Word: millennia
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...Zhan's views are a sharp reminder of the complexity with which many Chinese view the U.S. The modern history of China is a still-unfolding tale of a proud, millennia-old civilization coming to terms with a new, shocking world in which other nations are more powerful and technologically advanced. As the dominant player in that story for more than half a century, the U.S. occupies a unique place in the Chinese imagination. To immigrants and students, it is the "Gold Mountain" - a land that, ever since the gold rush in 19th century California, has epitomized the promise...
...Years since humans first had holes drilled into their molars, according to analyses of nine bodies found in Pakistan, adding four millennia to the known history of dentistry 160 Estimated number of years that dentists and doctors have been using anesthetic
...Hansen: Not really, but not enough thought was given to the potential for large sea level changes, probably because of the assumption that it takes the ice sheets millennia to respond. I have argued the importance of sea level and I think that realization is catching on. I do think, on the other hand, that many scientists are spending too much time trying to figure out the effects of possible changes in the ocean's circulation. Europe, and the U.S., will not freeze over or get colder if the Atlantic circulation slows down. Global warming overwhelms the modest effects...
...eastern shores into giant crescent-shaped dunes, or lunettes. And by the time the lakes dried permanently about 16,000 years ago, leaving saltbush to claim their abandoned saline beds, the lunettes were like vaults, stacked with the artefacts and bones of people who had lived near them for millennia...
...then there’s the ironic charge that Hist10a’s vast subject matter is spread too thin—ironic, because it’s certainly not advocates of the study of the West who have forced two millennia of Western Civilization into one semester...