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April 7, 2015
“Every crowd has a silver lining” – P.T. Barnum
(about $22.6K today) for an elderly slave named Joice Heth, who claimed she was 161 years old and had once served as George Washington’s nurse. Given that Washington died in 1799, it’s not completely impossible that the woman really did serve as his nurse at some point, though of course the 161 years old part seems more than a little suspect. This Day in History: April 7th- The Great American Showman
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 7, 2015 5:58 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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My uncle Louie Lozko, known far and wide as "Letsgo Lozko", raised bantam chickens. He had one old rooster that he claimed was fifty-nine years old. That's human years, would be one hundred and seventy-seven chicken years. I don't know how true that is but it makes a good story.
He said "He keep doing chob, stay out of stewpot, dat's it, dat's all."
He reported it to Ripley's Believe It Or Not but never heard back from them.
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at April 8, 2015 5:32 AM
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown:
"Gertrude Weaver became the world’s oldest-known living person last week after the death of 117-year-old Misao Okawa in Tokyo. But her reign lasted a mere six days as Weaver died at a senior care facility in Camden, Arkansas this morning. The cause of death was complications from pneumonia, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette."
"Weaver, who was born in 1898, had been the oldest person in America, but last week she became the oldest person in the world when 117-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan had died, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which tracks supercentenarians. ... Robert Moore, director of the research group's supercentenarians program ... told the AP last week. "Only five documented people have ever reached 117."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/arkansas-woman-believed-oldest-person-world-dies/story?id=30129311
Go to the Gerontology Research Group website:
Posted by: Fat Man at April 8, 2015 7:06 AM
Wasn't Moses like 900 years old?
If so, all these other folks are novices.
Posted by: ghostsniper at April 8, 2015 9:27 AM