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- The rocks under the basin date to 5.3 million years ago. The first artifacts ... erectus. This layer dates to around 1.5 million years ago. ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 00:05, 18 November 2022
- of the Paleogene period, about 30 million years ago, until about 10,000 ... epoch of the Paleogene period over 56 million years ago. Mastodons first appeared ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- were rare in the Silurian (444–416 million years ago), but common in the ... relatively short history of only about 50 million years. During their time ...8 KB (1,138 words) - 06:22, 24 November 2022
- Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. It lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- out. By the start of the Eocene (55 million years ago), they had diversified ... of grasses in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago) saw a major change: ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 23:30, 11 November 2022
- dark blue represents crust that is 180 million years old. (Dark gray areas ... present-day oceanic crust is less than 200 million years old. ...8 KB (1,174 words) - 00:35, 3 November 2022
- genus Homo, that lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ... the Early Pleistocene around 2.0 million years ago, dispersing throughout ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- During the time of the Mesozoic (252 to 65 million years ago), the ... and in the Tertiary (about 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous ...10 KB (1,381 words) - 16:17, 6 November 2022
- from the Pliocene epoch, about four million years ago to around 4,500 years ... four million years. From three to 3.5 million years ago, mammoths expanded ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- as spanning roughly from 251 to 65 million years ago (mya), and as being ... roughly 180 million years: From 251 million years ago (mya) to when the Cenozoic ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- dating as far back as 100,000 to two million years ago. It was during these ... left in volcanic ashes some 3.6 million years ago. The years that followed ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- been dated from roughly 250,000-400,000 years ago in the Pleistocene. has been placed from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- in Asia around 1.6 million to 3.3 million years ago. Molecular estimates ... In the Pleistocene (1,808,000 to 11,550 years BP), the Rhinoceros genus ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- from approximately 2.5 million to 1.5 million years ago, appearing first in ... Another fossil hominid from about two million years ago was found ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 12:08, 2 February 2024
- the moon, between about 4.5 and 4.3 billion years ago. Perhaps 10% or less ... meteorite impacts ended about 3.9 billion years ago, but igneous rocks younger ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- scale as spanning roughly from 200 to 145 million years ago (mya), from the end of the Triassic period to the beginning of the Cretaceous period. The ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- in Utah. It lived from 145 to 150 million years ago, during the Kimmeridgian ... Portugal. It lived about 150 million years ago, during the Kimmeridgian ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- as the amount of fish caught. In recent years, the water level of the lake ... that created the Great Rift Valley 12 million years ago, the African Great ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 23:25, 21 October 2022
- lakes, having been formed around twenty million years ago. ... created the Great Rift Valley twelve million years ago, the African Great ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- Laramide orogeny between 70 and 40 million years ago which was also part ... The modern Gunnison River set its course 15 million years ago as the ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- Pliosaurs were carnivorous, aquatic, Mesozoic-era (251-65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of the Plesiosauria ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- during the late Jurassic period, 155 to 145 million years ago. Allosaurus is the most common large predator whose fossils are found in the Morrison ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Paleogene period. It extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before ... | (28.4 ± 0.1 – 23.03 mya (million years ago)) |- | Rupelian ...6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- Cretaceous period (140 million to 65 million years ago), although some portions ... Periods of glaciation occurred from the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- originated in the Cambrian period 500 million years ago (mya) and flourished ... in the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago, and became a significant ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- has been ranked between six and ten million years ago (Johnson et al. 2006 ... species appeared first around 1.6 million years ago in what is now Olivola ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- scale as spanning roughly from 416 to 359 million years ago (mya), and being noteworthy as a period of great diversification of life with the first ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 05:54, 25 August 2020
- relative dating from more than two million years ago, contributing to our ... 75 pounds at the time of its death 2.5 million years ago. ...9 KB (1,299 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- About 40 million years ago the Simiiformes infraorder split into parvorders ... 2004). At the time of the split 40 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 19:29, 14 November 2022
- quot; span of time between 2 and 1 million years ago. [[image:CRANDCANYON ... Colorado Plateaus, starting about 65 million years ago (during the Laramide ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- controlled fire was used up to 1.5 million years ago at Swartkrans, South ... of wood or sticks by Homo erectus about two million years ago. ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- claim occurred as far back as two million years ago. The landscape is flat ... Some geologists believe that some twenty million years ago, Sinai ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- desert after Antarctica at over 3.5 million square miles (9 million ... of volcanic eruptions about seventy million years ago, the area now in Chad ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- Some 75 million years ago, however, the landscape was very different ... dates to the Late Campanian, about 75 million years ago. The Dinosaur Park ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- which lived from 2.33 to 1.44 million years ago, although some authorities ... Homo erectus is considered to have arrived around 1.8 million years ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- been where it is now for more than 550 million years. Most of it is a vast ... tools are first attested around 2.6 million years ago, when H. habilis in ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- from the Late Miocene, less than 10 million years ago. This coincides with ... roughly two and a half to two million years ago, and are apparently ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- out. By the start of the Eocene (55 million years ago), they had diversified ... emerged in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago) (Rabinowitz 1995) ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- and Silurian periods (500-410 million years ago), becoming a shallow sea during the Carboniferous and Permian periods (340-250 million years ago). ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- 4 meters, and another one that lived for 51 years (GSPIW 2004b). ... the Middle Jurassic period, about 161 million years ago (Gianaro 2003). Prior ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- other vertebrates appeared over 300 million years ago (MLB 2007) and involves ... first appeared more than 300 million years ago" (MBL 2007). He ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 20:01, 16 February 2021
- separated from Antarctica about 96 million years ago after Gondwana began ... size of Australia. Approximately 25 million years ago, a shift in plate tectonic ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- Israel agreed to supply Jordan with 50 million cubic meters of water annually. ... in the Pliocene Epoch (5.3 to 1.6 million years ago), it was partially ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- The volcano has probably been erupting for at least 700,000 years ... island chain for tens of millions of years. The slow drift of the Pacific ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- led him to believe the Earth was several million years old. ... asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- some are perennial, living for more than one or two years. ... and ate the grains of grasses. About 10,000 years ago, people in the Middle ...14 KB (2,146 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- book Calypso from France to Trinidad, 800 Years of History veteran calypsonian ... Over 100 years ago, calypso further evolved into a way of spreading ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- Caspian became landlocked about 5.5 million years ago. The level of the Caspian ... and Pacific oceans fifty to sixty million years ago. As the gradual shift ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- 104°F), salinities from 0 to 90 parts per million, pH levels from four to ... appearing in the Devonian some 400 million years ago, actinopterygians did ...14 KB (1,774 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2022
- There is a theory that periodic (every about 30 million years) disturbances ... observe had really existed for billions of years (since the generally accepted ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- from the Precambrian era more than 540 million years ago, but around 465 million years ago stony coral fossils became common (France 2004). ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- arid conditions for an estimated 55 to 80 million years. The Namib is an important ... of West Gondwana 130 million to 145 million years ago when this area shifted ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2022
- ice packs melt to an average low of 2.6 million square kilometers. When ... world's oceans, formed only 30 million years ago. The ocean formed as ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- from bear-like ancestors roughly 30 million years ago during the late Oligocene ... is Enaliarctos, which lived 24–22 million years ago, at the boundary between ...15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- icon of Queensland. Each year, some 2 million tourists from around the ... a remarkably fragile environment. In recent years, concern has grown that climate ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- found for the period between 6 and 13 million years ago (mya), the time when ... by the Potassium-argon method to 3.7 million years ago. The footprints, preserved ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- Mesozoic times (about 350 to 210 million years ago). They are considered ... the changing nature of science—what a few years ago may be presented as a ...10 KB (1,382 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- and Eocene rocks from as early as 55 million years ago contain a wide range ... tapirs diverged around 20 to 30 million years ago, and that tapir varieties ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Prehistoric Thailand traces back as far as 1,000,000 years ago based ... Stone Age beginning approximately 2.5 million years ago, when the first craft ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- various times, from 115 million to 87 million years ago.Allan A. Schoenherr ... Twenty million years ago, crustal extension associated with the Basin ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- The volcano's eruption in June 1991, more than 490 years after ... seems to have begun about 1.1 million years ago. Ancestral Pinatubo ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago. This dark red sandstone ... during the Jurassic period, 195 to 136 million years ago. ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- years, occurred from 850 to 630 million years ago (the Cryogenian period ... Saharan, occurred from 460 to 430 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- culture, with sites dating from some 13,500 years ago. However, older sites ... After the migration, or migrations, it was several thousand years ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- of the Cretaceous period (228 to 65 million years ago). Earlier species had ... of the Cretaceous period, around 65.5 million years ago, during the mass extinction ...17 KB (2,484 words) - 23:32, 2 December 2022
- quot; and is part of the nearly 1.2 million acre Mount Hood National ... the Columbia River approximately 300 years ago, thus creating the great ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- interactions, formed over millions of years, and human interventions ... Eucalypts originated between 35 and 50 million years ago, not long ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 12:22, 21 January 2023
- 9-year-old) Homo erectus who died 1.6 million years ago. It was one of the ... co-existed with homo habilis three million years ago. Subsequently, the ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 23:02, 4 January 2024
- of cotton plants traces back thousands of years, it was the late eighteen ... in South America about five thousand years ago, G. hirsutum in Mexico ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- sexually mature until approximately 3 years (Johnson 1989). ... plains of North America about 40 million years ago. They migrated to South ...18 KB (2,774 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos ... grown greatly in volume in the last 100,000 years, so it can be classified ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Until 12 million years ago, the bountiful waters of the equatorial ... Around two to three million years ago, Lake Turkana was larger and ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Approximately 65 - 75 million years ago, a shallow sea teeming with ... About 60 million years ago, during the formation of the Rocky Mountains ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- From 570 million until about 70 million years ago, shallow seas lay ... Black Hills were uplifted about 70 million years ago. At those places, which ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- productivity has occurred over the last 50 years. The implication is that ... species of seabirds and approximately 20 million individuals breed in the ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- or San people over a period stretching 4000 years into antiquity. The rock ... of what is now Southern Africa ca 500 million years ago, whereas the basaltic ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- inhabited intermittently for the past 2,000 years by Yupik Eskimos. The cultures ... shelf edge. During the nesting season 2.7 million seabirds are estimated to ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- Europe. They trace to about 165 to 144 million years ago. ... They lived some 155 to 145 million years ago, in an environment ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- million years—from about 540 to 251 million years ago (mya). They existed ... to evolve true eyes, about 543 million years ago; the evolutionary appearance ...16 KB (2,412 words) - 17:20, 2 May 2023
- shtml Mother of man - 3.2 million years ago] BBC. Retrieved November ... " date back to at least 2.3 million years ago,[http://news.bbc.co ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- Cambrian to Permian from 510 to 248 million years ago. Although called "sea ... The group has hardly changed in millions of years; the modern horseshoe crabs ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- The first people came to the Lake Superior region 10,000 years ago ... Around 1.6 million years ago, during the last Great Ice Age, ice covered ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- The Eocene epoch (56-34 million years ago) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- for rather long periods of time (months or years) rather than permanently. ... out of Africa across Eurasia about a million years ago. Homo sapiens appears ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- of deer, which disappeared about 11,000 years ago, largely from natural ... It is thought that the New World deer evolved about 5 million years ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 23:53, 23 August 2020
- the horse and rhinoceros. It lived 35 million years ago in what is now South ... Natural History. It became extinct 65 million years ago, at the time of the ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- Gorge in Tanganyika, and after several years accumulated a significant ... that human ancestors used tools 1.75 million years ago. Later findings by ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 02:54, 4 November 2022
- Gondwana began to break up 140 million years ago, and Sahul separated ... the last glacial maximum about 18,000 years ago); the last of which was ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- that existed from 63 to about 40 million years ago (from the Paleocene ... North America starting about 70 million years ago and lasting for many ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- over the Colorado Plateau some 300 million years ago when a sea flowed into ... National Park since the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Fremont people and Ancient ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 06:16, 12 August 2023
- discovered artifacts estimated to be 9,000 years old, and historic buildings ... as a geologist’s paradise. Over 135 million years ago, a warm shallow sea ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 03:47, 1 October 2023
- the Proterozoic. Approximately 1400 million years ago, a mass of granite ... deposited from 1200 million to 800 million years ago. This was after uplift ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- attest to occupation for tens of thousands of years. conservation areas extending across 1.38 million hectares (3.41 million acres ...24 KB (3,392 words) - 04:34, 27 February 2023
- believed to have evolved between 300 and 400 million years ago *Pterosaur wings at least 225 million years ago *Bird wings at least ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
- African regions stretches back one or two million years. Berbers (anciently ... , under whom Tunisia prospered. In the last years of the Hafsids, Spain seized ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- was probably formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of the ... when a large meteorite hit Earth 65 million years ago, which may have played ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- hunting rabbits and pest control. In recent years its popularity as a household ... like forms first appeared about 40 million years ago, roughly coinciding ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- and that when snakes first evolved 100 million years ago, their venom genes were already 100 million years old (Zimmer 2005). There thus is support ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago during the Jurassic ... about "whipcracking" millions of years ago. Nathan Myhrvold, a computer ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 01:59, 9 January 2023
- evolved sometime between 55 and 26 million years ago (no useful fossil record ... Miocene (Johnson 2004), about 20 million years ago. About nine species ...14 KB (2,097 words) - 23:26, 17 May 2023
- California came into being some 7-8 million years ago, the Colorado River ... process range from 5 to 70 million years ago. == Engineering == ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- of the Bushmen for perhaps thirty thousand years, the desert was the setting ... since the Cretaceous period (65-135 million years ago). It has experienced ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 17:03, 14 May 2024
- ancestors of humans approximately 3.3 million years ago from the ancestors ... 2703,00.html Bed-hopping led humans to 3 million-year itch.] The Australian ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 09:08, 9 March 2023
- a supercontinent. Roughly 750 Ma (million years ago) (ICS 2004), the earliest ... Plate tectonics - 249 [[annum|MA]] (million years ago)]] ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- sculpture that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United ... during the tectonic uplift about 70 million years ago. The subsequent natural ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 18:42, 13 July 2023
- Around three million years ago what is now the valley of the Jordan ... According to geological theory, approximately two million years ago ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- from the Early Miocene (around 23 million years ago) onwards, with the ... seem to have diverged approximately one million years ago. ...15 KB (2,323 words) - 18:52, 6 November 2022
- consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54 ... years).1997. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html Age of the ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- censuses' (to be taken every ten years according to United Nations ... Finland and Norway have for several years used administrative registers ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- which in the course perhaps of hundreds of years, has developed a wide-spreading ... the fossil record approximately 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic ...33 KB (5,220 words) - 01:41, 9 January 2023
- The Late Cretaceous (Berriasian, around 143 million years ago) genus ... or Early Miocene, around 23 to 25 million years ago (mya). While there ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 12:22, 24 January 2023
- fossil," tracing to over 500 million years ago (Garcia-Fernandez 2006a). Although cephalochordates lack hard parts, making fossilization ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 01:45, 13 January 2023
- measured in millions and even billions of years, versus the thousands advocated ... of the Ediacaran period, some 550 million years ago, with the earliest ...18 KB (2,851 words) - 12:16, 22 May 2021
- of ozone (O3) is a few parts per million, which is much higher than ... |colspan=2 style="font-size: 85%" |ppmv: parts per million ...24 KB (3,540 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- The Hopewell culture developed on its shores 2,000 years ago. By the ... basis beginning between 2.5 and 3 million years ago. The earliest Ice Ages ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- in the Cretaceous era, 130-65 million years ago. Australia separated ... Human remains found on New Guinea have been dated to 50,000 years ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- protected areas covering more than one million hectares of rainforest, ... become extinct approximately thirty million years ago, but discovered alive ...15 KB (2,192 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- al. 1996). Cephalopods appeared 500 million years ago during the late Cambrian ... Paleozoic era, between 450 and 300 million years ago. While Nautiloid was ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- Mexico remains a part. About five million years ago, the East Pacific Rise ... peninsula as far back as 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. The area would have ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- * 60 million years ago an undersea volcano rose above the level of ... * 20 million years ago subsidence of the atoll began and limestone ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- the land; they appeared about 250 million years ago (mya), slightly earlier ... life on earth and disappeared millions of years ago. It is not conclusively ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- area in the United States with over 5.4 million residents. The United Nations ... a metro area population of at least 2.5 million people. It is the only major ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- tracing back to the early Eocene, 54 million years ago, numerous fossil equids ... date from the early Eocene, 54 to 55 million years ago. This species, Hyracotherium ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 2023
- and his wife experimented for three years before they succeeded in ... partner, Ume, at the Shinmei inlet, on Ago Bay in what was then Shima ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 17:55, 9 November 2022
- rule of thumb is that one species in every million goes extinct per year (Wilson ... of these, the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- appeared in the Paleozoic about 400 million years ago (mya), flourished during ... along with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous-Tertiary ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- middle of the Devonian period, about 400 million years ago. ... have been ended suddenly, about 550 million years ago, by a colossal volcanic ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million ... The domain baidu.com attracted at least 5.5 million visitors annually ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Mount Rainier's earliest lavas are over 840,000 years old and ... Around 5,000 years ago, a large chunk of the volcano slid away, with ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- the Western Pacific about three thousand years ago, and that some of them ... and German compensation of US$4.5 million, Spain recognized a claim ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago (Gould 2002). Animal ... end of the Precambrian, around 600 million years ago, and are known as the ...30 KB (3,941 words) - 07:27, 20 June 2021
- The Bay was formed starting about 10,000 years ago when rising sea levels ... at the end of the Eocene (about 35.5 million years ago), forming the Chesapeake ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- closely related until five to six thousand years ago. The first Igbo in the ... speculation, and it is only in the last 50 years that any real work has been ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- considered to have occurred 70 to 90 million years ago (Nei et al. 2001). ... of those species approximately 200 million years ago, containing the vast ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- period of the Mesozoic era, about 200 million years ago. The Permian-Triassic ... other diapsids between 285 and 270 million years ago (McGeoch and Gatherer 2005). ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- popular singer in any genre in the first 20 years of the twentieth century ... at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 17 years. ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- enjoyed an Iranian Identity since at least 2200 years ago. ... During the years 550 to 330 B.C.E., coinciding with the sovereignty ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- of the current park boundaries 2.2 million years ago and formed a caldera ... of material ejected, climaxed 1.2 million years ago and formed the much ...33 KB (5,106 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- Cave was carved was formed over 300 million years ago at the bottom of an ... essentially unchanged for thousands of years. This began to change with ...23 KB (3,387 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2023
- It is estimated to comprise some 2.4 million stone blocks averaging 2 ... Building the Great Pyramid in 20 years—the commonly accepted time ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 20:54, 26 September 2023
- from 270.6 +/- 0.7 Ma (Ma = millions of years ago) until somewhere between ... applied to samples younger than about 50,000 years. * Uranium-lead ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- of the Pacific Ocean. From about 35 million years ago, a submarine volcano ... deposits by seabirds over many thousands of years. Nauru was one of three great ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- People have been living along the Snake River for at least 11,000 ... and Plano cultures dating back over 10,000 years ago. By the protohistoric ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- evolved since the Paleozoic (some 400 million years ago), the oldest major ... evolved since the Paleozoic (some 400 million years ago) and so is the oldest ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 23:56, 18 September 2023
- Of the estimated 50 million pinnipeds in the world, roughly 90 percent ... phocids date from the mid-Miocene, 15 million years ago in the north Atlantic ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 16:04, 10 October 2020
- century, but over the course of forty years, were hunted nearly to extinction ... or perhaps the latest Eocene (39-29 million years ago). Early baleen whales ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- in the fossil record is 360 to 390 million years ago, during the Devonian ... some larvae remain aquatic for months, even years, until the proper conditions ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- diamond and has sold more than 11 million copies. He has retained ... Diamond, and to date has sold over 11 million copies. Taylor then signed ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- of uranium and thorium (from 10 parts per million (ppm) up to 1 percent by ... with an estimated age of 4.404 billion years. Wilde, Simon A., John ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- found as far back as the early Paleozoic (500 million years ago), are highly diverse, and there is a rapid turn-over of species, their siliceous skeletons ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- to uplift western North America 70 million years ago and eventually formed ... system next to Jackson Hole some nine million years ago in the Miocene epoch ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- year, libraries used to arrange nearly 10 million loans. ... He died on July 31, 2006 at the age of 92 and spent his last years ...14 KB (2,025 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2022
- animals until the Miocene (about 20 million years ago), when even-toed ungulates ... during the Eocene, between 60 and 45 million years ago. The first fossils ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- which lived from 2.33 to 1.44 million years ago, although some authorities ... Homo erectus is considered to have arrived around 1.8 million years ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- of the memorial as Pope had died two years earlier. The memorial was ... architectural lie." More than 60 years ago, Pope responded with ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- The first phase of regional plutonism began 210 million years ago ... Starting 20 million years ago (in the Cenozoic) and lasting until ...40 KB (6,041 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- have hardly changed over the last 445 million years; the modern horseshoe ... seas of the Paleozoic era (542-251 million years ago) with other primitive ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- of Islam that developed there centuries ago, Oman has a very unique history ... Omanis number about three million. The country is similar in both ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- humans or proto-humans emerged some five million years ago when the ancestors of Homo sapiens diverged from the lineage of chimpanzees, and advocates ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- in the Monument are between 500 and 800 years old with the oldest being ... One hundred fifty million years ago ancestors of redwood and sequoia ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Zealand separated from Australia 85 million years ago and from one another ... The western Pacific was first populated about 50,000 years ago. The ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- has a size of 390,000 square miles (1.03 million sq km). The average discharge ... the depression from about 13,000 to 9,500 years ago. A slight uplifting which ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- islands, and was created 8-10 million years ago. Réunion, the largest ... this eruption was estimated at about four million cubic yards (3 million m3 ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- producer of peat for fuel at more than 90 million metric tons per year. ... and hair intact, buried there thousands of years ago after apparent Germanic ...13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
- the second (Snowball Earth) about 650 million years ago. Also, a well documented ... near the end of the Paleozoic Era, some 250 million years ago. ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 20:25, 29 December 2023
- volcanic eruptions two million to one million years ago, with minor volcanic ... victims of discrimination. During the 500 years of the Joseon Dynasty, Jejudo ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- which remained in print for over 400 years. John Ray (1686-1704) provided ... in somewhere between 500,000 and one million deaths, was caused by the ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- predators and competition. Humans in recent years have been advancing their ... in northern Australia dating to 20 million years ago. The fossil records ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Over 16.5 million people are employed in the ... taking place mainly over the last 50 years. The supermarket is a defining ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 06:16, 1 April 2024
- The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million ... extracted. They lived about 80 to 81 million years ago. The two fossils are ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- potato has been cultivated for thousands of years for its tuberous roots. It ... were first cultivated there at least 5,000 years ago. They spread very early ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- The population, estimated to contain 8.7 million in 1936, had fallen as low ... by an inland sea more than 250 million years ago. The fossils found ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- be the result of seismic activity roughly 50 million years ago. According to geologists, during this time period Asia collided with the subcontinent ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- tongue. There are estimated to be over 300 million people living in the Arab ... ; this definition covers more than 250 million people. Arabic belongs to ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- can be traced back to around 100 million years ago (Martin 2007c). ... is Cladoselache, from about 370 million years ago (Martin 2007b), which ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- religions on the whole date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- role in human life for thousands of years. There are also several species ... of sheep seems to have started about 10,000 years ago in southwestern Asia ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 21:23, 6 October 2022
- the Old Stone Age (about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago). Chongqing is home to ... to the 2005 census, just over 6.3 million people live in Chongqing. ...30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
- quot;gold record" when it reached 1.2 million copies sold. ... Choo-Choo"'s 1.2 million sales. Although Miller had massive ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- lived in the area around 200,000 to 700,000 years ago. Neolithic findings at ... China, founded by Sun Yat Sen. Within a few years, China descended into civil ...26 KB (3,622 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- and to have evolved approximately 18 million years ago. New research, however ... the Miocene epoch (26 million to 7.5 million years ago), before migrating to Asia. ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- and then breaking apart. Roughly 750 million years ago (m.y.a.), the earliest ... of the Cambrian explosion, about 535 million years ago, there were five distinct ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- largest in recorded history. More than 500 million tons of ash were blown eastward ... having formed within the last 40,000 years. The pre-1980 summit cone ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- an arid plateau that was created 16 million years ago as a coalescing series ... When the Cascades began to rise 7 million years ago in the Pliocene, the ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- as a paint pigment as far back as 17,000 years ago. Manganese is part of ... IV) oxide) can be traced back 17,000 years. The Egyptians and Romans ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 11:03, 9 March 2023
- of the twentieth century. In more recent years, ethnic and tribal distinctions ... in Malawi dating back more than one million years, and early humans ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- cooling of global temperatures for many years afterwards because of the ... a major global resurfacing event about 500 million years ago ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- the controlled use of fire more than a million years ago. But reliable means of starting a fire—such as by the use of wooden drills or flintstones—has ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- Bitterroot National Forest comprised 1.6 million acres in west-central ... recreation facilities were built 30 or more years ago. Since then, visitor ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- in the fossil record about 550 million years ago, and their evolution ... the base of the Cambrian period, 550 million years ago. The evolution of a ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- to approximately 1.36 million years ago. The transition from stone to metal tools roughly coincided with the development of metal smelting, ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:21, 18 April 2023
- abundant fossils traced to over 320 million years ago (mya) from the Carboniferous ... period between 354–295 million years ago. However, these fossils ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- cyanobacteria about 1,500 million years ago (Hedges et al. 2004). The original symbiotic relationship between organisms proceeded to the point ...12 KB (1,679 words) - 16:58, 14 October 2021
- the Upper Jurassic (around 135 to 160 million years ago), perhaps in the late ... theory. Archaeopteryx lived some 145 million years ago. Eminent evolutionist ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- Repeated lava flows over the last 15,000 years have raised the land surface ... eruptions which began about 15 million years ago. A migrating hotspot ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- Human habitation of the area began about eight thousand years ago ... 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) starting 13 million years ago. ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- Grameen Bank, saying that at age 72, he was years beyond the legal limit for ... before recovering again in subsequent years. By the beginning of 2005 ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- * Large clouds of hot gas (or plasma) (at 30 to 100 million °C) surround ... appear to have begun forming 10 billion years ago and it is thought that ...13 KB (1,886 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- these two families separated about 37 million years ago, in the early Oligocene. ... pika habitation over the past 40,000 years in the region between the ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Around two thousand years ago, the world had less than 250,000 people ... in 1945, the population rose to over ten million by 1990.Vernon Henderson ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- Between 2.5 and 0.5 million years ago the Murray River terminated ... existence to the Cadell Fault. About 25,000 years ago, displacement occurred ...26 KB (4,062 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- of Mars to between 3,800 and 3,500 million years ago. Noachian age surfaces ... after Hesperia Planum): From 3,500 million years ago to 1,800 million years ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- the Bering land bridge about 32 million years ago while sea levels were ... as ornamental fish in China for hundreds of years before being introduced to ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- An estimated 1.7 million veterans have received Purple Hearts since ... who died in prisoner of war camps as long ago as World War II became eligible ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- originated from West Africa around 4,000 years ago, although there is less ... originated from West Africa around 4,000 years ago. In several major waves ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- the ADS is equivalent to several hundred million U.S. dollars annually, and ... For many years, a growing problem in astronomical research was that ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- percent of the population died during the years of Russian fur trade. The ... The Aleut trace permanent settlement to about 8,000 years ago in the ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- River cutting a channel over millions of years. It is about ... ). Nearly two billion years of Earth's history have been exposed ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- in Middle East) and Turkey. Around 10,000 years ago, wild einkorn and emmer ... Neolithic period. By about five thousand years ago, wheat had reached Ethiopia ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae dating back to 95 million years ago. ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- eruptions occurred about seven million years ago, and since that time ... part of the island. About eleven million years ago, the center of volcanic ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- the Gilbert Islands between 3000 and 2000 years ago. Subsequent invasions ... is elected by popular vote every four years and is both head of government ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago. It is the largest and ... in Guam's internal affairs in the years immediately following World ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- or ice ages. Beginning some 130,000 years ago the Sangamonian Stage ... Starting about 100,000 years ago the Wisconsin glaciation began lowering ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- beasts." For more than one hundred years the name was applied to a ... areas. South America, until a few million years ago, had a distinct fauna ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- possibly settled the islands around 2,000 years ago, coming from Tonga and ... has 15 members and is chosen every four years. Its members elect a Prime ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- in streamflow since in unusually wet years, the area of the Sudd increases ... during the later Miocene (23 to 5.3 million years ago). The Eonile transported ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- diversity in Mesozoic (251-65 million years ago) cycad pollen "considerably ... The cycad fossil record dates to the Early Permian, 280 million years ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Recreation Area. It hosts nearly 1.5 million visitors each year. ... prison in August 1934. During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Early Devonian time, about 400 to 420 million years ago. Subsurface deposits ... Algonquin lakeshores date to about 10,000 years ago, and the Nipissing shorelines ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- the first new primate genus in 83 years. ==Crested mangabeys (Lophocebus)== ... (Theropithecus) only about four million years ago, in the mid-Pliocene ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- Venus' surface has been mapped in detail only in the last 20 ... a total resurfacing event about 500 million years ago. R. G. Strom ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- seas of the Devonian period, 350 million years ago. Life in the Lake Huron ... in the cold deep waters. In recent years, the wrecks of two sailing ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- estimated the industry to be worth 871 million US dollars. Current industry ... that J.P. Harrington pursued many years ago. By 1935, after Congress ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- The ancestors of the Micronesians settled there over four thousand ... the United States provided more than US$84 million in Compact grants—an amount ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- kilometers south of the Equator 35 million years ago, in a climate decidedly ... boundary, around 70–68 million years ago (Baker et al. 2006; ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- They were formed approximately one billion years ago and have been subjected ... After more than ten years of recommendations and support for the creation ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ... out of Southeast Asia that began 6,000 years ago. Tonga is the oldest ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- *Over 80 million years ago, the first phase of Atlas Mountain formation began. This stage consisted of a series of continental collisions between ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 06:24, 21 August 2023
- admiring the creativity of those from long-ago eras. [[Image:Libya ... have been found dating back at least 10,000 years The word petroglyph ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- now live in captivity (VS 2006). A century ago, it was estimated that there ... Java. This species occurred about 2 million years ago at the beginning of ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- at the end of the last ice age some 9,000 years ago. The highland bogs often ... Peat has been forming on earth for roughly 360 million years in places ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- by some to have started 7,500 to 12,000 years ago (corrected for solar ... the rise in maize cultivation 500 to 1,000 years ago in the southeastern United ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- of India, still practiced today by several million people. Jainism has as its ... according to tradition lived millions of years ago, and the most recent ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- estimated to have occurred 50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch ... history. Uplifted approximately 70 million years ago during the Laramide ...41 KB (6,175 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- large reptiles that appeared about 84 million years ago in the late Cretaceous ... clade Crurotarsi, appeared about 220 million years ago in the Triassic period ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- lacks a woody stem and lives more than two years. It grows 90 to 100 centimeters ... and eating wild potatoes for thousands of years. At some point, it was discovered ...20 KB (3,010 words) - 05:53, 30 November 2022
- of Jones Apparel Group, donated $150 million for cancer research. Though ... The university is named for Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in ...28 KB (4,118 words) - 19:30, 4 May 2024
- which lived from 2.33 to 1.44 million years ago, although some authorities ... present-day human mtDNA about half a million years ago (Krings et al. 1997; ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- as long ago as the Stone Age (half a million years ago) with areas removed ... and lack of funding. “By the early years of the twentieth century ...21 KB (2,860 words) - 21:27, 25 January 2024
- More than 170 million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent ... crater, which probably formed about 250 million years ago. ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- of cargo cult activity, however, was in the years during and after the Second ... came to the islands of Vanuatu some 4000 years ago. In 1605, the Portuguese ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- About 85 million people live in the Baltic drainage basin, 15 million ... * Eemian Sea, 130,000–115,000 (years ago) * Baltic ice lake, 12,600–10 ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- attraction in Ise, attracting over six million worshipers every year. ... historians date them from several hundred years later, with 690 C.E. widely ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- of fermentation. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, they have been used ... that penicillin has saved at least 200 million lives since its first use ...13 KB (1,974 words) - 08:09, 4 December 2023
- of a population corridor of over 2.5 million people, the ridge is ... rifting processes that took place 200 million years ago during the Triassic ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- to the adult stage, after several years of burrowing. The larvae ... even older fossil lamprey, dated 360 million years ago, was reported from ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 20:56, 22 October 2022
- has a dark side as well. About one hundred years ago, millions of Africans ... used today is synthetic, but several million tons of natural rubber are ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- and beautiful coral reefs draw over 2.5 million visitors annually. Tourism ... The islands were formed almost 100 million years ago, when volcanic ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- in the Middle Devonian, about 410 million years ago. A fossil coelacanth ... two coelacanth species to be 40 to 30 million years ago (Inoue et al. 2005). ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- divisions; with a total area of about 41.1 million square miles (106.4 million ... that it did not exist prior to 130 million years ago, when the continents ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- once they come into existence: Fossils 400 million years old have been found ... Fossils from the Devonian, 400 million years ago, already show characteristics ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Earth's surface (an area of some 361 million square kilometers (139 million ... which several times over the last few million years has been closed off ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- and the local economy for thousands of years. This river is the lifeblood ... Volcanic activity in the region has been traced to 40 million years ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- name is Sofia Khatun. His early childhood years were spent in the village ... He studied at his village school in the early years. When his family ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- all North American subspecies exceeded 1 million (Peek 2007). Prior to the ... first appear in the fossil record 12 million years ago, during the Pliocene ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
- and suffrage is universal for those over 18 years of age. The French president ... product in 2004 totaled about $US 60 million, or about $US 3,800 per ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- world's buckwheat production. A century ago, Russia was the world leader ... (corn) and wheat respond strongly. Over a million acres (4,000 km²) were ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- far back as the Eocene period, some 50 to 60 million years ago. Galliformes are placed into two tribes. The Craci includes the megapodes, guans ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- a common bond. They lived for thousands of years in close relationship to ... Glacial period approximately 11,000 years ago. Some evidence of the ...26 KB (3,951 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- nature that the Earth is many millions of years old, and it interprets Genesis ... creation of human beings about six thousand years ago. (In the seventeenth ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- Mesozoic eras. Between 100 and 150 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous ... now, though there were iron mines long ago. Coal deposits capable of ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- Falls are very wide. With more than six-million cubic feet of water falling ... and Niagara Falls, New York. Some 20 million visitors are expected to ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- Moon's crust formed between 20 and 30 million years after that of Earth ... bombardment," around 3.8 to 4 billion years ago, many large meteorites ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- was the Carboniferous era (280 to 345 million years ago). Further large deposits ... The annual consumption of coal worldwide is about 5,800 million short ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- A herd animal, the yak was domesticated over 4,000 years ago and are ... There are estimated to be more than 12 million domestic yaks (Massicot 2005). ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
- 187Re (rhenium-187, half-life = 4.56 x 1010 years) and is most often measured ... marks the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago (see iridium). ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- found on earth, gneisses some 3.6 billion years old, or 80 percent as old ... The Wisconsin glaciation receded 12,000 years ago. These glaciers covered ...43 KB (5,977 words) - 17:20, 12 May 2024
- at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, when the Laurentide ... has decreased considerably in recent years. The Great Lakes Waterway ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- to have arrived between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago. Australians was approximately one million, now reduced to half that ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- the solar system, about five billion years ago. Thus comets provide ... comets have orbits of less than two hundred years, while long-period comets ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- arrived in the Glacier area some 10,000 years ago. The earliest occupants ... shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the formation ...38 KB (5,805 words) - 13:33, 16 December 2022
- Louis Braille was born in 1809, near Paris. When Louis was three years ... (for example) out of the reported 2 million visually impaired population ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- Asia (Eurasian Plate) about 40 to 50 million years ago.]] the Upper Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago, when the north-moving ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- In the Middle Palaeocene (60 million years ago), miacids appear. Miacids were a group of paraphyletic taxa that are considered basal to Carnivora ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- of the Han Chinese about 5,000–6,000 years ago, and migrated south and ... the number of Tibetans has fallen from 6.3 million to 5.4 million since 1959, ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- and one estimate in India is between one and two million. ... out of social movements over a century ago, in accordance with conditions ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Otariids arose in the late Miocene (10 to 12 million years ago) in the North Pacific, diversifying rapidly into the Southern Hemisphere, where ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- During the Late Permian (some 260–251 million years ago (mya)) ... cleared. Further climatic changes 20 million years ago, long after India had ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- At a distance of 2.44 billion light years, it is one of the most distant ... from earth, the closest being 240 Mpc (780 million ly) away and the farthest ...16 KB (2,372 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Over the years, archaeology itself has been broken down into sub-disciplines ... stone tools that date to over 1.8 million years ago. [[Image:Xian museum ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- Females give birth once every four to six years, and the gestation period ... of the suborder—around twenty million years ago (Nikaido et al. 2001). ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- make a supercontinent. Roughly 750 million years ago, the earliest known ... began to proliferate about 530–540 million years ago.J. L. Kirschvink, ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- first appeared approximately 230 million years ago (mya) during the Triassic ... in the fossil record about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous ...63 KB (9,106 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- survived from before the Ice Age around three million years ago. Biologists have been conducting field research in the area since 1873. ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- dimensional artistry in rock, formed by years of natural erosion—the ... Fold in the park. Ten to fifteen million years ago, the entire region ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:09, 25 November 2023
- the runaway effect would have occurred long ago. Positive feedback effects ... The ice core data from over the past 800,000 years does show that ...23 KB (3,592 words) - 23:26, 17 February 2023
- on the endangered-species list for several years until repopulation took place. ... of the oldest in South Florida. Six million years ago a shallow sea covered ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 23:51, 24 March 2024
- The remains of Neanderthals, which lived about 100,000 years ago, ... was arrested and imprisoned for two years after a dispute over the ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- marshes, complete the scenery. In recent years the bay's greatest feature ... Pangaea began to break up about 190 million years ago. The focus of the rifting ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- group's members over the next three years. They used tactics that included ... for the United States, and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor. ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- father)." In 1975, when he was eight years old, Jeff spent a few days ... Ron Moorhead, his stepfather of only two years, was the first father figure ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 04:32, 31 July 2022
- True spiders (thin-waisted arachnids) evolved about 400 million years ... Araneomorphae) appeared more than 250 million years ago, presumably promoting ...40 KB (6,291 words) - 21:38, 7 February 2023
- believed to have originated about 60 million years ago (O'Donnell 2000). ... and weight 43 tons in recent years. There have even been claims of ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- from the other hystricognaths about 30 million years ago, much earlier than the New World porcupines. The 16 or so New World porcupines are mostly ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 04:07, 26 November 2022
- Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia is also sometimes ... 30 percent of the country's 2.8 million people are nomadic or semi ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- while some plants can live thousands of years. Aging is important when ... phyla, of modern animals. About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi colonized ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- System. The park attracts more than 2 million visitors a year and has ... National Park to be more than 1 billion years old—some of the most ancient ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- and Decorative Arts. With a record 8.3 million visitors in 2006, the Louvre ... Art, or Sculpture—established some 200 years ago, it was decided that ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- Jaguar females reach sexual maturity at about two years of age, and ... emergence of Panthera just two to 3.8 million years ago (Johnson et al. 2006; ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- that have been dated to around seven million years ago including Sahelanthropus ... occupation perhaps as early as seven million years ago. Fossil remains of ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- cultures. It has endured for thousands of years and has provided various ... ancestors of Homo sapiens, around 40,000 years ago. The Cro-Magnons originally ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- our written heritage from several thousand years ago, digital information ... can become obsolete in a matter of years. When faster, more capable ...34 KB (4,699 words) - 14:38, 29 January 2024
- has suffered only three hurricanes in 50 years. Hurricane Janet passed over ... in 1763, by the Treaty of Paris. Sixteen years later the French took the ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- of their popularity bragged over a hundred million readers daily. Falk's ... (Paramount, 1996) was produced only after years of script revisions as Falk ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- land empire in history, covering over 33 million km² at its peak, with an ... in Iran. Modern estimates suggest that 30 million or more people died during ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- The queens themselves can live for up to 30 years, while workers live from ... Cretaceous period about 120 to 170 million years ago. After the rise of ...39 KB (6,124 words) - 01:55, 9 January 2023
- back to the Carboniferous period (359 to 299 million years ago), when they considered to have been the dominant type of vegetation. The fronds of some ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- advanced societies for thousands of years. In some regions they created ... taken place is confirmed at circa 12,000 years ago, with the upper bound ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- has been practiced for at least 5,000 years in China (Goldsmith et al ... that was taken into human care some 4,600 years ago (Yoshitake 1968), breeding ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- The Superior National Forest comprises over 3.9 million acres (6,100 ... is set aside as a wilderness reserve, the million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe ...20 KB (2,971 words) - 23:47, 26 February 2023
- thought to have been endangered in recent years by overfishing and habitat ... back to the Lower Pliocene, about 3 million years ago. The earliest known ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- lifestyle transitions throughout the 1300 years they occupied that land, ... About 100 million years ago a great inland sea covered this area. ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 10:33, 10 March 2023
- Mauritania is generally flat, its territory of over one million square ... the ancient Ghana Empire. Over the next 500 years, Arabs overcame fierce resistance ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Titicaca's level fluctuates seasonally and over a cycle of years ... language for that of the Aymara. About 500 years ago they lost their original ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- during the Miocene Epoch over five million years ago and continued into ... west-central part of the island only 6,500 years ago, creating more cinder ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- Cassini and Robert Hooke four centuries ago. In 2000, three small spots ... the equator, which has lasted at least 340 years. The storm is large enough ...33 KB (5,016 words) - 16:30, 14 May 2024
- |poptime=8 to 10 million |popplace= Albania Argentina Bosnia and Herzegovina ... Africa via the Iranian plateau about 1,000 years ago. Traditionally most Roma ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- seas, is judged to be between 63.8-70 million square miles (165.2-181 ... At periodic intervals of three or four years, unusually warm ocean ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- The state gets considerable attention every four years because it ... in what is now Iowa more than 13,000 years ago, they were hunters and ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- genocide from 1975 to 1979, when up to 1.5 million people were murdered by ... Phnom Penh is the largest population center, with two million of Cambodia ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- estimated in 2005 as slightly more than 1 million (a drop from its 2001 census ... Human remains and artifacts from more than 100,000 years ago have ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- A few monarchs turn up in the far southwest of Great Britain in years ... monarch's population some two million years ago, at the end of the ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- causing extensive damage. Thirty-five years later, Hurricane Luis again ... fish, seahorses, and dolphins. In recent years there has been an increase ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- major tributaries) deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in the ... Great Ice Age, between 32,000 and 14,000 years ago. With the change in climate ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- The Seerhein emerged in the last thousands of years, when erosion ... Around 2.5 million years ago (ending 11,600 years ago) the Ice Ages ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- the earliest humans in China date to 2.24 million to 250,000 years ago. ... in the Pleistocene era roughly 750,000 years ago. These fossils were discovered ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- area in the United States, with 3.5 million residents. The United States ... During the last Ice age 10,000 years ago, receding glaciers fed ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- surrounding suburbs, has approximately 2.6 million residents; it is the twentieth ... In the years after the war, the city's population grew rapidly ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- of China (ROC). Today there are over 40 million overseas Chinese, mostly ... Under this definition, minority overseas Chinese number about 7 million ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- outside Copenhagen serving some 3.5 million visitors per year. ... have been critiqued in the past several years by some scholars in anthropology ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then ... Porter met and began courting Athol Estes, then seventeen years old ...22 KB (3,541 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- in the Oligocene period (35–30 million years ago). However, this group ... Pacific albatrosses occurred by 15 million years ago (mya). Similar fossil ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- In a process generally thought to span at least 14,000 years, humans ... Dogs have nearly 220 million smell-sensitive cells over an area about ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- inhabited Montana more than 14,000 years ago, and artifacts indicate ... The original territory comprised about 22 million acres (89,000 km²) at the ...33 KB (4,861 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2023
- of beliefs and rituals from two thousand years ago, the magical and shamanistic ... a total of 11 field trips during a period of 15 years. Lönnrot arranged ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- A hippo's lifespan is typically 40 to 50 years. ==Distribution== ... off from other artiodactyls around 60 million years ago (mya). This hypothesized ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- As a result of these two factors, over 10 million tourists visit the islands ... The Canary Islands were formed by volcanic eruptions millions of years ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. contributed $5 million, the U.S. government added ... eastern part of the United States; over 9 million tourists and 11 million ...27 KB (4,145 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- at concentrations of about 2 parts per million (Helmenstine 2008). ... their first year (Wund 2005). Five to six years is the typical life span ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- reached the western coast less than three millennia ago. range of fauna that arrived about 10,000 years ago, following the last retreat ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- caused ecosystem collapse several hundred years ago, which then caused the ... States. Fiji currently draws almost half a million tourists each year; more ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- till, deposits of glacial activity a million years ago. ... One hundred years later, Kansas was again in the forefront of civil ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- in a short time span (days, weeks, or years), by definition, ecological ... * Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event—65 million years ago ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- as a result of human activities. In recent years, people have devoted a greater ... that most coral reefs are less than 10,000 years old. As coral reef communities ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- Hemisphere going back approximately 100,000 years and illustrated that the ... in Greenland as recently as 2.4 million years ago. The existence of those ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- both in Western Australia. In recent years, it has, however, been successfully ... other marsupials between 32 and 42 million years ago, during the late Eocene ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- Zoos trace to at least 4,000 years ago (Reichenbach 2002). Modern ... Zoos have been known for thousands of years, with well-known collections ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- to 900–800 B.C.E., nearly five hundred years earlier than previously believed ... However, some argue that the increase of roughly four million people ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- Scriptures, which has sold more than ten million copies. She is also the ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- part of the Russian Federation nearly 400 years ago. An estimated 139,000 ... Kalmyk-Oirats numbered approximately two million and were one of the most ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within the class Echinoidea, characterized by pentamerous radial symmetry; a hard ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- from Britain in 1960, the population of 60 million people consisted of nearly ... were exceedingly complex. More than fifty years ago, Great Britain carved ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 22:13, 28 November 2023
- Jordan and Justin, and were married for 22 years until his death. ... He was 81 years old. ==Career== In a recording career dating back to ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- from four-legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living ... have been known to live up to 60 years. They have few natural predators ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- last names appear on the bell. In its early years, the bell was used to summon ... Stow, on the other hand, was only four years out of his apprenticeship ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- practically all of which was worn away long ago, was painted to enhance the ... statues, which had survived for over 1,500 years, were idolatrous and un-Islamic. ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Initially developed about 5000 years ago in China, for many years ... has been practiced for at least 5,000 years in China.M. R. Goldsmith ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- Saigon). The city boasts more than 1,000 years of history, and that of the ... Hanoi was occupied by the French in 1873 and colonized by them ten ...24 KB (3,621 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- a distinct lineage some 60 to 58 mya (million years ago), and presumably also ... Owls have been a feature of falconry for years. (Falconry is the art ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 19:47, 20 July 2023
- originated in Asia approximately 11 million years ago. Taxonomic research ... the Americas approximately 8 to 8.5 million years ago (mya). The lineages ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- to have formed between five and ten million years ago, a result of tectonic ... Española is the oldest island (at around 3.5 million years) and the ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- Iranian city of Bam and exactly two years before the 2006 Hengchun ... Of all the seismic moment released by earthquakes in the 100 years ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- appearing in the Pliocene over 1.8 million years ago and having become extinct ... epoch of the Paleogene period over 56 million years ago. ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- in the Andean region as far back as 10,000 years ago. Beginning about 100 ... Rico ("Rich Hill") was, for many years, the largest city in the ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- range expansion that occurred about 10,000 years ago. Detours may also be ... Shearwater is calculated to have flown 8 million kilometers (5 million miles ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- most prominent type of evidence over the years: footprints molded in plaster ... evidence points to their extinction thousands of years ago. ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- has spent substantial funds in the past few years to expand well systems, and ... from Southeast Asia more than 4,000 years ago. From there, they migrated ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- Hunters and gatherers occupied the Guinea area 30,000 years ago. The ... Rally, Alpha Condé, was jailed for five years in September 2000, to be ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- As of 2006, there were about 2.6 million residents, with more than ... Humans are believed to have arrived in Nevada about 11,000 years ago ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- The city of Caracas has a population of close to 6 million. ... The western area of what became Venezuela was inhabited 15,000 years ...33 KB (4,619 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- he worked at several jobs over the next few years without success. He later ... Over 50 years later, in 1998, a fisherman found what was reported ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- phyla, of modern animals. About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi colonized ... period of the Paleozoic era (some 580 million years ago), early mammals in ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- (Jebel Qatrani Formation, around 33 million years ago (mya) is similar in ... The bald eagle is sexually mature at four years or five years of age ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- and roll to a much wider audience after years of the style being relegated ... in 1927, apparently due to Haley taking two years off his age for publicity ...21 KB (3,146 words) - 16:05, 31 October 2023
- Baku was inhabited during the Stone Age, up to 100,000 years ago, ... 8, 1924, the first tram line and, two years later, the electric railway ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- with the environment over tens of thousands of years. The Park was ... It is believed that 140 million years ago, much of Kakadu was under ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- to still take place in animals over nine years old. Outside the mating ... via Antarctica (up to about 167 million years ago).T. Folger, [http://www ...38 KB (5,579 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- clusters of galaxies that collided about 150 million years ago. ... For nearly 40 years after Zwicky's initial observations, no other ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- geological evidence that some 300 million years ago all the continents ... up into eight continents around 600 million years ago. The eight continents ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- viscous-like deformation over millions of years, there is a convective material ... quot;), a nomenclature introduced over 50 years ago by the geophysicist Keith ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- after the American Civil War. Three million pigeons were shipped by ... Fifty-seven years later, on September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- separately from the Inuit around 4,000 years ago. Although spread over ... quot; have been proposed over the years, but the most likely source ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- remained until the USSR's collapse 51 years later. ... up the site, at an estimated cost of EEK4 million. The Ministry of Environment ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- Malden, where he lived for the next three years. During this period, he taught ... to teach at Hampton. Following the next two years, the Institute's officials ...32 KB (5,107 words) - 19:08, 20 November 2023
- |poptime=Between 100,000 and 3.5 million |popplace= Niger ... from camel-herding Arabs about two thousand years ago, when the camel was introduced ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Russian Tatars number approximately six million, and are the second largest ... They collectively numbered more than five million in the late twentieth century ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- The dugong has been hunted for thousands of years for its meat, fat ... from four-legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- The Canadian Pacific Railway was instrumental in Banff's early ... The mountains were formed 80–120 million years ago, as a product of thrust ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near ... The area was already home to over a million members of the Kĩkũyũ ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- the Midwest. With a population of nearly 3 million people, the city is the ... Today the city's attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- on the Korean Peninsula around 700,000 years ago, during the Lower Paleolithic ... in 1939, Japan conscripted over five million Koreans for labor and Japan ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period for ... interannual variations (e.g., 20 or 30 years). A common choice for the ...86 KB (12,789 words) - 20:17, 1 June 2023
- Wellesley's libraries contain over 1.5 million catalogued books ... Upperclasswomen are matched up with first-years who become their "little ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- from the early Jurassic (188–213 million years ago). It is known only ... is of sanyanlichan, which lived 125 million years ago and had all modern ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- from Southeast Asia more than four thousand years ago. From there, they migrated ... Rubber has been produced in Samoa for many years, but its export value has ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:51, 6 September 2022
- the Middle East, perhaps as long as 10,000 years ago (the same time that sheep ... the largest goat populations, over 100 million each, with most of them ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- proto-horses, after the asses, around 4 million years ago. The Grevy's zebra' is believed to have been the first zebra species to emerge. ...20 KB (3,083 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2023
- (Grzimek et al. 2004). It occupies about 5 million square kilometers of North ... sexually mature between the age of 5 and 7 years, while males will usually ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- vitamins, and other nutrients. In recent years, bean consumption has increased ... in the Middle East, perhaps around 10,000 years ago. Along with their fellow ...19 KB (3,083 words) - 16:15, 14 November 2023
- In January 1908, Milu, now eight years old, was admitted to the fifth ... Bangla was only published in 1957, three years after his death. ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- universe—despite astronomers having long ago pushed humans to the edge ... the weak anthropic principle as long ago as 1903: "Such a vast ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- Calera, brings its population to well over 7 million people. ... The increase of drug trafficking in the last 25 years has exacerbated ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- very young, and Rodgers spent the next few years living with various relatives ... by the rail workers and the hobos. A few years later, he became brakeman ...23 KB (3,146 words) - 13:11, 1 August 2022
- after his death but not until 1976, fifty years after the first appeal. ... the delivery of the mail. An estimated $80 million worth of property was damaged ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- a projected lifespan of 100 launches, or 10 years, operational life. ... approximately 535,000 U.S. gallons (2.025 million liters) of liquid hydrogen ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- construction, workman hauled the nearly 2 million cubic feet of stone from ... supports a native folk tale that a long time ago, a brick-paved road stretched ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Saguaro grow slowly but may live up to 200 years. When nine years old, they ... during the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. Lake Bonneville was ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 09:55, 29 January 2024
- area of nearly 400,000 square miles (one million square kilometers). The ... mountains in the east. About four thousand years ago, the early Bantu-speaking ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- split happened about 5 to 8 million years ago (Mayr 2001, Physorg ... found for the period between 6 and 13 million years ago (mya), the time when ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- of agriculture in the past 10,000 years.Douglas P. Fry, (ed.), War ... in the Holocene, an epoch that began about 11,500 years ago. ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- and they make a complete circuit every 18.6 years. This means that the time ... and makes a complete circuit in about 9 years. The time between one perigee ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- has been estimated at approximately forty million, but an accurate count remains ... with large Pashtun populations. With 1.5 million ethnic Pashtuns, Karachi ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- States Senator, Edward Kennedy. After three years of post-graduate research ... for Refugees after serving for three years as Deputy High Commissioner ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- In the twentieth century, an estimated 20 million coyotes were killed by livestock ... evolved in North America about two million years ago, alongside the dire ...35 KB (5,386 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- the Tang Dynasty had a population of 50 million people. ... :two men who were young not long ago :but now are turning grey at the ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- from the African slave trade. In recent years, modern Benin has atoned ... that of Pennsylvania. Its population is about 7.5 million. ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- grew on the super continent of Gondwana, 50 million years ago. Pines are believed to be more than 2,000 years old, a stand of male Huon ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- The Sun is thought to be about 4.6 billion years old and about halfway through ... year and reverses direction about every 11 years. The Sun's magnetic ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- arrived in Scotland around eleven thousand years ago, as the ice sheet retreated ... The population of Scotland is somewhat over 5 million. The highest ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- volcanism and climatic changes 20 million years ago caused the extinction ... with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006). ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- was in the summer of 1949--forty-six years ago as of now. However for ... all of her various variety series over the years, White would sing at least ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- earliest human habitation more than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish ... of the South American mainland as long ago as 5300 B.C.E. Subsequent ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- was passed in 1976, meaning that after many years Aboriginal law and land rights ... awe-inspiring history. Five hundred million years ago, the entire area was ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 01:31, 3 May 2023
- known hominids, dated to over one million years ago, were discovered in ... in 1995. The cranium was dated to over one million years old. ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- extinction event, some 65 mya (million years ago). If so, they may not ... in Denmark and dated to 54 mya (million years ago) (Waterhouse et al ...49 KB (7,385 words) - 18:44, 23 March 2023
- and three more were established in later years. Throughout most of the Han ... 039;s timber reserve amount to roughly 250 million cubic meters, in addition ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- and life expectancy had dropped below 40 years of age; young people aged ... advanced migrating tribes about two thousand years ago. ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- Until the late Pleistocene (about 10,000 years ago), the lion was the most ... recent species to diverge. About 1.9 million years ago the jaguar branched ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- been geologically inactive for billions of years. Given that only one unmanned ... for a period that ended 3.8 billion years ago. During this period of ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- The city's population is approximately 3.8 million. The ... is home to nearly 13 million people from all over the globe, including ...40 KB (5,759 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- A few centuries ago, it was found in North Africa along the Nile valley ... in the Pantanal for more than a hundred years, along with native peccaries ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- have made it a transportation hub for 150 years. It is this mixture of factory ... Carthage, Illinois jail. After nearly six years of rapid development, Nauvoo ...44 KB (6,183 words) - 16:22, 12 February 2024
- IT exports from the state came to Rs.1,800 million in 2004. The IT sector has ... Warangal from the Delhi Sultanate, ruling for fifty years. ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- the solar system to be between 1.1 and 1.9 million. The largest asteroid in ... In the last years of the eighteenth century, Baron Franz Xaver von ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- average, but surpassing 200 days in recent years. Average annual precipitation ... The first settlements around Kiev date from 15,000 to 40,000 years ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- sea life. Furthermore, an estimated one million people live on coral islands ... in the Cambrian period, some 570 million years ago, they are extremely ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- of the human diet for many thousands of years. The earliest known farming ... running off into the Mississippi River for years and has caused a dead spot ...27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- important during this period were his two years of instruction from the classically ... his first record under his own name two years later. Remaining with Pollack ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:10, 28 September 2023
- the Ohio bar association. For the next nine years, he was a typical small-town ... with Frederick Nietzsche, who died thirty years ago, insane, in Germany? ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- classics, with sales exceeding 150 million units. He is also noted ... run, Wonder stopped recording for three years, releasing only the 3 LP ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- taught in an elementary school for two years before finally allowing his ... When Pola moved to Japan two and a half years later, Pavarotti became a ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- Peninsula. With a population of over 1.9 million (estimate 2008), Belgrade ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- two metropolitan areas both exceed one million population, Calgary being ... The First Nations settled the plains about 8,000 years ago, sustaining ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- boats and similar vessels. In the last years of the war and the first ... Several major archaeological finds were made in recent years in areas ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world today. Many ... migrated into Chinese areas during the years of turmoil between the Eastern ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- in the north, and the state receives 100 million acre-feet of water annually ... Humans may have been present in the Idaho area as long as 14,500 years ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately ... O'Keeffe children. When she was twelve years old, she announced that she ...23 KB (3,732 words) - 07:37, 24 January 2023
- on Earth)" (1973), "All Those Years Ago" (1981), and "Got ... In his later years, Harrison remained active through collaborations ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- #039;s not just the chai-wallah. A few days ago on TV a lot of politicians ... com, earning Rs 69.97 crores (699 million) net gross in India alone ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- the Paleoproterozoic era (2500–1600 million years ago), produced by the metabolic ... but trace amounts of oxygen within 5,000 years. Photosynthesis converts ...23 KB (3,469 words) - 06:02, 18 November 2022
- by a German entomologist, but in recent years cladistic methods have found ... on biological lineage through millions of years is metaphorically similar ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Consumption is currently around 84 million barrels per day, or 4.9 ... The vast majority of oil that has been produced by the earth has long ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- abundance by mass of only 0.08 parts per million. However, because it does ... into the western world, nearly 200 years ago. In 1845, The American ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- is now Kyrgyzstan from 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. The first written records ... For the next 200 years, the Kyrgyz remained under the Golden Horde ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- The Narrows were most likely formed about 6,000 years ago at the ... discharged between 209,000 and 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- during the Middle Pliocene (ca 6 million years ago), in the same set of ... had expected and abandoned the island four years later. The islands passed ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- with Iznik tiles. The work took seven years. Haj Amin Al-Husseini, appointed ... refurbished following a donation of $8.2 million by King Hussein of Jordan ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- Roses were first cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago, whether ... garden rose of all time. Over one hundred million plants have been sold. It ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- every year, none of which in recent years have caused significant damage. ... valley saw irrigation as much as 1,500 years ago. Until 1127, Shanghai ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Resort. Its climate and beaches attract 60 million visitors every year, but ... as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- 0800783419). In 1927, when he was eight years old, the family moved about ... According to his staff, more than 3.2 million people responded to the ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- to Nigeria by colonial powers roughly 400 years after contact with Islam ... , Oyo (Ọyọ), Ife (Ilé-Ifẹ), Saki, and Ago-Iwoye. ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- like plants grew there as long as 15 million years ago. Even older fossils ... infested with this pest to save the $800-million Philippine coconut industry ...29 KB (4,782 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- witch if she had lived two or three hundred years ago. She gives the curious ... rut." Recalling the episode many years later, Davis remarked that ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- The Portuguese colony existed for about 450 years (one of the longest held ... The Satavahanas of Kolhapur later ruled it around two thousand years ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Some 12,000 years ago it was occupied by Native American populations ... continental United States); Within the 3.3 million acre Gila Forest is the ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- Archipelago between 33,000 and 21,000 years ago during the Paleolithic ... expression literally meaning "eight million kami." The arcane name ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- to John Ludlow, a surgeon, for eight years from the age of 13. In 1770 ... smallpox was responsible for 300 to 500 million deaths (Koplow 2003). ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- More than 2,000 years ago the Nok people in central Nigeria produced ... Following the war, which claimed the lives of more than 1.5 million ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- and southern Saudi Arabia, totaling 1.25 million km². ... the early times of the empire, around 1700 years ago, giant Obelisks to mark ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- to millions of Mexicans (around 8 or 9 million). Senator John C. Calhoun ... offered to buy Cuba from Spain for $100 million. Fearing that filibustering ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Europe in the late Oligocene about 25 million years ago. Similar tooth and ... and migrated farther north about 4 million years ago, in a migration that ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- For many years the Iroquois maintained their autonomy, battling the ... from purple and white wampum beads centuries ago to symbolize the union forged ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 00:38, 18 November 2022
- The giant panda has had a unique role in recent years, having formed ... pandas can usually live to be 20 to 30 years old while living in captivity. ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- a happy one, lasting until Baird's death 15 years later. ... the BBC was reported in March 2008, over 60 years after Baird's demonstration. ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- During the Late Cretaceous, between 65 million to 99 million years ... and forests appeared. After thousand of years the land became drier, and ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- of the line … supposed capable a month ago, to destroy anything afloat ... More than 10 years after the end of hostilities, on May 30, 1876, ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- of 9,926 square miles (25,708 sq km) and 5 million inhabitants. ... the eastern end of the island for several years. After suppressing a revolt ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- island of Luzon, is the capital. With 1.5 million inhabitants, it is the second ... during the course of the next thousand years. Traders and proselytizers ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- have been living there for at least 9000 years. People of Tibeto-Burman ... the earthquake-prone valley is almost 1,992 years old, and the earliest known ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- Africa with a population of more than 18 million. The main island, also called ... arrival of humans on the island to the years between 200 and 500 C.E. ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Honduras. With a population of over 6.9 million people, El Salvador is the ... Damages from the storm were estimated at $355.6 million. ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936). His tenure ... Duranty remained in Moscow for twelve years. After settling in the ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- was inhabited, possibly more than a million years ago, by Homo erectus. Perhaps ... city-states that may go back more than 5,000 years. Some basic religious ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- all Jamaica's banana crop. In recent years, Hurricane Ivan, in 2004 ... that rose from the sea millions of years ago. During periods of submersion ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (107) stars ... activity usually lasts for only about ten million years, a relatively brief ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- of video games have increased over the years both in visual appearance ... play for at least two players. In later years it was more common to feature ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- He asserted three years later that while he was copying individual ... Party allies of Donald Trump for $5 million. "I walked away from ...75 KB (10,024 words) - 01:22, 21 September 2022
- Gourevitch agrees with an estimate of one million, while the United Nations ... the transport alone they were charged 6.5 million U.S. dollars by the U.S ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- maternal grandparents until he was seven years old. Osho said this was a ... At seven years old his grandfather died and he went back to his parents ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- is generally pleasant. In recent 30 years, the average annual rainfall ... The area around Wuhan was first settled more than 3,000 years ago ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- Bluefin tuna mature slowly, reaching sexual maturity at about 5 years ... tuna was first exploited over 11,200 years ago in the Mediterranean Sea. ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- silent about Rosewood for decades. Sixty years after the rioting, the story ... turpentine industry to the area, and in the years preceding the attacks were ...77 KB (11,899 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- speak fluently by approximately three years old. Language and culture ... appearance of the genus Homo some 2.5 million years ago. Some scholars assume ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- culture, had existed for almost 1500 years. La Paz grew as the Spanish ... While there is evidence that the Andean region was inhabited 10,000 ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- urban area of the country. With over 1.3 million people, it is home to nearly ... They lived in the area for hundreds of years. The subtribe owned the land ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
