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

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

The earliest mention of the root " ceram -" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, " workers of ceramics ", written in Linear b syllabic script.

The earliest mention of dominoes is from Yuan Dynasty China, found in the text Former Events in Wulin.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

The earliest written mention of immunity can be traced back to the plague of Athens in 430 BCE.

The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by Tatian, who calls him " the most admirable Justin ," quotes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him.

Although there are earlier descriptions of an island in the Sunda Strait with a " pointed mountain ," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island " Pulo Carcata " ( pulo is the Sundanese word for " island ").

Although lutes were in widespread use in Europe at least since the 13th century, and documents mention numerous early performers and composers, the earliest surviving music for the instrument dates from the late 15th century.

The earliest recorded mention of Merlot was in the notes of a local Bordeaux official who in 1784 labeled wine made from the grape in the Libournais region as one of the area's best.

" The earliest mention of the attraction of a needle appears in a work composed between AD 20 and 100 ( Louen-heng ): " A lodestone attracts a needle.

The earliest mention of the play is found in a 1604 Revels Office account, which records that on " Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers " performed " A Play in the Banketinghouse att Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

The earliest mention of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

Subsequently, one of the earliest texts to mention the use of rockets was the Huolongjing, written by the Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu in the mid-14th century.

One of the earliest historical references to sugarcane is in Chinese manuscripts dating back to 8th century BC which mention the fact that the use of sugarcane originated in India.

788 ), worked into the earlier episode set in Frisia around AD 800 at the earliest.

The debut episode in 1971 was directed by 25-year-old Steven Spielberg in one of his earliest directing roles.

* 2007 television series The Sarah Jane Adventures is set in this time, the earliest January following " a year and a half " after Doctor Who episode " School Reunion ".

In the earliest account of this episode, in a fragmentary Middle Kingdom papyrus, the sexual encounter begins when Set asks to have sex with Horus, who agrees on the condition that Set will give Horus some of his strength.

There have often been strong hints about Smithers ' true feelings for his boss, with one of the earliest references being in the season one episode " The Telltale Head ".

According to Kotowski, this episode indicates that even the most minor activities of the German minority were closely scrutinized by the Polish authorities beginning with the earliest phase of Polish policy towards the German minority.

This is the earliest surviving appearance of the abduction of Guinevere episode common in later literature.

One of the series ' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's " Sorry, Wrong Number ," about a bedridden woman ( Agnes Moorehead ) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate.

His earliest appearances would have him continually recap his motive, but characters would frequently get bored ( in one particular joke, an episode suddenly cut to a news report of Tim Curry having gone missing and leaving behind a note where he expressed frustration and resistance to ever saying the motive again ).

In internal Star Trek chronology, however, the earliest known reference to the race occurs in the 2002 Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Dear Doctor ", when, in 2151, a Valakian astronaut that encounters the crew of the Enterprise ( NX-01 ) mentions the Ferengi in passing, but the Enterprise crew do not recognize the name.

" Behr said that the earliest mention of the Dominion was purposely planted in the comic Season Two Ferengi episode, " Rules of Acquisition ", to leave the audience with an impression of " how important could it be?

The episode shows telltale signs of being one of the earliest produced.

The earliest known surviving narrative of the dragon episode is an eleventh-century Georgian text.

The earliest mention of this practice was in the UK TV series The Sweeney, a 1976 episode called " Tomorrow Man ", of a man rounding up percentage points and putting the difference in his own account ( totaling two million dollars ), using a computer.

Another example is season 3 episode 7 Jackie is bitten by a snake, and uses a kung fu style known as " the drunken master " from one of his earliest headlining films of the same name.

The Thallus reference is the earliest noncanonical reference to a gospel episode, but its usefulness in determining the historicity of Jesus is uncertain.

Accounts from Hingham's earliest years indicate some friction between the disparate groups, culminating in an 1645 episode involving the town's " trainband ", when some Hingham settlers supported Eames, and others supported Bozoan Allen, a prominent early Hingham settler and Hobart ally who came from King's Lynn in Norfolk, East Anglia.

Brainiac's earliest outfit ( albeit with slight modification ) as a Coluian is seen in the episode " The Siege of Starro " Pt.

* The title sequence for this episode appears at the very end, and shows the characters in their earliest and latest chronological appearances ( excluding The Gathering, in which prosthetics and costumes were markedly different than they were in the series as well as TV-movies and flashbacks to the Earth-Minbari War ).

Although Password began in 1961, the DVD set consistently states " The CBS Years: 1962 – 1967 "; this misleading title may be due to the earliest episode on the set being the nighttime premiere, which aired in early 1962.

LaPaglia's earliest credit was a 1985 part in an episode of the television series Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

By far, the earliest setting for an episode has been 6000 BC, in which viewers were advised on pre-monotheism ritual as well as the new technologies of agriculture, the bow and arrow and house-building.

His earliest TV appearances include episodes of Sanford and Son in 1972, an episode of All in the Family in 1973, an episode of The Bob Newhart Show, and episodes of Good Times in 1974.