Beginning in the 1960s, water inflow to the Dead Sea from the Jordan River was reduced as a result of large-scale irrigation and generally low rainfall.

Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s, Jazz dance transformed from this vernacular form into a theatre-based performance form of dance that required a highly trained dancer.

Beginning in the early 1960s, a series of studies centering on lunar mobility were conducted under MSFC.

Beginning in the 1960s, Mazda put a major engineering effort into development of the Wankel rotary engine as a way of differentiating itself from other Japanese auto companies.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church persistently criticized Stroessner's successive extensions of his stay in office and his treatment of political prisoners.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Allman used an empty glass Coricidin medicine bottle, which he wore over his ring finger as a slide.

Beginning in the 1960s, the hypothesis came to be seen as controversial, largely due to the Altaic family itself not being universally accepted.

Beginning in San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a new culture of " free love " emerged, with thousands of young people becoming " hippies " who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex as part of ordinary life.

Beginning in the 1960s, Eastern European skaters started a trend to dance in more open positions, which allowed for greater speed over the ice, more upper-body involvement, and greater projection towards the audience.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Baez began writing many of her own songs, beginning with " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " A Song For David ", both songs appearing on her 1970 ( I Live ) One Day at a Time album ; the former song was written about her sister Mimi's second marriage, while the later was a tribute to Harris.

Beginning in the 1960s, Wolde's focus changed from middle distance races to long distances.

Beginning in the 1960s, Taiwan was enveloped by the problems of rapid industrial development, rural abandonment, labor disputes and the uneven distribution of access to wealth and social power.

Beginning in the early 1960s, Freaks was rediscovered as a counterculture cult film, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the film was regularly shown at midnight movie screenings at several movie theaters in the United States.

Beginning in the 1960s industry began to move into the area and the working force came to be employed by paper mills, lumber mills, and chemical plants.

Beginning in the 1960s, the southern cities and suburbs started voting Republican.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the County and its population expanded dramatically to the point where, by the end of the 20th century, it was the third most populous local jurisdiction in Virginia.

Beginning in the early 1960s, intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ), based at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, were installed in a region of western Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Beginning in the 1960s a reinterpretation of archaeological and historic evidence prompted scholars ( such as Goffart and Todd ) to propose new models for explaining the construction of barbarian identity, maintaining that no sense of shared identity was perceived by the Germani ; a similar theory has been proposed for Celtic and Slavic groups.

Beginning in the 1960s, Palmdale was home to Don Babb's The Model A Ford Company, which became Classic Manufacturing and Supply, builder of exact reproduction and custom steel bodies and parts for hot rods and customs.

Beginning in the late 1960s, western Pasco County began a decades-long period of rapid population growth, although the population of New Port Richey has not increased much because of the small area which makes up the city.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, light industrial factories were established in Wyandanch in the northern section of the Pinelawn Industrial Park in southwest Wyandanch and on the east side of Straight Path between two African-American housing estates.

Beginning in the 1960s, the placebo effect became widely recognized and placebo controlled trials became the norm in the approval of new medications.

Beginning in the 1960s with the IBM System / 360 ( which was an exception, in that it used the low order 24 bits of a word for addresses, resulting in a 16 MB

Beginning in the 1950s and early 1960s, anthropologists began writing " bio-confessional " ethnographies that intentionally exposed the nature of ethnographic research.

Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, ethnographic research methods began to be widely employed by communication scholars.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Beginning in the 14th century BC, the Chinese developed a decimal, or base ten-system for recording numbers.

Beginning to read and discuss the work of Marx with Li and other like-minded radicals at a Marxist Study Group, he eventually " developed rapidly toward Marxism " under Li's tutelage during the winter of 1918 – 19, looking for ways to combine it with ancient Chinese philosophies that would be applicable to modern China.

Beginning in 19th-century China, famine and political upheaval, as well as rumors of wealth to be had in nearby Southeast Asia, led to the Chinese Diaspora.

Beginning with the arrival of Dutch merchants in 1624, the traditional lands of the aborigines have been successively colonized by Dutch, Spanish, Han ( from both the Ming and Qing dynasties ), Japanese, and Taiwanese ( the Chinese Nationalist government, or Kuomintang ) rulers.

Beginning in the late 1980s there was unprecedented exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the west to some degree through the agency of curators based outside the country such as Hou Hanru.

He was the author of The Beginning Was the End ( 1971 ), a pseudo-scientific book written in a Chinese monastery that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes.

Beginning with the New Culture Movement, Chinese artists started to adopt using Western techniques.

In Chinese, it signifies the revival of often fierce, summer-like heat that persists well past the Beginning of Autumn ( the 13th seasonal division point according to the Chinese calendar, usually falling on the 7th or the 8th of August ).

Beginning with Three Modern Women ( 三個摩登女性 /, 1932 ; dir: Bu Wanchang ), Ruan started collaborating with a group of talented leftist Chinese directors.

Beginning in the Tang Dynasty, the primary subject matter of Chinese painting was the landscape, known as shanshui ( mountain-water ) painting.

Beginning in 1978, it was further promoted by Deng Xiaoping as a central ideology of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and applied to economic and political reforms thereafter.

* The Champions: The Beginning ( 1967 ) Chinese Major

Beginning in 2007, the Chinese government slowed the rate of adoptions, and as a result the percentage of tourists to Shamian Island who are Westerners has decreased as well.

Beginning with the 2004 season, the former Jia A division was replaced by the Chinese Super League or CSL with the Jia B division being renamed as the new Jia A league.

Beginning World War II, Chinese Filipino soldiers and guerrillas joined in the fight against the Japanese Imperial Forces during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines ( 1941 – 1945 ).

Beginning in 2007-08, Mandarin Chinese was added to the teaching of French, Spanish and Latin.

Beginning in 1978, the Chinese government began to institute economic reforms.

Beginning with the New Culture Movement, Chinese artists started to adopt Western techniques.

Beginning in the 1640s the Dutch began to encourage large-scale immigration of Chinese to Formosa, providing not only transportation from Fujian, but also oxen and seed for the new immigrants to get started in agriculture.

Beginning in the 1950s, Chinese literature expanded ; homemade literature in Indian languages has failed to emerge.

Beginning in the late afternoon, the typical Chinese tea house quickly becomes packed with students and business people, and later at night plays host to insomniacs and night owls simply looking for a place to relax.

* Beginning Chinese, by John De Francis, edited by Henry C. Fenn and George A. Kennedy, 1946