According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

According to local historians and published works, the wife of a postmaster was a devoted fan of the works of the composer Richard Wagner, and she shared that composer's interest in Norse mythology.

According to biographer Brigitte Hamann, Winifred Wagner was reported to be " disgusted " by Hitler's persecution of the Jews.

According to Gottfried Wagner, Winifred's grandson, she never admitted the error of her ways.

According to set designer Robin Wagner, as interviewed for the book Set Design, by author Lynn Pecktal, the original Bennett version was to be a " multimedia " show, with an elaborate tilting floor, banks of television monitors, and other technological touches.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, " C. Peter Wagner, head of Global Harvest Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colo., is in the vanguard of the warfare movement.

According to Wagner, the basic methodology is to use “ spiritual mapping ” to locate areas, demon-possessed persons, occult practitioners such as witches and FreeMasons, or occult idol objects like statues of Catholic saints, which are then named and fought, using methods ranging from intensive prayer to burning with fire, “ they must burn the idols … the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness: pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon … and what have you ….

According to Twin Galaxies, the record high score on BurgerTime is 11, 512, 500 points, set by Bryan L. Wagner in 2008.

According to Chlodwig's son Alexander ( Denkwurdigkeiten, i. 178, 211 )) Chlodwig's appointment as Minister-President occurred at the instigation of the composer Richard Wagner.

" According to Hans von Wolzogen, Wagner, " with considerable delight believed he had found in this heretofore unknown man from faraway Hungary the theorist he had long been waiting for.

According to the Social theorist Peter Wagner, modernization can be seen as processes, and as offensives.

According to Steve Wagner of the Stone Brewing Company, it is conceivable that this is a corollary of the geographic proximity of West Coast breweries to hop fields in the Pacific Northwest.

According to Kenneth Johnson, interviewed for " Bionic Beginnings ", a featurette included in the 2010 North American DVD release of The Bionic Woman Season 1, Wagner was cast in the role based upon her appearance on The Rockford Files.

According to Jeff Wagner in his book Mean Deviation, the song was a creative watershed in metal, and except for Mekong Delta, no other extreme metal band at the time had merged the genre with classical music so seamlessly.

According to Hermann Wagner it was not felt wise to have any of these employees appointed as head of the establishment.

Other productions included an early example of a formatted documentary, Thighs, Lies & Beauty, an investigation of the myths and reality surrounding the beauty business for BBC1 ; The Art of Tripping, a 2 hour dramatised documentary for Channel Four on drug taking and the arts starring Bernard Hill ; a Frontline ( Channel Four ) current affairs film featuring the story of South African Jann Turner whose father was assassinated in front of her when she was 13, and as an adult returns to South Africa to look at the arguments for revenge versus reconciliation in the new South Africa ; Steven Spielberg on " Schindler's List " and Tom Hanks & The World According to Gump, both for the BBC ; and Wagner vs Wagner, for Channel Four, featuring Richard Wagner's great grandson on the composer's political and cultural legacy of anti-semitism and race hatred.

* Suzanne Allen, 47 ( d. 1996 ): According to Vlassakis, Bunting had told him that he and Wagner had travelled to Adelaide to visit Allen and found her dead from a heart attack in her bathroom.

According to Wagner the Grail imbues the Knight of the Swan with mystical powers that can only be maintained if their nature is kept secret ; hence the danger of Elsa's question.

According to an anecdote, Bruckner and Wanger drank so much beer together that upon arriving home Bruckner realized that he had forgotten which symphony Wagner had chosen.

According to David L. Wagner, who experimented on himself, the hairs do not sting, contrary to popular belief.

According to the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1, 300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on Little Cayman.

According to an article in The Guardian, Guest attended the House of Lords regularly until the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats.

According to a 1999 estimate, there are no merchant marines and there are two airports, both having paved runways of 914 to 1, 523 meters.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to the CIA World Factbook, in 1999 there were 51, 000 fixed telephone lines in use in the Isle of Man.

According to the CIA World Factbook, as of 1999 there were 27, 490 televisions in use in the Isle of Man.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to Piskorski ( 1999 ) and Kempke ( 2001 ), Slavic immigration reached Farther Pomerania in the 7th century.

According to the Law on Stationing Troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region ( or Macau Garrison Law, passed by the NPC Standing Committee on June 28, 1999 ), the mission of the PLA in Macau is to defend the special administrative region by " preventing and resisting aggression ; safe-guarding the security of Macau ; undertaking defence services ; managing military facilities ; and handling related foreign military affairs.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to the 1999 Constitution of Niger, the President may call a referendum on any matter ( except for a revision of those elements of the Constitution outlined in Article 136 — including the presidential term limits ).

According to the 1999 census, there are 610, 000 native speakers ( almost all of whom are also native French speakers ) and perhaps another million persons with some exposure to the language.

According to a 1999 partnership agreement, Davis ' interest passed to his wife, Carol.

According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves ( FTS ), an advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world.

According to James Bamford, the NSA had picked up communications of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi back in 1999, but had been hampered by internal bureaucratic conflicts between itself and the CIA, and did not do a full analysis of the information it passed on to the agency.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to Abu Daoud's 1999 book, " Arafat was briefed on plans for the Munich hostage-taking.

According to United Nations estimates, world population reached six billion in late 1999, and continued to climb to 6. 8 billion in late 2009.

According to data from the World Health Organization, the amount of tobacco per 1000 cigarettes fell from 2. 28 pounds in 1960 to 0. 91 pounds in 1999, largely as a result of reconstituting tobacco, fluffing and additives.

According to Carstensen and Schmidt ( 1999 ) groupware is part of CSCW.

According to an interview with the three in the spring 1999 issue of the college's magazine, The Albright Reporter, they were watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm.

According to a Serbian government report, from January 1, 1998 to June 10, 1999 the KLA killed 988 people and kidnapped 287 ; in the period from June 10, 1999 to November 11, 2001, when NATO took control in Kosovo, 847 were reported to have been killed and 1, 154 kidnapped.

According to Human Rights Watch, as “ many as one thousand Serbs and Roma have been murdered or have gone missing since June 12, 1999 .”

According to the 1999 Belarus Census, the Belarusian language is declared as a " language spoken at home " by about 3, 686, 000 Belarusian citizens ( 36. 7 % of the population ) as of 1999.