Life expectancy

Average number of years that individuals are expected to live depending on where and when they are born and spend their lives. May be derived on national, regional or local scale.

life expectancy

Financial services; General Finance

The length of time that an average person is expected to live, which is used by insurance companies use to make projections of benefit payouts.

life expectancies

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Based on known statistical data, the number of years which any person of a given age may reasonably expected to live.

Gauls

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through to the ...

Picts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of ...

Celts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Celts were an Indo-European and etho-linguistically diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. By the first millennium AD ...

Cherokee

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, North and South Carolina and East Tennessee). Historians and ...

Iceni

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Iceni (or Eceni) were a British tribe who inhabited an read of East Anglia corresponding roughly to present day Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The ...

pecking and grinding

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The process of manufacturing heavy-duty stone tools (bowls, mauls etc. ) From granular rocks by prolonged hammering with a hammerstone. Abrasive techniques might be used to finish ...

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Ground Zero

On September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes were intentionally flown into the two World Trade centre buildings in Lower Manhattan New York. Ground Zero ...