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Black slaves from Africa also arrived in the earliest years of the colony.
My suspicions aroused, I found that a number of entries had neither a nautical origin nor, perceivably, any nautical connection: jingo , offered as probably a Basque word, acquires a nautical connection because Basques were among the earliest organised whalers in Europe, and as harpooners their expressions would have carried some weight with other seafarers.
The earliest reports of the positive association between energy balance and breast cancer date back to 1942 [ 11 ] . Numerous case-control and cohort studies have subsequently supported this association.
8 Ga [ 14 15 ] usually is considered to be the earliest record of cyanobacteria [ 10 ] . However, the 2-methylhopane biomarker of cyanobacteria has been detected in lower abundance in other prokaryotes, and many taxa (especially anaerobic species) have not been examined for the biomarker [ 15 16 17 ] . Also, the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis may have occurred at some time later than the origin of cyanobacteria.
Preliminary evidence, published by Bruce Walker and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School in Nature in 2000, suggested that this approach worked in persons treated in the earliest stages of acute HIV infection.