Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to " Messrs. the Great Unwashed " in Lytton's Paul Clifford ( 1830 ), as the earliest instance.

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.

The Ebers papyrus also provides our earliest possible documentation of ancient awareness of tumors, but ancient medical terminology being badly understood, cases Ebers 546 and 547 for instance may refer to simple swellings.

The earliest instance of the term in English, used to mean " the profession or practice of the Jewish religion ; the religious system or polity of the Jews ", is Robert Fabyan's The newe cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce a 1513.

The earliest known instance of such an import was King of Na Gold Seal given by Emperor Guangwu of Han to a Yamato emissary in 57 AD.

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

This is the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game.

The earliest instance of a licensed reprisal recorded in England was in the year 1295 under the reign of Edward I.

Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting the earliest instance of wind harnessing on land.

The earliest recorded instance of the form is in the Council of Elvira ( c. 306 ), and thereafter it became the common method of cutting off heretics ; for example, the Synod of Gangra ( c. 340 ) pronounced that Manicheanism was anathema.

The earliest known instance of U. S. wartime aerial reconnaissance was carried out from Taylor's Tavern at Seven Corners by aeronaut Thaddeus S. C. Lowe of the Union Army Balloon Corps.

" The earliest instance of this was in the show's first season in 1971.

The earliest development is somewhat shrouded in mystery ; for instance Flanagan & Nutting's 1835 catalog mentions a ' Penstemon Hybridum ' but does not describe it.

* The earliest known instance of hacktivism as documented by Julian Assange is as follows: Hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when DOE, HEPNET and SPAN ( NASA ) connected VMS machines world wide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm.

The earliest documented instance of incense utilization comes from the ancient Chinese, who employed incense composed of herbs and plant products ( such as cassia, cinnamon, styrax, sandalwood, amongst others ) as a component of numerous formalized ceremonial rites.

The earliest known instance of the phrase Vicarius Filii Dei is in the Donation of Constantine, now dated between the eighth and the ninth centuries AD.

The Prince's own message contains the earliest written instance in which the Japanese archipelago is named " Nihon ," literally, sun-origin.

The earliest identity "= cw4t7abs " ( antiorp @ tezcat. com ) surfaced in 1995 on mailing lists and newsgroups relating to electronic music production ( for instance, the Kurzweil K2000 music synthesizer ) and related Usenet groups ( rec. music. makers. synth ), rendering them speechless with spiralling messages saturated in a dense fogginess of code-poetry, abstract ASCII art as well as exceptionally focused personal engagement.

It also includes the earliest instance of The Lion, the Bear and the Fox ( 60 ) in a language other than Greek.

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

The earliest instance of the phrase found in print dates to a letter written June 8, 1891, published June 13, 1891, The National Observer p. 93 (- 94 ):

Although the earliest extant Chinese maps date to the 4th century BC, and tujing since the Qin ( 221 – 206 BC ) or Han dynasties, this was the first known instance in China when the textual information of tujing became the primary element over the drawn illustrations.

The Prince's own message contains the earliest written instance in which the Japanese archipelago is named " Nihon ", literally, sun-origin.

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

Named " Baraka ", its earliest colonizers are later driven out by rivals from Al-Andalus and flee to the Loire Valley, where they found the city of Nsara.

All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

The family is predominantly distributed around the tropics, where those with edible fruits were among the earliest cultivated plants in both the Old and New Worlds.

The earliest of these were for in-band signaling between switching centers, where long-distance telephone operators used a 16-digit keypad to input the next portion of the destination telephone number in order to contact the next downstream long-distance telephone operator.

The earliest ancestors of the four-poster are found in the hills north of Inverurie, where gross extremities in the scale of recumbent-stone circles have been found ranging from very large ( 50 metres diameter ) to very small ( 5 metres diameter ).

The earliest known written magical incantations come from ancient Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ), where they have been found inscribed on various cuneiform clay-tablets excavated by archaeologists from the city of Uruk, and dated to between the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Though greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the Heraion of Samos, in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as " Argive Hera " ( Hera Argeia ) at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

Clay tablets unearthed at Harappa, which were carbon dated 3300-3200 BCE., contain trident shaped and plant like markings, and they are suggested as a possible earliest writings any where in the world, as opined by Dr. Richard Meadow of Harvard University and Director, Harappa Archeological Research Project.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

The United States originally used horse-powered machinery to power its earliest factories, but eventually switched to water power, with the consequence that industrialisation was essentially limited to New England and the rest of the Northeastern United States, where fast-moving rivers were located.

Some of the earliest Delta settlers came from the vicinity of New Orleans, where drumming was never actively discouraged for very long and homemade drums were used to accompany public dancing until the outbreak of the Civil War.

" The parties also agreed to help those countries form interim governments " pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections " and " facilitate where necessary the holding of such elections.

The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

One of the earliest was a 1998 commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios, where he played the voice of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.

Movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. told his earliest followers that the Garden of Eden had been located in Jackson County, and that the New Jerusalem where Jesus will come in the Second Coming would be built in Independence.

The earliest known formulation is Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction, first proposed in On Interpretation, where he says that of two contradictory propositions ( i. e. where one proposition is the negation of the other ) one must be true, and the other false.

The Khitan had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Muye where portraits of their earliest ancestor Qishou Khagan, his wife Kedun and eight sons were kept in two temples.

One of the earliest examples of these kinds of conversions was in Damascus, Syria, where in 705 Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I bought the church of St. John from the Christians and had it rebuilt as a mosque in exchange for building a number of new churches for the Christians in Damascus.

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

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).