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The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album two stars and stated "While it's true that this isn't one of Green's best records, it's not by any means his worst... Contrary to jazz critics' opinions, Green had nothing to be ashamed of on Main Attraction. If funky '70s soul-jazz is your thing, you won't go wrong with this one". [3]
Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology [1]. Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, ' time '; and -λογία, -logia) [2] is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
1993 — The Great Flood of 1993 was one of the most destructive floods in United States history involving the Missouri and Mississippi River valleys. 1994 — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. — The first genetically modified food crop released to the market. It remains a strongly controversial environmental issue.
For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanity's perspective on this influence, see timeline of history of environmentalism. See List of periods and events in climate history for a timeline list focused on climate.
The timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth. Dates in this article are consensus estimates based on scientific evidence , mainly fossils .
From ancient times, people suspected that the climate of a region could change over the course of centuries. For example, Theophrastus, a pupil of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC, told how the draining of marshes had made a particular locality more susceptible to freezing, and speculated that lands became warmer when the clearing of forests exposed them to sunlight.
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Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying animals to ever live, first appears in the fossil record. c. 66.038 ± 0.011 Ma – Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period marks the end of the Mesozoic era and the age of the dinosaurs ; start of the Paleogene Period and the current Cenozoic era.