The others were Tin Men ( 1987 ), a story of aluminum-siding salesmen in the 1960s starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito ; the immigrant family saga Avalon ( which featured Elijah Wood in one of his earliest screen appearances ), and Liberty Heights ( 1999 ).

An earlier series of the same title was a saga of loosely related episodes progressing from the earliest Tokugawa shoguns to the end.

The earliest source that deals with Blot-Sweyn's coming to power is the Icelandic legendary saga Hervarar saga:

Cruz's band even recorded some of Blades ' earliest compositions, particularly "( Yo Soy ) Cipriano Armenteros ", part of a four-song saga about the fictional character recorded by Ray and Cruz, Ismael Miranda, and Blades himself.

Though the saga is believed to have been among the earliest sagas composed it is well preserved.

The saga itself is of great modernity, the earliest extant manuscripts dating approximately to sometime in the 17th century.

Discussing George Lucas ' Star Wars saga and pre-dating the modern Internet, it was one of the earliest influential forms of Star Wars on-line fandom.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

The earliest bestiary in the form in which it was later popularized was an anonymous 2nd century Greek volume called the Physiologus, which itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle's Historia Animalium and various works by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Aelian and other naturalists.

One of the earliest encyclopedic works to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD.

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

The earliest secure reference to this passage is found in the writings of the fourth-century Christian apologist and historian Eusebius, who used Josephus ' works extensively as a source for his own Historia Ecclesiastica.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

The oldest preserved Norwegian prose works are from the mid-12th century, the earliest are Latin hagiographical and historical texts such as Passio Olavi, Acta sanctorum in Selio, Historia Norwegie and Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium.

The earliest known text to mention Arthur in this regard is the 9th-century Historia Brittonum.

The earliest Norwegian written source, Historia Norwegiæ ( late 12th century ), states that Olaf was born in Orkney after his mother fled there to escape the killers of Olaf's father-another late 12th century source, Ágrip, says Olaf's mother fled to Orkney with Olaf when he is three years old, for the same reason.

The work was translated into Irish by Giolla Coemgin in c. 1071 and is the earliest example of the original Historia Britonum, but includes the author ’ s name, Nennius.

The earliest full account of Mordred is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, where he, for the first time in literature, plays the role of traitor to Arthur.

In the Historia Regum Britanniae, one of the earliest texts of the Arthurian legend, only Uther is given the surname " Pendragon ", which is explained as meaning " dragon's head ".

Govan's earliest recorded name may be found in the Historia Regnum Anglorum attributed to Symeon of Durham.

The Historia Britonum, the earliest known source of the story of Brutus of Britain, may have been devised to create a distinguished genealogy for a number of Welsh princes in the 9th century.

The earliest surviving reference to Partholón's settlement is in the Historia Brittonum, a 9th century British Latin compilation attributed to one Nennius.

The earliest printed books and broadsheets were known as incunabula and the first printed herbal appeared in 1469, a version of Pliny's Historia Naturalis: this was published nine years before Dioscorides De Materia Medica was set in type.

Numerous fragments of Irish legendary history are scattered throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, but the earliest extant account is to be found in the Historia Brittonum or " History of the Britons ," written by the Welsh priest Nennius in 829-830.

The earliest two versions based on Ynglingatal, i. e. Historia Norwegiæ and Íslendingabók ( see below ) say that Dag was succeeded by his sons Alrekr and Eírikr who in their turn were succeeded by Dag's grandson Agne ( in Historia Norwegiæ incorrectly called Hogne ):

Their first appearance is in Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful Historia Regum Britanniae, the earliest work to describe Mordred as a usurper.

Fold-out engraving from Ferrante Imperato's Dell ' Historia Naturale ( Naples 1599 ), the earliest illustration of a natural history cabinet

The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell ' Historia Naturale ( Naples 1599 ) ( illustration, left ).

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

This subsection describes those features of Scheme that have distinguished it from other programming languages from its earliest days.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, " a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant.

The earliest standard that defines the algorithm ( ANS X9. 52, published in 1998 ) describes it as the " Triple Data Encryption Algorithm ( TDEA )" — i. e. three operations of the Data Encryption Algorithm specified in ANSI X3. 92 — and does not use the terms " Triple DES " or " DES " at all.

In Japan, the earliest unambiguous reference to a paper model is in a short poem by Ihara Saikaku in 1680 which describes paper butterflies in a dream.

Old school hip hop ( also spelled " old skool ") describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music ( approximately from 1979 – 1984 ), and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended ( see Roots of hip hop ).

Mack develops the thesis that this was the earliest writing about Jesus, developed over decades by a community which he describes with unwavering confidence.

Though Bermondsey's earliest written appearance is in the Domesday Book of 1086, it also appears in a source which, though surviving only in a copy written at Peterborough Abbey in the 12th century, reliably describes earlier events.

His account of gold mining in Nubia in eastern Egypt is one of the earliest extant texts on the topic, and describes in vivid detail the use of slave labour in terrible working conditions.

One of the earliest accounts of the barrier beach, published a dozen years before Sea Bright's existence, describes a steamboat journey from New York to the Ocean House, a low rambling wooden structure situated on the beach opposite the mouth of the Navesink River.

The earliest sources regard the two dragons as distinctly different, and in a metaphor of the Adventus Saxonum describes one as being native to the island of Britain ( it had arrived first ) which was then joined by another new and alien dragon that fought it for supremacy.

Drawing on the earliest description of the house, from 1380, the Salford City Council describes how it comprised " a hall, five chambers, a kitchen and a chapel.

Probably the earliest non-Western dramaturgic work is the Indian Sanskrit " Natayasatra " (' The Art of Theatre ') written about 100 AD, which describes the elements, forms and narrative elements of the ten major types of ancient Indian dance dramas.

Clarkson describes one of her earliest memories as that of hiding in several Hong Kong basements during the Japanese invasion of the territory in 1941.

The text spans the entire year and describes the lives of many saints, both English and continental, and hearkens back to some of the earliest saints of the early church.

The earliest description of tabula is in an epigram of Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( 476 – 481 ), given by Agathias of Myrine ( 527 – 567 ), who describes a game in which Zeno goes from a strong position to a very weak one after an unfortunate dice roll.

This introduction describes the awakening of nature at the earliest dawn.

The earliest form of the name of Daventry, the Celtic dwy-afon-tre, " the town of two avons ,"( i. e. " the town of two rivers "), describes its geographical situation between the nearby sources of the River Leam, which flows west, and the River Nene which flows east.

The earliest recorded mention of prostitution as an occupation, appears in Sumerian records from before 4000 BC, and describes a temple-bordello operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk.

Finally, Kenneth Kitchen rejects the term co-regency to describe the relationship between Seti I and Ramesses II ; he describes the earliest phase of Ramesses II's career as a " prince regency " where the young Ramesses enjoyed all the trappings of royalty including the use of a royal titulary and harem but did not count his regnal years until after his father's death.

The first poem, Vyšehrad ( The High Castle ), composed between the end of September and 18 November 1874 and premiered on 14 March 1875, describes the Vyšehrad castle in Prague which was the seat of the earliest Czech kings.

The earliest literary reference to a winch can be found in the account of Herodotus of Halicarnassus on the Persian Wars ( Histories 7. 36 ), where he describes how wooden winches were used to tighten the cables for a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont in 480 B. C.

The earliest written reference of Narva is in the First Novgorod Chronicle, which in the year 1172 describes a district in Novgorod called Nerevsky or Narovsky konets ( yard ).

In Shuowen Jiezi ( c. 58-147 AD ), China's earliest dictionary, under the entry for Nüwa author Xu Shen describes her as being both the sister and the wife of Fu Xi.