Posts tagged ‘oldest’
Oldest clock in the world
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia, who is thought to have invented writing in the 4th century BC, based their numerical system on powers […]
08/28/2009. Category: technology. Tags: clocks, oldest, time, utc
Oldest in the world
The oldest human, according to the Bible, was Methuselah; he lived for 969 years. The oldest person on record in modern history […]
05/08/2009. Category: trivia. Tags: oldest
The oldest living thing on earth
Then Dr. Frank Vasek of the University of California discovered flowering shrubs called creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata) in the Mojave Desert. One […]
02/25/2009. Category: nature. Tags: creosote, oldest
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