** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

** Jamtamót, the old assembly of Jämtland

** For ohm – SI unit of electrical resistance ; formerly also used upside down () to represent mho, the old name for the inverse of an ohm ( now siemens with symbol S ) used for electrical conductance.

** MinGW, formerly a fork of Cygwin, provides less POSIX-compliant development environment and supports compatible C-programmed applications via Msvcrt, Microsoft's old Visual C runtime library.

** Phlya, near Koropi, in the mysteries of Phlya: These have very old roots, and were probably originally dedicated to Demeter Anesidora, Kore, and Zeus-Ktesios, who was the god of the underground stored corn.

** Hermione: An old cult of Demeter Chthonia, Kore, and Klymenos ( Hades ).

** " Baby-farmer " Ada Williams is hanged at Newgate Prison for murdering a 21-month old girl.

** The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

** Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.

** A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.

** Etan Patz was a 6 year old American child who disappeared from lower Manhattan, New York.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

** Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned " King Henry V of France " until France abandons its tricolor and returns to the old Bourbon flag.

** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.

** Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

** BBC 7 Classic Comedy — RealPlayer Audio repeats of the old ' Round the Horne '

** Instruction sets are architecture-specific: old processors and non-x86 processors lack SSE entirely, for instance, so programmers must provide non-vectorized implementations ( or different vectorized implementations ) for them.

** An old basque ; see basque ( clothing )

** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.

** Self-interested closed cliques and " old boy networks ".

** Library of Sant Agustí, current municipal library where there was the old convent of Sant Agustí.

** Sierra Nevada Northern Route: U. S. Route 50 Alternate northwestward to Wadsworth, Nevada, then Interstate 80 & old U. S. Route 40 westward over Donner Pass and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento.

** Maro Bona ( old noble family from Dubrovnik )

** The fortress stands on the grounds of an ancient grove of yews and boxwood, which may be up to 30 mya old.

** Quid sum miser ( soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor )

** The Pantomimic Harlequinesque Fairy-Play in the English Style: Borrows the " opening " of early nineteenth-century English pantomime: at the rise of curtain, two suitors are in dispute for the same young lady, and her father, a miser, chooses the richer of the two.

In particular, the old texts all portray Thingol as a miser who cheats the Dwarves out of their payment, and the portrayal of the Girdle of Melian in the older stories is much weaker than the impenetrable barrier of the post-Lord of the Rings writings.

He also tells him how his mother was forced to break bonds with her true love, and married an old miser instead.

Protagonist of the show Benny is a comic penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly.

* Corbaccio ( the Raven ) – an avaricious old miser

A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novelette A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge ( Reginald Owen ), an elderly miser, learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve, when he reflects on his past, present and future collectively, whereupon the mean old miser undergoes a radical change of heart and is " awakened " on Christmas morning a changed man.

This explains his experiments mixing plena with pachanga, boogaloo and Dominican merengue, such as " Qué gente averiguá '" (" What nosey people "), a song where he mocked people who openly criticized that he was a miser, recycling old clothes until they wore thin, keeping his money hidden in a barrel or wearing an old hat from his Mayagüez days down 8th.