Sentences with phrase «age of a few centuries»

unusually low sunspot activity appears to be specifically aligned with the little ice age of a few centuries ago.

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Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

In the last few centuries of the Age of Faith, armies inspired by biblical injunctions to kill the heretic, (see Deut.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

You can imagine the shock on the faces of simple faithful people trying to follow age old rules pertaining to what you do when you go to the one temple allowed in ancient Israel in those few centuries before Hadrien destroyed ancient Israel.

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden age.

After an impressive goalscoring run for Everton's Under - 18s in the opening few months of the 2017/18 season, he became the first player to be born in the 21st century to play for the Blues» first team when - aged 16 years 286 days - Gordon came on as a substitute in the Toffees» 3 - 0 Europa League group stage win over Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

The one - child policy was based on a mid-20th century Western promise: Slashing the birth rate would yield a «demographic dividend» of abundant working - age people with few dependents to support.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.

They dated a subset of the bryophytes and found that the plants ranged in age from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuage from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuAge, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th century.

Unless an alien civilisation is just a few centuries ahead of us technically — unlikely given the age of the universe — on receipt of our missive they will know that our capability is way below theirs.

In his paper, he proposed a few theories as to what might have gone wrong, including the idea that the ice age model he used was inaccurate or that the estimations of 20th - century sea - level rise were too high.

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

«Finding Nemo» (2003) Box Office Take: $ 937m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 25 «Finding Nemo» will surely be bounced out of the Top 25 all - time grossers within a few weeks, thanks to «Age Of Ultron» (with «Minions,» «Spectre» and «Star Wars» likely to push it further down, too), but for a time, it was one of the top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besof the Top 25 all - time grossers within a few weeks, thanks to «Age Of Ultron» (with «Minions,» «Spectre» and «Star Wars» likely to push it further down, too), but for a time, it was one of the top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besOf Ultron» (with «Minions,» «Spectre» and «Star Wars» likely to push it further down, too), but for a time, it was one of the top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besof the top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besof all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besof the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their besof their best.

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By the age of 35, the typical young lawyer has attained a level of compensation that can be expected for the next quarter century, with a few years of extra-high earnings in the late 40s.

The first game that I saw was Mini Ninjas which is a traditional arcade game for all ages that has a few killer twists, ensuring that this is truly a 21st century gaming title Mini Ninjas Paying homage to those classic Japanese martial arts movies of yesteryear, gamers play Hiro, a 114 cm tall Ninja who has been given the task, just like the other Mini Ninjas to save the world.

Just a few weeks later, Alexander Calder died at the age of seventy - eight, ending the most prolific and innovative artistic career of the twentieth century.

Just a few weeks later, Calder died at the age of seventy - eight, ending the most prolific and innovative artistic career of the twentieth century.

Every economic era has a catalyst, the use of the plow in the middle ages, the industrial development of steel over the past few centuries, and our nation has shown the ability to act together to address an issue, particularly if our strengths can utilized.

«Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age,» Lindzen was quoted, offering praise for Christopher C. Horner's Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.

In the past few centuries, smaller transitions (such as the ending of the Little Ice Age at about 1650 AD) probably occurred over only a few decades at most.

So it is worth a few pages on the Little Ice Age and contemporary crop failures, just to give you an emotional base, one from which you might conceivably manage to further extrapolate to abrupt climate flips lasting centuries with tenfold greater temperature excursions and far more widespread disruption of ecosystems.

During the final few centuries of the last ice age, the sea level rose 20 metres in 400 years, 20 times faster than now.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly exaggerated computer predictions combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

After all it takes a variation of nearly a hundred W / m ^ 2 (locally at the NP) to give us ice age cycles, and we fret about a few W / m ^ 2 per century.

Gary, I first became suspicious when introduced to these warmist backradiation ideas — my very first problem with it was seeing the claimed «rise in industrial CO2 driving temperatures» linked to a temperature rise from, and described as the Earth's norm, the end of the Little Ice Age and realising the great outpouring from industry didn't begin until the middle of the last century, maybe you're too young to remember the few cars being driven on practically empty motorways in rush hour..

Few would be expected to dispute this... the planet began thawing out of the «Little Ice Age» in the middle 19th century, predating the Industrial Revolution.

It has been warmer than the present for much of the ten thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman - Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1 °C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (four to eight thousand years ago).

As the gas level rose, temperature would rise with a time lag — although only a few decades, not centuries, for the rates of change were now enormously faster than the orbital shifts that brought ice ages.

After the end of the last Ice Age came a warm spell, which ended a few thousand years ago as the global temperature dropped fairly steadily — until the 20th century.

Professor Sunstein cites a few examples of judicial deference over the past century, such as the per curiam decision in Massachussetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia, 427 U.S. 307 (1976), in which the United States Supreme Court upheld a state law setting a mandatory retirement age of 50 for police officers, deferring to the legitimate interest identified in the state's pleadings.