In literature the western story had its beginnings in the first adventure narratives that accompanied the opening of the West to white settlement shortly before the Civil War.
The main western line had its beginnings in the first railway line from Melbourne to Ballarat, the Geelong-Ballarat line that opened in 1862.
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E.
Their belief system has been a matter of speculation, rumor and suspicion from more orthodox Muslims of both the Shiite and Sunni sects almost from their beginnings in the ninth century, when the branch was founded by a man named Ibn Nusayr, who declared himself the gateway to truth.
Today's abstracting and indexing services had their beginnings in the nineteenth century when periodical publishing exploded and the need for access to the wealth of information in these publications increased.
Since its beginnings in the twentieth century, immigration studies have turned to naturalisation in order to define a country's approach to integration (e.g. Walzer, 1983; Hammar, 1985; Brubaker, 1992; Castles, 1995; Aleinikoff and Klusmeyer, 2002; Bloemraad, 2006).
Long-distance single-handed sailing has its beginnings in the nineteenth century, when a number of sailors made notable single-handed crossings of the Atlantic.
It starts with editor Keith R. Jennings' brief description of the milestones in the development of mass spectrometry, starting from its beginnings in the twentieth century and ending with the most recent developments in the field.
Although they have been mandated since the beginnings of Islam in the seventh century, Islamic banking and finance have been formalized gradually since the late 1960s, coincident with and in response to tremendous oil wealth that fueled renewed interest in and demand for Shari'ah-compliant products and practice.
Rubbra's Fourth Symphony, a pastoral British work from 1942, has one of the most magical beginnings in the literature: over gently pulsing dominant sevenths in the winds and horns, strings sustain a simple, triadic motif that bends down like the wings of a wide-spanned bird in flight.
The Rangers have been around 50 seasons, since their forgettable beginnings in 1961 as the second edition of the Washington Senators.
