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re: The last American born in the 1800s is now dead
Posted on 5/13/16 at 11:44 am to slackster
Posted on 5/13/16 at 11:44 am to slackster
quote:
To rephrase your post in another way:
Her life expectancy when she was born was 49 years.
We went from no flying to landing on the moon.
WWI, the "Great War", was surpassed by WWII.
She was alive for the ratification of 11 amendments to the US constitution - she saw alcohol abolished at 20 and brought back when she was 34. As a woman she couldn't vote from 18-21. Federal income taxes didn't exist until she was 14.
She was 65 when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed and she lived long enough to see a black man become president.
She may have been receiving social security benefits for 55 years.
$1 when she was 15 is worth the same as $24 today.
She was 40 when Gone With the Wind was released and she lived 26 years before The Great Gatsby ever existed.
SHE is..........the world's most interesting MAN. stay thirsty my friends. (don't want to offend any trannies)
Posted on 5/13/16 at 11:48 am to caliegeaux
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Henry Allingham
1896 - 2009
When asked how he had managed to live for so long, Mr Allingham, presumably with a glint in his eye, simply replied: "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".
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