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Addison is located at (39.7472, -79.3331), [5] about 30 miles (48 km) west-northwest of Cumberland, Maryland and about 30 miles (48 km) east-northeast of Morgantown, West Virginia According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2 ), all land.
Addison Township is a township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 932 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The township is named for Alexander Addison, the first president judge (the chief judge within a U.S. judicial district) overseeing Somerset ...
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Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
The Petersburg Tollhouse, which is now located in the hamlet of Addison, Pennsylvania, United States, was the first tollhouse that travelers encountered while on the National Road heading west into Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
Some estimates extend their timeline into deep prehistory, to "10,000 BC", i.e., the early Holocene, when world population estimates range roughly between 1 and 10 million (with an uncertainty of up to an order of magnitude). [3] [4] Estimates for yet deeper prehistory, into the Paleolithic, are of a different nature.