In recent years, Putin has tightened his personal grip on power to such a degree that critics say there is little to distinguish him from the tsars and general-secretaries who led Russia in bygone epochs.
In attempting to run together imperial, Hitlerian, communist and modern epochs of architecture, it is stunningly incoherent, not to say unbeautiful.
It's significant that both China and Russia root their declared right to monitor and channel religious life in epochs and regimes that long predate communism.The trouble, from the state's point of view, is that you can monitor and channel religions as much as you want, but you can never be sure which direction the current will flow.
Or, these days, you might be participating in a bold, worldwide social experiment.Puttin' on the RitzThere have been three epochs of hotels.
At that time, the boundary between the Palaeocene and Eocene geological epochs, carbon-dioxide levels rose sharply, the climate suddenly warmed (by about 6°C) and the seas became a lot more acidic.
According to James Blaut, an American historian, the year 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed in America and set off centuries of European colonialism—"represents the breakpoint between two fundamentally different evolutionary epochs".
Britain has lived through angry political epochs before: there were riots against the "poll tax" in 1990, for example.
Tom Standage, our technology editor, relates how six beverages, in particular, have influenced the course of history during pivotal epochs, from man's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalisation.__________________________________________Tom Graveney at Lord's: A Year in the Life of the Home of Cricket.
Gabriel de Mortillet, (born August 29 , 1821 Meylan, France died September 25 , 1898 Saint-Germain-en-Laye), French archaeologist who formulated the first chronological classification of the epochs of man's prehistoric cultural development.
Over the interval from the Paleozoic to the present, nearly 40 epochs are recognized.
A magnetic-polarity (or paleomagnetic) time scale has been proposed along the line of the geologic time scale; time divisions are called intervals, or epochs.
