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.

As reports dribbled in, William Weigand tossed them into the centrifuge which had become his head.

William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, questions the credibility of reports of cannibalism and argues that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is a consistent and demonstrable ideological and rhetorical device to establish perceived cultural superiority.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

In Changes in the Land ( 1983 ), William Cronon analyzed and documented 17th-century English colonists ' reports of increased seasonal flooding in New England during the period when new settlers initially cleared the forests for agriculture.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

According to official reports, the ship was carrying approximately of oil, of which about were spilled into the Prince William Sound.

A Disney film Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, based on reports of the cryptid, starring William Katt was released in 1985.

It does not appear that William Rufus intended to provoke a war, but, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports, war came:

Beginning in the summer of 2004, and continuing throughout the fourth season, there were reports that William Shatner would reprise the role of James T. Kirk or perhaps an ancestor in the series, but an agreement could not be reached.

Sally Hardesty ( Marilyn Burns ) and her brother, Franklin ( Paul A. Partain ), travel with three friends, Jerry ( Allen Danziger ), Kirk ( William Vail ), and Pam ( Teri McMinn ), to visit the grave of the Hardestys ' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing.

William of Jumièges reports that, earlier in 1036, Edward had contacted a successful raid of Southampton.

Hall's complete dream reports became publicly available in the mid-1990s by Hall's protégé William Domhoff, allowing further different analysis.

As the war progressed, he moved his attack to its conduct by the generals, who, he said ( basing his words on reports by William Burdett-Coutts in The Times ), were not providing for the sick or wounded soldiers and were starving Boer women and children in concentration camps.

The Cherokee in Missouri Territory increased rapidly in population, from 1, 000 to 6, 000 over the next year ( 1816 – 1817 ), according to reports by Governor William Clark.

The biographer William C. Davis reports a different childhood for Lafitte.

There are reports that in his youth Murdoch was responsible for the construction of one of the bridges over the River Nith ; this possibly derives from his father's work in building the Craikston Bridge over Lugar Water in 1774, which William would have been involved in.

Wilson's work had been predated by, and drew on, reports from German neurologist Carl Westphal ( in 1883 ), who termed it " pseudosclerosis "; by the British neurologist William Gowers ( in 1888 ); and by Adolph Strümpell ( in 1898 ), who noted hepatic cirrhosis.

General William Westmoreland, the U. S. commander, received reports of massive troop movements and understood that an offensive was being planned, but his attention was focused on Khe Sanh, a remote U. S. base near the demilitarized zone.

According to verbal reports from William Forde, who was his batman, Kitchener was revered by his men for his leadership and fair treatment of subordinates.

" The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour ," states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley.

Canute's headaches came to a head in 1085-86, when he decided to invade England and try to take the throne from William I who was old and by some reports failing.

On several occasions, William Rehnquist had expressed interest in retiring under a Republican administration ; one study found that press reports " are equivocal on whether facts existed that would have created a conflict of interest " for Rehnquist.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

Schiller later wrote the play William Tell romanticising Swiss independence.

In addition to his battle against moral decay, Alan wrote a work against Islam, Judaism and Christian heretics dedicated to William VIII of Montpellier.

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

" However, his looks proved to be an asset in his personal and political relationships, as his law partner William Herndon wrote, " He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was he an ugly one ; he was a homely man, careless of his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.

His imposing contemporaries William James and Josiah Royce admired him, and Cassius Jackson Keyser at Columbia and C. K. Ogden wrote about Peirce with respect, but to no immediate effect.

In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.

Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

William Bright, then editor of Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, wrote of Ethnologue that it " is indispensable for any reference shelf on the languages of the world.

The first published use of the term " evangelical " in English was in 1531 by William Tyndale, who wrote " He exhorteth them to proceed constantly in the evangelical truth.

Sir William Blackstone wrote that felony " comprises every species of crime, which occasioned at common law the forfeiture of lands or goods.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".