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Ancient stone tools from Ethiopia were hand-crafted by Australopithecus or related people. [1] [2] [further explanation needed] 2.3 Mya: Earliest likely control of fire and cooking, by Homo habilis [3] [4] [5] 1.76 Mya: Advanced stone tools in Kenya by Homo erectus [6] [7] 1.75 Mya – 150 kya: Varying estimates for the origin of language [8] [9]
Perhaps the most notorious incident of cross-dressing in ancient Rome occurred in 62 BC, when Clodius Pulcher intruded on annual rites of the Bona Dea that were restricted to women only. The rites were held at a senior magistrate 's home, in this year that of Julius Caesar, nearing the end of his term as praetor and only recently invested as ...
He renamed it Popsicle, supposedly at the insistence of his children. [1] Popsicles were originally sold in fruity flavors and marketed as a "frozen drink on a stick." [5] [3] Six months after receiving a patent for the Popsicle, Good Humor sued Popsicle Corporation. By October 1925, the parties settled out of court.
Gothic War (376–382): The Goths were made foederati of Rome and granted land and autonomy in Thrace, ending the war. 383: 25 August: Gratian was delivered by mutineers to the Magister equitum Andragathius and executed. 392: 15 May: Valentinian II was found hanged in his residence. He may have been murdered by his guardian, the Frankish ...
Europe was quiet and civilized. Europe's success was based on recent painful experience: the horrors of two world wars; the lessons of dictatorship; the experiences of fascism and communism. Above all, it was based on a feeling of European identity and common values – or so it appeared at the time." [169]
Organized in smaller units of roughly cohort strength, they were paid less than the legionaries, and after 25 years of service were rewarded with Roman citizenship, also extended to their sons. According to Tacitus [ 207 ] there were roughly as many auxiliaries as there were legionaries—thus, around 125,000 men, implying approximately 250 ...
The illustration seems to show that weight-driven clocks were invented in western Europe. [79] A treatise written by Robertus Anglicus in 1271 shows that medieval craftsmen were attempting to design a purely mechanical clock (i.e. only driven by gravity) during this period. [ 80 ]
2.5-1.8 million years ago: The discovery of the use of fire may have created a sense of sharing as a group. Earliest estimate for invention of cooking, by phylogenetic analysis. [3] 250,000 years ago: Hearths appear, accepted archeological estimate for invention of cooking chicken. [4] 170,000 years ago: Cooked starchy roots and tubers in ...