Writing the rules didn't help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.

Writing began in December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

Writing out the prime numbers in base-six ( and using the subscript 6 to denote that these are senary numbers ), the first few primes are

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented the first taco feast enjoyed by Europeans, a meal which Hernán Cortés arranged for his captains in Coyoacán.

Writing down the targum was prohibited, nevertheless some targumatic writings appeared as early as the middle of the first century AD.

Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.

Writing that " music is the ultimate teacher ," Kandinsky embarked upon the first seven of his ten Compositions.

* The first ( and last ) Best Title Writing Academy Award is given.

His first work was titled Ars versificandi et carminum ( The Art of Writing Verses and Poems, 1486 ).

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

In the same year, Derrida published his first three books — Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology.

Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

Writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947, she contributed to 23 of the first 25 originally published Nancy Drew mysteries.

" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.

The first section of On Writing is an Autobiography mainly about King ’ s early exposure to writing, and his childhood attempts at writing.

Writing years later for The Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr wrote " Malick's 1973 first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn.

Science fiction writer Joanna Russ ( herself a lesbian ), author of How to Suppress Women's Writing, was one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

Writing in the " Arthur Murray Silver Dance Notebook ", Lauré Haile, who first described " Western Swing ", listed the following songs / records as " Good Swing or Fox Trot Records ":

Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

The later film was well received and earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

The school newspaper of the University of Kansas is University Daily Kansan, which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition, often called " The Pulitzers of College Journalism " in 2007.

Writing about AD 94, Clement of Rome states that the apostles appointed successors to continue their work where they had planted churches and for these in their turn to do the same because they foresaw the risk of discord.

The awards that Mayr received include the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the International Prize for Biology, the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

*" On Food Writing " Advice about the craft of food writing from Michael Rhulman.

Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.

Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.

Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.

Writing was her outlet, and she wrote with an insightful perception about the realities of life.

After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

Writing to the Christians of Smyrna, in about AD 106, Saint Ignatius warned them to " stand aloof from such heretics ", because, among other reasons, " they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.

Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.

Perutz was delighted to win the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science in 1997.

Writing about the Germanic war of Caracalla in 213 AD, he has the emperor fight " Κέννους, Kελτικòν ἔθνος " (" the Kenni, a Celtic people ").

Writing about the Russian Tsar, Herberstein wrote that " in the power he holds over his people the ruler of Muscovy surpasses all the monarchs of the world.

Writing in 1821, Sydney Smith proclaimed that " The country belongs to the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lonsdale, the Duke of Newcastle, and about twenty other holders of boroughs.

Writing in 1999, Paul K. Davis estimates the Umayyad forces at 80, 000 and the Franks at about 30, 000, while noting that modern historians have estimated the strength of the Umayyad army at Tours at between 20 – 80, 000.

Writing about a study that seemed to undermine the deterrence effect, a death penalty proponent wrote, " The research didn't cover a long enough period of time ", while an opponent's comment on the same study said, " No strong evidence to contradict the researchers has been presented ".

Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft ( 2000 ), as well as scattered throughout King's Danse Macabre ( 1981 ).

" Writing to her daughter Victoria in 1858 about the gloominess of Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria stated, " I long for our cheerful and unpalacelike rooms at Osborne.

Writing about Lubitsch's work, critic Michael Wilmington observed:

Early in September 2004, Michael Cullen, the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, announced that Irving would not be permitted to visit the country, where he had been invited by the National Press Club to give a series of lectures under the heading " The Problems of Writing about World War II in a Free Society ".

Writing about Japanese noise music, Hegarty suggests that " it is not a genre, but it is also a genre that is multiple, and characterized by this very multiplicity.