Even the word tennis has French origins from the medieval era, derived from the tenez, from the verb tenir, to hold.

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His argument is complex, and takes us back to the late medieval era, when Italy was ahead of the rest of Europe.

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McKitrick notes that Mann, a lead author, had available to him two studies besides his own presenting hemispheric temperature histories dating back to the Medieval Era.

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Richard's two-year reign signalled the end of the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses and is seen by some historians as the last act of the medieval era.

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Feudal Japan with samurais and ninjas, medieval castles in England from the Braveheart era.

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By the end of 2005 they had some 300 items - from the Neolithic Era, the Bronze Age, the Roman period and medieval times.

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His answer was to have the walls in the galleries painted in shades of gray, ranging from very pale in the 20th century displays to echo the hues of steel and aluminum associated with that era's technological advances -- to deep and dark hues in the medieval galleries.

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