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23 hours ago · Homo erectus georgicus, which lived roughly 1.8 million years ago in Georgia, is the earliest hominid to have been discovered in Europe. The earliest appearance of anatomically modern people in Europe has been dated to 45,000 BC, referred to as the Early European modern humans.
23 hours ago · Name. Attempts have been made to find a linguistic root for the name Rome. Possibilities include derivation from the Greek Rhṓmē (Ῥώμη), meaning "bravery" or "courage"; possibly the connection is with a root *rum-, "teat", with a theoretical reference to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately-named twins.
23 hours ago · Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
23 hours ago · Baguio (UK: / ˈ b æ ɡ i oʊ / BAG-ee-oh, US: / ˈ b ɑː ɡ i ˈ oʊ / BAH-ghee-oh, - OH, Tagalog:), officially the City of Baguio (Ibaloi: Siudad ne Bagiw; Ilocano: Siudad ti Baguio; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
- 853 m (2,799 ft)
- 2.6K
- 1900
- Philippines
23 hours ago · July 1, 1916: Unconfirmed, experts are divided whether it was a bull or juvenile great white shark: Attacked while swimming in chest-deep water about 40 yards (40 m) from shore at Beach Haven, New Jersey, Vansant died on the beach of a severed femoral artery after being pulled from the surf.
23 hours ago · The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the process of ...
23 hours ago · On 1 October 1948, active AACS squadrons were renumbered starting at 1900 when USAF required Major Command controlled units to have four digits contained within blocks of numbers allotted to the commands. AACS Squadrons active on 1 June 1961 were redesignated as communications squadrons.
