At the time, these were the oldest fossils discovered in Australia, though this record has now been far surpassed.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

The school has the oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy League ( 1847 ).

The town is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.

Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics is graph theory, which also has numerous natural connections to other areas.

A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

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.

The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating evolution of modern European civil law traditions.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

India has also the oldest evidence for the introduction of toe-stirrups.

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

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

It has served in the Iraqi War and remains as the oldest cavalry unit, as well as the most decorated one, in the U. S. Army.

In addition to being the source of the Roman alphabet, it has been suggested that it passed northward into Venetia and from there through Raetia into the Germanic lands, where it became the Elder Futhark alphabet, the oldest form of the runes.

* 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.

This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.

It is the oldest continually operated experimental film festival in North America and has become one of the premiere film festivals for independent and, primarily, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work.

Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2010 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.

Ealing Studios has a claim to being the oldest continuously working film studio facility in the world.

This area is one of the region ’ s oldest milk producers ; it has chalky soil, marked by history and human activity, and is favourable for the raising of goats.

This, plus the habit of many schools of simply adding interior design to the many subjects of their home economics department, yet, nevertheless, claiming that they teach interior design, has contributed to the low repute of many university courses in interior design.

F. Morris Cochran, university vice president and business manager, said the house has been bought to provide rental housing for faculty families, particularly for those here for a limited time.

Only slower trains stop at these, but Aachen-West has developed enormous importance due to the expanding RWTH Aachen university.

Historically, the university has shown great athletic dominance in men's, women's, and mixed archery ; men's, women's, and mixed badminton ; women's golf ; women's swimming and diving ; and baseball.

and has the highest-ranked business, engineering, and law programs of any university in the state of Texas.

The University has been shaped by their spirit of hard work and dedication to the principles that everyone should have access to university regardless of gender, race or religious affiliations-a spirit which continues to guide the university today.

The university has emphasized a personalized education.

Bursa has two public universities and one private university.

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

It is common for retiring professors to have served the university for thirty, forty, and even occasionally, fifty years, a circumstance that has contributed to the stability and conservatism of an institution of higher learning that has virtually no endowment and at which faculty salaries are " sacrificial.

The university also has a student-staffed newspaper ( The Collegian ), yearbook ( Vintage ) and radio and television station ( WBJU ).

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….

Peirce has gained a significant international following, marked by university research centers devoted to Peirce studies and pragmatism in Brazil ( CeneP / CIEP ), Finland (

The show has one of the largest operating budgets of all university events.

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

The university has a large network of more than 1, 600 corporate, governmental, and non-profit partners in 28 states and 25 international locations.

In U. S. News & World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges List ", the university has been ranked consistently among the " Best National Universities – Top Schools ".

The National University of Ireland ( NUI ) has its seat in Dublin, which is also the location of the associated constituent university of University College Dublin ( UCD ), the largest university in Ireland with over 22, 000 students.

Marine research at Dalhousie has become a large focus of the university, with many of the university's faculty members involved in some form of marine research.

One major difference between the Ramsay's family coat of arms and the university seal, is that while the Ramsay seal features a griffin and greyhound, the Dalhousie seal instead has two dragons supporting the eagle-adorned shield.