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Sentence Examples The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world. The oldest European cave art dates back 40,800, and can be found in the El Castillo Cave in Spain. The church tower dates from mediaeval times, making it the oldest surviving building in Inverness. The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. The oldest surviving such race, Doggett's Coat and Badge was first contested in 1715 and is still held annually from London Bridge to Chelsea. It was formed in 1873, making it the second oldest national football association in the world. The Stayers Hurdle, first ran in 1912, is the oldest race from the Cheltenham festival that is currently a championship race. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world. The presumed oldest national anthem belongs to the Netherlands and is called the Wilhelmus. The author of God Save the Queen, one of the oldest and well known anthems in the world, is unknown and disputed. Hamburg Airport opened in January 1911, making it the oldest airport in the world which is still in operation. Some of the oldest skeletal evidence for anatomically modern humans has been found in Ethiopia. The island was governed as an independent commonwealth under the Althing, one of the world's oldest functioning legislative assemblies. The oldest traces of human existence in Liechtenstein date back to the Middle Paleolithic era. Durham is also home to the oldest Gamelan slendro set in the UK with an active community group and an artist in residence. California is home to the oldest college bowl game, the annual Rose Bowl, among others. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event. The oldest mention of Burghausen is documented in the year 1025 as Imperial real property. The Dutch water boards are among the oldest democratic entities in the world still in existence. One of the oldest buildings in the municipality is Erenstein, a castle the origins of which lie in the 14th century. Show More Sentences This treaty established the border between Portugal and Spain which is one of the oldest borders in Europe. The oldest evidence of writing in Indonesia is a series of Sanskrit inscriptions dated to the 5th century. The Knap of Howar Neolithic farmstead situated on the island of Papa Westray is probably the oldest preserved house in northern Europe. Perth Museum and Art Gallery at the top end of George Street is recognised as one of the oldest provincial museums in Scotland. Perth Theatre, constructed in 1900 is one of Scotland's oldest and most historic repertory theatres. The Category A listed Fair Maid's House on North Port is the oldest surviving secular building in Perth. The oldest church is the Old High Church, on St Michael's Mount by the riverside, a site perhaps used for worship since Celtic times. The oldest preserved texts in Old Norse in the Latin alphabet date from the middle of the 12th century. It is the oldest text written as a manuscript found in Sweden and from the 13th century. The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. It claims to be the oldest European settlement in the continental United States. The colony of New Sweden introduced Lutheranism to America in the form of some of the continent's oldest European churches. Gladstone left office in March 1894, aged 84, as the oldest person to serve as prime minister and the only prime minister to serve four terms. The University Library, situated on Hillhead Street opposite the Main Building, is one of the oldest and largest libraries in Europe. It is the university's oldest building, some parts dating from 1144 and is the smaller of the two chapels. During the Wenlock, the oldest known tracheophytes of the genus Cooksonia, appear. Lewis and Cape Charles, and are among Canada's oldest European settlements. The oldest known wild golden eagle was a bird banded in Sweden which was recovered 32 years later. Boar attacks on humans have been documented since the Stone Age, with one of the oldest depictions being a cave painting in Bhimbetaka, India. The world's tallest, thickest, largest, and oldest living trees are all conifers. Show More Sentences It is now the oldest and longest navigable aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest in the world. East Kilbride Lawn Tennis Club is one of the oldest tennis club in Scotland. Witherby Seamanship, established in 1740, is one of the oldest publishers in the United Kingdom. Part of modern Irvine contains the oldest continually inhabited village in Europe. The Irvine Burns Club has the oldest continuous record of any Burns club in the World. During this seminal period of the 1970s, Samye Ling was the main and oldest Tibetan centre in Europe. It is the oldest organisation concerned with electoral methods in the world. The oldest continuous federation, and a role model for many subsequent federations, is the United States. With the United States Constitution having become effective on 4 March 1789, the United States is the oldest surviving federation. Founded in 1129 it is the second oldest building in the city after Stirling castle. The regiment, through the Royal Scots Greys, is the oldest surviving Cavalry Regiment of the Line in the British Army. This article contains a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world. The oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning harmonic, musical. The oldest monuments, cairns, were followed by princely tombs and stone rows. The oldest dances seem to be the passepied and the gavotte, and the newest ones derive from the quadrille and French Renaissance dances. The Herald is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. It is the second oldest Rugby Union, having been founded in 1873, as the Scottish Football Union. The Scottish Cup trophy is the oldest national trophy and also the oldest association football trophy in the world. In 1965, Celtic began publishing The Celtic View, the oldest club magazine in football. The Old Course at St Andrews is one of the oldest golf courses in the world, a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Show More Sentences The Old Course is home of The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships. Finally in February 1980 the coal ran out and even Big Pit, then the oldest mine in Wales, had to close. The University of Durham is based in Durham city and is sometimes held to be the third oldest university in England. The oldest fossil remains of anatomically modern humans are the Jebel Irhoud fossils from Morocco which are approximately 300,000 years old. In conclusion nonleisure PA appeared to be a stronger predictor of all types of HSU, particularly in the two oldest age groups. The oldest known dolmens are in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7,000 years ago. The oldest securely dated tin bronze artefact are found in the heart of the Balkans in Serbia. This was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and is still the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in Western Europe. It is possibly the oldest town in Wales, recorded by Ptolemy and in the Antonine Itinerary. Copper occurs naturally as native metallic copper and was known to some of the oldest civilizations on record. The oldest known pills were made of the zinc carbonates hydrozincite and smithsonite. Oswestry Cricket Club compete in the Birmingham and District Premier League which is the oldest cricket league in the country. The other side of the Grosvenor Bridge is the Roodee, Chester's race course and the oldest course in the country. The Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind, founded in 1923, is the oldest active manufacturer in the town. Bevin Boys did not wear uniforms or badges, but the oldest clothes they could find. This makes the Welsh Liberals the oldest of the political parties in Wales. Abutting Russian Hill and North Beach is San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinatown in North America. The Olympic Club, founded in 1860, is the oldest athletic club in the United States. Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute is the oldest art school west of the Mississippi. As a result, Australia's Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence. Show More Sentences David's is a Norman church and is believed to be the oldest building in Milford still in regular use. It claims to be the oldest continually visited pilgrimage site in Great Britain and is a grade I listed building. At 1,500 to 2,000 years old, the oldest tree predates the church, whose earliest stonework is probably Norman. The Fortingall Yew is considered to be the oldest tree in Europe, at something over 2000 years old. The oldest alcid fossil is Hydrotherikornis from Oregon dating to the Late Eocene while fossils of Aethia and Uria go back to the Late Miocene. This result seems to be one of the oldest dates published so far in the case of birds of prey. The church standing in Conwy has been marked as the oldest building in Conwy and has stood in the walls of Conwy since the 14th century. However, the oldest structure is part of the town walls, at the southern end of the east side. The oldest modern polecat fossils occur in Germany, Britain and France, and date back to the Middle Pleistocene. The oldest known Moss campion is 350 years old and has a diameter of two feet. The Holyhead Maritime Museum is housed in what is claimed to be Wales's oldest lifeboat house. The oldest church in the city is St John's, which is outside the city walls and was at one time the cathedral church. It also operates one of the oldest ferries in the region, the MV Liemba which was built in 1913 during the German colonial rule. This service has been in continuous operation since 1827 and is one of the oldest operating ferries in North America. The Malaysian state of Penang is home to the oldest ferry service in the country. A contender as oldest ferry in continuous operation is the Mersey Ferry from Liverpool to Birkenhead, England. Originally a public house, reputedly built in 1401, possibly the oldest pub in Ruthin. The Tea Party project continues to run to this day and is SVB's oldest project. One of the most popular sports in Glamorgan was rugby union, producing some of the oldest rugby clubs in the world. The oldest written Goidelic language is Primitive Irish, which is attested in Ogham inscriptions from about the 4th century. Show More Sentences The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the 16th century, and is located in the city centre. Amongst several historic locations, Moore Street remains one of the city's oldest trading districts. The Odai Yamamoto I site, belonging to the Jomon period, currently has the oldest pottery in Japan. The village is home to the Ewenny Pottery, founded in 1610 and the oldest working pottery in Wales. Since this is one of the oldest species found in cultivation, it is likely to have been introduced into Kashmir. Wrexham's home stadium, the Racecourse Ground, is the world's oldest international stadium that still continues to host international games. Reardon remains the oldest winner of the World Championship at the age of 45 years and 6 months. Reardon remains the oldest player, at 50, ever to win a ranking tournament. The Dalek race, which first appeared in the show's second serial in 1963, are Doctor Who's oldest villains. One of the oldest pickle companies in India is Harnarains, which had started off in the 1860s in Old Delhi. This section of the country has some of the oldest known foodways in the land, with some recipes almost 400 years old. Modern submarines and submersibles, as well as the oldest ones, usually have a single hull. Lithic technology marks some of the oldest and continuously used technologies. Bird migration routes have been studied by a variety of techniques including the oldest, marking. The oldest Pacific Ocean floor is only around 180 Ma old, with older crust subducted by now. Insects diversified during the Cretaceous, and the oldest known ants, termites and some lepidopterans, akin to butterflies and moths, appeared. The oldest manatee in captivity was Snooty, at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida. Water wells discovered by archaeologists in western Cyprus are believed to be among the oldest in the world, dated at 9,000 to 10,500 years old. Sardinia is home to one of the oldest forms of vocal polyphony, generally known as cantu a tenore. Teide National Park is the most visited in Spain, and the oldest and largest within the Canary Islands. Show More Sentences The oldest Portuguese university was first established in Lisbon before moving to Coimbra. It is the oldest stone church in Sweden, built around the same time as Lund cathedral. Cretan Hound or Kritikos Lagonikos, one of Europe's oldest hunting dog breeds. Few buildings from the oldest period remain, the most significant being St Mary's Church from the 12th century. The oldest settlements in Northern Germany and Denmark lie on geest, since it provided better protection against storm floods. Traditional dialects are now mostly extinct in Denmark, with only the oldest generations still speaking them. Since the sentence speaks to the imagination, it is often erroneously stated as the oldest Dutch sentence. The oldest are carved on loose objects, while later ones are chiseled in runestones. It is among the most important documents of the period written in Latin script and the oldest Swedish law codes. The oldest offshore well recorded in Infield's offshore database is the Bibi Eibat well which came on stream in 1923 in Azerbaijan. The oldest amber with arthropod inclusions comes from the Levant, from Lebanon and Jordan. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. The Singelgracht should not be confused with the oldest and most inner canal Singel. Dover Rowing Club is the oldest coastal rowing club in Britain and has a rich history, at one time becoming the best club on the south coast. The oldest stone in France is found in outcroppings on the coast of Cap de la Hague, at the tip of the peninsula. Rochester Cathedral is England's second oldest cathedral, the present building built in the Early English Style. An extensive tramway network was built in 1860 and is the oldest in Africa. Then Corelio with De Gentenaar, the oldest extant Flemish newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard. On 7 June the King and Queen visited Jersey and Guernsey to welcome the oldest possessions of the Crown back to freedom. Established in 1865, it is one of the oldest governmental institutions in the country. Show More Sentences It was created in 1883 and is the world's oldest operating electric railway. Marys Challenger, launched in 1906, is the oldest operating steamship in the United States. It is the oldest building in the upper city, and currently serves as the home to a museum of Celtic remains from the Roman occupation. Decorated clay vessels from this period are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. The Theatre Royal, a grade I listed building, is the oldest continuously operating theatre in England. Wild females have been observed reproducing up to 28 years of age, which is the oldest known age for reproduction of any ursid in the wild. Most of the oldest known bat fossils were already very similar to modern microbats. The oldest fossils tentatively assigned to this genus are from the Late Miocene, less than 10 million years ago. The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus. The oldest surviving yew longbow was found at Rotten Bottom in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Some of the oldest written records contain references to the destruction of crops that were probably caused by pathogenic fungi. Although some complete sentences are recorded in Gaulish and Celtiberian, the oldest Celtic literature is found in Old Irish. One of the oldest is St Margaret's Chapel in Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, which her son King David I founded. As of 2008 Vilnius University is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe and the largest university in Lithuania. The region's oldest known beads were made from Nassarius shells and worn as personal ornaments 72,000 years ago. Columbia University has an extensive underground tunnel system more than a century old, with the oldest portions predating the present campus. 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. His accounts of India are among the oldest records of Indian civilization by an outsider. The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aftermath. Venetus A, copied in the 10th century AD, is the oldest fully extant manuscript of the Iliad. Show More Sentences The skeleton was found to be 13,000 years old, and it is considered the oldest genetically intact human skeleton ever found in the Americas. The oldest processed gold in the world was found in Varna, and the Black Sea was supposedly sailed by the Argonauts. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world. This story of coal miners who become coal-owners and rivals for the affections of La Dietrich is the purest and oldest ackamarackus. Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory. Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children. The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle. The oldest piece in the store was a wooden-handled de-thatching rake, which was bracketed way up near the rafters. Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest. Ealing Studios in London has a claim to being the oldest continuously working film studio in the world. The Football Association is the oldest governing body in the sport, with the rules of football first drafted in 1863 by Ebenezer Cobb Morley. The world's oldest golf tournament, and golf's first major, is The Open Championship, played both in England and Scotland. There are fifteen Scottish universities, some of which are amongst the oldest in the world. Association football is the most popular sport and the Scottish Cup is the world's oldest national trophy. A favourable climate supports two vineyards, including one of the oldest in the British Isles at Adgestone. The London Underground, commonly referred to as the Tube, is the oldest and second longest metro system in the world. Regent's Park contains London Zoo, the world's oldest scientific zoo, and is near the tourist attraction of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown, in England and Wales. Brighton SC formed in 1860 claims to be the oldest swimming club in England. Played in late June to early July, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. Show More Sentences The Ridgeway runs through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and is probably Britain's oldest road. Pears soap, made at Port Sunlight, is the world's first registered brand, and world's oldest brand in existence. At Redcar on Teesside, the Cleveland Golf Course of 1887 is the oldest in Yorkshire. England's oldest horse race, which began in 1519, is run each year at Kiplingcotes near Market Weighton. The oldest and most spectacular Saxon site found in France to date is Vron, in Picardy. Poetry in Irish is among the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe, with the earliest examples dating from the 6th century. I am proud to be speaking to you in one of the oldest of these, Welsh, the language of Wales. These glacial maxima are called, from oldest to youngest, Tahoe, Tenaya, and Tioga. Although York's Sheriff office is the oldest in England it is now a purely ceremonial post. His successor, Ine, issued one of the oldest surviving English law codes and established a second West Saxon bishopric. He also invested in dockyards, and commissioned the oldest surviving dry dock in 1495 at Portsmouth. The Old Time Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, begun in 1935, is one of the oldest and largest such events worldwide. The Virginia Military Institute is the oldest state military college and a top ranked public liberal arts college. Founded in 1619, the Virginia General Assembly is still in existence as the oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere. The Virginia Capitol Police is the oldest police department in the United States. The state nickname is its oldest symbol, though it has never been made official by law. Today Indonesia is not only the oldest industrial producer of tobacco, but also the second largest consumer of tobacco. The library, which opened in 1653 and is still open to the public today, is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. An anonymous life of Cuthbert written at Lindisfarne is the oldest extant piece of English historical writing. The differences are most marked in the oldest age group reflecting greater female longevity, where more women were 70 or over. Show More Sentences The oldest surviving synagogue in Birmingham is the 1825 Greek Revival Severn Street Synagogue, now a Freemasons' Lodge hall. Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring. The city is also home to one of the oldest American football teams in the BAFA National Leagues, the Birmingham Bulls. The oldest rocks in the group are in the north west of Scotland, Ireland and North Wales and are 2,700 million years old. The oldest constitutional monarchy dating back to ancient times was that of the Hittites. Westminster Hall, the oldest existing part of the Palace of Westminster, was erected in 1097, at which point it was the largest hall in Europe. The oldest rocks are exposed in the north, in areas such as the Kisatchie National Forest. The oldest rocks date back to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago. Denis, making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the modern state of Louisiana. Additionally, the world's oldest working factory can also be found in the area, producing textiles at Lea Bridge, owned by John Smedley. In 1625, a House of Correction was established in Shepton Mallet, and when it closed HMP Shepton Mallet was England's oldest prison still in use. The city is also home to the oldest Black African community in the country and the oldest Chinese community in Europe. Notts County, formed in 1862, is the oldest professional football club in the world. The Baptist church building occupies the site of the former Lake's pottery, one of the oldest in Cornwall. The oldest section lies within the Medieval walls of the city, which are built on Roman foundations. The pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use and which has been in continuous use since its inception. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in operation today, after the Sveriges Riksbank. The oldest pub is the Grade II listed Ye Olde Dolphin Inne, dating from the late 16th century. They aim to continue the work and traditions of the former Derby School, which closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in England. He was the oldest of six children born to Mary Swift and Jonas Priestley, a finisher of cloth. Show More Sentences Puffing Billy is now on display in the Science Museum in London, the oldest locomotive in existence. The line dates back to 1885 and is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. The original Terminal 2 opened as the Europa Building in 1955 and was the airport's oldest terminal. The Port of Tilbury Police, among the oldest of such forces in the UK, are responsible for the security of the Port. Until the Second World War, Chinese communities lived around Britain's main ports, the oldest and largest in Liverpool and London. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilisation. Built in 1681, the Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts is the oldest church in America in continuous ecclesiastical use. A door within the vestibule dates from around 1050 and is believed to be the oldest in England. The Salisbury cathedral clock dating from about AD 1386 is supposedly the oldest working modern clock in the world. Methodist Heritage records the Yarm chapel as the oldest in England in continual use. Nevertheless, the Heptonstall chapel has also contested for the title of oldest octagon chapel in continual use. This is the oldest Western book to keep its original bookbinding, in finely decorated leather. Her husband was summoned by the authorities to explain why his oldest son had gone abroad, and in March 1586 the Clitherow house was searched. Brahmanical motifs can be found in the oldest Buddhist texts, using them to introduce and explain Buddhist ideas. Information of the oldest teachings may be obtained by analysis of the oldest texts. The reliability of these sources, and the possibility to draw out a core of oldest teachings, is a matter of dispute. The Oxford University Press is the world's second oldest and currently the largest university press by the number of publications. King's Department of Engineering was established in 1838, making it arguably the oldest school of engineering in England. Competition within the University of London is most intense between King's and University College London, the two oldest institutions. A weekly student newspaper The Beaver, is published each Tuesday during term time and is amongst the oldest student newspapers in the country. Show More Sentences It is the second oldest school in the United Kingdom after The King's School Canterbury. House prefects were once elected from the oldest year, but this no longer happens. The old term, Library, survives in the name of the room set aside for the oldest year's use, where boys have their own kitchen. Cicero allegedly possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which was near Arpinum, which he inherited. St John's Hospital was founded around 1180 by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin and is among the oldest almshouses in England. Behind the Horseshoe Cloister is the Curfew Tower, one of the oldest surviving parts of the Lower Ward and dating from the 13th century. The font is usually made of stone and is usually the oldest fitting in the cathedral, many of them being Norman. The oldest bell in the cathedral is Bell Harry, which hangs in a cage atop the central tower to which the bell lends its name. The oldest surviving ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk, gives even less support to the picture of Robin Hood as a partisan of the true king. Any ballad may be older than the oldest copy that happens to survive, or descended from a lost older ballad. The name of Merlin's mother is not usually stated, but is given as Adhan in the oldest version of the Prose Brut. The oldest painting was commissioned by the County of the City of Coventry in 1586 and produced by Adam van Noort, a refugee Flemish artist. It is among the oldest English cookery books, and the first to mention olive oil, gourds, and spices such as mace and cloves. Hence, sausages, puddings, and salami are among the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten immediately or dried to varying degrees. This replaced the previous oldest recipe, dated 1746, held by the Cornwall Records Office in Truro, Cornwall. In the Philippines at Tabon Caves the oldest artwork may be a relief of a shark above the cave entrance. An Irish Latin psalter of the early 7th century, this is perhaps the oldest known Irish manuscript of any sort. This is the oldest extant translation of the Gospels into the English language. The library of the Royal Academy is the oldest institutional fine art library in Britain. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. Show More Sentences Fragments I and II almost always follow each other, just as VI and VII, IX and X do in the oldest manuscripts. Social contract formulations are preserved in many of the world's oldest records. She left memories with her husband and with Charlotte, the oldest surviving sibling, of a very vivacious woman at the parsonage. The oldest children's songs of which we have records are lullabies, intended to help a child sleep. It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. The Teatro San Carlo in Naples introduces the plant horseshoe, the oldest in the world, a model for the Italian theater. Moore, won the Oscar for best supporting actress, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win that award. Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China. Founded in 1857, the club is the oldest club now playing association football. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in world football. The oldest rocks exposed at the centre of the anticline are correlated with the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic. Founded in 1865 as Bath Football Club, they are one of the oldest and most successful rugby clubs. The Mrs Sunderland Music festival is the second oldest in the United Kingdom, started in 1889 lasting for nine days each year. The Old Links at Musselburgh Racecourse is claimed to be the oldest playing golf course in the world. The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. The Champ de Mars is situated on a prestigious avenue in Port Louis, the capital city and is the oldest racecourse in the southern hemisphere. Warwick Academy, one of the oldest schools in the western hemisphere, is in the parish of Warwick, Bermuda. In 2006 he became, at 67, the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 as the territory's oldest higher education institute. The oldest horse tram transport in the world is located on the sea front in the capital, Douglas. Show More Sentences Edinburgh is home to The Royal High School, one of the oldest schools in the country and the world. They are the oldest city rivals in Scotland and the Edinburgh derby is one of the oldest derby matches in world football. Also of note is The Hayes, home to Spillers Records, the world's oldest record shop. Evidence of this period of Belfast's growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries. The oldest definitely dated EEMH specimen is the Grotta del Cavallo tooth dated in 2011 to at least 43,000 years old. The Berlin Zoo, opened in 1844, is the oldest zoo in Germany, and presents the most comprehensive collection of species in the world. Rzeczpospolita, founded in 1920 is one of the oldest newspapers still in operation. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. The original Indian plate survives as peninsular India, the oldest and geologically most stable part of India. The West End's Theatre Royal in Covent Garden in the City of Westminster dates back to the mid 17th century, making it the oldest London theatre. Chipperfield's Circus dates back more than 300 years in Britain, making it one of the oldest family circus dynasties. Formed in 1660, it is one of the oldest learned societies still in existence. The rules were first drafted in England in 1863 by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, and the UK has the oldest football clubs in the world. The Kennel Club with its headquarters in London, is the oldest kennel club in the world, and is the governing body of dogs in the United Kingdom. The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. The oldest rocks of Scotland are the Lewisian gneisses, which were formed in the Precambrian period, up to 3 billion years ago. The oldest surviving structure in Stonehaven is the Stonehaven Tolbooth at the harbour, used as an early prison and now a museum. Aloysius' College and The High School of Glasgow, which was founded in 1124 and is the oldest school in Scotland. 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