The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

The oldest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin ( i. e. the capital Hangzhou ) written by the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ) author Zhou Mi ( 1232 – 1298 ), who listed " pupai " ( gambling plaques or dominoes ) as well as dice as items sold by peddlers during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song ( r. 1162 – 1189 ).

In 1993, the oldest known version of the text, written on bamboo tablets, was found in a tomb near the town of Guodian () in Jingmen, Hubei, and dated prior to 300 BC.

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

* Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933 – 1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.

The oldest written records of the Finnic languages of Estonia date from the 13th century.

The oldest known Bible copy of this epistle is in a Fulda manuscript written for Victor of Capua in 546.

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 earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the " Room of the Chariot Tablets ", an LMIII A-context ( c. 1400 BC ) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living languages.

It is also one of the oldest known written documents about the history of Estonia and Latvia.

The Western tradition of hymnody begins with the Homeric Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns, the oldest of which were written in the 7th century BC, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

The oldest known occurrence of the name Mesopotamia comes from the Anabasis Alexandri, which was written in the late second century AD but specifically refers to sources from the time of Alexander the Great.

The oldest clear endorsement of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John being the only legitimate gospels was written circa 180 AD.

Thucydides ' history of the Peloponesian War and Herodotus ' history of the Persian War ( both written in the 5th century BC ) survives in about eight early copies, the oldest ones dating from the 10th century AD.

One of the oldest written fragments of the language ever found dates back to the year 960, in an official text that was mixed with Latin:

Linguistically, the text is the oldest document written in a Romance language, and specifically in a form of French.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

The oldest written records of the language are those of Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, who arrived in Peru in 1538 and learned the language from 1540, publishing his Grammatica o arte de la lengua general de los indios de los reynos del Perú in 1560.

The oldest extant document written in Romanian is Neacșu's letter ( 1521 ).

Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country.

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 particular, smoke signals are one of the oldest examples of a digital signal, where an analog " carrier " ( smoke ) is modulated with a blanket to generate a digital signal ( puffs ) that conveys information.

Hence, these fragments are among the oldest objects in the solar system and have preserved information about its early history.

A few contemporary skaldic poems exist which give only brief information, while the oldest and youngest sagas often disagree on important aspects of his life.

The oldest surviving English work giving technical information on staff combat dates from the 15th century-it is a brief listing of " strokes of the 2-hand staff ", which shares terminology with the preceding " strokes of the 2-hand sword " in the same manuscript.

Their average growth rate by weight is about half the growth rate of domesticated carp They do not reach the lengths and weights of domesticated carp, which ( range, 3. 2 – 4. 8 times ) can grow to a maximum length of, a maximum weight of over, and an oldest recorded age of at least 65 years, but reliable information seems to exist about nishikigoi of over 100 years.

The Tilkitepe Mound, which is on the shores of Lake Van and a few kilometres to the south of Van Castle, is the only source of information about the oldest culture of Van.

Ptolemy created a map of Ireland in his Geographia with information dating from 100 AD, it is the oldest written account of the island with geographical features.

Weekly events and historical information are regularly published in the Manchester Enterprise ( founded 1867 ), Manchester's oldest and only newspaper.

By family tradition, the secrets of cymbal making were passed on only to the oldest son, but Armand's father, Avedis Zildjian III, gave the information to both of his sons, Armand and Robert.

The oldest information known about Mariakirken, is from the 17th century.

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.

It is the oldest and the most used ethical and trustworthy code for medical and health related information available on the Internet.

She is also a patron of the English National Opera, the London Philharmonic Choir, the not-for-profit housing association Anchor, the charity Independent Age, St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, England, Core a National charity in London England dedicated to funding research into digestive diseases and also publishes information leaflets on the most common diseases of the gut and liver, the Nature in Art Trust and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ), the oldest drama school in the English speaking world and President of WWF-UK.

However, the oldest surviving version of Eric's legend is from about 1270, yet there is no information on either Henry or the crusade.

It is one of the oldest German university libraries and it serves as a source of literature and information for the Leipzig University as well as the general public in the region.

Very little information about the settlement on the site of Shepshed appears before the Domesday Book but the name is certainly Anglo-Saxon: local history books claim that Shepshed has two of the oldest roads in the country, Ring Fence and Sullington Road, the latter being an ancient British track named after the goddess Solina.

According to Elliott ( 2004 ) the systems development life cycle ( SDLC ) can be considered to be the oldest formalized methodology framework for building information systems.

* Northeast Vigil – the largest and oldest information repository of information on the Northeast

It is the second oldest breast cancer hotline in the United States ; over 100 trained volunteers offer information and emotional support for women and men suffering from breast cancer.

Numerous sites exist with historical information on West Seattle, which is Seattle's oldest neighborhood and birthplace of Seattle proper.

Lapponia ( 1673 ), written by the rhetorician Johannes Schefferus, is the oldest source of detailed information on Sami culture.

This coincides with the oldest Chinese text that mentions Zhēnlà, the Suí shū ( Annals of the Suí Dynasty ) ( 隋書 ), compiled by Wèi Zhēng ( 魏徵 ) ( 580-643 ) in AD 636, which gives the information that at the beginning of the 7th century Zhēnlà was ruled by Zhìduōsīnà ( Citrasena ) ( 質多斯那 ) and Yīshēnàxiāndài ( Īśānavarman ) ( 伊奢那先代 ).