2006-06-06 23:40:29 · 9 answers · asked by seema 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Chechnya claims 'oldest living person'
The current world record holder is 115-year-old Kamato Hongo
The world's oldest living person is believed to have been discovered in war-torn Chechnya - beating by nine years the current record holder.
Health officials in the separatist Russian republic say great-great grandmother Zabani Khakimova is 124 years old.
If her age is authenticated, Mrs Khakimova would beat the current record-holder - Japanese woman Kamato Hongo.
Mrs Khakimova, a devout Muslim from the south-western Achkoi-Martan district, is said to remain energetic and be in comparatively good health despite impaired hearing.
Chechnya's Deputy Health Minister, Sultan Alimkhadzhiyev, said she has 24 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
He told Interfax news agency that doctors believed she might be even older than the age on her passport.
"Despite her advanced age, she still works around the house, looks after her numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, and prays five times a day," said the agency report.
Mr Alimkhadzhiyev said she had outlived her oldest son, who died two years ago, but her youngest son was still alive and had 10 children.
'No worries'
The current world record holder is Kamato Hongo - born in 1887 on Tokunoshima Island in southern Japan - who is due to celebrate her 116th birthday in September.
She took the title in March 2002 after the death of the former title holder Maude Farris-Luse, from the United States.
Bed-ridden and needing continuous care, Mrs Hongo sleeps for two days and stays awake for two days. She enjoys a tipple of sake, Japanese rice wine, and uses her arms to perform the traditional dances of her native island.
Her recipe for long life is "not to worry too much".
The world's oldest man is also Japanese. Retired silkworm breeder Yukichi Chuganji, from the island of Kyushu, took the title in January 2002 aged 112.
He is said to hate vegetables but loves to eat meat and drink milk.
2006-06-06 23:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by zeus_daughter2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oldest man in the UK is Henry Allingham. He was 110 this week. He doesn't look a day over 85! He is a World War 1 veteran, and he attributes his long life to drink and wild, wild women.
2006-06-07 03:31:31 · answer #2 · answered by The Landlord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"the worldwide's regarded oldest residing person is at present Edna Parker of united states of america of america, who became 114 in April. " this text additionally lists off yet another guy interior the Ukraine who regrettably died on the age of 116. however the final time I study, the oldest person I had heard of (with the exception of the biblical Methusaleh in Genesis) interior the worldwide became a guy in China who practiced considered one of those Qigong (chee-kung) exercising and became seen an historical sage. He reached someplace over 2 hundred years-previous. If i can discover the item, i'm going to deliver it to you thru ability of digital mail. God bless. Edit: got here across that article. Hehe. Sorry it became in a e book that I had in my own library. here is going: "i latterly study of the loss of existence of typical Yang Sen, a former militia commander in China who became general in Taiwan as an recommend of actual well being and longevity. interior the 1920's, he got here to comprehend the recommendations-blowing Taoist grasp Li Ch'ing Yuen, who lived to be 250 years previous." (Preface, pp.xvi-xvii) Liu, Da. "The Tao of well being and longevity." manhattan, ny: Marlowe & organisation. 1978, 1990 (i've got additionally coated some different links decrease than to sites that be certain Yuen's age and historicity as documented by dissimilar components)
2016-12-08 07:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
128 Pakistan
2006-06-07 05:52:22 · answer #4 · answered by anas b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a man from jaipur celebrated his 131st birthday last month.
He is probably the oldest one
2006-06-06 23:56:43 · answer #5 · answered by pstarstarstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think a lady who is about 121 years old
2006-06-06 23:43:47 · answer #6 · answered by aanna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is 128 years old.Her name is Elizabeth (Ma Pampo) from Israel
2006-06-07 00:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by david 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think it was a woman and she was 121 yrs old
2006-06-06 23:42:25 · answer #8 · answered by meowbaby7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think there were twin sisters a few years ago who had a birthday of there 165 year.... but i think there dead by now!!!!!!!!
2006-06-07 00:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋