in 1620, john smith was the first to use this? What is "this?"?
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his famous' map of virginia'
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No, seventeenth century.
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question (n.)  \nc.1300, from Anglo-Fr. questiun, O.Fr. question "legal inquest," from L. quæstionem (nom. quæstio) "a seeking, inquiry," from root of quærere (pp. quæsitus) "ask, seek." The verb is first recorded 1470, from O.Fr. questionner (13c.). Question mark is from 1869, earlier question stop (1862). Depreciatory sense of questionable is attested from 1806.
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Which class is this for?
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The following website goes back to 1665
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John Underwood, Andover, Massachussetts.Hee Hee.I saw it on one of the answers you gave.
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A statute.  This was the first thing that came to my mind, and then Wikipedia backed it up.
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John Stewart... teeheehee
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As far as I know, it was invented by Martin Luther during the 1500's.  When he posted his Thesis against the Catholic Church, he used it to get the Word of God into the hands of the common people.
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Is this for homework?\n\nGoogle it, but here's a hint - it's SERF
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what language is this?
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The invention of the compass changed the world. With this revolutionary device, sailors were able to navigate more accurately. Oceans were crossed, and new lands were discovered. Even with today's technological innovations, travelers still depend on compasses to lead them in the right direction.\n\nWho Invented the Compass?\n\nLegend has it that the original compass can be traced back to the ancient Chinese. The first known use of a compass occurred in the fourth century B.C. It was used in Feng Shui, the Taoist method of environment organization. Chinese fortunetellers used lodestones, a mineral composed of an iron oxide that aligns itself in a north-south direction, to construct their fortune telling boards. The Chinese eventually noticed that the lodestones were consistent at pointing out actual directions, leading to the first compasses. They designed the compass on a square slab with markings for the cardinal points and the constellations. The pointing needle was a lodestone spoon-shaped device, with a handle that would always point south.\n\nThe first written mention of the compass was by a Chinese mathematician in about 1050. Shen Kua wrote about the use of a navigational instrument with a magnetized iron needle. The first recorded instance of European compass use occurred in 1190. Very little was understood, though, about how the compass worked. Superstitions abounded, including sea captains believing that if the crew ate onions it would impact the device. In the centuries that follow, historical references of compass use increases. Arabian and Viking explorers are described using the device to navigate across many miles of water in the early and mid-1200s.
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"this" is a reference to the current class or object. It's frequently used in that way:\n\nclass Foo {\n    int x;\n\n    void setX(int x) {\n          this.x = x;\n    }\n}\n\nThis way you can access the field x though it's overridden by the use of the identifier x as a function parameter.
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The 300th anniversary of this question?
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Leonardo De Vinci was the first to use "mirror writing" as it is sometimes called. So it is theorized that they borrowed that concept from him.
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the first computer was made by an english man called charles babbage in the 1800s. it was like a calculater and was the size of a house. \nt
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How did you type this?