Five lived longer than two years, and two lived longer than four years.
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At 220, he had lived longer than any other U.S. president.
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He was 94 and lived longer than any other U.S. president.
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At 44 years old, he has lived longer than most of his species.
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BCH got over 300 casualties, of which 132 lived longer than two hours.
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Even the mice that died lived longer than they would have without the treatment.
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As a result, the mice were stronger, slept better, and lived longer than their untreated counterparts.
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This resulted in 20 genetically modified cows, 11 that lived longer than three moo-nths (ok sorry I'm done).
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And the dangers aren't entirely clear-cut: note that the exposed rats actually lived longer than the unexposed rats.
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But female rats didn't, and even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation.
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DJ AM (whose real name was Adam Goldstein) lived longer than, say, Kurt Cobain, yet his trajectory is painfully familiar.
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Nancy Sinatra lived longer than her husband and their son, Frank Sinatra Jr., who died of cardiac arrest in 2016.
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No one has lived longer than Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 503 days.
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The most hardworking people were Russian prisoners of war; they lived longer than the other guys, about six to seven weeks.
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The paper found that people with large or even average social networks lived longer than people who had very small social networks.
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While Rodriguez thought he only "had a week with him at most," the dog has lived longer than expected, reversing kidney failure twice.
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But they also lived longer than people who took part in reliably healthy but often solitary activities such as jogging, swimming and cycling.
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In the study, those who vacationed for 3 weeks or more each year lived longer than those who vacationed for 3 weeks or less.
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The paper noted another online mirror of offline patterns: People with large or average social networks lived longer than people who had small ones.
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The study found that adults who reported frequently participating in tennis or other racket and team sports lived longer than people who were sedentary.
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When you've reached 100 years old, you've lived longer than most, so why not take the opportunity to completely turn up and celebrate the milestone.
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A seemingly paradoxical finding that has also puzzled the researchers is that the rats exposed to the cellphone radiation actually lived longer than the controls.
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Over that time, autism diagnoses became far more common, those with disabilities lived longer than ever before and babies born prematurely survived at significantly higher rates.
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Melisandre lived longer than most of the other characters, so she could be around during Aegon's Conquest or the Dance of the Dragons, or other historical events.
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While researchers considered a number of explanations for the difference in women's outcomes, it's possible that something other than social support explains why some women lived longer than others.
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In a study in China of adults with metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer, those who received early palliative care lived longer than those who received standard cancer care.
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He said that traces of the city's high air pollution had been found in beeswax and the bees themselves, but that the bees still lived longer than their country cousins.
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Scotty lived longer than any other T. rex on record Not only does Scotty take the crown for heaviest T. rex, it also breaks records for being the longest-lived.
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Even more studies began to question whether or not it's so bad to be fat in the first place; one notably suggested that fatter people lived longer than thin ones.
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"She was just so happy and triumphant, because she knew that in a way she had beat cancer because she lived longer than anyone thought she was going to," David says.
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But the client lived longer than expected, and when her monthly stipend came up short, her children scolded her for spending too much and were reluctant to give her extra cash.
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People with the lowest fitness were more likely to die early than those with below-average fitness, while those with high fitness lived longer than those whose fitness was above average.
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Surely, you say to yourself, that couldn't have been legal — such as when a city utility required women to contribute 15 percent more to their pension fund because they lived longer than men.
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Progress against heart disease has stalled, driving down life expectancy in the U.S. after decades in which each generation lived longer than the one that came before, The Wall Street Journal's Betsy McKay reports (subscription).
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The 2 percent of the people with elite fitness lived longer than those with high fitness and were about 80 percent less likely to die prematurely than the men and women with the lowest endurance.
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" Even so, he admitted Prince lived longer than the star himself predicted, revealing that the icon "used to tell us he was going to be part of the '27 Club' when he was in early 20s.
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In fact, the researchers found that "those with close social ties and unhealthful lifestyles (such as smoking, obesity and lack of exercise) actually lived longer than those with poor social ties but more healthful living habits," Mr. Robbins wrote.
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In one of my favorite studies from this year, researchers found that older women who regularly strolled about two miles a day, or a little more than 4,000 steps, lived longer than women who covered only about 2,000 steps, or a mile.
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Virgil shows her to a washed up ship to help her on her way home and she finds a few signs that Rick, her love interest before his own departure, might be alive, or at least might have lived longer than she had thought.
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Researchers looked at 101 species of wild mammals living in 134 different locations and found that females lived longer than males in 60% of cases, What was particularly surprising to the researchers was just how much longer they lived -- on average they had an 18.6% longer life span.
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Kishor Lad, a clinical data manager at the company between 2012 and 2015, said to prove the product presents less risk of tobacco-related disease, the company would need to conduct large clinical trials over several years to show that people who used iQOS lived longer than people who smoked cigarettes.
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Rodney Croft, director of the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research, raised several key questions about the study and noted that it "does not provide reason to move from the current scientific consensus that mobile phone-like exposure does not impact health": Of particular note is that the rats treated with RF lived longer than the controls (which is counter intuitive given that the increased tumour rates normally lead to reduced lifespan), the controls did not have 'any' tumours (which is also not what is normally found), and the lack of clear dose-response relationships raises the possibility that the results may merely be 'false positives' (particularly given the large number of statistical comparisons, the one significant result would appear consistent with chance).
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Dying at 97 years of age, he lived longer than any other Utah Governor.
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The condition is universally fatal. As of 1981 people are not known to have lived longer than 2.5 years after the onset of CJD symptoms.
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Harington, writing in 1605, referred to a man who lived longer than 140 years, and to a woman, "and she a countess," who lived longer than 120. If Katherine FitzGerald married in her early twenties, this latter description would match her. Historian Ian Mortimer asserted that her age was about 100, making her a rare although not unique centenarian of the Elizabethan age. Both Raleigh (1614) and Fynes Moryson (1613) refer to her as someone already deceased.
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Currently, he is working on methods to improve skeletal age estimation to refine paleodemographic estimates; one outcome of this work is that people in the past lived longer than is commonly thought.
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From 1944 to 1968. He was a court musician for the Maharajah of Travancore. He lived longer than his partner, Alathur Sivasubramania Iyer and performed many solo concerts after the death of Sivasubramania Iyer.
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With the nickname of Lucky General, he survived battles and campaigns, and lived longer than most of the patriarchs of KMT inclusive of Chiang. His remains are interred at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery in Taiwan.
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Grey died at his residence at the Norfolk Hotel, Harrington Road, South Kensington, London, on 19 September 1898, and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral. Grey lived longer than any other New Zealand Prime Minister, 86 years and 158 days.
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" . . following Barnard's landmark heart transplantation on December 3, 1967, 107 human heart transplants were performed by 64 surgical teams in 24 countries in 1968. . " However, only a third of these patients lived longer than three months. Many medical centers stopped performing transplants.
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Between December 1967 and November 1974 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, ten heart transplants were performed, as well as a heart and lung transplant in 1971. Of these ten patients, four lived longer than 18 months, with two of these four becoming long-term survivors.
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Persons with symptomatic haemochromatosis have somewhat reduced life expectancy compared to the general population, mainly due to excess mortality from cirrhosis and liver cancer. Patients who were treated with phlebotomy lived longer than those who were not. Patients without liver disease or diabetes had similar survival rate to the general population.
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Quijano's death in 1871 came 12 years after the death of his more eminent fellow- composer Debali, with whom he collaborated, but, given the facts that he lived longer than Debali in the young Oriental Republic of Uruguay and that Debali spoke little Spanish, these factors served to enhance his reputation.
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The general rule is that, where there is no evidence of who survived whom, it is to be presumed that they died simultaneously.Ex Parte Graham 1963 (4) SA 145. In Greyling v Greyling, a husband and wife were killed in a car accident. According to the evidence, the husband probably lived longer than his wife.
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The king was lifted into his bed, and Princess Amelia was sent for; before she reached him, he was dead. At the age of nearly 77 he had lived longer than any of his English or British predecessors.Van der Kiste, p. 213. A post-mortem revealed that the king had died as the result of a thoracic aortic dissection.
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As of 2019, the only platypuses in captivity outside of Australia are in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in the U.S. state of California. Three attempts were made to bring the animals to the Bronx Zoo, in 1922, 1947, and 1958; of these, only two of the three animals introduced in 1947 lived longer than eighteen months.
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Data from Denmark also suggest that mixed breeds have higher longevity on average compared to purebreds. A British study showed similar results, but a few breeds (notably Jack Russell Terriers, Miniature Poodles and Whippets) lived longer than mixed breeds. In one landmark study, the effect of breed on longevity in the pet dog was analyzed using mortality data from 23,535 pet dogs.
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Moyinkutty was born to Unni Mammad and Kunjamina in 1852 at Ottuparakkuzhi, near Kondotti in Malappuram district. Unni Mammad was famous practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine and a poet too. He lived longer than his son and completed his unfinished work titled Hijra from the 27th Ishal onwards. Moyinkutty continued his family tradition of Ayurvedic medical practice and learnt Sanskrit and Arabic languages.
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Despite his ill health, he lived longer than anyone expected and many began to believe he possessed powers to resist hunger and disease. Locals came to visit him in his cave seeking guidance, and he came to be known also as Mul al-Ghar (meaning roughly "Man of the Cave"). He died in 1196 CE and was buried in or near the cave where he lived.
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In the early 1960s, 1,544 Brandt's bats were banded in Siberia. Of these individuals, at least 67 lived longer than 20 years (of note, all of these individuals were male). In 2001, two individuals were documented 38 years after capture, making them, at the time, the longest-lived individuals of this species ever recorded. However, three years later, one of these individuals was documented again.
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Considering Hofstede de Groot's comment that this portrait displays a style later than Claes's marriage date of 1622, then it is clearly a mistake to label it as Dirk's, though Dirk lived longer than Nicolaes and took over his appointments as regent of the Amsterdam city orphanage and captain-major of the civic guard. However, it is possibly the portrait of another member of the extensive Hasselaer family.
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He showed that blacks in the North lived longer than slaves, attended church more, and were achieving scholastically at a rate similar to whites.Kaufman, Martin, and Todd L. Savitt, editors, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, Greenwood Press, 1984, p. 693 As Smith started publishing, his work was quickly accepted by newer scientific organizations: in 1852 Smith was invited to be a founding member of the New York Statistics Institute.
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Graves' military grave marker Graves was mortally wounded in action at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. Little was recorded of Maj. Graves after the first night at the field hospital, but it is thought that he lived longer than hours after his wounding. Apparently he was still alive when Breckinridge's troops left the area or else his body would have been transported along with Gen.
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It has been theorised that low body temperature may increase lifespan. In 2006, it was reported that transgenic mice with a body temperature lower than normal mice lived longer than normal mice. This mechanism is due to overexpressing the uncoupling protein 2 in hypocretin neurons (Hcrt-UCP2), which elevated hypothalamic temperature, thus forcing the hypothalamus to lower body temperature. Lifespan was increased by 12% and 20% for males and females, respectively.
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Arghun had developed a great interest in alchemy towards end of his reign. He gave shelters to Buddhist lamas who would advice him on religious matters. He also befriended a yogi who claimed to have lived longer than anyone and could offer Arghun the same. The way Rashid al-Din described this alchemist who gave a concoction of sulphur and mercury to Arghun was the same substance that Marco Polo described as Indian yogis' experience.
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During a portion of the Preclassic and Early Classic period (1200 BCE through 250 CE), dogs in Cuello, Belize were bred and killed once they reached one year of age. Dog bones had completed epiphyseal fusion and did not indicate the normal pattern of wear like adult dogs who lived longer than a year. Puppy remains were not found. Dogs were castrated and fed maize until they were fat enough to be ready for slaughter.
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It was stated by Pomponius Mela and other ancient writers that the inhabitants of the town lived longer than ordinary men. It was probably a member of the Delian League because it took the side of the Lacedaemonian Brasidas during his expedition in the Chalcidice in 424-423 BCE. However, it is not named in the tribute lists of Athens, but only in a decree of 422/1 BCE. Its site is located about northeast of Mount Athos.
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Female flies on high fat diets lived longer than males on the same food, and the reverse happened with low fat diets. Diet does not appear to affect C. stygia egg production, though warmer temperature will delay egg laying. C. stygia are capable of detecting the odors that occur immediately after death. Their chemosensory sensilla, which have their olfactory neurons are primarily located at the tips of their antennae, as well as on their maxillary palps, aid in their hunt for food sources.
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This the National Assembly was unwilling to do. The Third Republic was established, though many intended for it to be temporary, and replaced by a constitutional monarchy after the death of the comte de Chambord. However, the comte de Chambord lived longer than expected. By the time of his death in 1883, support for the monarchy had declined, and public opinion sided with a continuation of the Third Republic, as the form of government that, according to Adolphe Thiers, "divides us least".
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On Jack's 47th birthday the next day, his mother sends him a card and an obituary revealing that Jack Sr. died at age 46. He feels relieved to have lived longer than his father. Janet resurfaces, having fled Cleo's goons, and admits that she switched the tags on a pair of coffins at the funeral home, meaning Jimmy was actually buried in the wrong man's grave. At her request, the body is exhumed, and a pathologist finds that Jimmy was drugged before he drowned.
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Findings reported by the Haughley experiment included: # Levels of available minerals in the soil fluctuate according to the season, maximum levels coinciding with the time of maximum plant demand and these fluctuations were significantly greater in the organic plots. #Vegetative mineral levels remained as high or higher in the organic plots even without receiving the mineral inputs that the conventional plots had. #Organic fed animals required from 12-15% less input of food, were healthier, and lived longer than their conventional counterparts. #Increased yields.
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Reynolds was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father, who served in the U.S. Army, was stationed. He says he hails from nowhere, because the family moved so often. His family lived many places, including Germany, a farm in Indiana, an army base in Alaska, Kansas, and Missouri, where he lived longer than any other place until he was old enough to move away as an adult. Both parents were extremely devout Christians and he says he grew up with Christian music all around him.
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In the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lady Wu had a fictional younger sister who also married Sun Jian. The elder Lady Wu was the mother of Sun Ce and Sun Quan while the younger one bore Lady Sun and Sun Lang. The younger Lady Wu was also known as "Wu Guotai" (吳國太; literally "Elder Lady Wu of the State"). Wu Guotai lived longer than her sister because she played a significant role in the marriage of her daughter to Liu Bei in 209.
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Hermit crabs overall were once seen as a "throwaway pet" that would live only a few months, but species such as C. clypeatus have a 23-year lifespan if properly treated and some have lived longer than 32 years. Alternate Citation: Similarly, Ecuadorian hermit crabs have been known to live to over 30 years. In general, and despite their moniker, hermit crabs are social animals that do best in groups. They also require a temperature- and humidity-controlled environment (ideally around 80% humidity or above and 75-85°F), and adequate substrate to allow them to bury themselves while molting.
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Fire and a suffocating stench prevented any deeper exploration of the burning ruins. Main Street, Le Morne- Rouge, after the August 30 eruption Meanwhile, a number of survivors had been plucked from the sea by small boats; they were sailors who had been blown into the water by the impact of the blast, and who had clung to wreckage for hours. All were badly burned. In the village of Carbet, shielded from the fiery cloud by a high promontory at the southern end of the city, were more victims, also badly burned; few of these lived longer than a few hours.
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" Only a third of these patients lived longer than three months.The Adrian Kantrowitz Papers, Replacing Hearts: Left Ventricle Assist Devices and Transplants, 1960–1970, National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine. The next big breakthrough came in 1983 when cyclosporine entered widespread usage. This drug enabled much smaller amounts of corticosteroids to be used to prevent many cases of rejection (the "corticosteroid-sparing" effect of cyclosporine).Transplantation of the heart: An overview of 40 years' clinical and research experience at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, South African Medical Journal, "Part I. Surgical experience and clinical studies.
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In 2012, the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study analysed the relationship between coffee drinking and mortality. They found that higher coffee consumption was associated with lower risk of death, and that those who drank any coffee lived longer than those who did not. However the authors noted, "whether this was a causal or associational finding cannot be determined from our data." A 2014 meta-analysis found that coffee consumption (4 cups/day) was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (a 16% lower risk), as well as cardiovascular disease mortality specifically (a 21% lower risk from drinking 3 cups/day), but not with cancer mortality.
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Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj has noted that the Ikh Zasag heavily punished corruption and bribery, and he considers Genghis Khan a teacher for anti-corruption efforts who sought equal protection under the law for all citizens regardless of status or wealth. On the 850th anniversary of Genghis's birth, the President stated "Chinggis ... was a man who deeply realized that the justice begins and consolidates with the equality of law, and not with the distinctions between people. He was a man who knew that the good laws and rules lived longer than fancy palaces." In summary, Mongolians see him as the fundamental figure in the founding of the Mongol Empire and therefore the basis for Mongolia as a country.
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Born in St. Petersburg, on 20 August 1718, during the peace negotiations with Sweden (Aland Congress). When Peter was at this time on the teachings of the galley fleet, and to learn about the birth of his daughter, made a feast, and sent his fleet to St. Petersburg. > "This day August 20 at Trinity glorified Almighty God has bestowed His > Imperial Majesty the brightest newborn daughter, she is called by the same > name Natalia, and her name-Well this day August 26 at the memory of the holy > martyr Adrian and Natalia." > \- Description of the archive of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the > reign of Emperor Peter the Great Natalia lived longer than other children of Peter (except for Alexei, Anna and Elizabeth).
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Before the ceremony, Tenchi at first was angry when he found out that the story he was told about how his late mother Kiyone died was fictitious. Eventually Tenchi and Nobuyuki talked and Tenchi apologized for his earlier behavior and chose to accept his father's new wife Rea, as she had been more of a mother figure to him than his real mother and having her around won't be any different. Nobuyuki admitted that it was because of that fictitious story that they hesitated to tell him about the truth behind Kiyone's death or that Kiyone was also a prankster. Due to his Juraian heritage and training (enhancement) at the Galaxy Academy, Nobuyuki has lived longer than any normal human, and is currently around two hundred years of age.
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Belcher lived longer than expected, and Pownall grew restless. In 1756, Pownall journeyed to England, where he was offered the governorship of Pennsylvania, which was retracted after he made demands for wide-ranging powers. While in England, Pownall advised the government organized by Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his close foreign affairs advisor William Pitt on the state of affairs in the colonies during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in North America). Because the insights and first-hand knowledge he shared had impressed his superiors in Britain, Pownall was commissioned as Royal Governor of Massachusetts in March 1757. Pownall arrived in Boston to assume the new post on August 3, 1757. When Belcher died on August 31, 1757, Pownall did not assume the governorship of New Jersey.
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Seattle Genetics had licensed lintuzumab from PDL BioPharma, which had been unsuccessful in treating AML in clinical trials of its own in which they used lower doses. The Phase IIb randomized, double-blind clinical trial studied 211 individuals ages 60 and over who had been enrolled by February 2009 and who were poor candidates for high-dose chemotherapy or had made the choice to reject the traditional chemotherapy treatment. The study participants typically had a projected four to five months to live, with half treated with lintuzumab and a low dose of the chemotherapeutic agent cytarabine, while the other half were given cytarabine in combination with a placebo. No patients were harmed in the trial and patients in both groups lived longer than expected, with those being given lintuzumab having a lower death rate.
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Forbes adopted Who’s Who in America as a source for compiling information on post-graduate success when it began ranking America's most prestigious colleges in 2007. Forbes stopped referencing Marquis Who’s Who in 2013, replacing it with various of its own lists, such as Power Women, 30 Under 30, CEOs on the Global 2000, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellows, those elected to the National Academy of Sciences and winners of major Arts awards.Caroline Howard, “Ranking America's Top Colleges 2013", Forbes, July 24, 2013 Two statisticians with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company used inclusion in Who's Who in America in a study conducted 1950-1961, which concluded that people listed in the publication lived longer than their unlisted peers.Lawrence K. Altman, "Who's Who [in America] linked to longer lives.
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The median longevity (the age at which half of the population has died and half is still alive) of Bearded Collies from recent UK and USA/Canada surveys (the weighted average of all surveys) is 12.8 years; Beardies in the UK surveys lived longer (median ~13.4 years) than their USA/Canada counterparts (median 12.0 years). Most purebred breeds have median longevities between 10 and 13 years and most breeds similar in size to Bearded Collies have median longevities between 11 and 13 years, so the lifespan of Bearded Collies appears to be on the high end compared with other breeds (at least in the UK). Individual dogs may die much earlier or later than the median. In a 1996 USA/Canada survey, 32% of Beardies died (including accidental deaths) before the age of nine; however, 12% lived longer than 14 years.
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Moreover, some tortoises grow more than one ring per season, and in some others, due to wear, some rings are no longer visible. Tortoises generally have one of the longest lifespans of any animal, and some individuals are known to have lived longer than 150 years. Because of this, they symbolize longevity in some cultures, such as Chinese culture. The oldest tortoise ever recorded, and one of the oldest individual animals ever recorded, was Tu'i Malila, which was presented to the Tongan royal family by the British explorer James Cook shortly after its birth in 1777. Tu'i Malila remained in the care of the Tongan royal family until its death by natural causes on May 19, 1965, at the age of 188. The record for the longest-lived vertebrate is exceeded only by one other, a koi named Hanako, whose death on July 17, 1977, ended a 226-year lifespan.
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Although it was not known at the time, Plunket became the oldest recognised person in the world at 8:00 a.m. on 4 December 1928, after the death of Delina Filkins, at the age of 108 years and 12 days, spanning a little over three years. At the time of Plunket's death, she was credited with being the longest-lived Irish person in history, and not only lived longer than anyone who died in Ireland, but also the United Kingdom (as Ireland was at the time was still part of the UK) and at the age 109 received a telegram from King George V, she held this longevity record title for 38 years, until 1970, when Ada Giddings Roe lived to be 12 days older. She was the last living person who had met the author Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), when he stayed at her grandfather's house in Bray while she was visiting.
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Just as Classical Greco-Roman writers, including Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, and Galen, assumed that men lived longer than women, medieval Catholic bishop Albertus Magnus agreed that in general men lived longer, but he observed that some women live longer and posited that it was per accidens, thanks to the purification resulting from menstruation and that women worked less but also consumed less than men. Modern historians Bullough and Campbell instead attribute high female mortality during the Middle Ages to deficiency in iron and protein as a result of the diet during the Roman period and the early Middle Ages. Medieval peasants subsisted upon grain-heavy, protein-poor and iron-poor diets, eating breads of wheat, barley, and rye dipped in broth, and rarely enjoying nutritious supplements like cheese, eggs, and wine. Physiologically speaking, women require at least twice as much iron as men because women inevitably lose iron through menstrual discharge as well as to events related to child bearing, including fetal needs; bleeding during childbirth, miscarriage, and abortion; and lactation.
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As a result of usually working in the home rather than the fields or mines, black slaves typically lived longer than Aboriginal slaves: an average 25.2 years instead of 17.7. As in France's colonies in the West Indies, slavery in New France was governed by the Code Noir ("Black Code") issued by King Louis XIV in 1685 which stated that only Catholics could own slaves; required that all slaves be converted to Roman Catholicism upon their purchase; recognized slave marriages as legal; and forbade masters from selling slave children under the age of 14.Reynolds, Graham Viola Desmond's Canada, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016 pages 88-89. Black slaves could also serve as witnesses at religious ceremonies, file legal complaints against free persons and be tried by a jury. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a black slave from the Madeira islands who arrived in New France in 1725, was accused of setting the fire that burned down most of Montreal on 10 April 1734, for which she was executed.Reynolds, Graham Viola Desmond's Canada, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016 pages 89-90.
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