Sentences with phrase «about the tenth century»

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

Not exact matches

Israelite prophetism, which began to emerge as an institution in the tenth century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also, as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.

About the middle of the tenth century Germans, who were now officially Christian and among whom the Saxons were politically dominant by armed force began the extension of their authority over the Wends.

In the study, the team also estimated that glacier area will be severely reduced by the end of the century, to about a tenth of the 1986 values.

Jack (Bale) is a newsie, a corner - bound paper vendor in turn - of - last - century New York who dreams of his family out west while fighting the good fight against evil publisher Pulitzer (Duvall), who has raised the wholesale price of «papes» by about a tenth of a penny per issue.

It is a book that was written sometime between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium, one of those iconic books in its original Anglo - Saxon that everyone knows about, talks about with awe, and does not usually admit one has not read: Beowulf.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

Which in fact makes me think of the issue raised by some skeptics about our ability to reliably detect global temperature changes of tenths of a degree in the past century.

The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...