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William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.
He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".
William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.
* James Robinson as young William Wallace
Several of the actors also attended including James Robinson ( Young William ), Andrew Weir ( Young Hamish ), Julie Austin ( the young bride ) and Mhairi Calvey ( Young Murron ).
The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.
While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.
William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.
In this era, the Britannica moved from being a three-volume set ( 1st edition ) compiled by one young editor — William Smellie — to a 20-volume set written by numerous authorities.
When Patrick was killed in a skirmish, Eleanor ( who proceeded to ransom his captured nephew, the young William Marshal ), was left in control of her inheritance.
His more serious writings begin early with the Enchiridion militis Christiani, the " Handbook of the Christian Soldier " ( 1503 ) ( translated into English a few years later by the young William Tyndale ).
After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.
This changed the existing line of succession by displacing the heir presumptive, his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, with young James as heir apparent.
The Princess of Wales ' earlier decision to take an infant William to Australia set the precedent for young royal children going on official visits.
Pei took to the project with vigor, and set to work with two young architects he had recently recruited to the firm, William Pedersen and Yann Weymouth.
Many young churchmen and others enquiring about their faith visited him and sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, who had recently undergone a crisis of conscience and religious conversion as he was contemplating leaving politics.
James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.
These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror.
John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.
Maria Eleonora had additional suitors in the young William of Orange, Wladislaw Vasa of Poland, Adolph Friedrich of Mecklenburg and even the future Charles I of England.
William Spady promoted the OBE method as a way of getting beyond ' meaningless ' percentages and marks, aiming for education for life beyond school, giving children and young adults a broader and more transformative education.
The action begins when a young couple, Bob ( William Bates ) and Shirley ( sexploitation actress Pat Barrington, billed as Pat Barringer ) survive a car crash only to find themselves tied to posts in a misty cemetery where they are forced to watch dead spirits dance for the Emperor of the Night played by Criswell ( best known for Plan 9 From Outer Space ).
Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

young and Faulkner
Irene Adler, theretofore " The Woman " of the Holmes canon, was replaced by Alice Faulkner, a young and beautiful lady who was planning to avenge her sister's murder but eventually falls in love with Holmes ; and the pageboy, nameless in the Canon, was given the name Billy by Gillette, a name he carried over into the Basil Rathbone films and has retained ever since.
As a young man, Anton Chekhov had to support his family by writing short newspaper articles ; Arthur Koestler penned a dubious Dictionary of Sexuality for the popular press ; Samuel Beckett translated for the French Reader's Digest ; and William Faulkner churned out Hollywood scripts.
It involves a young boy named Lucius Priest ( a distant cousin of the McCaslin / Edmonds family Faulkner wrote about in Go Down, Moses ) who accompanies a family friend named Boon Hogganbeck to Memphis, where Boon hopes to woo a prostitute called " Miss Corrie ".

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Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at
More of this stamping down of human emotion as a young lawyer in New York.
On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.
Kerr, who set the world record earlier this month in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3, wiped out Mills's early pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards.
Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.
He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.
Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani initiated a campaign against the sale of box-cutter knives to young people in the 1990s.
* Civilian Conservation Corps, a major New Deal program in the U. S. for young men, 1933 – 42
Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by Cyclone TracyIn 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed from New South Wales by the young colony of South Australia.
Another young bassist of note is Esperanza Spalding ( born 1984 ) who, at 27 years of age, already won a Grammy for Best New Artist.
He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.
The show concerned Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a wealthy white widower in New York City who adopted two young black boys after their parents died.
Dave Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a young unmarried woman he never knew.
A heavy drinker as a young man, he seems to have quit the bottle soon after arriving in New York, after his drinking nearly cost him the courtship of the woman who became his first wife, Ellen Egan.
The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).
One of the most popular of all New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps ( 1933 – 1943 ), which sent two million poor young men to work in rural and wilderness areas, primarily on conservation projects.
John Armstrong, who was also a native of New York, began working at the Oxford University Press at a young age and eventually reached the position of Vice President of the American branch.
New small companies entered the business, and new young directors arrived to replace those drafted or working in the United States.
Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.
The young organization needed help for their protests and were contacted by David McTaggart, a former businessman living in New Zealand.

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