Sentences with phrase «oldest surviving»

For those who didn't give their lives to good design, these authentic Thonet dining chairs were crafted by the world's oldest surviving furniture company.

If you're in the mood for sightseeing, you can find treasures by land or sea, including the Adam Thoroughgood House, one of the state's oldest surviving Colonial homes, and the lighthouses at Cape Henry.

The core of Albany is one of the oldest surviving original settlements, and it's still possible to determine that many of the streets were originally laid out with horses in mind rather than cars.

«At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world's oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition,» Wales said.

We could start some 3,300 years ago with what have been heralded as the oldest surviving pair of trousers — but such a long detailed history would be too large a load of pants for a mere fillip.

The oldest surviving bottle house was was constructed out of over 50,000 beer bottles in 1907, due to the lack of lumber available in the deserts of Nevada.

The Heritage Lottery Fund has contributed # 6.2 million towards restoring the amusement park, which is home to the oldest surviving roller coaster in the UK.

Reviewing De Niro's first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1946, Greenberg wrote: «[T] he originality and force of [De Niro's] temperament demonstrate themselves under an iron control of the plastic elements such as is rarely seen in our time outside the painting of the oldest surviving members of the School of Paris.»

A quirky little show at the Menil Collection, Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, brings together drawings by Hedda Sterne, the oldest surviving painter associated with the first generation of abstract expressionism, and her late husband, Saul Steinberg, who died in 1999 and is best known for his New Yorker covers and illustrations.

She has also done illustration work for The New York Times, Ralph Lauren Polo, and Mitsukoshi (the oldest surviving department store chain in Japan founded 1673).

The Amati «King» cello, the oldest surviving cello built in the mid-16th century, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning June 11.

Originally constructed in 1853 and transformed in 2011 by architect Christian Sottile — a university alumnus and SCAD architecture professor — the museum building is a National Historic Landmark and the oldest surviving antebellum railroad depot in the country.

The dynamic, semi-improvised vocal tradition practiced by the indigenous Sami people of Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland has been recognized as the oldest surviving in Europe.

Current projects include guest editing an upcoming issue of Sinister Wisdom (the oldest surviving multicultural lesbian literary and art journal in the United States) on the theme of transfer in contemporary lesbian art.

There's also the quaint Shelley Theatre, the oldest surviving theatre in the town, which is currently being restored to its former glory.

Given this is the 1952 model year version, SMS could have most likely modelled Merc's privately - owned W194 (the oldest surviving SL in the world) for use in Project CARS... 1971 300SEL 6.8 AMG «Rote Sau» Nicknamed the «Red Pig», and the car that cemented the relationship between then - small tuners AMG and Mercedes - Benz.

After lunch, it's back to Porthmadog station to take the Ffestiniog Mountain Railway, the oldest surviving railway company in the world.

Cape Otway is situated at the southern tip of Victoria's Western Coast, where the Southern Ocean meets Bass Strait marked by the beacon of the Cape Otway Lightstation which is the oldest surviving Lighthouse in mainland Australia.

Explore and discover one of the world's oldest surviving rainforests with a huge range of activities and adventures on offer.

Drive half an hour through the Otway National Park rainforest and visit the Cape Otway Lightstation, the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia.

Cape Otway Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse on mainland Australia and considered the most significant.

The Lightstation (entrance fee) is the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Australian mainland and was built by convicts in 1848.

The complex also houses the oldest surviving instrument in Balinese gamelan called selonding.

Cadmans Cottage is one of Sydney's oldest surviving buildings.

The 61 - square - kilometre city - state is land - locked by Italy and is the world's oldest surviving republic.

The world's oldest surviving republic, a luxury chauffeur service in Iceland, an African destination that has high hopes for tourism, a national airline and the developers of a ground - breaking app, are all among more than 150 new exhibitors waiting to do business at World Travel Market London 2016.

Known then as «The Rose» it is now the oldest surviving building in Yass.

Approximately 25 - 30 minutes west of Apollo Bay via the Great Ocean Road and Lighthouse Road is magnificent Cape Otway home to the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia.

The Ffestiniog Railway was founded by an act of Parliament in 1832, and today is the oldest surviving railway company in the world.

The oldest surviving part of the building, the northwestern tower, was built in 1529 as a royal apartment for James V and his wife, Mary, Queen of Scots.

Make sure you take the time to visit Cape Otway Lightstation for a chance to witness the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Australian mainland.

Founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832, the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway is the oldest surviving railway company in the world.

There is plenty on offer in Tashkent to appeal to all manner of visitors; the vast open air Chorsu Bazaar is packed full of just about any product one could wish to buy and the Khast Imam Mosque is the epitome of cultural elegance and contains the Uthman Qur «an, quite possibly the oldest surviving copy of the text on the planet, dating back to the year 655.

Other visitors explore the Daintree Rainforest, the oldest surviving rainforest on earth or take 4WD excursions north to Cape Tribulation visiting beaches such as Cow Bay, Alexandra Bay and Noah Beach.

Built in 1894, oldest surviving examples of late - Victorian beach cottage architecture; vacant since 1917 and subject of controversy over «demolition by neglect»

Besides being one of the oldest surviving examples of Spanish architecture in California, the house gained much prominence by association with Helen Hunt Jackson's wildly popular 1884 novel Ramona.

Climb to the top of the oldest surviving lighthouse in the US and enjoy sweeping views of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

The oldest surviving part of the castle is a tiny Norman chapel built in the 12th century.

This is the world's oldest surviving cast iron pier, built in 1834 and refurbished in 2004 as a restaurant.

Stroll State Street for excellent shops and dining, launch a kayak from East Beach to paddle under Stearns Wharf, visit the classic Old Mission Santa Barbara, and tour the 1782 presidio for a look at original adobes like El Cuartel, the second oldest surviving building in the state.

We definitely recommend visiting the Old Synagogue, one of the country's oldest surviving examples of Jewish religious architecture.

The Festiniog Railway Company is the oldest surviving railway company in the world.

Also try: From Apollo Bay drive 35 minutes to Cape Otway Lighthouse, the oldest surviving lighthouse in Australia.

The core of Albany is one of the oldest surviving original settlements, and it's still possible to determine that many of the streets were originally laid out with horses in mind rather than cars.

The oldest surviving animated film is an advertisement for Bryant & May matches from 1899 asking the audience to donate one guinea so that the company can give a free box of matches to every British soldier fighting in the Boer War!

Metaphor is as old as language itself, having been etched in the baked tablets of what is considered to be the oldest surviving written work, the Epic of Gilgamesh, dating back to approximately 2000 BC.

We're known to the world medical community as the oldest surviving craniopagus twins (we are twenty - nine years old) and to millions around the globe, those whose interest in people like us is more than just...

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

Perhaps it's fitting the Dodge Caravan, which was introduced back in 1984, is the oldest surviving minivan nameplate in America.

His collection includes the No. 003 1953 Corvette which is considered the oldest surviving production Corvette as well as a special one - of - one 2009 Corvette ZR1 «Blue Devil» which he purchased at Barrett - Jackson's Scottsdale auction in 2008.