The engine of the automobile had just turned over. The fastest motion was still ruled by the horse, as it was from before Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander and before Moses and Hammurabi. Transport was by wagon or powered by sail and steam, still powered by coal and wood. That was the world into which he was born. No manned powered flight, no jets, no atomic bomb or power, no Soviet, no Nazis, no Tojo Japan, no Red China, no man on the moon, no electronic computers, no ...
The world was a much quieter place with different rhythms and tempos. m/r
Outnumbered by the girls, he's the last man standing
5-27-12 by Pat Sheil
With the death in Barbados on Thursday of James Emmanuel ''Doc'' Sisnett, at the age of 113 years and 90 days, Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan, has become the last man alive to have been born in the 19th century.
Literally the last man. There are, according to the Gerontolgy Research Group at UCLA, 21 women born before New Year's Day, 1901, who are still with us, most of them living in the United States or Japan, with others in Europe and Canada.
But while the females born in the reign of Queen Victoria strongly outnumber him, Mr Kimura, born on April 19, 1897, has one record the girls can't match - not just yet, anyway. At 116, the ''supercentenarian'' is the oldest human on the planet.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/outnumbered-by-the-girls-hes-the-last-man-standing-20130524-2k6ry.html#ixzz2UVQWdtC3
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