According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

According to City-Data. com, Twin Falls's crime rate dramatically decreased between the years of 2003 through 2009.

According to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in an article that originally appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine, the guitars were run through " Black-Face " Twin Reverbs with both guitarists using external Fender " tank " reverb units and Gibson " Maestro " Fuzz-tones as distortion devices.

According to Twin Galaxies, the record high score on BurgerTime is 11, 512, 500 points, set by Bryan L. Wagner in 2008.

According to Twin Galaxies, he improved it further to 11, 512, 500 points on September 19, 2008 at the Challenge Arcade in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

According to the College Board, as of July 2012 there are 34, 812 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

According to Twin Galaxies, Davide Bagenski, of Syracuse, New York, USA, scored a world record 418, 200 points on June 28, 1986 during the 1986 Video Game Masters Tournament.

According to Twin Galaxies, Rodney Day of Canberra, Australia has held the world record Pengo score of 1, 110, 370 points since August 13, 1983.

According to an interview with Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of Metal Gear Solid for the remake, The Twin Snakes.

According to Twin Galaxies, Jack Gale, of North Miami Beach, Florida, USA, scored a world record 259, 800 points on Karate Champ, on June 28, 1987, during the 1987 Video Game Masters Tournament.

According to Twin Cities crime reporter Paul Maccabee, Kid Cann's rivalry with Minneapolis's Irish Mob ended after he and Irish Mob boss Tommy Banks divided their territories with a handshake.

According to the department, up 12, 000 vehicles a day used the highway outside of the Twin Cities, and up to 55, 000 vehicles traveled the highway daily in the metro area in 2010.

According to David Lynch on the 2007 Gold Edition DVD release of Twin Peaks, Lynch was upstairs in the Laura Palmer house, near Silva as he worked, and suddenly realized that Silva might have a place in the show.

They competed against the Twin Towers, Akeem and the Big Boss Man, at WrestleMania V. According to Michaels in his autobiography, he was nursing a severe hangover in the hours before this match.

According to Reuters, " ix insurers sought repayment from the city for expenses arising from the collapse of a 47-story office building near the Twin Towers "; Hellerstein ruled New York had immunity.

According to Twin Galaxies, Scott Karasek, of Racine, Wisconsin, USA, scored a world record 3, 208, 870 points on the Stern ROM set on June 22, 1982.

" According to Ethan Brown from The New York Post said the song is " warm, even radiant, and by the end, as the waves of sound nearly overtake Minogue, the effect is something like — to borrow a phrase from Aphex Twin — an “ analog bubble bath .”"

According to WVU Department of Athletics, in 2008, the Coliseum received a new NBA Style Video Scoreboard, a new Public Address System, as well as a new lighting system, two LED ribbon boards, and a new floor design.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

According to Swinford, this change can be attributed in part to the fact that " science and technical culture have changed perceptions of the natural world, have significantly changed the natural world itself, thereby altering the vocabulary of symbols applicable to epistemological and allegorical attempts to understand it.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

According to the Rybno administration most active Poles during that region included Jóżwiakowscy, Wojnowscy, Grzeszczowscy families working under the guidance of politician Leon Wojnowski who protested German attempts to remain Działdowo a part of Germany after the war ; other local pro-Polish activists were Alfred Wellenger, Paczyński, Tadeusz Bogdański, Jóźwiakowski.

According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.

According to Puntland government documents, the Somaliland region's Riyale government in 2006 both financed and offered military assistance to Atom's men as part of a campaign to destabilize the autonomous territory via proxy agents and to distract attention away from the Somaliland government's own attempts at occupying the disputed Sool province.

According to Andrea del Centina, a math professor at the University of Ferrara in Italy, the revision included attempts to clarify her work by “ introducing certain simplifying hypotheses.

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".

According to Abu Iyad, two attempts were made on Arafat's life by the Israeli Mosaad and the Military Directorate in 1970.

According to Mark Michael Smith of the Economic History Society: " although intrusive and oppressive, paternalism, the way masters employed it, and the methods slaves used to manipulate it, rendered slaveholders ' attempts to institute capitalistic work regimens on their plantation ineffective and so allowed slaves to carve out a degree of autonomy.

According to Dumézil, " the fruitless attempts of Arpoxais and Lipoxais, in contrast to the success of Colaxais, may explain why the highest strata was not that of farmers or magicians, but rather that of warriors.

According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, " ever since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was serving in his second term as president, there have been repeated attempts to repeal the 22nd Amendment ; this proposal has failed repeatedly in Congress, although it is still introduced over and over again.

According to Yaska, Sanskrit scholar of the 5th century BCE, who made various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies in his work Nirukta ( Etymology ) ( 12, 12 ), the time of Savitr ’ s appearance is when darkness has been removed.

According to Eriksen, these debates have been superseded, especially in anthropology, by scholars ' attempts to respond to increasingly politicised forms of self-representation by members of different ethnic groups and nations.

According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana, " Such a strong force of Confederate cavalry occupied the Mississippi side opposite St. Joseph that all Federal attempts to close the transit in January ended in failure.

According to U. S. Army analyst Edward C. O ' Dowd, the technical definition of a human wave attack tactic is a frontal assault by densely concentrated infantry formations against an enemy line, without any attempts to shield or to mask the attacker's movement.

According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.

According to Wagstaff ( 1991 ), attempts to isolate a global trait of " suggestibility " have not been successful, due to an inability of the available testing procedures to distinguish measurable differences between the following distinct types of " suggestibility ":

According to Carrie Ann Sitren of the Goldwater Institute, this was “ a clear attempt to silence people in the community who have been critical of the board ’ s actions, and have made good-faith attempts to ensure the district is spending taxpayer money wisely .” None of the records requested were private or confidential, and thus, should have been readily available to be released to the public, according to the assistant state Ombudsman.

According to Lammersdorf, there had been some attempts to whitewash his past, which were, however, soon followed by harsh criticism because of his role as a NSDAP supporter and his attitude toward the Jews.

According to Jones, Greenfield's attempts to rescue southern Alberta from agricultural calamity were probably doomed to failure.

According to author / journalist Mark Bowden, a pattern developed in President Carter's attempts to negotiate a release of the hostages: Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.

According to a letter from Davis to Gaston Maspero, some of the objects found in KV55 were still in place in January 1908, and their study and attempts at conservation were still ongoing at this later date .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite >, ( Keegan Paul, 1990 ), p

According to his biographer, Cathy Kunzinger Urwin, Rockefeller ’ s “ good-government ” reform proposals included: revision of the Arkansas State Constitution, governmental administrative reorganization, election law reform ( a " little Hatch Act " to prohibit state employees from engaging in political activities on the job ), teacher tenure, taxpayer-funded kindergarten under Amendment 53, adult and continuing education programs, rehabilitation and vocational training in the corrections system, and the recurring attempts at industrial recruitment.