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.

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 ).

The earliest documented reference to this green vegetable dates from the year 1275, when the well-known Japanese monk, Nichiren Shonin, wrote a note thanking a parishioner for the gift of " edamame " he had left at the temple.

The Wailers composed several songs for the American-born singer Johnny Nash before teaming with producer Lee Perry to record some of the earliest well-known reggae songs, including " Soul Rebel ", " Duppy Conqueror ", and " Small Axe ".

In addition to the well-known greenhouse poems, the Poetry Foundation notes that Roethke also won praise " for his love poems which first appeared in The Waking and earned their own section in the new book ' were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work ,' to the poet Stanley Kunitz.

The earliest, well-known group produced by the Savonnerie, then under the direction of Simon Lourdet, are the carpets that were produced in the early years of Louis XIV's reign.

White papers originated in governments, and many point to the Churchill White Paper of 1922 as the earliest well-known example.

One of the earliest well-known tributes to Schwartz came from Schwartz's friend, fellow poet Robert Lowell, who published the poem " To Delmore Schwartz " in 1959 ( while Schwartz was still alive ) in the book Life Studies.

In addition to being one of the most well-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period.

He tells us, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Aegyptus ( Egypt ), he went to Rome circa 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors ( probably as advocatus fisci ), that in 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a well-known litterateur.

The earliest report in literature is that of the Greek historian and geographer Strabo, who claimed to have personally heard the sound during a visit in 20 BC, by which time it apparently was already well-known.

The earliest well-known community bicycle program was started in the summer of 1965 by Luud Schimmelpennink in association with the radical group Provo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The earliest reference to the well-known verse is in Namby Pamby, a ballad by Henry Carey published in 1725, in which he himself italicised the original:

The literature and texts created by indigenous Mesoamericans are the earliest and well-known from the Americas for two primary reasons.

His feature films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts ( such as 1978's The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall ), and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder ( Square Dance ) and Kiefer Sutherland ( The Bay Boy ).

That same year, she began a new singing career with a number of well-known French writers writing lyrics ; Raymond Queneau's " Si tu t ’ imagines " was one of her earliest songs to become popular.

Known today as the Woodrow United Methodist Church, its original congregants included some of the island's earliest well-known families.

He was a well-known figure at the time the earliest Robin Hood ballads likely developed in the 14th century.

* One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian romantic epic " Orlando furioso " ( 1516 ).

As a result, beatmatching was very hard, and many of the earliest DJs who worked within the Goan scene didn't bother trying at all, the well-known Goa Gil being one of them.

Witt never hid his communist views, and made them well-known to others from his earliest days in the government.

Among other well-known manuscripts in the Laurentian Library are the sixth-century Syriac Rabula Gospels ; the Codex Amiatinus, which contains the earliest surviving manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible ; the Squarcialupi Codex, an important early musical manuscript ; and the fragmentary Erinna papyrus containing poems of the friend of Sappho.

Here and around Ham Green and Pill, on the opposite bank of the Avon, humans with a Lower Palaeolithic ( earliest phase of the Old Stone Age ) culture ( possibly of the hominid type Homo heidelbergensis ) left tools and debris behind at an uncertain time some 250-400, 000 years ago. For comparison, the well-known Palaeolithic sites at Waverley Wood, Warwickshire, and Boxgrove Quarry, Sussex, have artefacts from about 500, 000 years ago, and Boxgrove has yielded bones of H. heidelbergensis.

John Dudley, a well-known Congregational minister in Weathersfield whose sermons were widely reprinted, a graduate of Yale Seminary, a sometime missionary to the Choctaw Indians and a descendant of William Dudley, one of the earliest settlers of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639.

Thomas Brett ( 1747, Catherington, Hampshire – 31 December 1809, Kingston Cross, Portsmouth, Hampshire ) was one of first-class cricket's earliest well-known fast bowlers and a leading player for Hampshire when its team was organised by the Hambledon Club in the 1770s.

The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.

The origin of Baltimore County is not known ; the earliest known record of the county politically is January 12, 1659, when a writ was issued to its sheriff.

Franklin Academy became the first public high school in the county in 1874 and one of the earliest schools to join the Baltimore County school system.

Among the earliest of NASA ' S shipments utilizing the Pregnant Guppy were the first and second stages of the Gemini Program's Titan II GVL from the Martin Co. in Baltimore, Maryland, to Cape Canaveral, Florida.

" His grandest beneficence, however, was to Baltimore ; the city in which he achieved his earliest success.

The earliest confirmed printed copy of the recipe using the name " Nanaimo Bars " appears in a publication entitled His / Her Favourite Recipes, Compiled by the Women's Association of the Brechin United Church ( 1957 ), with the recipe submitted by Joy Wilgress, a Baltimore, Maryland, native ( p. 52 ).

Maelcum Soul ( born Patricia Ann Soul ; September 22, 1940-April 5, 1968 ) was a 1960s Baltimore, Maryland bohemian, artist, and an actress in two of filmmaker John Waters ' earliest works, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup.

The 1985 publication is not readily available from any U. S. library, which explains why Tkacz's finding was easy to miss as the earliest known " in print " rebuttal of the Baltimore origin myth.

Completed in 1840, the A & E was one of the earliest rail lines in the U. S., connecting Annapolis with the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

This game is thought to be the earliest surviving Super Bowl game preserved on videotape in its entirety save for a portion of the Baltimore Colts ' fourth quarter scoring drive.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

All of the earliest chordate fossils have been found in the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, and include two species that are regarded as fish, which implies they are vertebrates.

Innovations introduced by Muslim economists, traders and merchants include the earliest uses of credit, cheques, promissory notes, savings accounts, transactional accounts, loaning, trusts, exchange rates, the transfer of credit and debt, and banking institutions for loans and deposits.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

Two of his earliest film roles include small parts as uniformed police officers in both the 1972 film The Hot Rock and 1974's Death Wish.

Fossils at 20 million years ago include fragments attributed to Victoriapithecus, the earliest Old World Monkey.

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

These include the Antikythera mechanism and the astrolabe from ancient Greece ( c. 150 – 100 BC ), which are generally regarded as the earliest known mechanical analog computers.

At that year's Salon, he exhibited Haymakers and The Sower, his first major masterpiece and the earliest of the iconic trio of paintings that would include The Gleaners and The Angelus.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

To date, the earliest copper smelting is found at the Belovode site, these examples include a copper axe from 5500 BC belonging to the Vinča culture.

The earliest designs of keyboards were based heavily on the notes used in Gregorian chant ( the seven diatonic notes plus B-flat ) and as such would often include B and B both as diatonic " white notes ," with the B at the leftmost side of the keyboard and the B at the rightmost.

The earliest known fossils include pollen and fruits.

Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.

The earliest names of Tallinn include Kolyvan () known from East Slavic chronicles, the name possibly deriving from the Estonian mythical hero Kalev.

Some of the earliest printmaking workshops experimenting with, developing and promoting nontoxic techniques include Grafisk Eksperimentarium, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Edinburgh Printmakers, in Scotland, and New Grounds Print Workshop, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

All but the earliest versions of X. 25 include facilities which provide for OSI network layer Addressing ( NSAP addressing, see below ).

" Most notable early medieval Polish works in Latin and the Old Polish language include the oldest extant manuscript of fine prose in the Polish language entitled the Holy Cross Sermons, as well as the earliest Polish-language Bible of Queen Zofia and the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnków from the 14th century, not to mention the Puławy Psalter.

The term " Babylonia ", especially in writings from around AD 1900, was formerly used to include Southern Mesopotamia's earliest history, and not only in reference to the later city-state of Babylon proper.

The many finds of bronze from this era include beautiful religious artifacts and musical instruments, and provide the earliest evidence of social classes and stratification.

The Rabbula Gospels ( c. 586 ) include some of the earliest images of the Ascension.

Unsuccessful nominees ( in chronological order of earliest nomination ) include such established writers as V. S. Naipaul, Cees Nooteboom, José Saramago, Rohinton Mistry, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Carlos Fuentes, Jonathan Franzen, John McGahern, Julian Barnes, J. M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Kingsolver and Joyce Carol Oates.

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.

Logographic systems, or logographies, include the earliest true writing systems ; the first historical civilizations of the Near East, Africa, China, and Central America used some form of logographic writing.