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Mr_Nemo Joined: 10 May 2006 Total posts: 525 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6359547.stm
'Oldest' woman dies at age of 111
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A woman from West Yorkshire, who was believed to be the oldest person in England, has died at the age of 111.
Tributes have been paid to widow Ada Mason, from Upton, who died in her sleep on Tuesday. |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-03-2007 02:11 Post subject: |
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| I've just been informed that former Tarzan film actor Bruce Bennett has now passed the century mark. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Posted: 12-03-2007 19:09 Post subject: |
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| OldTimeRadio wrote: | | I've just been informed that former Tarzan film actor Bruce Bennett has now passed the century mark. |
Yeah, but he died a couple of weeks ago. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-03-2007 04:04 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Yeah, but he died a couple of weeks ago. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. |
Hey, that's okay. At least he made it to 100.
I guess it was all that nice clean backlot jungle living. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-03-2007 19:40 Post subject: |
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| OldTimeRadio wrote: | | gncxx wrote: | | Yeah, but he died a couple of weeks ago. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. |
Hey, that's okay. At least he made it to 100.
I guess it was all that nice clean backlot jungle living. |
Hey, Bennett's Tarzan was filmed in the real jungle! |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 16-03-2007 11:54 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Ukraine's 'oldest man' turns 116
By Helen Fawkes
BBC News, Kiev
Hryhoriy puts his long life down to the fact that he never married
A man thought to be the oldest living person in the world is celebrating his 116th birthday. Hryhoriy Nestor was born in what is now Ukraine.
The authorities are to mark the occasion by officially recognising him as the oldest person in Ukraine.
They say they have documents that prove that his birthday is on 15 March 1891. An attempt is now being made to get him into the international record books.
Hryhoriy puts his long life down to the fact that he has never been married.
To mark his birthday, Hryhoriy Nestor is having a small party - just a few friends and family will gather at his home.
Austro-Hungarian 'golden era'
Unlike many people from his village in western Ukraine, Hryhoriy has survived a brutal dictatorship, wars and grinding poverty.
In the past, the area was ruled by Poland and the Soviet Union.
But the 116-year-old says that life was best when the region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a century ago.
It was only at the age of 100 that he retired from working as a farm labourer.
He is now looked after by a relative.
Hryhoriy, who still has a full head of hair, says that being single has kept him feeling young.
He recommends a diet of milk, cheese and potatoes as well as the occasional shot of vodka.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6454317.stm
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4296 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-05-2007 15:24 Post subject: Wales's Oldest Woman Dies at 109 |
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| Quote: | Wales's oldest woman dies at 109
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The woman believed to be the oldest in Wales, Victoria May Owen, has died aged 109, four weeks short of her 110th birthday.
Mrs Owen was born in the Cadoxton area of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan on 8 June, 1897.
A great-grandmother and mother of four, she ran a private nursing home looking after injured soldiers returning from France during WWI.
Her husband, John, a policeman, died at the age of 63 in the early 1950s.
Her daughter Joyce, 80, said she returned home after running the nursing home.
"She later returned to Barry to work in her family's grocery shop," she said.
Mrs Owen, known as May, died at the Cartref Porthkerry Home in Barry.
She moved into the nursing home just four years ago.
Story from BBC NEWS:
Published: 2007/05/19 08:59:08 GMT
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-05-2007 04:00 Post subject: |
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| Someone who doesn't seem to have yet been mentioned in this discussion is the "revered Sephardic rabbi" and scholar Yitzchak Kaduri. When he died in February, 2006, the lowest estimate given of his age was 106. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 20-08-2008 17:44 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 'Oldest man' passes away in India
Habib Miyan lived with 32 relatives
An Indian man reported to be the oldest in the world has died in the western city of Jaipur.
Habib Miyan's pension papers showed his date of birth as 20 May 1879, but he claimed he was 138.
He shot into limelight five years ago when he managed to complete his only unfulfilled dream, to visit the Muslim holy place of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
A UK-based businessman paid $5,700 for the trip after reading his story on BBC News Online.
Mr Miyan lived in a Muslim neighbourhood of Jaipur with 32 relatives.
He claimed to be 138 (his pension book said 129).
He lost his vision 50 years ago and had limited mobility for many years.
He had been drawing a pension since 1938, but relatives say he could not afford to pay for a trip to Mecca.
After reading his story on BBC News Online, a UK-based businessman sent him money to be able to undertake the Haj pilgrimage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7569656.stm |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 15-09-2008 14:42 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Japan centenarians at record high
The number of Japanese people hitting the landmark age of 100 has reached record levels.
There are now 36,276 centenarians in the country - a rise of 4,000 on last year's figure, a report by the Health and Welfare Ministry found.
Women make up the vast majority of those who are living past 100.
Japan has one of the world's longest life expectancies, but there are concerns about the burden this is placing on society.
Both the country's pension system and social services are under pressure from its burgeoning greying population.
Active lives
According to the latest figures, almost 20,000 people were set to turn 100 this year alone - receiving a congratulatory silver cup and letter from the prime minister.
While the number of Japan's centenarians has been rising for the last 40 years, the figures have accelerated in the past decade.
UN projections suggest there will be nearly one million people over 100 years of age in Japan in 2050.
Of the country's current centenarians, a staggering 86% are women.
The ministry, which released its annual report ahead of Japan's Respect For the Aged Day on 15 September, said its elderly population were living more active lives than ever.
Japan's oldest woman is 113 and lives on the southern island of Okinawa, the ministry said.
The oldest man is 112-year-old Tomoji Tanabe from the southern prefecture of Miyazaki. He rises early, reads his morning newspaper, has milk in the afternoon and writes his diary in the evening.
Matsu Yamazaki is 103 years old but still works in her family's grocery shop in Tokyo, looks after her home and does puzzles to keep her mind agile.
"Even if I go on living, I just don't want to lose my mind," she told the BBC in July.
"I know lots of people who've lost their memory. They go out and wander around town and can't find their way home."
The key to Japanese longevity has long been put down to a number of factors, including healthy diets, strong communities and excellent medical care.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7612363.stm |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-10-2008 08:00 Post subject: |
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Connie Haines, a well-known American pop singer of the late 1940s and early 1950s, died earlier this week at age 87.
She is survived by her Mother!
Mom is 109. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5719 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-10-2008 16:13 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | According to the latest figures, almost 20,000 people were set to turn 100 this year alone - receiving a congratulatory silver cup and letter from the prime minister. |
We had better tell the Queen about this.... |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 03-10-2008 16:25 Post subject: |
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| Kondoru wrote: | | Quote: | | According to the latest figures, almost 20,000 people were set to turn 100 this year alone - receiving a congratulatory silver cup and letter from the prime minister. |
We had better tell the Queen about this.... |
Wasn't her role absorbed into the PMs office by Blair? |
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| Quake42 Warrior Princess
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Kazakhstan's famous '130-year-old'
Sohan Dosova pictured on the front page of a local newspaper
"Do you remember Tsar Nikolai's era? When the Red Army came and when Vladimir Lenin died? Well I do. So take a guess how old I am."
Meet Sohan Dosova - the newly found treasure of Kazakhstan. She is 130 years old, at least she is according to her documents.
The Soviet passport issued in the early 1980s states that Sohan Dosova was born in the Karaganda region on 27 March 1879.
Now after a new national census in Kazakhstan, she has been "rediscovered".
"This is a truly unique case," says Ludmila Kolesova, the head of Karaganda region statistics agency.
"According to international standards we do not usually seek proof of ID when collecting census data, but when it came to Sohan Dosova we had to check her documents and verify this information with the social services department. They confirmed her date of birth."
Sohan Dosova can still walk, albeit with great care, assisted by a walking stick.
She eats slowly, and her favourite snack is bread soaked in tea. Sohan chews her food with a single remaining tooth.
Sohan Dosova
Sohan says she can no longer dance, but she enjoys singing
"My secret is to add butter to my cup of tea; this is how Kazakhs like their tea," says Sohan, speaking a mixture of Kazakh and Russian.
She can still see, but has hearing problems, so most of the communication is done via her granddaughters - and there is no shortage of them.
Sohan had 10 children, and three of them are still alive. Her son had seven children. One of two daughters had six children, and the other, 22.
"There is a small tribe of great-grandchildren," says 53-year-old Gulgoim, her eldest granddaughter. But when pressed, Gulgoim was unable to say just how many.
Sohan Dosova has lived her entire life in Aul, a village in the central Karaganda region, the industrial heart of the country.
Most of the population work in the coal mining industry. Semipalatinsk, the first Soviet nuclear test site, is nearby.
Some of Sohan's grandchildren are mentally ill. They are among thousands believed to have been victims of Soviet nuclear experiments.
But Sohan has stayed healthy.
"She is in good shape, alert and active," says Valentina Shamardina, a family doctor with 40 years experience.
"In my whole career I never came across cases like this. When I first arrived to do a check-up I demanded to see her passport and it all looked correct.
"I've never heard of anyone living that long."
Frequent visitors
If Mrs Dosova really is 130 years old, that would make her the oldest person in the world. But if she ever had a birth certificate, it no longer exists.
Sohan Dosova's Soviet passport issued in the early 1980s
A Soviet passport issued in the early 1980s makes Sohan Dosova 130
In fact few rural Kazakhs born in those days are likely to have been registered. It was common for people to make up their date of birth.
Her true age is simply impossible to establish. But the local media is satisfied she's the oldest woman in Kazakhstan.
Since the results of the census were made public, journalists have become frequent visitors to Sohan's fifth floor apartment.
"This place is small, I need a bigger flat," says Sohan. "There are too many people living in this crowded apartment, there is not enough room."
Certainly her family appear to be hopeful that all the media attention might result in an improvement to Sohan's living conditions.
But up to now, no benefactor has been forthcoming. So Sohan continues to live a simple existence in her old age, watching television, laughing and smiling.
Her granddaughter Nuken claims she loves dancing, but Sohan says she is too old for that now.
"I can't dance, my knees hurt... But I can sing." And so she gives a gruff rendition of her favourite Kazakh song.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 04-09-2011 15:17 Post subject: |
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Brazil Kaxinawa Indian 'may be world's oldest woman'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14730434
If Maria's birth certificate is right, she is nearly six years older than the verified oldest living woman
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A Brazilian Indian who celebrates her birthday on Saturday may be the oldest woman in the world - and by some distance.
Maria Lucimar Pereira, a member of the Kaxinawa tribe, is 121 years old, says a tribal rights group.
It says she has a birth certificate showing she was born in 1890.
But the Guinness Book of Records says she has not been registered with them. The verified oldest living woman is 115-year-old American Besse Cooper.
Maria puts her longevity down to a healthy lifestyle, Survival International said - with regular dishes including grilled meat, monkey, fish, the root vegetable manioc and banana porridge, and no salt, sugar or processed foods.
She has never lived in a city and does not speak Portuguese, only the language of her tribe, the Kaxinawa, which inhabits Brazil's western Amazon and eastern Peru.
She remains physically active, community leader Carlos told Survival - walking around the village telling stories and visiting grandchildren in neighbouring areas.
Maria says she will spend her birthday with her family
Maria says she will spend her birthday with her family.
The pictures of Maria were taken by employees of the INSS - the national social security institute - when she responded to a request, broadcast on public radio, to appear at the regional INSS office, Brazilian media reported.
Brazilians over the age of 110 are asked to visit their local offices to prove that they are still alive in order to receive pensions or other benefits.
Troubles
Guinness World Records told the BBC it had no record of contact from Maria Lucimar Pereira or anyone on her behalf. It said the oldest verified living person remained Besse Cooper.
"We would be very interested in hearing from anyone who believes they are older than this [and] can provide documentary evidence," the company's Damian Field said.
Survival says her birth certificate, which it has a copy of, was issued in 1985.
It paints a picture of the troubles Maria may have lived through, such as the rubber boom which saw many Indians enslaved and killed.
"All too often we witness the negative effects forced change can have on indigenous peoples," Survival director Stephen Corry said.
"It is refreshing to see a community that has retained strong links to its ancestral land and enjoyed the undeniable benefits of this." |
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