Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation but has no modern descendants.

The OED notes 1579 as the date of the earliest attestation of such figurative use, in Lauretta the diuine Petrarches Goddesse.

Irenaeus is also our earliest attestation that the Gospel of John was written by John the apostle, and that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, the companion of Paul.

The earliest attestation for Týr's continental counterpart occurs in Gothic tyz " the t-rune " () in the 9th-century Codex Vindobonensis 795.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

It is the site of discovery of the earliest traces of the Hittite language, and the earliest attestation of any Indo-European language, dated to the 20th century BC.

* 298 AD – earliest attestation of a foot-powered loom with a hint the invention arose at Tarsus

Similarly, the Vedic Purushamedha ( literally " human sacrifice ") is already a purely symbolic act in its earliest attestation.

The earliest date of attestation must be pushed back to the 19th century.

The earliest attestation of the Mongolic title ' Khagan ' is among the Murong Xianbei between 283 to 289.

The earliest attestation of the Japanese language is in a Chinese document from 252 AD.

The latest event alluded to in his Epitoma rei militaris is the death of the Emperor Gratian ( 383 ); the earliest attestation of this work is a subscriptio by one Flavius Eutropius, writing in Constantinople in the year 450, which appears in one of two families of manuscripts, suggesting that a bifurcation of the manuscript tradition had already occurred.

Its earliest attestation is in Chrétien de Troyes ' late 12th century verse romance Perceval, li contes del graal, which contains the lines:

One hypothesis therefore reasons that, since Kawi is the earliest attestation of writing on the Philippines, then Baybayin may be descended from Kawi.

The earliest attestation of Mithraism is Plutarch's record of it being practised in 68BC by Cilician pirates, the first mithraists.

Scholars and historians since then viewed the reports on Venedi / Venethi by Tacitus, Pliny and Ptolemy as the earliest historical attestation of Slavs.

The earliest surviving attestation to Manetho is that of Josephus ' Contra Apionem, " Against Apion " nearly 4 centuries after Aegyptiaca was written.

In its earliest attestation, cooking was done by roasting meat and tubers in an open fire.

In any case, the Lepontic inscriptions are the earliest attestation of any form of Celtic.

The earliest attestation of Perkūnas seems to be in the Russian translation of the Chronicle of John Malalas ( 1261 ) where it speaks about the worship of " Перкоунови рекше громоу ", and in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle ( around 1290 ) which mentions the idol Perkūnė.

In ancient times, the earliest production limited to the household, developed into a separate endeavour independent to the place of inhabitation with production at that time only beginning to be characteristic of industry, termed as " unfree shop industry ", a situation caused especially under the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh, with slave employment and no differentiation of skills within the slave group comparable to modern definitions as division of labour.

The earliest Ugaritic contact with Egypt ( and the first exact dating of Ugaritic civilization ) comes from a carnelian bead identified with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senusret I, 1971 BC – 1926 BC.

The earliest written record is in a list of Canaanite towns drawn up by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III at Karnak in 1465 BC.

Hattusili and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II sealed a written peace treaty based upon Hittite models which, due to Egyptian monumental copies of it, has become the earliest well known treaty in history, establishing a long-lasting peace between the two rival empires.

A striking innovation of Hor-Aha's tomb is that members of the royal household were buried with the pharaoh, the earliest known retainer sacrifices in Egypt.

Rolf Krauss aptly observes that the earliest attested use of the word pharaoh as a title is documented in Year 17 of the 21st Dynasty king Siamun from Karnak Priestly Annals fragment 3B while a second use of the title ' name ' occurs during Psusennes II's reign where a hieratic graffito in the Ptah chapel of the Abydos temple of Seti I explicitly refers to Psusennes II as the " High Priest of Amen-Re, King of the Gods, the Leader, Pharaoh Psusennes.

One of the earliest Sed festivals for which we have substantial evidence is that of the sixth dynasty pharaoh Pepi I in the South Saqqara Stone Annal document.

One of the earliest suspected cases is that of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses V who is thought to have died from smallpox nearly 2000 years BCE.

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Ancient Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamen is of one of the earliest known to have stretched ear lobes.

" Bay's status at Siptah's court was so great that on several of the young king's monuments, " the chancellor is shown in scenes with the pharaoh on the same scale as the latter, the earliest occasion in which a commoner was depicted in such a manner.

One of the earliest references to the clavichord in England occurs in the privy-purse expenses of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, in an entry dated August 1502:

Yeast, one of the earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the innovation of alcoholic drinks such as wine.

The earliest existing reference to Moses in Greek literature occurs in the Egyptian history of Hecataeus of Abdera ( 4th century BC ).

One of the earliest references is in Robert of Brunne's early 14th century Handlyng Synne ( Handling Sin ) where it occurs as a verb.

* The earliest such reference occurs in 1589 when Thomas Nashe in his introduction to Robert Greene's Menaphon implies the existence of an early Hamlet: " English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches.

While the earliest extra-biblical directions for baptism, which occurs in the Didache ( c. 100 ), speaks to the baptism of adults, rather than young children, since it requires that the person to be baptised should fast, writings of the 2nd and early 3rd century indicate that some Christians baptized infants too.

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.

One of the earliest literary references to trams occurs on the second page of Henry James's novel The Europeans: </ br >

However, the earliest written document mentioning a tarot-like card set occurs as early as 1227, and it says that " Italian children are instructed in the knowledge of the virtues via sheets ( cards ) denominated carticellas ".

Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 suggested that, since the name Heruli itself is identified by many with the Anglo-Saxon eorlas (" nobles "), Old Saxon erlos (" men "), the singular of which ( erilaz ) frequently occurs in the earliest Northern inscriptions, that " Heruli " may have been a title of honor.

The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards ' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.

* The earliest sighting of a supernova occurs in China.

The earliest proven intervention occurs during the infant's recovery in the neonatal intensive care unit ( NICU ).

In designing SCADA systems, care must be taken when a cascade of alarm events occurs in a short time, otherwise the underlying cause ( which might not be the earliest event detected ) may get lost in the noise.

The earliest mention of the people called Srdn-w, more usually called Sherden or Shardana, occurs in the Amarna Letters correspondence of Rib-Hadda, of Byblos, to Pharaoh Akhenaten, at about 1350 BCE.

" While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature and occurs in the earliest examples of Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying visage that turned those who beheld her to stone.

As seen from north-mid-temperate latitudes, as the diagram shows, the earliest sunset occurs some time before the December solstice-typically a week or two before it-and the latest sunrise happens a week or two after the solstice.

The earliest documented permutation of the name Ceridwen is Cyrridven, which occurs in the Black Book of Carmarthen.

The earliest example of the name occurs in several of the mythological poems attributed to Taliesin in the Book of Taliesin.

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The earliest reference to Bahram I occurs in the coronation monument of Bahram's grandfather Ardeshir I at Naqsh-e Rajab.

The earliest reference in England occurs in the Winton Domesday of 1117 – 19.