In England, the French suits were eventually used, although the earliest decks had the Italian suits.

Because the earliest tarot cards were hand-painted, the number of the decks produced is thought to have been rather small, and it was only after the invention of the printing press that mass production of cards became possible.

In the earliest Tarot decks, the Fool is usually depicted as a beggar or a vagabond.

This depiction resembles the Fool in the earliest surviving painted decks.

In the front row, a young man in a wheelchair was, very slowly, signing his name in a book that bore on its earliest pages the signature of Isaac Newton ... Stephen Hawking was a legend even then.

Two of the shows they did for station WENR beginning in 1927, both written by Harry Lawrence, bore traces of what was to come and rank as one of the earliest forms of situation comedy.

According to the earliest English-language source cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, Tobago bore a name that has become the English word tobacco.

It was named based on the chamber dimensions, rather than the bore diameter, with the earliest cartridge called the " No. 56 cartridge ," indicating a chamber diameter of. 56 inch ; the bore diameter varied considerably, from. 52 to. 54 inch.

The earliest Claudii bore the surname Sabinus, a common surname usually referring to a Sabine, or someone of Sabine descent, which according to all tradition, the Claudii were.

The earliest of the Julii appearing in legend bore the praenomen Proculus, and it is not impossible that this name was used by some of the early Julii, although no later examples are known.

The other college bore the name of the Quinctilii, suggesting that in the earliest times these two gentes superintended these rites as a sacrum gentilicum, much as the Pinarii and Potitii maintained the worship of Hercules.

The earliest of the Mamilii to occur in history bore the praenomen Octavius, which was rare at Rome.

According to folklore, the earliest settlers came from Borneo, led by Gat Hinigiw and his wife Dayang Kaliwanag who bore seven children.

The Cuman influence in Wallachia and Moldavia was very strong, according to some historians who claim that the earliest Wallachian rulers bore supposedly Cuman names ( e. g. Tihomir and Bassarab ).

By 1415 the first " hand cannons " were deployed by some infantrymen, and the earliest small bore arquebuses, with burning " match locks " appeared on the battlefield in the later 15th century.

Bogdan Balbin in notes to Epitome " Rerum Bohemicarum " of Bohemian Affairs, chapter 15, calls the arms of the Odrowaz family Sagitta circumflexa arrow ", and adds that some of the earliest houses in Bohemia bore these arms, of whom Tobias was Bishop of Prague, during the times of Premysl Otakar II.

However the only step taken at that time was the introduction in 1849 of a florin ( two shillings ) coin ( the earliest examples bore the inscription " One Tenth of a Pound ").

The earliest shotgun slugs were just lead balls, of just under the bore diameter, allowing them to pass through a tiny barrel.

The earliest experiments with radial tires bore fruit as well: the students of the day didn ’ t care that these weren ’ t the racing engines or racing tires, just that the cars were equal.

The earliest use of the actual term " starving the beast " to refer to the political-fiscal strategy ( as opposed to its conceptual premise ) was in a Wall Street Journal article in 1985 where the reporter quoted an unnamed Reagan staffer.

The earliest Life of Petroc states that he was the son of an unnamed Welsh king: the twelfth century version known as the Gotha Life, written at Bodmin, identifies that king as Glywys of Glywysing ( Orme 2000, p. 215 ) and Petroc as a brother of Gwynllyw and uncle of Cadoc.

The earliest known member of the group in Australia is an unnamed species represented by fossils found in the late Oligocene Carl Creek Limestone of Queensland.

The earliest known member of the group in Australia is an unnamed species represented by fossils found in the late Oligocene Carl Creek Limestone of Queensland.

Another source of additional Seekers was the unnamed Decepticons used in the earliest portions of the first season of the cartoon.

Because the death of this Arnold Winkelried immediately predates the earliest printed references to the legendary hero of Sempach, some historians have suggested that the chroniclers of the early 16th century named the previously unnamed hero after the mercenary leader.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

The earliest pictures assigned to him by some are altar-pieces with the monogram H. B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery chapel of Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden.

* Burke, Thomas ( 1927 ) The Book of the Inn: being two hundred pictures of the English inn from the earliest times to the coming of the railway hotel ; selected and edited by Thomas Burke.

The Book of the Inn: being two hundred pictures of the English inn from the earliest times to the coming of the railway hotel ; selected and edited by Thomas Burke.

My earliest films, which I made when I was about 14 years old, were combat pictures that were set both on the ground and in the air.

At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue — known as " talking pictures ", or " talkies "— were exclusively shorts ; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects.

The museum's collection contains 3. 5 million items of historical, cultural and social value, including the first photographic negative, the earliest television footage, the world's first moving pictures ( Louis Le Prince's 1888 films of Roundhay Garden Scene and Leeds Bridge ).

The 16th century English navigator William Strickland is credited with introducing the turkey into England, and his family coat of arms showing a turkey cock as the family crest, is one of the earliest known pictures of a turkey.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

The earliest precursors to ASCII art can be found in RTTY art, that is, pictures created by amateur radio enthusiasts with teleprinters using the Baudot code.

In 1935, New York's Museum of Modern Art began one of the earliest institutional attempts to collect and preserve motion pictures, obtaining original negatives of the Biograph and Edison companies, and the world's largest collection of D. W. Griffith films.

His likeness appears in two of the earliest surviving motion pictures – Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze ( a. k. a. Fred Ott's Sneeze ) and Fred Ott Holding a Bird – both from 1894.

His earliest pictures depicted the scenery of Surrey and the banks of the Thames.

The earliest pictures in which Van Der Neer coupled his monogram of A. V.

The only dates that can with certainty be given about his life as a painter are his first appearance, already a master of his own shop, in 1457, in a matter of adultery for which he was imprisoned for six months ; and the earliest and the latest years signed on his pictures, 1468 on an altarpiece in the church of San Silvestro at Massa Fermana, near Fermo, and 1493 on The Dead Christ between St John, the Virgin and Mary Magdalene ( Brera Gallery, Milan ).

A star's birthday is also an occasion for a one-day or one-evening festival showing several of that artist's best, earliest, or least-known pictures.

His new wife, Caroline-Julie Beguin, helped by teaching French, and presently he began to find buyers for his pictures, of whom James Smith was one of the earliest.

As well as having important applications for scientific research, the earliest inventions received immediate popular success as methods for producing moving pictures, and the principle was used for numerous toys.

The spines, hooks, and horns attached to the head of this dinosaur sparked the imagination of filmmakers during the earliest days of motion pictures, and this has led to its appearance in films ever since.

His earliest appearance as an exhibitor was in 1827, at the Society of British Artists in London ; in the ensuing year he sent to the Royal Academy the two pictures named Llyn Gwynant, Morning, and Carnarvon Castle.

Wauters is equally eminent as a portraitist, in his earliest period exhibiting, as in his pictures, sober qualities and subtle grip, but later on developing into the whole range of a brilliant, forceful palette, and then into brighter and more delicate colors, encouraged thereto, in his more recent work, by his adoption of pastel as a medium even for life-size portraits, mainly of ladies.

One of the earliest pictures of railways in India

Of the northern pictures seven were portraits, the earliest being the Portrait of a Man formerly believed to be Guillaume Fillastre, long on loan to the National Gallery, now thought to be by a close follower of Rogier van der Weyden: purchased for £ 18, 500 in 1940, this was sold in lieu of taxation through Christie's in 1987 and is now in the Courtauld Institute.

E-maki also serve as some of the earliest and greatest examples of the otoko-e ( Men's pictures ) and onna-e ( Women's pictures ) styles of painting.