I became awestruck when I have been reading about Gertrude Weaver, the oldest woman alive in America, over Wikipedia. I have read the Wikipedia pages for many people before, but this one was different. After reading the introduction, I moved to the biography that started with her birth place followed by her marriage details all in 4 lines. The very next paragraph started with her when she became 104 ages! No offend is intended at all, but I was just alarmed with this question: one hundred years summarized in only four lines! What did she DO in life?
What you will notice is that despite the long years these women lived, their best achievements were that they got married. To that extent, people take their lives easy!
Jeanne Calment
Born in 1875, Jeanne
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She lived in Pennsylvania and worked as an insurance office manager. She got married and gave birth to a daughter who was 97 when Sarah died.
Lucy Hannah
Lucy was born in 1875 in Alabama and died in Michigan in 1993. At the time when she died, Lucy was the oldest person in the world.
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Born in the year 1880 as a French Canadian, Meilleur followed Jeanne Calment in the Guinness record after the latter's death. Her parents died in 1911 after she gave birth to her two children. She used to smoke and died of a clot in her blood at the age of 117.
Maria Capovilla
Born and lived in Ecuador in the year 1889, Capovilla was 116 years when she died in 2006. Capovilla was the daughter of a colonel and got married to a military officer who died 49 years before her. When she was 100 years old her health deteriorated and people thought she was dead.
Misao Okawa
The oldest woman alive is a Japanese woman of 116 who was born in 1898 in Tenma. Until she was 110, Okawa was able to walk alone. Now she is using a wheelchair which she is pushing herself. In 2013, she was known as the world's oldest woman alive.
Gertrude
She was born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio. She was born as Sarah Elizabeth Jacobs. She was the second of seven children. After the American Civil War, her and her family moved to Chicago, Illinois.
Sarah G. Bagley was born in Meredith, 1820. Sarah also had two brothers and one sister named Henry, Thomas, and Mary Jane. Her mothers name is Rhoda and Sarah’s father is Nathan Bagley. The mother and father work on farms, sold land, and owned a small mill to support their family. Sarah's first job was at the age of 30 she worked in Lovell in the Hamilton Mills.
Sarah Bagley grew up in rural New England. Sarah left home at twenty-one to become a mill operative in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1837 Lowell still retained something of the original optimistic spirit with which Francis Cabot Lowell had set out to create an ideal factory town for the young republic.
Nancy Morgan Hart was a woman living during the revolutionary war. She is recognized as a hero. She even has a stream named after her, “ War Womans Creek “. She did many important things in her lifetime, including spying on the british to discover information for the patriots. She had many reasons for helping, and Nancy’s enthusiasm about the war may have played a large role in our independence, her life was action packed, and she effected the war in a small, but powerful way.
She was born in Delta, Louisiana. She had a sister and four brothers. She was the first child, and her mother died because of cholera. Her father remarried and died afterward. Then, Sarah married with Moses McWilliams, but when her child was two years old, her husband died. Sarah worked as washerwoman and barely earned more than a dollar a day. However, it was determined to make enough money, so her daughter can get the formal education.
Mary Esther Bell Craig, of Suitland, Maryland passed this life on Tuesday, November 2, 2016. She was the youngest child born of Abb and Hazel Loving Bell, January 4, 1926 in Dallas, Texas.
on, January 4, 1926, of breast cancer. Although she was never recognized for her contributions
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Another case recorded in China, in which, Walexron entered into an agreement with Chuangxiang Toys in China. The trade relationship was aimed to rum the retail store in China for the sale of Toys in China and to manufacture remote control helicopters, in china with the name RC Ranger Helicopter W450. After the manufacturing of these toy helicopters, RC Ranger Helicopter W450, in china, the company Walexron planned to sale the helicopters to the overseas suppliers and to ensure its quality. For this purpose, Walexron also ensured quality control tests in order to ensure the quality and safety of the products before the delivery of the products to the stores for sale. While testing procedure, it was revealed that the helicopter has some manufacturing fault and it was a small indication that the helicopters had the potential to catch fire if the batteries overheat.
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