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

To offer an example of these concepts, O ' Flaherty makes use of " one of the oldest reasons why cities were built: military protection ".

The oldest of these is the French Federation of Speleology ( originally Société de spéléologie ) founded by Édouard-Alfred Martel in 1895, which produced the first periodical journal in speleology, Spelunca.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

The continued study of these oldest fossils is paramount to calibrate complementary molecular phylogenetics models.

Neighborhoods in Fonni are called " Rioni " of these the oldest is called " su piggiu " or the skin, probably derived by the fact this is the highest and first layer of the village.

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 ).

As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus ' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.

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

It produces very accurate results within these domains, and is one of the oldest and largest subjects in science, engineering, and technology.

The town of Bshaale, Lebanon claims to have the oldest olive trees in the world ( 4000 BC for the oldest ), but no scientific study supports these claims.

Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering.

Out of these, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ), established in 1935 is the oldest.

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

More importantly in 1931 Louis Leakey discovered older more primitive stone tools in Olduvai Gorge — these were the first examples of the oldest human technology ever discovered in Africa, subsequently known throughout the world as Oldowan after Olduvai Gorge.

The appropriateness of this more recent appellation is seen in the oldest literature preserved by these schools where the art is said to be a study of yin ( receptive ) and yang ( active ) principles, using terminology found in the Chinese classics, especially the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching.

To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these images it was called the vera icon ( true image ), which in the common tongue soon became " Veronica.

Bearing these inaccuracies in mind, the oldest crocodilians appear to be the largest species.

The oldest confirmed footwear was discovered in Fort Rock Cave in the U. S. state of Oregon ; radiocarbon dating of these sandals woven from sagebrush bark indicates an age of least 10, 000 years.

The Syrian tradition includes the oldest manuscripts ; these versions are also much shorter and include fewer tales.

The organ is without doubt the oldest of these, appearing in the 3rd century BC, though this early instrument — called hydraulis — did not use a keyboard in the modern sense.

The oldest of these granitic rocks, at 114 million years, occur along the Merced River Gorge west of the valley.

The oldest of these parks, Deering Oaks, had been designed by City Engineer William Goodwin in 1879 but is today frequently described as a Frederick Law Olmsted designed park.

Although they are written in Old Assyrian, the Hittite loanwords and names in these texts constitute the oldest record of any Indo-European language ( see also Ishara ).

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

Many of Cairo's oldest Coptic churches, including the Hanging Church, are located along the fortress walls in a section of the city known as Coptic Cairo.

* List of oldest churches

He is said to have built one of the oldest churches in Rome, Santa Pudenziana.

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

* List of the oldest churches in the United States

The Church of the Jesuits () is amongst the oldest churches in the City.

His actual position is Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, one of the fourteen autocephalous and several autonomous churches and the most senior ( though not oldest ) of the four orthodox ancient primatial sees among the five patriarchal Christian centers comprising the ancient Pentarchy of the undivided Church.

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

It is one of the oldest churches in the Nilgiris district.

* Santo Stefano ( Assisi ), http :// commons. wikimedia. org / wiki / Assisi # Santo_Stefano one of the oldest churches of Assisi.

As a result, the Winchester area became home to some of the oldest Presbyterian, Quaker, Lutheran and Anglican churches in the valley.

Two Baptist churches in the city, whose congregations were founded in the late 18th century, are among the oldest black congregations and churches in the nation.

In York County, the " Four B " churches, all Presbyterian —- Bethel, Bethesda, Beersheba and Bullock's Creek —- are the county ’ s oldest.

Twelve Corners Baptist Church, recognized as one of the oldest continuously operating Baptist churches in Benton County, was started in the log cabin home of William Ruddick.

The two oldest churches still in the city today were started in the 1910s.

Mendocino Presbyterian Church on Main Street, dedicated on July 5, 1868, is one of the oldest continuously-used Protestant churches in California, and is designated as California Historical Landmark # 714.

There are six churches in New Hartford: two Congregational churches ( the oldest church in the town, at New Hartford Center, and another in the village of Nepaug ), an Episcopal church ( at Pine Meadow ), Saint Paul ’ s Lutheran church, a Methodist church ( in the village of Bakerville ), and Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church.

The Enigma Baptist is one of the oldest churches in town, it began in 1889.

Beech Grove's oldest churches have existed since the earliest days of the city.

The oldest of three Catholic churches in the city is Holy Trinity, built in 1882.