In the United States, dates are rarely written in purely numerical forms in formal writing, although they are very common elsewhere ; when numerical forms are used, the month appears first.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11, 000 years ( 9000 BCE ), almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of the Earth's history.

It resembles the story of Sir Isumbras, which dates from before 1320 and was very popular in medieval England.

In recent weeks, a series of summer 2012 dates have been announced as Stevie will reunite with Rod Stewart for another leg of the very successful Heart & Soul Tour.

) do not allow very precise dating, even augmented by the few existing C-14 dates due to the tolerance inherent in these.

Historically, some kokuji date back to very early Japanese writing, being found in the Man ' yōshū, for example – 鰯 iwashi " sardine " dates to the Nara period ( 8th century ) – while they have continued to be created as late as the late 19th century, when a number of characters were coined in the Meiji era for new scientific concepts.

The Art de vérifier les dates contains a history of Anjou which is very much out of date, but has not been treated elsewhere as a whole.

However, this seems unlikely as the dates of his lifetime do not fit easily within the time frame of the Quaker community in the British Virgin Islands, and as Quaker history is generally very well documented, it is unlikely that an expedition by a member of such a famous family would go unnoticed.

Much of the copper for the production of bronze probably came from the copper mine on the Great Orme, where prehistoric mining on a very large scale dates largely from the middle Bronze Age.

This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941.

Bellows ( 1936 ) identifies as the core of the poem a " collection of proverbs and wise counsels " which dates to " a very early time ", but which, by the nature of oral tradition, never had a fixed form or extent.

Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back at least 30 million years, to the remains of a beak very similar to that of modern species recovered from Oligocene strata in France.

The earliest documented case of kissing under the mistletoe dates from 16th century England, a custom that was apparently very popular at that time.

* The mikve, ritual Jewish bath, dates back to the 12th century and is one of very few in Europe.

Others think that Pliny's date is correct, but that Ageladas did not make the statues of the Olympic victors mentioned by Pausanias until many years after their victories ; which in the case of three persons, the dates of whose victories are so nearly the same, would be a very extraordinary coincidence.

Prof. Elihu Thomson is quoted as having said that had he stopped when he had the tube exhausted he would have had the honor of being the inventor of the incandescent light as used for commercial purposes ... the principle of the incandescent lamp dates several decades before the Woodward experiments, and that King, Chanzy, Farmer and others in the twenty years preceding 1860 made and used incandescent lamps much superior to the very imperfect one upon which Woodward's claims are based.

* Migraf ( Mejraf ) — very popular in Southern Yemen, these are large, golden-amber dates.

* Zahidi ( Arabic: ' the ascetic ') — these medium size, cylindrical, light golden-brown semi-dry dates are very sugary, and sold as soft, medium-hard and hard.

The remaining stained glass is mainly by Mayer of Munich and dates to the end of the 19th century though there is a very fine Art Deco window showing the Annunciation in the style of Harry Clarke in the former Lady Chapel ( now a seating area ).

The town is also famous for its very old houses, one of which dates back to 1890.

The Doloff-Key building at the very center of old Monroe, the corner of Main and Lewis Streets, dates back to 1901.

The difficulty in making secure attributions of work by Giorgione's hand dates from soon after his death, when some of his paintings were completed by other artists, and his considerable reputation also led to very early erroneous claims of attribution.

The tour turned into a publicity magnet, and Hole dropped out of the tour nine dates in, due to both the majority of the fans being Manson's, who were not very interested in the Hole performances, and the financial arrangement for the bands ( 50 / 50 cost and revenue splitting ) as a reason for discontinuing the tour ( Hole had relatively little production costs and ending up paying a large amount for Manson's high cost production ).

The tradition of electing a voivode is very old and dates back to the times of the early Slavs.

Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.

Meanwhile, the increasing number ( albeit still pitifully few ) of radiocarbon dates for the primary use of brochs ( as opposed to their later, secondary use ) still suggests that most of the towers were built in the 1st centuries BC and AD.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward: Westward Television from episode 40 on 29 April 1961, Border Television from episode 76 on 1 September 1961, Grampian Television from episode 84 on 30 September 1961, Channel Television from episode 180 on 1 September 1962 and Teledu Cymru ( north and west Wales ) from episode 184 on 14 September 1962.

His powerful memory enabled him to dispense with the manuscript on which most German professors relied, and he spoke extemporaneously, referring only occasionally to a few names and dates written on a slip of paper.

As with most other geochronologic units, the rock beds that define the Mississippian are well identified, but the exact start and end dates are uncertain by a few million years.

A few dates and a cup of water are typically the first foods to break the fast, while fried pastries, salads, nuts, legumes, and breads are also common.

A few dates and a cup of water are usually the first foods to break the fast, while fried pastries, salads, nuts, legumes, and breads are common.

For dates up to a few million years micas, tektites ( glass fragments from volcanic eruptions ), and meteorites are best used.

They were also among the few non-U. S. citizens and nearly the only passengers with Arabic names on their flights, enabling the FBI to identify them and in many cases such details as dates of birth, known or possible residences, visa status, and specific identification of the suspected pilots.

Currently, there are few examples in the clad series that are valued as highly as the silver series but there are certain extraordinary dates or variations.

At the time, they were playing in a band called " Sounds Of Blue " which had a few dates booked, but no bass guitarist.

In Iran ( Persia ), the history of cotton dates back to the Achaemenid era ( 5th century BC ); however, there are few sources about the planting of cotton in pre-Islamic Iran.

As regards Fulk the Young we know only a few isolated facts and dates: about 1109 Doué and L ' Île Bouchard were taken ; in 1112 Brissac was besieged, and about the same time Eschivard of Preuilly subdued ; in 1114 there was a general war against the barons who were in revolt, and in 1118 a fresh rising, which was put down after the siege of Montbazon: in 1123 the lord of Doué revolted, and in 1124 Montreuil-Bellay was taken after a siege of nine weeks.

On the day prior to the Grammy ceremony, Bruce made a public statement that more one-off performances of Cream had been planned: multiple dates in a few cities, similar to the Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden shows.

* The oldest tavern in the town dates from 1861 and is La Taberna Rubi, located a few steps from the Plaza Mayor.

It was by the members of these clubs ( and a few others ) that the minute exploration ( now all but complete ) of the High Alps was carried out, while much has been done in the way of building club huts, organizing and training guides, & c., to smooth the way for later comers, who would benefit by the detailed information published in the periodicals ( the first dates from 1863 only ) issued by these clubs.

Some diagrams of the analemma are marked to show the positions of the Sun on it on various dates, a few days apart, throughout the year.

There are a few late dates of around 8000 BP for Megatherium remains, but these are currently not universally viewed as credible.

In 2009, Sferra and Pecchio teamed up with Keaggy, Randy Stonehill and guitarist Mike Pachelli as " The Keaggy-Stonehill Band " and played a few dates in support of Keaggy and Stonehill's album Mystery Highway.

The village centre is quite small, consisting of just a single street, a village green, The Swan Inn pub ( built early 19th century but dates back to 1696 ), a few shops and restaurants and a riverbank adjacent to the River Bure.

This significantly affected the production of Led Zeppelin's seventh album Presence for a few months while he recovered, and forced the band to cancel the remaining tour dates for the year.