During this time, papers on the Apollo program missions and some of the earliest reports on AIDS were published.

The earliest Spanish and English explorers in California encountered Native Americans and established missions to convert them to Christianity.

Christian missions provided the first organized musical training in the country, bringing to light many of the modern country's earliest musicians, including Enoch Sontonga, who wrote the national anthem Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika.

From the earliest days of the Space Shuttle missions, NASA has turned to NORAD's database to constantly monitor the orbital path in front of the Shuttle to find and avoid any known debris.

They were the earliest missions of the Mars program.

The earliest missions during Operation Restore Hope were conducted by Navy SEALs.

In one of their earliest missions, the Outsiders teamed up with the Teen Titans, who were led at the time by Batman's sidekick, Robin.

John was killed on one of the team's earliest missions.

In one of the team's earliest missions, Karma was seemingly killed during an explosion at the Viper's hideout.

Indeed the earliest announcement of this game was that it would be a port of GTA III, but at some point in development ( it is unclear exactly when this occurred ) this idea was rejected, probably due to technical limitations and the time needed to reconstruct the previous game's missions in the new two-dimensional environment.

As depicted in the scripts, the low-key but decisive McCauley was ubiquitous, assigned to every important space mission over at least a decade, including the earliest manned flights, the first flight to the moon, many additional moon landings and moon base construction missions, construction of a space station, and two flights to Mars ( neither succeeded, and folklore has it that plans for a never-aired second season would have focused on further missions to Mars and beyond ).

John of Montecorvino, Franciscan missionary, founder of the earliest Catholic missions China, and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing | archbishop of Peking

The Congo Crisis was one of the earliest and most important UN missions ever.

The Spaldings and their fellow missionaries were among the earliest Americans to travel across the western plains, through the Rocky Mountains and into the lands of the Pacific Northwest to their religious missions in what would become the states of Idaho and Washington.

By this time, Rogers had been revived from suspended animation, and during one of Sharon's earliest missions, he came to her aid when she came under attack by a mercenary known as Batroc the Leaper.

) The memory of Naxos as the earliest of all the Greek settlements in Sicily was preserved by the dedication of an altar outside the town to Apollo Archegetes, the divine patron under whose authority the colony had sailed ; and it was a custom ( still retained long after the destruction of Naxos itself ) that all Theori or envoys proceeding on sacred missions to Greece, or returning from thence to Sicily, should offer sacrifice on this altar.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

The earliest anchors were probably rocks, and many rock anchors have been found dating from at least the Bronze Age.

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

His earliest writings were likely written in the 1150s, and probably in Paris.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

In the earliest days, the Diamondbacks operated basically as a subsidiary of the Suns ; several executives and managers with the Suns and America West Arena were brought over to the Diamondbacks in similar roles.

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

Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.

Accounting is thousands of years old ; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7, 000 years, were found in Mesopotamia ( Assyrians ).

The earliest accounting records were found amongst the ruins of ancient Babylon, Assyria and Sumeria, which date back more than 7, 000 years.

Rise of the Triad and Marathon, both released on December 21, 1994, were the earliest first-person shooters to integrate dual wield pistols.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by Saint Anthony.

The Herculoids, made up of Herc, Coke La Rock, and DJ Clark Kent, were the earliest to gain major fame.

The earliest beam bridges were simple logs that sat across streams and similar simple structures.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

The earliest suspension bridges were made of ropes or vines covered with pieces of bamboo.

In any case, Goldoni was deeply interested in theatre from his earliest years, and all attempts to direct his activity into other channels were of no avail ; his toys were puppets, and his books, plays.

The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.

Analog computers had an advantage over early digital computers in that they could be used to solve complex problems using behavioral analogues while the earliest attempts at digital computers were quite limited.

One of the earliest attempts at solidifying a canon was made by Marcion, circa 140 AD, who accepted only a modified version of Luke ( the Gospel of Marcion ) and ten of Paul's letters, while rejecting the Old Testament entirely.

The textual variation among manuscript copies of books in the New Testament prompted attempts to discern the earliest form of text already in antiquity ( e. g., by the 3rd century Christian author Origen ).

The earliest of these is Saint Carannog's mystical floating altar in that saint's 12th century Vita ; in the story Arthur has found the altar and attempts unsuccessfully to use it for a table, and returns it to Carannog in exchange for the saint ridding the land of a meddlesome dragon.

Religious Humanism, in the tradition of the earliest Humanist organizations in the UK and US, attempts to fulfill the traditional social role of religion.

The game is one of the earliest attempts by Japanese companies to categorize legendary creatures, label them, define them, and subsequently market them.

Although this project was one of the earliest attempts to port Linux to a handheld computer, it did not come to fruition for Psion.

Some of the earliest recorded attempts with gliders were those by the 9th-century poet Abbas Ibn Firnas and the 11th-century monk Eilmer of Malmesbury ; both experiments injured their pilots.

One of the earliest attempts to analyze a statistical problem involving censored data was Bernoulli's 1766 analysis of smallpox morbidity and mortality data to demonstrate the efficacy of vaccination.

The earliest attempts to write the Egyptian language using the Greek alphabet are Greek transcriptions of Egyptian proper names, most of which date to the Ptolemaic period.

Spurred on by a series of seminars in Poland in 1926 by Łukasiewicz that advocated a more natural treatment of logic, Jaśkowski made the earliest attempts at defining a more natural deduction, first in 1929 using a diagrammatic notation, and later updating his proposal in a sequence of papers in 1934 and 1935.

Bill sabotages the earliest attempts by Dave to get emergency and police help so that he ( Bill ) may get the exclusive story from interviewing Mike while he is standing on the ledge.

Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.

Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock and Roll Club.

The program STUDENT, written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT is one of the earliest known attempts at natural language understanding by a computer.

However, both of these attempts to reconcile known facts with legend are weak ; in the era of the earliest accounts, the word " naked " is only known to mean " without any clothing whatsoever ".

This book included an Arte of Brachygraphie, which is one of the earliest attempts to construct a system of shorthand.

One of the earliest, modern attempts to regulate private production that affected this era was the Inland Revenue Act of 1880 in the United Kingdom ; this required a 5-shilling homebrewing license.

Literary critic Eugen Simion called it " the most valuable " among Eliade's earliest literary attempts, but noted that, being " ambitious ", the book had failed to achieve " an aesthetically satisfactory format ".

The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years from the earliest attempts in kites and gliders to powered heavier-than-air, supersonic and hypersonic flight.

Tailless aircraft have been experimented with since the earliest attempts to fly.