The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday. Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the new holder of the men’s title by Guinness World Records. The confirmation follows the death of record-holder Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela this month […]
An investigation by Guinness World Records has determined a dog in Portugal that died last October was not the oldest dog ever on record. Bobi, a dog that had belonged to Leonel Costa of Conqueiros, Portugal, had been declared the oldest dog alive and the oldest dog ever in February 2023 before dying, allegedly at […]
Americans and Europeans called 1816 the “Year Without Summer.” Thanks to the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora a year earlier, global temperatures plummeted. Heavy snow fell on Albany, New York, in June. That bitterly cold 1816 — the last full year of James Madison’s presidency — was also the year that Remington, the nation’s oldest […]
This is some sad news that we’ve known was coming for several years, but now the end is almost upon us. Remington Arms has been manufacturing quality firearms in the upstate New York village of Ilion for more than two centuries. At one time it employed thousands of workers and it could be argued that […]
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 has become the country’s oldest president, promised to unite and rescue Africa’s oldest republic from its economic woes. Source link
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