Early versions were independently invented and patented by a major US auto insurance company, Progressive Auto Insurance () and a Spanish independent inventor, Salvador Minguijon Perez ().

* Sharp, Andrew ( 1960 ) Early Spanish Discoveries in the Pacific

( 2004 ) Before the Spanish Chronicles: Early Apache in the Southern Southwest, pp. 120 – 142.

Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English, who formed a colony in 1666.

Early European possessions in North America included Spanish Florida, Spanish New Mexico, the English colonies of Virginia ( with its North Atlantic off-shoot, The Somers Isles ) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland.

Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil ( 1983 ).

Early in 1797, the Spanish fleet of 27 ships of the line, which were supposed to join the French fleet at Brest lay at Cartagena, on the Mediterranean Sea, with the intention of sailing to Cádiz as an escort of a 57 merchant convoy, carrying mainly mercury — necessary for gold and silver production — which would eventually enter that Spanish harbour along with warships Neptuno, Terrible and Bahama, prior to running into the British force.

Early on the 14th, Jervis learnt that the Spanish fleet was 35 miles to windward.

Early in 1651 Cromwell tried to ease tensions by sending a delegation to The Hague proposing that the Dutch Republic join the Commonwealth and the Dutch would assist the English in conquering most of Spanish America.

Early ties were already visible in the " Apologie " of William the Silent, condemning the Spanish Inquisition, which was written by his court minister, the Huguenot Pierre L ' Oyseleur, lord of Villiers.

Early interaction of these Native Americans with Europeans came with the Spanish colonization via the establishment of missions in this area, with the missions in San Jose, Sonoma, and San Francisco and particularly the establishment of a Presidio ( a military establishment ) in 1776.

Early Spanish blackwork: Borgoña's Lady with Hare wears a chemise embroidered at the neckline and on the sleeves, c. 1505, Toledo.

Early settlers of the area which would eventually become Gonzales were, for the most part, of Spanish and French ancestry, settling amidst the Houma Indians who lived in the area.

* Central Community Center, the former junior high school, now houses the Park Spanish Immersion School and other ISD 283 programs, including Early Childhood Special Education ( ECSE ), Early Childhood Family Education ( ECFE ), and Community Education programs including Gymnastics and Swimming.

Early Spanish successes threatened Paris, and even after the Spanish defeat at Rocroi, Spain remained a strong opponent.

( 1966 ; Fourth printing, 1992 ) The Early Spanish Main.

Early Spanish explorers called the Southern Paiute Payuchi ( they did not make contact with the Northern Paiute ).

Early Spanish explorers considered the island of little value, partly because the poor soil made growing crops difficult and partly because their attempts to find gold turned up empty-handed.

Early French attempts to found colonies in 1612 at São Luís (" France Équinoxiale "), and in Brazil, in 1555 at Rio de Janeiro (" France Antarctique ") and in Florida ( including Fort Caroline in 1562 ) were not successful, due to a lack of official interest and to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance.

Early Spanish Renaissance paintings are represented in the Prado by the series of works by Pedro Berruguete from the monastery of Santo Tomás in Ávila, notably Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.

Early Christian Armenian chroniclers attributed the origin of the name, " Yerevan ," to a derivation from an expression exclaimed by Noah, in Armenian.

Some authorities hold that Walsingham himself wrote only the section between 1377 and 1392, but this view is criticised by James Gairdner in his Early chroniclers of Europe ( 1879 ).

Early chroniclers of Britain, such as Alfred of Beverley, Nicholas Trivet and Giraldus Cambrensis began their histories of Britain with Brutus.

Early 20th-century estimates of Jewish deaths were based on the accounts of the Jewish chroniclers of the time, and tended to be high, ranging from 100, 000 to 500, 000 or more ; in 1916 Simon Dubnow stated:

The Cantigas are frequently recorded and performed by Early Music groups, and quite a few CDs featuring music from the Cantigas are available.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

When he wasn't working, Kid Rock recorded the material that eventually made up his fourth album Early Mornin ' Stoned Pimp, which Rock released on his own label Top Dog Records.

Early trials with the hydrometer in the 1770s recorded porter as having an OG ( original gravity ) of 1. 071 ° and 6. 6 % ABV.

Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched down ; however, attempts to locate the probe after it landed on Mars were fruitless.

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages.

Early Lakota history is recorded in their Winter counts ( Lakota: waniyetu wowapi ), pictorial calendars painted on hides or later recorded on paper.

Early UAVs used during the Vietnam War after launch captured video that was recorded to film or tape on the aircraft.

Early in 1984 Megadeth recorded a three song demo, and on the strength of their demo, Megadeth was asked to be signed with the New York based independent label Combat Records.

Early analyses recorded two parts of the stone, an earthy part, and a malleable part.

Early episodes of the pop music-chart show Top of the Pops were wiped or never recorded and only broadcast " live ", the last edition that was wiped from the BBC archives dates from 8 September 1977.

Among the last songs Larry Norman recorded were two ( Back To The Dust and Walking Backwards ) with the German Christian singer / songwriter Sarah Brendel for her record " Early Morning hours ".

Early recorded examples of free-form improvisation include solo guitar works by the French guitarist Django Reinhardt and a pair of 1949 recordings for Capitol by a group led by Lennie Tristano, " Intuition " and " Digression ".

Of the first German settlers in the Palmyra area, the surnames of Bindnagle, Bowman, Carmany, Deininger, Early, Forney, Gingrich, Hemperly, Hetrick, Kettering, Killinger, Naftzger, Nye, Ober, Ricker, and Zimmerman are recorded.

Early in the afternoon of that Friday, the center of the bridge gave way to the relentless pounding of the highest water ever recorded on the Delaware, and all but the section closest to the New Jersey side floated down the river.

Early settlers recorded that they generally traded buffalo robes, deer skins, dried meat and tallow.

Early post-War collections were recorded by Suzanne Danco, Anton Dermota and Gérard Souzay ( all before 1953 ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ( 1954 ), Hans Hotter ( 1954 ), Erna Berger ( 1956 ), Heinrich Rehfuss ( 1955 ) and Elisabeth Schumann ( 1958 ), and important individual songs by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and Elisabeth Höngen.

Early recorded English instances of the name includes a reference to one Mannicus in the Domesday Book of 1086 and Algarus Manningestepsune in 1130, mentioned in Ekwall's " Early London Personal Names ".

Early names based on the Korean language were recorded in the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 BCE – 668 CE ), but with the growing adoption of Chinese writing system, these were gradually replaced by names based on Chinese characters.

Early in life she married an actor by the name of Dancer, and it was as Mrs Dancer that she made her first recorded appearance in 1758 as Cordelia to Spranger Barry's Lear at the Crow Street theatre.