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.

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

It was published in Des Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two.

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 first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

* 1759 A Journey Through Europe published by John Jefferys, the earliest board game with a designer whose name is known.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

As such the book offered one of the earliest published versions of the Stab-in-the-back legend.

Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).

The very earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death.

) The earliest use of the phrase seems to have been in an IBM advertising supplement to the New York Times published on April 30, 1961 and by Frank Fremont-Smith, Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference Program, in an April 1961 article in the AIBS Bulletin ( p.

Perhaps as a result of this, and the fact that Le Morte D ' Arthur was one of the earliest printed books in England, published by William Caxton in 1485, most later Arthurian works are derivative of Malory's.

At the approximate age of twenty-two, his earliest known major professional artistic work was created, a cover for a Kabuki playbook in 1775 that was published under a pseudonym, the gō of Toyoaki.

At the time her earliest stories were being published in 1949-50, she received a B. A.

The earliest known explicit Renaissance depiction is one of the many woodcut illustrations to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a book published in Venice in 1499.

The earliest printed edition of the Mishnah was published in Naples (" the Napoli edition ").

Peter Drucker ( 1909 – 2005 ) wrote one of the earliest books on applied management: Concept of the Corporation ( published in 1946 ).

The Oxford English Dictionary records its earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an article by Edward Hunter in New Leader published on 7 October 1950.

The earliest known recipe was by Maria Rundell in 1806.

In the Middle Ages, Guillaume Tirel Taillevent, a court chef, wrote Le Viandier, one of the earliest recipe collections of Medieval France.

The earliest known use of the name trifle was for a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater, the recipe for which was published in England, 1596, in a book called " The good huswife's Jewell " by Thomas Dawson.

While some people consider the inclusion of jelly to be a recent variation, the earliest known recipe to include jelly dates from 1747, and the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861.

The earliest identified mention of the lamington recipe was published in January 1902, but the identity of the contributor of that recipe was not revealed.

Most modern recipes for apple pie require an ounce or two of sugar, but the earliest recipe does not.

Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food, found no printed recipe for the present-day croissant in any French recipe book before the early 20th century ; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the " fantasy or luxury breads " in Payen's Des substances alimentaires, 1853.

The earliest surviving recipe, from 1300 – 1325, is simply a list of ingredients: wine, wheat starch, raisins, and sugar to " abate the strength of the wine ".

The earliest specific Australian reference is a printed recipe from between 1899 and 1907.

The earliest known reference to French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating to the 4th or 5th century ; the recipe mentions soaking in milk but not eggs ( though the editor adds eggs ) and gives it no special name, just Aliter Dulcia ' another sweet dish '.

However many old photographs show that pasties were wrapped in bags made of paper or muslin and were eaten from end-to-end ; according to the earliest Cornish recipe book, published in 1929, this is " the true Cornish way " to eat a pasty.

For example, there was passum, a strong and sweet raisin wine, for which the earliest known recipe is of Carthaginian origin ; mulsum, a freshly made mixture of wine and honey ; and conditum, a mixture of wine, honey and spices made in advance and matured.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest documented reference is a recipe for " Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick ", in Alexis Soyer's The modern Housewife or ménagère ( 1849 ).

Recipes originating in England include the earliest recorded recipe for ravioli ( 1390s ) and Forme of Cury, a late 14th century manuscript written by chefs of Richard II of England.

The skewered meat, kebab-like recipe, existed as a favourite in ancient Greece at Archaic times, as the earliest references are attested in Homer.

The Virginia Housewife, published in 1838 by Mary Randolph, has a recipe for veal cutlets that is one of the earliest recipes for a food like chicken fried steak.

The earliest appearance of the word in print in English occurs in the May 1849 issue of the American Agriculturalist, page 161, where Solon Robinson refers to a recipe for ' Hopping Johnny ( jambalaya )'.

It is the earliest known reference to cheese being eaten cooked in the British Isles but whether it implies a recipe like Welsh rarebit is a matter of speculation.

The earliest printed recipe is the 1809 edition of Mrs. Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery.

The earliest recorded recipe was attributed to Alexander Frehse, a Swiss baker from the canton of Romandie.

The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.