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Word: shirali (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none of these records has documented the survival of a U.S. citizen past 111 years. Nor have the incredible assertions of such hardy Soviet peasants as Shirali Muslimov, who claims to be 161 or more, been borne out. One likely reason for their confusion is that in parts of Central Asia years are computed in twelve-year cycles, each year being named for an animal. Thus a man born in the year of the horse might have been born in 1846 or 1858 or 1870-and not understand the difference in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gerontology: Secret of Long Life | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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