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Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.. An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription", from ἐπιγράφειν [epigráphein], "to write on, to inscribe"). [1]
Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
Holding the many-worlds interpretation as correct and consequently every time travel paradox as impossible, he stated that many events which occurred up to his time would indeed occur in this timeline. These included a devastating civil war in the US in 2008 followed by a short nuclear World War III in 2015, [23] which will "kill three billion ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Timeline of world history. These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history
For a timeline of events prior to 1501, see 15th century § Events; For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, see 16th century § Significant events; For a timeline of events from 1601 to 1700, see Timeline of the 17th century; For a timeline of events from 1701 to 1800, see Timeline of the 18th century
Some were deliberately broken or repeatedly stabbed, possibly representing the murders of the men with whom they were buried, [3] or owing to some other unknown social dynamic. [citation needed] 25,000 BC – 21,000 BC: Clear examples of burials are present in Iberia, Wales, and eastern Europe. These, too, incorporate the heavy use of red ochre.
The following is a timeline of major events in post-classical history from the 5th to 15th centuries, loosely corresponding to the Old World Middle Ages, intermediate between Late antiquity and the early modern period.