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 ".

Coelacanths (, adaptation of Modern Latin Cœlacanthus " hollow spine ", from Greek κοῖλ-ος koilos " hollow " + ἄκανθ-α akantha " spine ", referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 ) are members of an order of fish that includes the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii ( lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ).

The oldest known animated adaptation Urashima Tarō of the tale premiered in 1918.

The oldest Jewish religio-philosophical work preserved in Arabic is that of Saadia Gaon ( 892-942 ), Emunot ve-Deot, " The Book of Beliefs and Opinions ".

The oldest Jewish religio-philosophical work preserved is that of Saadia Gaon ( 892-942 ), Emunot ve-Deot, " The Book of Beliefs and Opinions ".

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.

The earliest surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon, considered the oldest type of portable firearm and a forerunner of the handgun, are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.

The oldest known dated Arabic manuscript on paper in Leiden, ( dated 319 ( 931 AD ))

The Saluki, also known as the Royal Dog of Egypt and Persian Greyhound ( Arabic: سلوقي, Persian: تازی ) is one of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dog.

* One of the oldest Arabic manuscript fragments from Syria ( a few handwritten pages ) dating to the early 9th century.

* 1835 Bulaq version – These two volumes, printed by the Egyptian government, are the oldest printed ( by a publishing house ) version of The Nights in Arabic by a non-European.

* 1984 – Muhsin Mahdi publishes an Arabic edition which he claims is faithful to the oldest Arabic versions surviving ( primarily based on the Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in combination with other early manuscripts of the Syrian branch ).

The frontispiece of an Adelard of Bath Latin translation of Euclid's Elements, c. 1309 – 1316 ; the oldest surviving Latin translation of the Elements is a 12th-century translation by Adelard from an Arabic version.

Heliopolis (;, " City of the Sun " or " City of Helios "; Egyptian: ỉwnw ; Arabic: عين شمس, Ain Shams, " Eye of the Sun ") was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome that was located five miles ( 8 km ) east of the Nile to the north of the apex of the Nile Delta.

In some of the oldest mosques, such as the Great Mosque of Damascus, minarets originally served as illuminated watchtowers ( hence the derivation of the word from the Arabic nur, meaning " light ").

The frontispiece of an Adelard of Bath Latin translation of Euclid's Elements, c. 1309 – 1316 ; the oldest surviving Latin translation of the Elements is a 12th century work by Adelard, which translates to Latin from the Arabic.

The oldest texts of the cycle are however in Arabic, and no ancient or medieval Persian version has survived.

The identity of the oldest Arabic grammarian is disputed: some sources state that it was

The oldest known text in Arabic alphabet is an inscription found in Jabal Ram 50 km east of Aqaba.

Among Christian and Islamic Arabic manuscripts are treatises on medicine, a unique 11th-century diwan of poets, and the oldest copy of the Kitab Sibawahaihi.

Among the oldest archaeological artefacts inscribed with Arabic script are ; a tombstone of Syeikh Rukunuddin dated 48 AH ( 672 CE ) in Barus, Sumatra ; a tombstone dated 290 AH ( 910 CE ) on the mausoleum of Syeikh Abdul Qadir Ibn Husin Syah Alam located in Alor Setar, Kedah ; a tombstone found in Pekan, Pahang dated 419 AH ( 1026 CE ); a tombstone discovered in Phan Rang, Vietnam dated 431 AH ( 1039 CE ); a tombstone dated 440 AH ( 1048 CE ) found in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei ; and a tombstone of Fatimah Binti Maimun Bin Hibat Allah found in Gresik, East Java dated 475 AH ( 1082 CE ).

The oldest remains of Malay using the Jawi script have been found on the Terengganu Inscription Stone, dated 702 H ( 1303 CE ), nearly 600 years after the date of the first recorded existence of Arabic script in the region.

The oldest inscription so far discovered in Classical Arabic goes back to 328 AD and is known as the inscription, written in the Nabataean alphabet and named after the place where it was found in southern Syria in April 1901.

The Quba Mosque ( Quba ' Masjid or Masjid al-Quba, Arabic: مسجد قباء ), in the outlying environs of Medina in Saudi Arabia, is the oldest mosque in the world.

Many Muslim families also send their children to madrassahs to learn Arabic, such madrassahs includes the Jamia Tawakkulia Renga Madrasah, one of the oldest institutions in the city.

Though there are many Arabic manuscripts of Kalīla wa Demna, Ibn al-Muqaffa '’ s version is not among them, and the oldest dated copy was written almost five centuries after his death.

The oldest evidence of Andalusian Arabic utterances can be dated from the 10th and 11th century, in isolated quotes, both in prose and stanzaic Classical Andalusi poems ( muwashahat ), and then, from the 11th century on, in stanzaic dialectal poems ( zajal ) and dialectal proverb collections, while its last documents are a few business records and one letter written at the beginning of the 17th century in Valencia.