August 18 , 1913 will remain the historical date of the apotheosis of modern Greece, symbolized in the person of the conquering monarch.
The tablets, according to André Parrot, "brought about a complete revision of the historical dating of the ancient Near East and provided more than 500 new place names, enough to redraw or even draw up the geographical map of the ancient world".
Specifically, three factors contributed to the range of selective pressures reported in Fig. 6: (i) the thermal effects of dams; (ii) the historical date of spawning; and (iii) the relationship between emergence and survivorship.
There are no historical dates for M ≥ 8. Figure 2 The use of historical and radiocarbon dating of eruptions in LaMEVE over time.
This model assumes a single rate of vocabulary substitution across varieties, but the rate is calibrated on the basis of known historical dates (in this case, those for Western Old Japanese and Early Middle Japanese).
Contestants have to memorize an unpublished poem spanning several pages, pages of random words (record: 280 in 15 minutes), lists of binary digits (record: 4,140 in 30 minutes), shuffled decks of playing cards, a list of historical dates and the names and faces of as many strangers as possible.
The argument for shifting the emphasis from traditionally acquired knowledge to skills such as "critical thinking" and "the ability to research" is driven by technology; if today's computer-literate children have the answer to every question at the click of the mouse, it is reasoned, what's the point in clogging up their own hard drives with historical dates or chunks of poetry?
Losing My Edge was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against "the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties".
IBM showed the inner workings of computer logic; NCR let visitors find out facts about historical dates, and peruse a library of recipes; Parker Pens had a machine that matched pen-pals across the US by interest; and there were even computerised home décor suggestions available at the Better Living Pavilion.
The handbook contains about 3,000 facts including five telephone numbers, 34 websites, 278 historical dates and several brief excerpts of poetry.
A few historical dates add a time frame: events of women's emancipation and acts of daring, like Amelia Earhart's 1932 flight across the Atlantic ("The most effective way to do it is to do it").
