Sentence examples for it was first known from inspiring English sources

It was first known as the Hundred Guineas Cup (its original cost: about $510 in those days), then the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup and, for a short time, the Queen's Cup.

It was first known as the "Novar Base", because of its location on the Novar Estates, then later as HMS Fieldfare.

Founded by Irish Protestants, it was first known as Orange.

Settled in the 1760s, it was first known as Stump City.

It was first known as Conemaugh (the old Indian name) until renamed in 1834 to honour the founder.

Settled in 1750 as a trading post by the Ohio Company, it was first known as Will's Creek.

The company as it exists today was first known as Right Start, a seller of products for infants and children.

It was only the second material known to exhibit this property, and it was the first known material to achieve superconductivity above the (economically important) boiling point of nitrogen.

Before the world is known, it is first given.

It was the first known book to have listed formulas for gunpowder; it gave appropriate formulas for use in several different kinds of gunpowder bombs.

"It was the first known application of the phenomenon of resonance.