In his autobiography, Maya Archaeologist ( 1936 ), Thompson referred to the friezes as " a sort of giant jigsaw puzzle made worse by the fact the stones had been carved before being placed in position " accurately describing his first field experience.

In his first season at the club he scored 16 League goals in 31 appearances, playing a crucial role in City's push for the 1967 – 68 League Championship ; Mercer described him as " the final piece of the jigsaw ".

Alfred Wegener first thought of this idea by noticing that the different large landmasses of the Earth almost fit together like a jigsaw.

Ray, his father, and his mother Liz, appear at first glance as grotesque figures, with the alcoholic father drunk on his home brew, and the mother, an obese chain smoker with an apparent fascination for nicknacks and jigsaw puzzles.

When Smith was found, the band did not know if he could sing: " When he first joined we didn't know if he could ; just that he was a lunatic jumping around in a suit, it felt like the last piece of the jigsaw ".

The first time her father molested her, she was putting a jigsaw puzzle together ; this would be an important symbol in her future.

The first is that enforcement of national law in state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity puzzle of the relation of procedure to substance.

* 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

* 1913 – Arthur Wynne's " word-cross ", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

In popular culture, this puzzle was the Puzzle No. 142 in Professor Layton and Pandora's Box as one of the hardest solving puzzles in the game, which needed to be unlocked by solving other puzzles first.

Merriam-Webster, publishers of the leading American dictionaries, first heard of this puzzle in a letter dated March 17, 1975, from Patricia Lasker of Brooklyn, New York.

This puzzle first appears in print in Anita Richterman's " Problem Line " column in Newsday on April 29, 1975.

The first comprehensive historical overview of the-gry puzzle, including a list of 51 words ending in-gry.

Released in late 1983, the game was marketed via the announcement of a cash prize for the first person to solve the puzzle.

The craze ended by July 1880 and Sam Loyd's first article about the puzzle was not published until sixteen years later, January 1896.

Loyd first claimed in 1891 that he invented the puzzle, and he continued until his death a 20 year campaign to falsely take credit for the puzzle.

Skyler Miller of GameSpot argues that Atari Video Cube, also from the same year, " gets my vote as the first true puzzle video game ," involving gameplay similar to a Rubik's Cube in a 2-dimensional space.

Galileo advertised the puzzle to other scientists, including Gaspar Berti who replicated it by building the first water barometer in Rome in 1639.

* December 21 – Arthur Wynne's " word-cross ", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

In the 1920s, Harold Murdock of Boston attempted to solve the puzzle of the first shots fired on Lexington Green, and came to the suspicion that the few score militia men who gathered before sunrise to await the arrival of hundreds of well-prepared British soldiers were sent specifically to provoke an incident which could be used for propaganda purposes.

The puzzle was first publicized in the West by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1883.

Goring's is often called the " final piece of the puzzle ": a strong two-way player, his presence on the second line ensured that opponents would no longer be able to focus their defensive efforts on the Islanders ' first line of Bossy, Trottier and Clark Gillies.

These newspaper puzzles were almost entirely non-cryptic at first and gradually used more cryptic clues, until the fully cryptic puzzle as known today became widespread.

In Thorndike ’ s learning curve the animals had difficulty escaping at first, but eventually “ caught on ” and escaped faster and faster with each successive puzzle box trial, until they eventually leveled off.

The puzzle box experiments were motivated in part by Thorndike's dislike for statements that animals made use of extraordinary faculties such as insight in their problem solving: " In the first place, most of the books do not give us a psychology, but rather a eulogy of animals.

The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental learning, was first extensively studied by Edward L. Thorndike ( 1874 – 1949 ), who observed the behavior of cats trying to escape from home-made puzzle boxes.

Treasure maps have taken on numerous permutations in literature and film, such as the stereotypical tattered chart with an over-sized " X " ( as in " X marks the spot ") to denote the treasure's location, first made popular by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island ( 1883 ), a cryptic puzzle ( in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug " ( 1843 )), or a tattoo as seen in the video game The Space Adventure-Cobra: The Legendary Bandit ( 1991 ) and the film Waterworld ( 1995 ).

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.