And so deadheads on the payroll can be eased out at the earliest possible age.

The 34 arrows, denoting onset age plus completion age deviations, have been arrayed in an Onset sequence which begins with girl 18 who had the earliest Onset of the 34 girls.

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

Given the age of the Rig Veda being at least 1500 BC or before, this must rank as the earliest practice of beating of the war drum in the history of mankind.

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

It is bracketed at the old end by the dates of the earliest solar system material at 4. 567 Ga, ( gigaannum: billion years ago ) and the age of the Earth at 4. 54 Ga at the beginning of the informally recognized Hadean eon.

TeamGym ( also known as " Gymnastics for All ") has it origins in earliest times. These days, although teams can compete the sport itself was developed to enhance fitness and health in the participants and is accessible to anyone of any age.

The earliest settlers to Prehistoric Europe came during the paleolithic or " old stone " age, when humans first made use of primitve stone tools.

One of her earliest pieces of writing, at age 11, was The Frost King ( 1891 ).

The Sujala finds equal in age with the earliest Komsa-artefacts from Norway but may suggest also a connection to the Swiderian culture.

At the approximate age of twenty-two, his earliest known major professional artistic work was created, a cover for a Kabuki playbook in 1775 that was published under a pseudonym, the gō of Toyoaki.

He noted that " the care of very young children is women's work, for nurses or the mother ," and that at the earliest possible age children should be taught the alphabet.

In the earliest strips, the dream event that woke him up would always be some mishap or disaster that seemed about to lead to serious injury or death, such as being crushed by giant mushrooms, being turned into a monkey, falling from a bridge being held up by " slaves ", or gaining 90 years in age.

Outside of the Book of Acts which contains the death of Saint Stephen, the Martyrdom is considered one of the earliest genuine accounts of a Christian martyrdom, and is one of the very few genuine accounts from the actual age of the persecutions.

Recent archaeological discoveries in Finnish Lapland were originally seen as the continental version of the Komsa culture about the same age as the earliest finds on the coast of Norway.

In South Asia earliest available Bronze age swords of copper were discovered in the Harappan sites, in present-day Pakistan, and date back to 2300 BC.

The earliest Bonifacian vita does not mention his place of birth but says that at an early age he attended a monastery ruled by abbot Wulfhard in escancastre, or Examchester, which seems to denote Exeter, and may have been one of many monasteriola built by local landowners and churchmen ; nothing else is known of it outside the Bonifacian vitae.

Tycho later wrote that when he was around age two, his uncle, Danish nobleman Jørgen Thygesen Brahe, " without the knowledge of my parents took me away with him while I was in my earliest youth to become a scholar ".

The long half-life of the isotope uranium-238 ( 4. 51 years ) makes it well-suited for use in estimating the age of the earliest igneous rocks and for other types of radiometric dating, including uranium-thorium dating and uranium-lead dating.

Woodrow Wilson's earliest memory, from the age of three, was of hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.

Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16.

A third is archeologist Lawrence H. Keeley, who has criticised a " widespread myth " that " civilized humans have fallen from grace from a simple primeval happiness, a peaceful golden age " by uncovering archeological evidence that he claims demonstrates that violence prevailed in the earliest human societies.

Humans must have observed birds from the earliest times, and stone age drawings are among the oldest indications of an interest in birds.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilization (), the earliest civilization in Europe, comprising the first palaces in Europe.

In Neolithic times, daggers were made of materials such as flint, ivory or bone and were used as weapons since the earliest periods of human civilization.

The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia ( beginning with Sumer ), ancient Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent ( beginning with the Indus Valley civilization ), which began along the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers respectively, all developed around the Indian Ocean.

It is the earliest known civilization in the world, making Iraq one of the Cradles of Civilization.

The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back more than 7, 000 years — predating recorded history.

The earliest prehistoric cultures of Lebanon, such as the Qaraoun culture gave rise to the civilization of the Canaanite period, when the region was populated by ancient peoples, cultivating land and living in sophisticated societies during the 2nd millennium BC.

Rhetoric has its origins in the earliest civilization, Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is generally considered to be the location of the earliest civilization or complex society, meaning that it contained cities, full-time division of labor, social concentration of wealth into capital, unequal distribution of wealth, ruling classes, community ties based on residency rather than kinship, long distance trade, monumental architecture, standardized forms of art and culture, writing, and mathematics and science.

As distinguished by its unique language, this civilization endured from the time of the earliest Etruscan inscriptions ( ca.

The region is often called the cradle of civilization ; it saw the development of many of the earliest human civilizations.

The grave is estimated to be 9, 500 years old, predating Egyptian civilization and pushing back the earliest known feline-human association significantly.

Lucian was also one of the earliest novelists in Western civilization.

During the earliest Chinese dynasties, the area in what is now Jiangsu was far removed from the center of Chinese civilization, which was in the northwest Henan ; it was home of the Huai Yi ( 淮夷 ), an ancient ethnic group.

The Kansai region lays claim to the earliest beginnings of Japanese civilization.

The earliest evidence of urban sanitation was seen in Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and the recently discovered Rakhigarhi of Indus Valley civilization.

is one of the earliest sites of human civilization on earth.

The earliest Ugaritic contact with Egypt ( and the first exact dating of Ugaritic civilization ) comes from a carnelian bead identified with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senusret I, 1971 BC – 1926 BC.

As part of the larger Fertile Crescent, it saw the earliest emergence of literate urban civilization in the Uruk period, for which reason it is often dubbed the " Cradle of Civilization ".

He argues that literature about land ( and, subsequently, about going back to the land ) is largely sentimental ; " little ," he writes, " is known about farmer's attitudes towards nature ..." Tuan finds historical instances of the desire of the civilized to escape civilization in the Hellenistic, Roman, Augustan, and Romantic eras, and, from one of the earliest recorded myths, the Epic of Gilgamesh.

* Cradle of civilization, any of the various regions regarded as the earliest centers of civilization