When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

Alpha ( uppercase Α, lowercase α ; Álpha ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

The first level of the code indicates the anatomical main group and consists of one letter.

* A ( Cyrillic ), the first letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

St Cyril of Alexandria, 370-444, In the first letter says: " Athanasius is one who can be trusted: he would not say anything that is not in accord with sacred scripture.

The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

The first four poems ( chapters ) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms ( 25, 34, 37, 119 ), i. e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.

The theory was first published in April 1957 in the letter, " Microscopic theory of superconductivity ".

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society:

The first recorded use of the term is in a 1964 letter by Anne Ewing to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Tomislav was the first ruler of Croatia who was styled a king in a letter from the Pope John X, dating kingdom of Croatia to year 925.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

The first letter of a chemical symbol is always capitalized, as in the preceding examples, and the subsequent letters, if any, are always lower case ( small letters ).

Pascal case words always start with a capital letter, but camel case allows the first letter to be either upper or lower case, as in " LaBelle ", " BackColor ", or " iPod ".

There were six steps to the throne, on which animals, all of gold, were arranged in the following order: on the first step a lion opposite an ox ; on the second, a wolf opposite a sheep ; on the third, a tiger opposite a camel ; on the fourth, an eagle opposite a peacock, on the fifth, a cat opposite a cock ; on the sixth, a sparrow-hawk opposite a dove.

The Abbot Worsted Company was the first company in the nation to use camel hair for worsted yarns.

The camel drivers formed the first sizeable Muslim communities in Australia, and in Broken Hill they left their mark in the form of the first mosque in NSW ( 1891 ).

The United Arab Emirates was the first to ban the use of children under 15 as jockeys in camel racing when Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan announced the ban on 29 July 2002.

It was not until 1924, when Ahmed Hassanein undertook a expedition with a camel caravan that the first accurate maps were drawn and the mountain of Jebel Uweinat with springs at its base was discovered.

* Robyn Davidson ( b. September 6, 1950 ) – the first person to make a solo crossing of the Australian Outback by camel ; she also explored the remote desert regions of India.

In 1986 – 1987 Michael Asher and his wife, Italian-born photographer and Arabist, Mariantonietta Peru, made the first ever west-east crossing of the Sahara desert by camel and on foot.

According to Owen Lattimore, who spent five months in 1926 crossing the northern edge of China ( from Hohhot to Gucheng, via Inner Mongolia ) with a camel caravan, demand for caravan trade was only increased by the arrival of foreign steamships into Chinese ports and the construction of the first railways in eastern China, as they improved access to the world market for such products of western China as wool.

On the march, the camel-puller's job was to lead the first camel of his file by a rope tied to a peg attached to its nose, each of the other camels of the file being led by means of similar rope by the camel in front of it.

Lattimore in 1926 observed camel-pullers " knitting on the march ; if they ran out of yarn, they would reach back to the first camel of the file they were leading, pluck a handful of hair from the neck, and roll it in their palms into the beginning of a length of yarn ; a weight was attached to this, and given a twist to start it spinning, and the man went on feeding wool into the thread until he had spun enough yarn to continue his knitting ".

To replace child jockeys whose use had been deplored by human rights organizations, a camel race in Doha, Qatar for the first time featured robots at the reins.

He returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.

It is said that the Grocers ' Company used to be first in the order, until Queen Elizabeth I, as Honorary Master of the Mercer's Company, found herself in procession, after her coronation, behind the Grocers ' camel which was emitting unfortunate smells.

One of the first statues cast was a copy of General Gordon riding a camel.

The first Arab Revolt forces to reach Damascus were Sharif Naser's Hashemite camel cavalry and the cavalry of the Ruwallah tribe, led by Nuri Sha ' lan, on 30 September 1918.

The first edition ( ISBN 9780937175644 ), which gained the nickname " the pink camel " due to its pink spine, was originally published in January 1991 and covered version 4 of the Perl language.

He pointed out that the character of Busby, despite being the first " tracksuit manager " in English football, was never seen in a tracksuit throughout the film, instead wearing a camel coat and a fedora.

This area was also the first region to domesticate the dromedary camel.

The first exotic animal known to have been exhibited in America was a lion, in Boston in 1716, followed five years later in the same city by a camel.

He published numerous articles on the camel and its maladies, the first appearing in The Journal of Tropical Veterinary Science in 1909.

The town was thus first called Bandar Qassim after its founder (" Qasim's town "), then later dubbed Bosaso after its founder's trusted camel.