Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

The earliest reference to the use of alcohol in Japan is recorded in the Book of Wei in the Records of the Three Kingdoms.

* Three Apologetic Treatises against those Decrying the Holy Images – These treatises were among his earliest expositions in response to the edict by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III, banning the veneration or exhibition of holy images.

Three other of the earliest Lumiere films, Partie de cartes, l ' Arroseur arrosé ( the first known filmed comedy ), and Repas de bébé, were also filmed in La Ciotat in 1895, at the Villa du Clos des Plages, the summer residence of the Lumiere Brothers.

Three brief ancient lives, the earliest attributed to Suetonius, another to an otherwise unknown Vacca, and the third anonymous and undated, along with references in Martial, Cassius Dio, Tacitus's Annals, and one of Statius's Silvae, allow for the reconstruction of a modest biography.

* " The Three Apples " in the One Thousand and One Nights, the earliest archetype for the whodunit murder mystery

Three versions of the donation list drawn up by Leofric survive, which is one of the earliest surviving cathedral library catalogues.

Three of the earliest English men to settle in the area now known as Seekonk and Providence were William Blackstone, Roger Williams and Samuel Newman.

His earliest and probably best-known role was as D ' Artagnan in The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ).

Three years later the first nine miles ( 14 km ) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford-Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the earliest closures in British railway history ( the former Bourne Bridge station is believed to have been partly incorporated into a public house just across the road from a station opened later on another line-Pampisford, on the now-closed Cambridge-Haverhill-Sudbury route ).

She was also a guitarist with folk trio The Polekats, with whom she wrote some of her earliest material, and played as a rhythm guitarist in The Three Stoned Weaklings, a three-piece band formed by Paddy Ashdown, Gus Mackinlay and Graeme White.

Three panels depicting Hawking in England from various time periods, as reprinted in Joseph Strutt ( engraver and antiquary ) | Joseph Strutt's 1801 book, The sports and pastimes of the people of England from the earliest period.

The Three Apples, a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ), is the earliest known murder mystery and suspense thriller with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements.

For the lists of the earliest, mythological rulers, both titles are conventionally translated in English as " Sovereigns " though individual rulers entitled either huang or di from this period are translated in English with the title " Emperor " as these early mythological histories aim to feature the sovereigns of the evolving polity of the Chinese state, tracking those states which can best be claimed in a roughly continuous chain of imperial primacy interspersed with several periods of disunity such as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms Period, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, the republican Chinese Civil War and so on.

The expression Three Gems are found in the earliest Buddhist literature of the Pali Canon, besides other works there is one sutta in the Sutta-nipata, called the Ratana-sutta which contains a series of verses on the Jewels in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

The earliest known example of a crime story was " The Three Apples ", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

The earliest known version of the " Three Valleys " dates from 1962.

One of the earliest short films from the Three Stooges was a 1935 film titled Hoi Polloi.

Three of Colorado's earliest communities had the honor of serving as capital of Colorado Territory:

The earliest known example of a whodunit murder mystery was " The Three Apples ", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

< span id = ch1 ></ span > The first chapter, The Coming of the Robots, included some of Asimov's earliest robot stories, where the Three Laws of Robotics were not yet explicitly defined.

Some of the earliest literary references to the " Three Teachings " idea dates back to the 6th century by prominent Chinese scholars of the time.

The earliest use of this device as a twist ending in a murder mystery was in " The Three Apples ", a medieval Arabian Nights tale, where the protagonist Ja ' far ibn Yahya discovers by chance a key item towards the end of the story that reveals the culprit behind the murder to be his own slave all along.

Three of Deram's earliest hits, Procol Harum's " A Whiter Shade of Pale " and The Move's " Night of Fear " and " I Can Hear the Grass Grow ", were not by artists actually signed to Deram ; they were part of a deal with Straight Ahead Productions, who moved their acts to EMI and had them released on the reintroduced Regal Zonophone imprint.

Other XTC side projects include a Viz promotional single as " Johnny Japes and his Jesticles ", a Christmas-themed single as " The Three Wise Men " and a guest appearance on their own tribute album Testimonial Dinner as " Terry and the Lovemen " ( named after a rejected album title for Black Sea ).

Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and other projects, however, Warner Bros. was unable to compete with Hollywood's " Big Three " – Paramount, Universal, and First National studios.

For those who want to design their own projects, instructions on how to do so are included in Part Three.

A special sub-set of this is development-induced displacement, in which the forced migrant was forced out their home because of economically driven projects like that of the Three Gorges Dam in China and various Indian dams.

They have released albums under the names Prophet Posse, Hypnotize Camp Posse, Tear da Club Up Thugs, and Da Headbussaz, and are heavily featured on Three 6 Mafia projects.

Three projects are in the approval process, the Lake Maitland uranium project, which has a proposed start-of-production date of 2012, the Lake Way uranium project, to begin in 2013, and BHP Billiton's Yeelirrie uranium project, scheduled for production by 2014.

* Development projects ( such as the Three Gorges Dam in China )

Three important projects then under construction were abandoned: namely, the Ouse Valley Railway, its extension to St Leonards, and the Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway.

Davis ' film and video projects include The White to Be Angry ( 1999 ), Designy Living ( 1994 ), " One Man Ladies " ( with Glenn Belverio, 1994 ), Three Faces of Women ( 1993 ).

Founder of the Crédit Immobilier de France, Raffaele financed many of the major construction projects of the second half of the 19th century: railroads in Austria, Latin America, Portugal and France ( the Paris-Lyon-Marseille line ), the digging of the Fréjus tunnel and the Suez Canal, the Paris buildings designed by Baron Haussmann ... Three years after the fall of Napoleon III ( 1870 ), the Duchess proposed that the Count of Paris take up residence at the Rue de Varenne.

The wintering site at Poyang in China holds an estimated 98 % of the population and is threatened by hydrological changes caused by the Three Gorges Dam and other water development projects.

Many of the new developments, fractional projects, and vacation suites were built with sustainable development in mind, and in 2006 the Three Sisters Mountain Village development was recipient of an international award for being the best sustainable development in North America.

From 1997 to 1999, King Crimson " fraKctalised " ( forked ) into four successive side projects, dubbed ProjeKct One, Two, Three and Four.

Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films: Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Westwood Studios landmark computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

Created in 2007, Three Tier Entertainment is heavily involved in the development of television and film projects and also manages talent including directors, actors and screenplay writers.

Although known mostly for his work under prosthetic makeup, such as the zombie Billy Butcherson in the Disney Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead Spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of the 1960 film The Time Machine, he has also performed without prosthetics in such films as Adaptation, Mystery Men and Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves ' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions ' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Small Things and as Cesare in David Fisher's 2005 remake of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Three Central Councils made up of members elected among the students, professors and the administration reflect on important questions concerning the university's current and future projects and academics.

The Five-year plans of the People's Republic of China have enabled them to plan ahead in a technocratic fashion to build projects such as the National Trunk Highway System, the China high-speed rail system, and the Three Gorges Dam.

This definition places the neighborhood in Lower North Philadelphia, encompassing the neighborhoods of Penntown, Three Liberties, Richard Allen Public housing projects, Spring Garden, Franklintown, and Francisville.

Three flagship projects were identified as belonging to the future of the municipal program " Melitopol-European Intercultural City.

More recently, the construction of Three Gorges Dam and other similar projects throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America have generated considerable environmental and political debate.

Among Langford's musical side projects have been the Three Johns ( with John Hyatt and John ( Phillip ) Brennan ), who released several albums of drum-machine-fueled punk in the 1980s ; the country-punk Waco Brothers ( with Dean Schlabowske, Tracey Dear, Alan Doughty, Mark Durante, and Mekons drummer Steve Goulding ), who have been recording since 1995 ; the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, a revolving assortment of Chicago musicians who have backed both Langford and other musicians such as Kelly Hogan ; and Ship and Pilot.

Three development projects are in the pipeline for the Tejon Ranch Company.

In addition to writing and directing various film and television projects, Carlson was also was the star of the television series I Led Three Lives from 1953 to 1956.