Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

The Land of Cockaigne ( also Cockaygne, Cokaygne ), was an imaginary land of idleness and luxury, famous in medieval story, and the subject of more than one poem, one of which, an early translation of a 13th-century French work, is given in Ellis's Specimens of Early English Poets.

Keynes read his famous but decidedly more conservative memoir My Early Beliefs to The Memoir Club.

The prehistoric Menura tyawanoides has been described from Early Miocene fossils found at the famous Riversleigh site.

The unusual name " Junior Bird ", originally used by Emory University, derives from a famous tournament held at Berry College, the " Early Bird ", which was held early in the quiz bowl season ( though the Early Bird is open to all undergraduates ).

Salisbury Cathedral is famous for the beauty and simplicity of its Lancet Gothic, known in England as the Early English Style.

* Umberto Eco's novels, most notably his most famous, The Name of the Rose, are historical novels, taking place in Medieval or Early Modern Europe.

Early tank-mounted flamethrower vehicles included the ' Badger ' ( a converted Ram tank ) and the ' Oke ', used first at Dieppe ; the most famous flame tank was the Churchill Crocodile.

The van Eycks ' Ghent Altarpiece, then as now famous as a supreme example of Early Netherlandish painting and already a major tourist attraction, just restored in 1550, was saved by dismantling it and hiding it in the cathedral tower.

The Early Dynastic II period is when Gilgamesh, the famous king of Uruk, is believed to have reigned.

The Lady Chapel and Bishop Robert's Chapel were added in the 13th Century in the Early English style, and in the 15th century, the choir section was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, including the fan-vaulting Sherborne is still famous for, the remodelling by William Smyth, under Abbot John Brunyng ( 1415 – 1436 ).

Pioneer days in Laguna Beach and its growth from a few scattered buildings to one of the most beautiful seaside resorts in the West as well as a famous California art colony was vividly recounted by J. S. Thurston ( born in 1868 ), a son of one of the community's original settlers, in Laguna Beach of Early Days ( The Press of Murray & Gee, Culver City, California, 1947 ).

Early records say that Father Jacques Marquette, the famous French Jesuit who endeared himself to the Native Indian population of Northern Michigan, planted a huge white cross on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan before his death in 1675.

* Early American Botanist John Bartram, the father of the even more famous traveler and botanist William Bartram, was born in Darby.

Early printings of this dictionary contained the famous dord.

Many famous books, Harriet Martineau's Tales, Anna Brownell Jameson's Early Italian Painters and G. H. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy, appeared for the first time in this series.

Early in the 20th century, Pavlo Humeniuk of Philadelphia became famous in North America for his fiddle music.

Early in the twentieth century, German silver was used by automobile manufacturers before the advent of steel sheet metal ; for example, the famous Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost of 1907.

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.

Early players were Eddie Durham, Floyd Smith and the most famous of them, Charlie Christian.

They were equally famous for publicity stunts, their most famous coming in 1968 when Penny Ann Early, the first licensed female horse racing jockey, was signed to appear in an ABA game ( albeit for a few seconds ).

Another prehistoric pigeon, C. congi, was described from Early Pleistocene remains found in the famous Zhoukoudian caves in China.

The band also made its first Top Of The Pops appearance with the single " After the Watershed ( Early Learning The Hard Way )", a song about child abuse that would become more famous for its subsequent legal battle with The Rolling Stones ' publisher over the use of the lyrics " Goodbye Ruby Tuesday " in the chorus.

Early Mehrgarh residents lived in mud brick houses, stored their grain in granaries, fashioned tools with local copper ore, and lined their large basket containers with bitumen.

Early residents lived in mud brick houses, stored grain in granaries, fashioned tools with copper ore, cultivated barley, wheat, jujubes and dates, and herded sheep, goats and cattle.

Early Muslim chronicler Ibn Ishaq tells of a pre-Islamic conflict between the last Yemenite king of the Himyarite Kingdom and the residents of Yathrib.

Early residents during the California Gold Rush era lived here as squatters on the Rancho San Lorenzo, and the informal name given to the area was Squattersville.

Early residents opened gas stations, insurance agencies, the Hallmark Store, Baskin Robbins Ice Creme, the veterinary office, medical offices, a travel agency, churches, and the florist shop.

Early residents referred to it as ‘ Funck ’ s Jerusalem Town ’ which became part of Washington County in 1776.

Early on Tyngsborough residents fought a series of small and bloody skirmishes with local Native American tribes.

Early residents of Plympton were mostly farmers, living off the land.

Early residents of European heritage primarily used sail-powered vessels to travel to and from the islands.

Early residents were German, Irish and families from the New England area.

Early residents, friends and relatitives soon began gathering for camp meetings ( like current day revivals ), near the south end of College Street.

Early residents were almost entirely self-sufficient.

Early Ohio Company residents who worked at the settlement ( and who explored the surrounding countryside ) included Hugh Parker and Christopher Gist.

Early residents of the village were French Canadians and Menomonee Indians.

Early residents in the area made their living catching the region's plentiful waterfowl.

Early in 2003, after much campaigning, residents finally won their settlement two new road signs, and widespread recognition, as their story made the national news.

The inclusion of copper bells, elaborate rings, and button like ornaments in Early and Middle Postclassic elite burials shows that at least some residents of the site displayed such items in certain social and ritual settings.

Early European traders who arrived in the cross river territories referred to groups who lived outside of the coastal areas as residents of Egbo-Sharry Country.

Early in 2005 residents voted against officially changing the name of the village to the native one, as Pangnirtung has achieved an international reputation for producing high-quality traditional arts, as well as printmaking and weaving.

Early residents in the neighborhood worked in for Learbury Suits, Nettleton Shoes and other Northside factories.

Early results showed that Tucson residents discarded 10 per cent of the food they purchased and that middle-income households wasted more food than the poor or wealthy.

Early life in the colony was spartan with some residents using a barn as shelter-piped water did not arrive until 1949 and electricity not until 1954.

Early reports suggest that many residents of the nearby town of Minamisanriku, which was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami, had evacuated to Tome.

Early residents found the Flats inhospitable, with humid summers that brought airborne illness and harsh winters with strong winds and snowfall off Lake Erie.