The 12.6% pay rise had been calculated as part of an ancient pay structure, which means the Lord Chancellor always receives an annual salary higher than the Lord Chief Justice.

BBC: Irvine's role under fire

An ancient system of water rights means that many farmers pay only modest amounts to obtain their annual allocations from the Rio Grande, and poor pipelines and irrigation systems allow lots of water to leak out.

ECONOMIST: IOU H2O

Snyder wants to make the slaughter less ideological and technological than it has seemed, and more geographic and territorial: a question not so much of evil ideas carried out by industrial means as of ancient hatreds brought to life by modern monsters in ancient terrain.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

The ancient woodland, which in Wales means an area of land that has been continuously used as woodland since 1600, is regarded as one of the richest wildlife habitats in the country.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Successful bid for ancient wood

The development of the Carlsbad area began in the 1880s, which means that, apart from ancient but small settlements like Villanueva, the Carlsbad farmers defer to no one in water matters.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river

The rule, implemented by the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) and Royal and Ancient Golf Club (RA), means that from the start of 2010 the U-shaped grooves on wedges will be banned in favor of V-shaped grooves, with the intention of rewarding accurate driving over distance hitting.

CNN: Woods backs golf's 'groovy' rule change

That means that there was an energy gradient that ancient Martian life could have taken advantage of for itself.

FORBES: Curiosity Finds That Ancient Mars May Have Been Habitable

This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.

FORBES: The Nephew Who Came in From the Cold

He did it through what he says was the only means available to transfer funds to war-torn Iraq, an ancient informal system known as hawala, in which brokers move money outside the conventional banking system.

NPR: Town Backs Kurds Who Sent Money Back to Iraq