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Every day she conducted three performances. To attract media attention, Verschueren had promised a reward of 12,000 Guilders to any person of at least 17 years of age who was smaller than Musters. [2] Pauline Musters was soon well liked in New York for her beauty and gracefulness; she was described as polite, calm, and gentle. [citation needed]
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
An article in the Spokesman-Review claims Brunson received a call from President Ronald Reagan on her 113th birthday in 1983 [20] (and many other papers claim that Brunson's birthday was attended by New York Congressman Raymond J McGrath, dubbing her the oldest person in the nation), [21] and other articles written about her longevity appear ...
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Paul M. Kimelman (born 1947). A motivational speaker in the 1980s and early 1990s, he held the Guinness World Record for the greatest weight-loss in the shortest amount of time and was featured on the book's cover in 1982.
Katherine Plunket (born as Catherine Plunket; 22 November 1820 – 14 October 1932) [1] was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and botanical illustrator from Ballymascanlan, County Louth, a prolific Botanical illustrator and painter., [2] the oldest person ever to be born and die in Ireland and the fourth oldest-lived Irish person in history, having lived to 111 years and 327 days.
Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle was born on October 29, 1930, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris. [1] [13] Her father was Count André-Marie de Saint Phalle (1906–1967), a French banker, and her mother was an American, named Jeanne Jacqueline Harper (1908–1980).