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...fact, numerous other systems have been devised to keep track of the passage of the years. The oldest in continuous use, China's lunisolar cycle, assigns an animal to each year based on the Chinese zodiac: the Year of the Tiger, Horse and so on. One of the longest counts is Judaism's reckoning of time from the creation of the world, by which the year 2000 will begin during 5760. For the world's Muslims, it will be the year 1420, counted from the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira (migration) to Medina...
...festivities for the nation's oldest non-sectarian theological school will include a musical convocation, panel discussions and an exhibition of historical religious material...
...America's oldest living undergraduates. Son of Christian missionaries and guru of 29 Garden Street. Coop and UC fanatic...
...most significant discovery was a mud-brick arched gateway measuring more than 12 feet high. Two other gateways had been found at other sites, but the Ashkelon arch dates to 1900 B.C.E., making it the oldest monumental arch ever found...
...good termite is a dead termite, but the one unearthed on a dig in the Dominican Republic was better than most. The insect, trapped between 25 million and 30 million years ago in a blob of tree sap that hardened into amber, has yielded genetic material that is the oldest ever studied, by at least 8 million years. It has also resolved a long-simmering dispute over the family tree of cockroaches...