This is due to the rich historical record of astronomical phenomena which, in China, stretches back into the Han dynasty, in the second century BC.

In spite of its unprecedented macroeconomic stability, which has reduced inflation and interest rates to record lows and has increased per capita income, enormous gaps remain between the urban and the rural population, the northern and southern states, and the rich and the poor.

The archaeological record is particularly rich and varied, and provides knowledge of rural and urban settlement, crafts and production, ships and military equipment, and pagan and Christian religious artefacts and practices.

Good-quality written historical sources for Scandinavia during the Viking Period are scarce, but the archaeological record is rich.

The record attendance figures of the World War II years made the Warner brothers rich.

Helena has a long record of economic stability with its history as being the state capital and being founded in an area rich in silver and lead deposits.

The township has a rich and varied history as far back as October 15, 1660, with the arrival of the first white man on record, French Jesuit priest Father René Menard.

It is acknowledged that the historical record is not equally rich for each of the regions in every historical period.

Other scholars have disputed this contention, holding that Champa was never a united country, and arguing that the presence of a particularly rich historical record for a given region in a given period is no basis for claiming that the region functioned as the capital of a united Champa during that period.

A running gag throughout the series are the numerous jokes made about the enormous size of Norm's tab at Cheers ( e. g., several large binders are shown as being just a portion of it – in the episode Home Malone ( season 9, episode 25 ), when Woody's rich, naive girlfriend Kelly waitresses at Cheers to gain " real-life experience ", Norm convinces her that the tab is a record of the beers for which he has already paid, and for each new beer a mark should be erased – and in the finale Sam has to have his total tab for the series calculated by NASA ).

Both marine and terrestrial environments are represented by this long and rich fossil record.

The Cronica is also an incredibly rich historical record ; its greatest value to modern historians is its descriptions of the people, data, and events experienced by Villani during his lifetime.

The Ripon Jewel, discovered in the precincts of Ripon Cathedral in 1977, is difficult to date but its grandeur and the location of the find have suggested a link with Bishop Wilfrid, whose rich furnishings of the church at Ripon are on record.

The writing system's main use was to record religious poetry, described as a rich language and easy to learn.

" In 1880 I withdrew from all active participation in the political Labor Party, having been convinced that the number of hours per day that the wage-workers are compelled to work, together with the low wages they received, amounted to their practical disfranchisement as voters .... My experience in the Labor Party had also taught me that bribery, intimidation, duplicity, corruption, and bulldozing grew out of the conditions which made the working people poor and the idlers rich, and that consequently the ballot-box could not be made an index to record the popular will until the existing debasing, impoverishing, and enslaving industrial conditions were first altered.

Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specialising in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left a rich record of the past.

This is a more rich and lush sounding record, slightly less jaunty than past efforts.

The Chagga have rich oral traditions and have managed to record most of their history.

The Briton replies, " My tailor is rich " (" Mon tailleur est riche ") — an allusion to basic lessons in English, available in European states ; " My tailor is rich " was the very first spoken phrase said in the first Assimil " English without Pain " ( Anglais sans Peine ) vinyl record volume released in 1929.

The Birotron is not credited on the record but Earthstar's Craig Wuest claims the rich choir sounds are indeed an undocumented Birotron recording.

The joint venture formed in 2006 combines the STPI's rich experience as an ISP and MTNL's track record of being India's leading telecom operating company to offer niche portal services to the Indian community.

Oxisols, deeply weathered tropical soils, have a rich fossil record from the Paleoproterozoic onwards.

Alfisols and ultisols emerged in the late Devonian and early Carboniferous, and have a continuous, though not rich, fossil record in eras since then.

Permian marine deposits are rich in fossil mollusks, echinoderms, and brachiopods.

Australia has a rich mammalian fossil history, as well as a variety of extant mammalian species, dominated by the marsupials.

The geology of Grant County is rich, including one of the largest fossil concentrations in North America: The John Day Fossil Beds, which the U. S. Congress designated as a National Monument in 1974.

Wits acquired the Sterkfontein and Swartkrans sites in the 1960s, both of which were rich in fossil remains of early hominids.

An organism's living fossil status can be rejected if the ( smallest ) clade the species belongs to is species rich, as this would imply ( recent ) speciation.

The fossil rich Secondary Pre-Adamitic period was divided up into the Coal period, the Lias and the Chalk period, later expanded into the now-familiar geologic time scale of the Phanerozoic.

The fossil history of Pectinidae is rich in species and specimens.

Investigations of Upper Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sediments of Antarctica yield a rich assemblage of well-preserved fossil dicotyledonous angiosperm wood which provides evidence for the existence, since the Late Cretaceous, of temperate forests similar in composition to those found in present-day southern South America, New Zealand and Australia.

He then investigated the rich deposit of fossil vertebrata at Pikermi and brought to light a remarkable mammalian fauna, Miocene in age, and intermediate in its forms between European, Asiatic and African types.

He discovered rich fossil beds along Bridge Creek and near Sheep Rock in 1865.

The Flagstaff is a white-colored, fossil rich layer that is composed of limestone, tuffa and conglomerate that erodes into ledges and slopes.

An almost-complete fossil with feather impressions, was recovered from Liaoning Province, China, in the Yixian Formation ; the same incredibly rich location where four dinosaurs with feathers were discovered previously, Protarchaeopteryx, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, and Beipiaosaurus.

Expeditions to fossil beds in Tendaguru in former Deutsch Ostafrika ( today Tanzania ) unearthed rich paleontological treasures.

The Zagros Paleolithic Museum contains rich collections of stone tools and animal fossil bones from various Paleolithic sites in Iran.

These rocks are famous for their rich fossil vertebrate fauna including many fossil hominoids.

However, the rocks do contain the rich assemblage of fossil ammonites which are typical of the north Dorset / south Somerset area and it is this feature, combined with the unusual limestone sequence, which makes this site unique.

Charity is seen as a capitalist and conservative project, because it leaves the alleged social structures of hegemony intact, and would even reinforce them ( by making the poor dependent on the rich ).

She played the role of a rich and arrogant girl who falls in love with a poorer boy and later leaves her house to marry him.

Raw coca leaves, chewed or consumed as tea or mate de coca, are rich in nutritional properties.

In contrast, cassava leaves are a good source of protein ( rich in lysine ), but deficient in the amino acid methionine and possibly tryptophan.

At least one of the reasons for its inclusion in grass mixtures was its deep roots, with leaves rich in minerals.

These mangroves are important nursery grounds for nearly all major angling fish including Yellowfin Bream ( Acanthopagrus australis ), Flat-tail Sea-Mullet ( Liza argentea ), Luderick ( Girella tricuspidata ) and Sand Whiting ( Sillago ciliata ) which are caught in adjoining waters as adults, mangroves also provide rich organic matter to the Port Hacking Estuary by fixing carbon into the river system through the addition of leaves into the thick rich black mud.

Few artists have had careers as long, rich and influential as his, and he leaves a larger-than-life legacy as powerful and soulful as he was.

File: Example of orange-red fall coloured leaves. jpg | An example of orange-red fall colour ; few trees produce such a rich colour, but are dull yellow at best

The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 6 – 13 cm long and 4 – 6 cm broad, with an apparently entire margin ( actually very finely toothed, under a lens ); they turn a rich red-brown in fall.

In particular, aphids are attracted by the rich supply of sap, and are in turn often " farmed " by ants for the production of the sap which the ants collect for their own use, and the result can often be a dripping of excess sap onto the lower branches and leaves, and anything else below.

Their design combines rich acanthus leaves, architectural framing, and mythological scenes ( inspired by Cesare Ripa's Iconologie ) with emblems of Louis XIV's royal power.

They are popular ornamental plants, grown for their clusters of rich yellow to orange-red flowers which begin to expand in the autumn as or slightly before the leaves fall, and continue throughout the winter.

She leaves the group to enter into the decadent lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Korean cuisine uses green leaves of the oilseed variety, which have a flavor different from shiso, and also uses the perilla seeds, known as " wild sesame ", a source of perilla oil rich in ALA omega-3 fatty acids.

Perilla leaves are high in the minerals calcium, iron, and potassium, rich in fiber and riboflavin, and very high in vitamins A and C. It has anti-inflammatory properties, and is thought to help preserve other foods.

The common name of ' tea tree ' used for some species of Leptospermum derives from the practice of early Australian settlers who soaked the leaves of several species in boiling water to make a herbal tea rich in ascorbic acid ( Vitamin C ).

The basic cuckoo clock of today is the railway-house ( Bahnhäusle ) form, still with its rich ornamentation, and these are known under the name of " traditional " ( or carved ); which display carved leaves, birds, deer heads ( like the Jagdstück design ), other animals, etc.

A cultivar or cultivar group common in London, with rich glossy green leaves, and a characteristic tendency to produce straight branches, compared to sinuous ones in other forms.

The gaucho diet was composed almost entirely of beef while on the range, supplemented by yerba mate, a tea made from the leaves of the yerba tree, a type of holly rich in caffeine and nutrients.

Leaves are a rich jade green ; some varieties may develop a red tinge on the edges of leaves when exposed to high levels of sunlight.

In Indonesia, young fiddlehead ferns are cooked in a rich coconut sauce spiced with chili pepper, galangal, lemongrass, turmeric leaves and other spices.

Rendang is rich in spices ; next to main meat ingredient, rendang uses coconut milk ( Minangkabau: karambia ), and mixture of ground spices paste, which include ginger, galangal, turmeric leaves, lemon grass, garlic, shallot, chillies and other spices.

* A hot rich flashover occurs when the hot smoke with flammable gas ratio above the upper limit of flammability range and temperature higher than the ignition temperature leaves the compartment.

It is along these riverbeds the animals find the occasional spring fed waterhole and most of their nutrient rich foods: mopane bark, tamarisk, reeds, and the pods, bark, and leaves of the ana tree.