According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

According to the 16th to 18th century writings of Silver, Swetnam and Wylde, the quarterstaff is held with the back hand at the butt end of the staff and the other hand about a foot to a foot and a half ( 30 to 45 cm ) above it.

According to local legend, every Christmas he bought all his miners a goose for their families, and every Fourth of July, he paid off every bar between Silver Plume and current day Bakerville, so his miners could enjoy their holiday without spending their family's money.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show " follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles ' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists – of any kind.

According to police reports, a woman in Neshoba County, MS, filed a report stating that on 23 September 2007, Rockett sexually assaulted her in his room at the Silver Star Hotel & Casino located on a Choctaw Indian reservation.

According to the story, at some point in or around June 1947 ( Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948 ), two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

* According to J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, Captain Hook was the only man whom Silver ever feared.

According to Silver ( quoted by Herb Wong in the liner notes for The Best of Horace Silver ) the classic Fields film was playing on television while Silver was inspired to compose the tune.

According to James L. Haley, " About two weeks after the escape there was a report of a family massacred near Silver City ; one girl was taken alive and hanged from a meat hook jammed under the base of her skull.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend Henley.

According to Hawkins ' History of the Silver Coins of England, groats were also known as " Joeys ",

According to Ron Cabral's biography on Country Joe and the Fish, Seven was the subject of and inspiration behind the song Silver and Gold.

According to an anecdote by Serpent Isle project leader Bill Armintrout, Origin Systems has lost the source code to both " Serpent Isle " and its add-on " The Silver Seed ", and Electronic Arts is not planning on any kinds of rewrites for modern systems.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river begins at the dam of Silver Lake in the city of Dover ; Silver Lake is fed by Fork Branch, Penrose Branch, and Maidstone Branch.

According to Neubauer, the origin of the Silver Arrows phrase was due to the cars being overweight at their first race.

According to the 1599 treatise Paradoxes of Defence by the English gentleman George Silver, the glaive is used in the same general manner as the quarterstaff, half pike, bill, halberd, voulge, or partisan.

According to Hawkins ' History of the Silver Coinage of England, a groat was known as a " Joey ", " so called from Joseph Hume, M. P., who strongly recommended the coinage for the sake of paying short cab-fares, etc.

According to the 2000 census, Silver Creek had a population of 1, 326 people.

According to the obituary printed by The New York Times, his brother, Mitchell Silver, noted that " He told me that he did vote for Barack Obama in the end.

According to the American Institute of Architects, titles and job descriptions within American architectural offices might be as follows:

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to the National Cancer Institute, " Mistletoe extract has been shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory and to affect the immune system.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, as of 2011 the city of Bursa had a population of 1, 704, 441 and its metropolitan municipality 1, 948, 744.

According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

According to the Latin American Institute on Mental Health and Human Rights ( ILAS ), " situations of extreme trauma " affected about 200, 000 persons.

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 an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these Knuth reward checks are " among computerdom's most prized trophies ".

According to the National Institute of Statistics ( INE ), less than 5 % of M. Sc.

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

According the International Water Management Institute and UNEP, well-managed agroecosystems not only provide food, fibre and animal products, they also provide services such as flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, erosion control and habitats for plants, birds fish and other animals.

According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

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 Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

According to the Masurian Institute the Masurian members of resistance against Nazi Germany who survived the war, became active in 1945 in the region, working in Olsztyn in cooperation with new state authorities in administration, education and cultural affairs

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, " the libertarian, or ' classical liberal ,' perspective is that individual well-being, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by ' as much liberty as possible ' and ' as little government as necessary.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to Miss Tarter, in 2012 it costs around "$ 2 million a year to keep SETI research going at the SETI Institute " and approximately 10 times that to support " all kinds of SETI activity around the world.

According to the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism ( MIPT ), more than 300 buildings were damaged.