According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

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 biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

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 Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

According to biographer John Newsinger,

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier, and saved until needed.

According to Landis biographer J. G.

According to Moon biographer Tony Fletcher's, Moon's toilet pyrotechnics began in 1965 when he purchased 500 cherry bombs.

According to his biographer, the Chevalier became a great admirer of Lucrezia's, considering her a " pearl among women ".

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

According to his early biographer Willibald, Boniface started to chop the oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by miracle, blew the ancient oak over.

According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, " Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo ".

According to biographer McFeely, this discontent may have been responsible for Grant's ill-considered issuance of General Orders No. 11 on December 17, 1862.

According to another Grant biographer, Jean E. Smith, it was " one of the most blatant examples of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in American history.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.

According to historian William S. McFeely, with Akerman's resignation " went any hope that the Republican party would develop as a national party of true racial equality.

According to historians, Caligula was an excellent natural actor and, recognizing danger, hid all his resentment towards Tiberius.

It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to Gyula Moravcsik, this title was a simple translation of Béla's Hungarian title úr, but other historians believe it comes from the ancient Greek despotes ( literally, the master ).

According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.

According to some historians, the film was made to convey a " deliberate reaffirmation of American values ", although ones which seemed uncertain with respect to the future.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

According to the modern scholar Pat Southern, however, some historians now see him in a more positive light.

According to science and technology historian Bert S. Hall: " It goes without saying, however, that historians bent on special pleading, or simply with axes of their own to grind, can find rich material in these terminological thickets.

According to Lee ( 1985 ), most historians have judged the Confederation to be weak and ineffective, as well as an obstacle to German nationalist aspirations.

According to Lawrence Stone, narrative has traditionally been the main rhetorical device used by historians.

" According to Strabo prior historians used Iberia to mean the country " this side of the Ἶβηρος ( Ibēros )" as far north as the Rhone river in France but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

According to early Muslim historians, towns that surrendered without resistance and made treaties with the Muslims gave the Muslims permission to take their churches and synagogues.

According to the majority of modern historians, Thietmar made an error summarizing the chronicle of Widukind, placing the Gero raid there instead of the fighting that Mieszko conducted at that time against Wichmann the Younger.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.

According to historians like Charles Perry, the Arabs adapted noodles for long journeys in the 5th century, the first written record of dry pasta.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was Greek by birth ; however this is uncertain, and is disputed by modern western historians arguing that the authors of Liber Pontificalis confused him with that of the contemporary author Xystus who was Greek student of Pythagoreanism.

According to Mehnert, the Soviets attempt to control academic historiography ( the writing of history by academic historians ) to promote ideological and ethno-racial imperialism by Russians.

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

According to several Western historians, Stalinist agricultural policies were a key factor in causing the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933, which the Ukrainian government now calls the Holodomor, recognizing it as an act of genocide.

According to Danish historians, no bynames at all have been given to Christian II in Danish historical tradition.

According to Newton himself and other historians of science, his Principia's first law of motion was the same as Aristotle's counterfactual principle of interminable locomotion in a void stated in Physics 4. 8. 215a19 – 22 and was also endorsed by ancient Greek atomists and others.

According to Finnish historians and political journalists, there were at least three reasons that Kekkonen clung on to the Presidency.