While visiting Davis ' oldest sister near Saint Francisville, Louisiana, both newlyweds contracted malaria.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

While the house had long been claimed to have been built circa 1640 ( and being the oldest wood-framed house in North America ), core samples of wood taken from a summer beam confirmed the wood was from an oak tree felled in 1637-8.

While most of the Moon's basalts erupted between about 3 and 3. 5 billion years ago, the oldest samples are 4. 2 billion years old, and the youngest flows, based on the age dating method of " crater counting ," are estimated to have erupted only 1. 2 billion years ago.

While Rotterdam has the oldest bourse in the Netherlands, the world's first stock exchange – that of the Dutch East-India Company – went public in six different cities.

While Euclidean geometry, named after the Greek mathematician Euclid, includes some of the oldest known mathematics, non-Euclidean geometries were not widely accepted as legitimate until the 19th century.

While variants turn up in other places ( for example a poem often ascribed to Virgil called Moretum contains the phrase E Pluribus Unus ), this is the oldest known use of the exact phrase.

While this remains a matter of contention, it is likely to be the oldest remaining synagogue in Western Europe.

While other children had homemade or improvised balls, Zarraonandía had access to a real ball, as two of his brothers played football: Tomás, the oldest, who played in the Primera División with Arenas de Getxo and Domingo, died during the Spanish Civil War.

While it may not be possible to positively ascertain which is the original or " more correct " story, Harold Courlander writes, at least in Oraibi ( the oldest of the Hopi villages ), little children are often told the story of the sipapu, and the story of an ocean voyage is related to them when they are older.

While it is one of the oldest communities in Missouri, Perry County also founded the first college west of the Mississippi River, dating to 1827.

While Licking Township ( location of community of Hartford ) was the most populous township in the county, the community of Montpelier was the county's oldest platted community.

While many of the tombs had already been looted in earlier times, Rudenko unearthed buried horses, and with them immaculately preserved cloth saddles, felt and woven rugs including the world's oldest pile carpet, a 3-metre-high four-wheel funeral chariot from the 5th century BC and other splendid objects that had escaped the ravages of time.

While Casas Adobes remains unincorporated, the community has distinguished itself from the other suburbs to the north and northwest of Tucson as the oldest community.

While some of the city's Italian immigrants still play games like bocce, and a few Belgian immigrants continue to raise and race homing pigeons, the city also hosts the nation's oldest and largest wiffleball tournament, the World Whiffleball Championship, held at Rose Park ’ s 22-field wiffleball complex.

While the oldest extant copies of Jubilees can be assigned on the basis of the handwriting to about 100 BC, there is much evidence to suggest Jubilees was written prior to this date.

While Americans turned to the new imports in increasing numbers, AMC continued its struggle at the inefficient and aging Kenosha, Wisconsin facilities — the oldest continuously operating automobile plant in the world, where components and unfinished bodies still had to be transported across the city.

While Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, was the king's oldest son, his younger brother Miguel contended that Pedro had forfeited his claim to the throne by declaring Brazilian independence.

While ex-situ conservation comprises some of the oldest and best known conservation methods, it also involves newer, sometimes controversial laboratory methods.

While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.

While this only involved one lodge, it was the oldest and most prestigious in the constitution, and its Master the Moderns ' most respected author and historian.

While stern-mounted rudders were found in Europe on a wide range of vessels since Roman times, including light war galleys in Mediterranean, the oldest known depiction of a pintle-and-gudgeon rudder can be found on church carvings of Zedelgem and Winchester dating to around 1180.

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While with WWE he competed as Chavo Classic and became the oldest WWE Cruiserweight Champion in history, defeating Chavo, Jr. and Spike Dudley in a triple threat match.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While Poirot is usually paid handsomely by clients who request his help, he is known to also take on cases that may not pay well simply because the mystery interests him.

While the diver seeks out colonies of abalone amongst the reef beds the deckhand operates the boat, known as working " live " and stays above where the diver is working.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

While Stradivari's first known violin states that he was a pupil of Amati, the validity of his statement is questioned.

While Grothendieck lived in Chambon, he attended the Collège Cévenol ( now known as the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International ), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

While these rules do generate some pairs of amicable numbers, many other pairs are known, so these rules are by no means comprehensive.

While most casts have five toes — like all known apes — some casts of alleged Bigfoot tracks have had numbers ranging from two to six.

While they are not major teratogens, uncertainty remains as to whether they cause cleft palate in a small number of babies and whether neurobehavioural effects occur as a result of prenatal exposure ; they are known to cause withdrawal symptoms in the newborn.

While the detailed particle physics mechanism responsible for inflation is not known, the basic picture makes a number of predictions that have been confirmed by observation.

While plenty is known about the healthy heart, the bulk of the study in cardiology is in the disorders of the heart and restoration, where possible, of function.

While known for most elements, either or both of these measurements is still undetermined for some of the radioactive elements available in only tiny quantities.

While he is known as DeMille ( his nom d ' oeuvre ), his family name was Dutch and is usually spelled " de Mil ".

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

While he was known to call himself a " visitor to small wars ", he refrained from becoming involved in Vietnam, but is known to have done undocumented work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

While similar lifeforms have been known to exist in shallower ocean trenches (> 7, 000 m ) and on the abyssal plain, the lifeforms discovered in the Challenger Deep possibly represent taxa distinct from those in shallower ecosystems.

While it has been known since Jane Goodall's 1960s discovery that modern chimpanzees use tools, research published in 2007 indicates that chimpanzee stone tool use dates to at least 4, 300 years ago.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.