Genetically speaking, the aardvark is a living fossil, as its chromosomes are highly conserved, reflecting much of the early eutherian arrangement before the divergence of the major modern taxa.

* Atlantic ( locomotive ), name of an early steam-powered locomotive of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with a 0-4-0 wheel arrangement

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

Britain's willingness, beginning early in 1916, to explore seriously some kind of arrangement with " world Jewry " or " Great Jewry " must be understood in this context.

Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.

His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques ; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.

An early design of electric locomotive showing the steeplecab arrangement: North Eastern Railway ( UK ) | North Eastern Railway British Rail Class ES1 | No. 1, England from 1905

Even though the referenda held in the early 1990s resulted in a position in favour of retaining the Netherlands Antilles, the arrangement continued to be an unhappy one.

Most of Presley's early hits were covers of black rhythm and blues or blues songs, like " That's All Right " ( a countrified arrangement of a blues number ), " Baby Let's Play House ", " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " and " Hound Dog ".

In 1776, he published The botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain, an early and influential British Flora.

This arrangement had been in practice since the early years of the firm up to the present.

This arrangement is said to have derived from an early Parliament which was held in a church choir.

This arrangement is found in some fossil plants and is believed to be a basal or early condition for angiosperms.

Many different decorative effects have been achieved by using different types of knapping or arrangement and combinations with stone ( flushwork ), especially in the 15th and early 16th centuries.

The jury arrangement has evolved out of the earliest juries, which were found in early medieval England.

The IBM 402 series, introduced after World War II, had a similar print arrangement and was used by IBM in early computing devices, including the IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator.

The morning gift has been a customary property arrangement for marriage found first in early medieval German cultures ( such as the Lombards ) and also among ancient Germanic tribes, and the church drove its adoption into other countries in order to improve the wife's security by this additional benefit.

However, by employing variants to the standard trio vocal arrangement, they were simply following a pattern existing since the early days of the genre.

Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in 1829 at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

This early painting, a complex arrangement of objects and figures, was Miró's first Surrealist masterpiece.

But if monozygotic twins separate early enough, the arrangement of sacs and placentas in utero is indistinguishable from dizygotic twins.

A compromise was reached in January 2006, and in early 2010 a further agreement was signed locking the price of Russian gas at $ 100 per 1, 000 cubic meters in an exclusive arrangement.

* 1998-" Blue Sky " ( early arrangement )

Forced at an early age by royal duty he had to marry Constanza, the Infanta ( Princess ) of Castile.

In the early 3rd century the Canons of the Apostolic Constitutions decreed that only lower clerics might still marry after their ordination, but marriage of bishops, priests, and deacons were not allowed.

After Isabelle's early death in childbirth, in 1190, Philip decided to marry again.

Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.

Ray Costelloe ( who would later marry Oliver Strachey ) was an early heterosexual interest of Keynes.

Margaret told her sister in early 1953 that she wished to marry Townsend.

* Anne of Brittany ( 1477 – 1514 ) — they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII ( the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria ) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.

She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.

In early October 1539, the King finally accepted Cromwell's suggestion that he marry Anne, the sister of Duke Wilhelm of Cleves.

Anne appears in three scenes in William Shakespeare's Richard III, in the early scenes when Richard persuades her to marry him, in one brief scene just before Richard's coronation, and towards the end of the play as a ghost.

One view is that Thomas schemed to marry either Princess Mary or Princess Elizabeth, Henry VIII's daughters by his first two marriages, and there were rumours that he attempted to pursue a relationship with Elizabeth, still in her early teens.

As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess, Hugh Capet arranged for Robert to marry the recently widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy, Rozala, who took the name of Susannah upon becoming Queen.

Scáthach's instruction of the young hero Cú Chulainn notably appears in Tochmarc Emire ( The Wooing of Emer ), an early Irish foretale to the great epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, in which Cú Chulainn is honour-bound to perform a number of tasks before he is found worthy to marry his beloved Emer, daughter of the chieftain Forgall Monach.

In one early incident, gay activist Jack Baker brought suit against the state of Minnesota in 1970 after being denied a marriage license to marry another man, and in Baker v. Nelson the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples did not violate the United States Constitution.

When Edward II left the country early in 1308 to marry the French king's daughter Isabella, he appointed Gaveston regent in his place.

Although he coined the saying, " Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all ", Balfour was distraught at the early death from typhus in 1875 of his cousin May Lyttelton, whom he had hoped to marry: later in life he was to receive a series of messages from mediums, claiming to pass on messages from her, known as the " Palm Sunday Case ".

( In the early 20th century, however, the winner was said to be the first in her class to marry ; in the 1980s, the winner was said to become the class's first CEO .).

In the early 1960s, Sukarno went on to marry 4 more wives: Kartini Manoppo ; Yurike Sanger ; Heldy Djafar ; Amelia de la Rama.

The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world is in sub-Saharan Africa, where women tend to marry at an early age.

As early as the mid-eighties, a group of gay rights activists, headed by Henk Krol – the editor-in-chief of the Gay Krant – asked the government to allow same sex couples to marry.

As Nogi was 28 years old, it was a very late marriage for that time, considering that the average age to marry was in the early 20s.

Stratton became a lawyer then started his own brewery, and, by the time he was in his early thirties, was able to marry a noted society beauty and to retire in great comfort.

After Elizabeth's early death, George persuaded Kittie, not yet 20, to marry him.