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Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies

posted by chromas on Monday April 23 2018, @07:00PM   
from the tennessine dept.

takyon writes:

World's oldest person, last survivor of 19th century, dies in Japan at 117

The century of Lincoln, Darwin and Van Gogh has quietly passed into history with the death of the world's oldest known person and last survivor of the 19th century.

Nabi Tajima, 117, died in a hospital Saturday in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan's Kyodo News reported. Tajima had been mostly bedridden at a nursing home in recent years. She was hospitalized about a month ago, family members told the news service.

Also at The Washington Post.

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• Re:How fragile and short-lived we are! (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Hartree on Monday April 23 2018, @10:21PM

  by Hartree (195) on Monday April 23 2018, @10:21PM (#670906)

  It's a theory on the origin of the Ashkenazi Jews used by various anti-Semitic groups. the idea (IIRC) is that the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews never really were in Judea and came from a southern Turkic empire called Khazar.

  Khazar really did exist (and was used as the name source for the renaming of the Klingons to the Khazari in an early Trek game on the Plato System called Empire.)

  In truth, Khazar was a mix of various religions and was a competitor to the Byzantines.

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