According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

According to the Book of Mormon, a man named Mormon compiled nearly 1000 years of writings as well as chronicled events during his lifetime.

According to the writings in the New Testament, Paul was known as Saul prior to his conversion, and was dedicated to the persecution of the early disciples of Jesus in the area of Jerusalem.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

According to Bahá ' í writings, there will not be another messenger for many hundreds of years.

According to Gould the most influential political books he read were C. Wright Mills ' The Power Elite and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.

According to some of the actors, and confirmed in the writings of Godfrey Baseley, in its early days the show was used as a conduit for announcements from the Ministry of Agriculture, one actor reading an announcement almost verbatim to another.

According to author Jami Carlacio, Grimké's writings opened the public's eyes to ideas like women's rights, and for the first time they were willing to question conventional notions about the subordination of women.

According to the 16th to 18th century writings of Silver, Swetnam and Wylde, the quarterstaff is held with the back hand at the butt end of the staff and the other hand about a foot to a foot and a half ( 30 to 45 cm ) above it.

According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".

According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib, composer and violinist Johann Schop was one of those instructors.

According to scholar Elaine Pagels, " In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria ... issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that Egyptian monks destroy all such unacceptable writings, except for those he specifically listed as ' acceptable ' even ' canonical ' — a list that constitutes the present ' New Testament '".

According to the Durant Report on the CIA's top-secret 1953 Robertson Panel, " The writings of Charles Fort were referenced to show that ' strange things in the sky ' had been recorded for hundreds of years.

According to Daniel C. Peterson, then editor of the FARMS Review, FARMS tried to quiet the attack by Signature Books down by emphasizing that the attack was on the writings and not the beliefs or character of the authors reviewed.

According to Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Edgar Bauer was the most anarchistic of the Young Hegelians, and "... it is possible to discern, in the early writings of Edgar Bauer, the theoretical justification of political terrorism.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.

According to his card he was imprisoned for his writings ( possibly about magic ) because Muggles thought they were works of evil.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

According to Carolina Armenteros, Maistre's writings influenced not only conservative political thinkers, but also the Utopian socialists.

According to Rudolph's own writings, he survived during his years as a fugitive by camping in the woods, gathering acorns and salamanders, pilfering vegetable gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding dumpsters in a nearby town.

According to K. van der Toorn ; P. W. van der Horst, this tradition is first attested in the writings of Pseudo-Philo.

According to these writings, mystical knowledge must be distinguished from the rational knowledge by which we know God, not in his nature, but through the wonderful order of the universe, which is a participation of the divine ideas.

According to its text, the Book of Mormon contains the writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421, describes the visit of Jesus after his resurrection and his establishing his church among the indigenous people, and includes important gospel truths lost during the Great Apostasy.

According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with the Kublai Khan.

According to legend, macaroni was brought to Italy by Marco Polo, returning to Venice from China in 1292.

According to Marco Polo, the kings of Malabar wore a necklace of 104 rubies and pearls which was given from one generation of kings to the next.

According to Marco Polo, Badashan / Badakshan was a province where Balas rubies could be found under the mountain " Syghinan " ( Shighnan ).

According to Archbishop Marco Bandini's report of the canonical visitation of 1646, the şoltuz in Bacău was elected among Hungarians one year, and another, among Romanians.

According to Marco Polo's Travels, the war between the Prester and Genghis started when Genghis, new ruler of the rebellious Tartars, asked for the hand of Prester John's daughter in marriage.

According to Marco Deseriis, the main purpose of the LBP was to create " a folk hero of the information society " whereby knowledge workers and immaterial workers could organize and recognize themselves.

According to media reports, the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems.

According to a local tradition, Marco Polo would have been born at Korčula in 1254 to an established family of merchants, although there is no proof of this claim.

According to the Vita Aristotelis Marciana, a much mutilated single manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marco in Venice, written about 1300, Aristotle left the city, saying, " I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy " ( Vita Aristotelis, 41 ).

According to William Miller, Marco I married ... Laskaraina, a woman of the Laskaris family.

According to Giorgio Vasari, in the early part of his career he was a pupil and assistant of Fra Angelico: some of the works in the convent of San Marco of Florence were executed by Gozzoli from Angelico's design.

According to Massimo Marco from an article published by New Scientist, the seeds are extremely edible, having a nutty taste, and they can be added to salads, toasted, or even made into miniature popcorn.

According to an old Arabian legend as retold by Marco Polo, one of these islands was populated exclusively by men and the other was populated exclusively by women, and the two would only meet for conjugal relations once a year.

According to the tales from elderly citizens, the original act was lost and it was replaced on February 14, 1882, in the administration of Dr Marco Aurelio Soto.

According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase " hot dog " in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius " TAD " Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.

According to news reports, AP article via MSNBC, Hilton called will. i. am a " faggot " in the club, but Polo Molina ( Black Eyed Peas ' tour manager ) was responsible for punching Hilton from behind.

According to Prager's research, Franks was hidden in Giant manager Leo Durocher's office, which was positioned in the Polo Grounds center field and offered a line-of-sight view of the catcher.