almost period

  • 51Boreal (period) — In paleoclimatology of the Holocene, the Boreal was the first of the Blytt Sernander sequence of north European climatic phases that were originally based on the study of Danish peat bogs, named for Axel Blytt and Rutger Sernander, who first… …

    Wikipedia

  • 52Spanish period of Arizona — In the late 1700s, colonists began steadily entering the region of northern New Spain that is the modern day U.S. state of Arizona. They were attracted by reports of the discovery of deposits of silver around the Arizonac mining camp. Most of the …

    Wikipedia

  • 53Ava (Inwa) Period —    (1364 1555)    Following the collapse of the Pagan (Bagan) Dynasty at the beginning of the 14th century, central or Upper Burma was in a state of great upheaval as Shans (Tai) from what are now Yunnan Province in China and Burma s Shan State… …

    Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)

  • 54Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) — The Khmer Rouge from 1975 until 1979 when Cambodia was ruled by the government of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party the official name of the country was Democratic Kampuchea ( km. កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, French: Kampuchea démocratique , Vietnamese …

    Wikipedia

  • 55North Africa during the Classical Period — Carthage and the BerbersPhoenician traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 BC and established Carthage (in present day Tunisia) around 800 BC. By the sixth century BC, a Phoenician presence existed at Tipasa (east of Cherchell in… …

    Wikipedia

  • 56Nanban period — n. era in the history of Japan that commenced in 1542 when the first Europeans arrive to Japan and ended in 1650 with the almost total exclusion of the Europeans from this archipelago …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 57Marine steam engine — Period cut away diagram of a triple expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918 A marine steam engine is a reciprocating steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. Steam turbines and diesel engines largely replaced reciprocating steam …

    Wikipedia

  • 58FLOWERS — Almost all the very rich and variegated flora of Ereẓ Israel are flowering plants (Phanerogamae), and most of them have an attractively colored corolla. In Israel flowers bloom all year, in the cold and rainy season as well as in the burning heat …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 59libraries — Almost every town in Britain and the US has a public library. Many libraries were built in the 1800s with money given by Andrew Carnegie, a US businessman originally from Scotland.   Public libraries are often open until late evening during the… …

    Universalium

  • 60Greenstick fracture — Almost exclusively occurs during infancy and childhood.The bending of a bone with incomplete fracture, involving the convex side only. Green stick fractures are characterized by a break in the bone which partially extends across and then along… …

    Wikipedia