According to reports, U. S. fighter pilots have been trained to shoot down hijacked commercial airliners should it become necessary.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to official reports, the ship was carrying approximately of oil, of which about were spilled into the Prince William Sound.

According to reports released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $ 400 million dollars from Iran.

According to various reports, Hezbollah is armed with anti-tank guided missiles, namely, the Russian-made AT-3 Sagger, AT-4 Spigot, AT-5 Spandrel, AT-13 Saxhorn-2 ' Metis-M ', АТ-14 Spriggan ' Kornet '; Iranian-made Ra ' ad ( version of AT-3 Sagger ), Towsan ( version of AT-5 Spandrel ), Toophan ( version of BGM-71 TOW ); and European-made MILAN missiles.

According to news reports, Mr Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to official reports, he died in Lindheim, Germany in 1895.

According to reports, the hack is aiming not at child player's Neopets accounts, but at using the malware to steal the financial data and identities of their parents.

According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £ 25 a week immediately after the game.

* 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor ( no British records of this attack exist ).

According to the FBI and the 9 / 11 Commission report, Hazmi first entered the United States on June 29, 2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker Satam al-Suqami much earlier.

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

" According to the U. S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.

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 Spanish newspaper reports, UC representatives have visited Madrid, Spain to discuss the possibility of opening UC's first general campus outside of the U. S. there in 2014.

According to reports, the Conservative party's links to far-right parties within Europe has caused a " host of condemnation " from Jewish groups in the US ; Ira Forman, chief executive of the National Jewish Democratic Council, stated that " There is obviously concern in the US when there is legitimacy conferred on individuals and political parties that have had some association with anti-Semitism.

According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis ' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous.

* August 6 – According to Japanese government and TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

According to secondhand reports, Nasser convincingly denied the allegations.

According to news reports at the time, Nixon answered questions about the 18-1 / 2 minute tape gap, altering White House tape transcripts turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, using the Internal Revenue Service to harass political enemies, and a $ 100, 000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes.

According to media reports on Sept. 26, 2012, the Holy See, has received a file on beatification for Moro.

According to reports, Japanese troops torched newly built government buildings as well as the homes of many civilians.

According to her later memoirs, Fátimih fell in love with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá on seeing him.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to Olga Ivinskaya, he repeatedly helped to dispose of German bombs which fell on it.

According to the account in Kings ( and its derivative account in Chronicles ) the judgment of God now fell on the Assyrian army and wiped out 180, 000 of its men.

According to the biblical narrative, Abraham fell on his face and laughed when Elohim imparted the news of their son's eventual birth.

According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.

According to Livy, Tullus neglected the worship of the gods until, towards the end of his reign, he fell ill and became superstitious.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

According to Ovid, the fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she was repulsed by his fishy tail and fled onto the land where he could not follow.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

According to the myth, it is found in the heavens, where the first humans lived, until a pregnant woman fell and landed in an endless sea.

According to data from the World Health Organization, the amount of tobacco per 1000 cigarettes fell from 2. 28 pounds in 1960 to 0. 91 pounds in 1999, largely as a result of reconstituting tobacco, fluffing and additives.

According to some Iranian mythological traditions, it was originally erected by Tahmuras Diveband, and afterward fell to ruin.

According to Vasari, Raphael's premature death on Good Friday ( April 6, 1520 ), which was possibly his 37th birthday, was caused by a night of excessive sex with Luti, after which he fell into a fever and, not telling his doctors that this was its cause, was given the wrong cure, which killed him.

According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, daughter of Asopus and river nymph Metope, and abducted her.

According to Pliny the Elder, that same year a meteorite fell in the town of Aegospotami, in Thrace.

According to Armstrong, when he was recording the song " Heebie Jeebies ", soon to be a national bestseller, with his band The Hot Five, his music fell to the ground.

According to Diodorus Siculus, " There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire ."( Bib.

According to the 2001 study of crime trends in New York by George Kelling and William Sousa, rates of both petty and serious crime fell suddenly and significantly, and continued to drop for the following ten years.

According to the Bible, the Tower of Siloam was an ancient tower in Siloam in south Jerusalem, which fell during the time of Jesus, killing 18 people.

According to the traditional rabbinic interpretation, in the early part of the Bible, as recorded in the Book of Genesis, the duties of a priest fell upon the eldest son of each family.

According to Josephus, the Pharisees ultimately opposed him and thus fell victims ( 4 BCE ) to his bloodthirstiness (" Ant.

According to one origin myth, a boy went into the forest to collect honey, was stung by bees, and fell from a tree.

According to Pausanias, Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.