There are twelve Federal Reserve Districts in the United States. Number 1 is in Boston and covers the New England states, while number 12 is in San Francisco and covers the Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. Source(s): http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.h... Sailinlove Â· 1 decade ago.
Layers in glaciers show a history much longer than 10,000 years, and radiometric dating places the formation of the Earth at 4.5 billion years. Light from galaxies is reaching us billions of years after it left, and the expansion rate of the universe dates its age to 13.7 billion years.
The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day. Nearly all branches of natural science have contributed to the understanding of the main events of Earth's past. The age of the Earth is approximately one-third of the age of the universe. An immense amount of geological change has occurred in that timespan, accompanied by the emergence of life and its subsequent evolution. Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the solar ne