According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

According to David Robinson, this also had an effect on the quality of the film.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to David G. Myers ( Psychology, 8th ed.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to midrashim, Adam gave up 70 years of his life for the life of David.

According to David Biello and John Pavlus in Scientific American, Singer is best known for his denial of the health risks of passive smoking.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to David Stern, all Rabbinic hermeneutics rest on two basic axioms:

According to epidemiologist David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health in the Clinton Administration, the tobacco industry invented the " sound science " movement in the 1980s as part of their campaign against the regulation of second-hand smoke.

According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of King David, hence the title nasi, meaning prince.

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Olympics, while playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Cuba in 1958, Weissmuller's golf cart was suddenly captured by rebel soldiers.

According to ads from Popular Song magazine in the 1930s, around this time Ouspenskaya also opened the " Maria Ouspenskaya School of Dance " on Vine Street in Los Angeles.

According to Christianity Today, " The emerging movement is a protest against much of evangelicalism as currently practiced.

According to anthropologist Thayer Scudder, who has studied these communities since the late 1950s, " Today, most are still ' development refugees.

According to some sources, after his triumphal entry into the city, Allenby raised his sword in salute to the famous statue of Saladin and proudly declared " Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed.

According to USA Today, Omaha ranks eighth among the nation's 50 largest cities in both per-capita billionaires and Fortune 500 companies.

According to a poll taken by USA Today in 2005, majority of Americans support affirmative action for women, while with minority groups though, it is more split.

According to the BLS, " employment of computer hardware engineers is expected to increase 9 percent from 2010 to 2020. Today, computer hardware is somehow equal to Electronic and Computer Engineering ( ECE ) and has divided to many subcategories, the most significant of them is Embedded system design. this field has developed all around us, from tiny controllers to huge computers.

According to the USA Today methodology, the chance of people of being two different ethnic groups / races being selected was 75 %.

Bigelow Today: According to the 2000 census, Bigelow has a population of 231.

According to a 2003 report in Solar Today magazine, poor upkeep and lax regulation has reduced the energy efficiency of some of the solar heated businesses, but " most of the buildings are still excellent examples of solar energy at work.

According to Mark Leary, as reported in a November 1995 issue of Psychology Today, " we are happiest when basking in the acceptance and praise of others ".

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 2. 1 million copies ( including 400, 000 online paid subscriptions ), as of March 2010, compared to USA Today 1. 8 million.

According to USA Today, those who knew the Hanssens described them as a close family.

" According to Christianity Today, " today on American college and high school campuses, the name most associated with the word Christian — other than Jesus — is not the Pope or Mother Teresa or even Billy Graham.

According to Meniketti and Haze, Leonard chose the name of the album that was playing on his turntable at that moment --" Yesterday & Today "-- an early album from The Beatles ' LP of the same name.

According to one survey conducted by the reputable Indian news magazine India Today, over 90 % of government employees actively seek and get a dowry from their bride's family.

According to Plutarch, Caesar remarked on that decision saying, " Today the victory had been the enemy's, had there been any one among them to take it.

* Occupation of Iraq: According to a USA Today / CNN / Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds ( 63 %) of Americans polled say the war in Iraq was worth fighting.

According to an article in Theology Today published in 1975, " There have been long periods in the history of the church when biblical inerrancy has not been a critical question.

According to a 2003 joint poll by USA Today, CNN, and Gallup, 90 % of Americans support the inscription " In God We Trust " on U. S. coins.

According to Van Doren, the two men had not met until August 1959, when the subcommittee to which Goodwin served as counsel had begun investigating the quiz shows and Van Doren was already established on The Today Show.

According to Michael J. Formica ’ s " Psychology Today " blog, " There is an intimate relationship between sexuality and emotionality.

According to USA Today, " For the first time in 23 years, Walter Cronkite did not host the event, so Caroline Kennedy filled in.

According to USA Today, D ' Amato " referred to the heavyset Nadler as ' Congressman Waddler.

According to the Indian Readership Survey Round II of 2009, the readership for Reader's Digest is 3. 94 million, second only to India Today at 5. 62 million.