Wilson, on his first Sunday, witnessed this with something like disgust.

Esmarch was among those who witnessed Oersted's first demonstration of his discovery.

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

The early 18th century witnessed dominoes making their way to Europe, making their first appearance in Italy.

The first five months of 1943 witnessed thousands of arrests and executions as the Gestapo exercised their powers over the German public.

The generation following Herodotus witnessed a spate of local histories of the individual city-states ( poleis ), written by the first of the local historians who employed the written archives of city and sanctuary.

The first years of the 20th century witnessed a rush of diplomatic maneuvering through which the European powers and France in particular furthered their interests in North Africa.

The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared.

The first public transmission, with the message " A patient waiter is no loser ", was witnessed by a mostly local crowd.

" I've seen very few moments of genius in my life but I witnessed one with Spike after the first show.

Oddly the first duplication of computer software id witnessed was a tape format that had been put into a twin high speed cassette stereo player and dubbed.

He first realized that the film had a cult following when he attended a midnight screening in 2000 at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and witnessed people quoting dialogue from the film to each other.

It was the first time Olivier witnessed such behaviour from her.

The decade also witnessed the early beginnings of new technologies ( including computers, nuclear power and jet propulsion ), often first developed in tandem with the war effort, and later adapted and improved upon in the post-war era.

The conquest of Southern Song witnessed the first use of firearms in war.

The Spanish priest Bartolomé de las Casas, who witnessed it, may have been the first to idealize the simple life of the indigenous Americans.

He extended the sultanate all the way to the port of Chittagong, which witnessed the arrival of the first Portuguese merchants.

Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited " experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject " and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission.

Because the French Revolution and Napoleon's reign witnessed the first application of the lessons of the 18th century's wars on trade and dynastic disputes, commentators often falsely assume that such ideas arose from the revolution rather than found their implementation in it.

The consequent destruction of wildlife habitat has prompted the creation of conservation groups in other countries, some founded by local hunters who have witnessed declining wildlife populations first hand.

He first witnessed his father's charters as an Ætheling in 854, and kept this title until he succeeded to the throne in 871.

The very first written definition / discussion of volcanisim ( Effusive eruption ) observed at Katakekaumenē ( modern Kula, Western Turkey ) until Pliny the Younger witnessed to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 ADPompeii

Cruelties witnessed in Europe first suggested his mission.

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel unknowingly witnessed the origin of the California citrus industry with the planting of the region's first significant orchard in 1804, though the commercial potential of citrus was not realized until 1841.

The later period ( 1815 – 1835 ) witnessed a peaceful consolidation of political power of the newly autonomous Serbia, culminating in the recognition of the right to hereditary rule by Serbian princes in 1830 and 1833 and the adoption of the first written constitution in 1835.

A clear demonstration of this thumb technique can be witnessed in the Woodstock video ; during the song " Red House " there are closeups of Hendrix's fretting hand.

" This view is witnessed to by the prayers of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, when the priest says: " Accept, O God, our supplications, make us to be worthy to offer unto thee supplications and prayers and bloodless sacrifices for all thy people ," and " Remembering this saving commandment and all those things which came to pass for us: the cross, the grave, the resurrection on the third day, the ascension into heaven, the sitting down at the right hand, the second and glorious coming again, Thine own of Thine own we offer unto Thee on behalf of all and for all ," and "… Thou didst become man and didst take the name of our High Priest, and deliver unto us the priestly rite of this liturgical and bloodless sacrifice …"

" It was feared, particularly among those who had witnessed Marciano's punching power first hand, that Louis's unwillingness to quit would result in serious injury.

According to the autobiography of Tolbert's wife Victoria, the First Lady witnessed a masked man with a " white " hand stabbing her late husband.

Someone able to recount an event they witnessed or took part in has " first hand experience ".

While hostage on Asteroid M, Moira witnessed Fabian Cortez draining Magneto of his powers and manipulating him into placing him as his right hand.

The English landscape painter J. M. W. Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ) painted the burning of the Palace of Westminster from memory, having witnessed it at first hand.

He witnessed the schism and interest around it and may have had a hand in negotiations between German, British and French representatives.

He wrote about uninhibited behavior he witnessed: " You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes.

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

He also gives accounts of the human sacrifices, cannibalism and idolatry that he witnessed first hand.

Upon the outbreak of World War I, he interrupted his studies and joined the British Army YMCA, which sent him to Bombay and Amhara, where he witnessed poverty and the horrors of war at first hand.

In that post, Beach witnessed first hand the events surrounding the Revolt of the Admirals.

Rather than being a benevolent yet distant protector, as he had been with his New Men, he would take a direct hand in molding the future of humanity, so that they might one day be as powerful as the Beyonders he had witnessed.

In June, 2012, USADA charged cyclist Lance Armstrong with an anti-doping rule violation, claiming that it had more than 10 witnesses that were willing to testify that they had witnessed first hand his performance enhancing drug-use and that it also had blood sample data that showed his actions were " fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and / or blood transfusions.

He therefore joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and witnessed at first hand the horrific destruction caused by bombing during the Blitz.

Thus a girl kissing a child, with a sudden wring of the figure, over her shoulder, became a Nymph and Cupid ; a woman helping her child with his foot on her hand on to her lap, a Bacchante and Faun ; his Amazon Thrown from her Horse, one of his most original productions, was taken from an accident he witnessed to a female rider in a circus ; and Hunter and Dog was also the result of a street scene.

He witnessed first hand the cruelty his race showed the other races of the Underdark.

Star Arvizo said in an interview with the psychologist Stanley Katz on May 29, 2003, that he witnessed Jackson placing his hand on Gavin's crotch outside his clothes.

Throughout their continental excursion, they witnessed first hand the poverty of disenfranchised native peoples and their frequent lack of access to otherwise cheap and basic medical care.

After a horrific incident with Brown backstage after a show, Terrell asked Chandler, who witnessed the incident first hand, to take her to the bus station so she could go home.

While in the New World he traversed the American South and witnessed first hand the lynchings which had come to characterize the slave states.

He witnessed the suffering of the lower classes at first hand.