I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

In sum, it can be said that the techniques and standards of present day have their origin at the turn of the century.

The National Park Service hopes by 1966 to have 30,000 campsites available for 100,000 campers a day -- almost twice what there are at present.

On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the New York Times from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound volumes of important periodicals.

And one day, on her own, his mother came home with a present entitled The Book of the Dead, which she suspected Richard would enjoy.

New catalog entries of the remaining 15, 000 American feature films produced between 1974 and present day are incorporated every year.

* 1521 – Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

Agrippina was born at Oppidum Ubiorum, a Roman outpost on the Rhine River located in present day Cologne, Germany.

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

He was born at Thurii ( in present day Calabria, Italy ) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion () and the tribe Leontides.

This is equivalent to $ in present day terms.

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

Hermann Kolbe was the first person to use the word synthesis in the present day meaning.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

Other monuments that have left almost nothing visible to the present day are the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, Pandion's sanctuary, Athena's altar, Zeus Polieus's sanctuary and, from Roman times, the circular temple of Augustus and Rome.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Assyrian art preserved to the present day predominantly dates to the Neo-Assyrian period.

The basic military dress it is still worn in pictures into the Baroque period and beyond in the West ( see Reni picture above ), and up to the present day in Eastern Orthodox icons.

The chronicle goes on to report a victory in 491, at present day Pevensey, where the battle ended with the Saxons slaughtering their opponents to the last man.

* 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York ( present day Toronto, Canada ).

Starting in approximately the 1970s into the present day analytical chemistry has progressively become more inclusive of biological questions ( bioanalytical chemistry ), whereas it had previously been largely focused on inorganic or small organic molecules.

16th century a cappella polyphony, nonetheless, continued to influence church composers throughout this period and to the present day.

This fraudulent practice continues to the present day, with rich businessmen in Egypt still being deceived by local treasure hunters.

It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point.

When Albemarle arrived, however, he found only twelve of the eight hundred dockyard men expected and these in a state of panic ; of the thirty sloops only ten were present, the other twenty having been used to bring the personal possessions of several officials to safety, such as the ship models of Pett.

A total of 101, 207 men from twenty-one states enlisted during the war and volunteers were present during some of the storied naval engagements of the American Civil War, including serving in Monitor during her battle with CSS Virginia and the daring mission to destroy the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle.

The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

The lighting of bonfires on Beltane Eve seems to have lasted to the present day only in County Limerick, especially in Limerick itself, and in Arklow, County Wicklow.

– The Fermanagh story: a documented history of the County Fermanagh from the earliest times to the present day – Enniskillen: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1969.

Gotland County at present is unique in Sweden as there is no county council.

Founded in 1848, in Northwood, Logan County, Ohio, the college moved to its present location in 1880, where it continues to educate a student body of about 1400 traditional undergraduates in over 30 majors, as well as graduate students in a handful of master's programs.

In the Scottish settlement of Glengarry County in present day Eastern Ontario, there is a lake called Loch Garry.

* Œsel-Œsel ( Œselia ), ancient Estonian independent eldership in the present territory of Saare County

Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Lenawee County.

* The Rancho Rincon de Los Esteros Land Grant is confirmed to Rafael Alvisa, ( part of the present Santa Clara County, California ).

* Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Maelsechlainn mac William Buidhe O Cellaigh as King of Hy-Many in present day County Galway and County Roscommon in Ireland.

Daniel Morgan was another famous General during the American Revolutionary War, from ( present day Clarke County ).

Previously, Baltimore County was more known as a geographical entity than a political one, with its territorial limits consisting of the present day Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, as well as parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Howard and Kent Counties.

The western part of Maryland ( including the present Allegany County ) was originally part of Prince George's County when Maryland was formed in 1696.

The western portions of Maryland ( including present Washington County ) were incorporated into Prince George's County in 1696.

At the time it also included present day Bronx County, which constituted the original Town of Westchester ( the center of which was around the area today known as Westchester Square, in the Bronx ) and portions of Yonkers, Eastchester, and Pelham.

In 1874, the western portion of the present Bronx County, consisting of the then towns of Kingsbridge, West Farms, and Morrisania, was transferred to New York County, and in 1895 the remainder of the present Bronx County, consisting of the Town of Westchester and portions of the towns of Eastchester and Pelham, was transferred to New York County.