According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae ( ca.

According to the essay The Istari from the Unfinished Tales, the name Radagast means " tender of beasts " in Adûnaic, another of Tolkien's fictional languages.

According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to Don Rosa, Rockerduck has several differences from both his fictional rival and his historical namesake.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Bajorans are an ancient species who developed advanced technology prior to the evolution of humanity on Earth.

According to the Multiverse Theory, the idea of a parallel universe may not be fictional, but reality that exists on another vibrational plane.

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

According to Fred, his son was named for Lamont Lomax, a ( presumably fictional ) pitcher from the Homestead Grays.

According to Cline's pre-show speech, he wanted to hold a special screening with fans in his home state, since he grew up in nearby Ashland, Ohio, and the story was set in a fictional town similar to Ashland.

According to show episodes, the community of Mayberry was named for fictional founder Lord Mayberry.

According to the fictional history of Exalted, before the time of the Exalted, the Dragon Kings ruled Creation and the mortals who dwelt there, but the majority of their perpetually-reincarnating souls were annihilated during the war against the Primordials, putting an end to their ascendance over Creation.

According to a Sunday Herald article in March 2006, Stewart was the basis for a fictional detective:

According to the game's fictional history, archeologists found an entrance to a vast underground cavern in the 1980s near a volcano in New Mexico.

According to Emir Rodríguez Monegal in his April 1968 article " Nota sobre Biorges ", when Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges collaborated under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq or B. Suárez Lynch, the results seemed written by a new personality, more than the sum of its parts, which he dubbed " Biorges " and considered in his own right as " one of the most important Argentine prose writers of his time ", for having influenced writers such as Leopoldo Marechal ( an otherwise anti-Borgesian ), or Julio Cortázar's use of fictional language and slang in his masterpiece Hopscotch .< ref

According to Helen Batchelor, following the breakthrough success of Main Street, Lewis conceived an ambitious plan for a series of interrelated novels that required a common fictional locale.

According to BusinessWeek, the Beast is listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.

According to Unfinished Tales, Dol Guldur was originally known in Tolkien's fictional language of Sindarin as Amon Lanc (" naked hill ", from amon " hill " and lanc " bare " or " naked ").

According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated.

According to the supplementary materials for some of the games, the fictional martial art style of Billy and Jimmy is named, a nod to Bruce Lee's fighting method of Jeet Kune Do, also known as the " Way of the Intercepting Fist ".

According to the fictional Macross continuity, the fighter was developed with overtechnology obtained from the massive alien space ship that crashed on Earth in the year 1999.

According to Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Potemkin's most comprehensive English-language biographer, the tale of elaborate, fake settlements with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to Aquinas, the universe cannot, at any particular moment, be causing itself.

According to observations of structures larger than solar systems, as well as Big Bang cosmology interpreted under the Friedmann equations and the FLRW metric, dark matter accounts for 23 % of the mass-energy content of the observable universe.

According to Ward the universe is composed of " psychic monads " of different levels, interacting for mutual self-betterment.

According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to Mani, the unfolding of the universe takes place with three " creations ":

According to the MWI, each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe.

According to Plato we live in an orderly universe.

According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.

According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead ( to the universe outside the box ) until the box is opened.

According to Hawking in particular, " M-theory is the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe.

According to the relationship of the system to the rest of the universe, one of three general types of ensembles may apply, in order of increasing complexity:

According to Thomas Kuhn, he and Descartes held the teleological principle that God conserved the amount of motion in the universe:

According to the de Broglie hypothesis, every object in the universe is a wave, a situation which gives rise to this phenomenon.

According to the researchers, the " discovery shows that water has been prevalent in the universe for nearly its entire existence.

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

According to Michael Levey, " Raphael gives his a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties ".

According to Cohen, those who took LSD " were not guilty of using illegal substances ... We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to Greek mythology, Antichthon was placed between Earth and the center of the universe, the throne of Zeus, to stop man from looking at the gods directly.

According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).

According to Islam, God, known in Arabic as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe.