They most likely originated in West Gondwana and are 67 – 107 million years old, so the oldest split could relate to the break-up of Gondwana in the middle Eocene to late Oligocene, 45 – 24 million years ago, and reached their current distribution by multiple intercontinental dispersal events.

Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the “ old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.

As late as 1960, approximately 70 % of Pakistan's export earnings originated in the East Wing, although this percentage declined as international demand for jute dwindled.

This is a variant of fulist, which originated before late 1978, according to comments by its author, Theo Alkema.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

This hobby originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century, later spread and flourished in the mid-20th century.

Some books ( guidebooks in particular ) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

Modern mandolins — which originated in Naples, Italy in the late 18th century — commonly have four double courses ( four pairs ) of metal strings, which are plucked with a plectrum.

Modafinil originated with the late 1970s invention of a series of benzhydryl sulfinyl compounds, including adrafinil.

The very large hoard of late Roman hacksilver found at Traprain Law may have originated in either way.

Rock and roll ( often written as rock & roll or rock ' n ' roll ) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music.

Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century, descending from the jigs and march music played by black bands.

It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf.

The sandwich originated in several different Italian American communities in the Northeastern United States from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries.

Ska (, Jamaican ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

The national touring series, the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Division, originated from local late model races in the east coast of the U. S. This division became the Busch Series and then the Nationwide Series.

The FSLN originated in the milieu of various oppositional organisations, youth and student groups in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots.

The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as " lawn tennis ".

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

Volumetric analysis originated in late 18th-century France.

The Great Depression originated in the United States in late 1929 and quickly spread to the world.

The plan originated as a 1979 field training exercise war game, and metamorphosed into official Warsaw Treaty battle doctrine, until the late 1980s – thus why the People ’ s Republic of Poland was a nuclear weapons base, first, to 178, then, to 250 tactical-range rockets.

The term originated during the American Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >

This system originated in the Swedish regime of the 17th century, which effectively divided the Finnish people into two groups, separated economically, socially and politically.

This harp originated in Italy in the 16th century as a low headed instrument, and towards the end of 17th century it arrived in Wales where it developed a high head and larger size.

Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.

In the 17th century the foundations for habeas corpus were " wrongly thought " to have originated in Magna Carta.

The Senufo Kenedugu Kingdom originated in the 17th century in the area around what is now the border of Mali and Burkina Faso.

Mild ale is a low-gravity beer, or beer with a predominantly malty palate, that originated in Britain in the 17th century or earlier.

The Bychowiec Chronicles, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, have been discredited in this regard, since they assert an ancestry from the Palemonids, a noble family said to have originated within the Roman Empire.

The idea of duality originated in a debate over the nature of light and matter that dates back to the 17th century, when competing theories of light were proposed by Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton: light was thought either to consist of waves ( Huygens ) or of particles ( Newton ).

The term originated in the early 17th century simultaneously with opera and oratorio.

However, since the monarch is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the law which prohibits a Roman Catholic from acceding to the throne – which originated as a result of the English and Scots ' distrust of Roman Catholicism during the late 17th century – would remain.

Although the early dukes and kings of Poland regarded themselves as descendants of Piast, the term " Piast Dynasty " originated in the 17th century.

According to Fon tradition, the asen originated in Allada and were brought to Abomey before the 17th century.

The word originated in England between the 14th and 17th centuries and referred to a woolen fabric of mixed colors.

Astrild probably originated in the writings of the 17th century Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm, and has since been used in Nordic poetry, mainly during the Baroque and Rococo eras.

In the 17th century, an infectious disease similar to English sweat originated from the region and spread across France.

It derived from an earlier sense of tip, meaning " to give ; to hand, pass ", which originated in the rogues ' cant in the 17th century.

It originated in early 17th century Spain as a ( strummed ) interlude between instrumentally accompanied dances or songs.

It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the Commedia dell ' arte, which originated in Italy and reached its apogee there in the 16th and 17th centuries.

In the 17th century, Chinese Pidgin English originated as a lingua franca for trade between British people and mostly Cantonese-speaking Chinese people.

Muslin ( or ) is a loosely-woven cotton fabric which originated in Bangladesh, which was introduced to Europe from the Middle East in the 17th century.

The Red Ensign or " Red Duster " is a flag that originated in the early 17th century as an English ensign flown by the Royal Navy and later specifically by British Merchant Seamen ( The British Merchant Navy ).

It originated in the country's present day state of Kerala during the 17th century and has developed over the years with improved looks, refined gestures and added themes besides more ornate singing and precise drumming.