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...island has the world's highest documented percentage of people who have passed the century threshold--although the same claim has been made about the Japanese island of Okinawa. Of 1.6 million Sardinians, at least 220 have reached 100, twice the typical ratio. Five of the world's 40 oldest people live on the island, and until the January death of Antonio Todde at 112, Sardinia boasted the oldest of them...
...billion years is the age of rocks found by geologists in Qu?bec, Canada, the oldest mineral deposits ever discovered...
...other hand, is quite the trend. The dramatization of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is currently primetime fare for much of the Arab and Muslim world, to the notable silence of the Harvard English department or any other Harvard department. Europe is enjoying a revival of the oldest hatred—though even some of Paulin’s British colleagues complain that he has gone somewhat overboard in his enthusiasm. And right here in America the latest form of campus protest is a unique petition campaign against Israel. No wonder inviting Paulin seemed like a safe call...
Alpha Iota of Massachusetts—the official name of Harvard’s chapter—is the society’s oldest national chapter...
...insists he had agreed to keep her identity a secret. The case is still pending. Geisha, a Life almost works as a stand-alone; there's something alluring about a book that details the day-to-day minutiae of one of the world's most fascinating, secretive and oldest professions. This Geisha may not be Golden, but?geisha junkies take note?it may just teach you how to strap on a pair of six-inch-high okobo...