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  2. Dendrochronology - Wikipedia

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    The Greek botanist Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) first mentioned that the wood of trees has rings. [7] [8] In his Trattato della Pittura (Treatise on Painting), Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the first person to mention that trees form rings annually and that their thickness is determined by the conditions under which they grew. [9]

  3. Millennium - Wikipedia

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    The start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium was celebrated worldwide at the start of the year 2000. One year later, at the start of the year 2001, the celebrations had largely returned to the usual ringing in of just another new year, [8] although some welcomed "the real millennium", including America's official timekeeper, the U.S. Naval ...

  4. Holocene calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.

  5. This Word Of The Year Trivia Will Test If You Were Paying ...

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    One study said that on average, we say around 500-700 words of actual value per day. Ain’t much, if you ask me, but today we’ll be looking at the best or the most viral of those around the ...

  6. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (numbers and dates)

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    Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) gives the general principles of how Wikipedia deals with the representation of numbers and dates. This present naming conventions guideline concentrates on the aspect of how numbers and dates are represented in article titles, that is the names of the articles where the content is (as opposed to redirect pages that also allow non-standardized ...

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred). When written as words, integers from 21 to 99 that are not multiples of 10 are hyphenated (including when part of a larger number): fifty-six and fifty-six thousand , but five hundred ...

  8. Absolute dating - Wikipedia

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    The relatively short half-life of carbon-14, 5,730 years, makes dating reliable only up to about 60,000 years. The technique often cannot pinpoint the date of an archeological site better than historic records but is highly effective for precise dates when calibrated with other dating techniques such as tree-ring dating.

  9. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    7.600544064 Ms: One year on Mercury. 19.41414912 Ms: One year on Venus. 20.9967552 Ms: The rotational period of Venus. 31.55815 Ms (365 d 6 h 9 min 10 s): The length of the true year, the orbital period of the Earth 126.2326 Ms (1461 d 0 h 34 min 40 s): The elected term of the President of the United States or one Olympiad. 10 9: gigasecond Gs