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

The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day ; the lunar month ; and the year.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

Physics is, in some senses, the oldest and most basic pure science ; its discoveries find applications throughout the natural sciences, since matter and energy are the basic constituents of the natural world.

One of the oldest Western philosophies of human rights is that they are a product of a natural law, stemming from different philosophical or religious grounds.

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

The subject of the work is the history hidden in the words of the German language ( the oldest natural history of the Teutonic tribes determined by means of language ).

This is supported by the fact that in 1502, he became Duke of Camerino, one of Cesare's recent conquests, hence the natural inheritance of the Duke of Romagna's oldest son.

He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic Europeans.

NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after Richard Nixon proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better protection of life and property from natural hazards … for a better understanding of the total environment … for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources …" NOAA formed a conglomeration of three existing agencies that were among the oldest in the federal government.

The oldest iron items were imported, although since the 1st century iron was smelted from local marsh and lake ore. Settlement sites were located mostly in places that offered natural protection.

It is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the west coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony ( mostly Western Gulls, cormorants, and egrets ).

The oldest intact red blood cells ever discovered were found in Ötzi the Iceman, a natural mummy of a man who died around 3255 BCE.

Hortobágy National park is the largest continuous natural grassland in Europe and the oldest National Park in Hungary.

The downtown is alive and well, including an independently-owned pharmacy with a soda fountain, one coffee shop, a trolley museum, several restaurants, two pizza parlors, three bookstores, a newsstand, a grocery store, a natural foods store, many artists ' galleries, and the second oldest bowling alley in the country, the Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley candlepin.

Other water sports along the shores of the lake include swimming in Deep Eddy Pool, the oldest swimming pool in Texas, and Barton Springs Pool, a natural pool on Barton Creek which flows into Lady Bird Lake.

Track and field-style events are among the oldest of all sporting competitions, as running, jumping and throwing are natural and universal forms of human physical expression.

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.

FHRC has been active since the early 1970s and therefore comprises one of the oldest research centres in the world focusing on water, environmental management and natural hazards.

The oldest necklaces were made of purely natural materials-before weaving and the invention of string, durable vines or pieces of animal sinew left over from hunts were tied together and adorned with shells, bones or teeth or colorful skins of human prey animals, bird feathers, corals, carved pieces of wood, colorful seeds or stones or naturally occurring gems, or other beautiful or artful natural elements found nearby.

It is one of Germany's most famous and oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities.

In 1786, the Society established the Magellanic Premium, a prize for achievement in " navigation, astronomy, or natural philosophy ", the oldest scientific prize awarded by an American institution, which it still awards.

The Korat, a natural breed is one of the oldest stable cat breeds.

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.

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

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

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.

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

Eisenhower, who was the oldest president in history at that time ( then 70 ), was succeeded by the youngest elected president, as Kennedy was 43.

Dice have been used throughout Asia since before recorded history ; the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a 5000-year-old backgammon set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran.

With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.

Eritrean history is home to some of the oldest civilizations on the continent.

* 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.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

The discovery was also the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history, until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be even older with an age of 42. 000 to 43. 000 years.

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.

It is also one of the oldest known written documents about the history of Estonia and Latvia.

The history of England concerns the study of the human past in one of Europe's oldest and most influential national territories.

Guam's history of colonialism is the longest among the Pacific islands and Chamorros are considered one of the oldest civilization in the Pacific.

Iraq, known in Classical Antiquity as Mesopotamia, was home to the oldest civilizations in the world, with a cultural history of over 10, 000 years, hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization.

This rivalry continues, claimed to be the oldest hockey rivalry in history.

The club is the third oldest of its kind in the country and has spent the majority of its history, with the exception of the 2006 – 07 season, in the top flight First Division ( known as Serie A since 1929 ).

Adenauer, dubbed " Der Alte " (" the old one "), belied his age as the oldest elected leader in world history by his intense work habits and his uncanny political instinct.

The oldest themes ( the origin of Earth ) have been interpreted to have their roots in distant, unrecorded history and could be as old as 3, 000 years.

Hence, these fragments are among the oldest objects in the solar system and have preserved information about its early history.

In April 2006, it was announced in the scientific journal Nature that the oldest ( and first early Neolithic ) evidence in human history for the drilling of teeth in vivo ( i. e. in a living person ) was found in Mehrgarh.