Sentences with phrase «years of history dating»

The senator said it's important to give national recognition to a site «capturing 260 years of history dating back to Colonial times, to being the only refugee shelter to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in the United States.»

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Roughly two years from that date, Target Canada filed for creditor protection, marking the end of its first international foray and one of the most confounding sagas in Canadian corporate history.

However, in «Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,» it was revealed that Charles Koch's plans to reshape American politics date back 40 years, when he began strategizing and developing a libertarian movement.

The history of the company dates back to the year of 2009 when Brian Acton and Jan Koum worked out this messenger.

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The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

@gullible: Over 2000 years of history (see the date below your post) that has produced you and this conversation.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Creationist, please walk through the Museum of Natural History in Washington and see the fossils that are carbon dated to 250 + million years.

Two thousand years of Christian history become decreasingly venerable when confronted by the findings of radioactivity dating techniques which date the hardened crust of the earth at three billion years.

If we can take the year 30 A.D. as the date of the historic beginning of Christian history and 313 A.D., the date of the edict of Milan, as the moment when Christianity was legitimized in the Roman Empire, then the first major chunk of history is in focus.

The Church was very powerful in those days and controlled most aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.

The Church was very, very powerful in those days and controlled many aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.

Erfurt University had a history of a hundred and fifty years, going well back behind the date of its first official registration in 1392.

So, it should be interesting to hear what Mr. Lazarakis has to say in the battle between heavyweight France — a benchmark nation in the winemaking world and his native Greece, whose history of viniculture dates backs thousands of years.

But at that time in history there was a lot of «fiddling around» with calendars and again the date of the new year was floated to coincide with the Solstice.

in Switzerland, but «Bread production relied on the use of sourdough as a leavening agent for most of human history; the use of baker's yeast as a leavening agent dates back less than 150 years.»

This method has a long history dating back to the ancient Romans, but wasn't perfected until several hundred years ago by the French, who are responsible for naming the system espalier (a derivation of the French word épaule, meaning shoulder).

Chocolate has a near - ancient history — some historians estimate that humans» consumption of the cacao bean began around 2000 years ago, and some date its origins even further back than that.

«With a plethora of highly sought after hop varieties and a thriving craft brewing culture, New Zealand has emerged as one of the world's most exciting brewing nations in recent years and Monteith's, whose history dates back nearly 150 years, has been instrumental in this.

El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...

The firm's history dates back more than 125 years, beginning with the birth of Mahou in 1890.

Though Crocker & Starr was founded twenty years ago, the estate has deep roots in Napa history which date back to 1875, when Irish - born James Dowdell first planted Zinfandel and Riesling there in the then budding wine region of St. Helena.

The 24 - year - old has had a history of injuries dating back to his collegiate career at Fresno State.

Given his history and the number of false starts he's had in his career to date, many will doubt that Liverpool will ultimately receive a significant windfall in the coming years.

This was a one - off freeze frame of Chelsea finances — calculated at the most advantageous date in their recent 12 year history.

Sydney FC's 2016/17 Hyundai A-League Championship and Premiership winning season saw a number of Australian football records, some dating back more than 40 years, broken, with the Sky Blues setting Australian football records for most points in a season (66), least losses in a season (1), least goals conceded in a season (12), best goal difference in a season (+41), most wins in a single season (20), and became the only club in Australian football history to remain in outright first place all season.

This interactive museum in Rosemont offers up a piece of sports history dating back to 1896, the year the Big Ten conference was founded.

Paper - cut dates from the Qing dynasty with more than 150 years of history in China.

Catholic Church and Labor --------------------------------------------------------- The Church has had a long history of defending the rights of workers dating back 100 years to Pope Leo XIII.

Although the history of the country in gold production dates back to over 100 years, the quest to add value to the raw gold had remained only a dream.

In December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas.

These samples augment other marine records such as coral and seashells, which provide detailed records over a short time period, and deep - ocean sediments, which preserve thousands of years of history but are harder to date precisely.

Radiocarbon dating shows that the mummies span 1300 years of ancient Egyptian history, during many of the foreign conquests and then Egypt's incorporation into first the Greek and then the Roman empires.

History provides many examples of mechanical computers, like the Greek Antikythera mechanism, which calculated eclipse dates more than 2,000 years ago.

Reiner Protsch, University of Frankfurt History: Over 30 years he carbon - dated numerous fossils, including skull fragments from «Hahnhöfersand Man,» a supposed Neanderthal.

* Chinese glacial deposits show that three of the oldest and coldest ice ages in Earth's history date from 600 to 750 million years ago.

The chemistry in the growth rings in the shells of the clam — which occur much like the annual growth rings in the centre of trees — can act as a proxy for the chemical make - up of the oceans, enabling researchers to reconstruct a history of how the oceans have changed over the past 1000 years with unprecedented dating precision.

The site along the Yanu River, carbon - dated as 30,000 years old, is twice the age of the oldest previously known Arctic settlement, report Vladimir Pitulko of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and colleagues.

Radioactive dating indicated that the meteorite is 2.1 billion years old, placing its origin in the middle of a little - understood stage of Martian geologic history known as the Amazonian.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

A recent batch of carbon dating is causing the history of mathematics to be rewritten, as it has discovered zeros dating back to a period 500 years before previously seen.

Westendorp had noticed advertisements in newsmagazines for a CD - ROM loaded with the genealogical histories of 33,497 British aristocrats dating back to the year 740.

Mount Sharp appears to contain layers of sedimentary history dating back several billion years.

Swift has found 120 bursts with measured distances, but only three — including this one — date from the first billion years of the universe's history.

The skulls do share traits with some other fossils in east Asia dating from 600,000 to 100,000 years ago that also defy easy classification, says paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Those features include a broad cranial base where the skull sits atop the spinal column and a low, flat plateau along the top of the skull.

Most of these water - related surface features, however, date back to very early in Mars» history — the epochs known as the Noachian and the Hesperian, which ended about 4 billion and 3 billion years ago respectively.

Martin Trauth of Potsdam University and colleagues found geological evidence that deep, freshwater lakes existed around 2.6 million, 1.8 million and 1 million years ago — key dates in human evolutionary history.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

Nevertheless, Stringer said that the discovery and dating of H. naledi «remind us that about 95 percent of the area of Africa is still essentially unexplored for its fossil human record, and its history even within the last 500,000 years may well be as complex as that of Eurasia with its 5 known kinds of humans — Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and floresiensis.»