Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

There are ten extant letters ascribed to him, one of which is also quoted by Cicero:

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

The historic triangular gable on top of the Haynes stand, one of the few extant at British grounds

The first known reference to one was by Johann Speth in 1693 and the earliest such extant signed and dated clavichord was built in 1716 by Johann Michael Heinitz.

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

* Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933 – 1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

There are several extant species of chimpanzees and gorillas, but only one human species remains, although several sub-species of Homo sapiens still existed 30, 000 years ago.

Among his extant writings, Calvin only dealt explicitly with issues of contemporary Jews and Judaism in one treatise, Response to Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew.

An investigation of extant Canterbury manuscripts shows that one possible survivor is the St. Augustine Gospels, now in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Manuscript ( MS ) 286.

Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, one of many animal species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae.

An early extant example of a mandolin is one built by Antonio Vinaccia in 1772, which resides at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Early MUMPS memory partitions were limited to 2048 bytes so aggressive abbreviation greatly aided multi-programming on severely resource limited hardware, because more than one MUMPS job could fit into the very small memories extant in hardware at the time.

Close to 70 % of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with thirteen in Central America, and one in North America, north of Mexico.

Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.

He also composed some comedies, one of which alone is extant.

According to his mother, in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist ’ s beginnings.

The five extant versions of the speech were written down quite a bit later, and they differ widely from one another.

As a better means of evaluating Urban's true motivations in calling for a crusade to the Holy Lands, there are four extant letters written by Pope Urban II himself: one to the Flemish ( dated December 1095 ); one to the Bolognese ( dated September 1096 ); one to Vallombrosa ( dated October 1096 ); and one to the counts of Catalonia ( dated either 1089 or 1096 – 1099 ).

# When more than one spelling of a name is extant, the spelling preferred by the person, or used in an authoritative reference, should be used.

A recently published inscription from Aphrodisias confirms that he was head of one of the Schools at Athens and gives his full name as Titus Aurelius Alexander.

Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

This theory is confusing as Gurmukhi characters have a very close resemblance with " Siddh Matrika " inscriptions found at some sacred wells in Punjab as G. B Singh notes, one being the hathur inscription dating to just before the brith of Guru Nanak.

On the inscription, the god Heimdallr is mentioned alongside the god Odin and Þjálfi, a name of one of the god Thor's servants.

Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the celebration with a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which she threw into the proceedings, upon which was the inscription καλλίστῃ ( kallistēi, " for the fairest one ").

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.

It is possible that the Trojan Linear A scripts that were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann and one inscription from central Crete, as well as a few similar potters ' marks from Lahun, Egypt ( 12th dynasty ), come from an earlier period, ca.

The " Daiva inscription " is one of the most important of all Achaemenid inscriptions.

The fate of one of the columns is recorded by a Greek inscription on one of the surviving columns, which states that " on 27 April 1759 he pulled down the column ".

Recently, an inscription dating to the late 10th / early 9th centuries BC with two names, very similar to one of the suggested etymologies of the popular Philistine name Goliath ( Lydian Alyattes, or perhaps Greek Kalliades ) was found in the excavations at Gath.

" The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of " belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king "., the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25: 23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek lead sling bullets with a winged thunderbolt engraved on one side and the inscription " ΔΕΞΑΙ " ( Dexai ) meaning " take that " or " catch " on the other side, 4th century BC, from Athens, British Museum.

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

The Thorsberg chape ( a metal piece belonging to a scabbard found in the Thorsberg moor ) bears an Elder Futhark inscription, one of the earliest known altogether, dating to roughly AD 200.

It was first referenced by an outside civilization in an Old Sabaic inscription of Karab ' il Watar from the early 7th century BCE, in which the King of Hadramaut, Yadail, is mentioned as being one of his allies.

An inscription found at Brescia in 1888 shows that Iuppiter Iurarius was worshipped there and one found on the south tip of Tiber Island in 1854 that there was a cult to the god on the spot.

An inscription of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest known sets of laws

He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".

In the Vologeses inscription one can read that Vologeses I, the Parthian king, in the 11th year of his reign, battled Kuluk, king of the Alani.

In 1931, the Colter Stone, a rock carved in the shape of a head with the inscription " John Colter " on one side and the year " 1808 " on the other, was discovered in a field in Tetonia, Idaho, which is west of Teton Pass.