This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class — which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

The title is a corruption of " melodrama ", thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows, as a film short based on a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Disney characters.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class -- which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

The United Artists 1933 release " Mickey's Mellerdrammer "— the name a corruption of " melodrama " thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows — was a film short based on a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Disney characters.

He played a character named Ikey Vanjacklen, " the barber's boy " in a piece called " Going for the Cup, or, Old Mrs. Williams's Dance ", one of the earliest known minstrel sketches.

The earliest songs that could be considered American popular music, as opposed to the popular music of a particular region or ethnicity, were sentimental parlor songs by Stephen Foster and his peers, and songs meant for use in minstrel shows, theatrical productions that featured singing, dancing and comic performances.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

" These pictographs are reputed to be similar to the earliest characters confirmed to be written Chinese.

Jones ' shorts from this period starring these characters represent some of his earliest classics that were strictly intended to be funny.

The earliest written forms of dao are bronzeware script and seal script characters from Zhou Dynasty ( 1045 – 256 BCE ) bronzes and writings.

One of the earliest and most influential French radio plays was the prize-winning " Marémoto " (" Seaquake "), by Gabriel Germinet and Pierre Cusy, which presents a realistic account of a sinking ship before revealing that the characters are actually actors rehearsing for a broadcast.

The earliest labors of the Masoretes included standardizing division of the text into books, sections, paragraphs, verses, and clauses ( probably in the chronological order here enumerated ); the fixing of the orthography, pronunciation, and cantillation ; the introduction or final adoption of the square characters with the five final letters ( comp.

The earliest form of the 1935 Volunteers Marching On anthem still in the pre-PRC traditional Chinese characters in the Canton Gazette newspaper

Based on 30 reviews on the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has received 100 %, with a consensus of " Alfred Hitchcock's earliest classic -- and his own personal favorite -- deals its flesh-crawling thrills as deftly as its finely shaded characters ".

Fibber McGee and Molly was one of the earliest radio comedies to use regular characters, nearly all of whom had recurring phrases and running gags.

Since Xu Shen did not have access to Chinese characters in their earliest forms, his analysis cannot always be taken as authoritative.

From its earliest days, slash fiction has been particularly inspired by popular speculative fiction franchises, possibly because well-developed female characters may be lacking in speculative fiction, or because the speculative elements allow greater freedom to reinterpret canon characters.

The earliest surviving manuscript in Malay is the Tanjong Tanah Law in post-Pallava characters.

The earliest episodes consisted of introducing the troubled characters and did not show any of the supernatural elements that later made the show a hit.

Chinese characters were further adapted, creating what is known as man ' yōgana, the earliest form of kana, or syllabic writing.

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 ).

The earliest records of Korean history are written in Chinese characters.

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.

As is the case with many ancient writing systems, such as the Phoenician alphabet, many of the earliest characters seem to have begun as pictograms, with a picture representing an idea which corresponded with the word for that idea.

One of the earliest proponents of character simplification was Lufei Kui, who proposed in 1909 that simplified characters should be used in education.

The language of the earliest stories is dateable to the 8th century, and events and characters are referred to in poems dating to the 7th.

In Code Geass, Lelouch's masked alter ego Zero was one of the earliest developed characters.

( The latter prohibition took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

One of the earliest purely " American " rifle-shooting competitions took place in 1775, when Daniel Morgan was recruiting sharpshooters in Virginia for the impending American Revolutionary War.

Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context.

The earliest Lisp macros took the form of FEXPRs, function-like operators whose inputs were not the values computed by the arguments but rather the syntactic forms of the arguments, and whose output were values to be used in the computation.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

One of the earliest pole vaulting competitions where height was measured took place at the Ulverston Football and Cricket Club, Cumbria in 1843.

He officially took position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS ) on October 1, 2001. he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council during the earliest stages of the War on Terror, including planning of the War in Afghanistan and planning and execution of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 1972 they started manufacturing the Saab B engine, and in 1977 Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with turbochargers and added one to the engine, thus creating one of the earliest turbocharged " family cars " with the Saab 99 Turbo, which has been listed by Popular Mechanics as the second best turbocharged car ever made.

Tycho later wrote that when he was around age two, his uncle, Danish nobleman Jørgen Thygesen Brahe, " without the knowledge of my parents took me away with him while I was in my earliest youth to become a scholar ".

Germanic umlaut is a specific historical example of this process that took place in the unattested earliest stages of Old English, Old High German, and some other old Germanic languages.

* June 30 – The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.

( Note that the earliest episodes took place in 2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication ( so a story published in the comic in 2008 would take place in 2130 ).

The earliest recorded incidents of collective civil disobedience took place during the Roman Empire.

In 1846, the earliest large-scale engagement of the Mexican-American War took place in the city, known as the Battle of Monterrey.

The earliest recorded French voyage to West Africa took place in 1483.

When the French took control of Mainz in 1792, Forster became one of the founders of the Jacobin Club there and went on to play a leading role in the Mainz Republic, the earliest republican state in Germany.

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.

It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.

Isabella ( 1888 ) by Francis William TophamThe earliest recorded performance of Measure for Measure took place on St. Stephen's night, 26 December 1604.

Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere steeped in a study of the styles and themes of 19th-century Italian art.

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

The earliest known performance took place in 1737, when John Rich staged a production at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Here he took the earliest opportunity of demonstrating his main beliefs by the practice of his strict public morality.

Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid — human above the waist, fish below — though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish with a human head and arm, similar to the Babylonian god Ea.