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(Encyclopedia)Ice Age: see Pleistocene epoch.Golden Age
(Encyclopedia)Golden Age, in classical mythology: see mythology. ...New Age
(Encyclopedia)New Age, a term popularized in the 1980s to describe a wide-ranging set of beliefs and practices that are an outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s in the United States. Adherents of the...Stone Age
(Encyclopedia)Stone Age: see Paleolithic period; Mesolithic period; Neolithic period. ...age of consent
(Encyclopedia)age of consent, the age at which, according to the law, persons are bound by their words and acts. There are different ages at which one acquires legal capacity to consent to marriage, to choose a gua...Reason, Age of
(Encyclopedia)Reason, Age of: see Enlightenment. ...New Stone Age
(Encyclopedia)New Stone Age: see Neolithic period. ...Old Stone Age
(Encyclopedia)Old Stone Age: see Paleolithic period. ...old-age pension
(Encyclopedia)old-age pension: see pension; social security. ...youth-and-old-age
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