After the Brahms, which ended about 10 30 p.m., Mr. Barenboim conducted an 18-minute encore, the orchestral "Prelude and Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde".
The shutdown of the bridge, which ended about 5 20 p.m., caused traffic backups of up to 10 miles in each direction, according to a spokeswoman for the New York State Thruway Authority.
That's about how much seas dropped, for example, during the last ice age, which ended about 15,000 years ago--enough to allow the ancestors of Native Americans to walk from Siberia to Alaska courtesy of a land bridge that surfaced across the Bering Strait.
Mount Baker was built from stacks of lava and volcanic breccia prior to the end of the last glacial period, which ended about 15,000 years ago.
For this, you can watch the amateur bouts from 9am, right through to the professional matches, which end about 8pm.
Levels like this have not been seen on earth since the Pliocene era, which ended about 2.6 million years ago.
(The most recent cool period corresponds to the Little Ice Age, which ended about a century and a half ago).
For the year, attendance in North America is down by about 5 percent compared with the same period last year, which ended about 6 percent down from the year before.
Although they became less abundant in succeeding geologic periods, a few forms persisted into the Permian Period, which ended about 251 million years ago.
Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 bce, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 bce.
