According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to the decree 900 this land had to be taken and redistributed for the agricultural purposes, mainly to the peasant communities and the natives.

According to Tolstoy, the significance of great individuals is imaginary ; as a matter of fact they are only history's slaves realizing the decree of Providence.

According to the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, he obtained from the Emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the Exarch of Ravenna.

According to the decree, restrictions were focused on the ' parasitic stratum ' of society, in the interest of the ' working population '.

According to the decree, " persons endangering German security " were to be arrested in a maximally discreet way: " under the cover of night and fog ".

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

According to this decree, Papal bulls could not be pronounced in Hungary without the consent of the king.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

According to the Book of Ezra chapter 2, Zerubbabel returned to Jerusalem in the first wave of liberated exiles under the decree of King Cyrus of Persia in 538 BCE.

According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.

According to the provisions of the decree, Megarian merchants are to be excluded from the market of Athens and the ports in its empire.

) According to the decree, the ratio between length and width of the flag is 3: 2, being divided horizontally into two bands of equal size.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was formally banned during the consulship of Publius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus in 97 BCE, although by this time it was so rare that the decree was largely symbolic.

According to John Paul II's decree on Escrivá's " cause of canonization ", which contains a condensed biography of Escrivá, " o this mission he gave himself totally.

According to Samuel L. French, author of Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna., "... the present Borough of Plymouth was erected by decree of Honorable John N. Conyngham, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, on the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1866, upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury ..."

According to Livy, " Popilius ... placed in hand the tablets on which was written the decree of the senate withdraw ... drew a circle round the king with the stick he was carrying and said, ' Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.

According to the author of Jubilees, all proper customs that mankind should follow are determined by God's decree.

According to the royal decree published in 1987, the king and the queen consort will formally be addressed as " His Majesty and Her Majesty " ( Their Majesties, Spanish: Su Majestad, Su represents His or Her ) rather than the traditional " Catholic Majesty " ( Su Católica Majestad ).

According to the government's decree at that time, Hagley Park is " reserved forever as a public park, and shall be open for the recreation and enjoyment of the public.

According to Enrique Krauze, these different opinions may owe to the very different racial attitudes held by the British colonizers in the United States and the Spanish in Mexico, the much earlier, and nonviolent, abolition of slavery in Mexico ( 1810 through federal decree in Mexico versus 1865 through a civil war in the United States ) and the nonexistence in Mexico of what in the United States were known as the " Jim Crow laws.

According to the letter of the decree of 31 December 1930, patriarchs too were to be addressed with the title of ( Most Reverend ) Excellency, but in practice the Holy See continued to address them with the title of Beatitude, which was formally sanctioned for them with the motu proprio Cleri sanctitati of 2 June 1957.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

According to Stallman, " The only thing in the software field that is worse than an unauthorised copy of a proprietary program, is an authorised copy of the proprietary program because this does the same harm to its whole community of users, and in addition, usually the developer, the perpetrator of this evil, profits from it.

According to Lovecraft there is a copy of the Necronomicon here, but the University of Buenos Aires never had a central library.

According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah ( plural: Sifrei Torah ) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text of hand-written on gevil or qlaf ( forms of parchment ) by using a quill ( or other permitted writing utensil ) dipped in ink.

According to Rhonda R. Shearer, the apparent reproduction is in fact a copy partly modelled on Duchamp's own face.

According to his biographer, Demara's past became known and his position untenable when an inmate found a copy of Life with an article about the impostor.

According to age-old copyright principles the answer is affirmative: any copy represents a " multiplication " in the sense of copyright law.

According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no copy of the film is known to exist, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film.

According to Miles in the featurette, this is his personal copy, and the only one to have survived.

According to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers: " Every one who could pick a guitar started yodeling like Rodgers.

According to journalist Peter Palmiere, Starr said in the late 1980s that he had a copy of the video lying on top of his TV set, but he couldn't bear to look at it.

According to the Swedish Legal Deposit Act publishers of printed material must send one copy of every object to the National Library and six other research libraries.

According to the announcement, copy editing and page production of the paper will be transferred to the Waterloo Region Record, reducing the editorial staff of the paper to two managers and 8 reporter – photographers.

According to Louis P. Lochner, while stationed in Berlin he received a copy of a speech by Hitler from his " informant ", which he published ( in English translation ) in his book What About Germany?

According to Cortona's biographers his gifted copy of Raphael's Galatea fresco brought him to the attention of Marcello Sacchetti, papal treasurer during the Barberini papacy.

According to John Baxter in A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, Hornberger " was so furious at having sold the film rights for only a few hundred dollars that he never again signed a copy of the book " ( 203 ).

According to the manual page for Version 7 Unix, it will " convert and copy a file ".

According to Roger Butterfield, his mother made a practice of dressing the boy in a velvet suit and sending him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to copy masterpieces.

According to an interview given in Filter in 2004, he intended to remix the album " on his own time, using his own money, simply to have a copy he alone could hear " when the label, Epic Records, offered to finance a new release.

According to A. Hyatt Mayor, Goltzius " was the last professional engraver who drew with the authority of a good painter and the last who invented many pictures for others to copy ".

According to Saville: " Malcolm had a copy of Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography.

According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah ( plural: Sifrei Torah ) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses hand-written on gevil or klaf ( forms of parchment ) ( see below ) by using a quill ( or other permitted writing utensil ) dipped in ink.

According to the university's strategic plan ( largely a copy of his earlier and now abandoned Melbourne Agenda ( 2002 )) the University aims to have five Nobel Laureates on its staff by 2015, at least two of whom will have full-time appointments, and three of which it is intended to secure by 2007.

According to the jacket copy of The American Pageant, Kennedy is married and is the father of two sons and a daughter.