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.

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 ).

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

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

* Parks Canada – the oldest parks service in the world

* August 15 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Giardini Pubblici is among Milan's oldest remaining public parks, founded on 29 November 1783, and completed around 1790.

Philadelphia is home to the United States ' first zoo and hospital, as well as Fairmount Park, one of America's oldest and largest urban parks.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

It has several high-tech parks, among them the oldest and largest in the country.

Industry, which previously coexisted with housing, was moved to industrial parks ( the oldest and the only one within municipal limits of Pamplona is Landaben ).

It is one of the oldest parks in the Australian Alps, being first established in 1898 when 1165 ha was reserved around Eurobin Falls.

The city hosted the 2005 NECBL All-Star Game at Cardines Field, which, originally built in 1908, is one of the oldest active baseball parks in the country.

Close to Kingston, and located between Kingston, Richmond and Roehampton, is Richmond Park, one of the oldest Royal parks.

One of the country's oldest remaining skate parks, Harrow Skate Park, is next to the leisure centre.

These included articles setting aside 5 acres for the Humanities Church, 15 acres for parks – making Hutchinson ’ s park system the 2nd oldest in the nation, 8 lots for educational purposes and stating that Hutchinson women would have equal rights with the town.

One of the parks also houses the " band shell " home of the Two Harbors City Band, the oldest city band existing in Minnesota.

Although the borough is heavily residential, it is home to one of America's oldest traditional amusement parks, Kennywood Park ; the fourth largest shopping mall in the region, Century III ; advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology research and development facility, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory ; monorail manufacturer Bombardier ; US Steel's Irvin Plant ; Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus ; the Allegheny County Airport ; and various other businesses and industries.

Today Waldameer is one of the oldest amusement parks in the nation.

The Oaks and the Derby are the oldest continuously contested sporting events in history, and the only horse races to be held at their original site since its conception.

The Twin Oaks Community is one of the country's oldest secular communes, established by its first eight members in 1967.

The oldest living person in Four Oaks is 96 years old.