The paleoequator (the site of the Equator at a point in the geological past) passed through North America and through China, which was at that time a separate landmass.
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A weird reimagination of human history, it is connected in the program to the final line of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium": "Of what is past, passing or to come".
Eva S. Moskowitz, the Upper East Side councilwoman who is a sponsor of both bills, said that the Council had taken on scooters in the past, passing measures aimed at increasing safety for riders, but that in her district at least (where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg lives), "the bicycle menace is worse than all other menaces".
The Liberals have indicated their support for war resisters in the past, passing a non-binding motion in 2008 to let them stay, and backing legislation that would've allowed foreigners who left their country's army or refused mandatory military service to avoid participating in an illegal war.
John Mackey, who bowled over defensive linemen and streaked past pass defenders as one of the N.F.L.'s greatest tight ends, then fought against free-agency restrictions as the president of the league's players union, died on Wednesday in Baltimore.
Here is a thing of the past, being passed off as a cause for present concern and present laughter.
They call it lateral violence – past trauma passed down through generations and people fight amongst each other".
"The paradox is that, in the past, Italy passed plenty of economic reforms, but they were badly conceived and badly executed," Simoni told me.
"In the past, legislators passed a skeleton bill, bureaucrats wrote ten thousand pages of regulations — and then there are all these unintended consequences.
Accepting his 2011 NEA Jazz Masters award at the Rose Theater on Tuesday night, the pianist Ellis Marsalis noted the privilege of standing alongside his fellow honorees, both "past and passed on".
