Mr. Ould-Abdallah called those six months, which were essentially the only epoch of peace most Somalis have tasted for years, Somalia's "golden era".
One of the outstanding groups presenting the marvels of Renaissance polyphony comes close to the golden end of its epoch with a program of Lassus and Monteverdi, where the winding lines are continually on the edge of breaking out in spectacular drama.
They are about America crossing the line from its golden age into a bleaker historical epoch.
For the 75th Anniversary of the MIght Amazon, the US Postql System issued four Wonder Woman stamps, each designating an artistic style associated with the four comic-industry epochs, left to right: Golden Age Wonder Woman; Silver Age Wonder Woman; Bronze Age Wonder Woman; and Modern Wonder Woman.
For example, the extinction of the dinosaurs 66m years ago at the end of the Cretaceous epoch is defined by a "golden spike" in sediments around the world of the metal iridium, which was dispersed from the meteorite that collided with Earth to end the dinosaur age.
Even they believed that Pedro II deserved a better end, and nostalgia spread among them as they "started to see in the Imperial epoch a happier time, a golden age, forever gone".
And yet the Tudor reign is one of the best known periods in British history: the golden age of Shakespeare, the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance; an epoch of war, diplomacy, discovery and, for some reason, pheromones that rocked the ship of state.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to regard this particular moment--not this epoch but this month, in the fall of 1997--as 1997--asularly golden one.
Since this transition to food production occurred immediately following the Pleistocene Holocene boundary, the Anthropocene can be considered as being coeval with the Holocene, resolving the contentious "golden spike" debate over whether existing standards can be satisfied for recognition of a new geological epoch.
