According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

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Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

Image: Ballista-quadrirotis. jpeg | Early modern four-wheeled ballista drawn by armored horses ( 1552 )

Early computers permitted only a few letters or digits in the name of a file, but modern computers allow long names ( some up to 255 characters ) containing almost any combination of unicode letters or unicode digits, making it easier to understand the purpose of a file at a glance.

Early modern era in Germany also witnessed the so called unehrliche Leute ( dishonourable or dishonest people ), an outcaste group.

Early pioneers of what became known as modern dance include Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman and Ruth St. Denis.

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( Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms ' nominal essence ' and ' real essence ').

* Early modern Britain

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In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

Early shariah had a much more flexible character, and some modern Muslim scholars believe that it should be renewed, and that the classical jurists should lose special status.

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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.

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Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

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Europe's view of the shape of the Earth in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages may be best expressed by the writings of early Christian scholars:

The School of Ross in Munster was one of Europe's leading centers of learning in the Early Middle Ages.

Even in its diminished size as it existed in the Early Modern Period, the duchy played a pivotal role in Europe's politics long after it lost its role as an independent political identity ended in 1477 due to marriages and wars over territories between princes who were related to former rulers.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

But his first few days with Troop H were full of surprises, beginning with First Sergeant Robert Early.

Agnostida is an order of arthropod which first developed near the end of the Early Cambrian period and thrived during the Middle Cambrian.

* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

* A ( Cyrillic ), the first letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet

Early croquet-like game from The Sports and Pastimes of the people of England, first published 1801.

" Early detective stories tended to follow an investigating protagonist from the first scene to the last, making the unraveling a practical rather than emotional matter.

It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.

Early wet cells powered the first telegraph and telephone systems, and were the source of current for electroplating.

* Early endosomes are the first station of the endocytic pathway.

Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

Early Christianity may be divided into 2 distinct phases: the apostolic period, when the first apostles were alive and led the Church, and the post-apostolic period, when an early episcopal structure developed, and persecution was periodically intense.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

The Sumerian civilization spanned over 3000 years and began with the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period ( mid-6th millennium BC ) through the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ) and the Early Dynastic periods ( 3rd millennium BC ) until the rise of Assyria and Babylonia in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC respectively.

* IBM RAMAC 305 ( vacuum tube logic, first computer with disk storage ; see: Early IBM disk storage )

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.

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

Early photos show the Merzbau with a grotto-like surface and various columns and sculptures, possibly referring to similar pieces by Dadaists, including the Great Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama by Johannes Baader, shown at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920.

Early results of the first post-independence elections in January 1970 indicated that the BNP might lose control.