The oldest tennis player is José Guadalupe Leal Lemus (Mexico, b. 13 December 1902) who began playing tennis in 1925 and has been playing regularly ever since, aged 101, a total of 79 years. He currently plays every Wednesday at the Club Campestre Morelia, Morelia, Mexico with a group of doctors, 20-25 years his junior. correct as at 6 May 2004. email karina karinagcl@yahoo.com for updates
Ceefax was launched in the UK by the BBC on 28 September 1974. It was developed by BBC engineers who were working on a way to provide subtitles for deaf people. They were able to use the ‘spare lines’ on top of an analog television signal to incorporate words and simple pictures. The Ceefax service is still available to analog television viewers.
With a combined age of 76 years 117 days, Karch Kiraly (USA, b. 3 November 1960) and Brent Doble (USA, b. 3 January 1970) became the oldest team to win a pro beach volleyball tournament, at the Huntington Beach Open, in Huntington Beach, California, USA on 17 August 2003.
The oldest tattoos belong to the mummified “iceman”, aka Otzi, who also holds the record for the world’s oldest ice body. His 5,300-year-old body was found in the Alps in 1991 covered in 57 tattoos.
The oldest tank design was created by the Italian artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), who draughted and tested some innovative inventions, amongst which were early concepts for a tank. There was provision for outward facing guns, and the whole machine was covered in wood for protection. It was designed for locomotion with wheels rather than tracks such as those fitted to modern tanks, hence it would have been very difficult and cumbersome to manoeuvre. Although the tank was never actually built, however a
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Estrid Geertsen (Denmark, b. 1 August 1904) made a tandem parachute jump on 30 September 2004 from an altitude of 4,000 m (13,100 ft) over Roskilde, Denmark, at the age of 100 years 60 days.
The oldest surviving judicial code was that of King Ur-Nammu during the third dynasty of Ur, Iraq, c. 2250BC. The oldest English statute in the Statute Book is a section of the Statute of Marlborough of 18 Nov 1267, re-entitled in 1948 `The Distress Act 1267′ and most recently cited in the High Court in 1986. Some statutes enacted by Henry II (died 1189) and earlier kings are even more durable, as they have been assimilated into the Common Law. Longest in the UK The
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The Stock Exchange in Amsterdam, Netherlands, was founded in 1602 with dealings in printed shares of the United East India Company of the Netherlands in the Oude Zijds Kapel.
The oldest stem cell donor is Erica Henderson (UK) who, at 74 years of age, donated cells to treat her younger brother Paul, 69, who suffered from leukaemia. Medical rules state that the life-saving cells can only be donated by people up to the age of 70. However, after doctors found Mrs. Henderson to be “100” fit she was allowed to go through with the procedure. Her brother is now in remission.
The star HE1327-2326 is located 4,000 light years from Earth. Its age is measured by its composition. When the universe was formed, it consisted of hydrogen with some helium. As it evolved, the rest of the chemical elements appeared, formed by nuclear synthesis in stars. HE1327-2326 has almost no metal content in it (just 1/300,000th of the metal content of our own Sun), so must have formed from clouds of gas consisting of almost pure hydrogen and helium, when the universe was young. It may
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