She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Nevali Cori and Hacilar represent the world's oldest known agricultural towns.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3, 400 years.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge.

The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ( constructed in 1844 ) is the world's oldest subway tunnel.

Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world, after the Sveriges Riksbank and the world's 8th oldest bank.

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public.

With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations.

Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.

Within this section, from near Phipps Bridge to near Reeves Corner, route 3 follows the Surrey Iron Railway, giving Tramlink a claim to the one of the world's oldest railway alignments-beside Mitcham tram stop had its name long before Tramlink.

Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

* 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person ( b. 1880 )

The Dragoons Battalion have roots that go back as far as 1523, making it one of the world's oldest military units still in service and the only mounted unit still retained by the Swedish Army.

England is the oldest national football team in the world alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872.

The earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the " Room of the Chariot Tablets ", an LMIII A-context ( c. 1400 BC ) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living languages.

Forest gardening, a plant-based food production system, is the world's oldest form of gardening.

The Gibraltar Chronicle is the world's second oldest English language newspaper to have been in print continuously.

As this is one of the world's oldest records of a plant's reaction to climatic conditions, researchers have been interested to note that the first bud appears earlier and earlier in the year.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by passenger traffic and aircraft traffic, offers air service to over 150 U. S. destinations and more than 80 international destinations in 52 countries, with over 2, 700 arrivals and departures daily.

The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara ( which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

As a result of these reforms Cyprus has developed into one of the world's more important international business centres.

As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade, and the currency, Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth most traded currency in the world.

Often enormously complicated matters, ICJ cases ( of which there have been less than 150 since the court was created from the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1945 ) can stretch on for years and generally involve thousands of pages of pleadings, evidence, and the world's leading specialist public international lawyers.

Today, the IEC is the world's leading international organization in its field, and its standards are adopted as national standards by its members.

Japan is the world's largest creditor nation, generally running an annual trade surplus and having a considerable net international investment surplus.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

* Wycliffe Bible Translators, one of the world's largest international organizations dedicated to translating the Bible into every living language in the World ; named in honour of John Wycliffe.

KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world's leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences.

Morocco is the world's third-largest producer of phosphates ( after the United States and China ), and the price fluctuations of phosphates on the international market greatly influence Morocco's economy.

Over all, however, mercantilist policies had a positive impact on Britain helping turn it into the world's dominant trader, and an international superpower.

* 1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.

China endured a period of international isolation after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which caused it to embrace Pyongyang as one of the world's only surviving communist states.

Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centres, hosting many international organizations, and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

It will become the country's biggest airport with nine runways and it will become the World's busiest airport by international passenger traffic surpassing London-Heathrow and will have more passengers than Atlanta, which is currently the world's busiest airport.

Fishing: Peru is an international leader in fishing, producing nearly 10 percent of the world's fish catch.

The international program on Sundays commenced in 1928, with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show, which became the world's longest-running shortwave program.

1934, the Court's 13th year, " has been in keeping with the traditions associated with that number ", with few cases, since the world's governments were more concerned with the growing international tension.

Rogue state is a controversial term applied by some international theorists to states they consider threatening to the world's peace.

This led to the U. S. moving from the world's largest international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation.