" They attempted to destroy these books, the earliest vita already says, and this account underlies the status of the Ragyndrudis Codex, now held as a Bonifacian relic in Fulda, and supposedly one of three books found on the field by the Christians who inspected it afterward.

However this first verse does not occur in the earliest known version from the Guodian Chu Slips and there is speculation that it may have been added by later commentators.

This is consistent with the celebration of Easter having entered Christianity during its earliest, Jewish period, but does not leave the question free of doubt.

The earliest known such reference to Josephus ' work is found in the writings of the third century patristic author Origen, although he does not provide any direct reference to the passages involving Jesus.

One recent academic survey that does attempt this, by Thomas Green, identifies three key strands to the portrayal of Arthur in this earliest material.

The fact that theirs are the earliest attested names of Israelite kings and that the kingdom of Israel became associated with that of the former does not, however, establish that either was considered by these sources to actually be the first king of Israel.

It has often been supposed that all the earliest Popes suffered martyrdom ; but the Roman Martyrology does not give Pope Soter the title of Martyr.

The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).

The earliest standard that defines the algorithm ( ANS X9. 52, published in 1998 ) describes it as the " Triple Data Encryption Algorithm ( TDEA )" — i. e. three operations of the Data Encryption Algorithm specified in ANSI X3. 92 — and does not use the terms " Triple DES " or " DES " at all.

Though he does not regard himself as a Historical Jesus scholar, he suggests that Jesus was a wandering sage, similar in style to the Greco-Roman cynics, and that the earliest " Jesus Movements " followed a similar model.

However, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was put together in the late ninth century ; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four hundred years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.

It does not appear that the Oriental philosophy, or the earliest Gnostic systems, recognised any place higher than the eighth sphere ; and it is here that according to the account of Epiphanius ( Haer.

After defining a " First Period " of inscriptional Latin and the literature of the earliest known authors and fragments, to which he assigns no definitive name ( he does use the term " Old Roman " at one point ), Teuffel presents " the second period ", his major, " das goldene Zeitalter der römischen Literatur ", the Golden Age of Roman Literature, dated 671 – 767 AUC or 83 BC – 14 AD according to his time reckoning, between the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the death of the emperor Augustus.

This is the earliest possible date for construction of the bridge, but the surviving county road docket on the construction does not mention either bridges or fords for crossing the creek.

The earliest English account is that of Richard Rowland Verstegan ( 1548 – c. 1636 ), an antiquary and religious controversialist of partly Dutch descent, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( Antwerp, 1605 ); he does not give his source.

The earliest development is somewhat shrouded in mystery ; for instance Flanagan & Nutting's 1835 catalog mentions a ' Penstemon Hybridum ' but does not describe it.

However, when memory is explicitly allocated ( for example in OOP when " new " is specified for an object ), releasing the memory is often left to an asynchronous ' garbage collector ' which does not necessarily release the memory at the earliest opportunity ( as well as consuming some additional CPU resources deciding if it can be ).

Most modern recipes for apple pie require an ounce or two of sugar, but the earliest recipe does not.

Although the Qur ' an makes no mention of the birth of Abraham, as it does of Moses, the earliest incident involving Abraham is his preaching to his father, Azar, who in Judeo-Christian tradition is known as Terah.

It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means'all right, good ,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.

In the Roman Catholic Church the name Valentinus does not yet occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, compiled by the Chronographer of 354.

Likewise, the earliest sunset does not occur on the winter solstice, but rather about two weeks earlier, again depending on the viewer's latitude.

One of the earliest examples is the shot at the end of the title sequence for the 1966 Japanese anime series Speed Racer: as Speed leaps from the Mach Five, he freezes in mid-jump, and then the camera does an arc shot from front to sideways.

The earliest references in print to the sandwich are New York-based but that is not conclusive evidence, though the fact that the earliest, from a 1926 edition of Theatre Magazine, references a " Reuben special " specifically does seem to take its cue from Arnold Reuben's menu.

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

The earliest mention of the root " ceram -" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, " workers of ceramics ", written in Linear b syllabic script.

The earliest mention of dominoes is from Yuan Dynasty China, found in the text Former Events in Wulin.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

The earliest written mention of immunity can be traced back to the plague of Athens in 430 BCE.

The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by Tatian, who calls him " the most admirable Justin ," quotes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him.

Although there are earlier descriptions of an island in the Sunda Strait with a " pointed mountain ," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island " Pulo Carcata " ( pulo is the Sundanese word for " island ").

Although lutes were in widespread use in Europe at least since the 13th century, and documents mention numerous early performers and composers, the earliest surviving music for the instrument dates from the late 15th century.

The earliest recorded mention of Merlot was in the notes of a local Bordeaux official who in 1784 labeled wine made from the grape in the Libournais region as one of the area's best.

" The earliest mention of the attraction of a needle appears in a work composed between AD 20 and 100 ( Louen-heng ): " A lodestone attracts a needle.

The earliest mention of this episode is the notice of the chronicler Sigebert of Gembloux ( died 1112 ), who asserts that the relics were removed to Vézelay through fear of the Saracens.

The earliest mention of the play is found in a 1604 Revels Office account, which records that on " Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers " performed " A Play in the Banketinghouse att Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

The earliest mention of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

Subsequently, one of the earliest texts to mention the use of rockets was the Huolongjing, written by the Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu in the mid-14th century.

One of the earliest historical references to sugarcane is in Chinese manuscripts dating back to 8th century BC which mention the fact that the use of sugarcane originated in India.