Governor Keating said: "Some of these dioceses have very little in the way of definite records.
In fact, the earliest numerals of which there is a definite record were simple straight marks for the small numbers with some special form for 10.
One of the earliest definite records of a widow burning herself on her husband's pyre is found in an inscription from Eran, Madhya Pradesh, dated 510, but the custom had been followed sporadically long before this.
Definite records have been found of the working of copper mines on the Sinai Peninsula about 3800 bce, and the discovery of crucibles at these mines indicates that the art of extracting the metal included some refining.
Knowledge of these, based on fragments of fossil bone, has slowly come to light, and there is now a fairly definite record from Cretaceous rock strata of other ancestral birds related to the living groups of loons, grebes, flamingos, cranes, parrots, and shorebirds and thus indication of early avian diversity.
There is no definite record of when the Japanese began to use Chinese words called kanji in Japanese, but it is known that a Korean scribe named Wani brought some Chinese books of Confucian classics, such as the Analects, Great Learning, and Book of Mencius, to Japan near the end of the 4th century ce.
There was no definite record of what happened.
However, the Mauritian population lasted less than a decade; the final specimen on the island (the last definite record of a live specimen anywhere) was taken in 1836.
No definite record exists of how exactly Pericles managed to convince the residents of Attica to agree to move into the crowded urban areas.
The first definite record of his employment is dated 19 April 1477, and it shows that he was a singer at the chapel of René, Duke of Anjou, in Aix-en-Provence.
