The coupon is a venerable form, dating back to the turn of the 20th century, and possibly because of that, there's something musty and even corny about it.
"16th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival," a daylong celebration of the arts featuring "I Madonnari," a street chalk art form dating to the 16th century.
The Poitiers baptistery, in its present form dating from the 8th century, is on the threshold of the Carolingian epoch, but it contains much more ancient wall work.
The oldest known holostean, Acentrophorus (a form dating to the Late Permian, about 260 251 million years ago), belongs to the Semionotidae.
Eblaite language, archaic Semitic language, probably the most ancient to survive in substantial form, dating from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium bc.
In its modern form, dating from Victorian times, leisure's a negative concept: it's defined in contrast to work, as non-work - the time we gain, as a result of earning money, that we don't need to spend earning money.
