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This woman is the only person left on Earth born in the 1800s

 
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This woman is the only person left on Earth born in the 1800s
The death of 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones in New York City on Thursday leaves just one person on Earth who was alive in the 1800s.

Born about a month before 1900 began and when England's Queen Victoria was still on the throne, Emma Morano is now the oldest living person. Incredibly, she still lives on her own in northern Italy.


Here is her story:

Name: Emma Morano
Country of residence: Italy
Birthday: Nov. 29, 1899

Morano was the first of eight children, all of whom have since died. One sister lived to be 102. In 1926, she married and in 1937 her only child was born, but died at a few months old. In 1938, she separated from her husband, Giovanni Martinuzzi, but never divorced. Until 1954, she was a worker at a jute factory in her town before working in the kitchen of a boarding school. She retired at 75.




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Huh
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How fascinating. It would be awesome to speak with her and get her take on life through all she has lived. So many events since she was born.
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Isn't that something. I have often thought that when I was a kid growing up in the 1960s, I was surrounded by older people who were born in the 19th century. Certainly they were raised by parents who were straight up Victorians. It was always my view that we were much closer to the 19th century than we thought.

Well I think I am still quite close to the 19th century, love to read the literature from that time and read about what life was like then.

I guess for younger people that is an era that fades farther away all the time.
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In that USA Today article in the OP, they quoted a doctor saying she takes no medications.

That's probably why she's still alive, not even joking.

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She's immune to the effect of memes.
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Re: This woman is the only person left on Earth born in the 1800s
In that USA Today article in the OP, they quoted a doctor saying she takes no medications.

That's probably why she's still alive, not even joking.
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and olive oil...I bet she drinks it and cooks with it by the gallon.
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""Emma seems to go against everything that could be considered the guidelines for correct nutrition: She has always eaten what she wants, with a diet that is absolutely repetitive," Bava said. "For years, she has eaten the same thing every day, not much vegetables or fruit. But she's gotten this far."

Well damn. tounge
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[quote :BRIEF:MV8zMTc1MDYwXzU3MjMxODM0X0E3RkNDQTIw]
In that USA Today article in the OP, they quoted a doctor saying she takes no medications.

That's probably why she's still alive, not even joking.
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and olive oil...I bet she drinks it and cooks with it by the gallon.


Even though he "only" lived to 100 my great uncle ate garlic every morning for years. There were 7 or 8 siblings he had at least.. they all died of cancer except him.
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Cool story hf
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[quote BRIEFMV8zMTc1MDYwXzU3MjMxODM0X0E3RkNDQTIw]
In that USA Today article in the OP, they quoted a doctor saying she takes no medications.

That's probably why she's still alive, not even joking.
 Quoting: Vision Thing


and olive oil...I bet she drinks it and cooks with it by the gallon.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72319703


Even though he "only" lived to 100 my great uncle ate garlic every morning for years. There were 7 or 8 siblings he had at least.. they all died of cancer except him.



I cook with garlic and olive oil most every day.
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Re: This woman is the only person left on Earth born in the 1800s
Isn't that something. I have often thought that when I was a kid growing up in the 1960s, I was surrounded by older people who were born in the 19th century. Certainly they were raised by parents who were straight up Victorians. It was always my view that we were much closer to the 19th century than we thought.

Well I think I am still quite close to the 19th century, love to read the literature from that time and read about what life was like then.

I guess for younger people that is an era that fades farther away all the time.
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Same here, my great grandmother was a Victorian lady who met my great grandfather at the Chicago world's fair. My grandmother seemed like a very Victorian lady, and I sang in a barbershop quartet music club, in which most of the members were born in the 1880s. I loved to hear their stories and it blew my mind that they lived in a time before cars, planes, electricity, and telephones. And they lived to see all those things invented.

To them, the barbershop music was simply the music of their youth.

The past seemed very close, and when I was a child, I read Dickens, Mark Twain, and other Victorian era books. I've always been somewhat Victorian myself.

I can't imagine how much has been lost since most children these days have little or no exposure to old people, and they don't read classic novels.

Harry Potter is shallow and ignorant of the past.





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