania was a name given to Somalia more than 2, 500 years ago and it was given by Egyptian sailors who used to get a lot of food reserves from the Somali Coast [...] Its origin is Arabic word meaning the land of plenty.