The term itself is an oblique reference to Olaf Stapledon's classic science fiction epic Last and First Men.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Native Americans are more commonly known as Indians or American Indians, and have been known as Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, Colored, First Americans, Native Indians, Indigenous, Original Americans, Red Indians, Redskins or Red Men.

* Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and its sequels

* The First Male Stars: Men of the Silent Era by David W. Menefee.

* Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, a vast future history published in 1930 and spanning billions of years, includes a long and carefully worked-out account of several Martian invasions of Earth over a period of tens of thousands of years.

Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon wrote that " God as conceived by Judaism is not only the First Cause, the Creative Power, and the World Reason, but also the living and loving Father of Men.

Among the works jointly narrated by the couple are The Time Machine, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon, as well as several television specials for the Sci-Fi Channel.

Its name, which is a partial translation of Sindarin Tawar-in-Drúedain, derives from the fact that the forest was populated by the Drúedain or the Wild Men, who survived here since the First Age and shunned the Númenóreans.

Throughout the First Age and most of the Second Age, the Dwarves maintain mostly friendly trading relationships with Men and Elves ( the Dwarves of Nogrod's treachery towards Thingol of Doriath being an exception ).

The Elves call the race of Men Atani in Quenya, literally meaning " Second People " ( the Elves being the First ), but also Hildor ( Followers ), Apanónar ( After-born ), and Fírimar or Firyar ( Mortals ).

Here below follow the short descriptions of the most important groups of Men in the First, Second and Third Ages.

Although the word Edain refers to all Men, the Elves use it to distinguish those Men who fought with them in the First Age against Morgoth in Beleriand.

Those Men who fought against Morgoth in the First Age were divided into three Houses.

First, not all the Men who remained east of the Blue Mountains and Misty Mountains were tempted by Morgoth or Sauron.

), the Kings of Gondor made close alliances with the Northmen of Rhovanion, a people said in The Lord of the Rings to be akin to the Three Houses of Men ( later the Dúnedain ) from the First Age.

After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age ( which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion ) the Edain, those Men who had aided the Elves in their war against Melkor were given Númenor, a new small continent of their own, free from the evil and sadness of Middle-earth.

At the end of the First Age, the Valar ( whose power governs the world ) unite with Men and Elves to defeat Morgoth, who is captured and cast into the Void.

By the end of the First Age, Taliska had developed into a language that served as the basis for Adûnaic, the vernacular tongue of the Númenóreans, as well as the languages of the Rohirrim and the Men of Dale.

Two of his sculptures, Raven and the First Men and Spirit of Haida Gwaii, are prominently featured on the $ 20 note in the Bank of Canada's new Canadian Journey ( 2004 ) issue paired with a quotation from author Gabrielle Roy.

File: Raven and the First Men, left side. jpg | Raven and The First Men, UBC Museum of Anthropology.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

The First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon ( the Paschal Full Moon ) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.

The First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon ( the Paschal Full Moon ) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

: Le Premier Quartier de la lune ( 1989 ) ( The First Quarter of the Moon )

First there is a real retardation of the Moon's angular rate of orbital motion, due to tidal exchange of angular momentum between the Earth and Moon.

* January 2 – First photo of the Moon taken by photographer Louis Daguerre

* First Aurora Programme manned mission to the Moon.

* “ Csucskári ” ( Excerpt from The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars ) in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection ( 1988, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling )

** First manned Moon landing

The Dwarves are portrayed as a very ancient people who awoke, like the Elves, at the start of the First Age, before the existence of the Sun and Moon.

In the early First Age before the rise of the Moon, a part of the Telerin Elven people called Nandor entered Ossiriand under their leader Denethor, and were given permission by Thingol to settle the lands.

In the 1960s, Pan Am established a waiting list for future flights to the Moon, issuing free " First Moon Flights Club " membership cards to those who requested them.

* In such works of fiction as The First Men in the Moon ( 1901 ), A Trip to the Moon ( 1902 ), and The Secret of the Selenites ( 1984 ), a " selenite " is a native resident of the moon.

* Luna 3 – 4 October 1959 – Lunar flyby ; First images of far side of Moon

At the First Ecumenical Council, held in 325 at Nicaea, it was decided to celebrate Easter on the Sunday following the so-called Paschal Full Moon, as for the Christian church to differentiate itself from their Jewish counterparts.

High-profile examples of programme losses include many episodes of Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play, most of the seminal comedy series Not Only But Also, all of the 1950s televised Francis Durbridge serials ( further, the first two serials were never recorded ), the vast majority of the BBC's Apollo 11 Moon landing studio coverage, all but one of the 39 episodes of The First Lady, and all 147 episodes of the soap opera United !.

First image of the moon returned by a Ranger mission ( Ranger 7 in 1964 ) The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon.

Major corporation headquarters like Nova Chemicals, FedEx Ground, First Health / Coventry and the consumer division of GlaxoSmithKline are located in Moon.

When Beaver County was formed in 1800, three Townships were created on the Southside: Hanover, First Moon and Second Moon.