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  2. List of films set on Mars - Wikipedia

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    An adventurer travels to Mars in a ship of his own construction, and finds the planet's inhabitants living harmoniously. [9] Watchmen: 2009: In the superhero film mainly set on Earth, the superpowered being Dr. Manhattan exiles himself to Mars after being accused of causing cancer in those in his company. [25] The Wizard of Mars: 1965

  3. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.

  4. Mission to Mars - Wikipedia

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    Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost, and suggested by Disney's theme park attraction of the same name. [2]

  5. Ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The early human migrations in the Lower Paleolithic saw Homo erectus spread across Eurasia 1.8 million years ago. [4] Evidence for the use of fire has been dated as early as 1.8 million years ago, a date which is contested, [ 5 ] with generally accepted evidence for the controlled use of fire dating to 780,000 years ago.

  6. 5th millennium BC - Wikipedia

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    World map in 5000 BC. The 5th millennium BC spanned the years (5000 BC - 4001 BC) (c. 7 ka to c. 6 ka), that is, inclusive of 5000 BC but exclusive of 4000 BC. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis.

  7. Timeline of prehistory - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning of ancient history.

  8. Flight to Mars (film) - Wikipedia

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    Mars in the Movies: A History. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7864-9914-4. Muirhead, Brian, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Going to Mars: The Stories of the People Behind NASA's Mars Missions Past, Present, and Future. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 978-0-67102-796-4. Warren, Bill.

  9. Mars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks, [24] they might use a flying carpet as in the 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold, [14] [18] [20] a balloon as in A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul ...