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    (which both took the official distance in 1966) are extant today. The earliest half marathon world record accepted by the Association of Track and Field Statisticians...
    27 KB (1,021 words) - 11:57, 28 October 2024
  • Columbia died before the formation of the paid department. The earliest records extant detail the deaths and funerals of members of the Western Hose Company...
    128 KB (17,669 words) - 13:45, 15 November 2024
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    The Shiji, often known in English as Records of the Grand Historian or The Grand Scribe's Records, is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the...
    40 KB (4,857 words) - 09:20, 5 October 2024
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    human history because of the limited use of written records. Moreover, human cultures do not always record all of the information which is considered relevant...
    22 KB (2,542 words) - 17:36, 21 November 2024
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    Equoidea (category Extant Eocene first appearances)
    affinities, of which members of the genus Equus are the only extant species. The earliest fossil record of the Equoidea proves unclear, but they possibly could...
    4 KB (322 words) - 19:25, 22 October 2024
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    own records until more than three centuries later, with the earliest extant native record being the Kojiki of 712. The text forms the foundation on which...
    38 KB (1,976 words) - 02:47, 24 November 2024
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    "night" + ereutēs "wanderer") is a genus of canid which includes only two extant species, both known as raccoon dogs: the common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes...
    6 KB (484 words) - 20:08, 18 November 2024
  • Tanakh back a millennium from such codices. Before this discovery, the earliest extant manuscripts of the Old Testament were in Greek, in manuscripts such...
    43 KB (4,525 words) - 20:10, 1 October 2024
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    securely-dated woodblock scroll. The Diamond Sutra was closely followed by the earliest extant printed almanac, the Qianfu sinian lishu (乾符四年曆書), dated to 877. From...
    52 KB (6,593 words) - 11:56, 16 September 2024
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    Mahāprajñāpāramitāupadeśa (Great Treatise on the Perfection of Wisdom). The earliest extant copy of Kumarajiva's translation however, dates only to the Jin dynasty...
    98 KB (11,367 words) - 09:40, 21 October 2024
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    Auk (category Extant Eocene first appearances)
    murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets. The family contains 25 extant or recently extinct species that are divided into 11 genera. Auks are found...
    21 KB (2,056 words) - 04:30, 14 November 2024
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    but the earliest surviving printed edition is from 1633. First official record 1594–1597 First published 1601, no extant copy; first extant copy, 1604...
    96 KB (10,206 words) - 22:15, 26 November 2024
  • List of languages by first written account (category Earliest known manuscripts by language)
    written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here. A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding...
    115 KB (6,845 words) - 18:58, 19 November 2024
  • and music theorist. He is the author of the Musica disciplina, the earliest extant treatise on music from medieval Europe. Next to nothing is known about...
    16 KB (1,879 words) - 16:54, 13 October 2024
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    Equisetidae (category Extant Late Devonian first appearances)
    cone. The extant horsetails are homosporous, but extinct heterosporous species such as Calamostachys casheana appear in the fossil record. The sporangia...
    16 KB (1,547 words) - 21:59, 16 September 2024
  • though other keyboard instruments may be used. This Allegro is Mozart's earliest extant piece in F major. Like K. 1b, it is in a fast tempo. It is in rounded...
    26 KB (2,110 words) - 16:24, 27 July 2024
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    Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor Records, and Bob Haring at Brunswick Records became the precursors of record producers, supervising...
    32 KB (3,475 words) - 15:12, 19 November 2024
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    Pika (category Extant Burdigalian first appearances)
    lagomorph group. Only one genus, Ochotona (/ɒkəˈtoʊnə/ or /ɒtʃəˈtoʊnə/), is extant within the family, covering 37 species, though many fossil genera are known...
    46 KB (4,268 words) - 00:26, 11 November 2024
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    taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines). They comprise two extant genera: Homo (humans) and Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos), but in standard...
    24 KB (2,424 words) - 14:41, 15 October 2024
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    Lungfish (category Extant Early Devonian first appearances)
    globally distributed. The fossil record of the group extends into the Early Devonian, over 410 million years ago. The earliest known members of the group were...
    40 KB (3,361 words) - 22:04, 26 November 2024
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