Many large animals, or megafauna, including horses, camels, mammoths, mastodonts, ground sloths, sabre-tooth cats ( Smilodon ), the giant short-faced bear ( Arctodus simus ), and the cheetah, became extinct in North America at the end of the Pleistocene epoch ( ice ages ), at the same time the first evidence of humans appeared, in what is called the Holocene extinction event.

In speeches of this new character many of the author's conceptions about the history of Gondor either emerged for the first time or were only now set to paper: Boromir's horn was perceived to have been unique, " reasons of decline of Gondor " and its ethnic diversity textually elaborated, the Stewards first referred to, and the surrender of the " fields of Elenarda " to the Rohirrim was postponed to the epoch of the Stewardship and temporarily became regarded not as a gift from Gondor but as an enforcement by the Horse-lords.

Volga-21 was launched in 1956 and became a symbol of the whole Soviet epoch.

The reign of Gratian forms an important epoch in ecclesiastical history, since during that period Orthodox Christianity for the first time became dominant throughout the empire.

Proudly situated ( where fortified walls once stood ), visible from all sides on a terrace overlooking the core of Zurich, the new school became the herald of a new epoch.

This group became extinct at the end of the Early Cretaceous epoch.

It is currently inactive, having been since approximately the time Mount Mazama became active, sometime in the early Pleistocene epoch.

Notable in Schmitt's discussion of the European epoch of world history is the role played by the New World, which ultimately replaced the old world as the center of the Earth and became the arbiter in European and world politics.

Although in his youth Yu had been critical of communist ideology, because his first works, with their portrait of decline and cruelty brought on by bourgeois society, were admitting of a Marxist interpretation, they became very popular in 1960s Chinese society ; an epoch in which the ideology of Mao Zedong demanded that all literary creation be in service to the communist cause.

Glaciers and pluvial lakes disappeared and the climate warmed and became drier with the start of Holocene epoch.

Genus: Thylacoleo ( Thylacopardus )-Australia's marsupial lions, that lived from about 2 million years ago, during the late Pliocene and became extinct about 30, 000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene epoch.

The linguist, Antoine Meillet, said Sans que l ' aspect extérieur de la langue se soit beaucoup modifié, le Latin est devenu au cours de l ' epoque impériale une langue nouvelle, " without the exterior appearance of the language being much modified, Latin became in the course of the imperial epoch a new language " and Servant en quelque sorte de lingua franca à un grand empire, le Latin a tendu à se simplifier, à garder surtout ce qu ' il avait de banal .... " Serving as some sort of lingua franca to a large empire, Latin tended to become simpler, to keep above all what it had of the ordinary ...."

Despite his lonely death, Kołłątaj became a patron of many reformers in the decades to come, and is now seen as one of the key figures of the Enlightenment in Poland, and " one of the greatest minds of his epoch ".

Pleistocene megafauna is the set of species of large animals that lived on Earth during the Pleistocene epoch and became extinct in a Quaternary extinction event.

This Alexandrian era was the preferred era used by Byzantine Christians such as Maximus the Confessor until the Byzantine era, having an epoch of 1 September 5509 BC, became dominant in the tenth century.

This species of large carnivorous sea snail lived during the Miocene epoch, and became extinct more than five million years ago.

She also became the theme of paintings by several artists of the epoch, among them Hyppolyte Bellange, Achille Deveria, Philipp Veit, Francois de Villain and Wojciech Kossak.

1900 January 0 ( at Greenwich Mean Noon ) was also the epoch used by Newcomb's Tables of the Sun, which became the epoch for the Dublin Julian day.

Neves ' election to succeed general Figueiredo, the last of the military hand-picked Presidents, was hailed as the dawn of a New Republic ( Nova República ) and that term, that contrasts with the term República Velha ( or Old Republic, the name of the first epoch of the Brazilian Republic, that lasted from 1889 until 1930 ), became synonym with the contemporary phase of the Brazilian Republic, that is, with the political institutions established in the wake of the country's re-democratization.

Inaugurated in 1760, it was originally a burial site for the poor laid out to relieve the crowded graveyards inside the walled city, but during the Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century it became mundane and many leading figures of the epoch, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Christen Købke are all buried on the premises.

A group of cynodonts, the trithelodonts were becoming rare and eventually became extinct at the end of this epoch.

Apart from that, some of the manuscripts contain distinctly more recent passages, such as frivolous stories of endeavours in public steam baths ( which the Europeans only became acquainted with during the late Reconquista epoch ) and even allusions to the Holy Inquisition.

This general cultural movement is today known as the Sramanic tradition and the epoch of new thought as the axial era.

Therefore, equatorial coordinates ( including declination ) are inherently relative to the year of their observation, and astronomers specify them with reference to a particular year, known as an epoch.

Probably the epoch best known for this part of the imperial tradition is Rome's third century rule.

In this case, four different numbers were inserted, with dots between them: the rightmost one is a timestamp of the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, known as the Unix epoch ; to the left of it is the process ID of the program that generated the message ( on servers running Unix or Linux, each process has a number which is unique among the processes in progress at any moment, though they do repeat over time ); to the left of that is a count of the number of messages generated so far by the current process ; and the leftmost number is the number of parts in the current message that have been generated so far.

The earliest known species is Libralces gallicus ( French moose ), which lived in the Pliocene epoch, about 2 million years ago.

An eruption in 1900 BCE was the largest known eruption from St. Helens during the Holocene epoch, judged by the volume of one of the tephra layers from that period.

The earliest known butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, between 40 – 50 million years ago.

In order to reference a coordinate system which can be considered as fixed in space, these motions require specification of the equinox of a particular date, known as an epoch, when giving a position in ecliptic coordinates.

In prehistoric times, particularly the Miocene epoch, portions of the landforms now in the area ( then marshy and grassy savanna ) were populated by a wide range of now extinct mammals, known in modern times by the fossil remains excavated in the southern part of the county.

Either the longitude at epoch, L < sub > 0 </ sub >, the mean anomaly at epoch, M < sub > 0 </ sub >, or the time of perihelion passage, T < sub > 0 </ sub >, are used to specify a known point in the orbit.

This epoch is now known as the Maunder minimum, after Edward Walter Maunder, who extensively researched this peculiar event, first noted by Gustav Spörer.

Although the fossil record in South America is generally poor, the known tinamiform fossil record goes back 10 million years to the Miocene epoch.

The lampriforms diverged from other teleosts in the Cretaceous, perhaps 80 Ma ( million years ago ) or slightly more, considering that the oldest known lampriforms, Nardovelifer, dates from the late Campanian epoch and is already clearly assignable to the present order.

The oldest known fossil synapsid is Protoclepsydrops from about 320 million years ago, while the oldest known sauropsid is probably Paleothyris, in the order Captorhinida, from the Middle Pennsylvanian epoch ( ca.

During the Pleistocene epoch, giant monitor lizards lived in Southeast Asia and Australasia, the best known fossil being the megalania ( Varanus priscus unless it falls in its own genus, in which case it is Megalania prisca ).

The earliest known members of the genus are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.

The Wurundjeri people shared the same belief system as other Kulin nation territories, based on a creative epoch known as the Dreamtime which stretches back into a remote era in history when the creator ancestors known as the First Peoples travelled across the land, creating and naming as they went.

The earliest known antiarch is Silurolepis, from the Ludlow epoch of Yunnan.

Fossilized porbeagle remains are known from Late Miocene epoch ( c. 7. 2 Ma ) deposits in Belgium and the Netherlands, Pliocene epoch ( 5. 3 – 2. 6 Ma ) deposits in Belgium, Spain, and Chile, and Pleistocene epoch ( 2. 6 Ma to 12, 000 BP ) deposits in the Netherlands.