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World's oldest person Emma Morano celebrates 117th birthday When Emma Morano was born, Umberto I was still reigning over Italy, Fiat had only just been established and Milan Football Club was still a few weeks off creation. On Tuesday, this otherwise unassuming woman marked her 117th birthday, looking back on a life which has not only spanned three centuries but also survived an abusive marriage which started with blackmail, the loss of her only son and a diet which most would describe as anything but balanced. Ms Morano, the oldest of eight siblings, all of whom she has outlived, was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. This year, she officially became the world's oldest living woman after American Susannah Mushatt Jones died in May. She is also officially the last person still living born in the 1800s. Raw eggs and biscuits Ms Morano's longevity, she admits, is partly down to genetics - her mother reached 91 and several sisters reached their centenary - and partly, she says, down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs - two raw - each day for more than 90 years. It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after World War One. These days, she has cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits. It does defy all accepted advice on healthy living, her doctor of 27 years, Carlo Bava, told AFP news agency: "Emma has always eaten very few vegetables, very little fruit. "When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner." Despite this, he noted, she seems to be "eternal". 'Marry me or I'll kill you' There is one other thing Ms Morano credits with her longevity: kicking her husband out in 1938, the year after her baby boy died, aged just six months. The marriage had never been healthy, according to Ms Morano. She had been in love with a boy killed during World War One and had no interest in marrying someone else. But, she told La Stampa newspaper in an interview when she was a spritely 112, she was left with little choice. "He told me: 'If you're lucky you marry me, or I'll kill you'. I was 26 years old. I got married. Eventually, it became too much. Though she kicked him out they remained married until he died in 1978. Ms Morano, who worked until she was 75, chose never to marry again. "I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," she told the New York Times. It is this determination which has inspired a special musical performance, telling the story of her life in prose and dance. The show was being performed in the northern Italian town of Verbania, her home for the majority of her long life. The play, the writers say, "represents the feminine courage which rebelled against domestic violence". Ms Morano herself has not left her two-room flat for 20 years but she was surrounded by well-wishers on Tuesday who took part in her birthday celebrations. Among them was Mr Bava, who is starting to feel the pressure, a bit like "the keeper of the Tower of Pisa". "The day it topples over, someone will be held responsible," he told AFP. "When Emma dies, people will hold me accountable."
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सबैभन्दा वृद्ध महिलाको निधन विश्वकी सबैभन्दा वृद्ध महिलाको ११७ वर्षको उमेरमा इटलीमा निधन भएको छ। एम्मा मोरानोको उत्तरी इटलीस्थित भरबान्यामा रहेको आफ्नै घरमा निधन भएको हो। सन् १८९९ को नोभेम्बर २९ तारिखमा मोरानोको इटलीको पीडमन्टमा जन्म भएको थियो। १८ औं शताब्दीमा जन्मिएर हालसम्म जीवित प्रमाणित उनी अन्तिम व्यक्ति भएको बताइन्छ। मानव इतिहास उनको निधनसँगै मानव इतिहासले एउटा कोशेढुंगा पार गरेको छ। उनी आफ्ना नौजना भाइ तथा बहिनीमध्ये सबैभन्दा जेठी थिइन्। र, उनीमात्रै हालसम्म जीवित थिइन्। मोरानोले आफ्नो जीवनकालमा तीन शताब्दीमात्रै देखिनन् बरु उनले एउटा पीडादायी वैवाहिक सम्बन्धको पनि सामना गरिन् र आफ्ना एकमात्र छोरालाई पनि गुमाइन्। उनले आफ्नो जीवनकालमा दुईवटा विश्वयुद्ध र इटलीमा ९० वटाभन्दा बढी सरकार परिवर्तन भएको पनि देखिन्। दीर्घजीवन आफ्नो दीर्घजीवनका लागि वंशाणुगत गुणलाई श्रेय दिने गरेकी मोरानोकी आमाको ९१ वर्षमा निधन भएको थियो भने उनकी केही बहिनीहरु सय वर्षसम्म बाँचेका थिए। ९० वर्षभन्दा बढी उमेरसम्म तीनवटा अण्डा खाने गरेकोले पनि आफ्नो आयु त्यति लामो भएको उनले बताउने गरेकी थिइन्। प्रत्येक दिन तीनवटा अण्डा खाने गरेकी मोरानोले दुईवटा चाहिँ काचो अण्डा खाने गर्थिन्। प्रथम विश्वयुद्ध लगत्तै डाक्टरले रक्तअल्पताको समस्या देखिएको बताएपछि उनले त्यसो गर्न थालेकी थिइन्। पछिल्लो समय उनी दुईवटा अण्डा र केही बिस्कुट मात्रै खाने गरेकी थिइन्। मोरानो २७ वर्षकी हुँदाताकाको उनका डाक्टर रहेका कार्लो बाभाले समाचार संस्था एएफपीलाई बताएअनुसार उनले विरलै सागसब्जी र फलफूल खाने गर्थिन्। सम्बन्धविच्छेद बाभाले भने, "जब मैले उनलाई भेटेँ। उनी प्रतिदिन तीनवटा अण्डा खाने गर्थिन्, बिहान दुईवटा काचो र मध्यान्ह एउटा अम्लेट र राति कुखुराको मासु खाने गर्थिन्।" सम्बन्धविच्छेदलाई पनि दीर्घजीवनको एउटा कारण बताउने गरेकी मोरानोले सन् १९३८ मा आफ्ना एकमात्र छोराको ६ महिनाकै उमेरमा मृत्यु भएपछि आफ्ना श्रीमान्लाई छाडेकी थिइन्। उनले भन्ने गर्थिन्, बिहे कहिल्यै स्वस्थकर हुने गर्दैन। एक जनासँग उनको प्रेम थियो जो प्रथम विश्वयुद्धमा मारिए। त्यसपछि अरु कसैसँग बिहे गर्ने उनलाई इच्छा भएन। एउटा पत्रिकासँगको अन्तर्वार्तामा उनले ११२ वर्ष हुँदा आफूसँग कुनै विकल्प नभएको बताइएकी थिइन्। उनले भनेकी थिइन्, "उसले भन्योः 'यदि तिमी भाग्यमानी छौ भने मसँग बिहे गर, नभए म तिमीलाई मार्दिन्छु।' त्यतिबेला म २६ वर्षकी थिएँ। अनि मैले बिहे गरेँ।" हेरचार विस्तारै अति हुन थाल्यो। सन् १९३८ मै उनीहरु छुट्टिएपनि सन् १९७८ मा उनका श्रीमान्को मृत्यु नहुञ्जेल उनीहरु विवाहित रुपमै रहे। ७५ वर्षको उमेरसम्म मोरानोले जागिर गरिन् र फेरि बिहे नगर्ने निधो गरिन्। न्युयोर्क टाइम्ससँगको कुराकानीमा उनले भनेकी थिइन्, "म कसैबाट दमित हुन चाहन्न।" केही वर्षअघि मात्रै उनले पूर्णकालीन हेरचार गर्ने मान्छे राखेकी थिइन् तर विगत २० वर्षयता उनी दुईकोठे आफ्नो सानो आवासीय भवनबाट बाहिर निस्केकी थिइनन्। वृद्धावस्थाबारे अध्ययन गर्ने अमेरिकास्थित संस्था जीआरजीका अनुसार अब मोरानोको निधनसँगै अब विश्वकी सबैभन्दा वृद्ध प्रमाणित जीवित महिला जमैकाकी भायलेट ब्राउन हुन्, जसको जन्म सन् १९०० को मार्च १० तारिखमा भएको थियो।