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 this tale, it was composed in order to persuade the Council of Trent that a draconian ban on the polyphonic treatment of text in sacred music ( as opposed, that is, to a more directly intelligible homophonic treatment ) was unnecessary.

According to King Arthur, " Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!

According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24, 000 verses called simply Bhārata.

According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture but was rescued and taken back to his master.

According to a Bushmen folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole.

According to this tale, the phrase was shortened over time to BBCue, then BBQ.

According to one version of the tale, the oil had then passed to Henry's maternal grandfather, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

According to the tale, Clark said, " If you can show low, you win.

According to Gregory of Tours ( 538 – 594 ), Chilperic II was slain by his brother Gundobad in 493, and his wife drowned with a stone hung around her neck, while of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled-it is, however, assumed that this tale is apocryphal.

According to Bosley Crowther, " the essential purpose of this tale is to amuse with some devious dilemmas, and that it does right well "; he called the script " smart and lively.

According to some versions of the tale, Lady Tiresias was a prostitute of great renown.

According to the most famous folk tale, Cuhullin's power was contained in his middle finger.

According to the fifteenth-century tale entitled The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Gawain ’ s wife is Ragnelle, or the “ Loathly Lady ”.

According to the tale, a local colonial tavern ( sometimes said to be established by town father Isaac Storm ) had run out of wooden stirrers during the war and started using the quills of roosters ' tailfeathers to stir their drinks ; a more embellished version holds that the roosters were plundered from nearby Tory farmers.

According to that tale, in the days following the land run, some enterprising settlers decided to set up a chuckwagon and cook for their fellow pioneers, hanging a sign that read " DINE ".

According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice ( Theogony, 527ff ; Works and Days 57ff ), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods.

Proud Mary was only promoted by Tamiko Jones and myself .” According to Mark Denning, " While that may have seemed like a bald-faced bid for pop radio play, in Burke's hands the song became a bracing tale of life in the Deep South as African-Americans searched for liberation aboard the ship that carried them as slaves and put them to undignified labor serving wealthy whites.

According to the tale, she starved there because any food that she put into her mouth would turn into charcoal.

According to this tale, “... one day when Alexander was 15 years old [...] sailing with Hephaestion, his friend, he easily reached Pisa [...] and he went off to stroll with Hephaestion .” That Alexander ’ s exact age is given provides another clue to Hephaestion ’ s upbringing because at fifteen Alexander and his companions were at Mieza studying under Aristotle.

According to Rebecca Langlands, Cordus's story "... is a tale which vividly demonstrates the possibility that a text might be received in a way which the author had not intended or anticipated, and be received in a way which might have dire consequences for author and text.

According a local folk tale, a cat, mouse and dog were traveling on a Chinese ship, when they attempted to steal a crystal from a merchant.

According to Peter Popham of The Independent: " Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's Ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect.

According to a tale preserved in Tarlton's Jests, Armin came to the attention of the Queen's famous jester Richard Tarlton.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

According to Martha, by this time she and Bill fought all the time and she told him to stop drinking or move out so he moved out into a room in their pool house.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Arnaz, the CBS network told him, " You cannot show a pregnant woman on television ".

According to the article, Anita Dunn claimed in an e-mail to have checked with colleagues who " deal with TV issues " and had been told that nobody had been instructed to avoid Fox.

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 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 Gilbert Burnet, however, Mary convinced her husband that she did not care for political power, and told him " she would be no more but his wife, and that she would do all that lay in her power to make him King for life ".

According to the Gospel of Luke, Nazareth was the home village of Mary and also the site of the Annunciation ( when Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would have Jesus as her son ).

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

According to, Samuel had told Saul to wait for seven days after which they would meet ; Samuel giving Saul further instructions.

According to witnesses, a white man is alleged to have told one of the armed black men to surrender his pistol.

According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha told his followers:

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

According to Greek mythology, the Delphic Oracle told Apollo that the horseradish was worth its weight in gold.

According to his friend Vaughan Williams, Holst once told him two things about art " that ought to be recorded ":