Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

The first of the mandates allocated to each Land go to the candidates who have won direct mandates in that Land.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

At this time the Piast duke Konrad I of Masovia with the consent of Pope Innocent III had started the first of several unsuccessful Prussian Crusades into the adjacent Chełmno Land and Christian acted as a missionary among the Prussians east of the Vistula River.

Bishop Christian asked the new Pope Honorius III for the consent to start another Crusade, however a first campaign in 1217 proved a failure and even the joint efforts by Duke Konrad with the Polish High Duke Leszek I the White and Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia in 122 / 23 only led to the reconquest of Chełmno Land but did not stop the Prussian invasions.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the " Land of pariahs ".

The title first gained nationwide recognition in 1877, when newspaper journalist Mary C. Ames referred to Lucy Webb Hayes as " the First Lady of the Land " while reporting on the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes.

* 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first " instant camera ", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

The area was called Rupert's Land after Prince Rupert, the first director of the company and a first cousin of King Charles.

The title – taken from the first words of the song – means " Old Land of My Fathers ", usually rendered in English as simply " Land of My Fathers ".

It was here, in 1929, that he began serialising the first of the Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.

He left Land of the Black Gold unfinished, launching instead into The Crab with the Golden Claws, the first of six Tintin stories which he produced during the war.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

* 1948: The first Land Rover was officially launched 30 April 1948, at the Amsterdam Motor Show

During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys ( Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Rover Scout ) and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls ( Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide ).

The first Cub Scout and Rover Scout programs were in place by the late 1910s.

In 1563 he became the first mate of the frigate HMS " Falcon Rover ".

* John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.

The earliest examples of longer-wheelbase wagon-type SUVs were the Chevrolet Carryall Suburban ( 1935, RWD only ), GAZ-61 ( 1938, 4x4 ), Willys Jeep Wagon ( 1948 ), Pobeda M-72 ( GAZ-M20 / 1955 ), which Russian references credit as possibly being the first modern SUV ( with unitary body rather than body-on-frame ), International Harvester Travelall ( 1953 ), Land Rover Series II 109 ( 1958 ), and the International Harvester Scout 80 ( 1961 ).

The first series that Stratemeyer created was the Rover Boys, published under the pseudonym Arthur M. Winfield.

The objective of the consortium, which includes luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover and leading electrical machine company SR Drives, is to produce the world ’ s first commercially viable-and environmentally friendly-gas turbine generator designed specifically for automotive applications.

Bell and Chief Engineer Maurice Wilks from British car manufacturers Rover unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.

The first race car fitted with a turbine for the goal of actual racing was by Rover and the BRM Formula One team joined forces to produce the Rover-BRM, a gas turbine powered coupe, which entered the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther.

Their expertise in 4WD attracted Mercedes-Benz and they built the first G Wagens ( Geländewagen ) that were intended as an alternative to the military specification Land Rover.

The Niva ( 2121 ) was described by its designers as a “ Renault 5 put on a Land Rover chassis .” It was Lada's ( VAZ / AvtoVAZ ) first non-Fiat based model.

It was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission, and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days ( from landing until surface mission termination, Earth time ) until that record was broken by the Opportunity Rover on May 19, 2010.

the Jaguar XK120 achieved an officially timed ; the " Jabbeke Speed Record " Triumph TR2 car was driven by Ken Richardson ; André Pilette set a Belgian record in the 2 litre class in the Veritas RS ; in 1952 the Rover JET 1 turbine driven by Spen King set the first speed record for gas turbine cars at over the flying kilometre ; and the exotic Pegaso Z-102 clocked to make it the ' fastest production car in the world '.

This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, author of many comedies including The Rover ( 1677 ).

The designation was first applied to a low-roof model of the Rover P5 from 1962 until 1973, but was revived by the 1992 Infiniti J30 and finally by the first model 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLS, which stands in Mercedes hierarchy between the E and S class, and has appearance of a classic coupe and sedan.

* The opening piano piece in the first movement is featured in a 2008 Range Rover commercial.

Although Mercury was not the first nameplate to introduce a SUV ( following the Range Rover and the Oldsmobile Bravada ), the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was among one of the first to popularize luxury SUVs.