Perhaps the earliest prototype for a law of government, this document itself has not yet been discovered ; however it is known that it allowed some rights to his citizens.

Perhaps the earliest algorithms used in speech encoding ( and audio data compression in general ) were the A-law algorithm and the µ-law algorithm.

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

Perhaps as a result of this, and the fact that Le Morte D ' Arthur was one of the earliest printed books in England, published by William Caxton in 1485, most later Arthurian works are derivative of Malory's.

Perhaps best known among these is one of the first computerized video games, Spacewar !, but among the list are the first text editor, word processor, interactive debugger, the first credible computer chess program, and some of the earliest computerized music.

Perhaps the earliest of these, Polybius ( 2nd century BC ), uses Pados ( in Greek ) and says that it was to be identified with the Eridanos of the poets.

Perhaps the most technically challenging part of his work — and that which has benefited most from the advances since his earliest pieces — is his use of extreme slow motion.

Perhaps the earliest reference to the concept comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: " I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence — the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace ".

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy ( German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915 ), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

Perhaps the earliest recorded example is the prohibition of the use of alcohol under Islamic law ( Sharia ), which is usually attributed to passages in the Qur ' an dating from the 7th century.

Perhaps the earliest contribution to seismology was the invention of a seismoscope by the prolific inventor Zhang Heng in 132 AD.

Perhaps the earliest free recordings in jazz are two pieces recorded under the leadership of jazz pianist Lennie Tristano: " Intuition " and " Digression ", both recorded in 1949 with a sextet including saxophone players Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh.

Perhaps their earliest description is in the 1929 essay " The World, The Flesh, & The Devil " by J. D. Bernal.

Perhaps the earliest surviving free-standing stone crosses are at Carndonagh, Donegal, which appear to be erected by missionaries from Iona.

Perhaps the earliest known description of a location of an Arthurian Court.

Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of Twenty Questions, which debuted on 28 February 1947.

Perhaps the earliest case of hypnotism as negating voluntary conduct is California v. Ebanks,.

Perhaps its earliest known example appears on Stone Age amulets: three dots, without the enclosing circle.

Perhaps motivated by the fate of his brother, some of his earliest reforms dealt with the judiciary system.

Perhaps its earliest known example appears on Stone Age amulets: three dots, without the enclosing circle.

Perhaps the earliest study asked people to judge sexual orientation from video clips, with results concluding that it was a myth.

Perhaps the earliest popularizer of Breton guitar was Dan Ar Braz, who continues to be an influential figure in a somewhat jazzy, easy-listening vein.

Perhaps the earliest such published usage is the character Orion in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter.

Perhaps the earliest detective comedy is Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. from 1924.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

Perhaps the most important example is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights under the UN Charter.

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.

Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.

Perhaps the most famous example was the village of Eyam in Derbyshire.

Perhaps the most striking example is the Athenian king Erechtheus, whom Poseidon killed for choosing Athena over him as the city's patron god.

Perhaps the oldest commercially practiced example of ester hydrolysis is saponification ( formation of soap ).

Perhaps the best-known example is Toronto Bay, chosen as the site of the Upper Canada ( Ontario ) capital for its strategic harbour.

Perhaps the outstanding example was John Dryden's English version of the poems of Virgil, published in 1697.

Perhaps the most recent example of this is point shooting which relies on muscle memory to more effectively utilize a firearm in a variety of awkward situations, much the way an iaidoka would master movements with their sword.

Perhaps the most well-known example of mecha in Western culture are the Walkers such as the AT-AT and AT-ST from the Star Wars series of films.

Perhaps the clearest example of cracks in Stroessner's regime was the assassination of Somoza.

Perhaps the most high-profile example of this was, in 1980 the Metropolitan Police handing control of the Iranian Embassy Siege to the Special Air Service.

Perhaps the most heard, yet often unrecognized, example of the use of a Vocoder in popular music, is on Michael Jackson's 1982 Album, " Thriller " in the Song " PYT " " Pretty Young Thing ".

Perhaps the most famous example is the case of Peter Stumpp ( executed in 1589 ), the German farmer, and alleged serial killer and cannibal, also known as the Werewolf of Bedburg.

Perhaps the best example of this is the conversion of several obsolete retail complexes into shopping malls and commercial centres.

Perhaps the most effective and most used cross fingering is that which produces a flattened form of the seventh note ( B flat instead of B on a C whistle, for example, or C natural instead of C sharp on a D whistle ).

Perhaps the most famous example of this is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ) where a character's internal state of mind is represented through set design and blocking.

Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is the attempted MCI Worldcom / Sprint merger.

Perhaps the best example of fractal expressionism is found in Jackson Pollock's dripped patterns.

Perhaps the most famous example in modern times was the 1900 marriage of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Bohemian aristocrat Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkowa.

Perhaps the first example of a human made device designed to manage power is the hand axe, made by chipping flint to form a wedge.