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 this view, it is not considered to be read as a prophecy of western political history or of an eschatological future.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search and rescue operation.

According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

According to Mintz, conspiracism denotes " belief in the primacy of conspiracies in the unfolding of history ":" Conspiracism serves the needs of diverse political and social groups in America and elsewhere.

According to the Bible, the Millennial age of peace all but closes the history of planet Earth.

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to National Football League history, it legalized the forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage on February 25, 1933.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

According to Marxist theorists, history develops in accordance with the following observations:

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

According to Jaspers, this is the era of history when " the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently ... And these are the foundations upon which humanity still subsists today ".

According to Kuhn, each new paradigm re-writes the history of its science to present by selection and distortions the former paradigm as its forerunner.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

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.

According to the committee, these Lectures were included in the compilation " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation.

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

Ashcroft has penned and sung a number of other songs and created compilation tapes, including In the Spirit of Life and Liberty and Gospel ( Music ) According to John.

According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

According to In Search of the Supernatural ( 搜神記 ) by Gan Bao ( 干竇 ), a compilation largely based on legends and hearsay, Sun Ce began to see apparitions of Gan Ji ever since the execution of the latter.

According to the liner notes from Riperton's Petals compilation CD, the melody to " Lovin ' You " was created as a distraction for Maya when she was a baby, so Riperton and Richard Rudolph could spend time together.

According to Suidas, Antipater left a compilation of letters in 2 books and a history, called The Illyrian Deeds of Perdikkas.

According to Rambam ( Introduction to Mishna Torah ), the baraitot were compiled by Rabbi Hoshaya and Bar Kappara, although no compilation was passed down to us like the Tosefta was.

According to textual scholars, the biblical text describing the battle and the events surrounding it is considerably late in date, originating close to the time that they postulate as the date of the deuteronomist's compilation of Judges from its source material, and possibly has several exaggerations of both numbers and of modes of warfare, and additionally, the inhospitality which triggered the Battle is reminiscent of the Torah's account of Sodom and Gomorrah.

According to the Shogeishō ( 聖冏抄 ), a compilation of the ancient historical records and traditions about the Japanese Prince Regent Shotoku Taishi, Guze Kannon is a statue that is the representation of King Seong, which was carved under the order of the subsequent King Wideok of Baekje.

The loss of 8000 troops to the Tang empire can be compared to a troop strength of more than 500, 000 before the Anshi rebellion According to Bartold, for the history of the first three centuries of Islam, al-Tabari was the chief source ( survived in Ibn al Athir's compilation ), which was brought down to 915.

According to Boltz ( 1993: 430 ), Xu's compilation of the Shuowen " cannot be held to have arisen from a purely linguistic or lexicographical drive.

According to the author of Whitelocke's biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition " is a work which has obtained greater authority than it deserves, being largely a compilation from various sources, composed after the events and abounding in errors ".

") appeared on a various-artists compilation called The World According to Popguru.

According to most Talmudic commentaries Rav and Shmuel argued on the compilation of the Haggadah, and hence it had not been completed as of then.

According to Jason Black in an interview with Alternative Press, the compilation will feature " a song " Home " that hasn't come out anywhere ... it was one of two that didn't make it The New What Next.

According to Toby Creswell's liner notes for the band's 1991 compilation album Chisel, the song is also a story of restless youth.

Additionally, Zappa assembled the compilation The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa for Guitar World magazine.

According to the press release, " The record is a compilation album that works as a soundtrack to the world of Monsterism ... The album features psychedelic music from the ' 60s through to today, much of it unearthed and put on CD for the first time.

According to Allmusic: " they have been immortalised on a string of compilation albums, each recounting the string of effervescent hits that established them among Britain's best-loved pop groups of the early 1970s.

According to Keown, " there is considerable disparity between the Pāli and the versions, with more than two-thirds of the sūtras found in one but not the other compilation, which suggests that much of this portion of the Sūtra Piṭaka was not formed until a fairly late date.

According to the liner notes to their compilation album Sibling Revelry: The Best of the Smothers Brothers, The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers was their best selling album of their career.

According to CCM Magazine, The Collection is the best-selling Christian music compilation album ever released, having sold in excess of 1 million copies.