date back
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Fossils of stromatolites date back at least 3.5 billion years.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
The recent charges against Castro date back to an incident 30 years ago.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
The origins of Memorial Day date back to 1868, when Civil War soldiers on the Union side decorated the graves of the war dead with flowers.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
The first signs of a spending surge date back to late 2025.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The Polynesians living on Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, had a unique script of which the earliest preserved examples date back only to about A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
