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Postby Brando14100 » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:26 pm

Not ssure if this belongs here or the history section. I guess it could go in both:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_ ... est_person

It's a shame. 115 years old.

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Re: Sad

Postby H » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:35 pm

She was four years younger than Adolph Hitler and my dad was born on her 25th birthdate (April 20, 1918 -- Manfred von Richthofen was shot down the following day).


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Re: Sad

Postby Steve M » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:44 pm

Not ssure if this belongs here or the history section. I guess it could go in both:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_ ... est_person

It's a shame. 115 years old.

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More than twice my age. She has seen the invention of aircraft, telephones, electricity,indoor plumbing,automobiles,computers,television,radios,refridgerators,gas furnaces and cookstoves,light bulbs,atomic bombs,microwave ovens.
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Re: Sad

Postby ozzy72 » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:15 pm

What an incredibly long life through a most amazing period in history. I can only hope to live nearly as long!
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Re: Sad

Postby Romulus111VADT » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:21 pm

A much as I hurt already from injuries.... ::)

I can only hope I don't live that long or I'll be a total raving lunatic. I'm only half crazy now.... ;)

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Re: Sad

Postby beaky » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:50 am

Hard to feel sad for someone who enjoyed so much life... she'll be missed, I suppose, but hey, you gotta go sometime, and she was very lucky.
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