In fact the modern Yezidi religion, practiced by over 500,000, people embraces traditions that date back to the Bronze Age. |
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And some fossil catfishes, lungfishes, and characins date back to the Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago. |
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The ceramics of Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode also date back to that time. |
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Both churches, parts of which are thought to date back to Saxon times, are now surrounded by scaffolding. |
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Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality. |
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The use of the gun carriage, the ceremonial guard and the lining of the streets, are traditions that date back to the time of Nelson. |
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The cases date back to the 1920s, when Prohibition created an illicit trade in alcohol. |
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The most primitive human stone tool sites date back 2.6 million years to when people were flaking the rock to create a razor-like edge. |
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Our modern wind harps, with their soothing, ethereal tones and contemporary designs, are in fact based on principles that date back to antiquity. |
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I uncovered this when I headed inland and to see the legendary Totem rocks which date back to the island's original inhabitants, the Guanches. |
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The earliest examples of frame making date back to the 2nd century B.C., when borders drawn around Etruscan cave paintings were first used. |
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During excavation, archaeologists found human remains thought to date back to ancient Roman times. |
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If we turn to the faithful OED, the word is said to date back to the eighteenth century and was used by the great literates of Swift and Dickens. |
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The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. |
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Across in Biggar, the bonfire celebrations date back to the pagan times when fire was worshipped. |
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The Jidai Festival features a parade of men, women and children wearing costumes in styles that date back more than a thousand years. |
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Indeed, tide mills, in use on the Spanish, French and British coasts, date back to the 11 th century. |
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The foundations of some of its towers date back two thousand years and I was struck by the haunting beauty of their forlorn mildewed walls. |
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The two films being shown at this festival date back to his early South Korea days. |
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The sandstone buildings date back to the turn of the century when terraced houses first became popular in Glasgow. |
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The catacombs date back to the 1599 when the local priests mummified a holy monk for all to see. |
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Attempts to regulate snowmobiling in national parks date back to the executive orders of Presidents Nixon and Carter. |
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Terraces of freehold houses, by contrast, date back at least to the 18th century. |
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The first signs of human habitation date back 11,000 years, and granite wheelclamps have been found from the Mesolithic era. |
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Among its various attractions, Wrangell has totem poles and native-carved petroglyphs that date back an estimated 8,000 years. |
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Perhaps the most solemn instrument is a full set of 65 chromatic bronze bells that date back 2,500 years. |
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The plan was proposed because many of the hospital's 16 buildings, some of which date back to 1908, need major repairs. |
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Gladiatorial contests were originally an Etruscan practice and so date back to the days before the Roman Republic was founded. |
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The roots of jazz date back to around the 1890s when a blend of African music from the slaves on the plantations was coupled with European-American musical traditions. |
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The chancel and nave of the church date back to the 12 th century, but it is also believed a Saxon church once stood there before and a Roman building before this. |
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The oldest true vertebrate fossils date back 530 million years. |
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The ideas date back at least 3,000 years, yet a growing number of architects and decorators are integrating feng shui ideas with contemporary building design. |
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In some cases, the crimes date back to before DNA technology existed. |
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Fossils of this group date back into the Jurassic, where they first become abundant, and some possible fossils of coccolithophores have been recovered from the Pennsylvanian. |
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It is a shabby and disrespectful epitaph for the tweedy old Bernard Quatermass and his adventures, which date back almost to the advent of television. |
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Nathaniel Clements, another decorative artist from Dublin, likes to work with finishes such as marbling and graining that date back to the 18th century. |
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Archeological finds at the Amphipolis tomb may date back to Alexander the Great. |
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The stirrups we found date back to the 14th century and as far as we know, are the only known find on the site which is contemporary with the battle. |
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The original buildings at Tarn House date back to 1685 when the property, with its tarn, was an important centre for stabling, watering and trading in packhorses. |
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The conflict's roots date back to the zenith of the British raj. |
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The lithic finds, many of which are arrow heads, date back to the days of the forest, before the low-lying coastal lands were cleared and cultivated. |
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The original hospital buildings date back to the 1850s, but the site has lain empty for nearly five years while the Clements Park estate has grown up around it. |
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Network Railwill be renewing track, foundations and signalling equipment through Stockport station and upgrading five signal boxes, which date back to Victorian times. |
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Edam, Gouda, and Friesland cheese all date back to the early Middle Ages. |
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In all three categories, almost all anti-gay laws are a vestige of European colonialism, and date back approximately 150 years. |
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The rituals date back nearly a thousand years, but Vatican officials are taking very modern security measures to prevent any leaks from the conclave. |
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The official language is Romanian, which has Latin roots that date back to the Roman occupation of the area but also contains words from Greek, Slavic languages, and Turkish. |
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Nickel has been used in alloys that date back to the dawn of civilization. |
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Investigations into arrangements of spheres date back centuries, but research into how efficiently aspherical objects aggregate has received scant attention. |
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There are gravestones in the cemetery that date back 80 years. |
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The charges date back to Sept. 16, 2002 when Ng's squad car was T-boned by a speeding 2003 Honda Civic at the intersection of Williams and No. 3 Road. |
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For those not familiar with Spanish history, the Carlists are a faction who date back to 1833 when the succession to the Spanish throne was disputed. |
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The chancel and nave of the church date back to the 12th century, but it is also believed a Saxon church once stood there before and a Roman building before this. |
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The oldest traces of hominid existence in Switzerland date back about 150,000 years. |
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The majority of the prehistoric remains on Dartmoor date back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. |
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Cricket has long been a popular sport in the Northeast of England and is said to date back to Elizabethan times. |
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First mentions of amber deposits on the South coast of the Baltic Sea date back to the 12th century. |
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The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity and their borders are geologically arbitrary. |
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The oldest rocks date back to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago. |
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There are also caves beneath the Salutation that date back to the medieval period, although they are no longer used as beer cellars. |
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Despite not having a cathedral, Nottingham has three notable historic Anglican parish churches, all of which date back to the Middle Ages. |
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Parts of the building date back to the tenth century, and it is a grade I listed building. |
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Using plants and plant substances to treat all kinds of diseases and medical conditions is believed to date back to prehistoric medicine. |
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The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. |
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Many villages in Europe have churches that date back to the Middle Ages, but all periods of architecture are represented. |
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This indicates that versions of the song date back to the actual period of penal transportation mentioned in the lyrics as Maggie's fate. |
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The extant Laws date back to 1863 where a ruleset was formally adopted by the newly formed Football Association. |
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Danish mass media date back to the 1540s, when handwritten fly sheets reported on the news. |
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These arms date back to 1613, when James VI and I granted Belfast town status. |
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Qatar's first demographic records date back to 1892, and were conducted by Ottoman governors in the region. |
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Some may date back to the late Medieval era and deal with events and people that can be traced back as far as the thirteenth century. |
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The oldest traces of human existence in Liechtenstein date back to the Middle Paleolithic era. |
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The earliest preserved stone buildings in Bohemia and Moravia date back to the time of the Christianization in the 9th and 10th century. |
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The earliest fossil finds of the species come from both Europe and Asia, and date back to the Early Pleistocene. |
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Other early compositions, such as the melody of Bogurodzica, may also date back to this period. |
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The oldest modern polecat fossils occur in Germany, Britain and France, and date back to the Middle Pleistocene. |
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The earliest pottery vessels date back to 18,000 BC and were discovered in Xianrendong cave in Jiangxi, China. |
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Some of these old spas date back to the 18th century and are still active today. |
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In Sicily, the first coastal towers date back to the period between 1313 and 1345 of the Aragonese monarchy. |
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The older and more controversial component may date back as far as 33,000 years, but few scholars currently accept this very early component. |
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Fossil remains of Florida manatee ancestors date back about 45 million years. |
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Some petroglyphs might be as old as 40,000s, and petroglyph sites in Australia are estimated to date back 27,000 years. |
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The oldest mosque in town, its minaret was built in the 13th century, and its pillars date back to Ottoman rule. |
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Many of the differences between American and British English date back to a time when spelling standards had not yet developed. |
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The origins of the poet laureateship date back to 1616 when James I of England granted a pension to the writer Ben Jonson. |
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The ancient panels belong to the Abbasids dome in the Sayda Nefisa neighbourhood, and date back to the 13 th century. |
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Samples of the remains have been sent for radiocarbon dating but it is thought they could date back as far as the Medieval or Famine period. |
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Another popular myth which seems to date back to ancient Arabia is that of jinns, also spelled djinns. |
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A STASH of more than one hundred gold coins that date back to the time of Richard the Lionheart has been found at a 13th century castle. |
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The rocks date back as much as 2,500 million years and were formed in the deep-seated magma chambers far below active volcanoes. |
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It includes several mosques and a traditional bathroom, the arcs of which date back to the Mamluk era. |
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In Tennessee, meet the Melungeons, a people who claim their roots date back prior to the Pilgrims. |
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Sorrowless Field is a real place and was said to date back to the Battle of Flodden Field. |
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The mountain gorilla specimens, which date back to the 1920s, are being brought back to their former glory by conservationists. |
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Mutual insurance companies date back to the 1700s, but as times have changed, so have mutuals. |
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Almost all of his flat and steam irons were manufactured in the Midlands and date back to just before World War Two. |
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The cache, thought to date back to between 675 and 725AD, was unearthed on Staffordshire farmland by a metal detectorist. |
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While some consider optical wireless to be bleeding-edge technology, its origins date back to Alexander Graham Bell's photophone. |
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Prefabricated homes date back more than 50 years and have never made much of a splash. |
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The earliest catarrhines in the fossil record, creatures that were neither monkey nor ape, date back to the late Eocene to early Oligocene epochs, 35 to 30 million years ago. |
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The relational theory does, of course, derive some inspiration from the evolution of fiduciary and trust concepts that date back to at least the fideicommissum of Roman Law. |
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The third, fourth and the fifth salt mummies date back to the Achaemenid era while the sixth one belongs to either the Parthian or the Sassanid era. |
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Bradford also has a number of architecturally historic hotels that date back to the establishment of the two railway lines into the city centre, back in Victorian times. |
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The rural part of the landscape is divided into narrow rectangular tracts of land that extend from the river and date back to settlement patterns in 17th century New France. |
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The oldest signs of human settlement at Ife's current site date back to the 9th century, and its material culture includes terracotta and bronze figures. |
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The earliest attested cultures in Iran date back to the Lower Paleolithic. |
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Some of these methods date back to Roman battlefield medicine. |
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The oldest documents in Gothic date back to the fourth century. |
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The oldest stone specimens found in Iceland date back to ca. |
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The earliest chronologies date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, though no historical writers in these early civilizations were known by name. |
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At the same time the original buildings, which date back to the 1920s, were rented out to RTL, Germany's largest private broadcaster, as their new corporate headquarters. |
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In early August, the German command had agreed that the invasion should begin on 15 September, but the Navy's revisions to its schedule set the date back to 20 September. |
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The first mentions of amber deposits here date back to the 12th century. |
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Though its foundations may date back to as early as 1904, the team formally began in 1995, making them the newest international rugby league team in Great Britain. |
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German Volkslieder perpetuated by Liederhandschriften manuscripts like Carmina Burana date back to medieval Minnesang and Meistersinger traditions. |
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The type was originally projected to enter service in 2006, but a combination of delays in production and Virgin deferring its order has pushed that date back. |
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Claims of discovery date back to the 16th century, but no consensus exists on whether these early explorers discovered the Falklands or other islands in the South Atlantic. |
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German beer purity regulations date back to the 15th century. |
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It may date back to bridge rhymes and games of the Late Middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in English are from the seventeenth century. |
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Devotions to Saint George in Portugal date back to the 12th century. |
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The earliest written references to the islands date back to Roman times. |
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The practice is believed to date back to a year in the reign of Elizabeth I, when, lacking a pen, she decided to use her bodkin to mark the name instead. |
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These ploughs date back to the days of the steam engine and the horse. |
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Ancient bronze drums from Thailand and Vietnam date back 2,000 years. |
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Most of these date back to the 14th century and sometimes earlier. |
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At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' and its sports. |
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