About forty kilometers below the site of Asunción, Cabot encountered a tribe of Guaraní in possession of silver objects, perhaps some of the spoils of García's treasure.

About this period it was merchandise that was chiefly suspected: there was a long schedule of susceptible articles, and these were first exposed on the ships deck for twenty-one days or less ( six days for each instalment of the cargo ), and then transported to the lazaret, where they were opened and aired forty days more.

* 3: Somerset-Wiltshire: About forty years ago ( from an unspecified date ) country women in shawls and sun bonnets used to come to the market at Weston-super-Mare in little carts carrying little basins of new wheat boiled to a jelly, which was put into a large pot with milk, eggs, and sultanas, and was lightly cooked ; the resulting mixture was poured into pie-dishes and served on mid-Lent Sunday and during the ensuing week.

About forty train car loads of mules were pulled into the town each year.

About then Schuman met lyricist Frank Loesser and wrote some forty songs with him.

About forty schools are affiliated to the Eton Fives Association ( the governing body of the Eton Fives variation ) and compete in many tournaments and championship events throughout the year.

About 1858 he began to purchase rare books, one of the earliest of such purchases being a copy of the Mazarin Bible, and within a period of forty years he possessed six separate copies of this rare and valuable edition.

About forty bodyguards in uniform black jackets linked arms to escort Bashir through chanting crowds.

About forty compositions, mostly smaller works like songs, pieces for male choir and a few piano compositions, have been preserved.

About forty percent of the men in the BVC were Australians, but the regiment also included about forty surrendered Boers (" joiners ") who had been recruited from the internment camps, and according to Witton, their presence was greatly resented by the Australians.

About forty percent of the men in the BVC were Australians, and the regiment also included about forty surrendered Boers, known as " joiners ", who had been recruited from the internment camps.

About 50 men were carried by each boat, which were thirty to forty feet long and had a shallow draft, sail, and oars.

About forty of these were believed to have died, including some that drowned and others that were euthanized because of injuries from rocks.

About forty percent of all audiobook consumption occurs through public libraries, with the remainder served primarily through retail book stores.

About forty years ago, when I was a snow haired six year old, I can remember being totally captivated by a grown man pretending to be a naughty little boy on 3AW's children session called " Chatterbox Corner ".

About forty of his works survive, displaying a gusto for rare rhymes and intricate poetic form.

About forty settlements and six hundred graves have been located.

About forty performances, including those specifically for young people, are presented each season.

About forty melodies are known from this era, and are already in a distinctively Hungarian style which took influences from across much of Europe in several dozen distinct forms that were " mostly notated in a rigid and clumsy way " but were " undoubtedly much more colourful and flexible in living performance " and were in reality " little masterpieces of melodic structure ".

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

About 20 % of patients with epilepsy continue to have breakthrough epileptic seizures despite best anticonvulsant treatment.

About this Second Anglo-Dutch War Pepys wrote: " In all things, in wisdom, courage, force and success, the Dutch have the best of us and do end the war with victory on their side ".

All About Eve appeared at # 16 on AFI's 1998 list of the 100 best American films.

The commercial station ITV had popular successes with Rising Damp ( 1974 – 78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms ), Man About the House ( 1973 – 76 ) and George and Mildred ( 1976 – 79 ).

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

Nancy Basile of About. com named Grampa the fifth best character of The Simpsons, calling him a " perfect stereotypical old person ".

During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including " Nick of Time ", " Something to Talk About ", " Love Sneakin ' Up on You ", and the slow ballad " I Can't Make You Love Me ".

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).

* Chris Elliot, actor and screenwriter, known best for his supporting role in the 1998 comedy There's Something About Mary

About a slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, " Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for some years one of the more prolific composers of light and pleasing music, and one of the best and most popular teachers in Vienna.

Diamond has always had a somewhat polarizing effect, best exemplified by the 1991 film What About Bob?

The band produced a number of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their No. 1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single " Don't You ( Forget About Me )", from the soundtrack of the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.

M. J. Rosenberg praised the book: " Clayton Swisher's ' The Truth About Camp David ,' based on interviews with negotiators Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross and Miller himself provides a comprehensive and acute account – the best we're likely to see – on the diplomacy Miller describes.

Although he was best known for his work in comedy, he also appeared in an acclaimed drama, Something About Amelia, about a family devastated by the repercussions of incest, which co-starred his current co-star on Damages, Glenn Close.

In 2005, Perry was reunited with former 90210 co-star Jennie Garth when he guest starred in What I Like About You, where he played a character who claimed he had been dating Kelly's best friend when he and Val ( Jennie Garth ) became romantically involved ( clearly a parody of the 90210 " Brenda years ").

Frances Joan " Fran " Brill ( born September 30, 1946 ) is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street and playing Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film, What About Bob ?.

Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, and his best known work to the public at large.

All About Jazz called it " One of the best debuts of 2007.

" Bill Lamb of About. com said that the song, along with the second single from the soundtrack " Causing a Commotion ", was not an example of Madonna's best music.

About Sunda, the book describe it further that the port of Sunda ( probably refer to Banten or Sunda Kelapa ) is really good and strategic, pepper from Sunda is among the best quality.

The best known are Yuri Vizbor's " Letter to Vysotsky " ( 1982 ) and Bulat Okudzhava's " About Volodya Vysotsky " ( 1980 ).

One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen ", while Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Chicago Reader stated, " About as entertaining as a no-brainer can be -- a lot more fun, for my money, than a cornball theme-park ride like " Speed ," and every bit as fast moving.

He is perhaps best known as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve ( 1950 ), Jack Favell in Rebecca ( 1940 ), and the malevolent tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book ( 1967 ).