The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.

The Soviets understand, moreover, that the first step in turning a country toward Communism is to turn it against the West.

During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.

Frogs range in size from the goliath frog ( Conraua goliath ) of West Africa to the long Paedophryne amauensis, first described in Papua New Guinea in 2012.

* In 1858, Cyrus West Field laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable ( it quickly failed ).

In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, " Priest-Apostolic " to America and the West Indies.

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself " King of the Anglo-Saxons ".

The first mentions of the numerals in the West are found in the Codex Vigilanus of 976.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

* 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

In 1980, after a nine game winning streak, the Falcons posted a franchise then-best record of 12 – 4 and captured their first NFC West division title.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

She was one of the first women to explore fully the realm of erotic writing, and certainly the first prominent woman in the modern West to write erotica.

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

For example, he almost always uses the terms " Australes " and " Occidentales " for the South and West Saxons respectively, but in a passage in the first book he uses " Meridiani " and " Occidui " instead, as perhaps his informant had done.

The first recorded use of the term Bretwalda comes from a West Saxon chronicle of the late 9th century that applied the term to Ecgberht, who ruled from 802 to 839.

Little was known in the West about the island until the 19th century, although Portuguese and Spanish explorers, such as Dom Jorge de Meneses and Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, respectively, had encountered it as early as the 16th century.

A massive interchange near the Naval Weapons Station Earle is then encountered with exits for Industrial Way West, County Route 547 ( Wyckoff Road ), New Jersey Route 36, Hope Road, the Garden State Parkway, the Tinton Falls interchange ( Exit 105 ), and County Route 38 ( Wayside Road ).

Probably the best-known explanation holds that when an early group of Jamestown colonists left to return to England after the Starving Time during the winter of 1609 – 1610 aboard a ship of Captain Christopher Newport, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supplies.

West Terre Haute is the last community in Indiana encountered travelling westbound on US 40 before crossing into Illinois.

One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems, including censorship.

* West Coast liberal, a stereotype encountered in American political culture

One of the academics present at the meeting, William Channing Webb, a professor of anthropology at Princeton, states that on an 1860 expedition " high up on the West Greenland coast " he had encountered " a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness and repulsiveness.

# Gullah arose independently in South Carolina and Georgia in the 18th and 19th centuries when African slaves on rice plantations developed their own creole language combining features of the English they encountered in America with the West and Central African languages they brought with them on the Middle Passage.

In a similar book, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West, William Bartram described in great detail the Southern landscape and the Native American peoples whom he encountered ; Bartram's book was very popular in Europe, being translated into German, French and Dutch.

Depictions of East Asians began during the California Gold Rush when minstrels encountered Chinese out West.

After Chronicle reporter Marshall Kilduff encountered resistance to publishing an exposé, he brought his story to New West Magazine.

They were about to leave for the West Indies when they encountered a fleet of 42 Portuguese ships in the Todos os Santos ' Bay, waiting for two men-of-war of 70 guns each to escort them to Lisbon.

It was named after Dirk Hartog, a Dutch sea captain, who first encountered the West Australian coastline close to the 26th parallel south latitude, which runs through the island.

It was likely that it was while working with the North West Company that Charbonneau encountered the established settlement of Mandan and Hidatsa tribes on the upper Missouri River, near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.

The Hayden party, 34 men in all, encountered the lake at the outlet on July 28, 1871 spending two days there and returned to the lake at West Thumb on August 7, 1871.

The Hawken rifles evolved from the Kentucky Rifle for use against larger, more dangerous game encountered in the American West.

The poet Robert Lowell encountered Buchalter in prison during the 1940's when Lowell was incarcerated for being a conscientious objector during the Second World War, and the poet described his encounter with Buchalter ( whom he calls " Czar Lepke ") in his poem " Memories of West Street and Lepke " which he published in his seminal book Life Studies ( 1959 ).

Vieillot described a large number of birds for the first time, especially those he encountered during the time he spent in the West Indies and North America, and 26 genera established by him are still in use.

When the crew of three American cruisers he encountered denied knowledge of Cervera's whereabouts, Schley decided to return to Key West, Florida, to get coal for his ship.

Myers played " Dieter ", a character based on a waiter Myers encountered in Toronto, a bored, disaffected West German expressionist and minimalist who would interview celebrities in whom he was demonstrably barely interested, and then invariably sought to bring the discussion around to his " limited " monkey, Klaus, seated on a platform atop a miniature column.

In the West, they were first encountered in very small numbers late in the Battle of Normandy, where the German 654 schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung (" 654th Heavy Antitank Battalion ") deployed about 12 Jagdpanthers against British units.

Along with this came all of the abuses already encountered in the West such as child labor and unsafe working conditions.

This applies in particular to Gassire's lute, an epic from West Africa which Frobenius had encountered in Mali.

Mercury, which was so vital to alchemy everywhere, is first mentioned in the 4th-to 3rd-century-BC Artha-śāstra, about the same time it is encountered in China and in the West.