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  2. Archean - Wikipedia

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    The Archean Eon ( IPA: / ɑːrˈkiːən / ar-KEE-ən, also spelled Archaean or Archæan ), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth 's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic. The Archean represents the time period from 4,031 to 2,500 Ma (millions of years ago).

  3. Future of an expanding universe - Wikipedia

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    Physical cosmology. Current observations suggest that the expansion of the universe will continue forever. The prevailing theory is that the universe will cool as it expands, eventually becoming too cold to sustain life. For this reason, this future scenario once popularly called "Heat Death" is now known as the "Big Chill" or "Big Freeze".

  4. Ivan the Terrible - Wikipedia

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    Formally, the statue was unveiled in honor of the 450th anniversary of the founding of Oryol, a Russian city of about 310,000 that was established as a fortress to defend Moscow's southern borders. Informally, there was a big political subtext. The opposition thinks that Ivan the Terrible's rehabilitation echoes of Stalin's era.

  5. Graphical timeline of the Stelliferous Era - Wikipedia

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    Graphical timeline of the Stelliferous Era. This is the timeline of the stelliferous era but also partly charts the primordial era, and charts more of the degenerate era of the heat death scenario. The scale is where is the time since the Big Bang expressed in years. Example: one million years is .

  6. Abbasid Caliphate - Wikipedia

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    Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire ( / əˈbæsɪd, ˈæbəsɪd /; Arabic: الْخِلَافَة الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, romanized : al-Khilāfa al-ʿAbbāsiyya) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ...

  7. Modern era - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The modern era or the modern period, also known as modern history or modern times, is the period of human history that succeeds the post-classical era (also known, particularly with reference to Europe, as the Middle Ages ), which ended around 1500 AD, up to the present. This terminology is a historical periodization that is applied ...

  8. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. Namik Kemal, a political activist and member of the Young Ottomans, drew on major Enlightenment thinkers and "a variety of intellectual resources in his quest for social and political ...

  9. Chronology of the universe - Wikipedia

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    era: 47 ka ~ 9.8 Ga: 3600 ~ 0.4: 10 4 K ~ 4 K: During this time, the energy density of matter dominates both radiation density and dark energy, resulting in a decelerated expansion of the universe. Dark-energy-dominated era > 9.8 Ga < 0.4 < 4 K Matter density falls below dark energy density (vacuum energy), and expansion of space begins to ...