When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

When his corps commander, Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds, was killed very early in the fighting, Doubleday found himself in command of the corps.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

When Frederick IV of Habsburg sided with Antipope John XXIII at the Council of Constance, Emperor Sigismund placed him under the Imperial ban.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

When John Lawson Johnston died, George Lawson Johnston inherited the Bovril business.

When John the Baptist appeared and began preaching, he attracted disciples who assumed he would be announced as the Messiah, or " the one " they had been awaiting.

When Pope John XXIII abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II continued to do.

When announcing Vatican II, Pope John XXIII stated that the precepts of the Council of Trent continue to the modern day, a position that was reaffirmed by Pope Paul VI.

When instead we discuss human purpose and the meaning of life, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes are on the same side.

When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.

When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

When King John II of Portugal revived the work of Henry the Navigator, he sent out Cão ( about midsummer (?

When John Stossel accused USAID of not funding DDT because it wasn't " politically correct ," Anne Peterson, the agency's assistant administrator for global health, replied that " I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT ...

When Thomas Wyatt the younger instigated what became known as Wyatt's rebellion, John Ponet, the highest-ranking ecclesiastic among the exiles, allegedly participated in the uprising.

When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

When asked about the " DK " logo in an interview, Jello Biafra explained, "... I wanted to make sure it was something simple and easy to spray-paint so people would graffiti it all over the place, and then I showed it to Winston Smith.

When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's acting — the hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.

When he captured her with his ice powers, she telepathically showed him his insecurities.

When Ivan showed a film with a naked woman Stalin shouted: " Are you making a brothel here Bolshakov?

When viewed by zoologists and professors of natural history it was concluded that it showed a seal, possibly a grey seal.

" When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand.

When Powell showed illustrations of various animals, both alive and extinct, to natives, they generally suggested that the Diplodocus was the closest match to " n ' yamala ".

When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and pethidine / meperidine, former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to abuse and addiction.

When they gave blood and urine samples the methadone showed up in some individuals samples as much as four weeks after it was not evident in other individuals samples.

When Mach 3 attempted to move most of the operating system into user-space, the overhead became higher still: benchmarks between Mach and Ultrix on a MIPS R3000 showed a performance hit as great as 67 % on some workloads.

When the smell of rosemary was pumped into cubicles where people were working, they showed improved memory, though with slower recall.

When he returned to New York in 1870, he showed his material to Fleming.

When a cannon was fired, it partially disarmed the ship, so needlessly firing a cannon showed respect and trust.

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo GameCube on August 24, 2000, the day before Nintendo's SpaceWorld 2000 exposition, a software demonstration showed a realistically styled real-time duel between Ganondorf and Link.

When Joan died during her first childbirth, Jesus College showed its regard for Cranmer by reinstating his fellowship.

" When Walter Hooper asked Lewis where he found the word ' Narnia ', Lewis showed him Murray's Small Classical Atlas, ed. G. B.

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

When his calculations showed that the manholes on telephone routes were sufficiently close together to be able to insert the loading coils without the expense of either having to dig up the route or lay in new cables he changed to this new plan.

When the general in command of the Verdun sector showed up to inspect Fort Douaumont in January 1916, he was refused entry because he did not carry the necessary authorizations emanating from Paris.

When the experimenters showed the body-dissatisfied participants the positive body their body satisfaction increased.

When the " Red Chinese " showed photographs of downed U. S. UAVs via Wide World Photos, the official U. S. response was, " no comment.

When Boschert conducted her research, major auto makers showed little interest in large orders for large-format NiMH batteries.