According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

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 one witness, Holliday drew a " large bronze pistol " ( interpreted by some as Virgil's coach gun ) from under his long coat and shoved it into Frank McLaury's belly, then took a couple of steps back.

According to geographer Pausanias ( 1. 28. 2 ), the original bronze Lemnian Athena was created by Phidias circa 450-440 BCE, for Athenians living on Lemnos.

According to another version of their struggle against the Olympians, alluded to so briefly that it must have been already familiar to the epic's hearers, they managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a bronze jar, a storage pithos, for thirteen months, a lunar year.

According to the De Dea Syria, the worship was of a phallic character, votaries offering little male figures of wood and bronze.

According to Aristotle, if bronze is a bronze sphere ’ s matter, then roundness is its form.

According to Houser, it is the largest and heaviest ( bronze ) equestrian statue in the world.

According to Vitruvius, the temperature and humidity of domed tepidaria could be regulated by raising or lowering bronze discs located under the oculus.

According to museum officials the looters concentrated on the heart of the exhibition: " the Warka Vase, a Sumerian alabaster piece more than 5, 000 years old ; a bronze Uruk statue from the Akkadian period, also 5, 000 years old, which weighs 660 pounds ; and the headless statue of Entemena.

According to Joseph Baretti in his Guide through the Royal Academy ( 1780 ), " the whole of the carvings in the various fronts of Somerset Place — excepting Bacon's bronze figures — were carved from finished drawings made by Cipriani.

According to the act, " the number of lives Dr. Borlaug has saved more than a billion people " The act authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates of the medal in bronze.

According to one explanation, the badge is referred to as " Jimmy " because the image of Mercury was based on the late mediaeval bronze statue by the Italian sculptor Giambologna, and shortening over time reduced the name Giambologna to " Jimmy ".

According to legend, Chi You had a bronze head with metal foreheads.

According to Pausanias, the temple housed the bronze statues of Athena and Hephaestus.

According to the account of Dio Cassius ( Roman History, 75. 10-14 ), the city held out against Severan forces for three years, until 196, with its inhabitants resorting even to throwing bronze statues to the besiegers when they ran out of other projectiles.

According to Pomponius, a lawyer who lived during the 2nd century AD, the position of tresviri monetalis was established in 289 BC, but this date seems to be far too early, and if they did not come into existence during the Second Punic War, the formation of a formal college may not have occurred until some time after 200 BC The three members of this committee were officially known as the " tres viri aere argento auro flando feriundo " (" the three men responsible for casting and striking bronze, silver and gold "), a lengthy title that was almost always abbreviated to " III. V. A. A. A. F. F .".

According to Pliny, he produced more than 1, 500 works, all of them in bronze.

According to American Historical Review, " the sculptures in the " Races of Mankind " had perpetuated an older typological approach by presenting " race " in the form of literally static bronze figures depicting idealized racial " types.

According to the patent, this alloy consists of phosphor bronze with a 14. 7 % to 15. 1 % tin content by weight.

According to ancient sources, Domitian used at least twelve thousands talents of gold for the gilding of the bronze roof tiles alone.

According to the chronicler Ibn Sahib al-Salah, the works were completed on March 10 of 1198, with the placement of four gilt bronze balls in the top section of the tower.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to Cassius Dio a gigantic equestrian statue was erected to Hadrian after his death.

According to some sources, after his triumphal entry into the city, Allenby raised his sword in salute to the famous statue of Saladin and proudly declared " Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed.

According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 and Cicero records that a statue of her stood in the town-hall of Syracuse.

According to Lucian of Samosata in the later 2nd century, " they have laid hands on your person at Olympia, my lord High-Thunderer, and you had not the energy to wake the dogs or call in the neighbours ; surely they might have come to the rescue and caught the fellows before they had finished packing up the statue.

According to Plutarch, the Cean had a statue of himself made about this time, which inspired the Athenian politician Themistocles to comment on his ugliness.

Sometimes he hung garlands on her doorpost wet with his tears, and lay with his soft flank on the hard threshold, complaining at the pitiless bolts barring the way .” According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.

According to Pausanias there was a statue of Artemis made by Praxiteles in her temple in Anticyra of Phokis.

According to another source the statue of Sancus ( as Semo Sancus Dius Fidus ) was found on the Tiber Island.

According to Plutarch, Ptolemy stole the statue from Sinope, having been instructed in a dream by the unknown god, to bring the statue to Alexandria, where the statue was pronounced to be Serapis by two religious experts.

According to the testimony of Bernadette Soubirous, the Virgin Mary spoke to her ( Lourdes, 25 March 1858 ) in Gascon saying: Que sòi era Immaculada Concepciou (" I am the Immaculate Conception ", the phrase is reproduced under this statue in the Lourdes grotto with a non-standard spelling ), confirming the proclamation of this Catholic dogma four years earlier.

According to an 1826 article submitted by a person well-versed in local history identifying himself as W. Reader, there was already a well-established tradition before his time that there was a certain tailor who had taken a peek at Lady Godiva, and that at the annual Trinity Great Fair ( now called the Godiva Festival ) featuring the Godiva processions " a grotesque figure called Peeping Tom " would be set on display, and it was a wooden statue carved from oak.

According to the Scientific American of May 27, 1893, Osawatomie was struck by a meteor on April 8, 1893, striking the statue of John Brown.

According to Spanish tradition the statue of the crying Virgin usually holds a white handkerchief.

According to legend, Silbury is the last resting place of a King Sil, represented in a lifesize gold statue and sitting on a golden horse.

According to this understanding, even if one directs his worship to the Almighty Himself and not to a statue, picture, or some other created thing, but yet he uses a created thing as a representation of the Almighty in order to assist in his worship of the Almighty, this is also considered a form of idolatry.

According to IMDb, Mercer is claimed to have voiced the Rough House attraction statue in the Pleasure Island sequence of Walt Disney's Pinocchio.

According to Galeano, the statue was bought at a flea market, because the persons entrusted to buy it, spent the money in binges.

According to folklore in Costa Rica, the statue was found by an indigenous girl in 1635.