" According to Dhanis ' medical officer, Captain Hinde, their town of Ngandu had " at least 2, 000 polished human skulls " as a " solid white pavement in front " of its gates, with human skulls crowning every post of the stockade.

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 Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400, 000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3, 100, 000.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

" According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robinson's " efforts were a monumental step in the civil-rights revolution in America ... accomplishments allowed black and white Americans to be more respectful and open to one another and more appreciative of everyone's abilities.

According to some, results of keno games in great cities were sent to outlying villages and hamlets by carrier pigeons, resulting in its Chinese name 白鸽票 báigē piào, literally “ white dove ticket ”, pronounced baak-gap-piu in Cantonese ( which the Western spelling ' pak-ah-pu ' / ' pakapoo ' was based on ).

According to their Rule, the knights were to wear the white mantle at all times, even being forbidden to eat or drink unless they were wearing it.

According to this source, the grand ducal house of Schwerin used a flag of 3. 75 to 5. 625 M with the middle arms on a white quadrant ( 1. 75 M ) in the middle.

According to Smith's sister Katharine, the angel " was dressed in white raiment, of whiteness beyond anything Joseph had ever seen in his life, and had a girdle about his waist.

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to a study of male physicians, life expectancy is slightly higher for physicians ( 73. 0 years for white and 68. 7 for black ) than lawyers or many other highly educated professionals.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Panama has a population of more than 3, 400, 000 ; 70 % is mestizo ( mixed white, Native American, and / or black ) and mulattoes ( mixed white, and black ancestry ), 10 % is primarily black and mulattoes, 15 % white and 6 % Native Americans.

According to informal tradition, O stars are called " blue ", B " blue-white ", A stars " white ", F stars " yellow-white ", G stars " yellow ", K stars " orange ", and M stars " red ", even though the actual star colors perceived by an observer may deviate from these colors depending on visual conditions and individual stars observed.

According to the standard, a Sloughi may only have a small white patch on its chest.

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

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 Heyerdahl, something happened between Admiral Roggeveen's discovery of the island in 1722 and James Cook's visit in 1774 ; while Roggeveen encountered white, Indian, and Polynesian people living in relative harmony and prosperity, Cook encountered a much smaller population consisting mainly of Polynesians and living in privation.

According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times ( sampling over 5, 000 of its 5, 765 members ), the Academy is 94 % white, 77 % male, 14 % under the age of 50, and has a median age of 62.

The authors found that gender plays a significant role in interracial divorce dynamics: According to the adjusted models predicting divorce as of the 10th year of marriage, interracial marriages that are the most vulnerable involve white females and non-white males ( with the exception of white females / Hispanic white males ) relative to white / white couples.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to CiteSeer, Ian Clarke's " Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System " was the most cited computer science paper of 2000.

According to Miller, whose paper in 1956 popularized the theory of the “ magic number seven ”, short-term memory is limited to a certain number of chunks of information, while long-term memory has a limitless store.

According to the paper of J.

According to a paper by Erik Trinkaus and others, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2007, this finding suggests that the two groups interbred thousands of years ago.

According to Dr. Sepp Linhart a hand-game using gestures in the particular form of the three conflicting elements of rock, paper and scissors-the most commonly-found modern version of the game-originated in the Edo to Meiji period in late 19th century Japan.

According to the paper by Li et al.

According to a news report by The Epoch Times in 2004, 37. 5 % of toilet paper tested from Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces showed high levels of bacteria commonly found in human waste.

According to Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, the burning agents in cigarette paper are responsible for fires and reducing them would be a simple and effective means of dramatically reducing the ignition propensity of cigarettes.

According to a white paper authored by Intel and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, PCs with internal power supplies will require the use of active power factor correction to meet the ENERGY STAR 5. 0 Program Requirements for Computers.

According to Dijksterhuis, " In De natura lucis et proprietate ( 1662 ) Isaac Vossius said that Descartes had seen Snell's paper and concocted his own proof.

According to the economist George Selgin in his paper " Gresham's Law ":

According to the paper by Gary Holian in Oerth Journal, Oerth's circumference is about 42, 024 km, and its radius measures 6, 714 km, about 1 % more than that of Earth.

According to a Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office ( DPMO ) white paper, 1, 394 names were also transmitted during " Operation Glory " from the Chinese and North Koreans, of which 858 proved to be correct.

According to the Early Office Museum, the first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay, in 1867.

According to the 1974 edition, the idea of using the paper clip to denote resistance originated in France.

According to one website, the paper clip was chosen " after they learned ( that ) Norwegians wore them on their clothes to show support for Jews during World War II ".

According to the paper by Thiers, in certain climates and certain seasons, it may be an advantage to remain closed because moisture can be conserved in that way.

According to Benson Lossing in 1856, who claimed to have a wax impression, Congress later ordered a version half the size to impress wax and paper.

According to one academic paper, " In fact, it seems that few decisions can be arrived at in Al Wefaq – and in the whole country, for that matter – without prior consultation with Isa Qassim, ranging from questions with regard to the planned codification of the personal status law to participation in elections ".

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

According to the Tampere International Business Office, the area is strong in mechanical engineering and automation, information and communication technologies, and health and biotechnology, as well as pulp and paper industry education.

According to Black Hawk, the " whites were in the habit of saying one thing to the Indians and putting another thing down on paper.

According to a report by contemporary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, the King had sketched down a model of his thought on a piece of paper and handed it to him at their meeting in Lund in 1716.