I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

In sum, it can be said that the techniques and standards of present day have their origin at the turn of the century.

The National Park Service hopes by 1966 to have 30,000 campsites available for 100,000 campers a day -- almost twice what there are at present.

On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the New York Times from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound volumes of important periodicals.

And one day, on her own, his mother came home with a present entitled The Book of the Dead, which she suspected Richard would enjoy.

New catalog entries of the remaining 15, 000 American feature films produced between 1974 and present day are incorporated every year.

* 1521 – Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

Agrippina was born at Oppidum Ubiorum, a Roman outpost on the Rhine River located in present day Cologne, Germany.

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

He was born at Thurii ( in present day Calabria, Italy ) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion () and the tribe Leontides.

This is equivalent to $ in present day terms.

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

Hermann Kolbe was the first person to use the word synthesis in the present day meaning.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

Other monuments that have left almost nothing visible to the present day are the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, Pandion's sanctuary, Athena's altar, Zeus Polieus's sanctuary and, from Roman times, the circular temple of Augustus and Rome.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Assyrian art preserved to the present day predominantly dates to the Neo-Assyrian period.

The basic military dress it is still worn in pictures into the Baroque period and beyond in the West ( see Reni picture above ), and up to the present day in Eastern Orthodox icons.

The chronicle goes on to report a victory in 491, at present day Pevensey, where the battle ended with the Saxons slaughtering their opponents to the last man.

* 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York ( present day Toronto, Canada ).

Starting in approximately the 1970s into the present day analytical chemistry has progressively become more inclusive of biological questions ( bioanalytical chemistry ), whereas it had previously been largely focused on inorganic or small organic molecules.

16th century a cappella polyphony, nonetheless, continued to influence church composers throughout this period and to the present day.

This fraudulent practice continues to the present day, with rich businessmen in Egypt still being deceived by local treasure hunters.

Eastwood blamed Universal Studios for the film's poor promotion and turned his back on them to make an agreement with Warner Brothers, through Frank Wells, that has lasted to the present day.

The Flyers have played their home games on Broad Street since their inception, first at the Spectrum from 1967 until 1996, and then at the Wells Fargo Center from 1996 to the present.

* Wells Fargo Center ( 1996 – present )

Maricopa ’ s second moment of fame took place eight miles south of Maricopa Wells and about three miles west of present day Maricopa.

* James Wells, one of the first European settlers in Jenner Township, known for his harrowing experience from Indian attack while tending his fields in autumn 1776 -- " Wells ' Escape " -- near the present site of Jennerstown.

Wells Dam is one of the many hydroelectric dams present on the upper Columbia River including Grand Coulee Dam, Chief Joseph Dam, Rocky Reach Dam, Rock Island Dam, Wanapum Dam, and Priest Rapids Dam.

* Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of New Jersey, 2006 – present

When the Shaido Aiel attack the Aes Sedai holding Rand at the Battle of Dumai's Wells, Therava is present.

Created by children's book author / illustrator Rosemary Wells and based on the world of her Max and Ruby books, the episodes present stories about Max, a rambunctious and determined three-year-old rabbit, and his big sister, Ruby, a patient, goal-oriented, sometimes restrictive seven-year-old rabbit.

The old road then passed through Seeley, the gypsum plant at Plaster City, and into Coyote Wells near present day Ocotillo.

* In September 2000, Wells held a festival, Return to Chonodote, honoring the area's Haudenosaunee past and present.

Originally referred to as Frant Wells, they were later renamed Queen Mary ’ s Wells, in honour of Queen Mary II and were only later given the present name of Tunbridge Wells.

After spending The Fires of Heaven on his honeymoon ( he was not present in that book's narrative at all, the first but not the last time a main character would disappear so ), he raised an army and led them to Cairhien to help Rand, taking part in the battle of Dumai's Wells.

) The 1924 electric blowers remained in use until 2000 when the present new low and high pressure blowers were fitted by David Wells. St.

* Southland ( Co-produced with John Wells Productions ) ( 2009 – present )

At present, the only public transport for Goudhurst are two bus routes operated by Arriva Southern Counties-the 26 to Maidstone, and the 297 which runs to Tunbridge Wells in the west and Tenterden and Ashford in the east.

At the same time, Kristin Wells, a journalism student from the far future, uses time travel technology to arrive in the present, for the purpose of finding out the origin of the holiday known as Miracle Monday, of which only the fact that it is somehow connected to Superman is known.

Subsequent directors include Paul Carson ( 1964-1966 ), Richard Boerlin ( 1966-1968 ), James R. Wells, ( 1968-1992 ), John Villella ( 1992-2007 ), Andrew Yozviak ( 2007 – present ).

* Peter Brian Wells ( 16 July 2009 – present )

Wells, The Final Circle of Paradise ) and precautionary ( Fahrenheit 451 ) functions, to criticize the contemporary world ( Antarctica-online ) and to present solutions ( Walden Two ), to portray alternative societies ( World of the Noon ) and to examine the implications of ethical principles ( the works of Sergei Lukyanenko ).

Its primary theme, explored in many other stories ( starting with H. G. Wells ' The Time Machine ), is the effect on the present of changing the past.