According to legend, macaroni was brought to Italy by Marco Polo, returning to Venice from China in 1292.

According to Anderson, Oxford definitely visited Venice, Padua, Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Florence, Siena and Naples, and probably passed through Messina, Mantua and Verona, all cities used as settings by Shakespeare.

According to John Julius Norwich, the traditional first doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, was actually Exarch Paul, and his successor, Marcello Tegalliano, Paul's magister militum ( General ; literally, " Master of Soldiers.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Venice has a Humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ), with cool winters and very warm summers.

According to the chronicler John the Deacon, author of the Chronicon Venetum (" Chronicle of Venice "), written about AD 1000, the office of the Doge was first instituted in Venice about 700, replacing tribunes that had led the cluster of early settlements in the lagoon.

According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, very little was left standing in either Boothville or Venice, the few buildings that survived had water up to the rooftops (), and the area orange groves had also been submerged.

At the 1964 Venice Film Festival, The Gospel According to St. Matthew was screened in competition for the Golden Lion, and won the OCIC Award and the Special Jury Prize.

According to tradition, this came about because the dogaressa, Faliero's second wife, Aluica Gradenigo, had been insulted by Michele Steno, a member of an aristocratic family, but in a study of doges of Venice Antonella Grignola suggests that Faliero's move was consistent with a prevailing trend in Italian cities to move away from oligarchic government to absolute, dynastic rule.

According to Ragusan sources, the Republic of Venice mediated an agreement between Nikola Altomanović and Djuradj Balšić about their joint attack on Ragusa.

According to John Ruskin, the Doge's Palace in Venice contains " three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman, the Lombard, and Arab.

According to French traveler Jules-Léonard Belin the knife used by Jesus to slice bread was permanently exhibited in the Logetta ( decorated entrance hall ) of St Mark's Campanile in Venice.

According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote it ( as " Moonlight Ride ") during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, California in 1965.

According to Villani, Landini was given a crown of laurel by the King of Cyprus, who was in Venice for several periods during the 1360s.

According to the Vita Aristotelis Marciana, a much mutilated single manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marco in Venice, written about 1300, Aristotle left the city, saying, " I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy " ( Vita Aristotelis, 41 ).

According to the Manchester Evening News, " it told the world something about the reinvention of the murky old city, that its once-filthy waterway could almost pass for Venice.

According to this theory, London financial circles protect themselves from competition by using techniques of " controlled conflict " first developed in Venice, and LaRouche attributes many wars in recent memory to this alleged activity by the British.

According to his publisher HarperCollins, he now divides his time between Venice, California, and London.

According to Bywaters, Jaffeir can be easily compared with the Popish betrayer Oates due to the proximity of the Popish Plot with the production of Venice Preserv ’ d, as well as the Catholic terminology that Pierre uses in reference to Jaffeir ( 2 ).

According to the company history, Harry Pickering — a rich, young Bostonian -- had been frequenting Hotel Europa in Venice, where Giuseppe Cipriani was a bartender.

According to historians, the Venice government sacrificed Nin and left the burnt town to the Turks to save the town of Zadar.

According to Houbraken, he became a member of the Bentvueghels and made trips to Venice and other cities with friends, painting in the manner of Salvator Rosa.

According to Georgios Golobias the works of Onufri were significantly influenced by western art, as a result of his possible stay in Venice, being a member of the local Greek fraternity.

According to a Venice gang member, some Venice 13 members have even been forced into nearby Inglewood due to rent and housing costs.

According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9 / 11 Commission, Omari entered the United States through a Dubai flight on June 29, 2001, with Salem al-Hazmi, landing in New York.

According to U. N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the approved expansion is equal to about 82 % of Japan's total land area.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, Moqed set off the metal detector at the airport and was screened with a hand-wand.

According to the Constitution of North Korea ( 조선민주주의인민공화국 사회주의 헌법 ) Article 100, " the National Defence Commission is the highest military leadership body of State power.

" According to Article 102, " the Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea commands and directs all the armed forces and guides national defence as a whole.

According to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, electromagnetic radiations from ultraviolet to infrared, to radiofrequency ( including microwave ) radiation, static and time-varying electric and magnetic fields, and ultrasound belong to the non-ionizing radiations.

According to the Texas Transportation Commission, Paris is the second-largest city in Texas without a four-lane divided highway connecting to an Interstate highway within the state.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, it is possible that pilots were not stabbed to death and were sent to the rear of the plane.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, 26 al-Qaeda terrorist conspirators sought to enter the United States to carry out a suicide mission.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, " This was an unprecedented order.

According to 9 / 11 Commission staff statement No. 17 there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9 / 11 attacks.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, 13 passengers from Flight 93 made a total of over 30 calls to both family and emergency personnel ( twenty-two confirmed air phone ( airfone ) calls, two confirmed cell phone and eight not specified in the report ).

According to the FBI and the 9 / 11 Commission report, Hazmi first entered the United States on June 29, 2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker Satam al-Suqami much earlier.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

According to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ), the NLP spent $ 2. 3 million on its presidential campaign in the 1999-2000 election cycle.

According to Captain Phillip's amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, the colony included all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean within the latitudes of 10 ° 37 ' S and 43 ° 39 ' S which included most of New Zealand except for the southern half of the South Island.

According to the United States EMP Commission, the main potential problem with the E2 component is the fact that it immediately follows the E1 component, which may have damaged the devices that would normally protect against E2.

According to the EMP Commission Executive Report of 2004, " In general, it would not be an issue for critical infrastructure systems since they have existing protective measures for defense against occasional lightning strikes.

According to the CIE ( the International Commission on Illumination ), reflectivity is distinguished from reflectance by the fact that reflectivity is a value that applies to thick reflecting objects.

According to the International Boundary and Water Commission, its total length was in the late 1980s, though course shifts occasionally result in length changes.