Spotte met with Dr. Samad in person and interviewed him at his practice and home.

In 1999, American marine biologist Stephen Spotte traveled to Brazil to investigate this particular incident in detail.

While Spotte did not overtly express any conclusions as to the veracity of the incident, he did remark on several observations that were suspicious about the claims of the patient and / or Samad himself.

" While this is the most popularly known legendary trait of the candiru, according to Spotte it has been known conclusively to be a myth for more than a century, as it is impossible due to simple fluid physics.

Spotte notes that the candiru does not possess the right teeth or strong enough dentition to have been capable of this.

Paulo Salim Maluf, the son of Lebanese Christian immigrants Salim Farah Maluf and Maria Stephan Maluf, was born in São Paulo, and graduated 1954 in engineering at the University of São Paulo ( USP ), where coincidentally he was a colleague of the late Mário Covas, another important Brazilian politician who would later become one of his biggest political rivals.

In 1992, Genscher, together with his Danish colleague Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, took the initiative to create the Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) and the EuroFaculty.

A colleague took them to Mr. Gabb, a box maker, who was asked to make a box with thirty seven compartments, one for each fragment.

Velleius reports that one commander, Praefectus Ceionius, shamefully surrendered and later took his own life, while his colleague Praefectus Eggius heroically died leading his doomed troops.

When his colleague Lepidus died, Augustus assumed his office as pontifex maximus, took priestly control over the State oracles ( including the Sibylline books ), and used his powers as censor to suppress the circulation of " unapproved " oracles.

The expanded 30th anniversary edition of the 1965 official book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, was notable for its exclusion of most of the evidence against the map's authenticity, concentrating instead on vindications by George Painter, and Thomas Cahill with colleague Bruce Kusko ( in which they claimed specifically that they had not analyzed the loose particles they took from the map at the time of their PIXE research ), but it did reprint a remarkable essay written in 1989 by the original book dealer Laurence Witten.

Asquith, who told Robertson that Kitchener was “ an impossible colleague ” and “ his veracity left much to be desired ”, acted in charge of the War Office, but Kitchener took his seals of office with him so he could not be sacked in his absence.

In 286, Diocletian elevated a military colleague, Maximian, to the throne as co-emperor of the western provinces, while Diocletian took over the eastern provinces, beginning the process that would eventually see the division of the Roman Empire into two halves, a Western and an Eastern portion.

Pompey was elected consul without colleague in 52 BC, and took part in the politicking which led to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC, starting the Civil War.

Whilst working at the Institute, Childe took up residence at Lawn Road Flats near to Hampstead, an apartment block perhaps recommended to him by the popular crime fiction author Agatha Christie ( the wife of his colleague Max Mallowan ), who had lived there during the Second World War.

Max Louis got the job at WNYX because he is an old colleague of Bill McNeal ; a plot point that reflects the real-life fact that Jon Lovitz took the role in NewsRadio out of friendship for Phil Hartman.

Speed and a colleague took refuge behind a columned stone wall before Whitman placed a well-aimed shot through the six-inch spacing between the columns of the wall, killing Speed.

The latter's portrayal, accomplished through statements made by the eponymous character, is polemical: Grielescu, who is identified as a disciple of Nae Ionescu, took part in the Bucharest Pogrom, and is in Chicago as a refugee scholar, searching for the friendship of a Jewish colleague as a means to rehabilitate himself.

Further travel took him to Flanders, Holland, and again, for a short time, Scotland, on diplomatic missions under Claude d ' Humieres, seigneur de Lassigny, until he was attached as secretary to the suite of Lazare de Baïf, the father of his future colleague in the Pléiade and his companion on this occasion, Antoine de Baïf, at the diet of Speyer.

Although it was originally rumored to have been the invention of a member of the Conservative Party, fellow Labour Party colleague Peter Kilfoyle recently took responsibility.

Although he had become a hero of the Revolution, he allowed his colleague Jourdan to be defeated, betrayed all his plans to the enemy, and took part in organizing a conspiracy for the return and crowning of Louis XVIII as King of France.

* Most wickets – Alfred Shaw took 186 @ 8. 54 ( BB 8 – 31 ) and his Notts colleague Fred Morley took 184 @ 12. 26 ( BB 8 – 36 )

He took part in the unsuccessful coups d ’ état of Wolfgang Kapp in 1920 and the Beer Hall Putsch of Adolf Hitler in 1923, and in 1925 he ran for president against his former colleague, Paul von Hindenburg, who he claimed had taken credit for Ludendorff's victories against Russia.

With his colleague, Lucius Postumius Megellus, he took the city of Agrigentum.

Conditions of scientific testing were rudimentary ; as part of his colleague Dr. Lyon Playfair's investigations into " overflowing privies " Sir Henry once took the role of test-vomiter to judge sewage flow.

In 2010, Simpson took up the cause, alongside his former Democratic colleague, Walt Minnick, the lead sponsor of the bill, to secure a third federal judge for Idaho.

In 1784 he took over the publication of the textbook Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (" Foundations of the Natural Sciences ") from his friend and colleague Johann Christian Erxleben upon his premature death in 1777.

Balling and his colleague Patrick Michaels took a complaint against the Star Tribune to the Minnesota News Council.

While Dutch marshal Prince Walrad took the initiative and besieged Kaiserswerth, the French Marshal duc de Boufflers forced Walrad's colleague, the Earl of Athlone, to withdraw deep into Holland.

" His younger colleague A. S. F. Gow quotes examples of these attacks, noting that they " were often savage in the extreme.

In 1912 these tensions came to a peak because Jung felt severely slighted after Freud visited his colleague Ludwig Binswanger in Kreuzlingen without paying him a visit in nearby Zurich, an incident Jung referred to as " the Kreuzlingen gesture.

The impressario in the later Elizabethan period for these entertainments was Shakespeare's colleague Edward Alleyn, who left many local charitable endowments, most notably Dulwich College.

In late 1969 — with the assistance of his former RAND Corporation colleague Anthony Russo and the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy — Ellsberg secretly made several sets of photocopies of the classified documents to which he had access ; these later became known as the Pentagon Papers.

Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson ; together these characters popularized the genre.

The most definite ( canonical ) exposition of these principles was a book compiled from notes of speeches Sun gave near Guangzhou ( taken by a colleague, Huang Changgu, in consultation with Sun ), and therefore is open to interpretation by various parties and interest groups ( see below ) and may not have been as fully explicated as Sun might have wished.

Marie-Louise von Franz, a colleague of the eminent psychiatrist Carl Jung, noted that in these unconscious scientific discoveries the " always recurring and important factor ... is the simultaneity with which the complete solution is intuitively perceived and which can be checked later by discursive reasoning.

Toscanini had been invited to conduct the last of these, but he told the promoters that Monteux was his dearest colleague and the best conductor for Falstaff.

" On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed ( HOMO ) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene → 1, 3-butadiene and 1, 3, 5-hexatriene → cyclohexadiene conversions that provided the basis for the further development of these ideas into what became known as the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.

This formed the basis of his seminal Radiative and Photochemical Processes in Mesospheric Dynamics that was published in four parts in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences between 1965 and 1966 .< ref > See also The first of these, Part I: Models for Radiative and Photochemical Processes, was co-authored with his Harvard colleague and former Ph. D. thesis advisor, Richard M. Goody, who is well known for his 1964 textbook Atmospheric Radiation.

When former colleague Kevin Rowland heard these demo tapes, he invited O ' Hara to join Dexys, and adopted a similarly folk-influenced sound for his own group.

And David, thanks for these years of happy association, and for being such an easy colleague to work with, and for all the kindnesses.

The first and last of these directed by his friend and colleague Casper Wrede.

Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship ( published in 1940 ), which is essentially a memoir of Brittain's close colleague and friend, Winifred Holtby.

At these Midwest Composers Symposia, Reynolds also first encountered Harvey Sollberger, who would become a lifelong colleague and friend.

( The biography of Marcus Aurelius's colleague Lucius Verus, which Mommsen thought ' secondary ', is however rich in apparently reliable information and has been vindicated by Syme as belonging to the ' primary ' series ) The ' secondary ' lives allowed the author to exercise free invention untrammelled by mere facts, and as the work proceeds these flights of fancy become ever more elaborate, climaxing in such virtuoso feats as the account of the ' Thirty Tyrants ' said to have risen as usurpers under Gallienus.

An attempt by an American journalist, Nicholas Stroh, and his colleague, Robert Siedle, to investigate one of these barracks outbreaks in 1972 at the Simba battalion in Mbarara led to their disappearances and, later, deaths.

* A special case were the New Hebrides, for these were an Anglo-French colonial condominium, so he had a French colleague styled Résident, subordinate to France's haut commissaire ( high commissioner ) in the Pacific Ocean ( from 22 March 1907 the Governor of New Caledonia ); both were abolished at the independence of the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980.

Salin and his colleague Emil-Maria Claassen greatly contributed to the European research on these subjects throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Snow participated in these programmes, acting as a correspondent alongside former ITN colleague John Suchet, the presenter of the specials.

" It is absolutely unclear to me why my colleague made these remarks ," he told reporters in Tbilisi.

Proving that a highly regarded colleague is actually corrupt and responsible for the first of these murders becomes at some point Hole's main mission in life.

However, they may consult with their colleague before making these decisions.

While an undergraduate at Calvin College, Wolterstorff was greatly influenced by professors Harry Jellema, Henry Stob and Henry Zylstra, who introduced him to schools of thought that have dominated his mature thinking: Reformed theology and common sense philosophy ( these have also influenced the thinking of Wolterstorff's friend and colleague Alvin Plantinga, another alumnus of Calvin College ).