Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U. S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Early blackface minstrels were all male, so cross-dressing white men also played black women who were often portrayed either as unappealingly and grotesquely mannish ; in the matronly, mammy mold ; or highly sexually provocative.

Early blackface songs often consisted of unrelated verses strung together by a common chorus.

Early experiments are often designed to provide mean-unbiased estimates of treatment effects and of experimental error.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button .< ref >* Patrick Stack.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early endosomes are often located in the periphery of the cell, and receive most types of vesicles coming from the cell surface.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

Early heavy machine guns were often water-cooled ; while very effective, the water also added considerable weight to an already bulky design.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of contemporary artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early science fiction about Mars often involved the first voyages to the planet, sometimes as an invasion force, more often for the purposes of exploration.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Early contact was often charged with tension and emotion, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

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Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

Early 2007, the EU had yet to decide how to pay for the system and the project was said to be " in deep crisis " due to lack of more public funds.

Early critics of logical positivism said that its fundamental tenets could not themselves be formulated consistently.

Early the next morning, the Israelites said they had sinned and now wanted to take possession of Canaan.

Finglas was originally the site of an Early Christian abbey, the origin of which has been associated, from early times, with the name of St. Cainnech, or Canice, the patron of Kilkenny, said to have founded it in 560 A. D.

Early on, Rouse said that he hoped Tivoli would be a place “ where, under the benign influence of having fun and relaxing in familiar ways, people would have opportunities, especially attractively and conveniently presented, for discovering new ways to enjoy their free time — new foods, new visual and tactile aesthetic experiences, even new social relations .” Rouse wanted the town center in Columbia to provide the most comprehensive range of recreational activities and services that had ever been contemplated in a new town.

Early katsuretsu was usually beef ; the pork version, similar to today's tonkatsu, is said to have been first served in 1890 in a Western-food restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo.

Early Latter-day Saints were mainly English and Scandinavian and German, yet they were said to be of the tribe of Ephraim.

These works are generally in the Early Netherlandish style, and were probably executed under his patronage and direction, so that he may be said to have formed a school of the fine arts in sculpture, painting, goldsmith's work and tapestry.

Frisian is said to be the closest living relative to Early English.

Early adherents adopted their dietary laws based on their interpretation of several books of the Bible, including the Book of Genesis (" Then God said, " I give you every Seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.

Pierce said, " Early on, we were listening to The Stooges, then came Suicide, then we ’ d start listening to Sun Ra, and pick up on all these lateral threads that ran between them ".

Longstreet recognized him coming near, and reportedly said, " Joe, I hope that Almighty God takes me before he does you, for I want to be within the gates of hell to hear Jubal Early cuss you in the blue uniform.

Early uses of the term include the newspaper, the Connecticut Courant in April 1771, which said "... but if you are afraid of the sea, take Brown Bess on your shoulder and march .".

page 540 b, 9th edition ) said: " Early in the 11th century the order of ' gentlemen ' as a separate class seems to be forming as something new.

Early media accounts said that Waleed had earned his pilot's certificate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1997.

Some have said that Early used enforcement of the standing rule, which had been to only allow regular Washington journalists to attend the press conferences, to deny press conference access to black reporters.

" He appeared to have been working on the truck when his clothes became tangled in the truck's power takeoff shaft ," District Attorney Joseph Early, Jr. said in a statement.

Early in its development, YAML was said to mean " Yet Another Markup Language ", but it was then reinterpreted ( backronyming the original acronym ) to distinguish its purpose as data-oriented, rather than document markup.

In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia (" Fountain of the Old Boat "), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently said to have collaborated on the decoration.

On April 13, 2009 former Major League Baseball star Mark Fidrych died as a result of a PTO related accident ; " He appeared to have been working on the truck when his clothes became tangled in the truck's power takeoff shaft ", District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said in a statement.

Early genealogists confused Francis with an identically named son of Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace of Hurley, due to a pamphlet issued at the time of his appointment mistakenly asserting that he was the brother of the said Richard.