Early on, when civilizations lacked the resources necessary to construct and maintain prisons, exile and execution were the primary forms of punishment.

Early in 1941 they were assigned to a script titled Hot Nocturne.

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

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

Early atomic time scales consisted of quartz clocks with frequencies calibrated by a single atomic clock ; the atomic clocks were not operated continuously.

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.

Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th – 15th century were made of iron.

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.

Early forms of industry developed at this time ; however, unlike in other cities, no guilds were formed in Aarau.

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.

Early ammeters were laboratory instruments which relied on the Earth's magnetic field for operation.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

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, African-influenced banjos were built around a gourd body and a wooden stick neck.

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 buses, known as trolleybus, were powered by electricity supplied from overhead lines.

Early buses were merely a bus body fitted to a truck chassis.

Early horse-drawn buses were a combination of a hackney carriage and a stagecoach.

Early battles were probably fought between rival hunting bands as disorganized mobs.

Early implementations were for the DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11 minicomputers using early Unix, and Honeywell 36-bit mainframes running the operating system GCOS.

Early traces of bricks were found in a ruin site in Xi ' an in 2009 dated back about 3800 years ago.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

Early computer installations were designed only to support a single writing system, typically for left-to-right scripts based on the Latin alphabet only.

Early releases of AutoCAD used primitive entities — lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text — to construct more complex objects.

Early computers used a variety of 4-bit binary coded decimal ( BCD ) representations and the 6-bit codes for printable graphic patterns common in the U. S. Army ( Fieldata ) and Navy.

Early computers used one of two addressing methods to access the system memory ; binary ( base 2 )

Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

Early Bayesian inference, which used uniform priors following Laplace's principle of insufficient reason, was called " inverse probability " ( because it infers backwards from observations to parameters, or from effects to causes ).

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

Early computer buses were parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same logical functionality as a parallel electrical bus.

Early models used a drive mechanism made by Alps Electric, distinguishable by its push-down drive door.

Early light cavalry ( like the auxiliaries of the Roman army ) were typically used to scout and skirmish, to cut down retreating infantry, and for defeating enemy missile troops.

Early Eastern Zhou texts, such as the Spring and Autumn Annals, provide better understanding of the calendars used in the Zhou dynasty.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

Early Buddhist and Jaina sources used-to refer to a people of south India ( presumably Tamil );-was a southern non-Aryan country ; -,, and-were used as variants to designate a country in the south (, Kādambarī, Daśakumāracarita -, fourth to seventh centuries CE ) ( 1989: 134 – 138 ).

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

Early cartridge shotguns also used the SxS action, because they kept the exposed hammers of the earlier muzzle-loading shotguns they evolved from.

In Anglo-Saxon England, as prescribed in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England ( also called Læceboc ) ( many of whose recipes were borrowed from Greek medicinal texts ), dill was used in many traditional medicines, including medicines against jaundice, headache, boils, lack of appetite, stomach problems, nausea, liver problems, and much more.

Early color motion picture processes such as Kinemacolor and Prizmacolor used travelogues to promote the new color process.

Early commercial digital synthesizers used simple hard-wired digital circuitry to implement techniques such as additive synthesis and FM synthesis, becoming commercially available in the late 1970s.

Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.

Early storage devices such as delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, and magnetic drums were used instead.

Early Christians in Britain and Ireland also used an 84-year cycle.