He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

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.

It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

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.

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 ).

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

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.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

One theory holds that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was perhaps the oldest part of the city of Sippar.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business.

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.

He wrote that Giovanni Bellini was the oldest and still the best of the artists in Venice.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

* September 21 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man, last living man born in 1896 ( d. 2011 )

Supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the world's oldest verified living man from September 21, 1896 to his death on April 14, 2011, began working as a railroader for Hill's company in 1913 at the age of 17.

Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U. S. Along with the Chowan and Neuse rivers, it was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

* Walter Breuning-He was the oldest man in the world before he died April 14, 2011 ; born in Melrose in 1896.

When Hugh de Lacy died in Ireland in 1186, his oldest son, Walter, was still under age, so the castle remained in custodianship and the barony was taken into royal care.

Dr. Howe, working with Dorothea Dix, also brought about the establishment of the Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children ( later renamed the Walter E. Fernald State School ), the Western Hemisphere ’ s oldest publicly-funded institution serving the mentally disabled.

Chief among the early Anglo-Norman settlers was Theobald Walter ( surname Butler ) appointed hereditary chief Butler of Ireland in 1177 by King Henry II and founder of one of the oldest remaining British dignities.

It is the oldest of several overall awards in college football, including the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award, and the AP Player of the Year.

After a short time, Terry was removed from the band and his oldest brother, Walter ' Wattie ' Buchan, took over.

The name Hatteras is the sixth oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S. An inlet north of the cape was named " Hatrask " in 1585 by Sir Richard Grenville, the admiral leading the Roanoke Colony expedition sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Biogen, one of the oldest biotechnology companies, was founded in 1978 in Geneva by several biologists, including Phillip Sharp of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter Gilbert of Harvard ( who served as CEO during the start-up phase ) and Charles Weissmann of Zurich University ( who contributed the first product interferon-alpha ).

Her personal struggle over David ( Abdullah ’ s grandson ) proposing to Lia ( Walter ’ s oldest daughter ) was far deeper than Emerson ’ s.

His oldest son Walter Butler served with him, but his wife and other children were detained by the American rebels.

Scotland ’ s Society is actually the oldest as Walter Spencer is recorded as having been initiated into the SRIS by Anthony Oneil Haye in 1857, and there are documents in the SRIA archives that show that both Robert Wentworth Little and William J. Hughan were initiated in 1866 and 1867 by Anthony O ’ Neal Haye, Magus Max, Ros.

Thompson rapidly became their best salesman, purchasing the company in 1877 and renaming it the James Walter Thompson Company, which today is the oldest American advertising agency.

He was hired by publisher Walter E. Hussman, Jr., who intended to take on the rival Arkansas Gazette which was the state's premier newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi River.

She was the oldest daughter of William Hearn Jacob and Mary Phelps Jacob and had two brothers, Leonard and Walter " Bud " Phelps.

The oldest travel agency in North America is Brownell Travel ; on July 4, 1887, Walter T. Brownell led ten travelers on a European tour, setting sail from New York on the SS Devonia.

It is one of the oldest parts of Canberra, and is built in part in accordance to Walter Burley Griffin's designs.

Walter was born about 1225, and may have been the oldest son.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is Australia's oldest medical research institute.

With the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009 he became the oldest living man in the world ; after Allingham's death, that title passed to Walter Breuning of Montana.

In lines 555 – 6 of that poem Walter, seeing Guntharius ( Gunther ) and his men approaching says ( in the Chronicon Novaliciense text, usually taken to be the oldest ):

Griffith, sized at approximately 3 km², is one of Canberra's oldest suburbs, with several of its streets designed according to Walter Burley Griffin's original designs for Canberra.