According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

According to Eldridge Cleaver, one Oakland police officer who witnessed the shoot out later told him that, " What they did was first degree murder.

According to a writer for the New York Daily News, " NBC's replay showed the ball clearly hit one and only one man Oakland DB Jack Tatum.

", According to the Oakland City Council, the naming of the new San Francisco Oakland Bridge was rejected and will it not be named after Joshua A. Norton.

According to a writer for the New York Daily News, " NBC's replay showed the ball clearly hit one and only one man Oakland DB Jack Tatum.

According to a study by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform " small schools in Oakland are outperforming the large schools from which they emerged.

According to 2008-2009 statistics, Oakland Tech enrolls approximately 2, 000 students.

According to the Clivus multrum company, which built the composting toilets chosen by the Zoo, these facilities will service 500, 000 people and save of water a year.

According to Wild Cats of the World ( 1975 ) by C. A. W. Guggisberg, ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile: in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an ' Island ' tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo.

According to Feldkamp, one of Cuppy's favorite places was the Bronx Zoo, " where he felt really relaxed.

According to an article by The Guardian in 2010, a restaurant located in the Beijing Zoo named " Bin Feng Tang " offers various dishes of exotic animals on its menu.

According to Dublin Zoo: An Illustrated History by Catherine De Courcy it was one of many lions filmed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1928 to be used as their mascot Leo.

According to an interview with Rock Brigade in October 1998, Bruce mentioned that the band recorded a cover of the Scorpions song, " The Zoo ".

According to the final issue of the series, the book was cancelled in favor of placing the Zoo Crew in a number of miniseries, but only one such miniseries, the three-issue Oz / Wonderland War ( in which the characters became involved in an interdimensional war involving the worlds of L. Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll ), was ever published.

According to Pulling, Trevor pulled up to his house directly from Cornell University with a car full of caged animals and told him " These used to be my animals, tonight they became the Millbrook Zoo ".

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, " In 1866 … at Founders ' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate.

According to the U. S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2011 ranking, " California Institute of Technology headlines the new rankings, with top billing in three categories: chemistry, earth sciences and physics.

According to the California Academy of Sciences, Mediterranean shrubland contains more than 20 % of the world's plant diversity.

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

According to his memoirs, before arriving in California he dined in Washington with President Millard Fillmore and his family, but Eric Cline says that he didn't attend but simply read about it in the papers.

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 statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

" According to this source, the name refers to the picturesque mountain peaks called the Needles, located near the Colorado River a few miles south of the city of Needles, California.

According to psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, NLP originated when Richard Bandler, a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was listening to and selecting portions of taped therapy sessions of the late Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls as a project for Robert Spitzer.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to the California Secretary of State, as of April 2008, Kern County had 283, 732 registered voters.

According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the county's population included 18, 640 state prison inmates as of March 31, 2010.

According to the California Employment Development Department, as of January 2011, civilian employment totaled 49, 200 and an additional 11, 000 people were unemployed.

According to the California Department of Finance, California had a 10 % surplus at the end of 1999 and California was projected to have a 4 % surplus at the end fiscal year 2000.

According to the California Employment Development Department, as of January 2007, most residents of the Hanford area were employed in services ( 29, 200 employees ), government ( 14, 300 employees ) and farming ( 7, 600 employees ) as well as in some manufacturing enterprises ( 3, 400 employees ).

According to California Watch, Bell Gardens has the highest percentage of residents who completed less than ninth grade ( 44. 9 %).

According to a 2006 state-funded economic survey, Coachella ranks third lowest in average personal income of any California city, and one of ten poorest cities in the state.

According to the California Economic Development Department, in 2005 the economy of Hemet was based on four main industries: retail trade, health and educational services, and government.

According to the salary survey released in September by the League of California Cities, salaries for city managers in the region range from $ 181, 135 ( Woodland ) to $ 353, 000 ( Roseville ), with most earning compensation over $ 200, 000.

* Retired California politician James R. Mills wrote a novel titled Gospel According to Pontius Pilate in 1978.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

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 ).

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

According to N. H. Baynes ( Byzantium, An Introduction to East Roman Civilization ):

According to Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

According to the WHO, it is practiced in 28 countries in western, eastern, and north-eastern Africa, in parts of the Middle East, and within some immigrant communities in Europe, North America, Australasia.

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

According to Fortescue, it was from Western Scholasticism that hesychasm's philosophical opponents in the East borrowed their weapons.

According to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, East Jerusalem is part of the occupied territories.

According to the WWF, the territory of Moldova can be subdivided into three ecoregions: the Central European mixed forests, the East European forest steppe ( the most territory of the country ), and Pontic steppe ( in the south and southeast ).

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

According to Alpo Rusi's book Vasemmalta ohi, Lipponen began cooperation with the East German secret police Stasi in 1969.

According to a study by Alternatives to Combat Child Labour Through Education and Sustainable Services in the Middle East and North Africa Region ( ACCESS-MENA ) 30 % of school children living in border villages of Yemen had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia.

According to this explanation, East German political authorities were well aware of West German television's popularity and adopted SECAM rather than the PAL encoding used in West Germany.

According to his son, Mehmood, along with other scientists and engineers, eye-witnessed the Indo-Pak War of 1971, and had locked himself in his room where he cried for two days over the loss of East Pakistan.

According to the age and location of the current evidence, the cradle of the genus is the East African Rift System, especially toward the north in Ethiopia, where it is bordered by grasslands.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

According to Linda Benson, the Soviets and the Kuomintang intended to foster a Uyghur nationality in order to divide the Muslim population of Xinjiang, whereas the various Turkic Muslim peoples themselves preferred to identify as " Turki ", " East Turkestani ", or " Muslim ".

According to this study, Western African lions are more closely related to Asian lions than to South or East African lions.

According to Turkologists Peter Golden and András Róna-Tas, the term Turk is ultimately rooted in the East Iranian Saka language:

According to this view, Old East Slavic diverged into Belarusian and Ukrainian to the west ( collectively, the Ruthenian language of the 15th to 18th centuries ), and Old Russian to the north-east, after the political boundaries of Kievan Rus ' were redrawn in the 14th century.