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130 year old woman allegedly "found"

post #1 of 11
3/10/10 at 10:44pm
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A Georgian TV network is claiming that it has found a 130 year old woman living deep in the Caucasus Mountains. If they are right, she will be the oldest person on the planet and the oldest person ever documented by TEN years! Holy crap. I like how she chugs a glass of vodka in the video. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_493592.html
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post #2 of 11
3/10/10 at 10:45pm
Is she too old for you, conne?
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post #3 of 11
3/10/10 at 10:52pm
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Yeah but only by about 30 years.
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post #4 of 11
3/10/10 at 10:54pm
I heard she only looks 102
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post #5 of 11
3/11/10 at 12:17am
I swear I read somewhere about a group of descended Knights Templar living in the Caucasus mountains until like the late 19th century or even like 1930 (after the Soviets had taken over). Allegedly the area was so remote that they were living like 500 years in the past. The area hadn't been introduced to gunpowder yet, and the villagers were living a medieval existence.

Seemed sorta like B.S.

Then I lost the link
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post #6 of 11
3/11/10 at 1:16am
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Originally Posted by crazyquik View Post
I swear I read somewhere about a group of descended Knights Templar living in the Caucasus mountains until like the late 19th century or even like 1930 (after the Soviets had taken over). Allegedly the area was so remote that they were living like 500 years in the past. The area hadn't been introduced to gunpowder yet, and the villagers were living a medieval existence.

Seemed sorta like B.S.

Then I lost the link


I hope it's real. Maybe then we'll know what the grail really is.
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post #7 of 11
3/11/10 at 1:18am
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Originally Posted by crazyquik View Post
I swear I read somewhere about a group of descended Knights Templar living in the Caucasus mountains until like the late 19th century or even like 1930 (after the Soviets had taken over). Allegedly the area was so remote that they were living like 500 years in the past. The area hadn't been introduced to gunpowder yet, and the villagers were living a medieval existence. Seemed sorta like B.S. Then I lost the link
I think that's a myth. But cool to think about. I love hearing about the Japanese soldiers found on remote Pacific islands in the 70s and 80s, many of whom thought the war was still on or who took their commanders' orders of "never surrender" quite literally.
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post #8 of 11
3/11/10 at 3:04am
The Georgians are bullshitters. Like how they bullshitted about being attacked by the Russians first.
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post #9 of 11
3/11/10 at 3:24am
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Originally Posted by Connemara View Post
I think that's a myth. But cool to think about.
ZOMG they exist!!!! Well, sorta.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades In the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, in the remote highland region of Khevsureti, a tribe called the Khevsurs are thought to possibly be direct descendants of a party of crusaders who got separated from a larger army and have remained in isolation with some of the crusader culture intact. Into the 20th century, relics of armor, weaponry and chain mail were still being used and passed down in such communities. Russian serviceman and ethnographer Arnold Zisserman who spent 25 years (1842–67) in the Caucasus, believed the exotic group of Georgian highlanders were descendants of the last Crusaders based on their customs, language, art and other evidence.[43] American traveler Richard Halliburton saw and recorded the customs of the tribe in 1935.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khevsurs
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There has been a hypothesis, coming from the locals and descriptions by Russian serviceman and ethnographer Arnold Zisserman who spent 25 years (1842-67) during Russian expansion in the Caucasus (see Georgia within the Russian Empire), that these Georgian highlanders were descendants of the last European Crusaders because their folk culture – the material, social, and religious practices – greatly resembled those of the Crusaders. American traveler Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) saw and recorded the customs of the Khevsur tribe in 1935. However, some form of settlement of Crusaders in these areas is possible, as they are mentioned in several manuscripts of the time as participants of several battles against the Muslims in Georgia (100 "Frankish" Crusaders participated in King David's army in the Battle of Didgori), and the fact that some passed through here after the fall of the Holy Land
First pic is 1865. Not sure about the second. Compare that to what was going on in Europe and America.
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post #10 of 11
3/11/10 at 3:30am
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Originally Posted by Connemara View Post
I love hearing about the Japanese soldiers found on remote Pacific islands in the 70s and 80s, many of whom thought the war was still on or who took their commanders' orders of "never surrender" quite literally.

There were none in the '80s and only four or five in the '70s.
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post #11 of 11
3/11/10 at 6:03am
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There were none in the '80s and only four or five in the '70s.

What I thought. This story is as mythic as one concerning Irish fenians invading Canada.
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