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 a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, in 720 Pope Gregory sent to Odo, Duke of Aquitaine, “ three blessed sponges / baskets of bread ”.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

According to the chronicler Widukind of Corvey, Otto " pitched his camp in the territory of the city of Augsburg and joined there the forces of Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, who was himself lying mortally ill nearby, and by Duke Conrad with a large following of Franconian knights.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Harold was at some time betrothed to Adeliza, a daughter of William, Duke of Normandy, later William the Conqueror ; if so, the betrothal never led to marriage.

According to the Norman chronicler, William of Jumièges, Robert I, Duke of Normandy attempted an invasion of England to place Edward on the throne in about 1034, but it was blown off course to Jersey.

According to one version of the tale, the oil had then passed to Henry's maternal grandfather, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

According to Lord Holland, the Duke of Wellington had claimed that it was Lady Jersey who had selected Caroline as George's bride.

According to genealogical research, Birgitta Gustafsdotter and Sten Sture ( and consequently also Gustav Vasa ) were descended from King Sverker II of Sweden, through King Sverker's granddaughter Benedikte Sunesdotter ( who was married to Svantepolk Knutsson, son of Duke of Reval ).

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

According to 14th century historiography ( Cronica de Berno, 1309 ), Bern was founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

" According to a 29 May 1897 diary entry written by her father's distant cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, she was given the name " Tatiana " as an homage to the heroine in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

According to legend, when Duke William II of Normandy ( later known as William the Conqueror ) sent his representative to ask for Matilda's hand in marriage, she told the representative that she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard.

According to legend, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall under King Uther Pendragon, rebelled against the latter's rule when the king became obsessed with Gorlois ' wife Igraine.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, the practice was started by Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, who had 66 people buried with him in 678 BC.

According to a manuscript discovered in the early 1980s in the College of Arms collection, the Princes were murdered " be the vise " of the Duke of Buckingham.

According to the history of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke of Lorraine, and Jonas was thenceforth known as Jonas " de Clapham ".

According to Samuel Pepys, Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York used to run horses here.

According to Linda Goza, park interpreter at Logoly since 1990, " the Magnesia Springs community had two hotels: the Duke and the Mendenhall.

According to Worcester, about the year 1775, town records started appearing with the town's name spelled as " Hollis " ( after Thomas Hollis ), and both names were used until about 1815, after which, only the name " Hollis " appears "... while Holles, the name of the Duke of Newcastle, has passed into merited oblivion.

According to the Air Force News Service, new airframes, to include the CV-22 Osprey, will likely be assigned to the Hurlburt Field and Duke Field complexes at Eglin AFB, Florida as well as to the new wing at Cannon.

According to the 18th century historian Chrysostomus Hanthaler, his grandson Duke Frederick II of Austria ( 1230 – 1246 ), nicknamed the " Quarrelsome " or the " Warlike ", the last of the Babenberg dynasty, designed a new coat of arms in red-white-red after his accession — an attempt to prevail against reluctant local nobles and to stress his autonomy towards Emperor Frederick II.

" According to University of Richmond Law Review, " When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense.

According to an estimate released in 2009 by the United States Census Bureau, Wayne County, of which Richmond is the county seat, had a relatively high population of divorced residents: 19. 2 percent.

According to tradition, the town of Richmond Hill, Ontario, was also named after him, as he was said to have passed through the then village during his visit in 1819.

According to the chronicler Charles Wriothesley, Richmond became sickly some time before he died, although Richmond's biographer Beverley A. Murphy cites his documented public appearances and activities in April and May of that year, without exciting comment on his health, as evidence to the contrary.

According to one nobleman, Lord Bacon, “ He lieth at Westminster in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe … So that he dwelleth more richly dead in the monument of his tomb than he did alive at Richmond or in any of his palaces .”

According to Penny Colman's Rosie the Riveter, there was also, very briefly, a " Wendy the Welder " based on Janet Doyle, a worker at the Kaiser Richmond Liberty Shipyards in California, and also " Julie the Janitor ," a worker at Eastern Illinois University.

According to Dennis McNally, Jerry Garcia conceived the idea for the Grateful Dead song Terrapin Station while driving across the Richmond – San Rafael Bridge.

According to their wishes, after their deaths Maymont was left to the people of Richmond.

According to biographical material she supplied, Walker was born as Maggie Lena Mitchell in Richmond, Virginia to William Mitchell and Elizabeth Draper Mitchell 2 years and 2 months after the end of the American Civil War.

According to one source, Graves did not attend school for more than three or four months in his life, but another source says that he received an " academical education ", and at the age of 19 was teaching in a school at Richmond, a career he was to follow for more than twenty years.

According to the current proposed new electoral boundaries set out by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for British Columbia, the riding will be dissolved, with various parts joining the new ridings of Burnaby South — Deer Lake, New Westminster — Burnaby East and Richmond East.

According to the June 2004 edition of Elevator World, Richmond Elevator Maintenance Ltd. won a contract for the lowest bid to supply the building's elevators, one of the local elevator firm's first examples of

According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, around 1909 – 1910:

According to his testimony and that of others, ONI was responsible for collecting and evaluating intelligence, but R. Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, Director of War Plans, had sought and received the authority in 1940 to control information sent to the fleet on “ enemy intentions ” and “ the strategic picture .” Exercising this authority, Turner had prepared messages to fleet commanders on November 24 that “ a surprise aggressive movement on the Philippines or Guam is a distinct possibility ,” and on November 27 stating that “ this is a war warning … an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days … indicates an amphibious expedition against either the Philippines, Thai or Kra Peninsula or possibly Borneo … execute appropriate defensive deployment .” Wilkinson had followed these messages up on December 2 with a message to the fleet commanders reporting that Japanese consuls were instructed to destroy their codes — a standard precaution for hostilities.

According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times newspaper there was a controlled explosion of a suspect package on the bus:

According to Richmond's Maymont Foundation, " Major Dooley's leadership of various civic endeavors runs as a continuous thread through the history of Richmond, from the early 1870s through the early 1920s.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

* According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre ’ s, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, “ saving mankind by the holy cross .”

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, his father would have been exiled had it not been for Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who telephoned Khrushchev and threatened to found a Committee for Pasternak ’ s protection.

According to Dr. Wink, Jasmuheen ’ s pupils were dilated, her speech was slow, and she was " quite dehydrated, probably over 10 %, getting up to 11 %".

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

As a result, his art was sometimes criticized as being “ vulgar ,” because he painted what he saw: “ rutted and edged hodgepodge of bushes, mounds of earth, and trees in various stages of development .” According to one source, details such as those were equivalent to today ’ s art showing garbage cans or beer bottles on the side of a street scene.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

According to Pissarro ’ s son, Lucien, his father painted regularly with Cézanne beginning in 1872.

According to 2012 figures from Statistics Denmark, 89. 6 % of Denmark ’ s population of over 5, 580, 516 was of Danish descent.

According to Jacques Ellul, “ the aim is not to even modify people ’ s ideas on a given subject, rather, it is to achieve conformity in the way that people act.