Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing.

Although Ruth Benedict ’ s fascination with death started at an early age, she continued to study how death affected people throughout her career.

His early work established his fascination with issues that continue to inform his work today.

Obake karuta is an early example of the common Japanese fascination with classifying monsters and creating new ones.

Many of the key features of his music — radical discontinuity, the self-contained brevity of each gesture, an attraction to wide intervals — owe much to Bailey's early fascination with Anton Webern, an influence most audible on Bailey's earliest available recordings, Pieces for Guitar ( 1966 – 67, issued on Tzadik ).

Born in Chiswick, London into a musical family ( his father Cliff Townshend was a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires and his mother Betty ( née Dennis ) was a singer ), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age.

Theodorakis's fascination with music began in early childhood ; he taught himself to write his first songs without access to musical instruments.

He has attributed his early interest in underwater exploration to reading the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, living by the ocean in San Diego, and his fascination with the groundbreaking expeditions of the bathyscaphe Trieste.

" Zola's reliance on Taine, however, was occasionally seen as a fault ; Miguel de Unamuno, after an early fascination with both Zola and Taine, eventually concluded that Taine's influence on literature was, all in all, negative.

His early fascination continued to influence his work with poetic form and the direction of his criticism.

In Ireland, Heseltine combined studies of early music with a fascination for Celtic languages, withdrawing for a two-month period to a remote island where Irish was spoken exclusively.

He also had a fascination for the supernatural, first manifested in his early novel Doctors Wear Scarlet, which features Balkan vampires ( though they are practitioners of vampirism as a sexual deviation rather than an actual supernatural manifestation ) and was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best supernatural novels.

His early reaction is more one of fascination than concern, but as his priorities gradually change due to Emily's determination to keep from losing him, he finally begins to act like someone who values his humanity.

From an early age Saint-Just had shown a fascination with literature, and during his stay at the reformatory he used his time to begin a lengthy poem.

Early discourse on " Venus " figurines was preoccupied with identifying the race being represented ; and the steatopygous fascination of Saartjie Baartman, the " Hottentot Venus " exhibited as a living ethnographic curiosity to connoisseurs in Paris early in the nineteenth century.

" Another of P-Orridge's early publications was the book Copyright Breeches ( 1973 ), which explored his ongoing fascination with the copyright symbol and its wider implications.

Campbell describes his own upbringing as a Roman Catholic and his early fascination with the myths and stories of the American Indians.

The excitement created by this early influence of mesmerism eventually led to a deeper Victorian era fascination with the ideas of mesmerism.

The show tried to profit from the fascination with virtual reality in the early 1990s as well as the success of Power Rangers.

Abandoning his early fascination for Auguste Rodin, he began to study instead extra-European artworks located in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

He had an early fascination with flying and music and had great mechanical aptitude.

He had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush, learning from Zulu and! Kung bushmen.

Hersh, whose early publicity at times portrayed her as a tortured artist " channeling " her songs from her psyche, has mentioned that the " angry young woman " fascination of some writers in reviewing the work of female performers has at times led to cartoonish stereotypes, rather than three-dimensional portraits respecting their intelligence.

Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

In the early 1920s, Opel became the first German car manufacturer to incorporate a mass production assembly line in the building of their automobiles.

Its main application was in aviation, although it also saw use in a few early motorcycles and automobiles.

The Adams-Farwell was another early US rotary engine which was being manufactured for use in automobiles by 1901.

The advent of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, as well as the increased use of trucks and automobiles, resulted in the decline of freight and passenger ship activity ; however, cultural and recreational use of the Pier continued.

First learning to drive at age 11, Tucker was obsessed with automobiles from an early age.

Just as early automobiles lacked speedometers, radios, and air-conditioners which later became standard, more and more optional software features became standard features in every OS package, although some applications such as data base management systems and spreadsheets remain optional and separately priced.

Many early implementations for automobiles located the brakes on the inboard side of the driveshaft, near the differential, but most brakes today are located inside the road wheels.

The ' Iron Duke ' engine would later go into many GM and non-GM automobiles into the early 1990s.

Miniature models of automobiles first appeared as slush cast plaster or iron toys made in the early decades of the 1900s.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, electronica music was increasingly used as background scores for television advertisements, initially for automobiles.

In the early 20th century, automobiles were made here by the DeWitt Motor Company.

As automobiles became more readily available in the early 1900s, transportation was no longer limited to railroad service, and Deer Park lost its appeal as a vacation destination.

During the early days, long before the advent of automobiles, there was a stage route from Chateaugay to the Banner House landing.

Duryea Drive, which ascends Mount Penn in a series of switchbacks, was a testing place for early automobiles and was named for Charles Duryea.

Eight people died when an early Spring snow storm stranded about 100 people in around fifty-five automobiles on the road between Pampa and Lefors on April 7-8, 1938.

The city also had more automobiles per capita than any other city in the country at the time which meant that, in the early days, Bluefield experienced the " five o ' clock traffic jam / gridlock " long before the majority of the rest of the nation — even before New York City.

With the increase of automobiles and improvement of roads and highways in the early part of the 20th century, the developing community gradually attracted a wealth of newcomers.

During the early 20th century, the meaning of the word was expanded to include limited-access highways designed for recreational driving of automobiles, with landscaping.

Early station wagons evolved from trucks and were viewed as commercial vehicles ( along with vans and pickup trucks ), not consumer automobiles — with the framing of the early station wagons left unsheathed because of the commercial nature of the vehicles.

Used in early automobiles such as the Ford Model T, up through some British cars of the 1940s.

While some early prototype automobiles were steam tricycles, 1930s and 1940s-era three-wheeled cars such as Morgan Motor Company cars are often classified as cars rather than motorcycles.

Exceedingly wealthy, Carnarvon was at first best known as an owner of racehorses and a reckless driver of early automobiles, suffering in 1901 a serious motoring accident near Bad Schwalbach in Germany which left him significantly disabled.