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(Encyclopedia) traprock: see Triassic period.

(Encyclopedia) Tardenoisian: see Mesolithic period. ...

(Encyclopedia) Georgian literature. Early Georgian literature shows the influence of two distinctly different civilizations—medieval Eastern Orthodox Christianity and, later, Persia. The Passion of St. Shushanik, ...

(Encyclopedia) Metonic cycle: see synodic period. ...

(Encyclopedia) Chellean-Abbevillian: see Paleolithic period. ...

(Encyclopedia) Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of, 1800–1870, British statesman. He was ambassador (1833–39) to Spain during the difficult period of the Carlist war and then lord privy sea...

(Encyclopedia) New Stone Age: see Neolithic period. ...

(Encyclopedia) Old Stone Age: see Paleolithic period. ...

(Encyclopedia) Merovingian art and architecture mĕrˌəvĭnˈjēən [key]. This period is named for Merovech, the founder of the first Germanic-Frankish dynasty (c.a.d. 500–a.d. 751). The Merovingian period was m...

(Encyclopedia) Dione dīōˈnē [key], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn IV (or S4), Dione is 695 mi (1,120 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distanc...