Delhi Informer

It's never too late to improve something in your life that you really want to change and this is probably why a woman decided to hit the gym at the age when most people start thinking about retirement.   Meet 80-year-old Ernestine Shepherd, World’s Oldest Performing Female Body Builder, who can put bodybuilding competitors to […]

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116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person died in the New York city on May 12. Jones was 116 years and 311 days old. Jones was born in the year 1899. Her death has left just one person on Earth, Emma Morano, who was alive before 1900 and is also the oldest living person […]

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At 115, Dina Manfredini of Des Moines, Iowa, was named the world’s oldest person on Dec. 5, a day after the death of 116-year-old Besse Cooper of Georgia. Manfredini held the Guinness World Records title for 12 days, dying in her sleep Sunday night. Born on April 4, 1897, in Pievepelago, Italy, Manfredini moved with […]

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It is a scientifically proven fact that a calm and composed mind helps humans live longer. It holds true for animals too, proves the life of Chenkalloor Dakshayani, the 85-year-old female elephant owned by the Travancore Devaswom Board. In her decades-long glorious career, Dakshayani hasn’t ever gone unruly or attacked anyone, testify her keepers. She […]

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Varanasi: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s aide, Nizamuddin, at 116 years of age, could be the oldest living man on the planet, going by the documents his family has submitted to State Bank of India’s branch near Dhakwa village in Azamgarh district of… The Times of India (New Delhi edition)

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At the age of 30, Patrick here is officially the oldest and biggest, cutest and cuddliest common wombat known to humanity. Resembling oversized guinea pigs, the nocturnal marsupials tend to live around 10 to 15 years in the wild and 20 in captivity, so Patrick is a real special fella. He spends his days at […]

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After 117 years, living life in three centuries — through wars, presidents, politics, quakes, earthshaking social movements and leaps of technology from gaslight to LEDs — Hatch died quietly at his daughter’s Oakland home Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. At the time of his passing, Hatch, born in Louisiana Oct. 7, 1898, was likely […]

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A Santa Barbara woman known for her devotion to charity work and her profile on Facebook has died at the age of 107. Edythe Kirchmaier gained fame late in life by becoming the world’s oldest Facebook user. She signed up for the social media site on her 105th birthday. Kirchmaier died on Saturday. Kirchmaier passed […]

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One of the world’s oldest known gorillas celebrated her 58th birthday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Vila is believed to have been born in October 1957 in the Congo. After arriving in the United States, she was hand-raised at the San Diego Zoo and later moved to the Safari Park, where she has […]

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Meet Harriette Thompson: At age 92, she is the oldest woman in the world to finish a marathon. In May, she finished the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in 7 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds. It was her 16th journey through 26.2 miles to the finish line. Since that feat, she has been […]

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Even if you’re not a history buff, you have to admit: The world’s oldest restaurants hold a certain mystique, especially when it means following in the footsteps some of the greatest artists and intellectuals of all time. 1. St. Peter Stiftskeller – Salzburg, Austria Operating continuously since 803, this inn has purportedly served the likes […]

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The world’s oldest known Jewish person, Goldie Steinberg, from New York City, has died at the age of 114. According to Chabad.org, Steinberg died at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach. She was two months away from her 115th birthday. Steinberg was born in 1900, one of eight siblings. As a child, […]

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Cities that have stood the test of time have more than just the scars of history; they show the influence — positive and negative — of human civilization. The oldest cities in the world boast beautiful architecture and amazing stories, yet remarkably few ancient cities stand today. There is some disagreement about the historical record, […]

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Cassius, the world’s largest and oldest crocodile, celebrated his 112th birthday at his retirement home on idyllic Green Island, a Great Barrier Reef coral cay off the coast of Cairns, Australia. Recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest crocodile in captivity, and also thought to be the oldest, Cassius measures 5.48 metres (18ft) in […]

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A Swedish farm cat called Missan could be about to claim a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest living cat. Missan turns 30 this spring, according to her owner, making her comfortably the oldest living cat in the world Åsa Wickberg, from Karlskoga in southern Sweden, found Missan, a brown […]

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