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PALEOECOLOGY: Mass Extinctions Pinned on Ice Age Hunters -- Dayton 292 (5523): 1819 -- Science (279 words) |
 | PALEOECOLOGY: Mass Extinctions Pinned on Ice Age Hunters -- Dayton 292 (5523): 1819 -- Science |
| Incriminating new evidence from Australia and North America points to Homo sapiens as the culprit behind the mass extinctions of many species of big, exotic mammals and flightless birds in the late Pleistocene era, 11,000 to 50,000 years ago. |
| If findings reported on pages 1888 and 1893 of this issue of Science are confirmed, humans are guilty of two counts of serial mass murder, 35,000 years apart, and rival suspects such as climate change are off the hook. |
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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1819 (4609 words) |
| The Adams-OnÃs Treaty of 1819 (formally titled the Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty, and also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, and sometimes the Florida Purchase Treaty) was a historic agreement between the United States and... |
| Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. |
| Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. |
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