The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

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

This was one of the earliest examples of a postmortem autopsy, through which he discovered that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

Returning boomerangs actually do fly and are examples of the earliest heavier-than-air man-made flight.

Some of the earliest examples of this technology implemented input / output processing such as direct memory access as a separate thread from the computation thread.

One of the earliest examples of a visual error appears in Charlie Chaplin's " The Property Man " of 1914.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The number of these compartments ranges from 4 in the earliest examples to over 24 in an extreme example on Orkney.

It contains examples of the earliest Chinese prose.

A Macedonian mosaic of the 4th century BC is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that both the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.

It is one of the earliest practical examples of key exchange implemented within the field of cryptography.

One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig ( 1748 ), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis.

Of the 11th and 12th centuries there are numerous examples of bronze doors, the earliest being one at Hildesheim, Germany ( 1015 ).

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

The earliest known examples frescoes done in the Buon Fresco method date at around 1500 BC and are to be found on the island of Crete in Greece.

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

The earliest English examples of the personification of Christmas are apparently those in carols of the 15th century.

20th century Pentecostalism was not the earliest instance of " speaking in tongues " in church history, but earlier examples are few ; in church history and writing after the New Testament, it had never been regarded as orthodox until the rise of Pentecostalism.

One of the earliest examples of guerrilla warfare, is Shivaji, the Maratha king.

Though a physician and a pioneer of epidemiology, the map is probably one of the earliest examples of Health geography.

There has been discussion by academics whether the " word square " is actually a Christian artefact, but if it is, it is one of the earliest examples of early Christianity in Britain.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

The earliest known texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, of which the earliest dates from around 720 AD and the latest from 735 AD ( Miller 1971: 3 ).

The earliest historical records of Anatolia stem from the south east of the region, and are from the Mesopotamian based Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th century BC.

Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers wrote that the Ancient Puebloans are ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples.

The earliest records of the study of this phenomenon are attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras in the 6th century BC.

Trees from the earliest fortifications found in Germania Inferior are dated by dendrochronology to 99 / 100.

Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

The earliest remains hitherto found on the site are tombs of the early Iron Age period of Graeco-Phoenician influences ( 1000-600 B. C .).

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.

Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

The manuscripts from the Western text-type ( as represented by the Codex Bezae ) and the Alexandrian text-type ( as represented by the Codex Sinaiticus ) are the earliest survivors.

While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.

These are the earliest anemometers and are simply a flat plate suspended from the top so that the wind deflects the plate.

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.

At the earliest stages of brain development, the three areas are roughly equal in size.

The earliest phases of the Big Bang are subject to much speculation.

The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and today also the large scale distribution and apparent evolution of galaxies predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard theory.

Since the mid-20th century, there has been considerable debate over how the earliest forms of life evolved and how to classify them, especially at the kingdom and domain levels and organisms that are or have been considered bacteria.

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.