The practice of state-owned vehicles for use of employees on business dates back over forty years.

( The association of Wiley & Sons with the Dana Mineralogies dates back to 1844 when they published the second edition of the system.

Latter-day interest in Elizabethan singing dates well back into the nineteenth century in England, much ahead of similar revivals in other countries.

A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

The current coastline dates back to about 4000 BC.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The river's name may be attested to in the Gaulish ( Helvetic ) Berne zinc tablet which dates back to Roman Gaul.

The use of compound glues to haft stone spears into wood dates back to approximately 70, 000 BC.

Its early history reveals that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

It dates back at least as far as recorded history.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

The history of the city dates back to Roman times.

The Gendarmenmarkt, a neoclassical square in Berlin whose name dates back to the quarters of the famous Gens d ' armes regiment located here in the 18th century, is bordered by two similarly designed cathedrals, the Französischer Dom with its observation platform and the Deutscher Dom.

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

The modern Bulgarian military dates back to 1878.

It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.

Brown's mascot is the bear, which dates back to 1904.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

Biological terrorism dates as far back as Ancient Rome, when feces were thrown into faces of enemies.

* The modern Nikon F Mount SLR camera lenses from the late 1970s-present ( its design dates back to 1959 ) can function on the newer Nikon DSLR cameras with some limitations.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

Nearby is the Château Vieux, some of which dates back to the 12th century, where the governors of the city were based, including the English Black Prince.

The number of days between two dates may be calculated.

The ISO does present a standard for identifying weeks, but as it does not match up with Gregorian calendar ( the beginning and ending days of a given year do not match up ), this standard is somewhat more problematic than the other standards for dates.

But while martyrs ' days ( usually the individual dates of martyrdom ) were celebrated on fixed dates in the local solar calendar, the date of Easter was fixed by means of the local Jewish lunisolar calendar.

The concept of a " picture element " dates to the earliest days of television, for example as " Bildpunkt " ( the German word for pixel, literally ' picture point ') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow.

While some Eastern Orthodox national churches have accepted the Gregorian calendar dates for feast days that occur on the same date every year, the dates of all movable feasts ( such as Easter ) are still calculated in the Eastern Orthodox churches by reference to the Julian calendar.

The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

This dates back to the days of sailing ships, when tar and pitch were used to seal the timber from seawater.

This dates back to the days of sailing ships, when tar and pitch were used to seal the timber from seawater.

The Swans share a long and storied rivalry with St Kilda which dates back to the days when South Melbourne played at the Lake Oval on the other side of Melbourne's Albert Park Lake, not far from St Kilda's old home ground, Junction Oval.

Two additional missions followed, with the launch dates of 28 July 1973 ( SL-3 ) and 16 November 1973 ( SL-4 ), and mission durations of 59 and 84 days, respectively.

Other dates in The World Calendar occur with no more than two days difference from Gregorian calendar dates.

When dates or times are expressed as years with a decimal fraction from J2000, the years are of exactly 365. 25 days, which is the average length of a year in the Julian calendar.

Since the season of Great Lent is moveable, beginning on different dates from year to year, accommodation must be made for various feast days on the fixed calendar ( Menaion ) which occur during the season.

In Finnish, it is also used for specifying times, days and dates when something happens.

Use of scale models in the creation of visual effects by the entertainment industry dates back to the earliest days of cinema.

Under the calendar of Ancient Israel the date of Pentecost was fifty days from First Fruits, though dates were disputed, as in the Dead Sea scrolls.

The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult.

The weekday heptagram, i. e. the association of the days of the seven-day week with the seven classical planets, probably dates to the Hellenistic period.

The weekday heptagram, i. e. the association of the days of the seven-day week with the seven classical planets, probably dates to the Hellenistic period.

Karaite Jews also maintain that Rabbinic Jews are not observing Jewish holy days on their correct date, because the dates are fixed according to the pre-calculated Hillel II calendar, instead of beginning each month with the sighting of the New Moon from the horizon of Israel, and starting the year during the month when the barley reaches the stage of Aviv in the land of Israel.

These biographies of early church leaders, mostly written in the 11th century, may for propaganda purposes have invented, exaggerated, or borrowed miracles, and altered days of death, but some argue that their authors had no reason to distort mundane facts such as the dates and places of meetings.