In January 1984, Einstürzende Neubauten performed a Concerto for Voice and Machinery at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( the same site as COUM's Prostitution exhibition ), drilling through the floor and eventually sparking a riot.

COUM's music was anarchic and improvised, making use of such instruments as broken violins, prepared pianos, guitars, bongos and talking drums.

The COUM LP was recorded in 1971 and then shelved due to the fluid nature of COUM's membership and interests.

The " Gong An story " （ 公案小说, literally ：" case records of a public law court "） is the earliest known genre of Chinese detective fiction.

One of the earliest public key encryption applications was called Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP ).

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

One of the earliest stipulations of O ' Sullivan was that the basic system would always remain free to the public over the internet, and the PDF of the 1995 version still is.

Some of the earliest Delta settlers came from the vicinity of New Orleans, where drumming was never actively discouraged for very long and homemade drums were used to accompany public dancing until the outbreak of the Civil War.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class — which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

*" Fastest Controlled Flight ", October 1944, Popular Science earliest drawing released by USAAF to public about Me 163

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

The earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.

The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279.

The earliest evidence of the public calling it the " White House " was recorded in 1811.

The earliest projects for preserving historic homes began in the 1850s under the direction of individuals concerned with the public good and the preservation of American history, especially centered on the first president.

His earliest public piano recital was in 1889 at age fourteen.

One of her very earliest public performances was at a retreat in Saratoga, California, for a youth group from Temple Beth Jacob, a Redwood City, California, congregation.

The earliest systems used the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ) for the return path since very few cable systems were bi-directional.

The Merkle – Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978.

He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective.

The earliest form of a company which issued public shares was the publicani during the Roman Republic.

It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film.

Here he took the earliest opportunity of demonstrating his main beliefs by the practice of his strict public morality.

One of the earliest surviving houses in the town is The Lawn, in front of the Civic Centre with its public tennis courts, in brown brick with three double-hung sash windows set back in reveals with flat arches, roof with parapet and porch of fluted doric columns, pilasters, entablature and semi-circular traceried fanlight.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class -- which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

There are a number of public houses in Hayes, including The Botwell Inn, The Famous George Orwell, The Old Crown, The Adam and Eve ( Hayes's earliest recorded inn from 1665 ), The Grapes, Flanagan's ( formerly The Crown ), The Crane, The Carpenter's Arms, The Angel, and The Wishing Well.

The emperor Tiberius had banned gladiatoral games, it seems, and when the prohibition was lifted, the public had flocked to the earliest events, and so a large crowd was present when the stadium collapsed.

The earliest versions are often referred to as 1964½ models, but VIN coded by Ford and titled as 1965 models with production beginning in Dearborn, Michigan on March 9, 1964 and the new car was introduced to the public on April 17, 1964 at the New York World's Fair.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

This idea came from common law, and the earliest conception of a criminal act involved events of such major significance that the " State " had to usurp the usual functions of the civil tribunals, and direct a special law or privilegium against the perpetrator.

*** The Spring and Autumn Annals is chronologically the earliest annal ; consisting of about 16, 000 words, it records the events of the State of Lu from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, with implied condemnation of usurpations, murder, incest, etc.

Although the earliest British films were of everyday events, the early 20th century saw the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly comedies and melodramas.

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

The earliest known events in Arabian history are migrations from the peninsula into neighbouring areas.

* Ancient Egyptian quasi-theatrical events – earliest recorded quasi-theatrical event dates back to 2000 BCE with the " passion plays " of Ancient Egypt.

Competition between people concerning who can lift the heaviest weight has been recorded in diverse and ancient civilizations as early as the earliest known recordings of such human events, including those found in Egypt, China and in ancient Greece.

The arrow was shot by a nobleman named Walter Tirel, and, although the description of events was later embroidered with more information, the earliest statement of the event was in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which noted that the king was " shot by an arrow by one of his own men ".

Original drafts for the account of the rulers of South-kingdom are not preserved, and in the earliest extant manuscript, ascribed by Christopher Tolkien to 1949 – 50, many events of the final history are already present.

In designing SCADA systems, care must be taken when a cascade of alarm events occurs in a short time, otherwise the underlying cause ( which might not be the earliest event detected ) may get lost in the noise.

Evidence from excavations such as extensive pottery and the earliest known tablets of writing support these events.

Though Bermondsey's earliest written appearance is in the Domesday Book of 1086, it also appears in a source which, though surviving only in a copy written at Peterborough Abbey in the 12th century, reliably describes earlier events.

The earliest version of this story appeared more than a century after Eudocia's death in the " World Chronicle of John Malalas, an author who did not always distinguish between authentic history and a popular memory of events infused with folk-tale motifs.

The earliest issues lead up to the events seen in " The Cage ", which was retold from Yeoman Colt's point of view.

The coda is set in December 1963, approximately six years after the earliest events.

The earliest Christian source, and the nearest source in time to the events, says that it took place near the unidentified " Transductine promontories " ( Transductinis promonturiis ).

The earliest literary works comprising the Piers Plowman tradition follow in the wake of these events, although they and their sixteenth-century successors are not anti-monarchical or supportive of rebellion.

The earliest recorded precursors to the modern hammer throw stem from the Tailteann Games around 1800 BC, which featured events such as throwing either a weight attached to a rope, a large rock on a wooden handle, or even a chariot wheel on a wooden axle.

The earliest events for establishing dragon boat racing in the continental USA utilised boats ( and paddles ) from and traditional to Taiwan, which involve lane flag grabbing finish line procedures.

They are considered lost and Orbin remains our earliest extant source for several of the events mentioned.

The Gesta Guillelmi is the earliest extended biography of any Duke of Normandy, and is undoubtedly an invaluable source for the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066, as well as the battle itself.

As one enters from the vestibule, the painting on the left shows key events from the earliest times ( arrival of the ancient Filipinos and the Manunggul Jar ) through Lapu Lapu and the death of Magellan, the Muslim resistance to Spanish rule, the Basi Revolt, and Gabriela Silang, to the 1872 martyrdom of the priests Gómez, Burgos and Zamora.

The language of the earliest stories is dateable to the 8th century, and events and characters are referred to in poems dating to the 7th.