According to Records of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was born in Zhuo County, Zhuo Commandery ( present day Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei ).

According to Yu Huan's Weilüe, although Xiahou Yuan was the overall in command of the defense force of Hanzhong, Liu Bei was really more worried about Zhang He.

According to the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, long before his death, sensing his own deteriorating condition, he had discussed with Liu Bei which of his two sons should succeed him.

According to Zhuge Liang's opinion, if Fa Zheng was still alive, he would have prevented Liu Bei from attacking Sun Quan in the aftermath of Guan Yu's death, but if Liu Bei had gone anyway, he would not have lost the Battle of Xiaoting.

According to Sima Biao's Spring and Autumn Annals of the Nine Provinces ( 九州春秋 ), Hou once sent a man to graze a band of 15 horses outside the city, but the man drove the horse towards Xiaopei, intending to defect to Liu Bei.

According to A. W. Barber of the University of Calgary, Chan Buddhism was introduced to the Nyingmapa in three principal streams: the teachings of Korean Master Kim, Kim Ho-shang, ( Chin ho shang ) 金和尚 transmitted by Sang Shi in ca.

According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by Sima Qian during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin.

According to the later Records of the Grand Historian, the following year Qin Shi Huang had some 460 scholars buried alive for owning the forbidden books.

According to the Book of Jin, the ancestors of Shi Le, the founder of Later Zhao, were a separate tribe of Xiongnu known as Qiāngqú ( 羌渠 ).

According to Nihon Shoki, the Hata clan, which was composed of descendants of Qin Shi Huang, arrived at Yamato in 403 ( the fourteenth year of Ōjin ) leading the people of 120 provinces.

According to Needham, the earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument.

According to a 2008 study by Shi et al., however, if focusing haplogroup D, Andamanese and Tibetan people diverged from the original haplogroup D around from 66, 400 to 51, 600 years ago, and the Japanese subclade emerged around 37, 700 years ago.

According to Shi ' a Muslim belief, Abel is buried in Nabi Habeel Mosque, located west of Damascus, in Syria.

According to an editorial by Michael Smith for the New Statesman, this was " Located at the furthest extreme of the southern no-fly zone, far away from the areas that needed to be patrolled to prevent attacks on the Shi ' a ; it was destroyed not because it was a threat to the patrols, but to allow allied special forces operating from Jordan to enter Iraq undetected.

According to Shi ' a doctrine, this was a clear violation of the treaty he made with Hasan ibn Ali, in which Muawiyah said he would not make his son his successor.

According to Shi ' a view, Muawiyah opposed Ali, out of sheer greed for power and wealth.

According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhi could recite the Shi Jing, Analects and more than ten thousand verses worth of poems before he even turned twenty.

According to half historian and half writer Jin Yong, Hong Taiji had the broad and wise views of Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Kublai Khan, the Hongwu Emperor, and the Yongle Emperor.

According to Shi ' a belief buried next to Ali within this mosque are the remains of Adam and Noah.

According to the most prevalent version of the " Four Beauties " legend, the quartet's members are Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan or Diaochan, and Yang Guifei.

According to the Shi ' ite customs, memorial services ( called Arba ' een ) are held forty days after a person's death.

According to ancient history, Qin Shi Huang traveled east into the sea, and moored the boat to this stone.

According to Shi ' a scholar Muhammad Husain Javari Sabinal, Shi ' ism would not have spread at all if not for taqiyya, referring to instances where Shi ' a have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.

According to Twelver Shi ’ ah Islam, the Imams are perfectly able to give judgment on all matters of religious law and their judgment is always legally correct.

According to Shi ' a accounts, after his father's assassination at the will of Al-Mu ' tasim, the Abbasid caliph ordered Umar bin al-Faraj to find a teacher in Medina for the young Imam that would preach hatred toward the Ahl al-Bayt.

According to Shi ' a Islam, the first caliph should have been Ali followed by the Shi ' a Imams.

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

According to The Natural History " by Pliny the Elder:

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to Glenn W. LaFantasie, Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University,

According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and had been prepared without his knowledge or consent.

According to Neil Parsons's online " Brief History of Botswana ":

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the term is interchangeable with the Gewisse, meaning the descendants of Gewis.

According to Carl Benjamin Boyer, in the introduction to his The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development, concepts in calculus do not refer to perceptions.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

According to Theodor Mommsen ( The History of Rome, volume 4, The Revolution, ISBN 1-4353-4597-5, page 4 ), 1 January became the first day of the year in 600 AUC of the Roman Calendar ( 153 BC ), due to disasters in the Lusitanian War.

According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he influenced Cornelis de Bie, Jan Coelenbier, Cornelis van Noorde, Abraham Susenier, Herman Saftleven, Pieter Jansz van Asch, and Abraham van Beijeren.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to the book Local DJ, a Rock & Roll History, the band was performing in the area as an opening act for Herman's Hermits.

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

According to Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos ( Ecclesiastical History 14th century AD., Migne P. G.

According to Geoffrey Keating's 17th century History of Ireland, Ériu, Banba, and Fódla worshipped Badb, Macha, and the Morrígan respectively.

According to the Princeton Encyclopedia on American History: