* First contact ( anthropology )

The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.

First settled by indigenous peoples, by the time of European contact it was inhabited by the Caribs.

When the ship travels back in time to the 21st century, he works alongside Dr. Zefram Cochrane and helps him successfully launch Earth's first warp-capable vessel and achieve first contact with the Vulcans ( Star Trek: First Contact ).

* First contact ( science fiction )

The Prime Directive and Starfleet's first contact policies are at the center of several episodes in each Star Trek series and the film Star Trek: First Contact.

From 1717 to 1721 Stanhope served as effective First Minister and was a useful political contact for the Pitt family until the collapse of the South Sea Bubble which engulfed the government.

In Star Trek: First Contact, it is stated that but for Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight, a passing Vulcan ship would have deemed Earth unready for contact and ignored the planet, and in the Enterprise episode " Fight or Flight " T ' Pol makes reference to a Vulcan policy of non-interference.

When contamination became too serious to be fixed by memory erasures, Captain Picard decided to make direct contact with a civilization's leaders in " Who Watches the Watchers " and " First Contact ," although the latter episode involved a planet on the verge of achieving warp flight, and therefore eligible for First Contact.

There are reports of contact made before the 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery between First Nations, Inuit and those from other continents.

On April 5, 2063, Vulcans and Humans made official first contact near the town of Bozeman, Montana following the successful test of Earth scientist Zefram Cochrane's first warp-powered starship, as depicted in Star Trek: First Contact.

In 1956, members of the Letterist International made contact with several different artistic collectives at the First World Congress of Free Artists in Alba, Italy, finding significant common ground politically and philosophically.

* First contact ( science fiction )

William of Aquitane, for example, was involved in the First Crusade, and in the ongoing Reconquista in Spain, so that he would have come into contact with Muslim culture a great deal.

First, the two opposing capillary walls establish a zone of contact.

There have been a few exceptions, such as the alien-initiated first contact that begins the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the Vulcan-initiated first contact that concludes the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact ( although after a failed invasion by the Borg in the rest of the film ).

* First contact

First contact may refer to:

* First contact ( anthropology ), the first meeting of two cultures previously unaware of one another

* First contact ( science fiction ), a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life

* Venera 3 – 16 November 1965 – Venus lander ( contact lost ) – First spacecraft to reach another planet's surface, First Venus impact

For example: in the First Antinomy, Kant proves the thesis that time must have a beginning by showing that if time had no beginning, then an infinity would have elapsed up until the present moment.

First and foremost it forms a body of intricate judicial opinions, legislation, customs, and recommendations, many of them passed down over the centuries, and an assortment of ingrained behaviors, relayed to successive generations from the moment a child begins to speak.

Professor David Kennedy suggests that the League was a unique moment when international affairs were " institutionalized ", as opposed to the pre – First World War methods of law and politics.

At that moment the Coyote, First Angry, came and asked them what they were doing.

The 1858 Anthracite Map, prepared as part of the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey, illustrates Plymouth's mines and collieries at a moment of transition.

Benedek's corps commanders pleaded with him to launch a counterattack to destroy the Prussian First and Elbe armies before the Second army arrived, but Benedek declined to act, letting the opportune moment slip by.

First we have to find the moment of mean syzygy, before we can correct it with our full moon cycle correction.

To create the League competition in the 1928-29 season the Royal Spanish Football Federation agreed to compose in First Division ten teams: those six that had gained until that moment the Cup of Spain, three that had been runner-ups without going so far as to gain the championship and another that would go out of a qualifying round between the rest of teams.

First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama return to the White House after leading a moment of silence for the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting.

Hampton first saw combat in July 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he deployed his Legion at a decisive moment, giving the brigade of Thomas J.

In a speech given at BYU in 2010, Glenn L. Pace, a member of the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy, said, “ Sisters, I testify that when you stand in front of your heavenly parents in those royal courts on high and look into Her eyes and behold Her countenance, any question you ever had about the role of women in the kingdom will evaporate into the rich celestial air, because at that moment you will see standing directly in front of you, your divine nature and destiny .”

According to Carl Sferrazza Anthony, China was Pat Nixon's " moment ", her turning point as an acclaimed First Lady in the United States.

** First moment of area, a property of an object related to its resistance to shear stress

Dr. Susan Calvin has, by this time, discovered what has happened: any hyperspace jump causes the crew of the ship to cease existing for a brief moment, effectively dying, which is a violation of the First Law of Robotics ( albeit a temporary one ), and this frightens the artificial intelligence of The Brain into irrational, childish behavior as a means of coping, and a means for ensuring the survival of the crew.

The Treaty of Córdoba is the first document in which Spanish and Mexican officials accept the liberty of what will become the First Mexican Empire, although it is not today recognized as the foundational moment, since these ideas are often attributed to the Grito de Dolores ( September 15, 1810 ).

At a pivotal moment and position during the 1863 conflict at Gettysburg, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Commander of the II Corps, ordered the First Minnesota to charge into a situation where it would be outmanned by odds of at least 5: 1.

During the First World War the Institute was not only involved in the prevention of sanitary risks but also had to deal with the demands of the moment.

First, the hypnotherapist told him smoking was " just nicotine addiction " which Allen had never perceived before that moment i. e. that he was an addict.

Painted from the vantage point of an upstairs room at the First and Last Hotel, overlooking the bustling harbour and ferry berths at Circular Quay in Sydney Cove, this work depicts the dockside scene at the moment when the ‘ Orient ’ has cast off for her voyage to England.

First Britain's traditional strength in rowing continued as the men's coxless four, stroked by Matthew Pinsent, narrowly won gold, a defining moment since this was Pinsent's fourth gold medal in as many games.

At the moment Wemyss retired and was replaced as First Sea Lord by Beatty, the finished book had already reached the stage of proof copies awaiting approval on his desk.

Although the attention of historians is normally on the larger battles such as Edgehill and Marston Moor, several historians who have studied the period consider the First Battle of Newbury to be the defining moment of the First English Civil War, both as the high point of the Royalist advance and as the " one bright period of generalship ".

First, when the Unification had been declared, Russia had withdrawn its military officers, who had until that moment commanded all larger units of Bulgaria's young army.