The Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals ( GAAAP ), traces its roots back to 1980, making it the oldest LGBT-affirming Apostolic Pentecostal denomination in existence.

The Dragoons Battalion have roots that go back as far as 1523, making it one of the world's oldest military units still in service and the only mounted unit still retained by the Swedish Army.

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

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.

The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral, arguably making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia followed by studium generales in Uppsala in 1477 and Copenhagen in 1479.

* List of oldest companies, as Nordea is the oldest bank in Sweden, with roots from 1820.

WRGB claims to be the world's oldest television station, tracing its roots to an experimental station founded on January 13, 1928, broadcasting from the General Electric factory in Schenectady, NY, under the call letters W2XB.

The office has its roots in the 16th and 17th century colonial governors of New France and British North America, and thus is the oldest continuous institution in Canada.

Athletic contests in running, walking, jumping, and throwing are among the oldest of all sports and their roots are prehistoric.

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

Also organization that has its roots in Rover Scout movement Delftsche Zwervers ( at the same time the oldest scouting group in the world ) is present or local branch of the European AEGEE.

The roots of the oldest Antarctic beech trees are over 5, 000 years old.

The oldest parts of continental lithosphere underlie cratons, and the mantle lithosphere there is thicker and less dense than typical ; the relatively low density of such mantle " roots of cratons " helps to stabilize these regions.

One of the oldest types of riddim is the classical riddim providing roots reggae, dub and lovers rock with instrumentals, such as Bam Bam, produced by Sly & Robbie.

The long jump is one of the oldest track and field events, having its roots as one of the events within the ancient Greek pentathlon contest.

A theory proposed by Richard Coates, which does not have widespread acceptance, suggests that the name derives from a Celticised Old European river-name forming part of the oldest stratum of European toponymy, in the sense established by Hans Krahe ; Coates suggested a derivation from a pre-Celtic Plowonida — from two roots, plew and nejd, possibly meaning " the flowing river " or " the wide flowing river ".

Its religious communities include ( to name only a few ), Afrikaans-speaking congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church, Rastafarian communities, people who engage only in traditional Xhosa practices, syncretic Xhosa Christian churches, evangelical Christian churches, and southern Africa's largest Muslim community ( drawing its oldest roots from the historic Cape Muslim community, which dates back to the 17th century ).

# Universitas Indonesia is one of the oldest universities in Indonesia, with its roots going back to the establishment in 1848 of the school for Javanese Doctors.

The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS and traced its roots to the company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the following 10 years.

The community with the oldest historical roots is the monastery on Nuns ' Island, Galway, which traces its history back to the monastery in Gravelines.

With roots stretching back to 1856, the Museum is one of North America's oldest cultural institutions.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

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.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The oldest amber with arthropod inclusions comes from the MLevant, from Lebanon and Jordan.

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.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

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

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

The oldest bows known so far come from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark.

The shortest ( and possibly oldest ) road avoids alpine areas and led from the Baltic coastline ( nowadays Estonia ), passed the Moravian Gate, followed the river Morava, crossed the Danube near Carnuntum in the Noricum Province, headed southwest past Poetovio, Celeia, Emona, Nauportus, and reached Aquileia at the Adriatic coast.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.

They grow in succession, with the oldest growing from the bottom of the trunk and successively younger ones from the top.

Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

The Arthur area is home to the largest and oldest Amish community in Illinois, which was founded in the 1860s.

Four churches, St. John's Episcopal Church ( 1882 ), First Baptist ( 1914 ), First Presbyterian ( 1923 ), and St. Matthews Lutheran ( 1935 ); two former hotels, the Eagle Hotel, which survived the 1894 fire, and the Hotel Marianna ( 1910 ); a bank on Main Street built in 1903 ; the McDowell County Courthouse, which was constructed in 1928 ; the Marion Depot ( 1860s ), which is the oldest surviving depot on the Western Rail Line ; the Public Library ( 1937 ), which was originally built as a post office ; and the Marion Community Building, built in 1937.

* Dunedin's Town Belt is one of the world's oldest green belts, having been planned at the time of the city's rapid growth during the Otago Gold Rush of the 1860s.

Australia is home to the oldest current plantings of Dolcetto, with vines dating back to the 1860s.

One of the most notable buildings in West Ulster, the oldest parts date from the 1860s.

Thames Hospital is the oldest still operating in New Zealand, having been built in the 1860s.

Today, except for Brodbeck Hall, which was built in the 1860s and stood on the campus at its founding, Alumnae Hall remains the oldest building on the college's campus and serves as the central location for the college's administration, and houses the social work department.

A Chinese Taoist temple, one of America's oldest Taoist establishments ( no longer in use ), built in the 1860s by the town's small Chinese community, was made a state historic site.

Nagasaki has three main international cemeteries: 1 ) Inasa International Cemetery, which is the oldest foreign cemetery in Japan and consists of separate plots for Chinese, Dutch and Russian people ; 2 ) Oura International Cemetery, which was established in the early 1860s near the site of the Nagasaki foreign settlement and served the foreign community until being closed in 1888 ; and 3 ) Sakamoto International Cemetery, which has some 440 graves including that of Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover.

The Hunnewell rhododendrons may be the oldest cultivated specimens in the United States, as H. H. Hunnewell started importing and planting them in the 1850s and 1860s on the grounds.