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.

Early in World War I, Japan took the opportunity to declare war on Germany and invaded the Northern Marianas, hoping to annex them.

* Jan van Eyck ( before – before 1441 ), Early Netherlandish painter, considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

The remarkable density of archaeological sites of the prehistoric and Early Christian periods uncovered in recent years in the course of development, notably during construction of the Northern Motorway: Gormanston to Monasterboice, or ' Drogheda Bypass ', have shown that the hinterland of Drogheda has been a settled landscape for millennia.

Early Senufo classifications ( e. g. Bendor-Samuel 1971 ) were mainly geographically motivated, dividing the Senufo languages into Northern, Central, and Southern Senufo.

York Minster is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe and clearly charts the development of English Gothic architecture from Early English through to the Perpendicular Period.

Early in Northern Wei history, the state inherited a number of traditions from its initial history as a Xianbei tribe, and some of the more unusual ones, from a traditional Chinese standpoint:

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.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), York became the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army when the division of Major General Jubal Anderson Early spent June 28 – 30, 1863, in and around the town while the brigade of John B. Gordon marched to the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville and back.

Lincoln School Department has two early learning schools, Fairlawn and Northern Early Learning centers, four local schools, Saylesville Elementary School, Lonsdale Elementary School, Central Elementary School, and Northern Lincoln Elementary School, one middle school, Lincoln Middle School, and one high school, Lincoln Senior High School.

The subject was equally popular in Early Netherlandish painting and that of the rest of Northern Europe.

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

* Kirby, David, Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period – The Baltic World 1492-1772, Longman, London, 1990, ISBN 0-582-00410-1

His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years ; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third ( by birth date ) of the three great Early Flemish artists (' Vlaamse Primitieven '), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.

Early in the conflict, Go-Daigo was driven from Kyoto, and the Northern Court contender was installed by Ashikaga, who established a new line of shoguns.

Early Buddhist monks arrived at Dunhuang via the ancient Northern Silk Road, the northernmost route of about in length, which connected the ancient Chinese capital of Xi ' an westward over the Wushao Ling Pass to Wuwei and on to Kashgar.

Decoration became increasingly ornate as the style developed in Northern Europe, whereas in Italy the increased sophistication of figure painting was absorbed into Early Renaissance painting.

Most sculptors are unknown, and the style tended to survive longer in Northern sculpture than painting, as the detailed realism of Early Netherlandish painting was harder to translate into sculpture.

Early written sources show that already during pre-history, Gamla Uppsala was well known in Northern Europe as the residence of the Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty.

His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of Northern Italy, especially Venice.

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Stevens was so outspoken in his condemnation of the Confederacy that Major General Jubal Early of the Army of Northern Virginia made a point of burning much of his iron business, at modern-day Caledonia State Park, to the ground during the Gettysburg Campaign.

* Potrebica, H. " Some Remarks on the Contacts Between the Greek and the Hallstatt Culture Considering the Area of Northern Croatia in the Early Iron Age.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Early Baptist congregations were formed by slaves and free blacks in South Carolina and Virginia.

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.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

Early in the 20th century, the C & O built a new line between the James River Line at Strathmore and the Piedmont Subdivision on the old Virginia Central Railroad's line at Gordonsville.

Early in the 20th century, future Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and his wife established their first home near Berryville, where he undertook extensive agricultural activity growing peaches and apples.

Early settlers in colonial Virginia used dried pennyroyal to eradicate pests.

Early settlers to the area came from Mercer County, West Virginia, which also has a county seat called Princeton.

Patterns of Decay: Shakespeare's Early Histories ( Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 1975 )

Patterns of Decay: Shakespeare's Early Histories ( Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 1975 )

Patterns of Decay: Shakespeare's Early Histories ( Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 1975 )

* Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon ’ s Rebellion in Virginia ( University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1957 )

Early in the 20th century, as the tercentennial of the 1607 Founding of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony neared, leaders in Norfolk, Virginia began a campaign to have the celebration held there.

) Early developing interest in colonial ventures, he joined the Guinea, New England, and Virginia companies, as well as the Virginia Company's offspring, the Somers Isles Company.

Early colonial Virginia was very much a " melting pot " of peoples, but not all of these early multiracial families were ancestral to the later Melungeons.

" Keeping the Trade: The Persistence of Tavernkeeping among Middling Women in Colonial Virginia ," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 140 – 163 in Project MUSE

It was placed under Sheridan's command with orders to repel Early, deal with Confederate guerillas, and press on into the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press.

Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers ( a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ), to develop the Deepwater Railway, a modest 85-mile long short line railroad to access untapped bituminous coal reserves in some of the most rugged sections of southern West Virginia.