The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

It was published in Des Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The Religious Society of Friends or Quaker Church is one of the earliest American opponents of capital punishment and unequivocally opposes execution in all its forms.

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

In 1976, American DJ, editor, and producer Walter Gibbons remixed " Ten Percent " by Double Exposure, one of the earliest commercially released 12 ″ singles ( aka " maxi-single ").

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

One of the earliest purely " American " rifle-shooting competitions took place in 1775, when Daniel Morgan was recruiting sharpshooters in Virginia for the impending American Revolutionary War.

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

) The earliest use of the phrase seems to have been in an IBM advertising supplement to the New York Times published on April 30, 1961 and by Frank Fremont-Smith, Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference Program, in an April 1961 article in the AIBS Bulletin ( p.

* 2004 American research study on interstitial cystitis history — earliest known descriptions of bladder inflammation and interstitial cystitis

* John Ford Home, American National Register historic landmark in Mississippi's Marion County, Mississippi ; built in 1809 by one of region's earliest settlers, John Ford ( minister )

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The earliest record of Native American and African contact occurred in April 1502, when Spanish colonists transported the first Africans to Hispaniola to serve as slaves.

The earliest known propaganda film was a series of short silent films made during the Spanish American War in 1898 created by Vitagraph Studios.

The earliest American full preterist work was ' The Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ: A Past Event ', which was written in 1845 by Robert Townley.

The earliest occurrence of the term " red-shift " in print ( in this hyphenated form ), appears to be by American astronomer Walter S. Adams in 1908, where he mentions " Two methods of investigating that nature of the nebular red-shift ".

One of the earliest proponents of sedevacantism was the American Francis Schuckardt.

Her earliest American ancestors were the immigrants John Anthony ( 1607 – 1675 ), who was from Hempstead, Essex, and his wife, Susanna Potter ( c. 1623-1674 ), who was from London, Middlesex.

Working in relative isolation, he became the earliest theoretical scientist in the United States to earn an international reputation and was praised by Albert Einstein as " the greatest mind in American history.

The earliest projects for preserving historic homes began in the 1850s under the direction of individuals concerned with the public good and the preservation of American history, especially centered on the first president.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The Khitan had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Muye where portraits of their earliest ancestor Qishou Khagan, his wife Kedun and eight sons were kept in two temples.

While earliest known fossils of anatomically modern humans date from around 195, 000 years ago, the matrilinear most recent common ancestor shared by all living humans ( dubbed Mitochondrial Eve ), is dated to about 120-150 thousand years ago.

Their earliest common ancestor is one Andrei Kobyla, attested as a boyar in the service of Semyon I of Moscow.

He cited Richard Owen's findings that the earliest members of a class were a few simple and generalised species with characteristics intermediate between modern forms, and were followed by increasingly diverse and specialised forms, matching the branching of common descent from an ancestor.

The latter was featured in the story King Scrooge the First by Carl Barks and Tony Strobl, first published in October, 1967, as the earliest known ancestor of Scrooge McDuck.

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

* Kedahan Malay, the earliest settler in Malay Peninsular and young ancestor to the people of Malay Archipelago

Some Koreans think of it as the earliest Korean state and of Dangun as the ancestor of Koreans, and from 1948 until December 1961, the Republic of Korea officially reckoned years by adding 2333 to the Common Era year.

In other cases, Plains aborigine families adopted common Han surnames, but traced their earliest ancestor to their locality in Taiwan.

Desi is likely the earliest form since it closely resembles seeds found both on archaeological sites and the wild plant ancestor ( Cicer reticulatum ) of domesticated chickpeas, which only grows in southeast Turkey, where it is believed to have originated.

* Martin AuCoin, earliest known ancestor of U. S. Congressman Les AuCoin

The earliest known possible Fry ancestor is supposed to be Richard Fry who married secondly Joan Beaufort, great granddaughter of John of Gaunt.

This was the earliest ancestor of modern DC motor.

Their fortune derived from its earliest known ancestor, Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton, Warwickshire, who bought Althorp in 1522 from the Catesby family with the huge profits from his sheep-rearing business.

This is the most primitive radula type, and we could assume it represents the plesiomorphic condition i. e., the primitive character state, that is taken from an ancestor without change, such as would be possessed by the earliest molluscs ( Eogastropoda, also Polyplacophora ; limpet families Patellidae, Lottiidae, Lepetidae ).

The HAAC's earliest ancestor was the Missouri College Athletic Union, which was formed in 1924 when the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( now the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association ) split in two.

It is one of the earliest members of the genus Homo, possibly ancestral to, or sharing a common ancestor with, Homo erectus.

Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors.

In particular the Vedic culture of India was thought to have been the ancestor of European Classical cultures, and scholars sought to compare the genetically related European and Asian languages in order to reconstruct the earliest form of the root-language.

The earliest ancestor of the Rutland, the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, was chartered in 1843 by the state of Vermont to build between Rutland and Burlington.

Its earliest ancestor was the Democratic Republican Party under the rule of Park Chung-hee in 1963.

Homo habilis was named " skillful " because it was considered the earliest tool-using human ancestor.