The cyber world is acknowledged as the sixth domain of warfare: land, sea, underwater, air, space – and now online.
When we look back, the Obama Administration will be acknowledged as the first Administration to take climate change seriously.
The Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgenson Thomsen is widely acknowledged as the first scholar to have based such a typology on firm data rather than speculation.
Widely acknowledged as the first film based on a video game, Super Mario Bros set a low bar that the genre would struggle to raise for decades to come.
Among the better-known airlines operating in the United States, Lufthansa is generally acknowledged as the first to offer Wi-Fi, which it did through Boeing's Connexion service, starting in 2003.
THE question "why are we what we are, where we are?" has intrigued humans since at least the time of Herodotus, who is often acknowledged as the first anthropologist.
Universally acknowledged as the first proclamation that the subjects of the crown had legal rights and that the monarch – then indistinguishable from the state – could be bound by the law, the Magna Carta became the first document to set out the right of habeas corpus and establish a tradition of civil rights in Britain that still exists today.
In a recent Critic's Notebook, I mentioned the community drive to prevent 1520 Sedgwick Avenue — the Bronx housing complex where DJ Kool Herc lived as a teen-ager, and the site of what is generally acknowledged as the first hip-hop party — from being sold to a developer.
Her younger brother is Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian and actor known for voicing Iago, the strident parrot in Disney's "Aladdin," and for making what's widely acknowledged as the first 9/11 joke, at a Friars Club roast less than a month after the towers fell.
