Zhuravlev, " Structure and diversity of oldest sponge-microbe reefs: Lower Cambrian, Aldan River, Siberia ", Geology 23. 7 ( July 1995: 649-52 ) A major radiation occurred in the Lower Cambrian and further major radiations in the Ordovician possibly from the middle Cambrian.

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

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.

Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

Arrays are among the oldest and most important data structures, and are used by almost every program.

They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

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

Tricyclic antidepressants are the second oldest class of antidepressant drugs.

The oldest and most commonly used atomizers in AAS are flames, principally the air-acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2300 ° C and the nitrous oxide ( N2O )- acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2700 ° C.

History tells us that Out-of-home advertising and billboards are the oldest forms of advertising.

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.

Some of the oldest pre-system sewage types are pit toilets, latrines, and outhouses.

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

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

The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

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

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

The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

The oldest sites documented thus far are from around 500 AD including Awdaghust, Kumbi-Saleh the ancient capital of Ghana, and Maranda a center located on a trade rout between Egypt and Gao.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

Many towns center around a " green ", such as the Litchfield Green, Lebanon Green ( the largest in the state ), and Wethersfield Green ( the oldest in the state ).

The oldest recorded census in India is thought to have occurred around 300 BCE during the reign of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya under the leadership of Kautilya or Chanakya.

The oldest known dolmen are in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7000 years ago, at the same time as the ancient civilisations of Egypt, India, and the Middle East.

Encyclopedias have existed for around 2, 000 years ; the oldest still in existence, Naturalis Historia, was written in ca.

Written around 1080, one of the oldest written sources on pre-Christian Scandinavian religious practices is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

The oldest winery was found in Armenia, dating to around 4, 000 BC.

The consensus is that " the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad being composed before the Odyssey, perhaps by some decades ," i. e. earlier than Hesiod, the Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature.

The funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis ' strict interpretation of Islam ; and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al Azhar, the world's oldest and most influential Islamic university.

The area in and around modern Jakarta was part of the fourth century Sundanese kingdom of Tarumanagara, one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Indonesia.

This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century ; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva.

The oldest preserved parts of the text are not thought to be appreciably older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the story probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.

* 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

One of the oldest descriptions of nori is dated to around the 8th century.

According to fossil evidence, the primitive ancestors of primates may have existed in the late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago ; the oldest known primate is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55 – 58 million years ago .< ref name = ChatterjeeEtal2009 >

This is the oldest poker family ; the root of the game as now played was a game known as Primero, which evolved into the game three-card brag, a very popular gentleman's game around the time of the American Revolutionary War and still enjoyed in the U. K. today.

The Panthalassic Ocean first opened 750 million years ago at the breakup of Rodinia, but the oldest Pacific Ocean floor is only around 180 Ma old.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The oldest sword-like weapons are found at Arslantepe, Turkey, and date to around 3300 BC.