Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

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 ).

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

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

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

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.

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

The oldest bows known so far come from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark.

There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.

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.

The Rensselyrics of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( formerly known as the RPI Glee Club ), established in 1873 is perhaps the oldest known collegiate a cappella group.

The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.

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.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.

Senet is among the oldest known board games.

Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Descriptions of various beer recipes can be found in Sumerian writings, some of the oldest known writing of any sort.

* Scientists identify the oldest known bee, a 100 million-year-old specimen preserved in amber

The picnic includes various events, such as beauty contests, gospel and country singing, speeches, Bingo, a ring toss, a men's softball tournament, swings for children, a bubble gum blowing contest, and awards for oldest male, female, and visitor traveling furthest.

This site, where more than 200 springs bubble up from the Edwards Aquifer and discharge an average of of water daily, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in North America.

The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, who was born in Texas.

Tsuen tea has been served since 1160 and is still sold in what is the oldest tea shop in Japan, and possibly the world — the Tsuen tea shop.

The oldest printed recipes for iced tea date back to the 1870s.

The tea terrace is reputed to have the oldest Christ's thorn bush in the country.

* Marion Cabell Tyree, author of the community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia, which contains the oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea, published in 1879

" Fengqing County in the Lincang City Prefecture of Yunnan Province in China is said to be home to the world's oldest cultivated tea tree, some 3, 200 years old.

The oldest tea specialty book in Japan,, was written by Eisai.

This includes Hiunkaku ( 飛雲閣 ), a large tea pavilion, four Noh stages, one of which is thought to be the oldest in existence and the other being the largest outdoor Noh stage, and the Kokei no Niwa ( 虎渓の庭 ) garden.

Particularly noteworthy is Tongmungwan, the oldest bookstore in Seoul, and Kyung-in Art Gallery, the oldest tea house.

The oldest part of the castle dates to 1270 and consisted of the gatehouse and a walled bailey.

The Commodore 8-bit machines ' KERNAL consisted of the low-level, close-to-the-hardware OS routines roughly equivalent to the BIOS in IBM PC compatibles ( in contrast to the BASIC interpreter routines, also located in ROM ) as well as higher-level, device-independent I / O functionality, and was user-callable via a jump table whose central ( oldest ) part, for reasons of backwards compatibility, remained largely identical throughout the whole 8-bit series.

The oldest existing school in the village, now called Bramley Infants School ( previously Bramley C of E Primary School ) was established in 1850 and at that time consisted of only two classrooms and a clock tower.

This kiosk today " represents the oldest known monument known on the island " and consisted " of a double row of four columns, which were connected by screen walls.

The oldest graves consisted of wooden chambered cairns inside long barrows, but were later made in the form of passage graves and dolmens.

The oldest writing materials consisted of baked clay from 3000 BC till about 1000 BC used in cappadocia ( Asia minor ).

At the time when Beverwyck consisted of roughly 100 structures huddled next to the fort, Stuyvesant set up Beverwyck at a safer distance from the cannons of the fort and laid out future Albany's oldest streets-State Street and Broadway.

Julio Jr .’ s amateur career consisted of only two fights against former World Champion Jorge Páez's oldest son Jorge Páez, Jr., both of the exhibitions bouts were shown on Mexican television.

The original band consisted of the eight oldest children of Maikeli " Mike " and Vaké Wolfgramm, who have 17 children in total, fifteen by birth and two ( Eddie and Eugene ) by adoption, were originally from the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga.

It originally consisted of two canals: The Norsjø-Skien Canal, with locks in Skien and Løveid was built in the period 1854 – 1861, and is the oldest of the two canals.