The ski lift, an ancient T-bar surface tow, hadn't turned in 30 years.
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Gaylord's home isn't an ancient stronghold--he only recently put the finishing touches on his Elizabethan-style castle, which occupies a couple of the 170 acres at Camelot, a themed development he created in Durban, South Africa.
Easy as it can be to forget as we scrutinize the contracts and obligations and weigh them against the team's future needs, the Yankees are in the business not of getting the most wins for their dollar, but the most wins, and ancient players aren't going to hurt the cause.
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Thor Heyerdahl may have been an intrepid sailor, but ancient South Americans apparently weren't.
And even though it's been a very long time since the first knives were crafted out of stone, we haven't given up on that ancient manufacturing technique.
Yeah, there's a cooked Windows Mobile 6 ROM floating around for the now-ancient Apache, but it ain't official -- and let's be honest, there's a good contingent of folks out there that like their updates officially blessed by the powers that be.
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If that doesn't work--and it won't for many people--try an ancient HDL-raiser, the B vitamin niacin, if you can live with its annoying side effect (hot flashes).
Metrosexuals aren't exactly new--think of all those ancient Greek discus throwers wearing togas.
''Of course, that million-dollar price tag, as high as it is, doesn't begin to describe the true value of an ancient artefact that is part of the fabric of a country's natural history and cultural heritage.
Acrobatics hasn't historically been a well-regarded profession in this ancient land, says Sun Wenjing, who owns and operates the Yilin acrobatic school with her husband.
And once per week, my poor mother, now 79, would have to make sure she wasn't wearing her nice clothes as she squeezed past that ancient hunk of Detroit iron to get to the garbage cans.
Many Chinese who wouldn't be caught dead without a BlackBerry think nothing of adding ancient herbal treatments to a regimen of Western drugs.
It hasn't been all glimmer and glam for RCA of late, with the ancient consumer electronics brand lagging behind innovators in the field, being mostly relegated to cheap also-rans.
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Under an even more ancient principle, known as subrogation, courts long held that if a customer doesn't have a case against a product that injured him, his insurer doesn't have a case either.
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