Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

It is a social dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century.

Depending on the date of Zoroaster ( usually placed in the early Iron Age ), this may be one of the earliest documented instances of the emergence of monism in an Indo-European religion.

The phenomenon, however, long preceded the modern term ; for example, one of the earliest known instances of crowd violence at a sporting event took place in ancient Constantinople.

The earliest documented instances of piracy are the exploits of the Sea Peoples who threatened the Aegean and Mediterranean in the 14th century BC.

One of the earliest instances of this phenomenon was Hōjō Sōun, who rose from relatively humble origins and eventually seized power in Izu province in 1493.

The earliest known instances are found in the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ).

One of the earliest known instances of a document listing buried treasure is the copper scroll, which was recovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls near Qumran in 1952.

Seabirds have been hunted for food by coastal peoples throughout history — one of the earliest instances known is in southern Chile, where archaeological excavations in middens has shown hunting of albatrosses, cormorants and shearwaters from 5000 BP.

This, Graber says, created one of the earliest instances of the world's greatest Fusion cuisine's.

The earliest instances of this type of encoding were created for dialup communication between systems running the same OS — e. g. uuencode for UNIX, BinHex for the TRS-80 ( later adapted for the Macintosh ) — and could therefore make more assumptions about what characters were safe to use.

Although isolated instances of carpet production pre-date the Muslim invasion of Spain, the Hispano-Moresque examples are the earliest significant body of European-made carpets.

He argues that literature about land ( and, subsequently, about going back to the land ) is largely sentimental ; " little ," he writes, " is known about farmer's attitudes towards nature ..." Tuan finds historical instances of the desire of the civilized to escape civilization in the Hellenistic, Roman, Augustan, and Romantic eras, and, from one of the earliest recorded myths, the Epic of Gilgamesh.

It was one of the earliest instances of a sandbox game.

This term appears in two verses of the canonical Gospel of Matthew, twenty-four verses of the Acts of the Apostles, fifty-eight verses of the letters of Paul the Apostle ( including the earliest instances of its use in relation to a Christian body ), two verses of the Letter to the Hebrews, one verse of the Epistle of James, three verses of the Third Epistle of John, and nineteen verses of the Book of Revelation.

It is a social dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century.

It is unlikely that it is possible to reconstruct a historical Tower of Babel linguistic community in which all humans spoke a common language ( although we can say with confidence that large stone edifices built by large organized communities of people, which date to the Neolithic era at the earliest, weren't built by any culture on Earth until at least many tens of thousands of years after there was a hypothetical common language of all humans, or even of all Eurasians ), or to gain very specific insight about what the language the original proto-Eurasians or the earliest modern humans spoke, although the lack of instances of writing more than about 5, 500 years ago, despite the extensive recovery of earlier artifacts and art from prehistory, makes it unlikely that earlier humans had anything approaching a complete written language.

Traditionally these have been fueled by wood and one of the earliest recorded instances of a wood burning kitchen stove was the so-called stew stove ( developed in 1735 by the French designer Francois Cuvills and officially termed the Castrol Stove ).

Wug is among the earliest known nonce words used in language learning studies, and is best known for its use in Jean Berko's " Wug test ", in which children were presented with a novel object, called a wug, and then shown multiple instances of the object and asked to complete a sentence that elicits a plural form — e. g., " This is a wug.

In 1953, Raft also starred as Lt. George Kirby in a syndicated television series police drama titled I'm the Law, which ran for one season and was one of the earliest instances of a movie star of his previous calibre accepting the lead in a TV series.

It is also one of the earliest reported instances of an alleged encounter with so-called Men in Black.

The tomb of Sir Richard Pembridge, Knight of the Garter in the reign of Edward III, is a fine example of the armour of that period, and it is one of the earliest instances of an effigy wearing the garter.

D2PC is time optimal ( among all the instances of a specific transaction tree, and any specific Tree 2PC protocol implementation ; all instances have the same tree ; each instance has a different node as coordinator ): By choosing an optimal coordinator D2PC commits both the coordinator and each cohort in minimum possible time, allowing the earliest possible release of locked resources in each transaction participant ( tree node ).

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

In Hindu literature, the earliest

In historical archaeology, the ancient literature of the Iron Age includes the earliest texts preserved in manuscript tradition.

* Abendana, Jacob in The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 – 06, volume 1, p 53.

However, the earliest European reference to the kora in Western literature is in Travels in Interior Districts of Africa ( 1799 ) by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

Until recently, the scholarly consensus was that reincarnation is absent from the earliest strata of Brahminical literature.

The earliest historical reference to kumquats appears in literature of China in the 12th century.

The earliest existing reference to Moses in Greek literature occurs in the Egyptian history of Hecataeus of Abdera ( 4th century BC ).

Around the same time, the poet Henric van Veldeke wrote a legend of Saint Servatius, one of the earliest works in Dutch literature.

The earliest of these ( like manuscripts containing other literature ) are often very fragmentarily preserved.

His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature.

They are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature.

The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from the 300 BCE – 300 CE.

The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks.

The Nights is almost certainly the earliest surviving literature that mentions ghouls, and many of the stories in that collection involve or reference ghouls.

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy ( German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915 ), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

Their translations of Latin liturgy into Slavonic are the earliest surviving literature sources created in the Czech lands.

Probably the earliest reference to coca in English literature is Abraham Cowley's poem " The Legend of Coca " in his 1662 collection of poems " Six Books of Plants ".

The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic poems, the oldest of which may have been composed in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

The Mishnah and the Tosefta ( compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 ) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings.

In historic literature, Susa appears in the very earliest Sumerian records, e. g. in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta it is described as one of the places obedient to Inanna, patron deity of Uruk.

The earliest recorded assessments of the Samaritan Pentateuch are found in rabbinical literature and Christian patristic writings of the first millennium CE.