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An olive mill and an olive press dating from Roman times in Capernaum, Israel. A story, with different versions, recounts how Thales achieved riches from an olive harvest by prediction of the weather. In one version, he bought all the olive presses in Miletus after predicting the weather and a good harvest for a particular year.
Neanderthals ( / niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ -, - ˌθɑːl / nee-AN-də (r)-TAHL, nay-, -THAHL; [7] Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
Thal, St. Gallen. / 47.467°N 9.567°E / 47.467; 9.567. Thal is a village and municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides the village of Thal itself, the municipality also includes the villages of Altenrhein, Buechen, Buriet and Staad .
Thal ( German pronunciation: [ˈtaːl]) is a village in the Austrian state of Styria, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west from the edge of Graz, Austria's second largest city. Its population in the 2014 census was 2,240. Thal is the birthplace of bodybuilder, actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, who lived there until 1966 at the age of 19.
Peter Thal Larsen is a Dutch journalist. [1] Thal Larsen graduated from Bristol University before going on to the London School of Economics. [1] He began working for the Financial Times in 1999 and moved to the paper's New York City office the following year, first as a financial correspondent and then U.S. communications editor.
Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan and Thalomid among others, is an oral medication used to treat a number of cancers ( e.g., multiple myeloma ), graft-versus-host disease, and many skin disorders ( e.g., complications of leprosy such as skin lesions ). [6] [7] [8] While thalidomide has been used in a number of HIV -associated ...
The Thal desert of Pakistan lies at altitudes above sea levels of approximately 200m in the north which gradually decrease to around 120m in the south. [8] It falls under the agro-ecological zone-III and is a sandy, arid to semi-arid region. [9] The desert is divided into the districts of Bhakkar, Khushab, Mianwali, Jhang, Layyah and ...
Origins. The First Doctor first encounters the Daleks in the second serial of the show, The Daleks (1963−64). In this version of Dalek history, the Dalek homeworld of Skaro is described by the Daleks in the second episode as having once been home to two humanoid races: the Kaleds and the Thals. Following a short but terrible nuclear war ...