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 one family tradition, a schoolteacher once expressed concern over Boone's education, but Boone's father was unconcerned, saying " Let the girls do the spelling and Dan will do the shooting ….

According to executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, Boone's death made sense from a story perspective to fuel the rivalry between Jack and Locke and lead to the events in the season finale.

According to his tombstone he lived from 1437 to 1509.

According to the pedigree written on the tombstone, it is believed that these descendants are from the great king of Joseon, Seongjeong ( The 9th ruler of Joseon Dynasty ).

According to a ninth-century chronicle, a tombstone with the inscription Hic requiescit Rodericus, rex Gothorum ( here rests Roderic, king of the Goths ) was found at Egitania ( modern Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal ).

According to the story's premise, if a golden token is inserted into the mouth of the jester's head on top of the tombstone of " Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker ", a haunted amusement park will appear after long absence.

According to John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), however, the dates on Judith's tombstone are November 10, 1947-October 31, 1963 making her 15 years old at the time of death.

According to his tombstone, he was named for two World War II heroes, Walter Bennett and Elmer Fox.

According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the treaty power authorizes Congress to legislate under the Necessary and Proper Clause in areas beyond those specifically conferred on Congress ( Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416 ( 1920 )).

According to Harry W. Fritz, " All earlier Missouri River travelers had warned of this powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river.

According to Smith's grandnephew, Van Buren said to Smith, " Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you ; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.

According to a map, printed in the eighth volume, Scrapyard / Tiphares is near Kansas City, Missouri, and the Necropolis is Colorado Springs, Colorado.

According to " The Boone Family " book by Hazel Atterbury Spraker ( 1982 ), " was buried near the body of his wife, in a cemetery established in 1803 by David Bryan, upon the bank of a small stream called Teuque Creek about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the town of Marthasville in Warren County, Missouri, it being at that time the only Protestant cemetery North of the Missouri River.

According to the 2000 U. S. Census, the county has a total area of, the largest county in Missouri, of which ( or 99. 94 %) is land and ( or 0. 06 %) is water.

According to data from the 2010 U. S. Census, Osage County is the whitest county in Missouri, with 98. 85 percent of residents being white.

According to Goodspeed's History of Lincoln County, Missouri ( 1888 ), Lincoln County was named by Major Christopher Clark, the first permanent white settler, when he addressed the Territorial Legislature saying, " I was born, sir, in Link-Horn County, N. C., I lived for many years in Link-Horn County in old Kain-tuck.

According to Missouri folklorist Margot Ford McMillen early settlers to the county found good quality, inexpensive, farming land.

According to the 2010 U. S. Census, however, the county's population exponentially increased to 77, 422 ( a 42. 6 % increase from 2000 ), making it the fastest growing county in Missouri and one of the fastest growing in the nation as the county becomes more suburban as booming growth continues in Springfield.

According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ( BLS ), the October 2008 unemployment rate in the United States was 6. 7 percent whereas in Missouri it was 6. 5 percent.

According to Hopewell's Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi:

According to William D. Murray, who was a charter member of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ) when it incorporated on February 8, 1910, the first " Troop " to form in Missouri was formed by an Englishman in Sedalia, MO sometime in 1908 or 1909.

According to the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, there is one elementary school, one middle school, and one senior high school in the district.

“ According to the newspapers, Missouri has been cleaned now of secessionists, except a few bands, and such bands could do a lot of harm, especially at your lonely site on the Castor.

According to the 2010 UC census, Monticello is the county seat with the smallest population in the State of Missouri.

According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, there was a total of 184 students and 35 certified staff members enrolled in the Marquand-Zion R-VI School District during the 2008-2009 school year.

According to Houck's History of Missouri the town of Cooter was named in 1854 for the Coutre family, early settlers to the area.

According to legend, Halfway was named such because it lies halfway between Buffalo and Bolivar, Missouri.

According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, there are five elementary schools, two being private catholic, one public intermediate school, one middle school, and one high school in the school district for a total of nine schools.

According to city financial reports obtained from the Missouri State Auditor's office, approximately 28 percent of its 2005 municipal budget came from traffic citations.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, making it the 3rd largest city ( in area ) in Missouri.

According to the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, there is one elementary school, one middle school and one senior high school in the district.