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Thomas Peters (supercentenarian)
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached. Etymology The term "supercentenarian" has been used since 1832 or earlier. Norris McWhirter, editor of ''The Guinness Book Of Records'', used the term in association with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. in 1976, and the term was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book '' Generations''. The term "semisupercentenarian", has been used to describe someone aged 105–109. Originally the term "supercentenarian" was used to mean someone well over the age of 100, but 110 years and over became the cutoff point of accepted criteria for demographers. Incidence The Gerontology Research Group maintains a top 30–40 list of oldest verified living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Branyas Morera (117è Aniversari)
Maria Branyas Morera (; 4 March 1907 – 19 August 2024) was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023. Personal life Branyas was born on 4 March 1907 in San Francisco, California. She was the first child and eldest daughter to Joseph Branyas Julià (1877–1915) and Teresa Morera Laque (1880–1968). Maria was part of an expatriate family (of Catalan origin) who had moved there in 1906, the year prior to her birth. She and her family later moved to Texas, then subsequently to New Orleans. While in New Orleans, her father Joseph worked as a journalist and founded the Spanish-language magazine ''Mercurio''. The family decided to return to Catalonia in 1915 due to major events that impacted Branyas's father. He was both struggling financially, declared bankruptcy, and his doctor recommended a move amid his declining health. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Robine
Jean-Marie Robine (born 1951) is a French social scientist, who works in the field of demography and gerontology, and is an author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Robine has been instrumental in organizing international efforts to study supercentenarians, through workshops held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and by founding the International Database on Longevity. Robine currently has the largest European supercentenarian dataset, and also collaborates with Japanese demographer Yasuhiko Saito. Publications * ''Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years'' by Michel Allard, Victor Lebre, Jean-Marie Robine and Jeanne Calment (Hardcover - Oct 1998) * ''Longevity and Frailty (Research and Perspectives in Longevity)'' by J.R. Carey, Jean-Marie Robine, J.-P. Michel and Yves Christen (Hardcover - Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LongeviQuest
LongeviQuest (LQ) is a scientific organization that specializes in extreme longevity and age validation of supercentenarians. It was founded by Ben Meyers and Robert Young in 2022, and has been cited in several media outlets as an authority on the subject, including Guinness World Records. History LongeviQuest members, along with director Ben Meyers, have visited and interviewed numerous supercentenarians and centenarians worldwide. Their first visit was to Maria Branyas Maria Branyas Morera (; 4 March 1907 – 19 August 2024) was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the List of oldest living people, world's oldest verified living person, following t ... in Catalonia, Spain, who was the world's oldest living person at the time. They have also met with Elizabeth Francis, formerly the oldest living person in the United States, and of Japan, the world's oldest living active barber as of March 2025. As of December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithsonian (magazine)
''Smithsonian'' is a magazine covering science, history, art, popular culture and innovation. The first issue was published in 1970. History The history of ''Smithsonian'' began when Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of ''Life'' magazine, was asked by then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian nstitutionis interested, might be interested or ought to be interested." Thompson later recalled that his philosophy for the new magazine was that it "would stir curiosity in already receptive minds. It would deal with history as it is relevant to the present. It would present art, since true art is never dated, in the richest possible reproduction. It would peer into the future via coverage of social progress and of science and technology. Technical matters would be digested and made intelligible by skilled writers who would stimulate readers to reach upward while not turning them off with jargon. We would fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) is a Brazilian supercentenarian who has been the world's oldest verified living man following the death of John Tinniswood from the United Kingdom. Biography João Marinho Neto was born in Maranguape, Ceará, on 5 October 1912 to a farming family. While in his infancy, he moved to Apuiarés with his whole family. Marinho Neto was married to Josefa Albano dos Santos (1920–1994), with whom he had four children: Antônio, José, Fátima, and Vanda (deceased). His wife inherited land in Fazenda Massapê ("Massapê Farm", translated in English), where he farmed corn and beans. He also raised cattle, goats, pigs, and chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...s. Later, he had three more sons, Vinícius, Jarbas, and Concei� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Caterham
Ethel May Caterham (née Collins; born 21 August 1909) is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of , is the world's oldest known living person since the death of Inah Canabarro Lucas on 30 April 2025, the oldest British person ever, and the last living person born in the 1900s decade. Biography Ethel May Collins was born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, England, on 21 August 1909 as the second-youngest of eight children, and was raised nearby in Tidworth. Her sister, Gladys Babilas (1897–2002), lived to be 104. In 1927, aged 18, she went on a voyage to British India and worked as an au pair to a military family until she was 21. In 1931, after returning to England, she met her future husband Norman Caterham (1905–1976) at a dinner party. They later married in Salisbury Cathedral, where Norman had been a choirboy. He later became a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Pay Corps, and the couple lived in Harnham, Salisbury before being stationed in Hong Kong and Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiroemon Kimura
Jiroemon Kimura (Japanese: 木村 次郎右衛門, Hepburn: ''Kimura Jirōemon''; 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the verified oldest living person between Dina Manfredini's death on 17 December 2012 and his own death at age 116 years and 54 days on 12 June 2013. Kimura became the verified oldest living man on 25 September 2011 at the age of 114, upon the death of Peru's Horacio Celi Mendoza, and later also the oldest man in history whose lifespan is verified on 28 December 2012, when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen (1882–1998), as well as the only verified man who has lived to age 116. Kimura was, after 113-year-old James Sisnett's death on 23 May 2013, the last surviving man born in the 19th century. Family According to records, Kimura, then named , was born on 19 April 1897 in the fishing village of Kamiukawa, in the Kyoto Prefecture of the Empire of Japan, as the fifth of eight children to farmers Morizo Miyake (1858� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Ann Neve
Margaret Ann Neve (' Marguerite Anne Harvey; 18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903) was the second validated supercentenarian after Geert Adriaans Boomgaard. She lived at Saint Peter Port on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel. Family history Her family was well-established on the island. Her father, John Harvey, was born in Cornwall in 1771 to John (1736–1778) and Margaret Ann (née Parker; 1736–1790) Harvey. Her father was involved in merchant shipping and privateering, earning a great amount of wealth over the years, and married Elizabeth Guille when they were both 19. John died on 4 December 1820, aged 49, while Elizabeth lived with her remaining children in a house called "Chaumière" ("The Thatched Cottage"), which he had bought in 1808. Elizabeth died in 1871 aged 99. They had seven children: * Marguerite (1792–1903) * John (1793–1865) – married Anne Sophia Grut (1802–1844) in 1826 and moved to Jersey, then England. They had a son named Thomas, who served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oppland
Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration was located in the town of Lillehammer. Merger On 1 January 2020, the neighboring counties of Oppland and Hedmark were merged to form the new Innlandet county. Both Oppland and Hedmark were the only landlocked counties of Norway, and the new Innlandet county is the only landlocked county in Norway. The two counties had historically been one county that was divided in 1781. Historically, the region was commonly known as " Opplandene". In 1781, the government split the area into two: Hedemarkens amt and Kristians amt (later renamed Hedmark and Oppland). In 2017, the government approved the merger of the two counties. There were several names debated, but the government settled on ''Innlandet''. Geography Oppland ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valdres
Valdres () is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between the districts of Gudbrandsdalen and Hallingdal. The region of Valdres consists of the six municipalities of Nord-Aurdal, Sør-Aurdal, Øystre Slidre, Vestre Slidre, Vang and Etnedal. Valdres has about 18,000 inhabitants and is known for its excellent trout fishing and the local dialect. Its main road is E16 and Fylkesveg 51. Valdres is located approximately midway between Oslo and Bergen. The valley is protected to the west and north by the Jotunheimen mountains and the Valdresflye plateau and to the south by the Gol mountain ridge (''Golsfjellet''). The main rivers are Begna and Etna. Historically, Valdres has had an agricultural economy, but tourism has grown in prominence in later years. Beitostølen, a highly developed tourist area for winter tourists and who have hosted FIS Cross-Country World Cup multiple times is located in Valdres. Etymology The name of the district comes fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
