One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

Northern and extreme eastern parts of Cairo, which include satellite towns, are among the most recent additions to the city, as they developed in the late-20th and early-21st centuries to accommodate the city's rapid growth.

In Islamic North Africa, caste system has existed in recent centuries amongst the Tuareg people.

Easter Island has suffered from heavy soil erosion in recent centuries, aggravated by agriculture and deforestation.

The two traditions may have evolved separately, but have influenced each other to a certain extent, particularly with the cross-cultural contact of recent centuries.

Up to recent centuries, Japan's territory did not include several remote regions of its modern-day territory.

In both this lengthy history and in the relatively recent explosion of visual communication in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art.

Such a recent origin was a handicap for a belief system bound by the scripture revealed, and the ways of those who lived, twelve centuries earlier.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

Of these, the Somali are the most recent arrivals to Kenya, having first come from Somalia only a few centuries ago.

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1788 ) summarised the scholarly consensus as being that the Liber Pontificalis was composed by " apostolic librarians and notaries of the viii < sup > th </ sup > and ix < sup > th </ sup > centuries " with only the most recent portion being composed by Anastasius.

Monarchies have existed throughout the world, although in recent centuries many states have abolished the monarchy and become republics.

Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the Spanish North African city in more recent years ( from 20 % of the population before World War II to less than 5 % today ).

With the expansion of Western culture to many other places in the world during recent centuries, the Gregorian calendar has been adopted by many other countries as the official calendar, and the 1 January date of New Year has become global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days ( such as China and India ).

This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets ( e. g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman ) and painters ( Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí, and Waterhouse ).

Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago, the term Oxbridge is relatively recent.

In recent centuries, when a pope was judged to have died, it was reportedly traditional for the Cardinal Chamberlain to confirm the death ceremonially by gently tapping the pope's head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time.

Within Western culture and over recent centuries, conventional Western medicine has become increasingly based on scientific reductionism and materialism.

Until recent centuries, pilgrimage had been a fairly difficult and arduous adventure.

In most countries, the idea of retirement is of recent origin, being introduced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics.

At the front of each bed lie the stumps of stone pillars that may have supported a canopy of fur ; another link with recent Hebridean style.

Native East Asian raccoon dog populations have declined in recent years due to hunting, fur trade, urbanization, an increase of animals associated with human civilization such as pets and abandoned animals, and diseases that may be transmitted between them.

The recent decline in the sun bear population can be largely attributed to the hunting of " nuisance bears " that destroy crops and widespread poaching driven by the market for their fur and for their bile, which is used in Chinese medicine.

A recent review recommended the retention of seven species, deprecating the New Zealand fur seals to a subspecies of the South American fur seal, while also questioning the status of the Guadelupe fur seal.

Other recent studies have indicated that the genus may be paraphyletic, in which case, all species except for the Cape fur seal may have to be split off into a separate genus.

A recent immigrant to Australia, Dunkerley set up shop in Tasmania after inventing a machine that removed the hair tip from rabbit fur, leaving the softer under-fur for use in the making of felt hats.

In more recent eyewitness accounts it has consistently been described as resembling either an ape or giant ground-dwelling sloth and having long arms, powerful claws that could tear apart palm trees, a sloping back, reaching heights of 7 feet when standing on its hind legs and is covered in thick, matted fur.

Established by Canadian fur trader Johnny Grant, and expanded by cattle baron Conrad Kohrs, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

The recent increase of catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta has brought about an increase in its usage in Cajun cuisine in the place of the more traditional wild-caught trout ( the saltwater species ) and red fish.

The most recent development is the Salt & Pepper-flavor and product lines from organic farming.

In recent years, Home Farm became partners with Brookfield in producing high-quality lamb and expanded into soft fruit and deer farming.

The county as a whole remains relatively rural, with dairy farming a contributing industry that has consolidated employment in recent years, although production has remained steady.

These included the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers began settling down in permanent communities and began farming, through to the Urban Revolution, when society progressed from a series of small towns through to the first cities, and right up to more recent times, when the Industrial Revolution drastically changed the nature of production.

As its nutrient content is somewhat better than that of Common Oat, A. nuda has increased in significance in recent years, especially in organic farming

Native plants, reduced in recent years by extensive farming, include chapote, guayacan, ebony, huisache, brasil, and yucca.

However, cattle farming in recent decades has given way to the industry of raising Christmas trees.

This has declined in recent years as farming has become less labor-intensive and many small farmers have sold off their land to larger concerns for irrigated row crop farming.

Although traditionally sheep country, Omarama area farms, along with those within the rest of the Mackenzie Basin, have rapidly converted to predominantly dairy farming, due to falling sheep meat and wool prices, and the recent boom in dairy product earnings.

Because of changing economic conditions in recent decades, intensive farming and ranching has largely left the area, making land fairly cheap to develop.

These tax returns also show the recent deviation form the traditional sources of wealth in the area ( i. e. farming and allied trades ).

Although farming has been the dominant occupation within the district, in recent years several small businesses have been established in the community.

The Wee in Côte d ' Ivoire, also traditionally became hunters, farmers, and fishermen, but they tended to focus more heavily on crops such as “ rice, yams, taro, manioc, maize, and bananas .” Like the Krahn in Liberia, the Wee traditions of hunting and farming have faced some difficulties, and in more recent years many have instead begun laboring in diamond camps and on rubber plantations.

Although they had recovered somewhat since that time, their population has declined in recent times as suitable habitat is used for farming.

In recent years, environmental awareness has driven demand and conversion to organic farming.

The time and place of the Urheimats of various language family proto-languages spoken by most people alive today is in many cases much more recent than either the Out of Africa date or the origin of farming and herding.

In recent years Panchakavya has found a prominent position in the context of organic farming in Tamil Nadu, India.

During recent years, dairy farming has greatly expanded in importance.

The only heavy industry, aside from forestry and industrial farming, is a small shipyard, although secondary manufacturing has been established in recent years.

Smaller industries include horse and cattle farming, and there is also recent evidence to suggest possible valuable mineral deposits on the island.

The original vegetation cover prior to human settlement has been completely transformed in the basin and indeed most of the surrounding Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands ecoregion, initially due fires lit by Maori and European settlers, and in more recent times by farming activity and by pests.