During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts.

A depiction of Ask and Embla ( 1919 ) by Robert Engels.

In stanza 17 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once found Ask and Embla on land.

According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and Vé.

Some scholars have proposed that the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá may contain an account of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, as having been created by dwarfs.

A preceding stanza to the account of the creation of Ask and Embla in Völuspá provides a catalog of dwarf names, and stanza 10 has been read as describing the creation of human forms from the earth.

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In Völuspá, at the creation of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, Hœnir and Lóðurr help Odin.

ørlǫglausa " ørlǫg-less " occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to driftwood, that is given breath, warmth and spirit by three gods, to create the first humans, Ask (" Ash ") and Embla ( possibly " Elm ").

He has been mentioned as one of several writers who proposed analogs of Ask and Embla in comparative mythology, and who sought Indo-Iranian analogs for the Poetic Edda poem, Völuspá.

Two additional parallels drawn from Norse mythology are the depiction of the Sun ( the Goddess Sunna ) as female and the Moon ( the God Máni ) as male ; and the origin of humanity wherein men are created from an ash tree ( Ask ) and women from an elm ( Embla ) by the Aesir.

* 2011 – The United States ends its " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

Toward the end of the tour to promote Live Through This, the band released their first EP, titled Ask for It, in September 1995 ; it featured 1991 Peel session recordings of " Doll Parts " and " Violet ", as well as covers of The Wipers ' " Over the Edge " and " Pale Blue Eyes " by The Velvet Underground.

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The first element is the name Askøy came from the farm Ask ( Old Norse: Askr ) and the last element is øy, meaning " island ".

David Reuben, M. D .' s book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( But Were Afraid to Ask ), published in 1969, was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s.

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The album was their first to be fully co-produced by Mario Caldato Jr. Caldato was an engineer on Paul's Boutique and was credited as producer on that album's track " Ask for Janice ".

Ask. com's foray into NASCAR is the first instance of its venture into what it calls Super Verticals.

* Ask, the first male human in Norse mythology.

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It first announced that it had acquired Excite Italia B. V. ( the operator of Excite Europe ), from Tiscali, S. p. A .; and, secondly, the company reported that it had reached a comprehensive settlement with InfoSpace regarding Excite in the United States, whereby Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace would share marketing costs and revenue from the Excite web search function.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he presented the series Open House, Picture Parade, Points of View, the leading literary quiz Take it or Leave it, Ask the Family, BBC3 – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say " fuck " on British television ( Robinson told Tynan that this was " an easy way to make history ") – and Call My Bluff.

When in Hollywood ... is showing at the end of the credits, and it consists of three blue cards, the first saying " Universal Studios — the Entertainment Center of the World ," the second saying " When in Hollywood Visit Universal Studios ," and the last adding " Ask for Babs ".

Their first regular TV series, Ask the Leyland Brothers, ran on Australian television from 1976 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1984.

Another change in tradition came during the 1941-42 academic year, when Triangle produced Ask Me Another, its first show in revue format.

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Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin create the first humans, Askr and Embla.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

Charles Grob directed the first major study of the effects of ayahuasca on humans with the Hoasca Project in 1993.

The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of cut wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement.

The BCG vaccine was first used in humans in 1921.

" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.

Language is acquired within the first few years of life, and all humans under normal circumstances are able to acquire language proficiently.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

* 1968 – Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so.

There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.

* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

It is merely required they have capable and compatible receiver systems operational ; However, this is a variable humans cannot accurately estimate without actually making first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species.

Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, not machines or techniques.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

The gibbons ( hylobatidae ) and orangutans ( genus Pongo ) were the first groups to split from the line leading to the humans, then gorillas followed by the chimpanzees and bonobos.

Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees ( genus Pan ) split off from the line leading to the humans ; human DNA is approximately 98. 4 % identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms ( see human evolutionary genetics ).

One famous example of montage was seen in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the start of man's first development from apes to humans.

The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10, 000 years ago ; but the family includes all other wild cats, including the big cats.