Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Large races became popular during the 1890s " Golden Age of Cycling ", with events across Europe, and in the U. S. and Japan as well.

In addition to the increasing prominence of individual burials, during the Bronze Age regional differences in architecture in Scotland became more pronounced.

But within a short time, Joe Shuster and his ghost artists began depicting Clark Kent ripping open his shirt to reveal the " S " insignia on his chest — an image which became so iconic that other superheroes, during the Golden Age and later periods, would copy the same type of change during transformations.

Following the company-wide " Dark Reign " and " Siege " story arcs, the Steve Rogers character became part of the " Heroic Age " arc.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declinedhe became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

Writings in Estonian became significant only in the 19th century with the spread of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, during the Estophile Enlightenment Period ( 1750 – 1840 ).

The separate species and subspecies developed from a single type of gorilla during the Ice Age, when their forest habitats shrank and became isolated from each other.

It became common to all of Europe in the Middle Ages and expanded throughout the world during Europe's Age of Exploration from the Renaissance onwards to become the world's largest religion.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

conquered by the Arab Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century AD, and became a center of the Islamic Golden Age during the medieval Abbasid Caliphate.

The following year, the journal The New Age became an advocate of guild socialism, although in the context of modern industry rather than the medieval setting favoured by Penty.

Microliths were also used from the Neolithic on arrows, although a decline in this use coincided with the appearance of bifacial or " leafed " arrowheads that became widespread in the Calcolithic period, or Copper Age ( that is, stone arrowheads were increasingly made by a different technique during this later period ).

The Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period, beginning with the rise of farming, which produced the " Neolithic Revolution ", and ending when metal tools became widespread in the Copper Age ( chalcolithic ) or Bronze Age or developing directly into the Iron Age, depending on the geographical region.

The subculture that later became known as New Age already existed in the early 1970s, based on and adopting ideas originally present in the counterculture of the 1960s.

During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.

Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the " Golden Age of Television.

At the end of this period a new landscape emerges: the northern Canaanite cities still existed, more or less intact, and became the Phoenicians ; the highlands behind the coastal plains, previously largely uninhabited, were rapidly filling with villages, largely Canaanite in their basic culture but without the Bronze Age city-state structure ; and along the southern coastal plain there are clear signs that a non-Canaanite people had taken over the former Canaanite cities while adopting almost all aspects of Canaanite culture.

These mammals became extinct when the last Ice Age ended about 11, 700 years ago.

The collection became an invaluable research tool during the flowering of 17th-century European philosophy, the " Age of Reason ".

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Bronze Age cultures differed in their development of the first writing.

Dating back to the Neolithic Age, the first bronze drums, called the Dong Son drums, have been uncovered in and around the Red River Delta regions of Vietnam and Southern China.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

The Silver Age of comic books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the dormant superhero form — the debut of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino's Flash in Showcase No. 4 ( September / October 1956 ).

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

The Eneolithic was never part of the Stone Age, which ended conclusively the moment the first smelterer succeeded in obtaining copper from copper ore for the first time.

The emergence of metallurgy occurred first in the Fertile Crescent, where it gave rise to the Bronze Age in the 4th millennium BC.

Others have suggested a derivation from the Iron Age and Romano-British place name Camulodunum, one of the first capitals of Roman Britain and which would have significance in Romano-British culture.

Founded in 1975 by Scott B. Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames Gladiators and Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies.

Until the Age of Enlightenment, Christian culture was the predominant force in western civilization, guiding the course of philosophy, art, and science.

No writings were left by Jesus, and the study of the various Christologies of the Apostolic Age is based on early Christian documents.

In the 290s, Eusebius began work on his magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History, a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius ' own time.

There are two known Iron Age sites-a promontory fort at Landberg and the foundations of a house underlying an early Christian settlement at Kirkigeo.

The Iron Age is the third principal period of the three-age system created by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen for classifying ancient societies and prehistoric stages of progress.

Its definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, or Occultist syncretic adaptions.

In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.

The three-lithics are subdivisions of the Stone Age in the three-age system developed since classical times and given a modern archaeological meaning by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish archaeologist, in the early 19th century.

Millennialism ( from millennium, Latin for " thousand years "), or chiliasm in Greek, is a belief held by some Christian denominations that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth in which " Christ will reign " for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state ( the " World to Come " of the New Heavens and New Earth ).

A weekly journal of Christian liberalism and socialism titled The New Age was published as early as 1894 ; it was sold to a group of socialist writers headed by Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson in 1907.

* Swedenborg, E. The Consummation of the Age ; the Coming of the Lord ; and the New Heaven and New Church, Chapter 14 in The True Christian Religion Containing the Universal Theology of The New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel 7 ; 13, 14 ; and in Revelation 21 ; 1, 2 ( Swedenborg Foundation 1952 )

In his two part work The Age of Reason, the American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrote, " The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing ; it is founded on nothing ; it rests on no principles ; it proceeds by no authorities ; it has no data ; it can demonstrate nothing ; and it admits of no conclusion.

The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.

The start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with Charlemagne's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony.

The Renewed CD yielded Newton-John's first appearances on the Billboard Christian Albums ( No. 36 ), Christian & Gospel Albums ( No. 54 ) and New Age Albums ( No. 2 ) charts.

The Jesus Seminar considers the New Testament accounts of Jesus ' ascension as inventions of the Christian community in the Apostolic Age.

The earliest Christian period of biblical interpretation is the Apostolic Age.

* Manx Runestones Hybrid Christian Viking Age relief slabs