The ANC is a political behemoth, regularly attracting over 60% of votes at election time, and its DNA continues to be that of a liberation party, the oldest one in Africa, celebrating its centenary next year.
The hugely popular horse race is one of the oldest traditions in Kentucky, but one other notable practice predates it: the making of whisky by the Samuels family, which began in 1784.
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"In Spain or Italy, the captain is the oldest player or the one with the most caps, " the Italian said.
London's Bangladeshis form one of the largest minority groups in the capital, and one of the oldest.
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One of the most vibrant cultural networks is also one of the oldest: the Sinosphere.
But for Amgen, the biggest and one of the oldest, things are only getting brighter.
The plateau up ahead was the setting for one of the oldest and strangest of all the Ladin legends.
"The BSX is one of the oldest exchanges in Asia, so there's brand and pedigree there, " said Emlyn Scott, chief executive of the NSX.
Last year I read a recent interview with the priest of one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in New York, located downtown and near Wall Street.
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The Atlantic is one of the oldest magazines in America.
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How ironic that the passing of one of the oldest and longest serving senators has left me, a 25-year-old woman, frantically searching for a fierce, dedicated ally for causes that concern young Americans.
The founder of one of the oldest Mexican restaurants in Europe was a gym teacher in southern California who wanted to move to Amsterdam, but needed to find some way of being employed there, so that he would be able to migrate legally.
One of the most popular online tools for caregivers is one of the oldest: the message board, available all over the Internet and heavily used by caregivers of dementia and autism patients, who perhaps can't find the time for conventional support groups.
But on election day, politics is dominating over the religious beliefs of one of the oldest cities in the world.
Last March, a fire in the Hatibagan market, one of the oldest markets in Kolkata, damaged most of its shops.
The Nantucket is actually one of the oldest on the island, a grand hotel in the heart of town first opened in 1891 but long shuttered.
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At the Thurlow Hunt - one of the oldest in Britain - dozens of riders set off as their dogs followed an artificial trail of fox scent.
The Pueblo peoples are one of the oldest groups of Native Americans, and there has been a community living in the multi-tiered adobe buildings in Taos for some 1, 000 years.
The March 2 gathering then moved a couple blocks north to the 1900 French Renaissance building that houses The Lotos Club, one of the oldest private literary establishments in the U.S. The building and its uniformed staff begs formality even though inside it is a cozy and comfortable space.
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The Special Situation Survey is one of the oldest financial newsletters, founded in 1954 by Malcolm Forbes.
The board also is stacked in its favor: 5 of the 12 members are Dillards, including the elder Dillard, now one of the oldest chairmen of a U.S. public company.
And yet it is one of the oldest surgical procedures, having been practiced by one-sixth of the world's population, often for religious reasons, for almost 4, 000 years.
Prior to moving to Washington, Ari was vice president for strategy and community impact at The Rhode Island Foundation, one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the country.
In such a youthful field, one of the brightest sparks is actually one of its oldest hands: the 76-year-old Alejandro Zaffaroni.
The guilder dates back to the 13th Century, making it one of the oldest currencies in Europe.
Severina Alzira Silva, 87, is described in the cooperative's blog as one of the oldest pickers working in the Gramacho landfill.
Completed around 2650 BC, a century before the Great Pyramid, this is the oldest pyramid of all and one of the most beautiful.
Yet, it is perhaps this different background that helped him land the CEO job at McCann, one of the oldest agencies on Madison Avenue.
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