The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.

Vandiver likely will mention the $100 million highway bond issue approved earlier in the session as his first priority item.

The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

Amber is discussed by Theophrastus, possibly the first historical mention of the material, in the 4th century BC.

* Einhard's Annals: first mention of Aquis villa, 765

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

The first mention of aeronautics in history was in the writings of ancient Egyptians who described the flight of birds.

It is commonly believed that Saul changes his name to Paul at this time, but the source of this claim is unknown, the first mention of another name is later (), during his first missionary journey.

Strabo's mention of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest places his knowledge in the final years of Augustus ' reign and after, which is the early first century.

The first mention of an arcological structure might be in H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899.

However the first mention of a city sized settlement was in 1256.

The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

In the first episode of Daria, she and her family move from Beavis and Butt-Head's hometown of Highland to Lawndale — the only references to the original show is a single mention of Highland in the first episode, with Daria saying Lawndale can't be a second Highland " unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too ".

The first mention of the stolen base, in a statistical sense was in the 1877 scoring rules adopted by the National League which noted credit toward a player's total bases when a base is stolen.

According to (), the first historical mention of the statement of this theorem appears in ().

The first mention of the language as the " Bulgarian language " instead of the " Slavonic language " comes in the work of the Greek clergy of the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid in the 11th century, for example in the Greek hagiography of Saint Clement of Ohrid by Theophylact of Ohrid ( late 11th century ).

I could exceedingly plainly perceive it to be all perforated and porous, much like a Honey-comb, but that the pores of it were not regular these pores, or cells, were indeed the first microscopical pores I ever saw, and perhaps, that were ever seen, for I had not met with any Writer or Person, that had made any mention of them before this.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 (" the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily ").

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

Although the idea expressed in Cogito ergo sum is widely attributed to Descartes, he was not the first to mention it.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

The 1921 first published photo of The Ashes Urn: Its Origin and History | the Urn in the Illustrated London News.

The 1921 first published photo of the Ashes Urn used in a montage by the Perth Western Mail in 1924.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

Herbert Sutcliffe sweeps Arthur Mailey during the first Ashes Test in Sydney, 1924.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.

England then achieved their first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1 – 0 up.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

* 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

" No More Heroes " was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.

England reclaimed the Ashes at the first attempt, during their tour of Australia in 1882 / 3.

England would be the first team to retain the Ashes when Australia visited them in 1884.

England then took the first ever Ashes white wash, as they defeated the Australians 3 – 0 at home in 1886.

This was the first time they had won in England since the match that started the Ashes legend six years earlier.

After Botham took the first wicket, Willis skittled Australia out for just 111, finishing with figures of 8 for 43 – rated by Wisden as the 7th best bowling performance of all time.

Wisden also said that " most of those watching it for the first time must have come to the conclusion that, while strictly within the law, it was not nice.

Following his " Indian Summer ", Grace was the sole recipient of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year award for 1896, the first of only three times that Wisden has restricted the award to a single player, there being normally five recipients.

In the infobox, the " traditional " first-class figures from Wisden 1916 ( as reproduced by Rae, pp. 495 – 496 ), are given first and the " amended " figures from CricketArchive follow in parentheses.

* The Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack publishes its first Wisden Cricketers of the Year ( actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year ).

* John Wisden publishes the first edition of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.

Cricket: the first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter ( cricketer ) | Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer ; middle row John Wisden, HH Stephenson, George Parr ( cricketer ) | George Parr, James Grundy ( cricketer ) | James Grundy, Julius Caesar ( cricketer ) | Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward ( cricketer ) | Thomas Hayward, John Jackson ( cricketer ) | John Jackson ; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite

Sobers took 15 wickets in the 1960-61 series, including a best analysis of 5 / 120, at an average of 39. 20, and his bowling allowed Worrell to play an extra batsman in the final three Tests, thus using Sobers for the first time as a designated all-rounder, a role in which he became the dominant player in world cricket over the next decade, being awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title ( retrospectively ) eight times in 13 years.

His bowling action was far from the classic leg spin bowler's run-up and delivery, indeed, according to Wisden, " he was asked to make up the numbers in a Sydney junior match and, with a method that at first made everyone giggle, whipped out the opposition ".

In the second Test, Boycott made a duck in the first innings and later took 140 minutes to score 16 runs when England needed to score quickly ; Wisden described the latter innings as a " dreadful effort when courage was needed ".

However, except for one inspired spell in the final Test, in which he bowled the first three batsmen, Wisden described his bowling as disappointing.

Although Wisden said that Hammond accomplished little with the ball, team manager Plum Warner praised his bowling, claiming that during the first Test it was comparable to that of revered former England bowler Sydney Barnes.

Hammond was credited with nearly forcing a remarkable win, first by promoting Bill Edrich, who had failed thus far in the series but scored 219, and then by playing himself what Wisden described as " one of the finest innings of his career " before rain forced the match to be abandoned.

In 1864, another bowling revolution resulted in the legalisation of overarm and in the same year Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack was first published.

Wisden said that " most of those watching it for the first time must have come to the conclusion that, while strictly within the law, it was not nice.

The club's first success came in 1879, when the majority of the cricket press – except for Wisden – agreed that Lancashire and Nottinghamshire were joint champions.

In 1897 when Jessop did the " double " of 1000 runs and 100 wickets, Wisden made him a Cricketer of the Year in 1898, while two years later his two innings against Yorkshire at Bradford both featured scored a century before lunch, making 104 in the first innings in forty minutes and 139 in the second, again reaching his hundred in under an hour.

Woodfull batted in a manner which had little aesthetic pleasure or grace, with Wisden describing stating that " at first sight, he gave the impression of being clumsy ".

" His calm, sensible batting lower in the order ", wrote Wisden, commenting on his first series, " raised promise of his developing into a useful all – rounder, and his fielding too was an asset ".

The first three in particular liberally used the bouncer ( Wisden notes that Holding in particular bowled " exceptionally fast "), and England's John Edrich and Brian Close suffered in particular ( Close was 45 when the series started in June, and Edrich turned 39 during the second Test ).