Finally, after three decades of eradication efforts, on 8 May 19800, the World Health Organization pronounced success, writing: "The world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and disfigurement in its wake".
Since earliest times birds have been not only a material but also a cultural resource.
708 Kakinomoto Hitomaro, also called Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (died 708, Japan) poet venerated by the Japanese since earliest times.
The proverbial "king of beasts," the lion has been one of the best-known wild animals since earliest times.
He gives us a long, global, and no doubt reliable history of sewage treatment since earliest times, but neglects the opportunity to argue with himself.
There is a splendid montage of a 16th-century banquet staged by one of the City livery companies where the geese, once their flesh had been extracted and cooked, were reconstructed as lifelike table decorations in case the guests needed reminding about what they were eating.Street food has been a feature of the cityscape since earliest times, sometimes sold with complementary pleasures.
A considerable demand for ivory, rhinoceros horn and gold drew foreign traders towards trading centres along the eastern and southern coasts of Africa since earliest times.
As the document notes, even though humanity has been on the move since earliest times, in today's world we bear witness to an unprecedented level of human mobility.
"While not dealing with recent developments in astrophysics or discussing chaos theory, Hawking and Mlodinow's fascinating book, with its wonderful illustrations, takes us through the various supernatural and scientific cosmological theories that mankind has developed since earliest times to explain our universe".
Two Bronze Age stone circles and remnants of huts on the moors above the village show that the area has been settled since earliest times, and a hoard of 33 silver dinari dating from 30 to 170 AD found in a local field indicates that the Romans had a presence.
People around the Mediterranean have exploited marine resources since earliest times.
