The earliest known allegation that links the Whitechapel murders with a prominent London physician was in two articles published by a number of US newspapers between 1895 and 1897.

Concerning Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), one of the earliest historians whose work survives, his recount of strange and unusual tales are gripping but not necessarily representative of the historical record.

A hallmark of the stories is that Perry Mason ( with the assistance of his devoted secretary Della Street and his faithful private investigator Paul Drake ), once embarked on a case, will juggle the evidence using unusual ( even bizarre ) tactics to mislead the police -- but ( except for the very earliest novels ) always in an ethical fashion:

He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation ; " Interlude in B-flat ", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

The unusual and intensive die-linkage of the Qumran silver hoards suggest that the three hoards were buried at the same time, and this would mean at the earliest in 52 / 53 CE.

One of the earliest songs to portray an unusual marriage between yodeling and rock music was " Hocus Pocus " by the Dutch band Focus.

Some of the earliest forms of diversification were by changing the fillings with ingredients considered unusual then.

This gave it an unusual prominence in earliest European times which disappeared as Europeans became more familiar with New Zealand's geography.

One of the earliest, Les Ballets Africains, offered the unusual sight of topless women.

Loeffler often cultivated unusual combinations of instruments, and was one of the earliest modern enthusiasts for the viola d ' amore, which he discovered in 1894 and wrote parts for in several scores as well as arranging much music for it.

The earliest ones were essentially experimental, including octagonal pillars or fluted columns, vertical slits instead of horizontal ones, and other unusual features.

The island was the site of one of the earliest Christian churches in Scotland, founded in the 9th century and built into an unusual mass-burial mound that probably dates from prehistoric times.

However, the very earliest Explorers made between 1957 and spring 1958 featured an unusual " split "- shaped head with the tuners placed in a standard 3 + 3 arrangement, carried over from the Explorer prototype ( better known as the Futura ).

Although the Bermuda sloop is often described as a development of the narrower-beamed Jamaica sloop, which dates from the 1670s, the high, raked masts and triangular sails of the Bermuda rig are rooted in a tradition of Bermudian boat design dating from the earliest decades of the 17th Century.

From the time that the earliest English-speaking settlers arrived, the area has also been known as The Forks, because it is situated at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Kalamazoo River.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192 and leftovers of wooden houseparts dated to 1174 found in a 2012 digging in Berlin Mitte.

In Dallas, Jefferson was one of the earliest and most prominent figures in the blues movement developing in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas.

The earliest known kingdom in the area, Funan, flourished from around the first to the 6th century.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

Clause 2 provided that Britain " should use its best endeavours to ensure than an area situated in the territory of the Jewish State, including a seaport and hinterland adequate to provide facilities for a substantial immigration, shall be evacuated at the earliest possible date and in any event not later than 1 February 1948 ".

The earliest post-glacial inhabitants of the present-day area of Finland were probably mainly seasonal hunter-gatherers.

The earliest inhabitants of the area that became Karachi included Baloch in the west, and Sindhi tribes such as the Jokhio, Mallaah and Jath in the east.

Indeed, during the Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture, some of the settlements in this area were larger than anywhere on Earth at the time, and they predate even the earliest towns of Sumer in the Mesopotamia.

This is one of the earliest references linking an area legend with dinosaurs, and has been argued to describe a Mokèlé-mbèmbé-like creature.

This makes it almost contemporary to the earliest eutherian fossils, which have been found in the same area.

The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.

The earliest farming in the area was developed by semi-nomadic people using plants such as wheat and barley and animals such as sheep, goats and cattle.

Among the earliest cultural complexes of this area are included the Sesklo culture in Thessaly, which later expanded in the Balkans giving Starčevo-Körös ( Cris ), Linearbandkeramik, and Vinča.

The earliest traces of human settlement in the Nuoro area ( called " the Nuorese ") are the so-called Domus de janas, rock-cut tombs dated at the third millennium BC.

Since the Sami are the earliest ethnic group in the area, they are consequently considered an indigenous population of the area.

The earliest occurrence of this name dates from the 11th century Song Dynasty, at which time there was already a river confluence and a town with this name in the area.

The Saxons were originally Ingvaeonic tribes, whose earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein.

In the words of Marija Gimbutas, " the name of the town is the earliest known historically in the Baltic Sea area ".

His earliest poem " The Thought Fox ", and earliest story " The Rain Horse " were recollections of the area.

The earliest known personification of what would become the United States was " Columbia " who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with Liberty.

It probably appeared in its earliest version around 400 BC, and continued to be revised and edited for several centuries after before being accepted as scriptural around the time of Christ.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Hesperocyonine canids first appeared in North America, and the earliest species is currently dated at 39. 74 mya, but they were not represented in Europe until well into the Miocene, and not into Asia and Africa until the Pliocene.

The earliest known image of Dartmouth appeared in the February 1793 issue of Massachusetts Magazine.

It was some time before the earliest examples of the long-haired, bearded face that was later to become standardized as the image of Jesus appeared.

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 law against female homosexuality appeared in France in 1270.

Within the space of these tendencies there has developed a coherent critique of " orthodox Marxism " that includes not only a rejection of the concept of " the transition " but a reconceptualization of the process of transcending capitalism that has remarkable similarities to ( Peter ) Kropotkin's thinking on this subject ... Thus one of the earliest political tendencies within which this approach appeared after the Russian revolution of 1917 was that of " Council Communism " which saw the " workers councils " in Germany ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), or the soviets in Russia, as new organizational forms constructed by the people.

The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

In its earliest incarnation, new issues of the magazine appeared erratically, between four and seven times a year.

Not all of these cultural elements characteristic of the Neolithic appeared everywhere in the same order: the earliest farming societies in the Near East did not use pottery.

In southeast Europe agrarian societies first appeared in the 7th millennium BC, attested by one of the earliest farming site of Europe, discovered in Vashtëmi, southeastern Albania and dating back to 6, 500 BC.

From the earliest finds, opium has appeared to have ritual significance, and anthropologists have speculated that ancient priests may have used the drug as a proof of healing power.

The earliest clocks to display seconds appeared during the last half of the 16th century.

The earliest example of the form in English appeared in 1579, but it was rarely used in Britain until the end of the 19th century.

The earliest life forms appeared in water ; nearly all fish live exclusively in water, and there are many types of marine mammals, such as dolphins and whales.

The email appeared to suggest that Griffin believed the only reasonable solution was to extend the operation of the shuttle beyond 2010, but noted that Executive Policy ( i. e., the White House ) is firm that there will be no extension of the shuttle retirement date, and thus no U. S. capability to launch crews into orbit until the Ares I / Orion system becomes operational in 2014 at the very earliest.

This allowed for the creation of a monastery or minstre in the area, and the earliest written form of the name Kidderminster ( Chedeminstre ) was not seen until it appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Never too keen on academic studies, he left the University in 1830, though some of his earliest writing appeared in university publications The Snob and The Gownsman.

In Britain, some of the earliest ornithological works that used the word ecology appeared in 1915.

They are among the earliest and most abundant of the small shelly fossils with mineralized skeletons, and therefore feature in the debate about why such skeletons first appeared in the Late Ediacaran.

The earliest surviving woodblock printed fragments are from China and are of silk printed with flowers in three colours from the Han Dynasty ( before 220 A. D .), and the earliest example of woodblock printing on paper appeared in the mid-seventh century in China.