One version easily could have been developed before GR; it would have motivated thinking of Einstein's equations along the lines of his newly reappreciated physical strategy and suggested a rivalry from massive spin 2 for GR (massless spin 2, Pauli-Fierz 1939).

N. B. Irân is the antient Name of Perſia, and the Perſians at preſent call it by that Name. Irân pronounc’d Irûn, is Perſia at large; Pars is proper Perſia.]

In mid-sixteenth century, the Conseil Général assembled almost eighty men and was, in fact, a remnant of the general assemblies held during the period of the medieval commune; but its functions were mostly limited to a ceremonial hearing of the municipal deliberations and the supervision of the capitulary election.

(If Rhino follows up with Volumes 6 through 10, extending up through 1982 and Dazz Band's Let It Whip, those sets should be absolute motherfunkers.)