Another important source appears to have been Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of the earliest known novels, a picaresque from late classical antiquity.

He ascribes the origin to the 1208 Battle of Fellin, not the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219, based on the earliest source available about the story.

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ( raad ) applied to the electric ray.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

Bede, the earliest source to give dates, is thought to have drawn his information from correspondence with Albinus.

The earliest known source for the story thus far is the 1834 book Der Jüdische Gil Blas by Josef Seligman Kohn.

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.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

The earliest reference that might be relevant to Mokèlé-mbèmbé stories ( though the term is not used in the source ) comes from the 1776 book of Abbé Lievain Bonaventure, a French missionary to the Congo River region.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

His earliest work was a biography of the Greek statesman Philopoemen ; this work was later used as a source by Plutarch when composing his Parallel Lives, however the original Polybian text is lost.

The earliest source of this story is found in chapter eight of Saint Sulpicius Severus's biography of Saint Martin of Tours.

The earliest source of this tale is in Busone da Gubbio's " Avventuroso Ciciliano ," written in Italian in 1311.

The earliest surviving source for this anti-clerical tale is found in Cento Novelle Antiche, an Italian compilation of short stories from the end of the 13th century.

Fiammetta narrates this tale, whose earliest source is a French manuscript written by a man named Thomas.

According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the oral stage, the mother's breast became the formative source of all later erotic sensation.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).

The account of the battle given in the earliest source, the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, is one where the Norman advance surprises the English, who manage to gain the top of Senlac Hill before the Normans.

The Great Service was in existence by 1606 ( the last copying date entered in the earliest surviving manuscript source ) and may date back as far as the 1590s.

In the earliest significant source on van Eyck, a 1454 biography in Genoese humanist Bartolomeo Facio's De viris illustribus, Jan van Eyck is named " the leading painter " of his day.

* " Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages " by Anne Winston-Allen ( 1997, Pennsylvania State University Press )-the most current source in English on the history and development of the Rosary in its earliest years.

The earliest specific aprisio grant that has been identified was at Fontjoncouse, near Narbonne ( see Lewis, links ).

The community, the fifth oldest municipality in New Jersey, has grown from Native American territory, through a colonial period and is one of the links in the earliest settlement of the Atlantic Ocean seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States.

One of the earliest Brazilian pioneers, Augusto de Campos, has assembled a Web site of old and new work ( see external links below ), including the manifesto.

The earliest known allegation that links the Whitechapel murders with a prominent London physician was in two articles published by a number of US newspapers between 1895 and 1897.

One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki ( and its predecessor, UseModWiki ) and other wiki engines was the use of " free links " instead of CamelCase.

The earliest record of a settlement in Dumbarton is a record in Irish chronicles of the death of Guret, rex Alo Cluathe (" king of Clyde Rock "), in AD 658 ; but a story about another king of Clyde Rock ( petra Cloithe ) in Adomnan's Life of St Columba ( book 1, chapter 15 ) probably predates this, and a later source links King Ceretic, a British King who received a letter from St Patrick with Ail, thought to be Clyde Rock.

There were early challenges to connecting this figure with a pagan goddess, since her earliest definite appearance links her with the Virgin Mary, commonly called " Queen of Heaven ": an early-13th-century text listing superstitions states that " In the night of Christ's Nativity they set the table for the Queen of Heaven, whom the people call Frau Holda, that she might help them ".

The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools.

A single large opening on either side of the back of the skull links Dimetrodon with mammals and distinguishes it from most of the earliest sauropsids, which either lack openings or have two openings.

The earliest recorded observation of possible links between maternal alcohol use and fetal damage was made in 1899 by Dr. William Sullivan, a Liverpool prison physician who noted higher rates of stillbirth for 120 alcoholic female prisoners than their sober female relatives ; he suggested the causal agent to be alcohol use.

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links the earliest stages of Balto-Slavic development with the Middle Dnieper culture which connects the Corded Ware and Yamna cultures.

The Periplus is the earliest work to describe the trade links between northern and southern Europe.

Gleick produced some of the earliest work on the links between environmental issues, especially water and climate change, and international security, identifying a long history of conflicts over water resources and the use of water as both a weapon and target of war.

Margam's links with photography also include the earliest known Welsh photograph, a daguerreotype of the castle taken on 9 March 1841 by the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones.

In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown with a full head of red hair ; despite this, the character later became hairless as the result of an artist's mistake.

In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown as a middle-aged man with a full head of red hair.

The earliest description is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black.

Foxes were referred to as beasts of the chase by medieval times, along with the red deer ( hart & hind ), martens, and roes, but the earliest known attempt to hunt a fox with hounds was in Norfolk, England, in 1534, where farmers began chasing foxes down with their dogs for the purpose of pest control.

The earliest record of the use of red and white panji or pataka ( long flag along curved bamboo pole ) were written in Pararaton ; according to this source, the troops of Jayakatwang from Gelang-gelang hoisted the red and white banner during their invasion to Singhasari.

White is the natural color of woven cotton fabrics, while red is one of the earliest natural dye discovered by native acquired from the teak leafs, the flowers of Averrhoa bilimbi or the skin of mangosteen fruits.

The four emblems are the cross in the field of red to represent religion, which was established with the earliest settlers ; the torch in the field of white representing education, which was established along with the church in the earliest days ; the cow in the royal purple, representing the farming upon which the county has always depended and the dairying which made the county famous far and wide ; and the wheel in the field of blue to represent the manufacturing here in the county.

The earliest examples of the breed were white or occasionally brown or black, Queen Victoria adopted a small red Pomeranian in 1888, which caused that color to become fashionable by the end of the 19th century.

Arthur's earliest surviving portrait, painted in his early or pre-teens, shows him with red Tudor hair, small eyes, and a high-bridged nose.

The red cross appeared as an emblem of England in the Middle Ages, specifically during the Crusades ( although the original symbol used to represent English crusaders was a white cross on a red background ) and is one of the earliest known emblems representing England.

The earliest reference to the Saint Andrew's Cross as a flag is to be found in the Vienna Book of Hours, circa 1503, where a white saltire is depicted with a red background.

An achromatic doublet brings red and blue light to the same focus, and is the earliest example of an achromatic lens.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known appearance of the term " red light district " in print is in an 1894 article from The Sandusky Register, a newspaper in Sandusky, Ohio.

The earliest extant lacquer object, a red wooden bowl, was unearthed at a Hemudu culture ( ca.

It was projected dual-strip in the red / green anaglyph format, making it both the earliest known film that utilized dual strip projection and the earliest known film in which anaglyph glasses were used.

Ward, and earliest of the perverts to Rome ; then Greg, author of The Creed of Christendom, a Deist ; then Froude, the historian, once a deacon in our Church, now a Deist ; then Roden Noël, an actual Atheist and red republican, and looking very like one!

The original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving intact Western binding, and the virtually unique survivor of decorated Insular leatherwork.

The front cover ; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding

Rothschild ( German: ), meaning " red shield ", is a surname derived from a house distinguished with a red shield ( Middle High German rot ( or roth )= " red " + schild = " shield "), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century.