The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and today also the large scale distribution and apparent evolution of galaxies predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard theory.

One of the earliest, and probably the most well-known, is DIN 476 — the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes in 1922 — adopted in 1975 as International Standard ISO 216.

The earliest example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of Ennius, which established the dactylic hexameter as the standard for later Latin epic.

Standard works in Latin inherited from the medieval tradition formed the bulk of the earliest printing, but as books became cheaper, works in the various vernaculars ( or translations of standard works ) began to appear.

The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the " Eroica " ( four horns has since become standard ); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion — plus chorus and vocal soloists — in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of " symphony " might be expanded for good.

In addition to the standard pickups, vintage reissue bass models are equipped with Horseshoe wrap-around style pickups, very similar to the pickups on the earliest Rickenbacker Frying Pan models.

Though the earliest chapters give the standard motives of blood sustenance for Varney's actions toward the family, later ones suggest that Varney is motivated by monetary interests.

The earliest standard character encoding was Baudot, which dates back to the nineteenth century and had 5 holes.

From these earliest ' thaler ' developed the new Thaler – the coin that Europe had been looking for to create a standard for commerce.

Nevertheless, by the fourth century BC the fundamentals of the Romulus and Remus story were standard Roman fare, and by 269 BC the wolf and suckling twins appeared on one of the earliest, if not the earliest issues of Roman silver coinage.

The album Far Cry contains his famous performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard " Tenderly " on alto saxophone, and his subsequent tour of Europe quickly set high standards for solo performance with his exhilarating bass clarinet renditions of Billie Holiday's " God Bless the Child " ( the earliest known version was recorded at the Five Spot during his residency with Booker Little ).

Many models of Macintosh favored the related RS-422 standard, mostly using German Mini-DIN connectors, except in the earliest models.

* present a statement of financial position ( balance sheet ) as at the beginning of the earliest comparative period in a complete set of financial statements when the entity applies the new standard.

The 4: x: x standard was adopted due to the very earliest color NTSC standard which used a chroma subsampling of 4: 1: 1 so that the picture carried only a quarter as much resolution in color than it did in brightness.

It has been hypothesized that the earliest life on Earth may have used PNA as a genetic material due to its extreme robustness, simpler formation and possible spontaneous polymerization at 100 ° C ( while water at standard pressure boils at this temperature, water at high pressure — as in deep ocean — boils at higher temperatures ).

One of the earliest applications of rsync was to implement mirroring or backup for multiple Unix clients to a central Unix server using rsync / ssh and standard Unix accounts.

Even in his earliest works, where he uses the standard French model, Rameau — the born symphonist and master of orchestration — composes novel and unique pieces.

* 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use " safety film " bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.

The earliest attested standard measure is from the Old Kingdom pyramids of Egypt and was called the royal cubit ( mahe ).

One of the earliest languages to support sets was Pascal ; many languages now include it, whether in the core language or in a standard library.

Constable started business afresh, and began in 1827 Constable's Miscellany of original and selected works ... consisting of a series of original works, and of standard books republished in a cheap form, thus making one of the earliest and most famous attempts to popularize high-quality literature.

In 1764 it established the British standard ordnance weights and measurements for the artillery, one of the earliest standards in the world.

Another related term is moresque, meaning " Moorish "; Randle Cotgrave's A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues of 1611 defines this as: " a rude or anticke painting, or carving, wherin the feet and tayles of beasts, & c, are intermingled with, or made to resemble, a kind of wild leaves, & c ." and " arabesque ", in its earliest use cited in the OED ( but as a French word ), as " Rebeske work ; a small and curious flourishing ".

For example, the Canadian census defines first language for its purposes as " the first language learned in childhood and still spoken ", recognizing that for some, the earliest language may be lost, a process known as language attrition.

The Bell Beaker phenomenon in the Iberian peninsula defines the late phase of the local Chalcolithic and even intrudes in the earliest centuries of the Bronze Age.

The earliest record still extant which defines the border between Norway and Russia is from 1326.

Since his earliest work he has consistently advocated that the human species consists of biologically distinct races which he defines as " rival breeding populations ", some of which are intrinsically better fit than others, and which ought to compete against each other in a struggle for survival, but which all to frequently intermingle to the detriment of the superior races.

Perhaps the earliest algorithms used in speech encoding ( and audio data compression in general ) were the A-law algorithm and the µ-law algorithm.

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

The algorithm repeatedly chooses a vertex v from the earliest set in the sequence that contains previously-unchosen vertices, and splits each set S of the sequence into two smaller subsets, the first consisting of the neighbors of v in S and the second consisting of the non-neighbors.

One of the earliest, and still one of the most popular, is the Floyd – Steinberg dithering algorithm, developed in 1975.

The earliest record of multiplication and division algorithm using Hindu Arabic numerals was in writing by Al Khwarizmi in early 9th century.

The earliest version of Punter supported only 7-bit transfers and used a back-correction algorithm involving two checksums for failsafes.

However, like earliest deadline first, and unlike rate monotonic scheduling, this algorithm can be used for processor utilization up to 100 %.

The ANS was the site of some of man's earliest geologic efforts, principally by the Egyptians to extract gold from the rocks of Egypt and NE Sudan.

His earliest work reflected heavy influences from English and continental writers.

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.

He has shown considerable ingenuity in adapting his earliest symbols and devices to the new work, and the fact that he has kept a body of constant symbols through all of his experiments gives an unexpected continuity to his poetry.

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

And so deadheads on the payroll can be eased out at the earliest possible age.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

The 34 arrows, denoting onset age plus completion age deviations, have been arrayed in an Onset sequence which begins with girl 18 who had the earliest Onset of the 34 girls.

In any case `` here in their judgment conditions require '' ( italics added ) they would `` form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people ''.

We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.

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.

These regional differences of sensitivity to pain may be of crucial significance during the earliest intercourse.

From the earliest days of the motor car industry, before the A.L.A.M. was established, patent infringement loomed as a serious and vexing problem.

In a tour around the stacks, he found that the earliest volumes began on the left and progressed clockwise around the room.

Mr. Hawksley said yesterday he would be willing to go before the city council `` or anyone else locally '' to outline his proposal at the earliest possible time.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.

The pastor writes a personal letter to each individual, expressing his joy over the decision, assuring him of a pastoral call at the earliest convenient time, and outlining the plan for membership preparation classes and Membership Sunday.

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.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

Some time after this mosaic was executed, the earliest depictions of Christ would also be beardless and haloed.