Search results for "Million years ago" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to Cologne the next year. In 1589, two years after his father's death ... He returned to Italy in 1604, where he remained for the next four ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- 6500 hydrogen atoms (about 154 parts per million (ppm)). Deuterium thus accounts ... since their production more than 14 billion years ago. Lawrence M. ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- distance to a star (61 Cygni at 11.4 light-years) was made in 1838 by Friedrich ... galaxy of the Virgo Cluster, about 100 million light years from the Earth. ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War by awarding nearly ... reactors Ontario has been forced in recent years to purchase power from its ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- #039;s history goes back more than 5,000 years. Excavations in the downtown ... schools of the empire (533). Within a few years, as the result of a triple ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- has an estimated population of three million. Its altitude of 8,000 feet ... quot;Lucy" and others dated back five million years. The area is therefore ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- and Arabs have emigrated to Manitoba in recent years. ==Geography== ... in the center of North America about 13,000 years ago. Fed by glacial runoff ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- for fires has been dated to some 790,000 years ago, with evidence for controlled ... This practice can be traced back some 7000 years, to ships on the Nile. ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- presidential term was reduced from seven years to five. ... the president is elected every five years, by universal adult suffrage. ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- population is concentrated. With over 20 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among ... settled the island of Taiwan around 6,000 years ago. Dutch colonial rule ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 13:13, 20 May 2024
- formed between sixty and sixty eight million years ago ... of the Simhasth mela, held every twelve years. Other notable rivers include ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- have been around for tens of millions of years since the Mesozoic, the body ... from all other turtles at least 110 million years ago. During that radiation ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- the Cretaceous period (around 150 million years ago). The diversity of ... making fossilization uncommon. However 150 million year old specimens readily ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- Bobcats typically live to six or eight years of age, with a few reaching ... cat (Felis) lineages, dated to 7.15 million years ago (mya); Lynx diverged ...41 KB (6,143 words) - 23:59, 11 January 2023
- from the struggles of the Thirty Years' War but most of all ... not set foot in their new principality for over 120 years. ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ... In Mexico, 17 million hectares are considered "Protected Natural ...57 KB (8,263 words) - 13:34, 3 June 2024
- transatlantic slave trade by hundreds of years. Male slaves were employed ... now Guinea, the Congo, and Angola. Over 11 million men and women were transported ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- (340 lb). At sexual maturity (two to four years old), male ostriches can ... from the other ostriches not quite 4 million years ago at the time of the ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- perhaps as far back as two thousand years ago, including the ancestors ... the life expectancy for men is 37 years and for women is 34 years ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- that such developments occurred 10,000 or more years ago. ... in some areas, began many thousands of years before the invention of writing ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
