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

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to a recent opinion poll, 39 % of Americans believe the US has a crony capitalist system.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to the recent single origin hypothesis, anatomically modern humans arose in East Africa approximately 200, 000 years ago.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water systems at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Nineveh in the 7th century BC, although mainstream scholarship holds it to be a Greek invention of later times.

According to recent research, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain the behaviour learned as a caterpillar.

According to this interpretation, Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages in an unfortunate manner, though more recent translations render them more literally.

According to a recent scientific survey, there are dozens of ancient olive trees throughout Israel and Palestine, 1, 600 – 2, 000 years old.

According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to recent European research, rosemary interferes with the absorption of iron and should not be consumed by those with iron deficiency anemia.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

According to the Lonely Planet's Thailand guidebook, the 2004 tsunami dramatically improved the look of Maya Bay.

According to the third edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Ethiopia, " Goba is in a state of decline and Ethiopian Airlines has even cancelled its flights here.

According to Andrea Schulte-Peevers and Sara Benson in their 2006 travel guide Lonely Planet California, it is customary for diners eating San Francisco burritos to forgo utensils entirely and to eat the burrito with their hands, tearing the foil gradually down as they eat from above, but keeping the foil on the bottom to continue to support the structure of the uneaten portion.

* According to dialogue, the vision Doyle has in the teaser of this episode is the first one he's had since " Lonely Hearts "

According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ).

According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

According to Sitchin's interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbology, outlined in his 1976 book The 12th Planet and its sequels, there is an undiscovered planet beyond Neptune that follows a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system roughly every 3, 600 years.

According to some writers, Sitchin's ideas along with those of Erich von Däniken may have influenced the beliefs of the religious sect of Raëlism, and writer Mark Pilkington sees the mythology of Japan's Pana Wave religious group as rooted in Sitchins The 12th Planet and its sequels.

According to the Dalek Survival Guide, written by various Doctor Who novelists, the Ogrons have never named their planet, and a committee has proposed the name " the Ogron Planet ".

According to Knuckles of this continuity, if this ice network was destroyed, Planet Freedom's rotation would hurl the Land of the Sky into outer space, undoubtedly killing everyone on it.

According to information in a news release distributed by Planet Holdings Corp ( PHC ), Planet Airways had agreed to be acquired by the business development firm.

According to the Minor Planet Center, he is responsible for the discovery of 149 asteroids between 1991 and 1997, 15 of which were co-discoveries with Osamu Muramatsu.

According to BBC's Blue Planet, episode " The Deep ", the Fangtooth has the largest teeth of any fish in the ocean, proportionate to body size.

According to the backstory presented at that time, Pearl killed Dr. Forrester ( after he had re-attained adulthood following his transformation into a 2001-esque Space Baby ), then vowed to " avenge his death " by continuing his experiments on Mike and the Bots ; she had herself cryogenically frozen until the year 2525 ( probably a reference to the 1960s song " In the Year 2525 ") and became the leader of the Planet of the Apes-like apes who now dominated Earth, at which point she ( apparently ) somehow drew the Satellite of Love's crew back to the ship so that she could send them bad movies.

According to Rosin, von Braun also spoke of the existence of " Off Planet Cultures " ( extraterrestrials ) and about how these OPC's are going to be identified as being " enemies ," when they are not enemies.

According to the Planet of Fire DVD commentary, actress Nicola Bryant was told to continue using her American accent between takes and during public appearances to cover up the fact that she was not actually American.

According to Chambers, Planet V is thought to have perished when it plunged into the Sun.

; Persephone: According to the novel, Persephone is the tenth planet ( a Planet X ) of our solar system.

According to Nicola Bryant, Colin Baker, Tony Selby and Adam Blackwood, he was the only cast member who did not find the episode of Doctor Who he appeared in ( The Mysterious Planet ) humorous.

According to Planet Sound ( who had reporters in attendance ), during " Store Bought Bones " White's guitar malfunctioned and they had to re-play the song.

According to the " Planet Green " television series, episode " The Lost Queen of Egypt " aired December 18, 2011, one of the two mummies noted above, found in KV60, known as " Strong " was positively identified as that of Hatshepsut.

According to Matt Groening, the show had written an entire episode around Planet Hollywood, which featured the voices of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Willis as The Three Stooges type of characters.