Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.

For instance, much of the battle footage from the early 20th century was staged ; the cameramen would usually arrive on site after a major battle and re-enact scenes to film them.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

For instance, one interface used during early development could declare everything public, whereas one used in testing and deployment could limit this.

An early instance was ordered by Louis of Nassau during operations near Mons in Hainaut, when 500 infantry were transported this way.

For instance, in early Attic before c. 500 B. C., it was used also both for the long, open, and for the long close.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

For instance, early electronics often used point to point wiring with components attached to wooden breadboards to construct circuits.

Different researchers have postulated that without the aid of modern computer graphics, early investigators were limited to what they could depict in manual drawings, so lacked the means to visualize the beauty and appreciate some of the implications of many of the patterns they had discovered ( the Julia set, for instance, could only be visualized through a few iterations as very simple drawings hardly resembling the image in Figure 3 ).

Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.

* a layer derived from earlier source materials, almost certainly transmitted to the vernacular author / translator in Latin ; and comprising, at the least, those extensive passages in the Gospel of Barnabas that closely parallel pericopes in the canonical gospels ; but whose underlying text appears markedly distinct from that of the late medieval Latin Vulgate ( as for instance in the alternative version of the Lord's Prayer in chapter 37, which includes a concluding doxology, contrary to the Vulgate text, but in accordance with the Diatessaron and many other early variant traditions );

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.

Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript, in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel, for instance.

He began to compose quite early in life, but later destroyed most copies of his first works ; for instance, Louise Japha, a fellow-pupil of Marxsen, reported a piano sonata, that Brahms had played or improvised at the age of 11, had been destroyed.

( En Morn, 1947, for instance, has a print of a blonde young girl included, prefiguring the early work of Eduardo Paolozzi, whilst many works seem to have directly influenced Robert Rauschenberg, who said after seeing an exhibition of Schwitters ' work at the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959, that " I felt like he made it all just for me.

It was also user-friendly, introducing an early instance of context-sensitive help accessed by the F1 key.

An early emphasis was on ‘ gatekeeping ’: what are the criteria an editor uses to select items from the stream of information at hand, for instance from material provided by the news agencies?

For instance, in the early 19th century, the Native American woman Sacagawea, who would help translate for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was married to the French-Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau.

A diet that contains adequate amounts of amino acids ( especially those that are essential ) is particularly important in some situations: during early development and maturation, pregnancy, lactation, or injury ( a burn, for instance ).

For instance, some European late Upper Paleolithic cultures domesticated and raised reindeer, presumably for their meat or milk, as early as 14, 000 BP.

For instance, by the early 1980s, many in the semiconductor industry had come to believe that features smaller than 1 micrometer could not be printed optically.

In the early 1990s there were several other systems for storing outline-based fonts, developed by Bitstream and METAFONT for instance, but none included a general-purpose printing solution and they were therefore not widely used.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

He was, thus, an early and spectacular victim.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

His watch told him he was still early.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.