He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

The death of Harold A. Stevens, oldest of the Stevens brothers, famed operators of baseball, football and race track concessions, revived again the story of one of the greatest business successes in history.

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.

Opposite is the Palazzo Mattei, one of Rome's oldest palaces, now the headquarters of the Italo-American Association.

Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac ( the sun's apparent path ).

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

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

* 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Grashaus, a late medieval house at the Markt, is one of the oldest non-religious buildings in downtown Aachen.

This is one of the oldest claims to the author ’ s purpose ( Walton ) and it states that Luke is writing to Rome in order to demonstrate that Christianity is not a political threat to Roman authority.

In the four centuries since their disappearance, the Roanoke colonists have been the subject of a mystery that still challenges historians and archaeologists as one of America's oldest.

It is reputed to be one of the oldest hill forts in India and the world.

The ecclesiastical Abbreviators were officials of the Holy See, among the principal officials of the Apostolic Chancery, which is one of the oldest and most important offices in the Roman Curia.

The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.

Abergavenny Cricket Club is one of the oldest in the country and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009.

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 ).

Assassination is one of the oldest tools of power politics.

The Beethoven Monument stands on the Münsterplatz, which is flanked by the Bonn Minster, one of Germany's oldest churches.

The Arkadiko Bridge in Greece ( 13th century BC ), one of the oldest arch bridge s in existence

Dating to the Greek Bronze Age ( 13th century BC ), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.

Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges.

The Codex Zographensis is one of the oldest manuscript s in the Old Bulgarian language dated from the late 10th or early 11th century

It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States.

The House of the Nijmegen History is situated in a unique mediaeval chapel ' de Mariënburgkapel '; its mission is to let enjoy people of the history of the town and to be a guide for everybody who wants to visit the oldest city of the Netherlands.

It is one of the oldest DAWs to still enjoy widespread use.

Its proximity to the coast makes for mild winters where people can enjoy easy strolls on the sunny promenade and the golfers can enjoy one of the oldest courses in Italy, opened in 1930.

Bic and Bac: Among the oldest living things in Arkadia, these two happy little animals are the best of friends, and enjoy dancing to their song, the " Flashbick.

The formula has proven enduring: Pierrot is still a fixture at Bakken, the oldest amusement park in the world, where he plays the nitwit talking to and entertaining children, and at nearby Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest, where the Harlequin and Columbine act is performed as a pantomime and ballet.

The circle of wood is from the Ryman Auditorium's stage. Being made a member of the Grand Ole Opry, country music's big house, the oldest, most enduring " hall of fame ," is to be identified as a member of the elite of country music.

The Irish migrations to Newfoundland, and the associated provisions trade, represent the oldest and most enduring connections between Ireland and North America.

The work's enduring significance is attributed to several factors: Ptolemy's reputation as one of the greatest philosophers and scientists of the ancient world, the text's astrological importance as one of the oldest complete manuals on that subject, and the unprecedented order and quality of Ptolemy's astrological explanations.

In North America, the oldest game retrospectively classified as real-time strategy by several sources isThe Ancient Art of War ( 1984 ), designed by Evryware's Dave and Barry Murry, followed by the sequel The Ancient Art of War at Sea in 1987, although Dani Bunten Berry's ( of M. U. L. E fame ) Cytron Masters ( 1982 ), developed by Ozark Softscape and released by SSI, also has been considered the earliest game of the genre.

Eliza " Lou " Ringling was the widow of the oldest Ringling brother, Albert, of circus fame.

Stokes was the oldest of the trio of natural philosophers, James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin being the other two, who especially contributed to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical physics in the middle of the 19th century.

One of Mazagaon's oldest claims to fame was a variety of mango trees which fruited twice a year.

Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame is also among the oldest survivors.

However, its fame long predated this distinction because it is the origin of Tokaji aszú wine, the world's oldest botrytized wine.

Upon Bradman's death in February 2001, Brown became the oldest living Australian Test cricketer, greatly amused by the fame that came with the title.

It was considered one of the most beautiful of the castles on the river Saale and exceeded mere regional fame from 1855 onwards as the annual meeting place of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband, the oldest union of student fraternities with delegates from all German-speaking countries.

Moreover, Tunghai University was founded as the first private university making it the second oldest university in Taiwan, which earned the school its fame and reputation.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

One theory holds that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was perhaps the oldest part of the city of Sippar.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

He wrote that Giovanni Bellini was the oldest and still the best of the artists in Venice.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".