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A. E. (Andrew Ellicott) Douglass (July 5, 1867 in Windsor, Vermont – March 20, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle , and founded the discipline of dendrochronology , which is a method of dating wood by analyzing the growth ring pattern.
Age Notability Charles Greeley Abbot: 1872–1973: 101: American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution [1] Fred Aftalion: 1922–2022: 100: French chemical engineer [2] Saleh Ajeery: 1920–2022: 101: Kuwaiti astronomer [3] Horace Alexander: 1889–1989: 100: British biologist and ornithologist [4] Doris Twitchell Allen: 1901 ...
Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.
2003 US mortality table, Table 1, Page 1. In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death").
Life expectancy [160] increases with age already achieved. The table above gives the life expectancy at birth among 13th-century English nobles as 30–33, but having surviving to the age of 21, a male member of the English aristocracy could expect to live: 1200–1300: to age 64; 1300–1400: to age 45 (because of the bubonic plague)
On the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, a team of volunteer surveyors work diligently to preserve both the markers and the history of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Life expectancy in the U.S. is projected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035 and to 80.4 years in 2050 for all sexes combined, researchers said.
This table contains supercentenarian claims with either a known death date or no confirmation for more than two years that they were still alive. Only claims greater than that of Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days, but under 130 years are included. They are listed in order of age as of the date of death or date last ...