Other sceptics in the 1980s argued the photo was that of an otter or a diving bird, but after Christian Spurling's confession most agree it was what Spurling claimed – a toy submarine with a sculpted head attached.

Woolworths with a head and neck made of plastic wood, built by Christian Spurling, the son-in-law of Marmaduke Wetherell, a big game hunter who had been publicly ridiculed in the Daily Mail, the newspaper that employed him.

R. G. Spurling ( 1857 – 1935 ), a Missionary Baptist minister, and his father Richard Spurling ( 1810 – 91 ), an ordained elder, rejected some of the views of the Baptists in his area as not being in accord with New Testament Christianity.

R. G. Spurling disagreed with Landmarkism, an ecclesiology which held that only Baptists were true Christians and that they should not associate with Christians of other traditions.

Between 1889 and 1895, Spurling organized three other congregations, all with the name Christian Union and functioning independently under Baptist polity.

Spurling often worshiped with the small fellowship and was the driving force behind its 1902 decision to organize into a church, called the Holiness Church at Camp Creek.

In August 1886, Richard Spurling ( 1810 – 1891 ), an ordained Baptist minister, became dissatisfied with what he believed were overly creedal approaches to New Testament Christianity.

Spurling collaborated with seven members from Missionary Baptist churches in Monroe County, Tennessee and Cherokee County, North Carolina.

In August 1886, Elder Richard Spurling ( 1810 – 1891 ), an ordained Baptist minister, associated with the Latter Rain movement, rejected the dominant Landmark Baptist views of the church, which he believed were too credal and exclusive.

He became acquainted with Spurling and Bryant and caught Spurling's vision of the restoration of the church.

* " In Conversation with Jim Hall " by Patrick Spurling ( Jazz. com )

Nathan Spurling presents sport with Livio Regano presenting the local weather.

Nathan Spurling presents sport with Livio Regano presenting weather for all six sub-regions.

In September 1886, Spurling's son, Richard Green Spurling ( 1857 – 1935 ), was ordained as pastor of the Christian Union congregation.

Hensley was a minister of the Church of God, now known as the Church of God ( Cleveland ), founded by Richard Spurling and A. J. Tomlinson.

For example, Hilary Spurling wrote in 1970, " Valentine is so overcome Proteus ' apology that he promptly offers to hand over his beloved to the man who, not three minutes before, had meant to rape her.

Hawke relocates Ruritania to the Balkans, and makes it smaller and more socially cohesive ; Spurling, who places the country in the Carpathians, thus hinting at its being in fact the former Habsburg province of Transylvania — today part of Romania — introduces ethnic and linguistic divisions ; Haythorne puts Ruritania on the Northern side of Czechoslovakia to Spurling's setting.

In her biography of Thesiger's friend, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Hilary Spurling suggests that Thesiger and Janette wed largely out of their mutual adoration of William, who shaved his head when he learned of the engagement.

* Spurling, Hilary.

Spurling felt that there needed to be another reformation of the Church that went beyond the Protestant Reformation so that Christians would be united together by love and not by creeds, which he believed divided.

This allowed Spurling and Bryant to pursue evangelism.

* Hilary Spurling, The girl from the fiction department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell.

Richard G. Spurling accepted Irwin's teachings on holiness, but was wary of the extreme direction in which he felt the movement was headed.

Hefner further claimed the government was out to get him because of Playboy philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.

His attorney claimed to the press that he asked for a lawyer repeatedly before being interviewed but he did not get one, and that " highly coercive " prison conditions forced Lindh to waive his right to remain silent.

He would have claimed credit for the sun and the moon if he believed he could get away with it.

When later asked why he invaded Kuwait, Saddam first claimed that it was because Kuwait was rightfully Iraq's 19th province and then said " When I get something into my head I act.

" In her review for The New York Times, Caryn James claimed that the film had " at least four endings ," and " by the time the last ending of this two-and-a-quarter-hour film comes along, the effect is like getting off a demon roller coaster that has kept racing several laps after you were ready to get off.

Indeed, it is claimed that in such decorative English " there is often no attempt to try to get it right, nor do the vast majority of the Japanese population ever attempt to read the English design element in question.

Postwar criticism of Longstreet claimed that he marched his men too slowly, leaving Jackson to bear the brunt of the fighting for two days, but they covered roughly in a little over 24 hours and Gen. Lee did not attempt to get his army concentrated any faster.

Lopes claimed that Rison had beaten her after a night out, and she set fire to his shoes to get back at him.

Collin claimed that the French automaker competed in 72 % of market segments in 2007, but he wanted to get that figure up to 90 %.

During the civil wars in Ireland, William had taken two manors that the Bishop of Ferns claimed but could not get back.

In a speech delivered in Toronto in November 1990 Irving claimed that Holocaust survivors had manufactured memories of their suffering because " there's money involved and they can get a good compensation cash payment out of it ".

The two brothers had often argued, and earlier in the decade, studio employees claimed they saw Harry chase Jack through the studio with a lead pipe, shouting, " I'll get you for this, you son of a bitch " and threatening to kill him.

Others claimed that Paul ended his endorsement contract with Gibson during his divorce to avoid having his wife get his endorsement money.

In an attempt to get her attention he pushed her into the pool one day, and claimed it was an accident.

He was checked into the comfortable Beijing Hotel, but wasn't able to get to sleep: he later claimed that, after years of living in poverty, the mattress was too soft.

In 2008 Gibb publicly stated that he continued to get on " like a house on fire " with Blair, and claimed that the then Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown regularly listened to the Bee Gees.

They didn't work together until the hit film My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), at which time, Eliot claimed Grant used his clout and star power to get Scott cast in a supporting role in the film.

Alvin Toffler claimed in his book Future Shock that adhocracies will get more common and are likely to replace bureaucracy.

Proponents of this new phase in archaeology claimed that with the rigorous use of the scientific method it was possible to get past the limits of the archaeological record and learn something about how the people who used the artifacts lived.

James claimed she " can't stand Beyoncé " and that Knowles would " get her ass whipped ".

As claimed in a documentary, Turner did not get along with him and when she found he was her male lead, she responded: " Couldn't they at least hire someone attractive?

Hanssen claimed all he wanted to do was connect a color printer to his computer, but needed the password cracker to get around the administrative password.

In order to get rid of their numerous Assiniboine guests, the Mandans claimed that there was a Sioux war party in the area.

When he died, Matilda, also known as the Empress Maud, was in Normandy and her cousin Stephen of Blois managed to get back to London before she did, and claimed the throne-with the support of many barons who were unprepared for the novel idea of a woman ruler.