This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge.

Geography-note: landlocked ; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe ; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe

It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle otherwise proves significant to study of the era, preserving a chronology of early English history, while the poem Cædmon's Hymn from the 7th century survives as the oldest extant work of literature in English.

Between 1973 and 1975, Shining Path members gained control of the student councils in the Universities of Huancayo and La Cantuta, and developed a significant presence in the National University of Engineering in Lima and the National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas.

The clip is significant because it is the oldest known color footage of the Marx Brothers, and also for an appearance by Harpo without his usual costume and wig.

Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times.

The highest, oldest, and most significant building in the area is the white, 11-storey-high Mäntytorni building.

Today, Jonesborough draws a good deal of tourism because of its historical status as Tennessee's oldest town and its significant historic preservation efforts.

It is one of the oldest methods of preserving food, and two historically significant salt-cured foods are dried and salted cod ( usually referred to as salt fish ) and salt-cured meat.

It is one of the oldest rooms in the castle, dating from the 1740s, though its decoration largely dates from c. 1790, including the most significant painted ceiling in Ireland executed by Vincenzo Valdre ( c. 1742 – 1814 ).

The abbey ruin at the top of the east cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark with the swing bridge across the River Esk and the harbour sheltered by the grade II listed east and west piers being other significant features.

It made sense to name the city after the oldest and most commonly recognised name, even though it was not then the most significant town from a commercial perspective.

Since larger numbers of phones can be served by smaller numbers of cell-sites, CDMA-based standards have a significant economic advantage over TDMA-based standards, or the oldest cellular standards that used frequency-division multiplexing.

It ranks among the oldest and most significant museums of nature sciences, arts and crafts in the Czech Republic.

The main characters are James Brodie ( the hatter and tyrannical patriarch of the Brodie family ), Mary Brodie ( James ' elder daughter, also one of the central characters, appearing throughout the first and last section of the novel ), Matthew Brodie ( James ' only son and oldest child in the family who also plays a significant role in the novel ), Nessie Brodie ( James ' younger daughter and favourite, who remains one of the background characters until the end of the story ), Mrs. Brodie ( James ' fragile wife who is never treated as anything more than a servant by her husband ), Grandma Brodie ( James ' mother who lives with the Brodie family ), Dennis Foyle ( A young Irishman who has a relationship with Mary ), Nancy ( James ' mistress ) and Dr. Renwick ( a character who becomes more involved in the Brodies ' family life towards the end of the novel ).

The oldest accounts of hot springs at Haukadalur date back to 1294, when earthquakes in the area caused significant changes in local neighbouring landscape creating several new hot springs.

The Shirley Society is the College literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year.

Sandomierz is one of the oldest and historically most significant cities in Poland.

Castellan was a very significant office in feudal Poland and only the oldest towns in country were granted them.

It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker.

It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts.

The probably oldest church in town Unser Frauen ( Church of Our Lady ) or also called Frauenkirche with significant frescos of the 15. and 16. century.

From broad valleys to a narrow canyon, the Jefferson River passes through a region of significant geological diversity, with some of the oldest and youngest rocks of North America and a diversity of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary formations.

The oldest surviving planetary astronomical text is the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, that probably dates as early as the second millennium BC.

The oldest known Huygens style pendulum clock is dated 1657 and can be seen at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden which also shows an important astronomical clock owned and used by Huygens.

* c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.

* The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ).

One of the oldest clocks in the collection is an astronomical clock of 1588 by Francis Nowe.

The Uppsala Astronomical Observatory ( UAO ; Astronomiska observatoriet i Uppsala ) is the oldest astronomical observatory in Sweden.

* The oldest astronomical public observatory in the country is located in the former farm dependencies of the abbey.

The Cheomseongdae is the oldest surviving observatory in East Asia, though some claim that Cheomseongdae was not suitable for astronomical observation.

Today, one of the oldest astronomical societies in Croatia bears the name " Faust Vrančić ", as does a Croatian Navy rescue ship, as well as many schools in Croatia.

The oldest surviving clock tower in Europe is the Salisbury cathedral clock, completed in 1306 ; and another clock put up at St. Albans, in 1326, ' showed various astronomical phenomena '.

The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.

The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.

He became the second director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College, the oldest extant astronomical observatory in the United States.

In 2005 the Bickley site was Heritage listed, being Australia's oldest continuing operating observatory and Australia's only remaining State Government operated astronomical observatory.

As organizers of the oldest open astronomical olympiads and competitions ( since 1940s ), and due to their historical service in the formation and development of IAO they are considered at IAO as independent states with all rights and duties.

The world's oldest known astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism ( 2nd century BC ), performs calculations based on both the Metonic, and Callipic calendar cycles, with separate dials for each.

It is one of the oldest fields of the astronomical science.

Based on the orientation of the ceremonial plazas, this is also believed to be the oldest astronomical observatory in the Antilles.

It is operated by the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona.

In 1993, the National Academy of Sciences announced that they would share the Henry Draper Medal, the oldest award of the Academy, for their contributions to astronomical physics.