Berberis could have migrated to India from eastern Asia, arriving before the last major upheaval of the Himalayas in the Pleistocene.
Yet the fact is that half the Chinese population is too young to have more than the dimmest memories of the last political upheaval, the cultural revolution, which ended in 1976.
Troop movements were also reported elsewhere, notably involving a jungle fighting force that had taken the lead in a massacre of civilians during the country's last mass upheaval, in 1988.
But those were the last major upheavals in Venice.
A mere 18% of respondents recently told YouGov pollsters that they think the proposed changes are right.In this section Roll on the barrels Over to you, George Difficult birth, slow recovery Life after death Classroom crush The show must go on The Clegg paradox ReprintsStill, barring last-minute upheavals the legislation will pass through the House of Lords in a few weeks.
Inevitably, and perhaps unfairly, the current Arab tumult has been compared with the uprising against Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, the last great social upheaval of comparable scale.
The Broncos, meanwhile, just about perfected the art of the nosedive, which leaves Yahoo.com's Charles Robinson wondering just what all that upheaval last off-season accomplished (answer: bubkes).
Regarded by many as Eastern Europe's last great democratic upheaval, Milosevic's overthrow may also go down in history as the first poll-driven, focus group-tested revolution.
Parliament speaker Reuven Rivlin, a veteran of Israeli politics, said he had never seen such a last-minute political upheaval.
The novel opens in the late summer of 1983, just when my first book closed, and I must have felt I could at last address the upheavals, not only of Aids but of the whole of British society, that occurred over the following years.
