At least two significantly different versions of the myth are reported, giving different accounts of how the variety is supposed to have been brought from Shiraz to Rhône, and differing up to 1, 800 years in dating this event.

Orange County's Rock Spring location is a Pleistocene fossil bearing area and has yielded a vast variety of birds and mammals including giant sloth, mammoth, camel, and the Dire Wolf dating around 1. 1 million years ago.

* White Icicle or just Icicle is a white carrot-shaped variety, around long, dating back to the 16th century.

The rest of the town is in a variety of vernacular styles, dating from the 15th century onwards, though little in the centre of the town is very modern apart from a range of shops which replaced the Queens Head Hotel, demolished in a jet crash in the 1950s.

Riesling has a long history, and there are several written references to the variety dating from the 15th century, although with varying orthography.

These dates were established by a variety of radiometric dating techniques, including samarium-neodymium ( Sm-Nd ), rubidium-strontium ( Rb-Sr ), potassium-argon ( K-Ar ), and carbon-14.

Based on more than a dozen genetic markers on a variety of chromosomes and from archaeological data showing habitation of the Japanese archipelago dating back 30, 000 years, it is argued that the Jōmon actually came from northeastern Asia and settled on the islands far earlier than some have proposed.

Moreover, approaches to teaching foreign languages are constantly changing, dating back to grammar-translation, through the direct method, audio-lingualism and a variety of other approaches, to the more recent communicative approach and constructivism ( Decoo 2001 ).

Miller would often headline shows with other classic rock acts, and played a variety of his music, including a selection of his blues work dating from the late 1960s.

International dating sites provide a wide variety of online communication, including instant messaging, email letters, webcam-based chat, phone translation, virtual gifts, live games, and mobile-based chat.

Trepanation has been practised by a variety of historical cultures and societies across the globe, with evidence for it dating back to the Neolithic period, and its use has continued up to the present era under certain limited circumstances by a few cultures.

Ottoman military bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching band in the world, dating from the 13th century.

The discovery of radioactivity and the development of a variety of radiometric dating techniques in the first half of the 20th century provided a means of deriving absolute versus relative ages of geologic history.

The Loop attracts an eclectic clientele and wide variety of street life, due in part to its proximity to Washington University and dating back to the late 1960s when Streetside Records and head shops dominated the retail landscape.

Hillside followed the students of fictional Hillside School and dealt with a variety of issues including dating, divorce, alcohol abuse, and friendship.

Many inscriptions and decrees were carved on the gateway on a wide variety of topics such as taxation, inheritance, the court system and the rights of women, with the earliest text dating to 49 AD.

According to Armenian and Western specialists, inscriptions dating to the Urartian period mention the region under a variety of names: " Ardakh ", " Urdekhe ", and " Atakhuni.

The DGSE can trace its roots back to 1947, when a central external intelligence agency, known as the SDECE, was founded to combine under one head a variety of separate agencies – some, such as the Deuxième Bureau, dating from the time of Napoleon III and some, such as the BCRA, from the Free French of World War II.

Death is a universal human concern ; it has been examined and re-examined in a wide variety of disciplines, dating back to pre-history.

However, the erroneous dating became intertwined with numerous episodes of Scandinavian intrigue, as the theory was elaborated to serve a variety of agendas of kings and nobles prior to its redating.

Todd's of Petone and, later, Porirua also sold Chrysler Australia and Mitsubishi products and their assembly lines both at the original Petone plant ( dating from the 1920s ) and the new purpose-built plant opened in Porirua in 1975 were notable for the variety of models coming down the twin final assembly lines at any one time — vehicles sharing the trim lines with the Avenger on a daily shift might include the Hillman Hunter, Chrysler Valiant and Alpine hatchback, Mitsubishi Galant, Mirage and Lancer, as well as the Datsun 180B ( due to Todd Motors for a time having a contract to build those as Nissan's other contractor at the time, Campbell Motor Industries, did not have enough capacity ).

" Peter's romantic life also began to take shape as he started dating a variety of women who were either concealing secrets (" Home ") or found themselves angrily waiting for him while Spider-Man saved the city from certain destruction (" Swing City ").

Evidence of drainage ditches at Kuk Swamp on the borders of the Western and Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea shows evidence of the cultivation of taro and a variety of other crops, dating back to 9, 000 BC.

The Tulu-Malayalam script is a variety of Grantha dating from the 8th or 9th century AD.

The quest for holism leads most anthropologists to study a particular place, problem or phenomenon in detail, using a variety of methods, over a more extensive period than normal in many parts of academia.

Aided AAC makes great use of symbols, particularly for non-literate users, as well as a large variety of input methods.

After his conversion to Christianity and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives.

Archaeoastronomy uses a variety of methods to uncover evidence of past practices including archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, statistics and probability, and history.

Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation, interviews and surveys.

A consequence of this theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal opportunities to learn in a way that is effective for them.

Qualitative methods are also used to analyze information in a variety of media, such as students ' drawings and concept maps, video-recorded interactions, and computer log records.

Initially films were mostly shown as a novelty in special venues, but the main methods of exhibition quickly became either as an item on the programmes of variety theatres, or by traveling showman in tent theatres, which they took around the fairs in country towns.

Science fiction fanzines used a variety of printing methods.

Geologists use a variety of methods to give both relative and absolute dates to geological events.

These methods are used for a variety of applications.

In linear text systems, such as those used in most computer programming environments, a variety of methods have arisen:

People who want to engage in such behaviors with a reduced chance of pregnancy employ any of a variety of available contraception methods, such as birth control pills, the use of a condom, diaphragms, spermicides, hormonal contraception, and sterilization.

The many different kinds of IQ tests use a wide variety of methods.

I – O psychologists rely on a variety of methods to conduct organizational research.

Job-analytic data are often collected using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods.

It uses a variety of psycho-educational methods, including live support group meetings, E-mail list-serv groups, networking, therapy referrals, experiential weekend programs.

Although the mechanics are different from casting on, there is a similar variety of methods.

Koreans utilize these parts in a variety of cooking methods including steaming, stewing, boiling and smoking.

Methods of identifying infertile days have been known since antiquity, but scientific knowledge gained during the past century has increased the number and variety of methods.

Organic compounds were traditionally characterized by a variety of chemical tests, called " wet methods ", but such tests have been largely displaced by spectroscopic or other computer-intensive methods of analysis.

In the United States, potatoes have become one of the most widely consumed crops and thus have a variety of preparation methods and condiments.

Proteins may be purified from other cellular components using a variety of techniques such as ultracentrifugation, precipitation, electrophoresis, and chromatography ; the advent of genetic engineering has made possible a number of methods to facilitate purification.

A variety of methods for practicing polygamy can be observed in the animal kingdom.