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An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. [1] Comparable terms are Epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) [2] and Sanskrit yuga. [3]
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, the current year is numbered 2025 in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era. The two ...
The end of an era was marked by the Dec. 2 SAT when students arrived, for the last time, with sharpened No. 2 pencils. For nearly 100 years, since June 23, 1926, college-bound students engaged in ...
But that does not necessarily mean the agreement is at an end. Though there is no enforcement mechanism or legal provision under the treaty for suspension, the Vienna Convention allows countries ...
"End of an Era", poem by Adrienne Rich 1961; End of an Era, science fiction novel by Robert J. Sawyer 1994; End of an Era (comics), an American comic book; End of an Era (film), a 1994 Greek film; The Undertaker versus Triple H, billed as the "end of an era" at WrestleMania XXVIII
The latest season of the show also addressed speculation about its potential finale. Viewers were left somewhat startled as the long-running animated series’ 36th season was launched with an ...
A postmodern understanding of the term differs in that: . The idea of an "end of history" does not imply that nothing more will ever happen. Rather, what the postmodern sense of an end of history tends to signify is, in the words of contemporary historian Keith Jenkins, the idea that "the peculiar ways in which the past was historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially ...