Former editors of the programme ; Biddy Baxter and Lewis Bronze were both given the badge live on their last shows, whilst Richard Marson was awarded one after his last programme by Baxter.

For example, at Bronze level, a Latin American dance student might be asked to dance Cha-cha-cha, Samba and Rumba, whilst the same student would definitely be asked to dance all five International Latin dances at Gold level.

Environmental analysis indicated the site was occupied whilst the area was still wooded with forest clearances coming later, in the Bronze Age.

He first distinguished himself whilst fighting at the Battle of Punniar with the No. 16 Light Field Battery ( horsedrawn ) and was awarded the Bronze Star in 1843.

Bronze replaced copper in 1901, whilst cupro-nickel 2 and 4 tangas were introduced in 1934, followed by ½ and 1 rupia in 1947 and 1952, respectively.

More Recently Presenters Jon Jackson and Erica Dancer received Bronze Awards for Best Male and Female respectively in 2011 whilst Will Gavin was nominated for Best Male in 2010.

Bronze and iron co-existed although the latter was more limited to cutting implements whilst bronze was used for both weapons ( Sompting axes ) and other items such as cauldrons, razors, horse harness mounts and winged chapes.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

But the easier production, and the better availability of the raw material for the first time permitted the equipment of entire armies with metal weapons, though Bronze Age Egyptian armies were at times fully equipped with bronze weapons.

The work of blacksmiths — developing implements and weapons — is hammered into shape, and, as a consequence, gradually departed from the stereotyped forms of their predecessors in bronze, which were cast, and the system of decoration, which in the Bronze Age consisted chiefly of a repetition of rectilinear patterns, gave way to a system of curvilinear and flowing designs.

The carvings are difficult to date, but are morphologically similar to late Bronze Age weapons ; recent laser scanning work on the carvings supports this interpretation.

Childe's next work, The Bronze Age ( 1930 ), dealt with the titular Bronze Age in Europe, and displayed his increasing acceptance of Marxist theory in understanding how society functioned and changed.

In 1995 the city was awarded the Bronze Medal for Civil Valour in recognition of the hard work done in clearing the region of dangerous unexploded warheads, a task that lasted well into 1948.

His reign length — as preserved in the damaged Turin King List — was disputed in the past with Jürgen von Beckerath reading the damaged figure on the papyrus fragment as only 13 years in his 1964 work Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, while both Alan Gardiner — in The Royal Canon of Turin ( 1959 )— and Kenneth Kitchen in his 1987 paper " The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age at the ' High, Middle or Low '" University of Göteborg convention maintained that it was 23 years.

In Denmark, the Lejre Experimental Centre carries out even more ambitious work on such diverse topics as artificial Bronze Age and Iron Age burials, prehistoric science and stone tool manufacture in the absence of flint.

In 1989, Sheen, John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estévez and Kiefer Sutherland were honored with a Bronze Wrangler for their work on the film Young Guns.

While it was long thought that the Chinese had developed the blast furnace and cast iron as their first method of iron production, Donald Wagner ( the author of the above referenced study ) has published a more recent paper that supersedes some of the statements in the earlier work ; the newer paper still places the date of the first cast-iron artifacts at the 4th and 5th centuries BC, but also provides evidence of earlier bloomery furnace use, which migrated in from the West during the beginning of the Chinese Bronze Age of the late Longshan culture ( 2000 BC ).

The Neo-dada movement, including Jasper Johns, returned to Duchamp ’ s three-dimensional representation of everyday household objects to create their own brand of still life work, as in Johns ’ Painted Bronze ( 1960 ) and Fool ’ s House ( 1962 ).

In " Run Cooper Run ", it is revealed that Cooper was a Black Ops Marine in the Vietnam War and awarded the Bronze Star for his work.

Bronze has been the most common material employed for medals, due to its fair price range, durability, ease with which to work when casting and the ample availability, but a wide range of other media have also been used.

Building work at the old Cattle Market and other sites have revealed evidence of settlement on the hill since the Bronze Age.

Bronze Gate ( 2005 ) is a cor-ten steel work by Robert Morris.

Finkelstein's work established eight strata, ranging from Middle Bronze II-Byzantine.

Shanower won Eisner Awards for Best Writer-Artist in 2001 and 2003, won a Gran Guinigi for Best Serialized Comic in 2006, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 1999 for his work on Age of Bronze.

This work has revealed a previously unsuspected funerary complex of Early Bronze Age date ( approximately 2300 BC ) had stood at the site.

Bronze wool is a bundle of very fine bronze filaments, used in finishing and repair work to polish wood or metal objects.

) There is a reference in Lyra's Oxford to Mrs. Coulter having written an academic work called ' The Bronze Clocks of Benin '

He followed up this work in 1980 with Saga America and in 1982 with Bronze Age America.

Roger Mercer is a British archaeologist whose work has concentrated on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the British Isles.

Two senior Navy nurses, Commander Estelle Kalnoske Lange and Lieutenant Ruth Cohen, received the Bronze Star for their work on the Navy hospital ships.

James, another Glasgow delegate who went on to publish a work challenging the concept of a widespread dark age at the end of the Bronze Age, credited Velikovsky with " point the way to a solution by challenging Egyptian chronology ", but criticised Velikovsky's chronology as " disastrously extreme ", producing " a rash of new problems far more severe than those it hoped to solve " and noted that " Velikovsky understood little of archaeology and nothing of stratigraphy ".

He served in World War II as Lieutenant and received the Bronze Star for his logistics work with a carrier task group in the Pacific.

Beginning with the Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Ionian Greeks, usurping the related but earlier Mycenaean Greeks.

Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the first alloy discovered, during the prehistoric period now known as the bronze age ; it was harder than pure copper and originally used to make tools and weapons, but was later superseded by metals and alloys with better properties.

* 2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

Bronze does not necessarily contain tin, and a variety of alloys of copper, including alloys with arsenic, phosphorus, aluminium, manganese, and silicon, are commonly termed " bronze ".

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive.

An ancient civilization can be in the Bronze Age either by smelting its own copper and alloying with tin, or by trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere.

The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Documents executed since 4 August 1944 in connection with recommendations for the award of decorations of higher degree than the Bronze Star Medal cannot be used as the basis for an award under this paragraph.

Since the award criteria state that the Bronze Star Medal may be awarded to " any person ... while serving in any capacity in or with " the U. S. Armed Forces, awards to members of foreign armed services serving with the United States are permitted.

A number of Bronze Star Medals with the " V " device were awarded to veterans of the Battle of Mogadishu.

The Bronze Star Medal with the " V " device is the United States military's fourth highest award for valor.

It is thought that the increase in piracy and raiding associated with the Bronze Age collapse, possibly produced by the Peoples of the Sea, brought this trading system to an end.

The game begins in 4000 BC, before the Bronze Age, and can last through to 2100 AD ( on the easiest setting ) with Space Age and " future technologies ".

Estonia's international realignment toward the West has been accompanied by a general deterioration in relations with Russia, most recently demonstrated by the controversy surrounding relocation of the Bronze Soldier WWII memorial in Tallinn.

Fondation Baur and Museum of the arts d ' Extrême-Orient, Parc et campagne de la Grange and Library ( neolithic shore settlement / Roman villa ), Bronze Age shore settlement of Plonjon, Temple de la Madeleine archeological site, Temple Saint-Gervais archeological site, Old City with Celtic, Roman and medieval villages

Climatically, the Holocene may be divided evenly into the Hypsithermal and Neoglacial periods ; the boundary coincides with the start of the Bronze Age in European civilization.

The Bronze Age begins around 2500 BCE with the first appearance of bronze objects in the archaeological record.

Contact with the continent was generally at a lower point than in the Bronze Age, although it was not insignificant.

In prehistoric and protohistoric times, over the period of at least 800, 000 years, the area of present-day Poland went through the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age stages of development, along with the nearby regions.

During the Bronze Age, several artifacts from tumulus burials have been unearthed in central and southern Albania, showing close connection with sites in southwestern Macedonia and Lefkada, Greece.