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.

The group opposed the Soviet-supported government, the following Mujahideen and Islamist governments, and the present United States-supported Islamic Republican form of government.

In the present day, he suggested, such attempts by any one of these spheres to manipulate another would be contrary to society's interests ; such negative mutual influences would include e. g. corporate pressure on governments, state attempts to interfere with science, education, or religion, or religious influences on governmental entities.

* United States to present evidence of Osama bin Laden's connection secretly to some coalition governments.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

Membership is for former and present officers and enlisted personnel of the United States Coast Guard, and designated pilots of other military services and foreign governments who have piloted Coast Guard aircraft while involved in exchange programs between the Coast Guard and their respective service or government.

Staff from the World Bank monitored the use of the funds, ensuring that the French government would present a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments.

He believed that the moral principles found in the Scriptures ought to inform the civil magistrates, but he observed that well ordered, just, and civil governments existed where Christianity was not present.

Religious governments probably began to criminalize drugs ' possession and trade in the Middle Ages, and such legislation has continued until the present day, by both religious and non-religious governments.

Although diplomats could not present credentials at foreign governments until the Swedish king formally renounced his right to the Norwegian throne, a number of unofficial representatives worked on the provisional government's behalf until the first Norwegian ambassador, Hjalmar Christian Hauge sought accreditation with the United States Secretary of State Elihu Root on November 6, 1905.

This theme continued with the assertion that " present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals ".

The profoundest conception of the General Strike, however, the one pointing to a thorough change of the present system: a social revolution of the world ; an entire new reorganization ; a demolition of the entire old system of all governments ...

Indeed, the present situation is the inevitable outcome of the policies pursued for decades by successive Stormont governments.

The reorganization of the local governments in 1974 replaced the Urban District Council with the present two-tier system of Cotswold District Council and Cirencester Town Council.

The prefect systems in these countries have changed little from when they were under the British, as the present governments have seen them as effective.

) pp. 99, 101 " True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved ….

Family structures of a single married couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by church and theocratic governments.

Most often it is used in the context of people by many organizations and governments, for very formal and state occasions, especially where diplomats are present.

Qu Yuan is popularly regarded as a minister in one of the Warring State governments, the southern state of Chu ( present day Hunan and Hubei provinces ), a champion of political loyalty and integrity, and eager to maintain the Chu state's autonomy and hegemony.

In some respects, an extrapolation of the present to the future produces disappointing, or even ghastly results, exemplified in cyberpunk and other dystopian futures characterized by overpopulation, environmental degradation, and transfer of power to unaccountable private entities or governments.

Balfour had come under criticism in the House of Commons, when the Liberals and Labor Socialists moved a resolution ' That secret treaties with the allied governments should be revised, since, in their present form, they are inconsistent with the object for which this country entered the war and are, therefore, a barrier to a democratic peace.

Many boat people have been attacked by pirates on the high seas, or have been turned away by governments and forced to return, sometimes even to countries where they were also present illegally.

The present subdivisions have their origins in the 19th century after the administrative reforms conducted by the middle of 19th century by the governments of the constitutional monarchy.