The central bank of Sweden (" Sveriges Riksbank " or simply " Riksbanken ") was founded in Stockholm from the remains of the failed bank Stockholms Banco in 1664 and answered to the parliament (" Riksdag of the Estates ") thus making it the oldest central bank still operating today.

This fortress, known as Babylon, remains the oldest structure in the city.

Caberfae remains in operation today, as the oldest ski resort in the midwest.

This remains the oldest stand ( dating back to 1905 ) not only in the Football League, but in the professional world and is thus a Grade II * listed building thanks to Jimmy Hill's efforts when saving the almost-bankrupt club as Chairman.

Renamed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1921, it remains the oldest extant women's peace organization.

La Isabela was abandoned and Santo Domingo became the new capital, and remains the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the Americas.

It has served in the Iraqi War and remains as the oldest cavalry unit, as well as the most decorated one, in the U. S. Army.

These remains are among the oldest hominid remains ever found.

Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that " this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal.

The bones " are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial ," Bristol University announced in a press release.

So far, the oldest remains of honey have been found in Georgia ( country ).

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man " were first discovered by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois at Trinil in 1891, and are at least 700, 000 years old, at that time the oldest human ancestor ever found.

* 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.

In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.

FARC-EP remains the largest and oldest insurgent group in the Americas.

The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3, 000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.

The oldest remains of a tiger-like cat, called Panthera palaeosinensis, have been found in China and Java.

Tanzania is one of the oldest known inhabited areas on Earth ; fossil remains of humans and pre-human hominids have been found dating back over two million years.

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

It remains the oldest in the world.

* Oraibi becomes and remains the first and oldest populated settlement in the USA and what is now Arizona.

The county remains one of the oldest levels of government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the Yuan Dynasty ( 1279 – 1368 ).

San Pedro's " Rodriguez Market " remains as one of the most popular middle-class and oldest of the city.

Although it might be attributed to its ancestor, the Old Malay language ( which can be traced back to the 7th century ), the Kedukan Bukit Inscription is the oldest surviving specimen of Old Malay, the language used by Srivijayan empire.

The oldest inscriptions in Malay, Kedukan Bukit Inscription, dating from the end of the 7th century AD, were found on the banks of the River Tatang, a tributary of the River Musi, South Sumatra.

It is the oldest surviving specimen of the Malay language, in a form known as Old Malay.

One of the oldest surviving letters written in Malay is letters from Sultan Abu Hayat of Ternate, Maluku Islands in present day Indonesia, dated around 1521 – 1522.

Although the medium of instruction is now Malay, Penang Free School is the first English-medium school in South East Asia and is the oldest recorded school in the country.

St. John's Institution ( Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St. John ) is a secondary school for boys ( sixth form is co-ed ) and one of the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kota Gelanggi is an archaeological site reported in 2005 as potentially the first capital of the ancient Empire of Srivijaya and dating to around 650 – 900 and one of the oldest pre-Islamic Kingdoms on South East Asia's Malay Peninsula.

It has had a steady presence since the beginning of the 20th century, when the Malay Cup between Singapore national rugby union team and Malaya was established, which is one of the oldest rugby competitions in the world.

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.

One of the oldest techniques in the science of crystallography consists of measuring the three-dimensional orientations of the faces of a crystal, and using them to infer the underlying crystal symmetry.

One of the oldest means of receiving DTV ( and TV in general ) is using an antenna ( known as an aerial in some countries ).

* 1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $ 1. 4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

The oldest known document using punctuation is the Mesha Stele ( 9th century BC ).

However, greatly improved distance measurements to globular clusters using the Hipparcos satellite and increasingly accurate measurements of the Hubble constant resolved the paradox, giving an age for the universe of about 13 billion years and an age for the oldest stars of a few hundred million years less.

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.

The original Mesopotamian writing system ( believed to be the world's oldest ) was derived from this method of keeping accounts circa 3600 BC, and by the end of the 4th millennium BC, this had evolved into using a triangular-shaped stylus pressed into soft clay for recording numbers.

* November 1 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

The oldest preserved tablet using System B comes from Babylon and dates from 258-257 BC.

The Sun can be dated using helioseismic methods that strongly agree with the radiometric dates found for the oldest meteorites.

In terms of recognising orogeny as an event, Leopold von Buch ( 1855 ) recognised that orogenies could be placed in time by bracketing between the youngest deformed rock and the oldest undeformed rock, a principle which is still in use today, though commonly investigated by geochronology using radiometric dating.

The U. S. Navy has since modified the four oldest Ohio-class Trident submarines to SSGN configuration, allowing them to carry up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles using vertical launching systems installed in the tubes which previously held strategic ballistic missiles.

According to tradition it was created in 1283 by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (). Replica of the Ramkhamhaeng inscription, the oldest inscription using proto-Thai script

Like another set of crones at the oldest levels of both Germanic and Norse mythology, they shared one eye and one tooth, which they took turns using.

In Europe, Woodcut is the oldest technique used for old master prints, developing about 1400, by using, on paper, existing techniques for printing on cloth.

The pottery style characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture has markings made using cords, and appears to be among the oldest pottery in the world, if not the oldest.

Examples of campaigns they have conducted include spreading information about the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo, and about Jikji, the world's oldest extant book printed using movable metal type.

The oldest known copy of the Biblical narration is from the 1st century Dead Sea Scrolls .< ref >( 4QGen < sup > b </ sup > = 4Q242 ) The Dead Sea Scrolls were inspected using infra-red photography and published by Jim R Davila as part of his doctoral dissertation in 1988.

The first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E. E. Bertel, using the oldest known manuscript copies, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the Leningrad manuscript, dated 1333, of which the latter has now been considered a secondary manuscript.

Lachmann was the first major editor to break from the Textus Receptus, seeking to restore the most ancient reading current in manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type, using the agreement of the Western authorities ( Old Latin and Greek Western Uncials ) as the main proof of antiquity of a reading where the oldest Alexandrian authorities differ.

The oldest of these, William Herbert Leslie Hobson ( 1880 – 1945 ), became a stage and film actor and singer also using the name " Fred Leslie ".

The second oldest line the Línia Llobregat-Anoia was opened in 1892 as an interurban tram using metre gauge tracks, which was taken over by the Companyia General dels Ferrocarrils Catalans ( CGFC ) in 1912 and transformed it into a train line ; CGFC being later taken over by FSB and FCC, followed by the broad gauge Lleida – La Pobla de Segur line in 1951 and operated by RENFE until it was transferred to FGC in 2005-2010.