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Maria Branyas (born 4 March 1907) of Spain is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [ 2] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [ 2]
Curmudgeon: [13] An ill-tempered, grumpy or surly old man (although the term is most often applied to old men, it can be used more broadly: for example, in the 2008 film Marley & Me, John Grogan, a forty-year-old man, is called a curmudgeon for complaining about the prevalence of aesthetically ugly high-rise condos popping up in his city).
Centenarian. A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide in 2012, [ 1] and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000.
The longest lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan (1897–2013), who lived to age 116 years and 54 days. The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 117-year-old Maria Branyas of Spain, born 4 March 1907. [ 1] The oldest living verified man is 111-year-old John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, born 26 ...
During the Tang dynasty in our country, there was a monk called Hui Zhao [慧昭, 526–815 [citation needed]] who lived to be 290 [288–289] years old. According to the county annals of Yong Tai in Fujian Province , Chen Jun [陈俊] was born in the first year of Zhong He time (881 AD) under the reign of Emperor Xi Zong during the Tang Dynasty.
Terms used to describe homosexuality have gone through many changes since the emergence of the first terms in the mid-19th century. In English, some terms in widespread use have been sodomite, Achillean, Sapphic, Uranian, homophile, lesbian, gay, effeminate, queer, homoaffective, and same-gender attracted. Some of these words are specific to ...
March 10, 1911. 113 years, 162 days. Costa Rican. First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich [ 1] Anita Mackey. F. January 1, 1914. 110 years, 231 days. American.
This Bible, more than a 100 years old, was likely a prized possession of Michael and Mary Sutton, prominent Green Bay residents who moved to Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War.