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early and 1960s
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).
* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s
Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.
By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
Aalto first presented his scheme in 1961, but it went through various modifications during the early 1960s.
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.
The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.
One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.
However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.
By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.
* Unmanned air vehicles are the latest form of air observation, having been first introduced in the early 1960s.
Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.
Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.
By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.
* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.
He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.
During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.
In the early 1960s, AT & T introduced digital telephony first on long-distance trunk lines.
A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.
Because of this, the United States Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie program was cancelled in the early 1960s ; the later B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft entered service only after protracted political and development problems.
The generals of the early 1990s had been junior officers in the early 1960s and had witnessed the military coup in 1964.
The United States, particularly through its counterinsurgency doctrines of the early 1960s, was more influential with the older group of officers.

early and 680
The denomination 680 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
*: In early World War II, at least 3, 680 Thompsons acquired through Lend-Lease.
However, as early as AD 680 a wildlife sanctuary was founded on the Farne Islands by St Cuthbert in response to his religious beliefs.
The former theory that he arrived already in c. 543 during the time of the unsourced early Bavarian dukes appears less likely than that he worked during the reign of the Agilolfing duke Theodo II ( c. 680 – 717 ), when the Bavarian stem duchy came under Frankish supremacy.
As of early October 2011, researchers around the world had discovered more than 680 exoplanets, many of them large so-called " hot Jupiters ," gaseous planets many times the size of earth.
The first major developments of the facilities at Ewood Park took place in the early 1900s when a cover for 12, 000 spectators was erected at the Darwen End of the ground in 1903 at a cost of £ 1, 680.
After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century there is no evidence of Exeter for almost 300 years, until around 680 when a document about St Boniface reports that he was educated at the Abbey in Exeter.

early and long-tailed
A red lacquerware food tray with gold foil engraving designs of two long-tailed birds and a peony, dated 12th to early 13th century.
The long-tailed pair was very successfully used in early British computing, most notably the Pilot ACE Model and descendants, Wilkes ' EDSAC, and probably others designed by people who worked with Blumlein or his peers.
: Macrocranion, an early long-tailed hedgehog

early and males
From the mid to late 14th, through early 18th centuries, the Ottoman devşirme – janissary system enslaved and forcibly converted to Islam an estimated 500, 000 to one million non – Muslim ( primarily Balkan Christian ) adolescent males.
Many early accounts which apparently refer to this animal describe the males as being sexually aggressive towards human women and towards females of its own species.
The males reach sexual maturity as early as seven years, but do not typically mate until fully developed at around 15 years of age.
Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in the Guangdong province.
In 1683, Thomas Sydenham, an English physician, described its occurrence in the early hours of the morning, and its predilection for older males:
The early 1990s riot grrrl scene encouraged an explosion of zines of a more raw and explicit nature http :// www. jstor. org / discover / 10. 2307 / 468079? uid = 3739696 & uid = 2 & uid = 4 & uid = 3739256 & sid = 47698901149927 ( until this time, males tended to make up the majority of zinesters ).
By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.
In males, the sex-specific gene SRY that is found on the Y-chromosome initiates sex determination by downstream regulation of sex-determining factors, ( such as GATA4, SOX9 and AMH ), which leads to development of the male phenotype, including directing development of the early bipotential gonad down the male path of development.
Skunks typically mate in early spring and are a polygynous species, meaning that ( successful ) males usually mate with more than one female.
Tamaki Saitō describes the modern shotacon dōjinshi community as having largely formed in the early 1980s and having a roughly even split between males and females.
In the early traditions, Athena ( a virgin goddess ) is described as being shy in the company of males.
Bear mothers spend much of their cubs ' early life protecting them from males.
As the Bolebec estates passed into Vere hands through two marriages of Bolebec heiresses to Vere males in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the two manors were combined and held by the Vere Earls of Oxford for several centuries.
In the Scandinavian populations, old males ' antlers fall off in December, young males ' fall off in the early spring, and females ' fall off in the summer.
Reforms of the early 20th century, which popularized education and promulgated a writing style reflective of speech ( baihuawen ) to replace the arcane literary style ( wenyanwen ), increased literacy rates for both males and females.
At Broadwindsor, early in 1641, Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the churchwardens, and five others certified that their parish, represented by 242 adult males, had taken the Protestation ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament.
An early study of human Y-DNA variation published in 1999 included a sample of 118 Japanese males, among whom haplogroup DE-YAP ( xE-SRY4064 ) was found to be predominant ( 47 %).
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females.
Juveniles are spotty and streaked all over ; the moustache is dark initially, though juvenile males can show some red feathers by early June or usually by July or August.
In the early history of veterinary medicine of the USA, most veterinarians were males.
In early life, usually just before puberty, males are said to be quite flexible regarding their “ preferred sexual incentive ”, although they later become inflexible.
Mayo singled out the " rampant " and fatally weakening sexuality of its males to be at the core of all problems, leading to masturbation, rape, homosexuality, prostitution, venereal diseases, and, most importantly, too early sexual intercourse and premature maternity.
In males, certain Y chromosome genes, particularly SRY, control development of the male phenotype, including conversion of the early bipotential gonad into testes.
Weights fluctuate according to season ; in March, they weigh 3 kg ( 6. 6 lbs ), while in August to early September, males average 6. 5 – 7 kg ( 14 – 15 lbs ), with some individuals attaining a maximal weight of.

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