Article: human evolution

Article: Anthropologists conclude Africans were first to make tools about 90,000 years ago.
Jet;  May 15, 1995 ;     193 words ......make sophisticated tools about 90,000 years ago in Africa and not in Europe as had been...evolved in Africa, perhaps some 125,000 years ago, and then reached Europe and Asia much...cruder before reaching Europe about 40,000 years ago. The new find shows that humans in Africa...

Article: One hundred million years ago.(Poem)(Brief article)
Children's Digest;  January 1, 2008 ;     69 words ...ONE HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AGO One hundred million years ago, The world was not the place WE know! No shops, no phones, no cars, no streets, No Chinese food, no trick-or-treats, NO schools, no bikes, no fast airplanes, No houses, people, ships or...

Article: Study says humans may have faced near extinction thousands of years ago.
AP Worldstream;  April 24, 2008 ;     425 words ......have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests...Eve, who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. The migrations of humans out of Africa...world appear to have begun about 60,000 years ago, but little has been known about humans...

Article: Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago
AP Online;  April 24, 2008 ;     429 words ......have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests...Eve, who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. The migrations of humans out of Africa...world appear to have begun about 60,000 years ago, but little has been known about humans...

Article: Taste of life at Goathland School - 200 years ago VIDEO and PICTURES.
Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England);  June 27, 2008 ;     404 words ......about the building of their school 200 years ago as well as sampling what life was like...ages would have been expected to do 200 years ago. Not only did the pupils take part in...peers would have been dressed in 200 years ago. Caretaker Chris Morley said: All the...

Article: 100 years ago, the varnishing department at the Cable Piano Company.(100 YEARS AGO)
Music Trades;  July 1, 2005 ;     24 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: 100 YEARS AGO, the varnishing department at the Cable Piano Company in St. Charles, Illinois, was considered state-of-the-art.

Article: 50 years ago.(Flashbacks: a look back at people, products, and events, as recorded in the pages of The Music Trades)
Music Trades;  January 1, 2005 ;     17 words ...50 YEARS AGO NAMM was promoting its annual trade show in Chicago. The 1954 event had a whopping 97 exhibitors.

Article: Man jailed for sex abuses 25 years ago.
Lynn News/Norfolk Citizen (King's Lynn, England);  September 1, 2007 ;     205 words ......sexually abused two young girls more than 25 years ago has been jailed for two-and-a-half years...years. It was wrong and inappropriate 25 years ago and it is still wrong now. In mitigation...Farr said that the offences happened 25 years ago and that Edwards was of previous good...

Article: This month in Agri Marketing ... (For Openers).(events of 5, 10 and 20 years ago)(Brief Article)
Agri Marketing;  May 1, 2003 ;     174 words ...Five Years Ago * Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Des...had sales of $66 million in 1997. Ten Years Ago * John Montandon is named president of...Advertising Inc., Minneapolis. Twenty Years Ago * Ciba-Geigy Corp.'s ag division, Greensboro...

Article: 50 years ago.(FLASHBACKS)
Music Trades;  June 1, 2007 ;     35 words ...50 YEARS AGO, Fender president Don Randall took to the air piloting his own plane to call on retailers and visit with artists. One of the architects of Fender's success, Randall engineered the sale of the company to CBS in 1965.

Article: Web triggers direct mail response: benchmarking data show huge increases from three years ago.(EXCLUSIVE NPT Research)
The Non-profit Times;  July 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......solicitation by mail than they did just three years ago, and among those 65 and older, the increases...to repeat a study it performed three years ago for The NPT. ORC asked 1,000 people...percent when the survey was done three years ago to 44 percent this year. Those who said...

Article: Cargill Dow Polymers LLC, a joint venture between Cargill Inc. and Dow Chemical Co., introduces its NatureWorks PLA polymers.(Five Years Ago)
Agri Marketing;  January 1, 2005 ;     150 words ...Five Years Ago * Cargill Dow Polymers LLC, a joint venture...Steven Lamb as president and CEO. Ten Years Ago * Pfizer Inc. acquires SmithKline Beacham...the United States and Canada. Twenty Years Ago * DFS/Wegener Agricultural Group promotes...

Article: Proprietary programs: fifty years ago, congregations bought the whole denominational program.
Presbyterian Record;  June 1, 1998 ;     691 words ...I was introduced to computers 15 years ago. Ralph Milton and I had recently started...churches than for computers. Some 50 years ago, if you belonged to a particular denomination...back to the proprietary computers of 15 years ago. Maybe we shouldn't keep yearning for...

Article: 30 years ago.(Fishing Back When)(Brief article)
National Fisherman;  June 1, 2006 ;     187 words ......seiner Bettie M, which cost $3.25 million to build just four years ago, meets an ignominious end when she runs aground by the mouth...Eagle, the last square-rigger in U.S. service. Two hundred years ago, square riggers were the battlewagons of the day, and they...