A small indicator about the earliest possible date may be in which mentions the Province of Cilicia.

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.

It is around this time that the earliest mentions of Britain begin to appear in the annals of history.

Some of the earliest mentions of the carol occur in the works of the French poet Chretien de Troyes in his series of Arthurian romances.

Jainism is historically connected with the sramana tradition with which the earliest mentions of reincarnation are associated.

The earliest occurrence of the term " red-shift " in print ( in this hyphenated form ), appears to be by American astronomer Walter S. Adams in 1908, where he mentions " Two methods of investigating that nature of the nebular red-shift ".

The Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest written mention of sushi in English in an 1893 book, A Japanese Interior, where it mentions sushi as " a roll of cold rice with fish, sea-weed, or some other flavoring ".

" Based on Heidegger's earliest lecture courses, in which Heidegger already engages Dilthey's thought prior to the period Gadamer mentions as " too late ", scholars as diverse as Theodore Kisiel and David Farrell Krell have argued for the importance of Diltheyan concepts and strategies in the formation of Heidegger's thought.

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

One of the earliest mentions of the acronym " NGO " was in 1945, when the UN was created.

The earliest mentions of the Osiris myth are in the Pyramid Texts, the first Egyptian funerary texts, which appeared on the walls of burial chambers in pyramids at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, during the 25th century BC.

One of the earliest mentions of the coconut also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights story of Sinbad the Sailor, he is known to have bought and sold coconuts during his fifth voyage.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

Thomas Ady's A candle in the dark ... ( 1656 ) contains one of the earliest mentions of hocus pocus, the origin of the word hoax.

The earliest narrative source which mentions Harald, Íslendingabók claims that Iceland was settled during his lifetime.

The earliest commemorations were connected with the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January: Prudentius mentions the Innocents in his hymn on the Epiphany.

In the thirteenth century, Gonzalo de Berceo, clergyman of the Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla ( La Rioja ) and Spain's earliest known poet, mentions the wine in some of his works.

The earliest mentions of minors being involved in wars come from antiquity.

Indeed, the earliest mentions of eyeglasses in China occur in the 15th century and those Chinese sources state that eyeglasses were imported.

The Domesday Book of 1086 contains one of the earliest recorded mentions of the village, at the time known as Belaga.

One of the earliest mentions of Kalki is in the Vishnu Purana, which is dated generally to be after the Gupta Empire.

A survey of adjoining property in 1767 mentions " Pierson's house " forming accidentally the earliest documentation of a house on the property, which may be much older.

This appears to be the earliest account which mentions the plague of rats.

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 example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

Most scholars agreed that the Nights was a composite work and that the earliest tales in it came from India and Persia.

This is the earliest surviving fragment of the Nights.

General popular history of the 1001 Nights from its earliest days to the present.

* " The Three Apples " in the One Thousand and One Nights, the earliest archetype for the whodunit murder mystery

Terry Ramseye, in his book, A Million and One Nights ( 1926 ), notes that this " was one of the earliest permanently located and exclusively motion-picture exhibitions.

The Three Apples, a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ), is the earliest known murder mystery and suspense thriller with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements.

The earliest known example of a crime story was " The Three Apples ", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

The earliest known example of a whodunit murder mystery was " The Three Apples ", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

The earliest form of the story is found in the fifth book of Aulus Gellius's 2nd century Attic Nights.

The earliest use of this device as a twist ending in a murder mystery was in " The Three Apples ", a medieval Arabian Nights tale, where the protagonist Ja ' far ibn Yahya discovers by chance a key item towards the end of the story that reveals the culprit behind the murder to be his own slave all along.

One of the earliest films to employ the carnivalesque was the 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri ( Days and Nights in the Forest ), directed by Satyajit Ray.

The earliest example of this technique was used in the Arabian Nights tale " The Three Apples ", which begins with the discovery of a young woman's dead body ; after the murderer later reveals himself, he narrates his reasons for the murder as a flashback of events leading up to the discovery of her dead body at the beginning of the story.

The earliest use of anagnorisis in a murder mystery was in " The Three Apples ", a classical Arabian Nights tale, where the device is employed to great effect in its twist ending.

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.

This example, from May 15, 1920, is the earliest known use of " Big Apple " to refer to any city.

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.

" Incunable " is the anglicised singular form of " incunabula ", Latin for " swaddling clothes " or " cradle " which can refer to " the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything.

The earliest references to ‘ broomstick ’ marriages in England did not refer to a practice of jumping over a stick, but rather to any kind of sham or dubious ceremony.

The later manuscripts of the Triads are partly derivative from Geoffrey of Monmouth and later continental traditions, but the earliest ones show no such influence and are usually agreed to refer to pre-existing Welsh traditions.

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 ).

In Judaism, Satan is a term used since its earliest biblical contexts, to refer to a human opponent.

Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified " Shinto religion ", but rather to disorganized folklore, history, and mythology.

In opposition, the creator might simply refer to God as the earliest creator of Universe as a whole.

In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the US, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: " I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance.

From the earliest record for Nuku ' alofa, the early writer always refer to the settlement as Noogollefa ( 1797 ), Nioocalofa ( 1806 ), Nukualofa ( 1826 by Methodist ) and Noukou-Alofa ( 1842 by French Catholic Priest ).

The term " fanzine " is also used to refer to fan-created magazines concerning other topics: the earliest rock-and-roll fanzines were edited by science fiction fans.

The decades-long tolerance for Waksal's fraud, starting from the company's earliest days, provoked Representative Peter Deutsch to refer to the ongoing misconduct as " wacky.

The results of the excavations indicate that the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Lemnos could be a remnant of a Mycenaean population and, in addition, the earliest attested refer to Lemnos is the Mycenaean Greek ra-mi-ni-ja, " Lemnian woman ", written in Linear B syllabic script.

The earliest pie-like recipes refer to coffyns ( the word actually used for a basket or box ), with straight sealed sides and a top ; open top pies were referred to as traps.

The Pauline epistles, the earliest surviving Christian writings, refer to Jesus ' mother without stating that she was a virgin.

In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.

The earliest New Testament texts which refer to Jesus, Paul's letters, are usually dated in the 50s CE.

Other terms such as ‘ tupua ’ (" supernatural ", " object of fear, strange being "), ‘ kehua ’ (" ghosts "), and ' maitai ' (" metal " or referring to persons " foreign ") were used by Māori to refer to some of the earliest visitors.

The earliest official English documents to refer to masons are written in Latin or Norman French.

In literature, one of its earliest uses to refer to Arthur is in Alfred Tennyson's poem Lancelot and Elaine, where, however, it appears as a title of Arthur rather than as a surname, following contemporary speculation that " pendragon " had been a term for an ancient British war-chief.

The earliest use of the word " jinx " to refer to something other than the bird seems to have been in the context of baseball ; in the short story The Jinx ( 12311 ) – later collected in the book The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond ( 1911 ) – Allen Sangree wrote: