An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

* Captain Boomer, a British whaling ship captain who appears briefly in Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.

Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

His wife appears on the balcony waving for help, which immediately comes with an armed party of British sailors appearing through the gate to the mission station, this time seen from the inside.

A figure named Hengest, who may be identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and Beowulf.

The new dialect approach appears in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage ( Peters, 2004 ) which attempts to avoid any language bias and accordingly uses an idiosyncratic international spelling system of mixed American and British forms ( but tending to prefer the American English spellings ).

As the 17th century British commentator Matthew Henry notes, " Mary added no more, as Martha did ; but it appears, by what follows, that what she fell short in words she made up in tears ; she said less than Martha, but wept more.

An up-to-date translation by R. S. Simpson, based on the demotic text, appears on the British Museum website.

Although at this date the game appears to have been new enough to British readers to require explanation, the appearance by 1927 of a popular thriller with the title Scissors Cut Paper, followed by Stone Blunts Scissors ( 1929 ), suggests it quickly became popular.

* July 25 – British astronomers announce they have found what appears to be an extrasolar planet.

It is funded by the television licence paid by British residents that watch broadcast TV and as a result, no commercial advertising appears on their networks.

The Malaysian accent appears to be a melding of British, Chinese, and Malay influences.

There appears to be an uncertain period of time from when the last Arawaks left what would later be called the British Virgin Islands until the first Europeans started to settle there in the early 17th century, but each period commences with a dramatic change from the time period which precedes it, and so is a convenient way to compartmentalise the subject.

Writer Howard, an agent selling a distressed cargo of slaves from a shipwreck in Tortola in 1803 wrote that " Tortola is well nigh the most miserable, worst-inhabited spot in all the British possessions ... this unhealthy part of the globe appears overstocked with each description of people except honest ones.

* A British Shorthair silver tabby appears on many packages and adverts of Whiskas brand cat food.

The form " Britannic Majesty " appears in international treaties and on passports to differentiate the British monarch from foreign rulers.

… The reward of his work lies in the indisputable fact that whenever and wherever he appears the vast majority of the British public flock to see him.

The phrase appears in the 2009 British black comedy satire film, In The Loop.

The oldest parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from 1470s Renaissance Italy ( British Museum Add.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

British Columbia will implement similar reforms on July 1, 2010, although the new Rule 7-2 ( 2 ) can be read in two ways, it appears to be that each party can examine each other party for a maximum of 7 hours unless the court orders otherwise.

Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.

The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on " Erlkönigs Tochter " (" Erlkönig's Daughter "), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.

Strmiska notes that Hecate, conflated with the figure of Diana, appears in late antiquity and in the early medieval period as part of an " emerging legend complex " associated with gatherings of women, the moon, and witchcraft that eventually became established " in the area of Northern Italy, southern Germany, and the western Balkans.

An often repeated legend appears to suggest that a massive 1690 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the buildings of the original capital Jamestown on the west coast.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

The legend of a sunken kingdom appears in both Cornish and Breton mythology.

Caradog, son of Bran, who appears in medieval Welsh literature, has also been identified with Caratacus, although nothing in the medieval legend corresponds except his name.

Rhubarb has been used for medical purposes by the Chinese for thousands of years, and appears in The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic, which legend attributes to the mythical Shen Nung, the Yan Emperor, but is thought to have been compiled about 2700 years ago.

All writers concur in representing it as a very ancient city ; Solinus and Stephanus of Byzantium ascribe its foundation to Diomedes ; a legend which appears to have been adopted by the inhabitants, who, in the time of Procopius, pretended to exhibit the tusks of the Calydonian Boar in proof of their descent.

Manannán figures widely in Irish literature, and appears also in Scottish and Manx legend.

In Russia, the legend of the Wandering Jew appears in an incomplete epic poem by Vasily Zhukovsky, " Ahasuerus " ( 1857 ) and in another epic poem by Wilhelm Küchelbecker, " Ahasuerus, a Poem in Fragments ", written from 1832 – 1846 but not published until 1878, long after the poet's death.

In 1967, the Wandering Jew appears as an unexplained magical realist townfolk legend in Gabriel García Márquez's 100 Years of Solitude.

On the obverse, the legend STATE OF OREGON is written above an escutcheon, which also appears in the Oregon state seal.

During the sixth and seventh centuries a purely legendary narrative of their martyrdom appeared which appears to be based upon other legends, especially on the legend of Poitus, and ornamented with accounts of fantastic miracles.

He appears in a legend of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

" Now " was also covered by power-pop legend Phil Seymour and appears on the 2011 CD edition of his 2nd album.

A local legend holds that the ghost of Andrew Jackson occasionally appears in the vicinity of a cabin in a town park.

This legend first appears in the Historia Britonum, a 9th-century historical compilation attributed to Nennius, but is best known from the account given by the 12th century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae.

It appears that Akiva, authorized by certain rabbis, borrowed a large sum of money from a prominent heathen woman — a matrona, says the legend.

Óengus's connection to the Saltire, set out at length by later chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun, comes from an earlier source, the older St Andrews foundation legend, which appears to date from the 12th century or before.

The Oxford issues are very similar to the Shrewsbury one, except that the legend on the reverse appears in three lines rather than two, and the obverse legend appears as.