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Normally they would have 14 days to respond to the charges, but the EFL has asked the independent disciplinary commission for "a hearing at the earliest opportunity".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Some of her earliest memories are the elaborate costumes her father used to wear on stage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

The French were pioneers in aviation, photography and filmmaking, and these technologies’ earliest machines and devices are on display, such as the 1895 Cinematograph, a groundbreaking camera and projection system created by the Lumière Brothers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Leading up to that, he was one of the earliest entrepreneurs to plant his flag in the basic cable realm with the Atlanta-based “superstation” we’d eventually come to know as TBS.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton