In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

Thomas was a missionary who had served in the Congo since 1955, gathering much of the earliest evidence and reports, and claiming to have had two close-encounters himself.

Brando was also considered a sex symbol, one of the earliest in the film industry to achieve widespread attention due to his enigmatic and sexy persona and the reports of his dalliances and relationships with various major Hollywood celebrities.

The earliest reports of Germanic militia was the system of hundreds which was described in 98 A. D. by Tacitus as the centeni.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

Grove's Dictionary reports the earliest use of the word ' recorder ' was in the household of the Earl of Derby ( later to become King Henry IV ) in 1388: fistula nomine Recordour.

The earliest known reports of fish sauce are from ancient Greece between 4-3rd century BC.

The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children ( reports vary ).

Pella was a base for some of the earliest church leaders ( Eusebius reports that the apostles fled there to escape the Great Jewish Revolt ).

The earliest reports of deaths come from the 7th century.

The earliest reports were made by the CDC in state prisons.

During this time, papers on the Apollo program missions and some of the earliest reports on AIDS were published.

The historical kernel in these conflicting reports seems to be the indubitable fact that the benedictions date from the earliest days of the Pharisaic Synagogue.

Pokanoket continued to be used in the earliest colonial records and reports.

The earliest archaeological and documented reports that confirm the existence of Avigliano go back to Medieval times, but there remain many elaborate theories over the origin of the city.

Scholars and historians since then viewed the reports on Venedi / Venethi by Tacitus, Pliny and Ptolemy as the earliest historical attestation of Slavs.

Press reports following the first digging season clearly show that the earliest date of any one of the many artifacts excavated was 17th century.

They were likened in appearance to a polecat or marten in the earliest reports, the tiger quoll being called " spotted marten " and eastern quoll " spotted opossum ", but by 1804, the names " native cat " and " tiger cat " had been adopted by early settlers.

One of the earliest reports of the drink came from Orson Welles in correspondence with the Coshocton Tribune while working in Rome on Cagliostro in 1947, where he described a new drink called the Negroni, " The bitters are excellent for your liver, the gin is bad for you.

Zipes reports the earliest record lay is Robert Biker's Lai du Cor, dating to the mid-to late-12th century.

One of these earliest incidents was the loss of his status as Tunku Mahkota in 1961 — a position which his father, Sultan Ismail, appointed to him two years earlier, citing reasons of alleged misbehaviour after confidential reports accusing him of incarcerating a policeman reached the Sultan.

The earliest reports indicate that both the French explorers and the First Nations people understood the name to refer to their place of origin, not where they were living at the time of European encounter.

ICC World Test Championship has been postponed to 2017 at the earliest amidst earlier reports.

By the 7th century BC, several Greek colonies were built on its Black Sea shore, and the earliest written Greek reports state that the lands were inhabited by Thracians, reidentified in time as Getae and then Dacians.

`` Neutral Tones '' is an excellent example of Hardy's mature style, drawn from his earliest productive period ; ;

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag.

In addition to the standard pickups, vintage reissue bass models are equipped with Horseshoe wrap-around style pickups, very similar to the pickups on the earliest Rickenbacker Frying Pan models.

Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.

Some of the earliest Shrine Centers often chose a Moorish Revival style for their Temples.

There are two main forms of zarzuela: Baroque zarzuela ( c. 1630 – 1750 ), the earliest style, and Romantic zarzuela ( c. 1850 – 1950 ), which can be further divided into two.

* 1253 – The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.

He wrote, " This is more of a message film than a noir thriller, but has been classified by most cinephiles in the noir category ... J. Roy Hunt, the 70-year-old cinematographer, who goes back to the earliest days of Hollywood, shot the film using the style of low-key lighting, providing dark shots of Monty, contrasted with ghost-like shots of Mary Mitchell ( Jacqueline ) as she angelically goes to help her troubled husband Arthur.

* The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.

HouseNet was the earliest bulletin-board style site where users could share information.

Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.

It has been pointed out that the two additional verses are not in the style of the seventeenth century, or the existing rhyme, and that they do not fit with the earliest printed version of the rhyme, which do not mention horses and men.

The nave and transepts, Romanesque in style, date mainly from the earliest, the façade of the south transept from the latest of those periods, the choir and apse chapels from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The earliest Arts and Crafts activity in continental Europe was in Belgium in about 1890, where the English style inspired artists and architects including Gabriel Van Dievoet, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde and a group known as La Libre Esthétique ( Free Aesthetic ).

A widely accepted theory in classical studies is that the earliest temple structures were of wood and the great forms, or elements of architectural style, were codified and rather permanent by the time we see the Archaic emergent and established.

He was responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney animated cartoons, and was also responsible for creating Mickey Mouse.

The group's visual style at this earliest stage focused mainly on mining iconography, but in time, they included other symbols as well: Triglav, deer horns and the Malevich's black cross rounded with a gear.