"New South Wales Police Force Commissioner's Sesquicentenary Citation The New South Wales Police Force Commissioner's Sesquicentenary Citation, also known as the Sesquicentenary 150th Citation is a decoration for police officers and unsworn personnel of the New South Wales Police Force. First instituted in 2012, the citations are a metal device, with thin silver surround, with navy blue and light blue striped enamel centre and silver numerals of '1862' '150' '2012' with a depiction of the State of NSW and silitoe tartan. The 'New South Wales Police Force Commissioner's Sesquicentenary Citation was instituted after being approved by the Minister for Police"
"Century A century (from the Latin ""centum"", meaning ""one hundred""; abbreviated c.) is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. A centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier. Although a century can mean any arbitrary period of 100 years, there are two viewpoints on the nature of standard centuries. One is based on strict construction, while the other is based on popular perspective (general usage). According to the strict construction of the Gregorian calendar, the 1st"
"Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which means ""a group of ten"". Other words for spans of years also come from Latin: biennium (2 years), triennium (3 years), quadrennium (4 years), lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years). Although any period of ten years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of a calendar year, as in using ""1960s"" to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969. Often, for brevity, only the tens part is mentioned"
"Sexagenary cycle The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi, is a cycle of sixty terms used for reckoning time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere. It appears as a means of recording days in the first Chinese written texts, the Shang oracle bones of the late second millennium BC. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century BC. The cycle and its variations have been an important part of the traditional calendrical systems in Chinese-influenced Asian states and territories, particularly those of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, with"
"condita'. The new millennium that Rome entered was called the ""saeculum nouum"", a term that got a metaphysical connotation in Christianity, referring to the worldly age (hence 'secular'). A saeculum is not normally used for a fixed amount of time, in common usage it stands for about 90 years. It can be divided into four ""seasons"" of approximately 22 years each; these seasons represent youth, rising adulthood, midlife, and old age. The word has evolved within Romance languages (as well as and ) to mean ""century"": Saeculum A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime"
"+ 200). In Latin, it seems that this rule did not apply precisely for 1½. While ""secundus"" is Latin for ""second"", and ""bis"" for ""twice"", these terms are not used such as in sesqui-secundus. Instead ""sesqui"" (or ""ses"") is used by itself. Many anniversaries have special names. ""Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home"" by Emily Post, published in 1922, contained suggestions for wedding anniversary gifts for 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, and 75 years. Wedding anniversary gift suggestions for other years were added in later editions and publications; they now comprise what is referred"
"(""setenta"") years, however, Izquierdo suggests that such a value is typo of 60 (""sesenta"") years, which is a value that better matches the entire calendar's description. Besides de centuries, the chronicles describe further periods of time: the ""Astronomical Revolution"" as called by Duquesne, corresponds to 5 ""Priest's Years"" or 185 sinodical months, comprising so a quarter of a ""Priest's Century"". Simón describes also an additional time period named the ""Bxogonoa"" which corresponds to 5 ""Priest's Centuries"". Again, both Duquesne and Humboldt describe another time span, the ""Dream of Bochica"" which accounted for 100 ""Priest's Centuries"", which correspond to 2000 ""The"
"Centenarian A centenarian is a person who lives to (or beyond) the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100 years, the term is invariably associated with longevity. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide. As life expectancy is increasing across the world, and the world population has also increased rapidly, the number of centenarians is expected to increase quickly in the future. According to the UK ONS, one-third of babies born in 2013 in the UK are expected to live to 100. A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a"
"span across century years divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000, and 2400. In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 28-year cycle (1461 weeks). A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters (one for January and February and the other for March to December in the Church of England as 29 February has no letter). Each of the seven two-letter sequences occurs once within a cycle, and every common letter thrice. As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years that means it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e. 25 cycles."
"25,920 years, sometimes called a Platonic Year. However the length of the ages are decreasing with time as the rate of precession is increasing. Therefore, no two ages are of equal length. Approximately every 26,000 years the zodiacal constellations, the associated sidereal zodiac, and the tropical zodiac used by western astrologers basically align. Technically this is when the tropical and sidereal ""first point in Aries"" (Aries 0°) coincided. This alignment is often called the fiducial point and, if the fiducial point could be found, fairly exact timeframes of all the astrological ages could be accurately determined if the method used"
"celebrations over different transitional periods. Further of his essays on this topic are collected in ""Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown"". Millennium A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears. It derives from the Latin ', thousand, and ', year. It is often, but not always, related to a particular dating system. Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year ""1""), or in later years that are"
"any date before October 15, 1582, use the Julian century column to find the row for that century's N. For dates after October 15, 1582, use the Gregorian century column to find the century's N. When looking at dates in January and February of leap years, use the bold & italic Feb and Jan. Sexagenary cycle The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi, is a cycle of sixty terms used for reckoning time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere. It appears as a means of recording days in the first Chinese written"
"events that took place between c. 1964 and 1972, and to memories of the counterculture, flower power, protests of 1968 and other things happening at the time. Often, such a nominal decade will come to be known by a title, such as the ""Swinging Sixties"" (1960s), the ""Warring Forties"" (1940s) and the ""Roaring Twenties"" (1920s). This practice is occasionally also used for decades of earlier centuries, for example references to the 1890s as the ""Gay Nineties"" or ""Naughty Nineties"". Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which"
"sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, i.e. a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds. The smallest meaningful increment of time is the Planck time, the time light takes to traverse the Planck distance, many decimal orders of magnitude smaller than a second. The largest ""realized"" amount of time, given known scientific data, is the age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years - the time since the Big Bang as measured in the cosmic microwave background rest frame. Those amounts of time together span 60 decimal orders of magnitude. Metric prefixes are defined spanning 10"
"that the length of the year is changing in the sixth decimal place over a person's lifetime, this is outstandingly accurate. For comparison the length of the year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, while today it is 365.242190 days. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582, and is today in worldwide use as the ""de facto"" calendar for secular purposes. The term ""calendar"" itself is taken from the ""calends"", the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb ""calare"" ""to"
"to identify the nature of those that are protected from aging effects. According to a study of 30 different body parts from a 112-year-old female supercentenarian, along with younger controls, the cerebellum is protected from aging according to an epigenetic biomarker of tissue age known as the epigenetic clock — the reading is about 15 years younger than expected in a centenarian. These findings could explain why the cerebellum exhibits fewer neuropathological hallmarks of age-related dementia as compared to other brain regions. Supercentenarian A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has lived to or surpassed their 110th birthday."
"Millennium A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears. It derives from the Latin ', thousand, and ', year. It is often, but not always, related to a particular dating system. Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year ""1""), or in later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Frequently in the"
"Billion years A billion years (10 years) is a unit of time on the petasecond scale, more precisely equal to seconds. It is sometimes abbreviated Gy, Ga (""giga-annum""), Byr and variants. The abbreviations Gya or bya are for ""billion years ago"", i.e. billion years before present. The terms are used in geology, paleontology, geophysics, astronomy and physical cosmology. The prefix giga- is preferred over billion- to avoid confusion in the long and short scales over the meaning of billion; the postfix annum may be further qualified for precision as a sidereal year or Julian year: Byr was formerly used in"
"of the legendary Yellow Emperor, was the first year (甲子; ""jiǎ-zǐ"") of a cycle. 2700 years later in 4 AD, the duration equivalent to 45 60-year cycles, was also the starting year of a 60-year cycle. Similarly 1980 years later, 1984 was the start of a new cycle. Thus, to find out the Gregorian year's equivalent in the sexagenary cycle use the appropriate method below. The result will produce a number between 0 and 59, corresponding to the year order in the cycle; if the remainder is 0, it corresponds to the 60th year of a cycle. Thus, using the"
"about 25,700 years. The Galactic year is the time it takes Earth's solar system to revolve once around the galactic center. It comprises roughly 230 million Earth years. A seasonal year is the time between successive recurrences of a seasonal event such as the flooding of a river, the migration of a species of bird, the flowering of a species of plant, the first frost, or the first scheduled game of a certain sport. All of these events can have wide variations of more than a month from year to year. In the International System of Quantities the symbol for"
"Supercentenarian A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has lived to or surpassed their 110th birthday. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Anderson ""et al."" concluded that supercentenarians live a life typically free of major age-related diseases until shortly before maximum human lifespan is reached. In 2003, the Gerontology Research Group estimated that there were 300–450 living supercentenarians in the world (an estimate not updated ), while they had validated approximately 40. Adding those mentioned in other sources results in over 100 incidences. A study conducted in 2010 by the Max Planck Institute for"
"168 BC. In one of these documents, a sexagenary grid diagram is annotated in three places to mark notable events. For example, the first year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang (), 246 BC, is noted on the diagram next to the position of the 60-cycle term ""yǐ-mǎo"" (, 52 of 60), corresponding to that year. Use of the cycle to record years became widespread for administrative time-keeping during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC – 8 AD). The count of years has continued uninterrupted ever since: the year 1984 began the present cycle (a —""jiǎ-zǐ"" year), and 2044"
"1960 to 1969, ""the 197th decade"" spans 1961 through 1970. A decade may also refer to an arbitrary span of ten years. For example, the statement ""during his last decade, Mozart explored chromatic harmony to a degree rare at the time"", merely refers to the last ten years of Mozart's life without regard to which calendar years are encompassed. Particularly for the 20th century, a nominal decade is often used to refer not just to a set of ten years but rather to a period roughly approximating those ten years - for example, the phrase ""the sixties"" often refers to"
"Six Ages of the World The Six Ages of the World (Latin: ""sex aetates mundi""), also rarely Seven Ages of the World (Latin: ""septem aetates mundi""), is a Christian historical periodization first written about by Saint Augustine ""circa"" A.D. 400. It is based upon Christian religious events, from the creation of Adam to the events of Revelation. The six ages of history, with each age (Latin: ""aetas"") lasting approximately 1,000 years, were widely believed and in use throughout the Middle Ages, and until the Enlightenment, the writing of history was mostly the filling out of all or some part of"
"The 28-year sub-cycle does only span across century years divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000, and 2400. In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 28-year cycle (1461 weeks). A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters (one for January and February and the other for March to December, as 29 February has no letter). This sequence occurs exactly once within a cycle, and every common letter thrice. As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years that means it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e. 25 cycles. The year's position"
"and reign for a literal thousand years on earth with Jerusalem as his capital. Thus Christ returns before (""pre-"") the thousand years mentioned in chapter 20. There are generally two subclasses of Premillennialism: Dispensational and Historic. Some form of premillennialism is thought to be the oldest millennial view in church history. Papias, believed to be a disciple of the Apostle John, was a premillennialist, according to Eusebius. Also Justin Martyr and Irenaeus expressed belief in premillennialism in their writings. Amillennialism, the traditional view for Catholicism, believes that the thousand years mentioned are not (""a-"") a literal thousand years, but is"
"60-year cycle is common to both North and South Indian traditional calendars, with the same name and sequence of years. Its earliest reference is to be found in Surya Siddhanta, which Varahamihirar (550 CE) believed to be the most accurate of the then current theories of astronomy. However, in the Surya Siddhantic list, the first year was ""Vijaya"" and not ""Prabhava"" as currently used. There are some parallels in this sexagenary cycle with the Chinese calendar. The Surya Siddhanta and other Indian classical texts on astronomy had some influence on the Chinese calendar although it merits attention that the sexagenary"
"Sun actually appears at the vernal equinox. This is the method that Hipparchus appears to have applied around 127 BC when he calculated precession. Since each sign of the zodiac is composed of 30 degrees, each astrological age might be thought to last about 72 (years) × 30 (degrees) = about 2160 years. This means the Sun crosses the equator at the vernal equinox moving backwards against the fixed stars from one year to the next at the rate of one degree in seventy-two years, one constellation (on average) in about 2160 years, and the whole twelve signs in about"
"War consists of six phases: Sixty Years' War The Sixty Years' War (1754–1814) was a military struggle for control of the Great Lakes region in North America, encompassing a number of wars over several generations. The term ""Sixty Years' War"" is not widely known, and is used primarily by academic historians who specialize in various aspects of the conflict. Traditionally, the war for control of the Great Lakes region has been written about only in reference to the individual wars; the designation ""Sixty Years' War"" provides a framework for viewing this era as a continuous whole. As defined by historian"
"age is between 15 and 20 years. While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older. The number of centenarians (humans of age 100 years or older) in the world was estimated by the United Nations at 210,000 in 2002. At least one person, Jeanne Calment, is known to have reached the age of 122 years; higher ages have been claimed but they are not well substantiated. Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material. Varying with available food"
"of 52 weeks (364 days). In leap years, a one-week month called ""Pax"" would be inserted after ""Columbus"". To get the same mean year as the Gregorian Calendar this leap week is added to 71 of the 400 years in the cycle. The years with leap week are years whose last two digits are a number that is divisible by six (including 00) or 99: however, if a year number ending in 00 is divisible by 400, then Pax is cancelled. Duncan Steel mentions the Pax Calendar proposal: Unlike the International Fixed Calendar, the Pax calendar has a new year"
"elapsed, expressed with Latin words or Roman numerals. Latin terms for anniversaries are mostly straightforward, particularly those relating to the first twenty years (1–20), or multiples of ten years (30, 40, 60, 70 etc.), or multiples of centuries or millennia (100, 200, 300, 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.) In these instances, the name of the anniversary is generally derived from the Latin word(s) for the respective number of years. However, when anniversaries relate to fractions of centuries (125, 150, 175, 250 years—i.e. 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, and 2.5 centuries), the situation is not as simple. Roman fractions were based on a duodecimal"
"years counting from Adam to the present, with the present time (in the Middle Ages) being the sixth and final stage. Not only do periodizing blocks inevitably overlap, they often seemingly conflict with or contradict one another. Some have a cultural usage (""the Gilded Age""), others refer to prominent historical events (""the Inter-War years: 1918–1939""), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (""the 1960s"", ""the 17th century""). Other periods are named from influential or talismanic individuals (""the Victorian Era"", ""the Edwardian Era"", ""the Napoleonic Era""). Some of these usages will also be geographically specific. This is especially true of"