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Early and proto-newspapers
Early and proto-newspapers: single-event pamphlets, manuscript avvisi, and the first printed periodicals from Johann Carolus's Strasbourg Relation (1605) through corantos, Renaudot's Gazette, and Ritzsch's first daily (1650).
Early Assyrian period
The Early Assyrian period is a phase of Assyrian history covering Aššur, a city-state on the Tigris, ending around 2025 BC with the Old Assyrian period.
Early aviation in Jamaica
Early aviation in Jamaica was the pioneer era beginning with American aviator Jesse Seligman's first powered flight at Kingston in December 1911, which ended with the First World War.
Early ballistic-missile rocket stages
Early ballistic-missile rocket stages were military missile boosters, like the R-7, Redstone, Atlas, and Titan, converted into the first space-launch vehicles of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Early Birds of Aviation
The Early Birds of Aviation, founded in 1928, was a club of pioneer aviators who had flown solo before December 17, 1916, peaking at nearly 600 members.
Early blight
Early blight, a fungal disease of tomato and potato caused by Alternaria solani and A. linariae (formerly A. tomatophila), marked by bull's-eye leaf lesions, defoliation, and yield losses managed mainly with fungicides.
EARLY BOT-SPAS trial
EARLY BOT-SPAS (NCT06811142) is an Early Phase 1 randomized trial by Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Mérida, Mexico, testing botulinum toxin type A within 12 weeks after first stroke plus rehabilitation versus rehabilitation alone in 200 adults, with MAS and Barthel Index outcomes.
Early childhood
Early childhood is the period of human development from roughly birth to the start of primary school, when more than one million neural connections form each second.
Early childhood education
Early childhood education: organized teaching and care for children from birth to about age eight, spanning Froebel's 1837 kindergarten, Head Start, play-based pedagogy, curriculum frameworks, and OECD/UNESCO quality and access policy.
Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture, also called paleo-Christian art, is the visual culture of Christians in the Roman Mediterranean from about 200 CE (catacomb paintings, Good Shepherd imagery) through the basilica churches and gold-ground mosaics of the fourth to sixth centuries, ending with Byzantine art under Justinian.
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising eight 5th- and 6th-century religious buildings in Ravenna, Italy, famed for their early Christian mosaics.
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) (Hungary)
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae): 4th-century decorated underground burial chambers with memorial chapels above, in Roman Pannonia's Sopianae, modern Pécs, Hungary; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000, criteria (iii)(iv), 16 monuments.
Early Christianity
Early Christianity, also known as the Early Church, is the Christianity from its first-century origins within Judaism to the councils of Nicaea (325) and Chalcedon (451).
Early college high school
An early college high school is a small school blending grades 9 through 12 with college coursework, letting students graduate with a diploma plus an associate degree.
Early congenital syphilis, latent
Early congenital syphilis, latent (ICD-11 1A60.2) is asymptomatic congenital syphilis of under 2 years' duration, detected only by repeatedly positive serology; managed with penicillin or close serologic follow-up.
Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic (ICD-11 1A60.0) is symptomatic Treponema pallidum infection acquired in utero, presenting in newborns up to age 2 with rash, rhinitis, hepatosplenomegaly, and bone disease; treated with IV penicillin G for 10 days.
Early Cyrillic alphabet
Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical or paleo-Cyrillic: the Slavic alphabet created in the First Bulgarian Empire at the turn of the 10th century from Greek uncial plus Glagolitic letters, ancestor of modern Cyrillic scripts.
Early dark energy
Early dark energy (EDE) is a proposed dark-energy component that briefly became significant in the early universe before diluting away, proposed to resolve the Hubble tension.
Early Daze
Early Daze is a 2024 Neil Young & Crazy Horse archival album of ten 1969 studio recordings with the original lineup (Whitten, Molina, Talbot, Nitzsche), on Reprise; not the Sex Pistols 1994 EP or Hawkwind's 2011 album of the same name.
Early descriptions of archaeal taxa (1922–1989)
Early descriptions of archaeal taxa (1922–1989) covers the first formal descriptions of archaea, then classified as bacteria, before the 1977 discovery of a third domain of life.
Early Diagnosis
Early diagnosis: identifying a disease at an early stage, typically in symptomatic patients; distinct from screening of asymptomatic populations. Covers WHO's three-step pathway, lead-time, length, and overdiagnosis biases, and the 35-62% diagnostic gap.
Early Doors
Early Doors: BBC Two sitcom (2003-2004, 12 episodes) by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, set in a northern pub called The Grapes; John Henshaw played landlord Ken; later a cult classic, repeated on BBC Four and iPlayer in 2023.
Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, also called the Archaic Period, spans the First and Second Dynasties, from Egypt's unification around 3100 BC to about 2686 BC.
Early Dynastic period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic period, also called the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer, was the era of competing Sumerian city-states in southern Mesopotamia, c. 2900–2334 BC.
Early Edition
Early Edition is an American CBS fantasy comedy-drama (1996–2000, 90 episodes) created by Ian Abrams, Patrick Q. Page, and Vik Rubenfeld, starring Kyle Chandler as Gary Hobson, a Chicagoan who receives tomorrow's newspaper from a cat.
Early English Text Society
The Early English Text Society is a British scholarly publishing society founded in 1864 by Frederick James Furnivall that produces critical editions of Old and Middle English texts.
Early European modern humans
Early European modern humans: Homo sapiens populations entering Europe by 45,000 years ago (Bacho Kiro, Zlatý kůň, Oase, Kent's Cavern), carrying elevated Neanderthal ancestry, most pioneer lineages leaving no descendants among later Europeans.
Early exfoliation of teeth
Early exfoliation of teeth (ICD-11 LA30.50), also called premature loss of primary teeth: shedding of baby teeth before age 5 or over 12 months early, usually from caries or trauma, but characteristically a sign of hypophosphatasia.
Early exiting
Early exiting is a neural network inference technique with intermediate classifiers at multiple depths, so each input exits at the shallowest point where confidence suffices, cutting computation.
Early expansions of hominins out of Africa
Early expansions of hominins out of Africa (Out of Africa I): Homo erectus dispersals from about 1.8 Ma, evidenced by Dmanisi, Georgia (1.85–1.78 Ma), early European sites like Barranco León, and the later Homo sapiens dispersal about 50,000 years ago.