According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

According to the story, the Spanish cooks of Louis XIII's bride, Anne, helped to prepare their wedding feast, and insisted upon improving the rich brown sauce of France with Spanish tomatoes.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to this story, Rodrigo's godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthusian monastery.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

According to one story, Hypnos lived in a cave underneath a Greek island ; through this cave flowed Lethe, the river of forgetfulness.

According to CIA operational cables, only then did he tell his " fabricated " story about Al Qaeda members being dispatched to Iraq.

According to the story, the calf tries to hide under Judah haNasi's robes, bellowing with terror, but he pushes the animal away, saying: " Go — for this purpose you were created.

According to a story told decades later by George Bancroft, Polk set four clearly defined goals for his administration:

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

According to one story, when Tarquin was approached by the Cumaean Sibyl, she offered him nine books of prophecy at an exorbitant price.

According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus.

According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

According to Mahabharata itself, Vaisampayana's Bharata expanded on the story, with Vyasa's Jaya embedded within it.

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

" According to Roger White MD of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association ( AHA ), " There was never any science here.

According to Chuck Denison, " My Heart Stood Still " is one of Rodgers and Harts ' most enduring hits.

" According to Lawrence, the ninth season will " be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy ", with Cox and Turk's students occasionally rotating through the halls of Sacred Heart and encountering former series regulars.

According to the book Food for the Heart: The Collected Writings of Ajahn Chah, he chose to leave the settled monastic life in 1946 and became a wandering ascetic after the death of his father.

According to his spokesman Tracy Pitcox, also president of Heart of Texas Records, Thompson requested that no funeral be held.

According to Elinor Wilson, the past Vice-President of World Heart Federation, " the FCTC is an excellent example of government / non-governmental collaboration through the Framework Convention Alliance resulting in global public health gains.

According to the Healing Heart Yoga Center, Leick, as of 2009, had been studying yoga for over sixteen years and has taught for thirteen.

According to St. Theophan the Recluse, though the Jesus Prayer has long been associated with the Prayer of the Heart, they are not synonymous.

According to American Heart Association data, about 65 % of men and 47 % of women have as their first symptom of cardiovascular disease a heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest.

According to the account of the original consultation between the three provided in Vivien Thomas ' 1985 autobiography Partners of the Heart, Taussig carefully described the anomaly of Tetralogy of Fallot, but made no suggestion about the specific surgical correction required, observing merely that it should be possible to get more blood to the lungs, " as a plumber changes pipes around.

At the end of the year, returning to their origins as a covers band, they released a five-track Christmas EP, Five Great Gift Ideas from The Reels, produced by Bruce Brown and Russell Dunlop, which included Jim Reeves ' " According to My Heart ", and Freda Payne's " Band of Gold ".

" According to My Heart " featured a folksy music video filmed at the farm of Australian country music star Smokey Dawson.

The group's deteriorating relationship with Mercury was also a factor, as evidenced by the album's track listing — it included the earlier hit " According to My Heart ", but a disclaimer printed on the sleeve noted that it had been included at the insistence of the record company ( i. e. against the band's wishes ).

* " According to My Heart " / " Love Will Find a Way " ( 1980 )

According to the ribbons and badges worn by Sadler in a televised performance of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ," he received the following awards for his military service: Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Longevity Service Award, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, and the South Vietnamese Parachutist Badge.

According to Sarah Tofte of the Joyful Heart, an organization that provides support to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse, " Most jurisdictions allow for detective discretion in whether a rape kit is tested, but in New York City, the official policy is that every kit collected from a victim who reports a crime must be tested.

According to sheet music published by Realsongs at Musicnotes. com, " Un-Break My Heart " is composed in the key of B minor and is set in time signature of common time with a moderately slow tempo of 55 beats per minute.

" According to sheet music published at musicnotes. com by Universal Music Publishing Group, " From the Bottom of My Broken Heart " is composed in the key of G major and is set in time signature of common time with a slowly tempo of 76 beats per minute.

According to The New York Times, Heart to Yours has sold 203, 000 copies in the US.

According to a weekly sales ranking conducted by Media Create, the original version of To Heart 2 was the fourth best-selling video game for the week ending on January 2, 2005, during which the game sold 86, 485 copies.

In this personal literature, Bulosan argued that despite of the suffering and abuses he experienced America was an unfinished “ ideal in which everyone must invest (…) time and energy, (…) this outlook leaves us with a feeling of hope for the future instead of bitter defeat .” According to Carlos P. Romulo when he was interviewed by The New York Times, Bulosan wrote America Is in the Heart with “ bitterness ” in his heart and blood yet with the purpose of contributing “ something toward the final fulfillment of America ”.

According to Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry, " Heart of Glass " made the band pariahs in the eyes of many of their fellow musicians in the New York music scene.