Early European settlers, unfamiliar with the sights and sounds of the island continent's peculiar fauna, regarded the bunyip as one more strange Australian animal and sometimes attributed unfamiliar animal calls or cries to it.

Early settlers bristled at the control exterted by Mormon-influenced officials and desired the creation of the Nevada territory.

Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

Early European settlers to the United States brought from Europe the concept of the commons.

Early settlers of fertile land in Mesopotamia used wooden plows to soften the soil before planting crops such as barley, onions, grapes, turnips, and apples.

Early British settlers called it by many names, such as watermole, duckbill, and duckmole.

Early American settlers in south Texas began to use the modern ' English ' name Rio Grande.

Early settlers in the area had cut down the native forests to fuel blast furnaces that processed the iron ore found there, leaving only a secondary growth of dense shrubs.

Early settlers constructed drainage canals to make the land usable for agriculture, which remained the dominant use of land until the 1960s, when construction of large housing tracts accelerated.

Early settlers traveled between the islands by canoe using traditional stick charts.

Early in 1869, however, settlers began to cross the Verdigris River, " at first under protest of the Indians, but the immense throng of settlers soon made all protests futile.

Early British settlers introduced Western culture | Western stock and crops and Australian agriculture now produces an abundance of fresh produce.

Early settlers to Nebraska built houses with thick walls made of dirt and sod because wood, stone, and other building materials were scarce.

Early French settlers, immigrating mostly from the Normandy and Poitou regions in France, were attracted to the island because of its fertile soil.

Early European settlers in the region, however, did not record much about the culture of the natives.

Early settlers named the first county seat of Hardin after him.

Early human settlers in New Zealand ( the Māori arrived around the year 1280 ) preyed heavily on large flightless birds, including all moa species, eventually hunting them to extinction.

Early settlers found Dimmit County to be an abundant grassland with mesquite, oak, and ash trees and wildlife that included buffalo, deer, turkeys, wild horses, panthers, and javelinas.

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Early white settlers were in the county in 1836 and were probably hunters.

Early white settlers during that time were primarily serving as missionaries to the tribes.

Early settlers called it the Devil's Lake and there were many reported sightings of a monster.

Early settlers were attracted to Lick Creek, and then the Salamonie River, because the nearby land had suitable drainage for farming.

Early settlers include John M. Smith, Millege McCall, John William Sweeney, George W. Wakefield, William Doxey, James Hale, James Root, and John M. Miller.

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

Early Spring came from her bed, from beside her half-drunk husband, Walitzee, and stood at the entrance way to her lodge hearing the mild commotion, the sound of hushed voices.

Early struggles were against school segregation, but the Mexican-American cause, or " La Causa " as it was called, soon came under the banner of the United Farm Workers and César Chávez.

He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the " northern realism " of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.

Early the next morning, Haman came to the king to ask permission to hang Mordecai, but before he could, the king asked him " What should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Early versions of the program came with both color-coded key stickers and a plastic full-keyboard template to make Wang operators more comfortable with the smaller IBM PC keyboard.

However, lack of archaeological evidence for Nazareth from Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic or Early Roman times, at least in the major excavations between 1955 and 1990, shows that the settlement apparently came to an abrupt end about 720 BC, when many towns in the area were destroyed by the Assyrians.

Early British punks expressed nihilistic views with the slogan No Future, which came from the Sex Pistols song " God Save the Queen ".

Early Gestapo activities came into direct conflict with the SS and it was not until the SA became a common enemy that Göring turned over control of the Gestapo to Himmler and Heydrich ( the three then worked together to destroy the greater threat of the SA leadership ).

Early support for Darwin's ideas came from the findings of field naturalists studying biogeography and ecology, including Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860, and Asa Gray in 1862.

Historically these beliefs were notable in Early Modern Europe of the 14th to 18th century, where witchcraft came to be seen as a vast diabolical conspiracy against Christianity and accusations of witchcraft led to large-scale witch-hunts, especially in Germanic Europe.

Early emigrants came primarily from the coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian ( Fukien, Hokkien ) – where Cantonese, Hakka, and Chaozhou ( Teochew, Chiu Chow ) and Hokkien are largely spoken — in southeastern China.

The first significant renewal of learning in the West came with the Carolingian Renaissance of the Early Middle Ages.

Early in the century the school of criticism known as Russian Formalism, and slightly later the New Criticism in Britain and America, came to dominate the study and discussion of literature.

Early action came in the form of the 1948 Displaced Persons Act, the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, and the Refugee-Escapee Act of 1957.

Early " Proto-Cossack " groups very likely came into existence within the territories of today's Ukraine in the mid-13th century as the Golden Horde influence grew weak.

The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided.

Early immigrants to California came with skills in many trades and some had come from places where workers were being organized.

Early radio support in New York's surrounding Tri state area came from Pat Duncan, who had hosted live punk and hardcore bands weekly on WFMU since 1979.

The palace came into existence during the Early Dynastic I period.

Palaces and city walls came much later after temples in the Early Dynastic Period.

Early interaction of these Native Americans with Europeans came with the Spanish colonization via the establishment of missions in this area, with the missions in San Jose, Sonoma, and San Francisco and particularly the establishment of a Presidio ( a military establishment ) in 1776.

Early in 1920 Karl Harrer was forced out of the DAP as Hitler moved to sever the party's link with the Thule Society, which subsequently fell into decline and was dissolved about five years later, well before Hitler came to power.

Early Halloween costumes were aimed at children in particular, but after the mid-20th century, as Halloween increasingly came to be celebrated by adults, the Halloween costume was worn by adults as much as children.