The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle make mention of messengers being sent by King Edward the Elder ( 899-924 ) to recall members of the Kent fyrd, but it is generally regarded that the origins of the postal services stem from the Kings Messengers ( Nuncii et Cursores ) of medieval times.

Hill's study showed that most of the costs in the postal system were not for transport, but rather for laborious handling procedures at the origins and the destinations.

Meinhof's system of classification of the Hamitic languages was based on a belief that " speakers of Hamitic became largely coterminous with cattle herding peoples with essentially Caucasian origins, intrinsically different from and superior to the ' Negroes of Africa '.

The concept of a dynamical system has its origins in Newtonian mechanics.

Halliday's early paper shows that the notion of " system " has been part of his theory from its origins.

The socio-military origins of the Banner system meant that population within each branch and their sub-divisions were hereditary and rigid.

There is no decisive theory as to the origins of the caste system in India, and globally renowned historians and archaeologists like Jim Shaffer, J. P. Mallory, Edwin Bryant, and others, have disputed the claim of " Aryan Invasion ".

The origins of the Ijazah dates back to the ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifttd (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") in the medieval Islamic legal education system, which was equivalent to the Doctor of Laws qualification and was developed during the 9th century after the formation of the Madh ' hab legal schools.

troff can trace its origins back to a text formatting program called RUNOFF, written by Jerome H. Saltzer for MIT's CTSS operating system in the mid-1960s.

The IBM mainframe z / OS operating system / platform has arguably the most highly refined and evolved set of batch processing facilities owing to its origins, long history, and continuing evolution, and today such systems commonly support hundreds or even thousands of concurrent online and batch tasks within a single operating system image.

The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the entire solar system and has made important contributions to the understanding of a number of processes including mantle convection, the formation of planets and the origins of granite and basalt.

Melbourne's cable tram system has its origins in the MTOC, started by Francis Boardman Clapp in 1877, with a view to operate a Melbourne tram system.

As such, the Christian cross, Jewish hexagram star and the Muslim crescent moon are seen to have their origins in different views regarding which calendar system is preferred for marking holy days.

Coptic uses a writing system almost wholly derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of a number of letters that have their origins in Demotic Egyptian.

Much like the Burmese adopted the Mon script ( which also has Indic origins ), the Thais adopted and modified the Khmer script to create their own writing system.

* Y-chromosome, for more information about origins of the XY sex-determination system

The y-scale ( E ) is negative because the origins of an image and the UTM coordinate system are different.

The controversy surrounding this text in particular was largely due to the way Solzhenitsyn definitively and painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's.

As a creation of the mid-1970s, with no constraints to be compatible with earlier operating systems, VME is in many ways more modern in its architecture than today's Unix derivatives ( Unix was designed in the 1960s ) or Microsoft Windows ( which started as an operating system for single-user computers, and still betrays those origins ).

This was used for the development of VME / K, whose designers were not confident that a high-level language could give adequate performance, and also for the IDMS database system on account of its origins as a third-party product.

In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.

While the AOC system has origins in the 15th century, the Languedoc-Roussillon has some appellations like the Cabardès which have existed by law only since 1999 ( Joseph 2005: 190 ).

The origins of some of the techniques studied in the Bujinkan are unclear ; however, some techniques are from the recognized Japanese martial arts traditions that comprise the system.

Basil Bernstein, a well-known British socio-linguist, devised in his book, ' Elaborated and restricted codes: their social origins and some consequences ,' a social code system he used to classify the various speech patterns for different social classes.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

Its origins are complex and may date to the Crusades, later being influenced by French gamblers.

The Browns origins date to 1944, when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B.

In the 19th and early 20th century, these images were used by many Danish historians, with a good flair of nationalism, trying to date the origins of the flag to 1219.

The origins of astronomy as well as astrology date from this time.

The earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group date back to Per Henrik Ling, “ Father of Swedish Gymnastics ,” who founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics ( RCIG ) in 1813 for massage, manipulation, and exercise.

The origins of clinical pharmacology date back to the Middle Ages in Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, Peter of Spain's Commentary on Isaac, and John of St Amand's Commentary on the Antedotary of Nicholas.

The origins of the Sudanese Army date to Sudanese soldiers recruited by the British during the reconquest of Sudan in 1898.

The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.

The origins of Victoria Bitter date back to Victoria Brewery founder Thomas C. Moore, who developed the recipe in the early 1900s.

The origins of CBS date back to January 27, 1927, with the creation of the " United Independent Broadcasters " network in Chicago by New York talent-agent Arthur Judson.

Older Protestant churches, such as the Unitas Fratrum ( Unity of the Brethren ), Moravian Brethren ( Bohemian Brethren ) date their origins to Jan Hus in the early 15th century.

FreeCell's origins may date back even further to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called Napoleon in St. Helena ( not the game Napoleon at St. Helena, also known as Forty Thieves ).

There is a wide variety of speculative theories about the origins of the synagogue ( in the sense of purpose-built spaces for worship, or rooms originally constructed for some other purpose but reserved for formal, communal prayer ), some of which date the origins as early as the eighth century BCE or the time of the Babylonian captivity ( sixth century BCE ).

Indeed, revised dating of the origins of the rice tribe Oryzeae suggest a date as early as 107 to 129 Mya.

The origins of the family, probably of Frankish nobility, date back to the time of Charlemagne in the early 9th century when they settled in Lombardy.

Mushroom bodies are structures in the brains of many types of worms and arthropods that are known to play important roles in learning and memory ; the genetic evidence indicates a common evolutionary origin, and therefore indicates that the origins of the earliest precursors of the cerebral cortex date back to the early Precambrian era.

The origins of the Italian history can be traced back to the 9th century BC, when earliest accounts date the presence of Italic tribes in present-day central Italy.

The origins of Helen's myth date back to the Mycenaean age.

The origins of the word prefecture date from 15th century Portuguese contact with Japan, whereby the word prefeitura was used to very roughly describe Japanese fiefdoms, in Portuguese the original meaning was more analogous to municipalities than provinces.

The origins of the FSC dispute date back to 1971, when the US introduced legislation providing for " Domestic international sales corporations " ( DISCs ).

Its origins date back from 1847 when the first Escuela Normal de Maestros de Álava was established.