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Bob Weighton is spry, beady, dryly funny and has better hearing than me. He pops down to Waitrose, does his own cooking, reads avidly, writes poetry, makes furniture and ornaments out of recycled materials, is well-versed in current affairs and has only recently given up his ecological column in Church News. Which, had he been 80, … Read more
One of the oldest swords in the world that was mislabelled in a museum on the Saint Lazarus Island, Venice, is around 5,000 years old, according to a new study. The ultra-rare sword, which doesn’t resemble most ancient weapons in the world, was made around the year 3000BC and came from eastern Turkey. However, the … Read more
Monthly head shaves and daily two-hour chants: Meet the monk living at a monastery in Mongolia that survived Stalinist repression to become one of the country’s oldest The Shankh Monastery, founded in 1647, is located 224 miles from Ulaanbaatar It closed in 1937 during Stalinist repression – many of the monks were executed After the revolution in … Read more
The world’s oldest weapon? 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword is discovered in the Armenian Monastery of Venice after being mislabelled as ‘Medieval’ The sword from the end of the 4th century BC was held in a Venice museum A PhD student saw the sword in a medieval section but thought it much older The sword has been reassessed and dates from … Read more
Joanna Gaines is a proud parent as she watches her oldest son Drake, 15, earn his driving permit By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 16:41 GMT, 25 February 2020 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 25 February 2020 She’s known as one of the top interior designers in the world. But Joanna Gaines showed she was just … Read more
The world’s oldest man dies aged 112 just days after he told Guinness Book of Records ceremony the secret to long life was to smile and never get angry Chitetsu Watanabe died 13 days after being named the world’s oldest man Guinness World Records presented him with certificate in Niigata on February 12 The previous … Read more
When Jeanne Calment was born in 1875, in Arles, Provence, the average life expectancy for a woman was 48 and Thomas Edison was yet to make his light bulb. But this doughty French woman motored on for 122 years (and 164 days) to become the world’s oldest woman, powering through life with vim and gusto. … Read more
By: PTI | London | Updated: November 3, 2015 1:22:55 am Britain’s oldest tree, a male, estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old may be undergoing a sex change, say researchers who found that part of it is turning female. The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, estimated to be around 5,000 years old, making … Read more