chronology
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There had been a trend in museum science away from this, and away from straight chronology.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Lucas Museum pushes that approach further by making storytelling — not chronology, geography or medium — the organizing principle for an entire institution, placing illustration, comics and commercial art inside a curatorial framework.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The disrupted chronology, intended to provoke, may make the show harder for some visitors to digest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Kennedy said aspects of Öpik's life before Armagh had been blurry, and her research helped establish firmer dates and a clearer chronology.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
The first volume dealt with the interval from the Creation to the Flood, a period he took to be 432,000 years or about a hundred times longer than the Old Testament chronology.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"Our study is a reminder that the oldest chronologies must be treated with great caution," explains Sahra Talamo, professor at the University of Bologna and co-coordinator of the study.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
“Salesman” is more limber in its dramaturgy, shifting locations and blurring chronologies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
In the wake of their headline-grabbing Vinland success, the Groningen team is tackling another alluring set of historical puzzles: “floating” chronologies, or ancient, internally consistent timelines that are untethered to specific dates.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023
We now have dozens of chronologies of hurricane activity at different locations — including New England, the Florida Gulf Coast, the Florida Keys and Belize — that reveal decade- to century-scale patterns in hurricane frequency.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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