According to Galen, Ptolemy III requested permission from the Athenians to borrow the original scripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, for which the Athenians demanded the enormous amount of fifteen talents ( 450 kg of a precious metal ) as guarantee.

* According to The TV IV, nine new scripts for the third season of The Critic were written for UPN.

According to the book The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Serling wrote the teleplay in response to a request from CBS to write scripts utilizing as few actors as possible for budgetary purposes.

According to the end credits only the first 12 episodes were based on Speight's original scripts.

According to commentaries on the Adventures of Superman DVD sets, multiple scripts would be filmed simultaneously to take advantage of the standing sets, so that all the " Perry White's office " scenes for three or four episodes would be shot the same day ; the various " apartment " scenes would be done consecutively.

According to an episode of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, Cannell frequently had to dictate ideas or even complete scripts to a personal secretary.

According to historical scripts, when the Arians of Parsova were forced to decamp, they took refuge in Bakhriarian Mountains from outskirts of Oromiieh Lake.

According to renowned Kurosawa scholar Donald Richie, the reason Kurosawa was allowed to direct the film was because he had had two film scripts printed, including one of which had won the education minister's prize.

According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the show was " highly critically acclaimed for its high production values, its comic-drama scripts, and its lead performances.

According to interviews, Smigel helped punch up the scripts for Little Nicky and the Wedding Singer.

According to Hopkins, he was seven months late delivering the scripts and, when he was commissioned by the BBC, all he had in his head was the final line of the final play: " Somebody hold me.

According to Roger Ebert, both stars deserved better scripts, but the film filled a need for some action-film fans.

According to Huston, " Croves gave an impression quite unlike the one I had formed of Traven from reading his scripts and correspondence.

According to his website, Fontana does not own or use a computer and writes all of his scripts longhand on a yellow legal pad.

According to former Western Publishing writer Mark Evanier, during the mid-1960s comedy writer Jerry Belson ( whose writing partner at the time was Garry Marshall ), while writing for leading TV sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show, also did scripts for Gold Key.

According to SIL, Mac OS X support is not planned since with AAT, Mac already provides a technology suitable for minority scripts.

According to Bass, his assistants help him in research and also in critiquing his scripts.

According to a later interview by Barks, the company originally expected him to illustrate stories based on the scripts of others.

`` According to Rose, he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water, got a hooked pole from the pool-equipment locker and started hauling him out.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

According to Critias, 9, 000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to Herodotus, an Athenian runner named Pheidippides was sent to run from Athens to Sparta to ask for assistance before the battle.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

According to Avedon, Chaplin telephoned him at his studio in New York while on a layover before the final leg of his travel to England.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to a group of astronomers at the University of Toronto and elsewhere, the observations of this supernova are best explained by assuming that it arose from a white dwarf which grew to twice the mass of the Sun before exploding.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Hubbard, before Dianetics psychotherapists may have been able to deal with very light and superficial incidents ( e. g. an incident that reminds you of a moment of loss ), but with Dianetic therapy, the patient can actually erase moments of pain and unconsciousness.

According to the United States Department of Energy, the wide range of its current and projected uses, together with the lack of any immediately suitable replacement, makes dysprosium the single most critical element for emerging clean energy technologies-even their most conservative projections predict a shortfall of dysprosium before 2015.