This layer has been tightly dated at 65. 5 Ma.

Nearly all modern non-African humans have 1 % to 4 % of their DNA derived from Neanderthal DNA, and this finding is consistent with recent studies indicating that the divergence of some human alleles dates to one Ma, although the interpretation of these studies has been questioned.

An unidentifable finch fossil from the Messinian age, around 12 to 7. 3 million years ago ( Ma ) during the Late Miocene subepoch, has been found at Polgárdi in Hungary.

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

This is supported by evidence from the sayings of Muhammad where he mentions that " a hole has been made in the wall containing the Ya ' juj and Ma ' juj ", indicating the size of the hole with his thumb and index finger.

Jordan has six special economic zones that attract significant amount of investment amounting in the billions: Aqaba, Mafraq, Ma ' an, Ajloun, the Dead Sea, and Irbid.

The boundary has been placed at various times by various authors, but has now been settled at 542 Ma.

Paleontological evidence has suggested an origin of the red wolf line 1 – 2 Ma, branching from a wolf-coyote ancestor, which itself appeared about 4. 9 Ma.

Unlike a regular day, which has three prayer services ( Ma ' ariv, the evening prayer ; Shacharit, the morning prayer ; and Mincha, the afternoon prayer ), or a Shabbat or Yom Tov, which have four prayer services ( Ma ' ariv ; Shacharit ; Mussaf, the additional prayer ; and Mincha ), Yom Kippur has five prayer services ( Ma ' ariv ; Shacharit ; Musaf ; Mincha ; and Ne ' ilah, the closing prayer ).

The vast majority of Austronesian languages are non-tonal, but a small number, for example Ma ' ya ( which also has lexical stress ) have developed tone, and also the Tsat language has developed tone probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai / Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.

Under the Bell System monopoly in the United States ( post Communications Act of 1934 ), the Bell System owned the phones, and one could not attach one's own devices to the network, or even attach anything to the phones ( a popular saying was " Ma Bell has you by the calls ").

It has been suggested that their origin may be related to the end-Permian mass extinction (~ 250 Ma ), after which many marine niches were opened.

Some evidence, such as the displacement of siliceous sponges from the shelves, suggests that this takeover began in the Cretaceous ( 146 Ma to 65 Ma ), while evidence from radiolarians suggests " take-over " did not begin until the Cenozoic ( 65 Ma to present ).< ref name = harper75 > The expansion of grassland biomes and the evolutionary radiation of grasses during the Miocene is believed to have increased the flux of soluble silicon to the oceans, and it has been argued that this has promoted the diatoms during the Cenozoic era.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

There is also a Syriac quarter outside of the old city, whose inhabitants originate from Midyat and Ma ' asarte in Turkey.

It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma.

Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.

The Cenozoic Era ( or ; also Cænozoic or Cainozoic ; meaning " new life ", from Greek kainos " new ", and zoe " life ") is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 65. 5 Ma to the present.

He also met the Muslim Generals Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui separately.

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

Chiang also supported the Muslim General Ma Zhongying, whom he had trained at Whampoa Military Academy during the Kumul Rebellion, in a Jihad against Jin Shuren, Sheng Shicai, and the Soviet Union during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

Kap Shui Mun Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island, and is also part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8.

** CPCS is also advising the Government of Jordan in the privatization of the Aqaba Railway Corporation, running from Ma ' an to Aqaba.

The Muslim General Ma Bufang also put Kuomintang party symbols on his mansion, the Ma Bufang Mansion along with a portrait of party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen arranged with the Kuomintang Party flag and the Republic of China flag.

General Ma Bufang and other high ranking Muslim Generals attended the Kokonuur Lake Ceremony where the God of the Lake was worshipped, and during the ritual, the Chinese national anthem was sung, all participants bowed to a Portrait of Kuomintang party founder Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the God of the Lake was also bowed to, and offerings were given to him by the participants, which included the Muslims.

The Kuomintang also hosted conferences of important Muslims like Bai Chongxi, Ma Fuxiang, and Ma Liang.

In 1939 Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent on a mission by the Kuomintang to the Middle eastern countries such as Egypt, Turkey, and Syria to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, they also visited Afghanistan in 1940 and contacted Muhammad Amin Bughra, they asked him to come to Chongqing, the capital of the Kuomintang regime.

Ma Bufang also crushed Mongol separatist movements, abducting the Genghis Khan Shrine and attacking Tibetan Buddhist Temples like Labrang, and keeping a tight control over them through the Kokonur God ceremony.

Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Several hit songs were also recorded during the mahjong fad, most notably " Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong " by Eddie Cantor.

We can evidence historical confusion on this point from Abu Ma ' shar's subsequent remark “ It is sometimes said that the very learned man who wrote the book of astrology also wrote the book of the Almagest.

There is little evidence on the subject of Ptolemy's ancestry, apart from what can be drawn from the details of his name ( see above ); however modern scholars refer to Abu Ma ’ shar ’ s account as erroneous, and it is no longer doubted that the astronomer who wrote the Almagest also wrote the Tetrabiblos as its astrological counterpart.

There is no known evidence that any " Homo " specimens appeared by 2. 5 Ma.

It spans from the formation of Earth about 4570 Ma ( million years ) ago to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about 542 Ma, when macroscopic hard-shelled animals first appeared in abundance.

Excepting a few contested reports of much older forms from USA and India, the first complex multicelled life forms seem to have appeared roughly 600 Ma.

A very diverse collection of life forms appeared around 544 Ma, starting in the latest Precambrian with a poorly understood small shelly fauna and ending in the very early Cambrian with a very diverse, and quite modern Burgess fauna, the rapid radiation of forms called the Cambrian explosion of life.

The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene period ( c 66 to 56 Ma ago ).

When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, finally appeared in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines.

Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, the ammonoid cephalopods first appeared in the Devonian ( circa 400 million years ago ) and became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous ( 65. 5 Ma ) along with the dinosaurs.

In the underworld, Duat, he appeared as an ape, A ' an, the god of equilibrium, who reported when the scales weighing the deceased's heart against the feather, representing the principle of Ma ' at, was exactly even.

The song, titled " Ma Benz " appeared on NTM's 1998 self-tiled album.

The endorsement appeared to backfire, however, as Ma defeated Wang by a rather large margin of 72 % to 28 %.

In 2007, Lin appeared to have become a campaign manager for Pan-Blue Coalition's presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou.

On October 3, 2009, Ma appeared alongside Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the National Arts Centre gala in Ottawa.

Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur, as well as on The West Wing ( episode " Noël ", in which he performed the prelude to the Bach Cello Suite No. 1 at a Christmas dinner at the White House ), Sesame Street and Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

On October 27, 2008, Ma appeared as a guest and performer on The Colbert Report.

After the war he appeared on hundreds of recordings including sessions with Duke Ellington, jazz pianists Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani and Claude Bolling, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, jazz violinist Stuff Smith, Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam, vibraphonist Gary Burton, pop singer Paul Simon, mandolin player David Grisman, classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, orchestral conductor André Previn, guitar player Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar player Joe Pass, cello player Yo Yo Ma, harmonica and jazz guitar player Toots Thielemans, jazz guitarist Henri Crolla, bassist Jon Burr and fiddler Mark O ' Connor.

In recent years, Stamp has appeared in the films Ma femme est une actrice ( aka My Wife Is An Actress, 2001 ), My Boss's Daughter ( 2003 ), Disney's The Haunted Mansion ( 2004 ), and the superhero fantasy Elektra ( 2005 ).

Sefer HaKavanot U ' Ma ' aseh Nissim records that one day Luria's father remained in the Beth kneset alone, studying, when Eliyahu HaNavi appeared to him and said, " I have been sent to you by the Almighty to bring you tidings that your holy wife shall conceive and bear a child, and that you must call him Yitzchak.

Cynodontia or cynodonts (" dog teeth ") are a taxon of therapsids which first appeared in the Late Permian ( approximately 260 Ma ) and were eventually distributed throughout all seven continents by the Early Triassic ( 256 Ma ).

Full fledged reptiles appeared in the Carboniferous Period ( 345 to 280 Ma ).

Theropods first appeared during the Carnian age of the late Triassic period about 230 million years ago ( Ma ) and included the sole large terrestrial carnivores from the Early Jurassic until at least the close of the Cretaceous, about 65 Ma.