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.

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later the first nine miles ( 14 km ) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford-Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the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.

* 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.

Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( including the English Civil War ), the Church of Scotland was re-established on a presbyterian basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of Episcopalians were allowed to hold onto their benefices.

The first English translation of Christine de Pizan ’ s The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of the Three Virtues is Sarah Lawson ’ s ( 1985 ).

* 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer and guitarist ( Echo & the Bunnymen, Electrafixion, and Crucial Three )

Magick is an Early Modern English spelling for magic, used in works such as the 1651 translation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magick.

Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during " Þrimilci-mōnaþ " ( the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings ) along with many Celtic traditions.

Three other judges, Mark W. Delahay, George W. English, and Samuel B. Kent, chose to resign rather than go through the impeachment process.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745.

* A Contemporary English Version of The Merchant of Venice – includes extensive notes and commentary, with essays on " The Lottery " and " The Three Sals.

Three main varieties of Australian English are spoken according to linguists: Broad Australian, General Australian and Cultivated Australian.

" from Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), substituting the name of the celebrated English author ( 1882 – 1941 ).

An English translation by Ian Monk was published in 1996 as The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex in the collection Three.

Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient ( 1996 ), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival.

Three years later, his father having been discharged from service because of a navy reorganisation, they sailed together on their merchantman to Guinea, when they were attacked by seven ships of the English pirate Peter Easton.

*( 1936 ) Drei Kameraden ; English translation: Three Comrades ( 1937 )

Three types of anger are recognized by psychologists: The first form of anger, named " hasty and sudden anger " by Joseph Butler, an 18th century English bishop, is connected to the impulse for self-preservation.

The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Three new phrases were incorporated to cement the importance of English consorts, stating that the Queen was divinely placed by God, shares in royal power, and blesses her people by her power and virtue.

Perry may have grown in popularity after the English Civil War, when the large numbers of soldiers billeted in the Three Counties became acquainted with it, and reached a zenith of popularity during the eighteenth century, when intermittent conflicts with France made the importing of wine difficult.

The competition has always been contested by all teams at Levels Three and Four of the English football league system.

One of four males born in a litter of English Beagles, Porthos and his brothers, Athos, Aramis and d ' Artagnan, were named after characters from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.