Early rehearsals took place in Cocker's house and featured Cocker, Dalton and Dalton's younger brother Ian.

Early BOFH editions took place in a university, moving on to an office workplace over time ( an exact transition is not given ).

Early in 1969 Bubbles took the lease on a three-storey building at 307 Portobello Road in Notting Hill Gate, West London.

Early on Monday morning, 24 April 1916, roughly 1, 200 Volunteers and Citizen Army members took over strongpoints in Dublin city centre.

Early Methodists were drawn from all levels of society, including the aristocracy, but the Methodist preachers took the message to labourers and criminals who tended to be left outside organized religion at that time.

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

Early training in public speaking took place in ancient Egypt.

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

Early in the sixth season, the producers took advantage of the new location, setting the show in parts of the country they had not been able to write episodes in previously.

Early versions of Zenith Z-DOS ( a re-branded variant of MS-DOS 1. 25 ) had the command " xyzzy " which took a parameter of " on " or " off ".

Sharing Erasmus ' translation ideals, Tyndale took the ill-regarded, unpopular and awkward Middle-English " vulgar " tongue, improved upon it using Greek and Hebrew syntaxes and idioms, and formed an Early Modern English basis Shakespeare and others would later follow and build on as Tyndale-inspired vernacular forms took over.

Early on, Rosa took an interest in political and social causes.

Early in 188, Cleander disposed of the current praetorian prefect, Atilius Aebutianus, and himself took over supreme command of the Praetorians at the new rank of a pugione (" dagger-bearer ") with two praetorian prefects subordinate to him.

Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, William I, Count of Holland.

Early copyright law had begun to undercut the Stationers, and the university took pains to lease out its bible work to experienced printers.

Early Swedish victories at Humlebaek and at the Battle of Narva in 1700 temporarily took both Denmark and Russia out of the war.

Sumerian civilization took form in the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ), continuing into the Jemdat Nasr and Early Dynastic periods.

During most of the Early Middle Ages, the town of Poitiers took advantage of its defensive site and of its location, which was far from the centre of Frankish power.

Early dam building took place in Mesopotamia and the Middle East.

Early computers took up the space of a room.

There is no way to verify the figures reported by Roman historiographers, but if they are taken at face value, the scale of the witch-hunts in the Roman Republic in relation to the population of Italy at the time far exceeded anything that took place during the " classical " witch-craze in Early Modern Europe.

Old historical literature sometimes claims the Basques took control of the whole of Novempopulania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of Gregory of Tours, on the etymological link between the words " Basque " and " Gascon " – both derived from " Vascones " or " Wasconia ", the latter being used to name the whole of Novempopulania.

Early science fiction author Jules Verne took up residence in Amiens in 1871, having met his wife there at a wedding in 1856.

Early in the American Civil War, the Battle of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861.

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 episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow ( William Roache ), who had won a place at university and thus found his background something of an embarrassment.

Early warnings, made a few days ahead of potential events, are of significant benefit, giving additional time to allow contingency plans to be put into place.

Early in the novella, Marlow recounts how London, the largest, most populous and wealthiest city in the world, was a dark place in Roman times.

The developments of Late Antiquity in the religious thought in the far-flung Roman Empire needs to be addressed separately, as this is the context in which Early Christianity itself developed as one of several monotheistic cults, and it was in this period that the concept of " pagan " developed in the first place.

Early Pictish religion is presumed to have resembled Celtic polytheism in general, although only place names remain from the pre-Christian era.

Early on, Tórshavn became the center of the monopoly trade, thereby being the only legal place for the islanders to sell and buy goods.

Early church lists place him as the second or third bishop of Rome after Saint Peter.

Early historians described him as a military genius, but by the 20th century his tactical acumen was reconsidered ; Philip Haigh suspects that the earl largely owed some of his victories, such as the First Battle of St Albans, to being in the right place at the right time.

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.

Late Middle English and the transition to Early Modern English takes place from the early 15th century and is taken to have been complete by the beginning of the Tudor period in 1485.

Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place.

* Borislav Pekic's novels are recognized as unusually deeply researched historical novels, taking place in Medieval and Early Modern Europe as well as several during WWII, most notably in his acclaimed, How to Quiet a Vampire.

* 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.

Broadly speaking, they have tended to produce theories which place their subject at the centre of the history of north Britain in the Early Historic period.

Early versions of dictionaries produced in Burns ' wake in the 19th century had titles such as " A Dictionary of the Scotch Dialect of the Lowlands " and modern place names now written as " Scots " e. g., Scotstarvit and Scotscalder existed in previous incarnations as " Scotch ".

Early eyepieces were designed to be either held in place by hand or by exerting pressure on the nose ( pince-nez ).

Under General Jubal A. Early ’ s command and following Lee ’ s orders, General John B. Gordon was to place Lancaster and the surrounding farming area “ under contribution ” for the Confederate Army ’ s war supplies and to attack Harrisburg from the east side of the river, while another portion of Lee ’ s army advanced from the west side.

Early Zemple was a place where the Minneapolis & Rainy River Railway had a roundhouse with 12 engines.