The form Nazara is also found in the earliest non-scriptural reference to the town, a citation by Sextus Julius Africanus dated about 221 CE ( see " Middle Roman to Byzantine Periods " below ).

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane.

The earliest citation comes from J. Durham ’ s Heaven upon Earth, 1685, ii.

The earliest citation known is from 1946, in Startling Stories.

The earliest citation for " Vietcong " in English is from 1957.

The earliest citation of this word appears in Nihon Kokugo Daijiten in 1971.

The name haček ( with no long mark ) appears in most English dictionaries ; the Oxford English Dictionary gives its earliest citation as 1953.

" The OED's earliest citation is to a mention in Rosamond Lehmann's 1946 work The Gipsy's Baby.

The earliest citation is December 17, 1993 in the St. Petersburg Times:

The earliest known dictionary reference was a 1960 OED citation.

( The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1917.

The earliest known print citation of chickenhawk in this sense was in the June 16, 1986 issue of The New Republic.

While this quote may have been popularized by Graham in this speech, and the phrase is often credited to him in this speech, these words are not original with him, nor with this speech, the phrase having been used repeatedly in the Post in the 1940s, and by Graham in the 1950s, with the earliest citation being 20 years, by Alan Barth in 1943, writing " News is only the first rough draft of history ," and earlier expressions of similar sentiments dating at least to the 1900s ( decade ) – see Wikiquote article for details.

" The earliest citation is a 1773 letter by Benjamin Franklin.

The earliest citation of this integration is the work of Irwin and Von Cube, as related by Florian et al.

The earliest citation given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1844: previously, simpler terms such as " post " appear to have been used.

The church contains much cast iron in its structure, and its citation in the National Heritage List for England states it has " one of the earliest and most thorough uses of industrial materials in a major building ".

The earliest online citation recorded is a reference to it being used in 1982, describing InConJunction, a science fiction convention in Indiana ; the high proportion of science fiction fans on Usenet, and the Internet generally, in early years no doubt helped spread it into the wider computing community.

The OED cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force ; as of 2003 the earliest citation there is a quote in the 1983 book Air War South Atlantic.

" The earliest citation given for this meaning is from 1833.

' Wonderful World of Sound ' features the earliest known citation of the phrase " Something for The Weekend.

The term originated in New York City, probably in the 1930s ( the Oxford English Dictionary provides an earliest citation of 1941 ), but the institutions date back at least fifty years before the nickname was applied to them.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.

The pastor writes a personal letter to each individual, expressing his joy over the decision, assuring him of a pastoral call at the earliest convenient time, and outlining the plan for membership preparation classes and Membership Sunday.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The earliest Para-Mongolic text is the Memorial for Yelu Yanning, written in the Khitan Large Script and dated to 986 AD.

Eastern Anatolia, along side Mesopotamia and the Levant, is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

The earliest high-level programming languages, including FORTRAN ( 1957 ), COBOL ( 1960 ), and ALGOL 60 ( 1960 ), had support for multi-dimensional arrays, and so has C ( 1972 ).

Leonardo studied the flight of birds in developing engineering schematics for some of the earliest flying machines in the late fifteenth century.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

The earliest known date for a simple glue is 200, 000 BC and for a compound glue 70, 000 BC.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

It was published in Des Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two.

" The contains a simple and brief definition for the term bodhisattva, which is also the earliest known Mahāyāna definition.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.