* The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.

Housing livestock during times of maximum midge activity ( from dusk to dawn ) may lead to significantly reduced biting rates.

The memorial is located in an open plaza and may be visited freely from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week.

Homo floresiensis may have survived right up to the very dawn of the Neolithic, about 12, 200 years ago.

Springbok may accomplish this by selecting flowers, seeds, and leaves of shrubs before dawn, when these foods are most succulent.

In conjure, rootwork, and hoodoo, a form of African American magical spirituality, in order to acquire facility at various manual and body skills, such as playing a musical instrument, throwing dice, or dancing, one may attend upon a crossroads a certain number of times, either at midnight or just before dawn, and one will meet a " black man ," whom some call the Devil, who will bestow upon one the desired skills.

This may be a laudatory political allusion to the dawn of a new Golden Age under Philip IV / Segismundo.

Scholars have proposed that Dellingr is the personified dawn, and his name may appear both in an English surname and place name.

Benjamin Thorpe says that Dellingr may be dawn personified, similarly to his son Dagr, the personified day.

Auseklis ( derived from root aus-" dawn " or " orient " and-" seed ", or from verb aust-" to rise ( for sun, stars or moon ), thus Auseklis may carry the meaning of " The one who rises " ) was a Latvian god, and the personification of the celestial body Venus.

The calendric year may have begun at some point in the distant past with the first appearance of the Pleiades ( Tianquiztli ) asterism in the east immediately before the dawn light.

In the UK the dawn chorus may begin as early as 4am in early summer.

For these among other reasons, Ireland — resolutely and irrevocably determined at the dawn of the promised era of self-determination and liberty that she will suffer foreign dominion no longer — calls upon every free nation to uphold her national claim to complete independence as an Irish Republic against the arrogant pretensions of England founded in fraud and sustained only by an overwhelming military occupation, and demands to be confronted publicly with England at the Congress of the Nations, that the civilised world having judged between English wrong and Irish right may guarantee to Ireland its permanent support for the maintenance of her national independence.

This may call for a different classification of dawn and dusk terminology for more practical use than astronomy.

The harmonic and stylistic structure of the piece may be viewed as a depiction of the journey from dusk till dawn.

It has been suggested that this may be related to the fact that the Egyptians regulated their year by the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, a phenomenon which occurs in the morning just before dawn.

They are not as social as the highly gregarious and noisy pratincoles, some species of which may also active at dawn and dusk.

Some species fly only for short periods either around dusk or dawn, while other species only appear later in the evening and others around midnight, but such species may occasionally be seen feeding at flowers during the day.

At early dawn on that day, all of us, notables and people, farmers and merchants, artizans and tradesmen, must assemble at the Tuan Fang Meeting House, that we may in grave and solemn manner inaugurate this undertaking

However, in freezing conditions, it may be that for very small birds, including the tiny Goldcrest, the energy economies of induced hypothermia may be insufficient to counterbalance the negative effects of hypothermia including the energy required to raise body temperature back to normal at dawn.

The sea pen fossil record is patchy and disputed by some ; while the earliest accepted fossils are known from the Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale ( Thaumaptilon ), similar fossils from the Ediacaran ( ala Charnia ) may represent the dawn of sea pens.

They may song for long early at dawn but at other times of the day they often utter sharp single or two note whistles.

Birds leave the colony at dawn and return the same evening during chick rearing, although may spend 2 – 3 days at sea at other times.

The call is a repeated low soft, musical oo-uk ... ooo-uk ... which may be heard at dusk and dawn.

`` I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

I have known the quiet note of your dawn.

Since the dawn of Newtonian science with its vision of simple mechanical principles governing the entire universe, some philosophers have been tempted by the idea that consciousness could be explained in purely physical terms.

Since Grimm's time, linguists have identified the goddess as a Germanic form of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn, * Hausos.

Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

During breakfast at dawn, Granger ( leader of the group of wandering intellectuals ) discusses the legendary phoenix and its endless cycle of long life, death in flames, and rebirth, adding that the phoenix must have some relation to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but that man has something the phoenix doesn't.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

" After describing the death of the king, the taunt continues: " How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!

Although fishing only became common during the Upper Paleolithic, fish have been part of human diets long before the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic and have certainly been consumed by humans since at least the Middle Paleolithic.

*" What have they done to the earth ?/ What have they done to our fair sister ?/ Ravaged and plundered / and ripped her / and bit her / stuck her with knives / in the side of the dawn / and tied her with fences / and dragged her down.

Since walleyes have excellent visual acuity under low illumination levels, they tend to feed more extensively at dawn and dusk, on cloudy or overcast days and under choppy conditions when light penetration into the water column is disrupted.

Some practices have not changed since the dawn of warfare: ambushes, seeking and turning flanks, maintaining reconnaissance, creating and using obstacles and defences, etc.

Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points.

Many species have elaborate courtship displays on the ground at dawn and dusk, which in some are given in leks.

Readily visible alterations of the skin surface have been recognized since the dawn of history, with some being treated, and some not.

Supporters of the claim have pointed to Book IV as providing its strongest evidence, as when the narrator asks “ You mean to see we have been hadding a sound night ’ s sleep ?”, and later concludes that what has gone before has been “ a long, very long, a dark, very dark [...] scarce endurable [...] night .” Tindall refers to Book IV as " a chapter of resurrection and waking up ", and McHugh finds that the chapter contains " particular awareness of events going on offstage, connected with the arrival of dawn and the waking process which terminates the sleeping process of Wake.