Clues hidden on tour merchandise initially led fans to discover a network of fictitious, in-game websites that describe an "Orwellian picture of the United States circa the year 2022".
It doesn't seem possible that food can ever be as cheap again as it was circa the year 2000.
The gnostics were a religious order, circa the year 0, but in modern times it makes better sense to view them as a personality type.
Circa the year 985, Erik the Red led 25 ships from Iceland to Greenland, launching a Norse settlement there and giving the vast ice continent the name "Greenland". Within just a few decades, the Norse — sometimes also dubbed Vikings — would make it to Newfoundland as well.
Fig. 1 a Map of aboveground live woody biomass carbon density (Mg C ha−1) and b uncertainty across forest lands of the conterminous US at 1-ha resolution for circa the year 2005.
One afternoon, when I have an uninterrupted block of three hours to myself, I take a few hits, put on some Harry Nilsson, sit in a rocking chair in my sunny living room, and pretend I'm a lady of the Laurel Canyon, circa the year of my birth.
The advent of whole-genome technologies, or "genomics," circa the year 2000 changed the situation substantially.
It is only in some of the very oldest cretins (circa 70 years) that, like most unaffected humans, the sternum shows no sign of individual sternebrae.
Warren Buffett's favorite investments tend to recall the American economy circa 1965, the year that he took control of a failing textile business named Berkshire Hathaway.
Does our death-jilted bride karate kick her way through a wedding convention, railing against an industry valued at circa £10bn a year that sells overpriced fantasies to deluded Bridezillas, while singing Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love of All? Nah.
However, the recent change between glacial and inter-glacial states that occurs on a circa 100,000 year (100 ka) timescale, does not correlate well with these factors.
