The earliest reasonably complete version available to scholars today, named P < sup > 46 </ sup >, dates to approximately the year 200 AD, approximately 150 years after the original was presumably drafted.

He produced the earliest, reasonably accurate estimate of the speed of sound.

It was calculated that the profit after expenses that TWW might have made would be about £ 100, 000 per month and that the earliest that TWW could reasonably exit would be around the end of February 1968.

The earliest reasonably accurate mechanical clocks are the 13th century tower clocks probably developed for ( and perhaps by ) monks in Northern Italy.

One of the earliest reliable records of this weapon in warfare is from an ambush, the Battle of Ma-Ling in 341 BC.

A Chinese alchemical text dated 492 noted saltpeter burnt with a purple flame, providing a practical and reliable means of distinguishing it from other inorganic salts, thus enabling alchemists to evaluate and compare purification techniques ; the earliest Arabic and Latin accounts of saltpeter purification are dated after 1200.

In particular, Arthur features in a number of well-known vitae (" Lives ") of post-Roman saints, none of which are now generally considered to be reliable historical sources ( the earliest probably dates from the 11th century ).

* 776 BC – Chinese make the earliest reliable record of a solar eclipse.

The earliest reliable reference ( circa 100 BCE ) to Laozi is found in the Records of the Grand Historian ( Shiji ) by Chinese historian Sima Qian ( ca.

First, the amount of time between the earliest known form of Sumerian and the oldest reconstructable form of the proposed related language is too great to make reliable comparisons.

The earliest examples for which reliable records exist were two engines in the Black Country, of which the more famous was that erected in 1712 at the Conygree Coalworks near Dudley, This is generally accepted as the first successful Newcomen engine, but it may have been preceded by one built a mile and a half east of Wolverhampton.

It is possible that the confusion has arisen from post conquest times when errors multiplied rapidly as Mexican culture slipped swiftly into the background, for the earliest reliable chroniclers are clear as to the commonest use of the gum which we know as copal, and whose characteristic odor would place it distinctly in the first rank of incense materials .'</ p >< p >"[...

This is one of the earliest reliable records of the Emishi people extant.

One of the earliest schools with reliable records was Li Ying College established in 1075 in present day New Territories.

Since most software fails because of mistakes, eliminating the mistakes at the earliest possible step is also a relatively inexpensive, reliable way to produce software.

Its discovery not only has important value for the collation of existing version of “ Lao Zi ” but also has provided the earliest and most reliable basis for further studying the thoughts of “ Lao Zi ”.

The earliest historical record of Lontara dates to around the 17th century, and being influenced by myths, is not considered a reliable historical source.

Wayne C. Booth was the earliest who formulated a reader-centered approach to unreliable narration and distinguished between a reliable and unreliable narrator on the grounds of whether the narrator ’ s speech violates or conforms with general norms and values.

The earliest reliable records of the area are in the 7th century work Cosmographia by an anonymous cleric of Ravenna.

The earliest reliable history of P. semilanceata intoxication dates back to 1799 in London, and in the 1960s the mushroom was the first European species confirmed to contain psilocybin.

Earlier, but less reliable, artifacts have been found in Meldorf, Süderithmarschen, North Germany ; these include brooches and combs found in graves, and are supposed to have the earliest markings resembling runic inscriptions.

The earliest and most reliable account of how " Bongo flava " found its way onto Tanzanian airways has Taji Luindi at the heart of the story.

* Thomas Blount: Boscobel or the History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation Available in various formats at Internet Archive, this is the earliest, not entirely reliable account, of the escape of Charles II, published shortly after the Restoration in 1660.

The earliest reliable ascidians is Shankouclava shankouense from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan Shale ( South China ).

The earliest reliable testimony is supplied by the Pandora Vase dating from the middle of the 5th century.

The earliest reliable account of Turkey shepherd dogs comes from Evliya Çelebi.

This was the last major naval battle in the Western world to be fought entirely or almost entirely between rowing vessels, and one of the earliest for which there is a reliable count of ships and personnel involved.

( The Missionary Register for 1822 seems to be the earliest reliable document available )

The earliest records in the Akkadian language date to the time of Sargon.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic ( 6th millennium BC ).

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

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

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

The earliest known date for a simple glue is 200, 000 BC and for a compound glue 70, 000 BC.

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.

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 tours date back to 1888, when a 21-man squad visited Australia and New Zealand.

The earliest tin-alloy bronzes date to the late 4th millennium BC in Susa ( Iran ) and some ancient sites in China, Luristan ( Iran ) and Mesopotamia ( Iraq ).

The earliest bronze archeological finds in Indonesia date from 1 – 2 BCE, including flat plates probably suspended and struck by a wooden or bone mallet.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Those who favour the later date appeal to the earliest external testimony, that of the Christian father Irenaeus ( c. 150-202 ), who wrote that he received his information from people who knew John personally.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

( 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.

The sweet chocolate residue found in jars from the site of Puerto Escondido in Honduras from around 1100 BC is the earliest found evidence of the use of cacao to date.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Cináed mac Ailpín may date from the end of the tenth century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin may date from the end of the 10th century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

The earliest allusion to pandeism found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große ’ s interpretation of Pliny the Elder ’ s Natural History:

The earliest known Eskimo cultures ( pre-Dorset ) date to 5, 000 years ago.

The earliest references to the Euphrates come from cuneiform texts found in Shuruppak and pre-Sargonic Nippur in southern Iraq and date to the mid-3rd millennium BCE.