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List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.
Below is a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent.. This list includes the 195 states which are currently member states of the United Nations or non-member observer states with the United Nations General Assembly.
How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.
Older women sometimes date younger men as well, [6] and in both cases wealth and apparent physical attractiveness are often relevant. [7] Adolescent boys are generally sexually interested in adolescent girls and women somewhat older than they are. [8] Older men also display an interest in women of their own age. [9]
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later. [44] Domingues was born in Cape Verde.
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. An additional problem with carbon-14 dates from archeological sites is known as the "old wood" problem.
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Coal and oil began to be burned in large quantities during the 1800s. Both coal and oil are sufficiently old that they contain little detectable 14 C and, as a result, the CO 2 released substantially diluted the atmospheric 14 C / 12 C ratio. Dating an object from the early 20th century hence gives an apparent date older than the true date.