Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

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 Mongolic language of which we have written evidence is known as Middle Mongol.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

The earliest known sound recording of Advance Australia Fair appears in " The Landing of the Australian Troops in Egypt ", circa 1916, a short commercial recording dramatising arrival of the Australian troops in Egypt en route to Gallipoli.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

The earliest known Christian image of an angel, in the Cubicolo dell ' Annunziazione in the Catacomb of Priscilla, which is dated to the middle of the third century, is without wings.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

" Paddy on the Railway " is attested as a chanty in the earliest known published work to use the word " chanty ," G. E.

The earliest known personification of what would become the United States was " Columbia " who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with Liberty.

From the time that the earliest English-speaking settlers arrived, the area has also been known as The Forks, because it is situated at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Kalamazoo River.

The earliest known date for a simple glue is 200, 000 BC and for a compound glue 70, 000 BC.

The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

The earliest design ( dubbed kapala in Polish, more properly called " kapsel legitymacyjny " or " ID cap ") consisted of a tin-made 30 × 50 mm rectangular frame and a rectangular cap fitting into the frame.

Specifically, the relevant findings indicate that the EDAR mutation coding for the predominant East Asian ' coarse ' or thick, straight hair texture arose within the past ~ 65, 000 years, which is a time frame that covers from the earliest of the ' Out of Africa ' migrations up to now.

The earliest written records of the death and resurrection of Jesus are the letters of Paul, which were written around two decades after the death of Jesus, and show that within this time frame Christians believed that it had happened.

Mack's hypothesis presenting Jesus and the earliest Christians within the frame of Greco-Roman cynicism is controversial.

The earliest examples of " frame stories " and " stories within stories " were in ancient Indian literature, such as the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Fables of Bidpai, Hitopadesha and Vikram and the Vampire.

Fifth and sixth generation iPod classics, as well as third generation iPod nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4 ( H. 264 / MPEG-4 AVC ) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates .< ref > The restrictions vary from generation to generation ; for the earliest video iPods, video is required to be Baseline Profile ( BP ), up to Level 1. 3, meaning most significantly no B-frames ( BP ), a maximum bitrate of 768 kb / s ( BP Level 1. 3 ), and a maximum framerate of 30 frame / s at 320 × 240 resolution.

Among the earliest published proposals for television was one by Maurice Le Blanc in 1880 for a color system, including the first mentions in television literature of line and frame scanning, although he gave no practical details.

The main narrative is introduced using a frame story in which most of the plot is presented as a flashback, as told by the protagonist, Francis ( one of the earliest examples of a frame story in film ).

The earliest flat-twin motorcycles, including Douglas in the United Kingdom, Helios of Germany, and Indian and Harley-Davidson of the United States, had their cylinders aligned along the frame, and therefore with the crankshaft running transverse to the frame.

This landmark of the Chicago school of architecture gained fame for being one of the earliest commercial buildings constructed with a metal skeleton frame remaining in the United States.

In addition, the short is among the earliest Schlesinger / Warner Bros. cartoons to utilize " smear " animation, where characters move with sudden bursts of speed depicted with only a frame or two of a smeared image between two extreme poses.

* Jason Lee House ( 1841 )-a home of Jason Lee which, with the Parsonage, are the earliest known frame buildings in Salem, and perhaps the oldest remaining in the state

The earliest example of this device is the frame story.

The receiver process keeps track of the sequence number of the earliest frame it has not received, and sends that number with every acknowledgement ( ACK ) it sends.

The receiver continues to fill its receiving window with the subsequent frames, replying each time with an ACK containing the sequence number of the earliest missing frame.

Made possible by inventions such as the spinning jenny, spinning mule, and water frame in England around the time of the American Revolution, the textile industry was among the earliest mechanized industries, and models of production and labor sources were first explored here.

Aatoncode was one of the earliest schemes for encoding a timecode signal in the frame margins of 16 mm film, allowing rigorous synchronization of audio and film in post-production.

One of the earliest frame examples was a discovery made in an Egyptian tomb dating back to 2nd century A. D. in which a fayum mummy portrait was discovered at Hawara still within its wooden frame.

The building is constructed around a steel frame, and is one of the earliest uses of this technique.