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[35] [36] The transition is marked by the Oi1 event, an oxygen isotope excursion occurring approximately 33.55 million years ago, [37] during which oxygen isotope ratios decreased by 1.3 ‰. About 0.3–0.4 ‰ of this is estimated to be due to major expansion of Antarctic ice sheets.
Each yuga is described as having a main period (a.k.a. yuga proper) preceded by its yuga-sandhyā (dawn) and followed by its yuga-sandhyāṃśa (dusk), where each twilight (dawn/dusk) lasts for one-tenth (10%) of its main period. Lengths are given in divine years (years of the gods), each lasting for 360 solar (human) years. [4] [5] [6]
Ethnology of the Iberian Peninsula c. 200 BC. The earliest record of Homo genus representatives living in Western Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca; a flint tool found their dates from 1.4 million years ago, and early human fossils date to roughly 1.2 million years ago. [1]
A 1970s study by the United Kingdom chemical industry estimated costs at £6m over seven years, or 0.25% of expected capital investment over the change period. Other estimates ranged from 0.04% of a large company's turnover spread over seven years to 2% of a small company's turnover for a single year.
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
UK USA: A series of downturns in Atlantic credit markets led to broader commercial downturns in Great Britain and the United States. Panic of 1819: 1819 USA: Panic of 1825: 1825 UK: Panic of 1837: 10 May 1837 USA: Panic of 1847: 1847 UK: Panic of 1857: 1857 USA: Panic of 1866: 1866 UK: Black Friday: 24 Sep 1869 USA: Panic of 1873: 9 May 1873
[9] [10] While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise from the late 2010s onward [3] [11] [12] while becoming an important fact-checking site. [13] [14] Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site.
By 2013, it claimed to have removed five billion malware threats from computers in its first five years. [17] In 2014, Malwarebytes received $30 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, and by the following year, announced it had treated 250 million computers worldwide, representing about 20–25% of working business computers. [11]