According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

According to his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

According to his biography, Venter was ready to leave Celera, and was fired due to conflict with the main investor, Tony White, that had existed since day one of the project.

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

According to his biography his mother declared, when she was expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build beautiful buildings.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

According to Fisher in the 2005 biography Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, the amount of morphine consumed by Parsons would be lethal to three regular users and thus he had likely overestimated his tolerance considering his experience with opiates.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

According to Sobran and other researchers, the themes and personal circumstances expounded by the author of the Sonnets are remarkably similar to Oxford's biography.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

According to Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, authors of a biography of John Bardeen, Shockley had proposed that Bell Labs ' first patent for a transistor should be based on the field-effect and that he be named as the inventor.

According to his authorized biography, " his only sustaining relief from his unsatisfied sex drive was his even stronger desire to die.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

According to the band's biography, the drug was prescribed to him as a teenager during his parents ' divorce but he was never withdrawn from the drug and became dependent on it.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

According to the publisher, the book will be the first major biography of Daley.

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

According to his biography, he achieved everything he wanted and after staying overnight in Pamplona, on his way back his army was attacked in Roncesvaux in 812, but didn't suffer defeat thanks to the precautions he had taken.

According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to the John Swenson biography of Haley, the musician was quoted as saying that he and Pompilli had an agreement that if one died, the other would retire.

According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997, Fidel Castro has used body doubles.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to the show, various reality shows ( notably Joe Millionaire ) combined audio and video from different times, or from different sets of footage, to create an artificial illusion of time chronology that did not occur, and a misportrayal of participant behaviors and actions.

According to a May 15, 2009 blog posting by Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, Vice President Joe Biden revealed the existence of what Clift described as a bunker-like room in the residence.

According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a childhood game called " Cowboy Joe " or from a local window cleaner named Joe.

According to Footnotes in Gaza, a comic book by Joe Sacco, The Israeli Army rounded up residents of the town and the neighbouring refugee camp and shot them on the streets and in their homes.

According to John E. Kleber " A pioneer community, Joe's Landing, was established by Joe Huston in 1798 and renamed Cloverport in 1828.

According to Ali's longtime physician and cornerman Ferdie Pacheco, it was believed by Ali and his trainers that Joe Frazier was washed up after his devastating loss to George Foreman, and the relative ease with which Ali had defeated Frazier in their rematch after that fight seemed to bear this out.

According to Joe, a Floob was essentially a scrub, but not just an ordinary scrub.

According to Burke: " The song was not written by Joe Louis.

According to some reports she was married three times, each time to an accomplished blues guitarist: Kansas Joe McCoy later of the Harlem Hamfats, possibly Casey Bill Weldon ( though there is little if any evidence for this ), and Ernest " Little Son Joe " Lawlers.

According to Joe Kubert, co-creator with the brothers Norman Maurer and Leonard Maurer, it sold an exceptional 1. 2 million copies at 25 cents apiece at a time when comics cost a dime.

According to the journalist Joe Conason Bush's involvement with UBC was purely commercial and that he was not a Nazi sympathizer.

According to Joe Elliott, he successfully auditioned for the band by playing Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird " in its entirety.

According to Lorne Greene's song " Saga of the Ponderosa " (" Bonanza " four CD set biography notes / song, Bear Family Records, 1964 ), Marie's first husband was " Big Joe " Collins, who dies saving Ben's life.

According to the story mentioned in the interviews 11 years after this life-or-death incident, the DEA agent Joe DuBois and FBI agent Daniel Fuentes were riding in a white Ford Bronco with diplomatic plates along the streets of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

According to ISM volunteer Joe Carr stated that Israeli troops were always careful not to hurt ISM volunteers.

According to Joe Adamson's biography, The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who Anglicized it.

According to interviews conducted with then-Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, every story prior to this story remains canon ( this would later be contradicted as the events of later stories imply MJ never fell pregnant ).

According to professional baseball scouts, Baldelli shared many similarities to Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio ever since his days as a prep star.