While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

In favour of the Synoptic chronology is that in the earliest Christian traditions relating to the Last Supper in the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, there is a clear link between Passion of Jesus, the Last Supper and the Passover lamb.

Because iron was a valuable commodity, and any worn out items were generally melted down and reused, it is difficult to locate clear archaeological evidence of the earliest horseshoes.

The earliest clear written record of iron horseshoes is a reference to " crescent figured irons and their nails " in AD 910.

There is no clear historical connection between the Knights Templar, which were dismantled in the 14th century, and any of the modern organizations, of which the earliest emerged publicly in the 18th century, and are referred to as Neo-Templars by some authors.

The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

It is in this period that the earliest clear monotheistic statements appear in the Bible, for example in the apparently seventh-century Deuteronomy 4: 35, 39, 1 Samuel 2: 2, 2 Samuel 7: 22, 2 Kings 19: 15, 19 (= Isaiah 37: 16, 20 ), and Jeremiah 16: 19, 20 and the sixth-century portion of Isaiah 43: 10 – 11, 44: 6, 8, 45: 5 – 7, 14, 18, 21, and 46: 9.

It was also one of the earliest successful tests of Newtonian physics, and a clear demonstration of its explanatory power.

It seems clear from oral traditions, as well as from archaeological evidence, that after the establishment of the Akan kingdom states in the 11th century, the Dagomba states, was the earliest kingdom to emerge in modern Ghana, being well established by the close of the 16th century.

The earliest clear illustrations of the spinning wheel come from Baghdad ( drawn in 1237 ), China ( c. 1270 ) and Europe ( c. 1280 ), and there is evidence that spinning wheels had already come into use in both China and the Islamic world during the eleventh century.

The earliest clear Jewish use of the term Western Wall as referring to the wall visible today was by the 11th-century Ahimaaz ben Paltiel.

It is clear Eanna was dedicated to Inanna from the earliest Uruk period throughout the history of the city.

The earliest occupants of what is now the town of Tuxedo were the Lenni-Lenape Indians, who named the largest lake in the town " Tucseto ," meaning either " place of the bear " or " clear flowing water.

The earliest clear references to naginata date from 1146 in the late Heian period, with one suggesting that the weapon may have been recent.

It is possible that the confusion has arisen from post conquest times when errors multiplied rapidly as Mexican culture slipped swiftly into the background, for the earliest reliable chroniclers are clear as to the commonest use of the gum which we know as copal, and whose characteristic odor would place it distinctly in the first rank of incense materials .'</ p >< p >"[...

In 2008, an archaeological dig found that the earliest clear evidence of settlement in Cambridge is the remains of a 3, 500-year-old farmstead discovered on the College site.

The earliest known usage of " hot dog " in clear reference to sausage, found by Fred R. Shapiro, appeared in the December 31, 1892 issue of the Paterson ( NJ ) Daily Press.

However this is not the earliest clear evidence of hair in the mammalian lineage, as fossils of Volaticotherium, and the docodont Castorocauda, discovered in rocks dated to about, also have traces of fur.

Some of his best etchings were done as series — one of the earliest, illustrating poet William Nicholson's Ballad of Aken Drum, is remarkable for clear, delicate workmanship in the shadow tones, showing great skill and power over his materials, and for strong drawing.

The earliest clear evidence for Mark 16: 9-20 as part of the Gospel of Mark is in Chapter XLV First Apology of Justin Martyr ( c. 160 ).

Because of this, many AM stations must cut power or go off-air at night, except for the very earliest stations still grandfathered on clear channels.

Outside China, these seem to be the earliest records ( the Chinese encyclopaedist Shen Kuo gave the first clear account of suspended magnetic compasses a hundred years earlier in 1088 AD with his book Mengxibitan, or Dream Pool Essays ).

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

The grammatical description in the earliest books was somewhat vague, so a consensus on usage ( influenced by Zamenhof's answers to some questions ) developed over time within boundaries set by the initial outline ( Auld 1988 ).

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

This is the earliest description of endoscopy.

* For Eric Leif Davin's Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, MacLean supplied him with a detailed description of her negotiations with John W. Campbell in regards to the publication of her earliest stories.

The book contains the earliest known description of some of these games, including many games imported from the Arab kingdoms.

The earliest recorded description of the elk is in Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, where it is described thus:

Considered together, these memex machines were probably the earliest practical description of what we would call today the Office of the future.

In the 14th-century Arabian Sea, the traveller Ibn Battuta provided the earliest known description of pearl diving by means of attaching a cord to the diver's waist.

The earliest description of " force " in the current sense of vital energy is found in the Vedas of ancient India ( circa 1500 – 1000 BCE ), and from the writings of the Chinese philosopher Mencius ( 4th century BCE ).

The earliest description is found in the works of Syrian engineer Hassan al-Rammah in 1275.

The arrow was shot by a nobleman named Walter Tirel, and, although the description of events was later embroidered with more information, the earliest statement of the event was in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which noted that the king was " shot by an arrow by one of his own men ".

The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and ( later ) Hinduism dated around 1700 – 1100 BC.

His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.

His Cosmographia of 1544 was the earliest German description of the world.

The earliest recognisable description of Acanthocephala – a worm with a proboscis armed with hooks – was made by Italian author Francesco Redi ( 1684 ).

The earliest description is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black.

In the earliest description of the coconut palm known, given by Cosmos of Alexandria in his Topographia Christiana written about 545 A. D., there is a reference to the argell tree and its drupe.

The earliest description of the ridge running along the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle comes from the Venetian anatomist Julius Caesar Aranzi ( 1587 ), who initially likened it to a seahorse, using the ( from, " horse " and, " sea monster ") or alternatively to a silkworm.

The earliest known documented description of khat is found in the Kitab al-Saidala fi al-Tibb, an 11th century work on pharmacy and materia medica written by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, a Persian scientist and biologist.

The earliest known written account of the guinea pig dates from 1547, in a description of the animal from Santo Domingo ; because cavies are not native to Hispaniola, it was earlier believed that the animal was likely introduced there by Spanish travelers.

Thucydides's description of the Plague of Athens is considered one of the earliest accounts of a disease epidemic.