All he had ever known was poverty and war: his young life had spanned the Soviet occupation and withdrawal, the civil war that raged in its wake, and the Taliban's rigid control.
The daughter of a famous doctor, her life spans the Japanese occupation of China, the victory of the Communist party in 1949, the hunger and violent political upheavals of the first 30 years of communist rule and, finally, the lurch to a peculiarly rampant form of state-directed capitalism and the social forces it unleashes.
The Quaternary geology of the central coast of British Columbia contains a rich and complex record of glacial activity, post-glacial sea level and landscape change, and early human occupation spanning the last ∼10,000 years.
Radiocarbon and lichenometric dates suggest occupations spanning the last 3200 years, with diagnostic tools suggesting even older use.
Paleoenvironmental data were collected informing on the timing of multiple island-colonization events and land-use histories spanning the full range of human occupations in the Caribbean, from the initial forays into the islands through the arrival and eventual domination of the landscapes and indigenous people by Europeans.
New excavations, which started in 1997, have exposed 18 m of human occupation in the cave, spanning the Late Pleistocene, as well as including brief Phoenician, Carthaginian and Neolithic occupations.
Phase C spans the Terminal Pleistocene occupation from c. 13,000 12,000 cal.
The bridge, lowered into place in 2001, is the first to span the Irthing since Roman occupation.
Chemical engineering occupations span the full range of activity from fundamental research to process development, process operations, marketing, industrial and government liaison, and company management.
Over the following eight decades, Widjaja built his business empire during a period that spanned the Dutch colonial era, Japanese occupation during World War II, the early period of the country's independence and the rule of presidents Sukarno and Suharto.
