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End of an era

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    #2
    Gatling
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    117 what an age to live to can only imagine the changes they lived through amazing stuff
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    Samuel T. Cogley
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    Hadlee Small Newsprint wrote: »
    The last survivor of the 19th Century has died aged 117.

    What an age! And, it seems, a rather sad life at times.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2017/0415/868005-morano-oldest-woman/

    Did you know her when she was young? :pac: (sorry couldn't resist!)

    What a life though - young at the outbreak of WWI middle aged during WWII.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Gatling wrote: »
    117 what an age to live to can only imagine the changes they lived through amazing stuff

    Everything from the Boer War to two world wars. Motor cars to space travel. The telegraph to mobile phones, internet etc etc etc

    The list is endless.


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    DontThankMe
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    At least she won't have to live through another world war which will be starting any day now.


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    GrumpyMe
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    DontThankMe wrote: »
    At least she won't have to live through another world war which will be starting any day now.
    If it does I fear many of us may not live through it!


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    DontThankMe wrote: »
    At least she won't have to live through another world war which will be starting any day now.
    For most of her life she's lived with the Korean War.


    It started in 1950 and technically hasn't finished yet.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    During her lifetime she travelled over 110 Billion kilometers on Earth's orbits around the Sun.


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    The_Valeyard
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    Taken to soon.



    In serous though, great age to reach.

    And I was pleasantly suprised by the thread, I thought it was a 'goodbye forever leaving boards' post


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    Kristopherus
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »

    I thought it was a 'goodbye forever leaving boards' post

    Ah, no Srameen has another bit to go to match that feat.


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    biko
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    Fukin' hell. That's like going into retirement at 65 and then living another 52 years.
    Almost two lifetimes..


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    Beyondgone
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    I never liked her anyway. Always going on about "in my day.."


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    wakka12
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    Just so insane to think that there were people living today along side you that had lived since before world war one that you read about in history books like its ancient history! just crazy


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    Junkyard Tom
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    She was 9 when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed.

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    4ensic15
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    Hadlee Small Newsprint wrote: »
    The last survivor of the 19th Century has died aged 117.

    What an age! And, it seems, a rather sad life at times.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2017/0415/868005-morano-oldest-woman/

    She was the last person who lived in the 1800s, but the 19th Century didn't end until 31st December 1900. There could be some 116 year old around who lived in the 19th Century!


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    Virtanen
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    She was the last person who lived in the 1900s
    I'm having an existential crisis at this statement...


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    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭munster87


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    She was the last person who lived in the 1900s, but the 19th Centurydidn't end until 31st December 1900. There could be some 116 year old around who lived in the 19th Century!

    I lived in the 1900s too though


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    4ensic15
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    Virtanen wrote: »
    I'm having an existential crisis at this statement...

    Ok. Typo.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    She was the last person who lived in the 1800s, but the 19th Century didn't end until 31st December 1900. There could be some 116 year old around who lived in the 19th Century!

    You know as well as I do that 1900 is considered the 20th Century, illogical and all as it seems.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Born when Queen Victoria was alive died when Queen Elizabeth is 90 and lived through more than 90 Italian governments.


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    PARlance
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Born when Queen Victoria was alive died when Queen Elizabeth is 90 and lived through more than 90 Italian governments.

    And more importantly, Italia 90.


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    Pac1Man
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    Thought you were going to mention The Undertaker retiring.


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    Beyondgone
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Born when Queen Victoria was alive died when Queen Elizabeth is 90 and lived through more than 90 Italian governments.

    Died under Trump.

    I blame Trump.


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    Billy86
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    Hadlee Small Newsprint wrote: »
    Everything from the Boer War to two world wars. Motor cars to space travel. The telegraph to mobile phones, internet etc etc etc

    The list is endless.

    She may have heard about the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 as a little kid, but likely would not have seen it around that time as the very first motion picture was less than fifteen years old (1889). She would not have heard it over the radio either - broadcasting only came three years later in 1906 (though Marconi had invented the radio just 25 years before she was born).

    The Irish Famine and American Civil War would have been to her what the Vietnam War and Kmher Rouge/Pol Pot famine in Cambodia are to thos eof us around 30 or younger. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln to her would have been like JFK to most of us. Madness really.

    And she would have been around for when the Kaizer stole the world twenty, back in Nineteen Dickety Two.


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    Pac1Man
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    She spent the last 20 years in her room though? No thanks.


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    [Deleted User]
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    My own granny, who lived with us for years when I was young, was born in 1897 - and my other three grandparents were older still - and her own grandmother survived An Gorta Mor so I'm not impressed with this young one!

    Pace all'anima sua/Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam di­lis. (get the fada problem sorted, Boards!)


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    munster87
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    She spent the last 20 years in her room though? No thanks.

    Why what's wrong with her room?


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    Widdershins
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    She spent the last 20 years in her room though? No thanks.

    It probably felt like a lot less. Perception of time seems to speed up the older we get. Maybe she relived her memories during that time. A nice soft blurry twenty years, maybe.


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    Beyondgone
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    munster87 wrote: »
    Why what's wrong with her room?

    It smells of wee. The pong started in 1998. frown.png


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    Donal55
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    FG had a New Era.
    That has also ended.


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    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    She spent the last 20 years in her room though? No thanks.
    Most posters on Boards spent their first 20 years in their rooms!


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